Origin Of Meteorite That Crashed Into Novato Home Traced Back 4 Billion Years To Formation Of Moon
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Origin Of Meteorite That Crashed Into Novato Home Traced Back 4 Billion Years To Formation Of Moon
by Bill Disbrow
August 15, 2014
NOVATO (CBS SF) – A Marin County woman’s claims that a meteorite plunked down on the roof of her home have been validated by a team of planetary scientists who say the space debris started on a path to her house some 4.47 billion years ago, following the formation of the moon.
Lisa Webber was watching TV at home when she heard a space rock plunk down on her Novato home on October 17th, 2012.
“I hear this bump, bump, bump, like something hit the roof. And I thought ‘that’s odd, I have no overhanging trees,’” Lisa told CBS 5 at the time.
Two days later Lisa read an article about a meteor that was seen across the Bay Area sky that night. She remembered the thump on her roof and decided to look around to see if a fragment of the meteor (technically a meteorite) had made the noise.... MORE at http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2014/08/15/origin-of-meteorite-that-crashed-into-novato-home-traced-back-to-formation-of-moon/
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