Meteorite not responsible for killing man in India – NASA

NASA said it was unlikely that a meteorite was responsible for killing a man at a college campus in India last week, as local scientists continued to examine the mysterious object recovered from the scene. Authorities in southern Tamil Nadu state had claimed that a meteorite fatally struck a bus driver and injured 3 others on Saturday. After reviewing photographic evidence, the US space agency said that they did not believe the object was a meteorite. “While more details are forthcoming from local scientists, this is unlikely something from space,” Dwayne Brown, a NASA spokesman, said in a statement.” To form a crater the size of what has been posted online would have required a meteorite of at least several kilograms,” he said.

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