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Old October 21st 06, 02:17 AM posted to sci.astro.amateur
Jan Owen[_1_]
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Default Siegburg Germany police announce fire caused by meteor

"Matthew Ota" wrote in message
ups.com...
Here it is off of the wires

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=2590879

Seems to me that it could have been casued be reentering space junk,
too

Matthew Ota



....or a pent-up bierfart...

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Algomeysa2 wrote:
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=2590879

'"We sought assistance from Bochum observatory and they noted that at
that
particular moment the earth was near a field of meteoroid splinter and it
could be assumed that particles had entered the atmosphere," he said. '

I'm trying to phrase this kindly...

...this is some very... imaginative... police work.