Meteorite crash in rice field. India

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A suspected meteorite - glittering, magnetic and weighing more than 10kg - startled farmers when it crashed into a paddy field by an Indian village on Monday evening. Some men were working in the field in Mahadeva village, Bihar state when the object fell out of the sky. "A group of farmers was working in the fields when they heard an unusually loud thud," said Shirsat Kapil Ashok, a district magistrate, according to The Wire India. "When they looked around to find the source of the sound, they spotted the object lying in a hole - about five feet deep - that was dug into the ground by the impact of the fall." Onlookers said the suspected meteor sent up smoke and caused people nearby to flee, according to the AFP news agency. The villagers dug the object out and handed the rock, which is magnetic, to local government officials. "We have written to the state's principal secretary, science and technology department, informing him about this particular object that looks like a piece of rock but its glitter is much more than that of unpolished stone. Its magnetic pull makes it even more intriguing

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