* Astronomy

A meteorite may have been what smashed into the windshield of a Cottonwood couple's sport utility vehicle late last month, destroying much of the dashboard and melting some of the glass.

"I hate to say it, but I think something fell out of the sky and did some damage to a car" - Mike Birondo, a fire investigator with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.

Birondo is used to figuring out the cause of a fire amid soot, ash and other debris, but he said he is perplexed by the amount of destruction apparently caused by an object about the size of a golf ball.

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