* Astronomy

'meteor shower' pelts their Shrewsbury garden with rocks

A mother-of-two told how her young children had a lucky escape - after fragments from a meteor shower rained down in their back garden.
Sarah Marston-Jones was playing outside with Harry, two, and Benjamin, four, when asteroid rocks fell behind her house in Shrewsbury.
The teacher heard a large 'whooshing' sound and a 'cracking' noise as 15 rocks from the meteorite shower blazed through the earth's atmosphere and onto her lawn at 9.30am on Tuesday.
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