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New Zealand Meteorite
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Scientists rule out mystery object as meteorite
It looks like cross between a piece of volcanic foam and a hunk of West Coast coal, but scientists today ruled it out as a meteorite.
National Radiation Laboratory scientists today pored over the 15cm by 7cm by 3.5cm grey-black object found in a Dunsandel paddock yesterday after a massive sonic boom above Canterbury.

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Kosmos 1703
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Hum,
looks like it was debri from sl-14 booster stage that launched Kosmos 1703 on 22nd November 1985.

COSMOS 1703 SL-14 Debri
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SL-14 DEB
1 29354U 85108BC  06253.85487629  .19927665  00000-0  10150+0 0   431
2 29354 082.4466 194.3173 0025938 138.2683 222.0044 15.74998302 11230
1 29354U 85108BC  06253.28052338  .07558731  00000-0  70937-1 0   424
2 29354 082.4610 194.9359 0032519 100.6440 259.8812 15.62158418 11155
1 29354U 85108BC  06253.21646491  .06737064  00000-0  65564-1 0   412
2 29354 082.4751 195.0080 0032868 103.0619 257.5596 15.60984161 11149
1 29354U 85108BC  06252.89561737  .05714021  00000-0  65364-1 0   408
2 29354 082.4685 195.3485 0031010 097.9218 262.6003 15.57453916 11090
1 29354U 85108BC  06252.50968246  .05013712  00000-0  64802-1 0   395
2 29354 082.4704 195.7561 0034721 097.5886 262.9350 15.53864077 11032


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RE: Canterbury Meteorite
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A piece of 'space debris' found at a Dunsandel property last night will be handed over to staff from the National Radiation Laboratory this morning, Christchurch police said today.
Police said a police officer from Lincoln collected the item from a Canterbury farm last night and brought it into the police station around 9.30pm last night.

"It is very light...almost weightless and (the farmers) have never seen anything like it before" - Paul Visser, police southern communications centre supervisor.

Visser said the object was about 10cm long, 5cm wide and deep, and too light to be rock, with an "unknown texture".

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A meteor that swept across Canterbury on Tuesday afternoon is the talk of much of the South Island, but the chances of anyone finding the space rock are astronomically small.

After a fiery flight and sonic boom, it is unclear if it burned up or crashed to earth.

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The boom was reported throughout the region on the east coast, prompting a flood of calls to emergency services.
Eyewitnesses reported seeing a bright white trail in the sky with pieces breaking off.

A meteorite is believed to have burned up over Canterbury, New Zealand ,on Tuesday afternoon before slamming into the ground in a field.
According to the Stardome Observatory in Auckland, a loud boom heard throughout the Canterbury region was most likely to be from a meteorite, up to the size of a medicine ball.

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171.58062E_43.97000S
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Latitude -43.97000 Longitude = 171.58062

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