OTD in Space - October 9: Peekskill Meteorite Lands in New York - video Dailymotion

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On Oct. 9, 1992, a rock the size of a bowling ball fell out of space and crash landed on someone's Chevy Malibu in Peekskill, New York.  Thousands of people along the U.S. East Coast witnessed the Peekskill meteorite blazing through the skies over Kentucky, West Virginia and Pennsylvania before it hit the parked car. Eighteen-year-old Michelle Knapp was sitting at home when she thought she heard a car crash outside. When she went to look, she found a hole in the trunk of her car and a smoking-hot meteorite beneath it. She had just bought the car for $300, and after it was damaged, she sold it for $10,000.

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00:00On this day in space. In 1992, a rock the size of a bowling ball fell out of space and crash

00:07landed on someone's Chevy Malibu in Peekskill, New York. Thousands of people along the US East

00:12Coast witnessed the Peekskill meteorite blazing through the skies over Kentucky, West Virginia,

00:16and Pennsylvania before it hit the parked car. 18-year-old Michelle Knapp was sitting at home

00:21when she thought she heard a car crash outside. When she went to look, she found a hole in the

00:26trunk of her car and a smoking hot meteorite beneath it. She had just bought the car for

00:30$300 and after it was damaged, she sold it for $10,000. And that's what happened on this day in space.

OTD in Space - October 9: Peekskill Meteorite Lands in New York

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