- Hundreds of people fled their homes when a meteor struck
their village in eastern India at the weekend, injuring three people and
destroying two houses.
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- The fireball hit the village of Sudusudia in Orissa state
on Saturday night local time, said BB Harichandan, the state revenue minister.
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- "One person has sustained burn injuries and two
houses have been burned down. The injured has been hospitalised,"
the minister said.
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- Another two were hospitalised after falling unconscious,
apparently from shock, local newspaper Dharitri reported.
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- "The light was so bright that for a few seconds
it appeared to be daylight," said Sanatan Sahu, a villager.
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- Meteors, pulled by gravity toward earth, usually burn
out in the planet's atmosphere and disintegrate before making an impact.
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- Though incidents of this kind are a rare phenomenon in
this region, such celestial occurrences are common in space," said
J Kar of the Pathani Samanta Planetarium in the state capital Bhubaneshwar.
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