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- (CNN) - New Zealand residents were still talking Thursday
about the exploding meteor that cast an eerie blue light, generated a sonic
boom, and showered the Earth with fragments from space.
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- The meteor exploded Wednesday afternoon over a remote
part of New Zealand's North Island. Thousands of eye witnesses tracked
the meteor, some catching it on videotape.
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- "It was just a huge explosion, you know what I mean,
it was massive," an eyewitness said. "And at the end it was just
like a bomb gone off and just underneath the explosion there was this falling
object like in a leaf fashion falling down with smoke coming from it."
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- Officials at a local observatory said the meteor was
likely the size of a car.
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- Police say they received hundreds of calls from people
who saw the meteor streaking across the sky and then exploding with a bright
flash.
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- They also received reports from across the region of
objects falling to the ground. There were no reports of injuries.
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- Seismologist Terry Webb said that instruments around
Mount Ruapehu in the middle of the North Island picked up the boom, a rare
occurrence.
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- "The seismographs were able to feel it yesterday
on part of the volcano monitoring network," he said.
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