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[-] the_third@feddit.de 81 points 11 months ago

That meteor had been in France less than ten seconds and was already striking. Quick acclimatization to local customs.

[-] HootinNHollerin@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago

Contains fragments from far off advanced worlds

[-] Hubi@feddit.de 19 points 11 months ago

I wonder if insurance will cover this one...

[-] danhab99@programming.dev 15 points 11 months ago

I think this gets called an "act of god" by insurance companies

[-] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

State Farm was there...

[-] zeograd@lemmy.world 19 points 11 months ago

2 hours ago, I heard on the French national radio an observatory director interview about this incident. He said that the recovered debris size was not fitting the impact.

Several decades ago, a car was hit by a meteorite in the USA, with similar damages, but the debris was 10~12kg heavy and found just underneath the car, with the floor also punctured.

At this point of the investigation, he said that the meteorite hypothesis was very unlikely.

[-] Nougat@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago

If not that, it would have to be an improvised explosive, wouldn't it?

[-] notepass@feddit.de 6 points 11 months ago

Maybe a bird just needed to just take a big shit?

[-] zeograd@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Sounds plausible

[-] HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works 9 points 11 months ago

No damage done whatsoever, it was a Clio II

[-] autotldr 5 points 11 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


The fire department in Strasbourg, France, said it suspected "the fall of a stellar body" as the culprit.

Officials in Strasbourg are investigating a suspected meteorite strike, after a parked car was found with a 50-centimetre diameter hole in its roof.

The fire department were called out early on Monday morning to reports of smoke coming from a car which was parked in a suburb of the city in north-east France.

"Following reconnaissance by the first team, we suspect the fall of a stellar body," wrote the Bas-Rhin Sdis, the regional fire department, in its intervention report published mid-day.

"When we arrived, we noticed a relatively large impact, around 50 centimetres in diameter, which had gone through the roof, underbody and fuel tank of the vehicle", fire department captain Matthieu Colobert told AFP.

Colobert said his team does have a "suspicion" about a gravel stone which is around two centimetres wide, which was found at the scene.


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