Loud Noise in Garden Turns Out to be Meteor
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GLATTON, England — A “very loud whistling, whining, screaming noise” that a man reported to police was caused by a tiny meteor that landed in his garden north of London, Dr. Robert Hutchinson of the Natural History Museum said.
The meteor was the first confirmed to land in Britain in 26 years. Hutchinson said Friday that the 1 1/2-pound black pitted rock probably came from beyond Mars before it landed in Arthur Pettifer’s yard last Sunday.
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