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Originally Posted by looneybin View Post
wasn't the one that hit in Arizona only the size of a bus?
That crater is i think 2 miles across
Not quite on both counts.

Crater is less than a mile across, but the meteorite was about 50 yards wide.

Some guy paid for the rights to dig it up and mine it many years ago, but the meteor mostly vaporized when it hit. When he dug, there was nothing there.

Just a scattering of particles left.
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