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If a rock that falls from space is a meteorite, then one that's misidentified is a meteorwrong. And I am sure thats what we have in Texas.
A land owner there claims to have found a long ditch with a large teardrop-shaped rock at one end. It looks just like a scene from Superman, when Kal-el's ship crashed into Kansas, in fact. Experts were called out, but the object is limestone, a sedimentary rock that is clearly and most certainly not a meteorite.

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