* Astronomy

Airborne rock sparks a mystery in small North Dakota town

Elsie Pierce has a hole in her screen window, a hole in her glass window, a dent in her wall and splintered glass that appears as if it had spent time in a blender.
What she doesnt have is an answer for what caused all of the above.
When the 89-year-old recently came home to discover the damage in the second-floor bathroom and a small rock mixed with the glass shards - none thicker than a strand of hair - she figured a meteorite had struck her rural home.
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