Indian farmers shocked as suspected meteorite crashes into rice field.

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Football-sized object landed in paddy in Bihar state after ‘fireball’ came down from sky.

The object was spotted ‘coming down from the sky’ and then excavated from a 150cm-deep hole by residents of Mahadeva village. Photograph: STR/AFP/Getty Images
▼ A suspected meteorite crashed into the middle of a rice field in eastern India, authorities say.
The object the size of a football landed with a thud in a paddy field in Madhubani district in Bihar state on Monday, startling farmers and sending up clouds of smoke.
Kapil Ashok, the magistrate for Madhubani, told the Times of  Indiathat labourers reported seeing “a fireball-like object coming down from the sky”. Residents of Mahadeva village later dug up the object from a 150cm-deep (5ft) deep hole.
The object was described as light brown in colour with some shine, and weighing about 15kg (33lb). It was reported to have strong magnetic properties.
Ashok told the Press Trust of India it looked like a rock “but its glitter is much more than that of an unpolished stone”.

A villager holds the suspected meteorite. Photograph: STR/AFP/Getty Images
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