(2007-04-07)
BLOOMINGTON, IL
(Associated Press) -
A geology professor believes the mysterious object that crashed into a Bloomington, Illinois, house
last month was manmade, not a meteorite.
The metallic object crashed through a window of Dee and David Riddle's home on March fifth. No one was hurt.
Initial speculation was that it was a meteorite. But Illinois State University professor Robert Nelson thinks it was a metal object ejected by a wood grinder.
Nelson says it's still pretty amazing.
He says it appears the object was propelled about 900 feet from a wood grinder at Twin City Wood Recycling. Nelson says for it to break the window, it would have had to travel a couple of hundred miles an hour.
The object is about the size of a deck of cards and weighs almost a pound.
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