NSW: Mystery dam object a small meteorite

AAP General News (Australia)
12-10-1999
NSW: Mystery dam object a small meteorite

Police say the mystery object that crashed into a northern New South Wales dam is a
small meteorite.

Police divers have recovered sediment and fragments from the Guyra dam and geologists
believe the sediment came from a meteorite the size of a golf ball.

The meteorite penetrated the mud at the bottom of the dam and is now embedded about
four metres into soft granite.

Police say efforts to remove it have been unsuccessful.

Emergency services have left the area.

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KEYWORD: DAM (SYDNEY)

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