The afternoon of August 1, 2020, residents of Sumatra’s Central Tapanuli Regency heard loud booming sounds that shook their houses. A single stone weighing over 2 kg (~4.5 lb) went through the roof of a house in the town of Kolang, embedding itself in the soil beside the house. A second stone fell in a rice paddy approximately 2 km away, and two more stones (both ~100 g) were found approximately 8 km away.
The classification of this new meteorite was performed at the ASU Center for Meteorite Studies by Curator Laurence Garvie, and published in the Meteoritical Bulletin.
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The afternoon of August 1, 2020, residents of Sumatra’s Central Tapanuli Regency heard loud booming sounds that shook their houses. A single stone weighing over 2 kg (~4.5 lb) went through the roof of a house in the town of Kolang, embedding itself in the soil beside the house. A second stone fell in a rice paddy approximately 2 km away, and two more stones (both ~100 g) were found approximately 8 km away.
The classification of this new meteorite was performed at the ASU Center for Meteorite Studies by Curator Laurence Garvie, and published in the Meteoritical Bulletin.
[Source](https://meteorites.asu.edu/news/kolang)
[For further reading](https://karmaka.de/?p=22954)
So, how much was ist sold for? What is this fortune?
Couldn’t find it in the links
Lucky it didn’t crack someone in the head
2 kg meteorite creating 1 m wide “crater”? I call BS.
How to collect it ?
Sometimes money does fall from the sky.
Kool-Aid Manned that roof. Oh yeah!
Who knew getting hit by space rocks could pay the bills so fast
