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A small meteorite that crashed through the roof of a Virginia medical office last year is becoming part of the Smithsonian's Museum of Natural ...

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Article: Astrobiologists Find Ancient Fossils in Fireball Fragments
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1000 injured by blasts as meteor falls in Russia
A meteor streaked across the sky and exploded over Russia's Ural Mountains with the power of an atomic bomb Friday, its sonic blasts shattering countless windows and injuring nearly 1,000 people. The spectacle deeply frightened many Russians, with some elderly women declaring that the world was coming to an end. More
VA allows same-sex burial in Oregon
In what's believed to be the first case of its kind, the same-sex spouse of a member of the military will be buried in a national cemetery. More
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Paul Ryan: GOP Mulling Short-Term Debt Limit Hike
As House Republicans gather at a private retreat in Williamsburg, Va., to plot a course to address the next string of fiscal deadlines facing Congress this spring, Rep. Paul Ryan, the former Republican nominee for vice president, told reporters today that conservatives could agree to a short-term increase to the debt limit. More

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7 unconfirmed, unlucky tales of people killed by meteorites
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Winchcombe meteorite: space rock may reveal how water came to Earth
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Junk from the ISS fell on a house in the U.S., NASA confirms
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Iconic British meteorite 'Winchcombe' found to have a smashing past
A detailed analysis of the Winchcombe meteorite has found evidence that its parent asteroid was altered by water before being smashed apart multiple times.
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