Czechs report meteorite
NZPA-Reuter Vienna A huge flaming meteorite entered the atmosphere on August 3 and burst into pieces over southern Moravia, the official Czechoslovak news agency said. Ceteka said scientists conducting an intensive search for the remains estimated the largest fragment might weigh as much as 20kg. The meteorite appeared in the atmosphere on August 3 at 12.3 km a second one of the slowest possible speeds for such bodies, and burned only 18km above the earth.
Photographs showed it burst into pieces in a flash of light while flying at 3.2 km a second, Ceteka said f
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