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Monday 6 September 2010

Asteroid Strikes Colombia - 3:10PM Sunday 05 SEPTEMBER 2010 - leaves a 300 foot wide crater and a lot of rattled nerves -

Asteroid Strikes Colombia - 3:10PM Sunday 05 SEPTEMBER 2010 - leaves a 300 foot wide crater and a lot of rattled nerves - 









Colombian authorities confirmed that a "giant fireball" that fell from the sky in the Santander department, central Colombia, was a meteorite.
The Colombian media has been buzzing with eye witness accounts of the fireball, which caused a massive explosion at 3:15PM local time Sunday.
Andina.com reported that Bucaramanga Mayor Fernando Vargas confirmed that the phenomenon was a meteorite that left a crater 100 meters in diameter when it crashed into the earth in the San Joaquin municipality in Santander.
Colombian air force helicopters were commissioned to fly over the area to try to locate the source of the explosion.
The director of the University of NariƱo's Astronomic Observatory, Alberto Quijano, told RCN RadioSunday that he believed the object was a meteorite.
In rural areas of Santander, police received reports that the explosion had shattered windows in the area.