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Archive Home > 2008 > February > 20 > ‘Like a bowling ball that was on fire’

‘Like a bowling ball that was on fire’

Central Oregonians spot meteor, but no one knows exactly where it landed

By Christopher Stollar / The Bulletin
February 20, 2008

In what Powell Butte resident Leonard Rice described as a “big huge fireball,” a meteor likely about the size of a basketball streaked through the sky early Tuesday morning.

Astronomers do not know exactly where the meteor may have landed, said Jim Todd, planetarium manager....

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