I took a stroll, roughly tracing the width of the meteorite that had struck.
Mr. Koolhaas's design looks like a faceted meteorite that slammed into an otherwise tranquil neighborhood of broad boulevards.
There is a soccer-ball-size chunk of iron meteorite that fell in Namibia, almost too heavy to hoist off the windowsill where it now sits.
In 1996, a team of NASA scientists announced that they had found fossilized microbes in a Martian meteorite that had landed in Antarctica.
"I like the idea of a shared fate, of a meteorite that landed in China 500 years ago suddenly falling in our midst".
(In 1954, a woman in Sylacauga, Alabama, was somewhat bruised by a brick-size meteorite that plunged through the roof and bounced off her radio).
In 1996 there was an announcement by Nasa that they had found dead microbes in a meteorite that had come from Mars.
It was probably part of a larger meteorite that had entered the atmosphere at about 30km per second before breaking up.
For example, without technology, we will not have the means to deal with the next huge meteorite that heads our way.
In 1996 a team of scientists reported what they concluded to be evidence for ancient microbial life in a piece of meteorite that had come from Mars, but most scientists have disputed their interpretation.
