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March 12, 2012

Scientists stunned by Oslo meteorite find

Space watchers in Norway expressed major excitement on Monday after a meteorite ripped through the roof of a hut in an Oslo allotment garden.

“We were there yesterday and first saw the hole in the roof. Then we saw the stone lying five or six metres away,” the cabin’s owner, Rune Thomassen, told newspaper VG.

He was unable to say when the snowball-sized rock had fallen to earth since the cabin had been unused for some time.

The discovery of the 585-gram meteorite has already awakened interest in the scientific community.

Astrophysicist Knut Jørgen Røed Ødegaard was initially cautious, but his uncertainty gave way to jubilation on seeing the rock with his own eyes on Monday morning.

"This is an absolutely incredible find. I almost can't believe it. It's unique. It's doubly unique," he told VG.

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