METEORITE CALI COLOMBIA, Rare House Smasher #001 MC11
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Cali Colombia Fell July 6, 2007 at ~4:30 PM. (Chondrite, most likely H type 3) "At ~4:30 PM on July 6th, 2007, a massive fireball appeared over the Cordillera Occidental (Western range of the Andes mountains) just north of the Calima lake. As it appeared, it quickly broke into two large pieces heading south. After a couple of seconds, a sonic boom reverberated over the mountains and upper Cauca Valley. People in the affected area said that the explosions were so strong they shook the ground and homes so badly that they thought they might collapse. Windows in Restrepo, Darien, and Yotoco were shattered by the force of the sonic boom! The bolide passed just to the east of the town of Restropo, w it exploded into a massive cloud of smoke and fire and continued to the south, towards the city of Cali more than 50 km away. Eyewitnesses suggest that the body exploded at least three times, all three causing loud thundering booms. Only a minute or two later, in the slums on the outskirts of Cali, a shower of stones pelted the Barrios of Mariano Ramos, Laureano Gomez, Ciudad Cordoba, and Antonio Narino. People in the city of Cali reported seeing a smoke trail and flashes to the north of the city over the Andes mountains, and hearing several rumbles that resembled thunderclaps. The actual fireball was nearly invisible to them however, as
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