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METEORITE LANDS IN FREEHOLD, NEW JERSEY

At 5:00 PM this afternoon, a enormous fireball was observed over the east coast of the United States. The fireball appeared to break apart in mid-air over Freehold, NJ. Seconds later, an iron meteorite weighing nearly a hundred tons crashed into fields behind Freehold Intermediate School, rattling windows in Monmouth County and creating a hole nearly ten feet deep. It is the largest such meteorite ever seen, surpassing the 34-ton Ahnighito meteorite discovered in Greenland, and the 66-ton Hoba meteorite of Africa.

A crowd of joggers and basketball players immediately gathered around the meteorite, and discovered to their surprise that it was cool to the touch. Speculating about why such a massive object had not made a larger hole, a prominent scientist theorized that it had entered the Earth's atmosphere at a very low angle, allowing its speed to be slowed by atmospheric friction.

Rush-hour traffic jams on Park Ave. and Main Street  were observed to be unusually severe in the aftermath of the fall.