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Chicago hit by asteroid rocks
By Geraint Smith, Evening Standard Last updated at 00:00am on 28.03.03An asteroid has hit Chicago after exploding in a fireball, it emerged today.
About 500 pieces of rock, some as big as a human head, rained down on a 10 kilometre-wide area after a flash that turned night to day, followed by the rumbling boom of a huge explosion.
In the suburb of Park Forest one rock smashed through the roof of a home just missing a 13-year-old boy asleep in bed. A number of other houses were damaged.
Emergency services were flooded with panic calls on Wednesday night after the explosion sparked fears of a terror attack.
Nasa's Bill Cook said: "It was a small space rock, perhaps one or two metres wide with a mass of about 10 metric tonnes."
