Sold: A $44,000 Doghouse With a Hole in Its Roof

On April 23, 2019, at 9:07 PM, a meteorite struck a doghouse in rural Costa Rica. The doghouse’s resident at the time, a German shepherd named Rocky, was soundly asleep inside when the 69-pound space rock came flying through his rusty tin roof. The meteorite just barely missed the lounging Rocky, leaving a gaping seven-inch hole in its wake and destroying the doghouse’s weathered wooden floor. Professional meteorite hunters were on the scene almost immediately, having watched satellite images of the fireball and tracked it to its likely landing area….

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