There has been a lot of discussion about finding the meteor that came down in Michigan last week and how valuable the fragments might be. Hopefully, more than this one. Villagers put frozen 'meteor' in fridge — turns out to be airplane poopIndian villagers were so excited by a frozen "meteor" that crashed into a farmer's field Saturday that a few gathered pieces of the rock and stashed them in their refrigerators.
Meteorites can be worth thousands of dollars, but this unidentified falling object was not from outer space.
According to the Indian Express and the International Business Times, the yellow-brown "meteor," weighing around 20 pounds, had a transparent surface and resembled ice. The impact created a 1-foot-deep hole in the field.
I rushed to the spot and saw the object. It seemed to weigh at least 8 or 10 kilograms, judging by the dent it had made on the ground," the Indian Express quoted Govind Singh as saying. "Initially, we thought it could be ice but it was not melting. So, we figured it must have some kind of chemical in it."
Eventually a team of scientists from the India Meteorological Department was assembled and collected samples of the object at the site.
Their verdict: The meteor was actually frozen feces.
The news was a setback for the souvenir collectors, who realized their refrigerators were preserving airplane lavatory poop. They had to clean the appliances and anything else in their houses that had come in contact with the frozen excrement.
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