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TIL one night in 2021 Ruth Hamilton had been asleep for hours in her home when she awoke to the sound of her dog barking which gave her a moment's notice before a meteorite roughly the size of a melon crashed through her ceiling & came to rest on her pillow, inches from where her head had just been.

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