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TIL A 12.57 kg (27.7lb) meteorite called The Peekskill Meteorite hit a car in Peekskill, New York in 1992, it hit a 1980 red Chevrolet Malibu and barley missed the gas tank. The Car was owned owned by a 17 year old girl named Michelle Knapp who heard the crash from inside her house.

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