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Binod Kumar
Binod Kumar
Deputy director of Geological Survey of India
Articles by the Author
2012-6-30
The Vidarbha region in Maharashtra was hit by a meteor shower on May 22. It was no spectacle—it came between 2 pm and 2.30 pm—in the hottest part of the day and month. Bizarre fallouts were reported. In Warud in Amravati district, the windscreen of a moving car melted. In Karanja in the same district, a truck and a car collided with a road divider due to the loud, explosion-like noise. In Katol in Nagpur tin sheds were pierced by the sheer force of falling fist-sized meteorites. Binod Kumar, deputy director of Geological Survey of India talks to Aparna Pallavi about the incident
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