SUMMARY

Doubts cast over Nicaragua meteorite claim

On Monday the experts US National Aeronautics and Space Administration have raised doubts
about whether a loud boom and gaping crater found in Nicaragua is crowded capital Managua,
this weekend were caused by a meteorite as the government said.
They said, than while a meteorite could not be ruled out, the lack so far of any eyewitness
accounts of a fireball lighting up the nighttime sky out side Managua suggest something else was
likely behind the event. Bill Cooke, head of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office, estimated
that the crater would have been created by a blast of roughly an energy equivalent of 1 ton of
TNT.

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