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OC1 section 5 短单 On the morning of June13, 1998,a 4.6-billion-year-old extraterrestrial object streaked into Earth’s atmosphere and blew to pieces in the sky somewhere in the neighborhood of Nelda Wallace’s backyard. A dark basketball-size object dropped with a loud ssshhht into Wallace’s garden, and fragments pelted other propertiesonly the first of many strange things soon to occur in town. For meteorites are more than just stars of science –fiction movies. Scientists covet them, private dealers scoop them up for resale at spiraling prices, and professional searchers travel the world to h