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Ki struck the Earth while ascending in its orbit and its motion probably was retrograde. The object could not have been an ordinary iron or stone meteorite. As pointed out by Kulik, there is no reord of any other known meteori produced stich a vast mass of hot gas and which devasted such a large area. For example, a meteorite, weighing approximately 100 tons, fell in the eastern part of the Soviet Union on. 12 February. 1947. The largest of the craters produced sas 92 ft. wide and 16 ft. decp....