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The Bjurböle Meteorite fell on March 12, 1899 into the frozen Baltic Sea. It created a hole in the ice about 50 kilometers from Helsinki. It was recovered from the sea.

Steve Jurvetson from Los Altos, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Flickr at https://flic.kr/p/2kFyekG

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