Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2016 February Tamil Nadu meteorite incident

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The result was delete. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 03:31, 8 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

2016 February Tamil Nadu meteorite incident[edit]

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Fails WP:NOTNEWS and WP:LASTING because there is no in-depth coverage beyond the week of the incident. Kent G. Budge (talk · contribs) was unable to find anything except for a paper that briefly describes three different news reports on unexplained meteorite incidents in loose relation to a strangelet hypothesis. –LaundryPizza03 (d c̄) 04:34, 1 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Events, Science, and Tamil Nadu. –LaundryPizza03 (d c̄) 04:34, 1 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Note: Kent G. Budge is sadly deceased (see Wikipedia:Deceased_Wikipedians/2022#Kent_G._Budge), and thus will be unable to participate in this discussion. Hemiauchenia (talk) 18:47, 2 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per WP:SENSATION. This probably was not a meteorite. If I had to bet, I would guess it was a terrestrial explosion. But given the obscurity and sensation surrounding it, we probably will never know since whatever happened has now become more legendary than of interest to any scientist. Absent any further investigations, a standalone article does not seem appropriate and will likely just stand as a magnet for WP:OR. Ironically, eight years prior a real meteorite did hit Tamil Nadu: Sulagiri (meteorite). jps (talk) 12:22, 1 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete I agree that there just aren't the sources necessarry to write about this incident in a neutral, encyclopedic tone. Hemiauchenia (talk) 18:47, 2 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. 𝐋𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐕𝐨𝐥𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐭𝟕𝟐𝟖🧙‍♂️^{Let's Talk !} 17:18, 4 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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