Do Meteors Start Fires? No, Says Bad Astronomy

blogs.discovermagazine.com — In Auckland, New Zealand recently a warehouse was set ablaze. It was quite the inferno, needing a huge effort to quell it. No one knows what started it? but rumors are spreading that it was a meteorite that did the damage. Several people saw a fireball in the sky, and it happened around 10:00, around the time the fire started. Case closed, right? Dec 15, 2008 View in Crawl 4