He was brought to a local hospital conscious and alert and after a four-hour surgery, doctors removed the object without any brain damage.

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There were no reports Monday that any fragments of the object had reached the ground or caused any damage.

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But other countries would be likely to object, saying that would be too much regulation and would damage their airlines.

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It is only every 2, 000 years or so that an object the size of a football field descends to earth and causes significant damage, according to NASA. Giant asteroids that crash to earth such as the one that most likely extinguished the dinosaurs tend to occur on the scale of millions of years.

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They object to the building of a large-scale retail project which they said could damage town-centre shopping.

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