By 2 p.m. sporadic reports of a missing plane coursed through crowded cafes, seeming to fall out of the sky like some errant news meteor - a tragedy at odds with a brilliant blue afternoon.

到下午2点关于失踪飞机的一些零星报道传遍了拥挤的咖啡厅，仿佛像是从天空落下的一颗偏离轨道的陨石——在这个晴朗明媚的下午发生的一场悲剧。

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Meteor reduced casting time to 2 seconds.

陨石减少施展时间至2秒。

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Recently, the most spectacular meteor storm was in 1996. There were more than 2 500 meteors streaked across the sky every minute.

近年来，最壮观的流星雨要数发生在1996年的那次。每一分钟有2 500多颗流星划过天空。

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Imjin's Meteor T7 was built in 1949 at nearby Hucclecote and flew some 2, 000 hours until 1968.

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Such meteor strikes are rare in Russia but one is thought to have devastated an area of more than 2, 000 sq km (770 sq m) in Siberia in 1908.

BBC: Meteorite fragments found in Russia's Urals region