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		roel_v on May 27, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Skeleton Lake of Roopkund, India I think the comments to the article draw the correct conclusion - the author mixed up circumference with diameter, and the hail would have been 'only' 3 inches. Still pretty deadly, but not quite as terrifying as being bombarded with rock-hard soccer balls.

ekianjo on May 28, 2013 [–]

Wow, mixing up circumference and diameter is pretty bad journalistic mistake.

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