"WASHINGTON (AP) -- A record-size hailstone crashed into Nebraska during a storm in June, federal weather experts said Friday.

The June 22 storm produced a hailstone 7 inches in diameter and 18.75 inches in circumference at Aurora, Nebraska, the National Climatic Data Center said. "

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What a breakthrough!

According to these dudes, Pi now equals 2.6786...
Who'd have ever guessed?

Maybe it was a oblong shaped hail stone http://www.theologyweb.com/forum/images/smilies/brood.gif

but when you throw out terms like diameter and circumference, you are talking about a circular feature... should havedescribed the max/min thickness in that case, not diameters.

it's a great example of how sloppy gov't agencies are in so many different ways. Also the careless nature of the reporting, and the general lack of critical thinking.

That isn’t a peer review journal article what do you expect?