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Officials at the Yale Peabody Museum confirmed that a meteorite struck a home in Wolcott at the end of last week. "She told me and I made her repeat it like four times because I'm like, 'A rock?'" said Wendy Taylor. "'A rock came through your roof and into the house?' It just didn't make any sense."
Originally posted by Chrisfishenstein
reply to post by Rezlooper
MUSEUM?? What are these people crazy??
That's gotta be worth tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars for a baseball sized meteorite.....I would be selling it immediately if one came through my roof, no doubt about it
Originally posted by eriktheawful
reply to post by Rezlooper
Actually, this is not a new thing. Meteorites have hit people's homes, cars and even people before:
'It Came From The Sky' - The Meteorite That Mangled The Malibu - a meteorite that smashed the rear end of a car.
The Hodges Meteorite That crashing into a house and hit a woman.
Here's a couple more incidents, including a spanish main who had a 3 pound meteor crash through his windshield, and a boy that was hit by a pea sized meteorite:
Source.
Considering that the Earth get's bombarded by more than 13,000 objects a day, I'm not surprised.
According to a SPACE.com article on the topic a few years, back:
On November 30, 1954, Alabama housewife Ann Hodges was taking a nap on her couch when she was awakened by a 3-pound (1.4-kilogram) meteor that crashed through the roof of her house, bounced off a piece of furniture and struck her in the hip, causing a large bruise.
On October 9, 1992, a large fireball was seen streaking over the eastern United States, finally exploding into many pieces. In Peekskill, New York, one of the pieces struck a Chevrolet automobile owned by Michelle Knapp. Knapp was not in the car at the time.
On June 21, 1994, Jose Martin of Spain was driving with his wife near Madrid when a 3-pound (1.4-kilogram) meteor crashed through his windshield, bent the steering wheel and ended up in the back seat.
In 2004, a 2,000-pound space rock bigger than a refrigerator exploded in the late-night sky over Chicago, producing a large flash and a sound resembling a detonation that woke people up. Fragments rained down on that wild Chicago night, and many were collected by residents in a northern suburb.
it was only a matter of time before someone reports a rock crashing through their home.
Originally posted by eriktheawful
Here's a couple more incidents, including a spanish main who had a 3 pound meteor crash through his windshield, and a boy that was hit by a pea sized meteorite:
Source.
Considering that the Earth get's bombarded by more than 13,000 objects a day, I'm not surprised.
>> This is a highly doubtful report that screams "hoax!"
>>
>> The described phenomena might match well the Hollywood idea of a meteorite
>> impact: but don't confirm at all to true events at a (small) meteorite
>> impact.
>>
>> For one thing, the whole "red hot able to burn at impact" is a persistent
>> myth.
>> But there is more to this story that doesn't ring through. The "crater"
>> shown in
>> the picture with the original German news report is too large to fit the
>> (very
>> small!) size of the object in question. Likewise, there is a certain time
>> interval between the meteor and arrival of the meteorite on earth, which
>> doesn't
>> match the boy's story.
>>
>> Maybe he just needed an excuse for papsi und mamsi for the burn on his
>> hand.
>>
>> - Marco
>>
>> -----
>> Dr Marco (asteroid 183294) Langbroek
The first meteorite found in North America fell in Weston in 1807, according to Nicolescu. Two others hit houses in Wethersfield — one in 1971 and one in 1982 — and another meteorite fell in 1974 in Stratford, but didn't hit any buildings, he said.
Nicolescu said this particular meteorite looks primitive and could have come from the very beginnings of our solar system. The crust tells experts that it traveled a very long way before crashing Friday night. "It doesn't look like any terrestrial rock," he said. Aside from the crust, the rock also has a light gray interior comparable to concrete, a fair amount of metal composition and exterior depressions — like thumbprints, Nicolescu said. All those are characteristic of meteorites.