'It fell right into their laps.'
"We are thinking it's a meteorite, came through here, hit the floor here because that's completely damaged, it ricocheted up to this part of the ceiling and then finally rested on the floor there."
"I did touch the thing because it thought it was a random rock, I don't know," she continued, "and it was warm."enter the Earth's atmosphere every day, few space rocks actually make it past our atmosphere intact. If the metallic object that hit the Hopewell home is indeed a chunk of cosmic rock, it would mark a rare — not to mention very cool — event.
Fascinatingly, the Eta Aquariids is actually comprised of tiny chunks of space debris left by Halley's comet, the famous cosmic body that passes by Earth every 76 years.that the maybe-meteorite might be four or five billion years old — meaning that it may have been around at the very beginnings of our universe.
"It's been running around in space all that time, and now it's come to Earth," Pitts told the outlet. "And it fell right into their laps." "But for it to actually strike a house, for people to be able to pick [it] up, that's really unusual," he added. "It has happened very few times in history."
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