A family in New Jersey received a late Christmas gift on January 2nd as a metallic meteorite fell out of the sky and smashed through their roof.
The media reports the rock weighs 13 ounces (377g). It crashed into a home in Freehold Township, 50 miles south of New York, and was embedded in the wall on the top floor of the two-story house.
Police and scientists investigated the meteorite and found it's very metal-rich. It possibly represents the deep interior of an iron meteorite.
Source: Reuters.
Home in New Jersey hit by meteorite
Posted on Monday, January 08 2007 @ 7:35 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck