One of the dogs died in the fire.Īuthorities in New Jersey said the possible meteorite that struck on Monday measured about 4 inches by 6 inches. The Nevada County resident, Dustin Procita, was at home with his two dogs at the time of the incident. In November, for example, an object believed to be a meteorite from the Taurid meteor shower struck a house in Northern California, according to CNN affiliate KCRA in Sacramento. But striking a home or populated area is rare because the majority of our planet is covered in oceans or undeveloped areas.Ī meteorite strike is not, however, unheard of. Space rocks strike all the time, distributed evenly across the Earth’s surface.
From NASAĪ fireball landed in the US, and now there's a reward to find it This is the strewn field estimate of the meteorite that landed near the border between the United States and Canada, calculated from radar signatures, scaled from 10 kilogram (red) to 1 gram (yellow).
The outermost part of meteorites can reach scorching temperatures because of the incredible friction and pressure involved with plunging into the Earth’s thick atmosphere at high speeds, though they typically cool off significantly as they reach the ground. “I just thank God that my father was not here. “I did touch the thing because I just thought it was a random rock,” Suzy Kop, a local resident who said the rock fell through the roof of her father’s bedroom, told CNN affiliate KYW-TV in Philadelphia. The celestial event was expected to peak this past Saturday, according to American Meteor Society predictions, though it will last through May 27. The Eta Aquariid meteor shower is an annual phenomenon in which debris from the famous Halley’s Comet rains down into Earth’s atmosphere. Police are still working to determine the precise nature of the object, though officials suspect it is related to the current meteor shower, called the Eta Aquariids, according to a statement from the Hopewell Township Police Department in New Jersey. No one was in the bedroom at the time of the incident, and no injuries were reported. The metallic object crashed through the roof of a house and ricocheted around a bedroom. What could be a meteorite struck a home in Hopewell Township, New Jersey, authorities said Monday.
0 kommentar(er)
