A woman from France was enjoying a coffee with a friend when an unexpected incident happened. A space rock hit her.
Meteorite Hits a French Woman
A woman was conversing with a friend on a patio outside in a very uncommon occurrence. She was struck in the ribs by an enigmatic rock while drinking coffee, according to the French publication Les Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace (DNA) (via Newsweek).
The woman said she thought it was an animal, a bat! They assumed it was a piece of cement, which they applied to the ridge tiles. However, it reportedly didn't have the color.
She recounted hearing a large "Poom" coming from the roof next to the. She felt a jolt in her ribs in just a couple of seconds.
The French woman, who lives in the commune of Schirmeck in the northeast of the nation, took the rock that struck her to a roofer for analysis. The roofer informed her that although it appeared to be a meteorite, it was not made of cement. The woman showed the enigmatic object to geologist Thierry Rebmann.
According to the geologist, the rock contained a blend of iron and silicon, who told DNA that it might be a meteorite. The combined mass of all the meteorite fragments that have been found is a little under 4 ounces. According to Rebmann, it is highly unusual for people to be struck by such items.
According to Rebmann, finding them in our temperate surroundings is extremely rare because they mix with other elements. However, we can more quickly locate them in a desert setting.
What's a Meteorite?
Meteoroids are space rocks of different sizes, from dust grains to small asteroids. They can be rocky, metallic, or a combination of the two, and they do come from other larger things, principally asteroids, but also the moon and other planets like Mars, per NASA.
When it enters the Earth's atmosphere, they burn up and appear like fireballs or shooting stars called meteors. A meteorite is a meteoroid that survives the Earth's atmosphere.
Most meteoroids fully disintegrate as they pass through the Earth's atmosphere at tens of thousands of miles per hour. Rarely does the entire original object survive among those that do reach the ground in some shape.
Meteorites typically range in size from a pebble to a fist when discovered. Instances of humans allegedly being struck by meteorites have been reported throughout history. However, there has frequently been little proof to support these claims.
In the United States, a meteorite directly impacting a human was first reported to have happened about 70 years ago. An 8-pound stony meteorite smashed through Ann Hodges' roof in Sylacauga, Alabama, in November 1954. The incident left her with a severe bruise.
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