'The pictures CLEARLY show this is NOT a meteorite!'
, on the other hand, tend to have smooth surfaces due to the heat they experience and the melting it causes, as Vaubaillon noted.
François Colas, an astronomer with the Fireball Recovery and InterPlanetary Observation Network sky surveillance network, explained to the French astronomy publicationthat, when a meteorite falls from the sky, it tends to arrive at the surface at approximately 186 mph . So, if the July 6 rock were a meteorite, it should have damaged the roof when it hit. But that didn't happen here, Colas said.
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