No one in the home was injured when the suspected meteorite went through the roof and ceiling, coming to rest in a bedroom.
A suspected meteorite crashed through the roof and ceiling of a ranch-style home in Hopewell Township, New Jersey, before impacting its hardwood floor, investigators say.HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP, New Jersey — A home was damaged Monday when an object believed to be a meteorite punched through the roof and ceiling, ending up on the hardwood floor of a bedroom.
A news release from the Hopewell Township Police Department says residents were inside the home when the object hit but no one was injured. Police say the object appears to be metallic and is approximately 4 inches by 6 inches. It weighs about 4 pounds.Shannon Graham, a geology professor at the College of New Jersey, tells NJ.com that faculty members at the school plan to conduct tests on the object. She said if the object is a meteorite, it might be more than 4 billion years old.
“This is very rare. Not rare for the Earth to get hit by things, but rare for it to happen where a person is,”Suzy Kop, whose family owns the home, said hazmat officials responded to the residence to check it out along with her family in case they had been exposed to some type of radioactive material, but those checks were all negative.
“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,” Kop toldThe Associated Press contributed to this storyIf you purchase a product or register for an account through one of the links on our site, we may receive compensation.
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