![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/i-was-struck-by-a-50g-meteorite-when-it-smashed-through-my-roof-as-i-drank-coffee/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/3_asteroid-approaching-planet-Earth-meteorite-in-orbit-before-impact.jpg&description=A French woman was left injured after a 50g meteorite crashed into the roof of her home in Schirmeck, leaving experts baffled over the rare sighting, which hasn't been seen in the region "in decades" Space experts have been left stunned after a woman was struck by a huge meteorite which crashed through the roof of her home. The unnamed lady was left bruised on her ribs after the freak accident in Schirmeck, France. She said the space rock smashed through the roof whilst she was drinking coffee with her friend on July 6. At first, the woman thought it was some kind of animal or bat, then later a piece of cement due to the rarity of locating a meteorite. She decided to take the rock to a geologist, Dr Thierry Rebmann, who identified the object and found that it weighed around 50g. She told local newspaper Les Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace: "In the second that followed, I felt a shock on the ribs. I thought it was an animal, a bat. "We thought it was a piece of cement, the one we apply to the ridge tiles, but it didn't have the colour." Dr Rebmann explained that it was made of iron and silicon. He told France Bleu Alsace: 'Finding a meteor is already uncommon, but to be in direct contact and have it fall on you, that is astronomically rare. 'We haven't seen that in decades in this region.' Meteorites are different to meteors and typically originate from the asteroid belt which orbits from Mars to Jupiter. Earlier this year, a similar incident happened with an apparent meteorite after it crashed into a woman's home in New Jersey, USA. The Hopewell Police Department released a photo of a space rock next to a damaged floor. Suzy Kop, who wasn't home at the time of the crash, told CBS Philadelphia that it landed in her father's bedroom. "I thank God that my father was not here, no one was here, we weren't hurt or anything," she said. "I did touch the thing, because I thought it was a random rock, I don't know, and it was warm." And in February 2021, a meteorite smashed into){kind=link}
A French woman was left injured after a 50g meteorite crashed into the roof of her home in Schirmeck, leaving experts baffled over the rare sighting, which hasn’t been seen in the region “in decades”
Space experts have been left stunned after a woman was struck by a huge meteorite which crashed through the roof of her home.
The unnamed lady was left bruised on her ribs after the freak accident in Schirmeck, France.
She said the space rock smashed through the roof whilst she was drinking coffee with her friend on July 6.
At first, the woman thought it was some kind of animal or bat, then later a piece of cement due to the rarity of locating a meteorite.