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On the roof of a Japanese house was a meteorite

Added	Sun, 14/10/2018
Источники	gismeteo.ru
Дата публикации	Sat, 13/10/2018
Версии	Meteor

At the end of September at a house in the city of Komaki, Aichi Prefecture fell strange rock had damaged the roof of the building. The object, which looked charred and had a pronounced magnetic properties, split into three parts of 10, 5 and 3-4 cm. The owners of the house carried the stones for examination.

Recently it became known that the local Science Museum has identified the stone as a meteorite, whose age is about 4.5 billion years, and is going to make it to the registry of meteorites under the name "meteorite Komaki".

The National Museum of science said that meteorites seldom fall on the house. The last time such a case, according to RBC, was recorded in 2003 in Hiroshima.

Translated by «Yandex.Translator»