Last week, the French were able to watch a meteorite fall in the night sky. The space rock lit up the sky, leaving many wondering where it landed. Well, it turns out that the stone fell on the garden of a French woman who lives in the central part of the country. In doing so, he broke the table, so the lady was very lucky that she was not outside.
This week, the French media reported the flyby of a meteorite that beautifully lit up the sky. Well, it turns out that the stone didn’t completely disintegrate when it fell through our atmosphere, because a French woman from the central part of the country found it in her garden the next morning.
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As she described to French space astronomers from the Vigie-Ciel planetarium, she was suddenly awakened at night by a loud bang. And as she described, she immediately thought that it was a space rock, which was observed by hundreds of French people on the night of September 10. The flight towards the Earth’s surface was also recorded by many people. But she didn’t go to see the garden, where she really found the stone, until the morning. There she then found a rock.
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She informed the previously mentioned team of scientists about this, who visited her and confirmed that the rock had come to her from outer space. It weighed 680 grams. “When we got there we knew right away that this was it,” the president of the French Astronomical Society later described the visit to the French media Sylvain Bouley. As they wrote in a post on the X social network, the stone has already been sent for analysis.
“Luckily the lady wasn’t out, the stone broke the table. But it didn’t leave a crater,” and Bouley also described the situation in the garden to the media.
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Most meteorites either vaporize or disintegrate before falling to the ground due to pressure, in which case they are called meteorites. In the case described above, according to NASA estimates, only five percent of the meteorite reached the ground before falling. This means that the space rock weighed about 13.6 kilograms when it entered Earth’s atmosphere.
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