Falling deadly meteors in India

An object thought to be a meteorite fell on the technical college yard in Tamil Nadu state, India killed a 40-year-old man.

Indian scientists will begin investigating a supposedly meteorite object, falling from the sky causing the death of a 40-year-old man in Tamil Nadu state . The incident happened on February 6 last.

Specifically, the police at the Vellore Army, the site of the accident, said the object had fallen to Bharathidasan Technical College yard at noon, causing a loud noise and leaving a 60cm hole in the schoolyard. . The man named Kamaraj, the school bus driver, was killed, two gardeners and another student were injured and being treated at Vellore hospital. A series of glass doors in the school, the bus glass was also broken due to the impact of the collision.

The school of meteor crashing at Bharathidasan Technical College.

The object is still in the process of verification, if it is a meteorite, this will be the first deadly meteorite fall in history. However, it does not exclude the possibility that this is cosmic garbage, or some debris floating in the universe falls to the surface of the Earth. Directly performing this verification process are scientists from the Indian Institute of Astrophysics.

Meanwhile, the Tamil Nadu state government issued a notice on February 7, saying it was a meteorite accident and decided to compensate the 100,000 rupee victims' family (about 30 million VND). .

In 2013, a large meteorite exploded in the Chelyabinsk region, Russia, causing a very strong commotion, blowing up an entire terrain. There were 1,000 people injured, fortunately no one was killed.