The thousand-dollar meteorite broke through the roof of a Thai family

It is true that "money from heaven falls".

A seemingly ordinary morning became unattractive by the strange phenomenon in Muang district, Phitsanulok province, Thailand. A stone, probably a meteorite, fell through a people's roof, causing minor damage to the house.

Many people in the area, including the homeowner, had heard a loud explosion some time earlier, most likely it was the sound of a meteorite explosion when entering the Earth's atmosphere.

Close up of a meteorite piece that falls through the roof of Thai people.

The stone will have to be tested before it can be confirmed as a meteorite, but it seems that the original images of this stone gave us credible evidence that this is a meteorite.

The core of the stone is gray, the characteristic color in the meteorite stones is often found, the dark-colored outer shell is most likely the part of the stone that is scorched by the terrible heat when the meteorite pieces penetrate the atmosphere with Great speed.

But in the story of the landlord, we find something quite strange: the landlady said that the stone was very hot when picked up. Usually a meteorite that passes through the atmosphere is only hot for a moment, its speed drops from 5 times the speed of sound down to the speed of sound. When reaching the atmospheric range of 80-100km on the surface of the Earth, the meteorite rubbing against the atmosphere makes the air and itself hot, so hot that it glows and when it becomes an official "bolide".

A hole created by a meteorite.

However, it will soon slow down, only fall to the ground at a few hundred kilometers per hour and will touch the ground in just a few minutes. The air above is very cold, so the meteorite pieces when touching the ground will be very cold, not as hot as many people believe.

It is also very likely that the landlord was mistaken between hot and cold. No, don't rush to laugh!If you touch something very cold, the first feeling is like touching something very hot.

However, as mentioned earlier, more tests still need to be done before making sure what this is. The landlady said that she would keep it as a lucky charm given down from the sky. And often, meteorites are very valuable to collectors. With a meteorite weighing about 300 grams like this piece, it can bring thousands of dollars to sellers, it seems that the meteorite is really bringing luck.

The landlady and the meteorite.

Another lucky thing is that no one is hurt by this "heaven" stone. It weighs almost twice as much as a baseball, and flies at speeds of up to a hundred kilometers per hour, it must be uncomfortable to feel the hit.

Even so, the winning rate is very low. Up to three quarters of the Earth's surface is covered by water and in the remaining one-fourth of the mainland there are also many uninhabited lands. According to calculations, meteorites fall into very densely populated areas, and the meteorite that hits anyone / what is even rarer. Only a few cases of injuries caused by meteorites were reported, and fewer of them were confirmed to be caused by meteorites. The fact that the meteorite hit the head is completely unreal.