Possible meteorite crashes into Houston area home, officials say

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A possible meteorite crashed into a Houston area house on Saturday night, tearing through the roof and two stories of the home, officials said.

Ponderosa Fire Chief Fred Windisch told CBS News that what "appears to be a meteorite" crashed through a woman's house, landing in the kitchen. Windisch said the meteorite was a little bigger than his hand. Ponderosa Forest is a suburb in north Houston.

NASA said in a social media post that the meteor became visible at 49 miles above Stagecoach, northwest of Houston, at 4:40 p.m. local time. The meteor moved southeast at 35,000 miles per hour, breaking apart 29 miles above Bammel, just west of Cypress Station, NASA said.

"The fragmentation of the meteor - which weighed about a ton with a diameter of 3 feet - created a pressure wave that caused booms heard by some in the area," NASA said in the post.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/possible-meteorite-crashes-houston-area-032927489.html

[True Dough]

1. You touch that rock

and who knows what sort of super powers you'll develop!

[ret5hd]

2. They would turn into Joe Dirt?

[GiqueCee]

3. "A possible meteorite"?...

... it's hard imagine anything else with the velocity and kinetic energy to punch through a roof and two floors of a house!
Good thing no one was standing there! Woulda ruined their hat!

[BigmanPigman]

4. 3' and weighed a ton...WOW!

The one that wiped out the dinosaurs was enormous.....

"The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs, known as the Chicxulub impactor, is estimated to have weighed approximately two quadrillion pounds kg (roughly 1 trillion to 10 trillion tons). It was about 6 to 10 miles (10–15 km) in diameter, similar to the size of Mount Everest, and traveled at immense speeds."

"Weight in Pounds: Some estimates put the weight at roughly two quadrillion pound lbs).
Size: It was between 6 and 10 miles in diameter, comparable to the size of Mount Everest.
Impact Force: The impact released energy equivalent to roughly 100 million megatons of TNT.
Impact Site: It hit the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico, creating a crater over 100 miles wide."