A housing crash?! Well . . .it's more of a crashed house!
A Bloomington, IL couple caught a falling star Monday morning, not quite in their pockets but in a bedroom of their house. | Photo gallery | Video
A chunk of metal that crashed through the bedroom window of David and Dee Riddle’s home, 25 Partner Place, just after 9:30 a.m. appears to be a meteorite, but it also could be a piece of space junk, according to preliminary analysis by several Illinois State University geology professors.
However, the professors who had a look at it agree that whatever the heavy, gray object that crashed through their window is, it definitely came from space.
Robert “Skip” Nelson, a professor of geology at ISU, came out to Riddles’ home to take a look at the object, which is about the size of deck of cards.
Nelson said that based on the density of the object, the metal could be a combination of iron and nickel or a heavy stainless steel. It is unlikely a satellite or spacecraft would contain metal that heavy and dense, Nelson said.
“In my 36 years of investigating meteorite calls, this looks like the real thing,” Nelson said.
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