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French newspaper Les Dernieres Nouvelles d’Alsace (DNA) has reported the incident. It is told that the woman was talking with her friend on the terrace. Both were drinking coffee. Then a mysterious pebble hit the woman’s ribs.
Talking to the local media, the woman said that she heard a sound on the terrace. The next moment there was a jolt in the ribs. In the beginning it was thought that there is some animal like a bat. Then saw that thing, thought it was cement. But it had no color. This incident is being reported from the commune of Shirmec in the north-east of France. The identity of the woman has not been revealed.
After the incident, the woman and her friend went to a roofing builder. He told that the thing was not made of cement. The woman showed the mysterious thing to Thierry Rebmann, a geologist. Then it was found that it is a meteorite. The fragments recovered have a mass equal to 4 ounces. Geologists also confirmed that it is very rare for such things to collide with people.
Newsweek quoted NASA wrote It is estimated that 50 tonnes of meteorite material falls on the earth daily, but most of it falls into the sea. Even if it falls on the earth, it is difficult to identify it from the rocks here, because meteorites and rocks look alike.
The report says that the first case of meteorite hitting a human came to light in America 70 years ago. An Alabama woman was hit by an 8-pound meteorite and suffered serious injuries.
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