A metallic object that punched a hole in the roof of a central New Jersey home this week, smashing into a hardwood floor and bouncing around a bedroom, was a meteorite, experts announced Thursday.

Police wonder if the roughly 4-pound metallic object might have come from a meteor shower made up of debris from Halley's Comet. Homeowners want an astrophysicist to take a closer look at the object.

Unusual shape: iron-nickel meteorites are rarely rounded. Instead, they have an irregular shape with unusual pits like finger prints in their surface called “regmaglypts.” Fusion crust: stony ...

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A metallic object that punched a hole in the roof of a central New Jersey home this week, smashing into a hardwood floor and bouncing around a bedroom, was a meteorite.

What could be a meteorite struck a home in Hopewell Township, New Jersey, authorities said Monday. The metallic object crashed through the roof of a house and ricocheted around a bedroom.

A metallic object hit a New Jersey home this week and officials think it may be a meteorite. The object hit a home around 1:15 p.m. Monday in Hopewell Township, New Jersey, about 15 miles ...

A metallic object believed to be a meteorite crashed through the roof a home on Old Washington Crossing Pennington Road in Hopewell Township on Monday, May 8, 2023. Hopewell Township Police. By .

The Maine Mineral and Gem Museum is offering $25,000 to the lucky person who finds the fallen meteor from space, ... “A metallic meteorite is easier to identify in the field, ...

Three days ago, scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration teamed up with NASA in the hopes of finding leftover chunks of a meteorite … ...