CNN has the story of a mysterious falling object that punctured the roof of a home in New Jersey on Tuesday evening, damaging bathroom floor tiles on impact before bouncing and lodging itself in a wall. The object is metal; lab tests will determine whether or not it is a meteorite.
Steinn covers the story on ScienceBlogs, with a link to a site running guidelines for meteorite identification. Who will figure it out first, cops or bloggers?
Image: This meteorite fell on Wisconsin in 1868. (Source)
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