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INTRO: A woman in Canada narrowly missed being struck by a meteorite that crashed through her roof and landed on her pillow. Ruth Hamilton, a resident of Golden, British Columbia, was asleep in her bed on the night of Oct. 3 when she was jolted awake by an explosive bang, as something plummeted through the roof and showered her with debris, Hamilton told Victoria News on Oct. 8.
She jumped out of bed and turned on the light, discovering a rock lying nestled between her pillows, right next to the spot where her head had been moments earlier. The object was about the size of a fist and weighed about 2.8 pounds (1.3 kilograms), The New York Times reported on Thursday (Oct. 14).
Hamilton promptly called 911; a police officer arrived on the scene and investigated the debris, then checked with a local construction company to see if they had set off any explosions at a highway site in the nearby Kicking Horse Canyon, Victoria News reported.
A construction company representative said that no blasting had occurred that night, but they mentioned seeing “a bright light in the sky that had exploded and caused some booms,” Hamilton told Victoria News. Hamilton then realized that the object on her pillow—a greyish, melon-size boulder—was likely a rock from space, according to the Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC)... (MORE)
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INTRO: A woman in Canada narrowly missed being struck by a meteorite that crashed through her roof and landed on her pillow. Ruth Hamilton, a resident of Golden, British Columbia, was asleep in her bed on the night of Oct. 3 when she was jolted awake by an explosive bang, as something plummeted through the roof and showered her with debris, Hamilton told Victoria News on Oct. 8.
She jumped out of bed and turned on the light, discovering a rock lying nestled between her pillows, right next to the spot where her head had been moments earlier. The object was about the size of a fist and weighed about 2.8 pounds (1.3 kilograms), The New York Times reported on Thursday (Oct. 14).
Hamilton promptly called 911; a police officer arrived on the scene and investigated the debris, then checked with a local construction company to see if they had set off any explosions at a highway site in the nearby Kicking Horse Canyon, Victoria News reported.
A construction company representative said that no blasting had occurred that night, but they mentioned seeing “a bright light in the sky that had exploded and caused some booms,” Hamilton told Victoria News. Hamilton then realized that the object on her pillow—a greyish, melon-size boulder—was likely a rock from space, according to the Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC)... (MORE)
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