The woman is unharmed, but with a great scare to experience one of those extremely rare events.
There are rare events, and other extremely rare events, that happen every many years, and precisely one of the latter has just happened in France, where a woman has been hit by a small meteorite while having a coffee on the terrace.
As reported by the media DNAa woman was hit by a small meteorite on July 6 in Schirmeck, a rare event that almost never happens, but can never be ruled out.
At the moment of impact, the woman was sitting on a terrace with a friend when she first heard a knock on the ceiling, and a second later she felt a blow to her ribs.
“In the second that followed, I felt a blow to the ribs. I thought it was an animal, a bat! We thought it was a piece of cement, the one we put on the ridge tiles. But I didn’t have the color“, Explain.
It seems that it was a piece of meteorite that first bounced off the ceiling, and then shot towards her ribs, and the woman, apart from the shock, is totally unharmed.
Its origin was confirmed by a geologist
The woman, totally surprised, wanted to take this rock fragment to the geologist Thierry Rebman who confirmed that it had extraterrestrial origins, that is, the piece of rock by the atmosphere, it had disintegrated, and this small fragment had fallen in this area of France.
“Finding a meteorite is already rare, but being in direct contact with it and having it fall on you is astronomically rare.Rebman points out.
In fact, according to National Geographic, there have only been five meteor landing incidents in France so far this century.
Statistically, it is easier to be hit by a car, struck by lightning, or even engulfed by a tsunami than, say, to be hit in the ribs by a small meteorite.