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In North Holland, the roof of the barn of one of the private estates Brooke in Waterland village struck a stone, and he turned out quite massive – in a pound.
The owners discovered him the next day and immediately thought about meteorite, as the roof of the barn was quite strong and punch it by tossing stones from the ground is simply unrealistic.
Owners of the “strange” stone (it actually looked unusual) contacted scientists and provided them to determine what kind of a piece of heaven suddenly fell on the roof of the barn. Museum experts soon Naturalis found out that the 500 g stone is actually is a meteorite.
A photo from open sources
Moreover, this space fragment is more than 4.5 billion years old, it is chondritis with some iron content. Judging by everything, together with our solar system, and flew to Earth from areas between Jupiter and Mars where similar space debris lots of.
At the moment, the Naturalis Museum, where fantastic meteorite is on a temporary basis, offered to its owners sell them a stone, which is estimated at about 1000 Euro.
Note that meteorites of a similar magnitude fall to Earth quite often, but what’s interesting is that they have never inflicted injuries to people, and on the roofs of residential buildings are extremely rare, so that the case of a meteorite that landed in a Dutch barn The villagers are simply unique.
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