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A woman almost died unknowinglySLOTXOrecently. This was after a mysterious rock fell on the roof of a house in Canada. lay down nearby narrowly she herself As experts later confirmed. It was determined that the rock was a "meteorite".

Ruth Hamilton of Golden City British Columbia was shocked after hearing a loud explosion from the ceiling of his home. The dog barked and debris fell on her face the night of October 3 when she began to stagnate. Hamilton found dust on her face.

At first, Hamilton thought there was an intruder in the house. So she decided to call the emergency hotline. but during the conversation She noticed a dark brown stone under the pillow. which is slightly larger than a fist Like a hole in the ceiling

Officers rushed to Hamilton's home. and preliminary suspects that nearby construction sites may be the source of the stone. But that night there was no explosion at the construction site. And moreover, a construction worker told the authorities that He heard a loud boom and saw something explode in the sky. It wasn't long before Hamilton called the emergency hotline.

Hamilton later told CTV News Vancouver, "A police officer came in and said I thought what was on your bed was probably a meteorite."

This meteorite weighed 1.27 kg and was slightly larger than an adult fist. Hamilton presented the meteorite to researchers at the University of Western Ontario, where the meteorite is stored. for researchers to study extraterrestrial life

"It's definitely a meteorite," Peter Brown, a physicist at the University of Western Ontario, told CBS News. "Everything about it corresponds to a falling meteor."

The CTV News report said the researchers plan to collect photographs, measure different sizes and sample meteorites. Residents in the neighborhood are also asked to review the video. A dash cam was included from 11:33 p.m. on October 3 that caught fireballs.

Brown told the Vancouver Sun that researchers will use the video to combine the asteroid's path from the asteroid belt to Earth.