"Showers " of a burning meteor fragment on a house in Japanese Komaki

"Showers " of a burning meteor fragment on a house in Japanese Komaki

Tokyo _ Agencies

Several fragments of a meteor landed on a house in Komaki city in Japan´s central Aichi prefecture, severely damaging the roof of the house.

The NHK TV channel said in detail that the residents of the house heard a loud voice for blows on the roof of the house late last month and after checking the source of the sound, they found three meteor stones measuring 10, 5 and 4 cm.

She added that the stones were transported to the National Science Museum and examined by scientists, and were found to be fragments of a meteor stone about 4 billion years old and enjoying the characteristics of magnet attraction.