[Rockhounds] Shooting Star: French Woman Sitting on Her Terrace Struck By Mystery Space Rock

[Kreigh Tomaszewski]

Can you imagine quietly sipping coffee and minding your own business when a
random rock coming all the way from outer space decides to pick beef with
you? As outlandish as this sounds, this is exactly what happened to a woman
in the village of Alsace located in eastern France.

As per the French newspaper Les Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace (DNA), the
woman was sitting outside on her terrace, chatting with a friend when the
mysterious pebble hit her in the ribs earlier this month, on July 6.

While calling the object a pebble could make it sound harmless, it still
managed to leave a bruise.

“I heard a big 'Poom' coming from the roof next to us. In the second that
followed, I felt a shock on the ribs,” the unidentified woman told the
French newspaper.

She mistook it for an animal, perhaps a bat, at first, but she soon
realised that it resembled a piece of cement — the kind applied to ridge
tiles. Except, it was colourless.

When she got it checked by a local roofer, he suggested that it could be a
meteorite. Further examination by geologist Dr Thierry Rebmann only
confirmed its extraterrestrial origins.

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