A French woman from Bas-Rhin in Alsace, quietly sipping her coffee on a summer morning in July, was terrified when she was hit in the back by a piece of a meteorite.
On July 6, two women were enjoying their coffee on the terrace of a house in Schirmeck when one of them felt a punch in the ribs after briefly hearing a deafening noise on the neighbor’s roof.
“In the second that followed, I felt a shock in my ribs. “I thought it was an animal, a bat,” the Alsatian told Dernières Nouvelles d’Alsace on Thursday, admitting he got away with a “bruise on the side.”
The 105-gram chunks of sky rock were identified by local geologist Thierry Rebmann, who says it’s a “super rare” phenomenon, representing a 100 million chance.
According to the Vigie Ciel network, a participatory scientific project of several organizations, several meteorite pieces were found near Dieppe in Normandy last February.