It is estimated that the probability of an event is one in a hundred billion a year.
15.10. 17:48
66 years old Canadian Ruth Hamilton was already asleep when he woke up shortly before midnight to a loud noise and the barking of his dog. Hamilton jumped out of bed and noticed a hole in his ceiling.
He initially thought the tree had fallen on top of the house. It wasn’t until Hamilton was on the phone to contact the alarm center that he noticed a charred chunk between the pillows on his bed.
“Oh damn it,” Hamilton recalls telling the alarm center.
“There’s a stone in my bed.”
Meteorite inlet on the roof of Ruth Hamilton’s house.
Later it turned out it was a 1.27-pound meteorite that had crashed through Hamilton’s roof into the bed.
The rest of the night Hamilton did not get any sleep. He sipped tea and marveled at the rubble in his bed.
The event at the beginning of October was reported by a newspaper, among others The New York Times and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation CBC.
“I was like a wound leaf. At first it is asleep and thinks it is safe in its own bed when suddenly you can seem to get almost a meteorite in its head. ”
To the top it was suspected that the chunk could have flown into the house from blasts at a nearby construction site. However, the site had not been blown up, but workers had seen a meteor in the sky.
The University of Ontario confirmed that it was indeed a meteorite.
“It’s definitely a meteorite,” the professor said Peter Brown From Western University to CBC.
Brown recalls that this was by no means the first time a meteorite has ended up in someone’s bed. That is at least the case In Indonesia last year and In Connecticut in 1982.
According to Brown, the probability that a meteorite will come through someone’s bed through the roof is one in a hundred billion per year. Meteorites are constantly falling to the earth’s surface, but most of them have already burned very small in the atmosphere.
Hamilton survived the encounter with the meteorite in fright. He plans to keep the gift he got from space, as long as scientists have first studied the chunk.
“I had that kind of experience but survived without scratches. I just had to take a shower to wash the roof dust off me. ”
Meteorite on Ruth Hamilton’s bed.
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