A meteorite hit directly on the roof of a house – the National Science Museum investigated

Recently the NHK News on-line reported the following:

住宅の屋根に隕石が直撃 国立科学博物館が調査

2018年10月13日 4時03分

愛知県小牧市で先月、突然、住宅の屋根が壊れて表面が焼けた石のような物が落ちているのが見つかり、国立科学博物館が調べたところ隕石（いんせき）の落下であったことがわかりました。

先月26日、午後10時半ごろ、愛知県小牧市の住宅で突然「ぐわーん」という大きな音とともに家全体が揺れる衝撃があり、屋根の一部にえぐれたような穴があいたということです。

当時、家の中には人がいましたがけがはなく、翌日、庭などで表面が焼け焦げていて、大きさが10センチと５センチ、それに４センチほどの３つに割れたとみられる石のような物が落ちているのを見つけたということです。

石のようなものは磁石にくっつく性質があり、国立科学博物館の専門家が鑑定したところ、成分などから約45億年前にできた隕石とわかりました。

隕石が建物を直撃するケースは珍しく、平成15年に広島市に落ちたケースが報告されているということです。

国立科学博物館は、今後、この隕石を発見場所にちなんで「小牧隕石」として国際隕石学会に登録する手続きをとるということです。

隕石の発見者で、この家に住む女性は「探査機の『はやぶさ』などが宇宙に採りに行こうとするような神秘的なものが向こうから来てくれました。被害はありましたが貴重なものでうれしいです」と話していました。

Translation

In Komaki-shi of Aichi, the roof of a house was broken suddenly last month and something like a stone with a tanned surface was found; when it was checked by the National Science Museum it was confirmed to be a fallen meteorite.

Around 10:30 pm on the 26th last month at a house in Komaki-shi of Aichi suddenly a big sound "GUWAN" was heard together with an impact which shook the whole house; it was said that a part of the roof was looked like to have a gouged hole made.

A person was in the house at that time, but he was unhurt. On the next day, at a garden it was said that something like a stone with the surface burnt was found having a size thought to be 10 centimeters by 5 centimeters, broken up into 3 parts up to about 4 centimeters.

It was something like a stone that had an attaching character like a magnet; a specialist from the National Science Museum appraised it and found its ingredient showing characters of meteorite of about 4,500 million years old.

Cases which a meteorite hit directly a building was uncommon, and it was said that one case was reported in 2003 in Hiroshima-shi.

It was said that from now on the National Science Museum through a procedure would register this meteorite with the international meteorite academic association to register it as the "Komaki meteorite" to connect it to the discovered place.

The lady who was the finder of the meteorite and lived in this house said that "a mysterious thing came from over there where Hayabusa the spacecraft and others were trying to take to the space to investigate. Although some damages were done, the meteorite is valuable and I am happy with that."

              It is lucky that the meteorite has not hit at anyone on the ground.