Shocked! Suspected Meteorite crashes in rice field

NPnews24 Online, Patna: Meteorite the size of a football plunged into a rice field in Bihar’s Madhubani district, startling farmers, authorities said.

Light brown-coloured object sent fleeing from the field when it fell at their village, sending some smoke.

“The farmers working in the paddy field when this heavy rock fell from the sky with a very loud noise,” Shirsat kapil, a Madhubani district magistrate said.

The villagers returned after the smoke subsided and pulled the rock out from its four-feet-deep crater.

The find is being analysed by scientists as a possible meteorite. This are particles of dust and rock that usually burn up as they pass through earth’s atmosphere, with those that survive the fall known as meteorites.