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Meteor Turns Out to Be Just Space Junk

by Terrence O'Brien on May 14, 2007 at 02:11 PM



Back in January, the Nageswaran family found a hole in the ceiling of their Freehold Township, New Jersey bathroom, and, on the floor, a small metallic object. The golf-ball-sized piece of debris weighed about the same as a can of Campbell's soup and also damaged the floor and walls of the Nageswaran's bathroom.

Initially, the object was thought to be an iron meteorite, after two geologists from Rutgers University and an independent metallurgist conducted an investigation. Now, however, scientists from New York City's American Museum of Natural History are saying that the object is not made of iron, but is instead composed of a steel alloy not found in nature.

In other words, the "rock" is space junk from some random satellite. Poor New Jersey: First it gets unfairly criticized for being the armpit of America -- it's actually called the "Garden State" for a reason -- and now "Space" itself makes headlines for using the state as a garbage can.


From USA Today


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Tags: science, space

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