Rock bounces off sofa

[Frank Newgent]

A New Zealand couple had an unexpected visitor from space at the weekend when a 1.3kg (2.8lb) meteorite crashed into their living room shortly before breakfast.
The meteorite came through the roof of Phil and Brenda Archer's house in the Auckland suburb of Ellerslie at 9.30am on Saturday morning.

"I was in the kitchen doing breakfast and there was this almighty explosion," Mrs Archer told Auckland's Sunday Star-Times newspaper. "I couldn't see anything, there was just dust. I thought something had exploded in the ceiling. Phil saw a stone under the computer and it was hot to touch."

The scorched rock bounced off a leather sofa and hit the ceiling a second time before coming to rest underneath the computer. The Archers were drying it out in their oven yesterday and plan to sell it to meteorite-hunters.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1238116,00.html

Lucky it hit the house. Those things can be hard to find. As for the hole in the roof, well, they're collectible.

 

[a_unique_person]

I'd like to buy one of those sofas. A metorite hits it, then bounces off the ceiling. It should be able to outlast my kids pretty easily.

 

[Beerina]

We have a sofa set the cats have been clawing at for going on 5 years now, no damage to them. Now know that they clawed through the "rugged" carpet wrapped over the edge of the railed stairway within a month.

My wife asked if we should get rid of it. I responded:

1. Cats
2. Kids still haven't left the house