© Melanie Casselman
Clemson astrophysicists have visually
confirmed that an unusual rock that hit a Pawley Island home and ended up in a yard is meteorite from outer space."I looked at my house and my windows, and everything looked fine, so I just walked right on by," Casselman said. "I didn't even pick it up."
The next day, Casselman's partner, Dennis Suszko, found a strange piece of rock in the front yard, and she remembered seeing a similar rock in the side yard.
"These were odd-looking rocks," Casselman said. "It wasn't like anything around it, and I jokingly said, 'We must've had a meteor shower last night.'"
As they looked for more pieces of rock, they noticed a chunk of shingles missing from the eaves of their roof.
"We're not positive, but we believe that's where the meteorite first struck before landing in the yard," Casselman said.
Comment: "Mystery booms' appear to be occurring with increasing frequency around the world. Not all of them can be chalked up to military training. A very small sample from the SOTT archives.