Experts study the "meteorite" who killed a man in India

As it was already reported on Geektimes, in India the first case of death of the person because of the fallen meteorite is recorded. The bus driver, peacefully walking around the campus, was injured incompatible with life after the fall of a certain object, which was later called by witnesses a meteorite.

Now a team of scientists from the Indian Institute of Astrophysics is studying a crater left behind by the fall of this object and fragments of a fallen celestial body. According to scientists, so far there is no 100% proof that this is a meteorite. The object may also be a piece of space debris, partially burned in the atmosphere during a fall.

“Our team is now taking samples from the scene. The study of the origin of the celestial body will take a couple of days. Now we cannot clearly say whether it is a meteorite or not, ”the official representative of the institute says .
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The chief minister of Tamil Nadu, Jayalalith (Tamil Nadu, Jayalalithaa) first spoke about the meteorite. “The disaster happened on Saturday, when a meteorite fell on the campus of a private college in the Vellore area, Pantharappalli village,” he said after studying the scene.

Eyewitnesses talk about a strange sound on a Saturday afternoon, followed by a beat. In the place of the fall of the object, nearby buses are damaged, windows are broken, there are injured - 3 people, and one dead, as mentioned above.

Police claim that fragments of rock have been extracted from the body of a deceased bus driver. The part of the fallen object found at the scene, has magnetic properties, most likely it is metal. As mentioned above, the object may not be a meteorite, but a fragment of a spacecraft, partially burned in the Earth’s atmosphere during a fall. But we will know about it only in a day or two.