Meteor fireball explodes over Costa Rica – Meteorite crashes into home (videos)

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A large meteor fireball exploded in the sky over Costa Rica on April 23, 2019 at 9:09pm. People reported seeing flashes in the sky. Others reported hearing loud booms and feeling rumblings. On the same evening a rock fell from the sky, making a hole in a roof in Aguas Zarcas, San Carlos, Alajuela. Now experts will analyse the rock to determine its origin. But I bet it is a meteorite!

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A meteorite made a hole in the roof of a house in Costa Rica just after the meteor fireball exploded in the sky on April 23, 2019. Photo: Edgar Chinchilla

The woman who found the space rock in her house explains she heard a loud rumble, went to the back of her house, discovered the hole in the roof and found the warm rock on the floor.

This is the hole that was left in the roof of a neighbor of Aguas Zarcas, who preferred to keep her identity in reserve. Photo: Edgar Chinchilla, correspondent GN
The meteorite made this hole in the roof of this house. Photo: Edgar Chinchilla

Now, cosmochemist (I am one of those :-)) will have to analyse the chemical composion of the rock to determine where this rock comes from… But it is … the meteorite!

The lyrid meteor shower peaked on April 22-23, 2019. So it is not quite a coincidence.

Several people as well as cameras located near Poás and Turrialba volcanoes have captured bright flashes of light in the sky, most probably from the disintegration and explosion of the meteor.

Here some videos of the sky event:

[nacion, Linea Direct Portal, La Red, ]

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