Ruth Hamilton was asleep in her Golden, B.C. home when she was woken up to the sound of her dog barking, giving her a moment’s notice before a rock from outer space hurled into her bedroom.
She told CBC News: “The next thing was just a huge explosion and debris all over my face.I jumped out of bed and turned on the lights. I didn’t know what else to do, so I called 911.
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“Talking to the operator, she was asking me all kinds of questions, and at that point, I rolled back one of the two pillows I’d been sleeping on and in between them was the meteorite,” she said.
A charcoal-grey chunk of rock roughly the size of a melon had plummeted from space, tearing through her roof before coming to rest on her bed, inches from where her head had been.
“I was shaking like a leaf. You were sound asleep, safe, you think, in your bed, and you can get taken out by a meteorite,” she said.
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At first, Hamilton didn’t know it was a meteorite. She and an RCMP officer dispatched to investigate suspected it was debris from a construction site on nearby Highway 1, which runs through the town, nestled in the Canadian Rockies.
The officer called those responsible at the construction site, but they said they had not done any blasting that night. However, the workers had seen a meteorite, or a falling star explode and there were a couple of booms.
That’s how they know it was a meteorite!
Experts at Western University in London, Ont., confirmed that the rock was indeed from space.
That’s so cool! We’re glad she’s fine, though!
By: Aishah Akashah Ahadiat
