Description: Meteor hits house: A weird black rock that smashed through a house in Wolcott, Connecticut has been confirmed by Yale scientists as a meteorite.
Researchers believe the rock was originally part of the Lyrids meteor shower, which happens each year around the same time as Earth intersects the orbit of comet Thatcher.
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The object, about the size of a grapefruit, is estimated to be about 4.5 billion years old.