Scientists: Object that crashed into Hopewell Township home was 4.5 billion-year-old meteorite

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Scientists: Object that crashed into Hopewell Township home was 4.5 billion-year-old meteorite
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Officials have confirmed that the object that went through the roof of a Hopewell Township home Monday is from outer space. CSloanTV talked to a scientist about the rare find.

-- Officials have confirmed that the object that went through the roof of a Hopewell Township home Monday is from outer space."Came through here, hit the floor here. because that's completely damaged. It ricocheted up to this part of the ceiling and then finally coming down and resting just on the floor there," Kop said.

The family also said the meteorite was hot; scientist say because it was probably smashing into other objects on its way down.

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