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A Russian woman whose roof was pierced by a meteorite after a vivid green fireball streaked across the sky has sold the rare space rock to scientists.

After reading earlier coverage of a bright object seen flying over Moscow and other regions on 27th October, the woman from Okulovka, Novgorod Region, noticed damage on her roof.

She found a grey object that resembled a bag of cement that had broken through her roofing material.

Scientists from the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Geochemistry Institute (GEOKHI RAS) bought the fragments from her for an undisclosed sum.

The object was a stony meteorite, known as a chondrite, according to experts.

The object’s temperature a

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