At around 9.30 pm on Monday, a luminous body appeared in the sky over Vandhiya village in the Bhachau sub-division of Kutch, Gujarat.
Villagers were stunned to see the glowing object emanating dazzling white light with deep green radiant border zooming across the sky. In its wake three strawberry-sized objects fell to the ground.
Mahendra Singh Vaghela, a farmer in Vandhiya, could not believe his eyes. Meenaben Joshi, another villager, claims that as soon as sky lit up with the passing object, she felt mild tremors. Vaghela concurs.
The objects fell on three homes in Vandhiya piercing the roofs. They have been collected and sealed by district collector Dhanjay Diwedi.
PTI adds: The Physical Research Laborataory, a premier institution of the Department of Space, will be conducting elaborate tests on the meteorites which fell in Kutch region of Gujarat Monday night, a scientist said Tuesday.
The metorites will be brought to PRL here this evening where tests will first be conducted to determine the orgin of the meteorite, its radioactivity, its age, chemical composition and other features, the scientist said.
Meteorites are small bodies from the outer space that are made of rock or metal. As they enter the earth's atmosphere from the outer space, they glow as a result of the heat generated due to friction. Fragments of meteorite that fell Monday have been recovered from different villages of Kutch region.
The sight of these planetary objects hurtling down the earth emitting light created considerable excitement among the people of this region. Pieces of meteorites have been recovered in Kutch even as there are reports of people sighting these objects in Jamnagar and Rajkot district.
