To me the spookiest thing is it landing on someone's head.

If that happens, it will spark the creation of a new ICD-10 code, probably somewhere under W20.8 "Stuck by object falling from..." space.

There are quite a few space-related ICD codes (V95.4 and child codes - Spacecraft accident injuring occupant), due to NASA

But my favorite ICD code is V97.33XD - Sucked into jet engine, subsequent encounter.

Like that happens more than once...

Too close for comfort: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peekskill_meteorite

"The meteorite broke up over Kentucky and passed over West Virginia and Pennsylvania on its north-northeast trajectory before striking a parked 1980 red Chevy Malibu at approximately 7:50 pm EDT. After traveling through space at a cosmic velocity of 8.8 miles per second (14 km/s, 31,600 miles per hour), the speed of the meteorite at impact had slowed to 164 miles per hour (264 km/h)."

Tough luck if you're commuting on the wrong day.

The meteorite was worth way more than the price of a new Malibu. And the Malibu itself sold at auction for way more than that, too. So, hope every day to have your car struck by a meteorite.

Sometimes I happen to sit in my car, so no, I do not hope for a meteorite strike on my car, wishes have a tendency to be fullfilled at the wrong time.

It's too bad the meteorite didn't do a lot more damage to the car: that car is really ugly.

Why spooky? It's not like meteorites are rare.

If I see a rock fall from the sky in my backyard and no one comes to ask to study it, you can bet I will keep it for myself.

Meteorites this large are rare, and extremely helpful to the scientific community, considering that going straight to the source is the only other way to retrieve samples. It's spooky because it could mean a huge discovery that's not being realized.

You can actually find micrometeorites in your rain gutters :) https://www.newscientist.com/letter/mg23331090-800-10-findin...

That headline: "Finding meteorites in your gutters is easy"!

Iron space dust that is fine enough to escape incineration as “shooting stars” when entering Earth's atmosphere drifts down continuously. To collect these small iron spheres, scrape several handfuls of mud from a convenient roof gutter, preferably a plastic one, add to a bucket of water and stir.

Fish for meteorites with a strong magnet wrapped in a plastic bag. Remove the magnet, carefully rinse the bag into a glass dish and look for fine, dark grey dust. Dragging the magnet underneath will concentrate the dust. A good magnifier will show tiny spheres, some of them up to 0.2 millimetres in diameter.

I collect my rainwater for household use. I must admit, until this moment I had never considered that I interact with space dust on the daily.

Once I found a small chondritic rock that was very likely a meteorite. My mom threw it away thinking it was just a random pebble.