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California Woman Finds Meteorite in Backyard

By Lori Preuitt, NBC Bay Area via NBC News

Credit: Erin Murphy / NBC Bay Area

A 2-inch meteor fragment landed in the yard of a Novato, Calif., resident after a meteor streaked through the sky on Wednesday evening.

October 22, 2012 Updated Oct 22, 2012 at 9:54 AM PDT

A chunk of meteorite struck the house of a San Francisco Bay Area resident, landing in her backyard, after a meteor streaked through the sky on Wednesday evening.

Lisa Webber found the 2-inch rock, weighing 63 grams, in her backyard on Saturday after reading an article in the local paper about the meteorite.

She remembered hearing a strange noise on Wednesday, but thought that it was an animal, SFGate.com reported. After finding the chunk on Saturday, along with a dent on her roof, she and a neighbor’s son put a magnet to the rock and the two stuck together.

“It's just science -- and it's cool," Webber, of Novato, Calif. told SFGate.com. "It's wonderful. It's like the heavens coming down, and history and this thing probably came from an asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter -- I mean, how cool is that?"

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