A suspected meteorite about the size of a football has crashed into a paddy field in a village in eastern India.
一枚足球大小的可疑隕石墜落在東部印度的一個稻田裡。
The rock, which landed in Mahadeva village in Bihar, weighed nearly 13 kilograms and was found to have magnetic properties, the state's Chief Minister's office said in a statement.
州政府辦公室首席大臣在一項聲明中說，這枚著陸在比哈爾Mahadeva村的石頭大概有13公斤重，而且具有磁性。
Images show villagers standing around a huge muddy crater believed to have been caused by the object.
圖像中可以看到村民們圍繞著一個被石頭砸出來的大泥坑。
The rock is currently on display at the Bihar Museum, but will be transferred to the Srikrishna Science Center, in Bihar, for analysis that will confirm if it is a meteorite, said Bihar's Chief Minister Nitish Kumar.
目前，這枚石頭正在比哈爾博物館進行展示，但是不久將會被轉至Srikrishna科學中心進行分析，以確實其是否是隕石。比哈爾首席大臣Bihar說。
Though they can look like a normal rock, meteorites are often heavier and have a burned exterior which can appear shiny -- they also have magnetic content.
儘管他們看起來像正常的石頭。但是隕石通常更重一些，外表通常是燒焦的，比較亮一些。而且他們含有磁性物質。
"Meteorites are of great interest to researchers as studying them helps us to understand the formation and evolution of the solar system," Steven Ehlert at NASA's Meteroid Office recently told CNN.
研究者們對隕石都有很大的興趣，因為研究隕石可以幫助我們去理解太陽系的形成和進化。NASA隕石辦公室的Steven Ehlert最近告訴CNN。
According to NASA, meteoroids are essentially "space rocks" -- chunks of comets orasteroids orbiting the sun in space. They become meteors -- or shooting stars-- when they enter the Earth's atmosphere and burn up. Meteorites make it through the atmosphere and land on the Earth's surface.
據NASA說，隕石實際上就是「太空石頭」—太空中圍繞太陽運轉的大塊彗星和小行星。當他們進行地球大氣層時會燃燒起來，這樣就成為了流星。而隕石是指那些穿過大氣層，最後著陸在地球上的石頭。
On Wednesday, a fireball bright enough to rival the moon lit up the skies over southern Ontario and Quebec, with experts saying meteorite fragments from the fireball likely made it to the ground.
本周三，一個和月亮一樣亮的火球照亮了南安大略和魁北克的天空。專家說火球中的部分很可能著陸在陸地上成為隕石。
In 2013, a meteor blast shook Russia's Urals region. Buildings lost windows and walls tumbled as the sonic wave from the explosion reverberated through the region, reportedly injuring 1,000 people.
2013年，一場流星暴發生在了俄國的烏拉爾地區。爆炸所產生的超級衝擊波震蕩了該地區，造成建築物窗戶破碎，牆屋倒塌。據報導，有1000人受傷。