SHROPSHIRE - ME - A mother and her two young sons had a lucky escape after red-hot asteroid rocks showered their back garden.
Teacher Sarah Marston-Jones, 38, was playing with Harry, two, and Benjamin, four, just inches from where the asteroid debris landed on Tuesday morning.
The mother from Shrewsbury, Shropshire, said she had heard the meteorite’s ‘whooshing’ and ‘cracking’ sound as she rushed her children to safety indoors.
‘There was this really intense burning smell followed by a smell which I can only describe as rotten vegetables,’ she explained. ‘I looked under my chair and there was a rock fragment about an inch and a half wide. ‘We’ve now collected about 15 but haven’t even checked the hedge yet so there could be more.’ She added: ‘It took a good 30 seconds for it to sink in what was happening and I think we were in absolute shock by it.