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2016 February Tamil Nadu meteorite incident
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On February 8, 2016, a number of media outlets reported that a bus driver had been killed and three others injured by a possible meteorite fall in Tamil Nadu, India. A falling object reportedly left a crater deep and smashed windows on the campus of Bharathidasan Engineering College, in addition to inflicting the injuries. Others in the area reported hearing an unusual sound and seeing a smoke stripe, and police reported finding rock fragments embedded in the driver's body. A small () blue object was recovered from the scene that attracted a magnet, and some experts suggested it could be a fragment of a space vehicle. as did Lindley Johnson, NASA's planetary defense officer. Other experts concluded that a meteorite so small could not have created a crater as large as the one reported.<ref name="abc"/> Officials of the National College, Tiruchirapalli, insisted that the object was a carbonaceous chondrite meteorite and designated it as BEC 1.<ref name="zee"/> If the object was a meteorite, the incident would be the first confirmed death of a human due to a meteorite in recorded history.<ref name"wsj"/><ref name"abc"/> See Also
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