i wonder if insurance covers that

On Tuesday, September 23,. 2003 at ~4:00 pm, a large meteorite fell in downtown New Orleans. A single stone fell through the roof of a house, and destroyed an antique wooden desk, penetrated the upstairs room floor, then entered the downstairs bathroom, narrowly missing the toilet. It then punctured a hole through the bottom floor of the house, entering the ground beneath the home and then shattering into many pieces. The estimated weight of the stone (in fragments) is ~20 kilograms.
The Meteorite Guy and Times-Picayune.

Also in the news - a small asteroid (a few meters across) narrowly missed us on Friday:
A small asteroid, perhaps 3 to 6 meters in diameter-the size of a room or house-came within 88,000 km of Earth late on Friday, September 27. Less than a quarter of the distance to the Moon, this is the closest well-documented Earth encounter of an asteroid that has not struck our atmosphere.
Full details can be found on Yahoo! groups.

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