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Detailed explanation-1: -TWC India. A meteorite-like object falling from the sky in Rajasthan’s Sanchore town has left the locals bemused. Officials confirmed to IANS that an object weighing around 2.78 kg fell from the sky on Friday morning, resulting in a one-foot deep crater in the earth.

Detailed explanation-2: -India has three of these meteor impact craters – Ramgarh in Rajasthan, Lonar in Maharashtra and Dhala in Madhya Pradesh.

Detailed explanation-3: -Any fragment of interplanetary debris that survives its fiery plunge through Earth’s atmosphere is called a meteorite. Meteorites fall only very rarely in any one locality, but over the entire Earth thousands fall each year.