© The Trustees of the Natural History MuseumAn astronomically rare occurrenceA woman from a village in Alsace in east France has told how she was hit by a meteorite as she sat on her terrace - an incredibly rare event.Just before the woman and a friend had heard a loud "boom" from the roof of the house as they sat outside at 4:00 on July 6, she told her local paper Dernière Nouvelles d'Alsace.Her first thought was that it was an animal, before she realised what had happened.The woman, from Schirmeck, later had it checked out by a geologist, Dr Thierry Rebmann. "Finding a meteor is already uncommon, but to be in direct contact and have it fall on you, that is astronomically rare," Dr Rebmann told. "We haven't seen that in decades in this region. However, in this case, there was a little material left, around 50g in weight.He has now recommended that the meteorite undergoes in-depth analysis done by a planetary physics institute to determine its origins. "Its mineralogical composition can give us an idea about where it may have come from," he said.