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Michael Aponte explains to curious neighbors, Saturday, how a meteorite struck his girlfriend's car and caused extensive damage. Aponte and his girlfriend Michelle Knapp were watching TV inside Knapp's home when they heard a loud crash. When investigating they found a football-size meteorite embedded in the ground after it has passed through the trunk of the car. No further details given. (AP Photo/Gannett Suburban/Stuart Bayer)

File photo taken in August, 2011 of "El Chaco" meteorite in Gancedo, Chaco province, Argentina, 1100 km north of Buenos Aires. The 37 ton meteorite fell some 4,000 years ago and was unearthed on July 8, 1980 in an area called Piguen Nonralta ("Field of Heaven" in Guaycuru indigenous language). Argentinian artist Nicolas Goldberg and French-born artist Guillermo Faivovich have the project to take "El Chaco" to be exhibited in Documenta 13, a contemporary art fair in Kassel, Germany on September 2012. GEDEON PICASO/AFP/Getty Images

This image taken with a meteorite tracking device developed by George Varros, shows a meteorite as it enters Earth's atmosphere during the Leonid meteor shower November 19, 2002. The device, which is deployed on board a NASA DC-8, tracks and photographs meteorites. (Photo by George Varros and Dr. Peter Jenniskens/NASA/Getty Images)

Several Leonids meteors are seen streaking through the sky over Joshua Tree National Park, Calif., looking to the south in the Southern California desert in this approximately 25-minute time exposure ending at 3:45 a.m. PST (11:45 UT) Sunday, Nov. 18, 2001. Two are visible at center, one partly hidden behind a Joshua tree branch. Two more faint meteors are just above the scrub brush at lower right, and two other faint meteors appear at top and center left.. The Leonid shower occurs each November, when the Earth's orbit takes it through a trail of dust particles left by the Comet Tempel-Tuttle, which swings around the sun once every 33 years. The horizontal streaks are stars and or planets. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)

This undated photo supplied by Bonhams shows the Willamette End Piece meteorite which will be offered in New York City by Bonhams auctioneers on Oct. 28. 2007. An American Indian group, upset by the planned auction of the 30-pound chunk from the historic Willamette Meteorite, complained Thursday, Sept. 13, 2007, that the 10,000-year-old space rock's immense religious significance was ignored in making the piece available to the highest bidder. (AP Photo/Bonhams)

Workers clean up debris from the bedroom of a two-story residence after being hit by a meteor, located in Delima street, eastern Jakarta on May 4, 2010. Following investigations by the Indonesian National Aeronautics and Space Agency and police forensic teams, it was concluded on May 3, that the incident was a meteorological accident and the explosion was caused by a meteor. The owner Soedarmojo and his wife were away when the meteor's impact heavily damaged the house and two adjoining residences at 4.30 in the afternoon (0930 GMT) of April 29, 2010. Authorities said they are still searching for meteorite pieces in the rubble and advised the community to surrender any meteorite pieces they find. ROMEO GACAD/AFP/Getty Images

A local man looks at charred grass 05 January 2004 following a fire provoked by a meteorite that fell 04 January 2004 in the vicinity of the Spanish town of Renedo de Valderaduey, near Leon. PEDRO ARMESTRE/AFP/Getty Images

The astroid Eros is seen in this image taken by the Near Earth Asteroid Rendevous spacecraft Monday, Feb. 14, 2000. With near flawless precision, the spacecraft slipped into orbit around the asteroid, becoming the first manmade satellite of an asteroid. (AP Photo/HO, Johns Hopkins University)

Museum goers touch the Willamette Meteorite during the opening of the Rose Center for Earth and Space Saturday, Feb. 19, 2000, at New York's American Museum of Natural History. An Oregon tribe of Native Americans has submitted a claim to the museum requesting to have the meteorite they call "Tomanoas," returned to them under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act saying the meteorite is a holy tribal object. (AP Photo/Beth A. Keiser)

Halley's Comet photographed by the Soviet Probe "Vega" in 1986. (Photo by Liaison)

The 16-ton Willamette Meteorite rests behind Kathryn Harrison, chairwoman of Oregon's Grand Ronde Tribal Council, as talks to reporters Thursday, June 22, 2000, at New York's American Museum of Natural History. It was discovered near Portland nearly a century ago by a miner and purchased a few years later by a New York philanthropist who donated it to the museum. The museum heads and the tribal council signed an agreement to share custody of the 10,000-year-old meteorite that's a centerpiece of the museum's new planetarium. The tribal council claimed ownership of the rock, which holds tremendous religious significance to the Clackamas tribe, part of the council. (AP Photo/Keith Bedford)

In this 1953 file photo, trees lie strewn across the Siberian countryside 45 years after a meteorite struck the Earth near Tunguska, Russia. The 1908 explosion is generally estimated to have been about 10 megatons; it leveled some 80 million trees for miles near the impact site. The meteor that streaked across the Russian sky Friday, Feb. 15, 2013, is estimated to be about 10 tons. It exploded with the power of an atomic bomb over the Ural Mountains, about 5,000 kilometers (3,000 miles) west of Tunguska. (AP Photo, File)

This March 3, 2000 image provided by NASA shows the near-Earth asteroid Eros from the NEAR spacecraft at a distance of 127 miles (204 kilometers). A group of high-tech tycoons wants to mine nearby asteroids, hoping to turn science fiction into real profits. The mega-million dollar plan is to use commercially built robotic ships to squeeze rocket fuel and valuable minerals like platinum and gold out of the lifeless rocks that routinely whiz by Earth. One of the company founders predicts they could have their version of a space-based gas station up and running by 2020. (AP Photo/NASA)

This photo released by NASA Monday, Feb. 12, 2001, was taken by the NEAR spacecraft as it descended toward the barren, rocky, surface of the asteroid Eros. It was taken from 820 feet above the asteroid's surface. The image is 12 meters (39 feet) across. The cluster of rocks at the upper right measures 1.4 meters (5 feet) across. (AP Photo/HO, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Labratory)

Astronomers captured this radar image of binary asteroid 1999 KW4 when the two space rocks passed within 3 million miles of Earth between May 23-25, 2001. The three frames show several-hour time exposures of a smaller moon, about one-quarter of a mile across, orbiting in a clockwise fashion a companion three times as large. The larger asteroid appears blimp-like because it is rotating faster than its smaller companion. Astronomers announced Wednesday, May 30, 2001, that the discovery of asteroid 1999 KW4 marks only the eighth time astronomers have successfully imaged an asteroid locked in an orbital embrace with a companion. (AP Photo/NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

A fragment of a meteorite found in 1891 in Arizona, is shown on display at the TCU Oscar E. Monnig Meteor Gallery in Fort Worth, Texas, Monday, Feb. 3, 2003. The state's only museum dedicated to meteorites, showcases nearly 200 space rocks found worldwide since the 15th century. (AP Photo/Jennifer Long)

Members of the media capture images of fragments of a 10-ton meteoroid are found in a small pond approximately 40 kilometers from Lloydminster, Sask., Friday, Nov. 28, 2008, several days after the space rock created a massive fireball crossing the sky Nov. 20. (AP Photo/Geoff Howe,CP)

Pieces of meteorite measured, photographed and catalogued at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, are shown March 30, 2004. Scientists say the chunks of space rock _ which come from asteroids or more rarely from the moon or Mars _ may hold the answers to questions about the solar system, the formation of Earth and how life began. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)

In this series of photos distributed by Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) in Tokyo Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2005, an asteroid, informally named Itokawa, after Hideo Itokawa, the father of rocket science in Japan, is shown from different phases while it revolves on its axis once in 12 hours. These pictures were photographed between Saturday, Sept. 10 and Sunday, Sept. 11, 2005 and transmitted to JAXA by a camera attached to the Hayabusa probe shortly before reaching the asteroid, about 290 million kilometers (180 million miles) away between Earth and Mars. The Hayabusa probe, launched in May 2003 and reached within 20 kilometers (12 miles) of the asteroid Monday, Sept. 12, 2005, will hover around it for about three months before making its unprecedented - and very brief - landing to recover the samples in early November. The asteroid is only 2,300 feet (690 meters) long and 1,000 feet (300 meters) wide, and has a gravitational pull only one-one-hundred-thousandth of Earth's. (AP Photo/Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, HO)

Former astronaut Rusty Schweickart holds a 3-D model of the asteroid 1998 KY26 near the spot on the globe where an asteroid could hit the earth, during a photo session at his home in Tiburon, Calif., Nov. 1, 2005. Schweickart is currently the chairman of the B612 Foundation. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

A meteor streaks across the western Australian sky Saturday, Dec. 3, 2005 in this image taken from television. Residents in Perth, Australia, witnessed a spectacular light show on Saturday night as a meteor blazed through the sky, leaving a bright tail in its wake. The moment was captured on camera by Karun Cowper, who was enjoying a meal with his family at Halls Head, south of Perth. (AP Photo/ AP Television News)

This photo supplied by the Macovich Collection taken Thursday, Feb. 23, 2006, in New York, shows a small slice from the Willamette meteorite. Next week, meteorite hunters will get a chance to bid for some of the world's most coveted extraterrestrial rocks when they go on sale at Bonhams' New York natural history auction. (AP Photo/The Macovich Collection, Darryl Pitt,ho)

A crater is seen in Carangas, Puno, Peru, Monday, Sept. 17, 2007, caused by a supposed meteorite that crashed in southern Peru over the weekend causing hundreds of people to suffer headaches, nausea and respiratory problems, a health official said Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2007. (AP Photo/La Razon, Miguel Carrasco)

This photo supplied by the Macovich Collection shows a small meteorite piece with naturally occurring gemstones of olivine crystals and peridot photographed Thursday, Feb. 23, 2006, in New York. Recovered in Chile, it will be among items that meteorite hunters will get a chance to bid for when they go on sale at Bonhams' New York natural history auction next week. (AP Photo/The Macovich Collection, Darryl Pitt)

The comet Hale-Bopp appears in the sky over Merrit Island, Florida, early 10 March, south of the Kennedy Space Center. The comet can be seen from late March to the beginning of April, before disappearing for the next 2,400 years. The comet is an occasional visitor from the outer solar system. GEORGE SHELTON/AFP/Getty Images

This photo supplied by the Macovich Collection shows a 355-pound iron meteorite from Campo del Cielo (Valley of the Sky), Argentina on Thursday, Feb. 23, 2006, in New York. Next week, meteorite hunters will get a chance to bid for some of the world's most coveted extraterrestrial rocks when they go on sale at Bonhams' New York natural history auction. (AP Photo/The Macovich Collection, Darryl Pitt)

Houston Museum of Natural Science worker David Temple examines the soil beneath a meteor as workers from the museum dig up the find in a field near Greensburg, Kan., Monday, Oct. 16, 2006. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

Houston Museum of Natural Science workers Johnny Castillo, right, Chris Flis, left, and Andy Smith, second from left, along with meteor hunter Steve Arnold lift a meteorite as they dig up the find in a field near Greensburg, Kan., Monday, Oct. 16, 2006. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

In this Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2007 file photograph, an object is held by Freehold Township Police Lt. Robert Brightman during a news conference in Freehold Township, N.J. No one was injured when the object crashed through the roof of a Freehold Township home. The mysterious metallic object that crashed through the roof of a central New Jersey family's home earlier this year was not a meteorite after all, geologists said Friday May 11, 2007. While the object looks like a meteorite, scientists say it is a stainless steel alloy that does not occur in nature and is most likely "orbital debris", perhaps remnants of a satellite, a rocket or some other spacecraft component. (AP Photo/Mike Derer, file)

Srinivasan Nageswaran points to a hole in the ceiling of his bathroom in Freehold Township, N.J., Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2007, that was caused by a meteorite. Nageswaran and his wife, Shankari, have not decided what to do yet with the small meteorite that crashed through their roof on Jan. 2, 2007. (AP Photo/Mike Derer)

In this photo released by La Republica Newspaper, people watch a crater in Puno, Peru, Sunday, Sept. 16, 2007, caused by a supposed meteorite that crashed in southern Peru over the weekend causing hundreds of people to suffer headaches, nausea and respiratory problems, a health official said Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2007. (AP Photo/ La Republica Newspaper)

Spectators at Jetty Park pier watch as a Delta II rocket with the Dawn spacecraft aboard, lifts off from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Thursday, Sept. 27, 2007. NASA's Dawn spacecraft rocketed away toward an unprecedented double encounter in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

Expedition leader Georg Delisle poses with a meteorite at the Center of Geology in Hanover, northern Germany, Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2008. The iron stone weights 31kilogram (68.35 pounds). It was found in the Antarctic on Dec, 2, 2007. (AP Photo/Joerg Sarbach)

A woman walks past the Seymchan meteorite at Christie's auction house in Paris, Wednesday, April 2, 2008. The 2.7-ton meteorite discovered in eastern Russia in 1967 will go on auction on April 16. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

In this 2010 photo released by the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History, a meteorite the a size of a tennis ball is shown in Washington. The meteorite that plummeted through the roof of a Virginia doctor's office is drawing meteor hunters from across the country to Washington's Virginia suburbs. (AP Photo/Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History, Chip Clark)

This image provided by NASA Tuesday Feb. 2, 2010 shows a mystery object that was discovered on Jan. 6, 2010, by the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR) sky survey. The object appears so unusual in ground-based telescopic images that discretionary time on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope was used to take this close-up look. The observations show a bizarre X-pattern of filamentary structures near the point-like nucleus of the object and trailing streamers of dust. This complex structure suggests the object is not a comet but instead the product of a head-on collision between two asteroids traveling five times faster than a rifle bullet. Astronomers have long thought that the asteroid belt is being ground down through collisions, but such a smashup has never before been seen. (AP Photo/NASA)

This black and white photo from a rooftop webcam released Thursday, April 15, 2010, by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences shows a fireball as it passed over Madison, Wis., Wednesday night. National Weather Service meteorologist David Sheets in Davenport, Iowa, says a meteor soared past about 10 p.m. local and appears to have disintegrated as it reached southwest Wisconsin. The meteor, also seen in Missouri, Illinois and Iowa, apparently didn't cause any damage. (AP Photo/University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences)

This black-and-white image of the comet Hartley 2 provided by NASA was sent from the NASA EPOXI Mission Deep Impact spacecraft, which passed within 435 miles (700 kilometers) of the comet at its closest point, and was received at Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., Thursday, Nov. 4, 2010. The comet is estimated to be 1.4 miles (2.2 kilometers) long, and weigh about 280 million metric tons. (AP Photo NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Maryland)

This April 14, 2010 image made from a dash cam provided by the Howard County Sheriff's Department shows a meteor, top right, near Cresco, Iowa that passed over Eastern Iowa. Sonic booms shook trees and houses in the area. (AP Photo/Howard County Sheriff's Department)

In this June 14, 2010 file photo, Hayabusa probe asteroid exploration project manager Junichiro Kawaguchi speaks with a scale model of the asteroid Itokawa, foreground, during a press conference at Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) in Sagamihara, near Tokyo. The Hayabusa's capsule that returned to Earth in June successfully after a seven-year, 4 billion-mile (6 billion-kilometer) journey captured dust from an asteroid for the first time in history, scientists said Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2010. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye, File)

This image of the Asteroid Vesta, released by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., Monday, July 18, 2011, was captured by the Dawn spacecraft on July 17, 2011. The image was taken from a distance of about 9,500 miles (15,000 kilometers) away from the proto planet Vesta. (AP Photo/ NASA/JPL)

This undated image courtesy of Meteor Crater, Northern Arizona, USA, shows an aerial view of Meteor Crater, near Winslow, Ariz. The world's best-preserved meteor impact site is an intriguing piece of natural history. Nearly a mile wide and over 550 feet deep, the crater isn't close to being the largest in the world _ Vredefort Dome in South Africa is over 180 miles wide _ but is impressive because limited erosion has left it virtually intact. (AP Photo/Meteor Crater, Northern Arizona, USA.)

This image released Monday, Dec. 5, 2011, by NASA is a mosaic of three images taken by the Dawn spacecraft's camera showing an impact crater on the surface of the massive asteroid Vesta. Since entering orbit around Vesta in July, Dawn has been beaming back images of the asteroid surface. (AP Photo/NASA)

In this image provided by the Tellus Science Museum, a Quandrantid meteor passes over Cartersville, Ga., at 5:30 a.m., EST., Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2011,. The image was taken by a NASA fireball camera atop the Tellus Science Museum. The museum is part of a national NASA network of cameras aimed at tracking fireball meteors, which are brighter than the planet Venus. (AP Photo/ Tellus Science Museum)

The McNaught comet as seen early morning 19 January, 2007 from Pucon, Calafquen Lake sector, some 900 km (500 miles) south from Santiago, Chile. DAVID LILLO/AFP/Getty Images

Robert Ward displays one of two pieces of a meteorite he found at a park in Lotus, Calif., Wednesday, April 25, 2012. Ward found the pieces from a meteor that was probably about the size of a minivan when it entered the Earth's atmosphere with a loud boom about 8 a.m. Sunday. The rocks came from a meteor, believed to between 4 to 5 billion years old. Ward, who has been hunting and collecting meteorites for more than 20 years, said they are believed to be "one of the oldest things known to man and one of the rarest types of meteorites there is." (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

Shown is an undated black and white enlargement of a solid droplet of meteorite metals found in sediment samples taken from Panther Mountain about 20 miles northwest of Kingston. State geologist Yngavar Ishachsen believes the droplet rained down on Earth after an asteroid struck about 300 million years ago where Panther Mountain stands today. (AP Photo/Yngavar Ishachsen)

This undated image provided by NASA shows asteroid Adophis, circled, which was discovered on June 19, 2004. Upon further review, the big scary-sounding asteroid is no longer even a remote threat to smash into Earth in about 20 years, NASA says. Astronomers got a much better look at the asteroid when it whizzed by Earth on Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2013, from a relative safe 9 million miles away. They recalculated the space rock's trajectory and determined it wasn't on a path to hit Earth on April 13, 2036 as once feared possible. (AP Photo/NASA)

This is a 1976 aerial of Panther Mountain ringed by the Esopus and Woodland Creeks about 20 miles northwest of Kingston, N.Y. State geologist Yngavar Ishachsen believes the unusual circular valley is the result of an asteroid impact roughly 300 million years ago. (AP Photo/NASA)

This piece of a meteorite from Mars is part of a display at the Smithsonian Institute. It appeared on the desk of a Purdue University professor in 1931, then was traded for a microscope. Officials are now trying to trace its origin prior to its landing on the professor's desk. (AP Photo/Purdue News Service)

In this photo taken Oct. 17, 2012 and provided by Phil Terzian is a shooting star above the Montebello Open Space Preserve in Palo Alto, Calif. Streaking fireballs lighting up California skies and stunning stargazers are part of a major meteor shower, and the show is just getting started, professional observers said. (AP Photo/Phil Terzian)

This image provided by NASA shows long, narrow gullies along the walls of a crater on the giant asteroid Vesta taken by the NASA Dawn spacecraft. Scientists are unclear how these gullies formed and work is underway to determine their origin. (AP Photo/NASA)

John Stephenson, right, points toward the sky as he and others examine the wreckage of a mobile home apparently destroyed by a meteor in Windsor, Ontario early Friday, morning, Aug. 25, 1995. Windsor police said a chunk of the meteor slammed into the vacant mobile home, burning it to the ground. No injuries were reported. Others in photo are Windsor police Sgt. Joseph Monteleone, left, Tanya Neufeld, 12, her brother, Kevin, 11, and Matthew Breault, 11, all residents of the park. (AP Photo/Tom Pidgeon)

The meteorite labeled ALH84001 sits under a microscope at a Johnson Space Center lab in Houston,in this Aug. 7, 1996 file photo. Researchers at NASA and three universities claimed to have found in the rock from Mars organic compounds they said were deposited by primitive life forms before the meteorite was blasted into space and sent on a 15 million-year voyage to Earth. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

This is an enhanced photo of Asteroid Mathilde taken by the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) spacecraft on Friday, June 27, 1997 on a 25-minute flyby. This view was taken from a distance of about 748 miles and made on the closest approach by NEAR. The image was rotated so illumination comes from upper left. (AP Photo/NASA)

An undated photo of the mile-wide meteor crater near Winslow, Arizona. The crater was made 500 centuries ago when a 10,000,000-ton meteor impact dislodged 300,000,000 tons of rock. The 600 foot deep crater is three miles in circumference. (AP photo/ho)

Nelda Wallace of Portales, N.M., poses next to a 37-pound meteorite at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, N.M., Tuesday June 23, 1998, The meteorite, believed to be about 4.5 billion years old, landed in the back of her home early Saturday June 13, 1998. University of New Mexico scientists say it's probably the largest meteorite ever to fall in New Mexico. (AP Photo/Pat Vasquez-Cunningham)

An international team of astronomers has discovered a moon orbiting the asteroid Eugenia for only the second time in history, astronomers reported Oct. 6, 1999. The infrared image shown is a composite of five detections of the new moon taken on the nights of Nov. 1, 6, 7, 9,10, 1998, from top. The green dashed line shows the orbit of the moon around the primary asteroid while the large "cross" is a common artifact caused by stray light in the telescope and is not a real object. The pictures, taken with the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, are the first images of an asteroidal satellite taken from Earth. The team's findings will be reported in the Oct. 7 issue of Nature. (AP Photo/European Southern Observatory, Laird Close)

Six-year-olds Amanda Johanson, left, and Camille Baer share a magnifiying glass while inspecting a Martian meteorite on display at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science in Albuquerque, N.M., Sunday, July13, 1997. The meteorite is one of only 12 meteorites world-wide that has been identified as originating from Mars. (AP Photo/Eric Draper)