By Victoria Bell and Joe Pinkstone For Mailonline
Published: 17:51 BST, 30 April 2019 | Updated: 17:55 BST, 30 April 2019
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Incredible footage captures the moment a meteorite lights up the night sky above Costa Rica before breaking up in Earth's atmosphere.
Experts claim a fragment of the rock, which tore through a homeonwer's roof in was a fragment of the meteorite and is an estimated 4,560 million years old.
A study by the Central American School of Geology of the University of Costa Rica say that it is a chondritic stone meteorite made of silicon, iron and magnesium.
Although the team said that further study is needed to confirm their findings, they claim the rock came from space.
A study by the Central American School of Geology of the University of Costa Rica say that the rock (pictured) is a chondritic stone meteorite made of silicon, iron and magnesium
On April 23, 2019 at 9:09pm local time, residents reported a large 'fireball' zooming over them over San Carlos.
Others reported loud banging sounds and feeling rumblings as they sat in their homes.
One woman claims that a rock tore through her roof in the back of her home in Aguas Zarcas and says she found a 'warm rock' on the floor.
The rock weighed around 2.4 pounds (1,071 grams) and was analysed in the house where it fell, with the help of specialised equipment from the Petrography and Geochemistry Section of the School of Geology.
According to a report in Meteor Shower Tonight, a Costa Rican
