A view of the 4-inch-by-6-inch suspected meteorite that crashed into a Hopewell Township, New Jersey, home.

(Hopewell Township NJ Police)

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Imagine the surprise on Suzy Kop's face when she returned to her New Jersey home and found a hole in the second-floor ceiling, a divot in the floor and a strange rock that was warm to the touch in the corner.

Kop, who lives in Hopewell Township, New Jersey, said that the police had a hard time believing what she suspected: that a meteorite had come crashing down from space and into her father's bedroom.

"They [the police] were afraid that, you know, because it fell from the sky, Could we have a type of residue on us? So they scanned us and everything came back clear," Kop told CBS Philadelphia.

The suspected meteorite next to the divot on the floor in the bedroom where it landed.

(Hopewell Township NJ Police)

T​he dark, metallic rock is 4 inches by 6 inches and weighs roughly 4 pounds and was warm when Kop touched it. Hopewell Township that they thought it may have come from the Eta Aquarid meteor shower, which that time.

L​uckily, no one was home at the time it came crashing through the house.

T​he suspected space rock was headed to the College of New Jersey where it came from and a variety of other details, News 12 New Jersey reports.

​Meteorite strikes aren't unusual, but because most of Earth is ocean or open land, it's rare for one to strike a home or business.

I​n November of last year, another suspected meteorite crashed , setting it ablaze. And in April 2013, another meteorite a Connecticut home.

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