The recent explosion that took place in Tircuchupally based National College that killed a bus driver and shattered the surrounding window panes was claimed to be a Meteorite. The college officials concluded this while NASA ruled out it to be a stone from space.

"We have issued a report saying it was indeed a meteorite that fell inside the Bharathidasan Engineering College," principal K Anbarasu of the National College.

The National College released the report after a detail study of the stone in its college in Vellore district.

A mysterious stone that smacked the college garden, leaving a person dead and the surrounding shattered was recovered by a group of researchers from NASA to examine it. NASA ruled out as the stone to be from outer space.

According to the National College report, the recovered stone contains carbonaceous chondrites. The object was reportedly examined under Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) to understand its characteristics.

"Almost all the buildings in the campus (engineering college) were mildly affected by the tremor that was developed as a result of the impact of the object. The glass window panes of most of the buildings shattered to pieces," the report said.

"The video footage recorded by CCTVs installed in the campus have shown that a gush of wind entered into the building making all the window screens fly high at the time of the impact.”

"As per international norms for the nomenclature of meteorites, the present meteorite is named as 'BEC 1', which denotes the site of fall with a number," the report concluded.

The incident has been taken critically as this was the only incident that took a person’s life. International and National agencies had called a detailed investigation of this object.