In October of 2011, a 4.5-billion-year-old, 88-gram meteorite happened to crash through the roof of a home in suburban Paris — an extremely unlikely event.
Even more unlikely? The family living in the house happened to have the surname Commette.
‘Commette’ isn’t a perfect match to the French word for comet (comète), and a meteorite isn’t the same thing as a comet anyway, but…it’s pretty remarkable nonetheless.
“There’s something magical… strange about a meteor dropping down on you when you have a name like ours,” a happy Martine Commette told TF1.
For more astronomy-related names, try this post on Halley’s Comet.
Source: Meteorite, Meet Commette: French Family Bags 4.5 Billion Year-Old Space Rock