Story highlights A bus driver was killed in India's Tamil Nadu when an object fell from sky

"While more details may be forthcoming from local scientists, this is unlikely something from space," NASA says

(CNN) Whatever is responsible for killing a man in India over the weekend is unlikely something from space, according to NASA.

Police recovered remains of an object that fell from the sky Saturday. They are being analyzed.

"Initial assessments, based on photos posted online, are not consistent with something from space. Small meteorites do not start fires or cause explosions when they hit the ground," NASA said in a statement Wednesday.

"To form a crater the size of what has been posted online would have required a meteorite of at least several kilograms. While more details may be forthcoming from local scientists, this is unlikely something from space."

If the object had been, or is, confirmed to be a meteorite -- a fragment of a comet or asteroid that has fallen to Earth -- the death would be the first fatality from a meteorite on record, it is believed.

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