In this task, given a sentence in the Japanese language, your task is to convert it into the English language.

[Q]: 「それは間違いなく、自然な隕石だ」とNASAの流星環境事務所の天文学者であるビル・クックは述べた。
[A]: "It's a natural meteor, definitely," said Bill Cooke, an astronomer at NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office.


[Q]: 銀行の近くでホテルにいた観光客は、警察が「屋内にとどまるよう」依頼したため、長時間閉じ込められた。
[A]: Tourists near the bank, in hotels, were confined to them for hours as police asked them "to stay indoors".


[Q]: 市の居住区の約２３パーセントは今は空っぽだ。
[A]:
Approximately 23 percent of the city’s living quarters are now empty.


