Article note: Fun fact: I heard this booming into the atmosphere and it crashed down only about 20 miles away.The BBC reports:
A meteorite that crashed into a home in the U.S. is older than planet Earth, scientists have said…
Researchers at the University of Georgia examined a fragment of the rock that pierced the roof of a home in the city of McDonough [30 miles south of Georgia, on June 26]. They found that, based on the type of meteorite, it is expected to have formed 4.56 billion years ago, making it roughly 20 million years older than Earth… The rock quickly diminished in size and speed, but still travelled at least 1 km per second, going through a man’s roof in Henry County…
Using optical and electron microscopy, Scott Harris [a Univeristy of Georgia geologist] and his team determined the rock was a chondrite — the most abundant type
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