Tiny fireball that crashed into Georgia home is 4.56bn-year-old meteorite, say experts
by Ramon Antonio Vargas from on (#6Z815)
Cherry tomato-sized space rock that pierced roof and hit floor of metro Atlanta home is 20m years older than Earth
A cherry tomato-sized fireball that crashed through the roof of a metro Atlanta house in June was a meteorite 20m years older than Earth, a scientist has determined.
In a news release on Friday, the University of Georgia planetary geologist Scott Harris said that he arrived at that conclusion after examining 23 grams of fragments from a meteorite that were provided to him after the space rock pierced a man's home and dented its floor in the Henry county community of McDonough.
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