Meteorite that crashed by Georgia dwelling predates Earth’s formation

A meteorite fragment that burst by the roof of a Georgia dwelling final June has been decided to be billions of years outdated and to predate the Earth, in line with a geology professor. 

“A lot of people saw the fireball,” University of Georgia geologist Scott Harris instructed Fox News Digital on Friday of the meteorite fragment that he mentioned had come from an asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter and fell to Earth on June 26 close to Atlanta. 

He mentioned he was instantly alerted to the incident and went to look at what had occurred, trying within the attic for the fragment’s level of entry. 

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“The homeowner didn’t know that they actually had a clean hole through the roof, through an air duct,” he continued. 

“They knew about the hole in the roof, but they didn’t know it went through the air duct, through one side of the air duct, out the other side of the air duct through a couple of feet of insulation, then through the ceiling. They had about a 10-foot-high ceiling, kind of a slanted frame ceiling, and then it went the distance from there to the floor and left about a centimeter-and-a-half little crater in the floor.”

He mentioned the meteorite left a gap within the flooring “about the size of a large cherry tomato.” 

“And so this hit hard enough that part of it just absolutely was pulverized like somebody hitting it with a sledgehammer,” he defined.

Harris mentioned the traditional fragment broke the sound barrier because it hurtled towards Earth, including that it might have seemed like a “very high-powered rifle” to the home-owner. 

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“These are objects that go back to the original material formed 4.56 billion years ago,” Harris mentioned. 

“So, in the days slightly before the formation of the planets themselves, and at least the rocky interior planets. And, you know, those are the basic building blocks then of our rocky planets and, so that’s one of the reasons that scientists are interested in studying them is it shows us about some of the processes that were active during the early days of the solar system.”

The Earth is believed to be 4.54 billion years outdated. 

Harris defined that whereas such a small fragment didn’t current a risk to anybody, scientists wish to research the dynamics of meteorites falling to Earth as a result of the “ultimate goal is to tell you what the risk assessment is for what could be absolute doom.”

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“No one’s got to do anything about a small object like this coming through the atmosphere, but understanding where these materials come from in the solar system and understanding that even the dynamics of the small pieces are important for ultimately understanding where the bigger ones are and what the risks are for us in the future,” he mentioned.

Scientists finding out the dynamics of meteorites can try and “engineer ways to avoid collisions with them, most notably by techniques like were demonstrated a few years ago by the DART mission, where we could actually have what’s called a kinetic impacter to go and basically move an asteroid a little bit,” Harris defined. 

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“If you move an asteroid headed toward us, and you move it early enough, then you get it to avoid us all together.”