4.56 billion years. It is the age that, according to scientists who looked into the issue, the meteorite that crashed into the American State of Georgia on June 26. It would therefore be older than the land itself by some 20 million years. The emergence of the celestial object on our planet had been observed by many witnesses in Georgia and South Carolina, said CBS News this Saturday.
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A tiny sample
NASA had even explained that noise of detonation had been heard when the meteorite had exploded before touching the ground. To determine when the foreign body had formed, the specialists relied on the analysis of a 23 g fragment extracted from a piece of a block the size of a cherry tomato which had crossed the roof of a house in McDonough, in the Atlanta sector (United States).
BREAKING: A meteor just exploded over Atlanta and appears to have potentially left shards somewhere in South Carolina!
The American Meteor Society has 128 formal reports pending of a fireball spotted around 12:24 PM Eastern time. It appears to have passed over Atlanta and… pic.twitter.com/lkSjKUI7DI
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The violence of the shock had been such that the occupier said that he continued to find in his living room of space dust left by the meteorite. Scientists’ research has also enabled them to learn more about the origin of the meteorite. “It belonged to a group of asteroids in the main asteroid belt, between Mars and Jupiter,” said astrogéologist Scott Harris in a press release published this Friday.
