{"id":62448,"date":"2025-08-12T20:50:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T20:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/62448\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T20:50:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T20:50:16","slug":"meteorite-that-crashed-into-georgia-home-is-older-than-earth-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/62448\/","title":{"rendered":"Meteorite That Crashed Into Georgia Home is Older Than Earth Itself"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"A<\/a>The meteorite as seen by a dashcam, left, and the hole it made in a Georgia home\u2019s ceiling, right. <\/p>\n

A meteorite that was captured on video in broad daylight and that punctured a homeowner\u2019s roof is thought to be 4.56 billion years old \u2014 older than Earth itself. <\/p>\n

The meteorite crashed to Earth in June and shook homes in the Southeastern United States thanks to a rare sonic boom that followed its arrival. It landed in McDonough, Georgia, and ripped through the roof and ceiling of a home. <\/p>\n

\u201cThis particular meteor that entered the atmosphere has a long history before it made it to the ground of McDonough,\u201d says Scott Harris, a researcher in the UGA Franklin College of Arts and Sciences\u2019 department of geology, via a news release.<\/p>\n

A fireball, or a bright meteorite, was seen across the southeastern United States on Thursday and later exploded over Georgia, creating booms heard by residents in the area, according to NASA.<\/p>\n

The American Meteor Society said it received more than 160 reports of a fireball\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/c7yBQjAQan<\/a><\/p>\n

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NASA has confirmed the fireball witnessed over Georgia and across the Southeast today was a meteor, shown in this video from Atlanta News First viewer Lindsey Rodney. >> https:\/\/t.co\/jO9xoU3DPK<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/uOwYgeX3qn<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Atlanta News First (@ATLNewsFirst) June 27, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n

:rotating_light:#BREAKING<\/a>: At this time Multiple fire departments are actively looking for possible crashed meteor or fire ball that came out of the sky
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Multiple fire departments are currently searching for what may have been a meteor crash. Reports began pouring in\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/TaCbDnanBm<\/a><\/p>\n

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Harris and his team examined the fragments that landed in the McDonough living room and concluded that the meteorite formed 4.56 billion years ago, which is approximately 20 million years older than Earth.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt belongs to a group of asteroids in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter that we now think we can tie to a breakup of a much larger asteroid about 470 million years ago,\u201d Harris says. The homeowner is still finding fragments of space dust in his living room. <\/p>\n

\"A<\/a>The dent the meteorite made in the homeowner\u2019s floor. | University of Georgia \"A<\/a>Fragments of the meteorite being examined at the University of Georgia.<\/p>\n

It is reportedly the 27th meteorite found in Georgia and the sixth one that has been witnessed falling. <\/p>\n

\u201cThis is something that used to be expected once every few decades and not multiple times within 20 years,\u201d Harris adds. \u201cModern technology in addition to an attentive public, is going to help us recover more and more meteorites.\u201d<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, PetaPixel reported on a Ring doorbell camera which captured the sight and sound of a meteorite crashing to Earth.<\/a> <\/p>\n

Image credits: University of Georgia<\/p>\n