The Meteorite That Hit a Georgia Home Was Older Than Earth

The rock that punched a Georgia roof now has a name and a backstory. The name they have chosen is the McDonough Meteorite. UGA scientists say the McDonough Meteorite is older than Earth, and they can show their work.

🛰️ Why It Matters: Space rocks are receipts from the start of the solar system. When one lands in your neighborhood, the lab notes aren’t trivia. They tell us where we came from and what’s floating over our heads.

🔬 What’s New: University of Georgia researchers have analyzed and named the McDonough Meteorite, the same object that lit up the Southeast sky in June and left a hole in a Henry County roof.

UGA says 23 grams of fragments were recovered and turned over to a planetary geologist for origin and classification.

The team is working with Arizona State University