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ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - A meteorite that crashed through a metro Atlanta home in June is “older than the Earth itself,” according to University of Georgia researchers.

On June 26, dazzled onlookers in metro Atlanta and across the Southeast witnessed a fireball streak across the daytime sky.

The blazing meteor, known as a bolide, hurtled toward McDonough faster than the speed of sound.

The bolide slowed and shrank as it neared Earth’s surface, burning up and splitting into fragments.

“But a fast traveling rock the size of a cherry tomato is nothing to sneeze at,” UGA said in a press release.

One of the fragments tore through the roof of a McDonough home. That fragment, classified as a meteorite, ripped through the

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