A meteorite fragment that burst through the roof of a Georgia home last June has been determined to be billions of years old and to predate the Earth, according to a geology professor.

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

He said he was immediately alerted to the incident and went to examine what had happened, looking in the attic for the fragment’s point of entry.

“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 s

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