Meteorite that crashed into Georgia living room is older than Earth: Scientists

ATLANTA (WJW) - A meteorite that crash-landed into a Georgia home earlier this summer turns out to be millions of years older than Earth itself, according to researchers at the University of Georgia.

NASA confirmed that many people in the southeastern U.S. reported seeing the fireball flying across the sky in broad daylight on June 26.

It was first seen above Oxford, Georgia, before disintegrating 27 miles above West Forest, Georgia, "unleashing an energy of about 20 tons of TNT," NASA said.

Doppler radar at the time detected meteorites falling to the ground in the area and, according to the University of Georgia, fragments ripped through a McDonough resident's roof into his living room.

The space rock left a dent in the floor and sounded like a gunshot upon impact, UGA wrote in a pres