Geologist says meteorite that crashed into Henry County home is 4.56 billion years old

HENRY COUNTY, Ga. (WRBL) — People across Georgia, Tennessee, and South Carolina were startled by a fiery streak racing across the sky back in June.

The fireball turned out to be a meteorite, and its journey ended explosively, punching straight through the roof of a home in Henry County, Georgia.

Researchers say this meteorite is a time capsule older than earth itself, forming more than four billion years ago. According to university of Georgia planetary geologist Scott Harris, the fragment that hit the home was about the size of a cherry tomato.

It traveled faster than the speed of sound before crashing into a home on June 26th.

"This thing went clean through without leaving a trace of material on the exterior roof or the airduct," Harris said. "Went through one side and dug out the ot