4.5 Billion-Year-Old Meteorite Crashes Into New Jersey Home in Excellent Condition.

Experts have confirmed that the warm object that crashed through a bedroom roof in New Jersey was a 4.5 billion-year-old meteorite, in excellent condition. The 2.2-pound stony chondrite meteorite, which is likely type LL-6, was lower in iron than most chondrite meteorites and has been "highly metamorphosed" by intense heat before entering the Earth's atmosphere. Chondrite meteorites are stony and are formed when dust and grains came together in the early solar system. Only about 1,100 meteorites of this kind have been found and identified by scientists.