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An Australian man in Maryborough, Victoria, prospecting for gold with a metal detector found a rock that resisted all attempts to break it. It was later identified by Museums Victoria as the Maryborough meteorite, an H5 ordinary chondrite containing chondrules from the early solar system, formed about 4.6 billion years ago and likely landed on Earth 100–1,000 years ago; the meteorite is now housed in Museums Victoria.
A rare LL-6 chondrite meteorite, dating back to the solar system's formation 4.6 billion years ago, crash-landed in a New Jersey home on May 8, 2023. Stony chondrites make up about 85 percent of meteorites found on Earth, but this particular rock is a rare type. Scientists are still trying to determine its origin, but it is a precious relic from the past as most meteors disintegrate when they collide with Earth's atmosphere at high speeds.
A meteorite that crashed through the roof of a house in Hopewell Township, New Jersey, has been confirmed to be a rare stony chondrite, about 4.6 billion years old, by scientists at The College of New Jersey. The 2.2-pound meteorite, which will likely be named Titusville, NJ, is in excellent condition and is one of a very small number of similar witnessed chondrite falls known to science.
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.
A grapefruit-sized rock that crashed through the roof of a New Jersey house has been confirmed as a meteorite by scientists at the College of New Jersey. The blackish hunk is likely to have fallen from the asteroid belt between Jupiter and Mars. The rock tore through the roof of the house in Hopewell Township, Mercer County, then bounced off the hardwood floor and hit the ceiling before landing on the floor again. The rock is a type of meteorite called a stony chondrite, and it is likely more than 4.5 billion years old.
The College of New Jersey has confirmed that a meteorite hit a home in Hopewell Township, Mercer County. The meteorite is likely to be named after the nearest postal address, "Titusville, NJ" meteorite. It is a stony chondrite meteorite, most likely type LL-6, lower in iron than most chondrite meteorites, and has been highly metamorphosed by intense heat even before entering the Earth's atmosphere. The total weight is 984 grams, and the bulk density is approximately 3.2-3.3 g/cc. The parent-body asteroid origin of LL chondrites is not yet known precisely, but it is understood that these are objects from the main asteroid belt, with an age of approximately 4.56 billion years.