
"Rare meteorite from Halley's Comet crashes into New Jersey home"
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.