US EditionMeteorite that Tore Through Southeastern US Skies This Summer Found to Be Older than Earth
HENRY COUNTY, GEORGIA, AUG 11 – The McDonough Meteorite, the 27th recovered in Georgia, fell during a rare daytime fireball event with brightness exceeding the full moon, researchers said.
- On August 11, 2025, in McDonough, Georgia, researchers identified a fragment that blasted through a metro Atlanta home’s roof last June as a meteorite predating Earth by 20 million years.
- Amid a bright daytime sky on June 26, witnesses reported a fireball over the region, according to the American Meteor Society.
- The resident continues to find specks of space dust in the living room from the collision, following the meteorite crash around 12:30 p.m., causing a sonic boom that shook Atlanta homes.
- Following its retrieval, the McDonough Meteorite, Georgia’s 27th recovered specimen and sixth witnessed fall, is stored at the University of Georgia for continued tests, according to researchers Scott Harris and colleagues.
- Looking ahead, researchers from the University of Georgia and Arizona State University plan to submit a naming proposal to the Nomenclature Committee of the Meteoritical Society, linking the meteorite to a breakup in the main asteroid belt about 470 million years ago.
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Scientists have announced that the meteorite that crashed into a house in the USA is older than the planet Earth. The object flew through the sky in the middle of the day before exploding over the state of Georgia on June 26, NASA confirmed.
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