In summer 2025, a roughly 4.56-billion-year-old meteorite crashed through the roof of a home in McDonough, Georgia — and analysis by researchers at the University of Georgia determined the rock is approximately 20 million years older than Earth itself, meaning the homeowner spent that night sleeping in a house that had just been physically struck by a piece of the solar system older than the planet she was standing on

In summer 2025, a roughly 4.56-billion-year-old meteorite crashed through the roof of a home in McDonough, Georgia — and analysis by researchers at the University of Georgia determined the rock is approximately 20 million years older than Earth itself, meaning the homeowner spent that night sleeping in a house that had just been physically struck by a piece of the solar system older than the planet she was standing on | FLIP NEWS