Investigators are believed to have been investigating him after the crash landing, a meteorite, which in June. Swung over the sky in June, chewing southeast with a sound boom.
The extraterrestrial rock fragments were handed over to scientists after they fell to the ground this summer to determine their classification and origin.
The Georgian University received 23 out of 50 grams of McDonough meteorite, named after the city of Georgia, where it pushed through the roof and ceiling of the house, the university reports.
“This particular meteor atmospheric has a long history before it entered the McDonough base,” Scott Harris, a researcher at the Department of Geology, Department of Arts and Sciences, said in a press release.
Harris found that a meteorite is a low metal (L) plain chondritis – a stone meteorite – so 20 million years older than Earth, “using optical and electronic microscopy,” the university said.
“It belongs to the asteroid group on the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter that we now think we can associate with much greater asteroid release about 470 million years ago,” Harris said in a statement. “But through that divorce, some of the works fall into the orbit of the Earth and, if they are given long enough, their orbit around the Sun and the Earth’s orbit around the Sun is finally in the same place at the same time.”
UGA also cooperates with the partners of Arizona State University to present the name and conclusions of the meteorite to the Meteorite Society’s Nomenclature Committee, Harris said. Harris also plans to publish a scientific document about a rock to further understand the potential threats caused by meteorites.
“One day there will be an opportunity, and we never know when it will be to make something big to hit and create a catastrophic situation. If we can protect ourselves, we want to,” he said.
A rare day fire ball
The American Meteor Society received numerous reports of a fire ball in the region on June 26, CNN said earlier. Reports were submitted during a Meteor boot shower-lower-level sky event that took place in the last week of June.
Henry County, Georgia, reported that a rock that would later be identified as a McDonough meteorite, fell around their ceiling at about the same time. June Firball happened, the National Weather Service in Peachtree said. The object was crossed through the roof and the ceiling before leaning the floor inside the house.
“I suspect he heard three at the same time. One was a collision with its roof, one was a small cone of audible arrows, and the third was that at the same moment, the floor was affected,” Harris said in a press release. “There was enough energy when it collided with the floor to shred the part of the material to literal dust fragments.”
The meteorite traveled quickly enough at a certain angle that it could pass through the roof, canal and ceiling of the homeowner. – Georgia’s courtesy
The meteorite dropped the floor of the Henry County homeowner. – Georgia’s courtesy
According to the university, a resident told Harris that he still finds space dust dots around his site since the collision. Rock is the 27th meteorite in history, regained in Georgia, and the sixth witness fall.
Seeing a day fire is rare: Fireballs is easier to watch at night, but the day must be much brighter visible, says the American Meteor Society. According to the organization, Sonic Booms are also “quite rare” to hear on the ground when a fire ball occurs.
Fireball is an unusually bright meteor that reaches the magnitude above -4, which is brighter than Venus, according to the American Meteor Society. In June, the firefighter ball reached approximately 14, the Society told CNN, which would have made it brighter than the full moon.
There was no need for McDonough Space Rock emanating through the roofs to notice it.
Still from the Dashcam image
In Lexington County, South Carolina, Dashcam video showed a big flash of light falling through the sky on June 26th.
The 64 -year -old Brenda Eckard of Gilbert, South Carolina, previously told CNN that she was driving home on June day when she saw “a big flash in the sky and disappears.”
First she thought it was a meteore that almost looked like a fireworks, “Eckard said. Then Eckard called his husband to check that their house was still standing.
The McDonough meteorite is stored in UGA to continue testing, according to UGA Today. His other works that fell on June 26 will be publicly exhibited at the Tellus Science Museum in Cartersville, Georgia.
CNN Devon Sayers, Brandon Miller and Zenebou Sylla contributed to this report.
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