Something Crashed Through a Man’s Living Room in Broad Daylight: A 4.5-Billion-Year-Old Meteorite.

Saddledust | a month ago

In broad daylight?!?! The audacity of that meteorite!

doc_witt | a month ago

Damn kids!

ButterscotchNo3984 | a month ago

Why does that fact it happened in daytime matter? Like the stars and meteor only exist at night when you can see them?

BtheCanadian | a month ago

The whole article and no picture of it…

Paratwa | a month ago

It’s because it’s tiny I’m guessing.

https://news.uga.edu/uga-names-new-meteorite/

rattynewbie | a month ago

>"which had missed the shocked homeowner’s head by about the length of an average sedan"

r/anythingbutmetric

AdDiscombobulated238 | a month ago

Popular Mechanics has fallen so low.

Stormin1982 | a month ago

Are you expecting them to only fall at night?

ThomasKatt | a month ago

Worth more than gold.

Nellasofdoriath | a month ago

The floorboards can be patched but the worst damage is the roof

arealuser100notfake | a month ago

I don't care, I'm made out of elements that are even older, I'm special, and beautiful

spaghetti_hitchens2 | a month ago

Damn right you are

lucius-vorenius | a month ago

So what every rock on earth also 4.5 billion years old.

travizeno | a month ago

No they arent but I think its the fact it came from not earth and crashed through his freaking ceiling that's the more interesting part.

rattynewbie | a month ago

Someone failed high school geology.

What are sedimentary rocks?

myowngalactus | a month ago

Oh that’s mine, I’ve been wondering where it got off to

Cowboywizzard | a month ago

I just want to know if the guys homeowners insurance covered the damage.

spaghetti_hitchens2 | a month ago

Something... Something... Acts of God

Random_182f2565 | a month ago

Stonks

rangeo | a month ago

It's you vs the universe.

Glad-Peanut-3459 | a month ago

No photo of it.

wilkinsk | a month ago

And it didn't set his house on fire???

Don't they come down to earth at several hundred degrees??? Don't they leave a crater?

alternatingflan | a month ago

That rude entrance likely can be fixed by the value of that meteorite,

VoidlyYours | a month ago

The article states Ann Hodges, the lady struck by a meteorite, lived in Sylacauga. I could have sworn I heard it was Jasper.

MuscaMurum | a month ago

A neutrino just crashed through me! Ope, there goes another one!

Moobygriller | a month ago

I mean - all meteorites are billions of years old essentially.