Meteorite left Earth then landed back down after round trip to space


The meteorite NWA 13188 appears to have travelled to house and again

Albert Jambon

A meteorite discovered within the Sahara desert in Morocco might have originated on Earth, earlier than being blasted into house and getting back from orbit hundreds of years later. If confirmed, this boomerang house rock could be the primary of its variety we find out about.

Nearly all of the meteorites we’ve discovered come from asteroids, however a tiny fraction are from planetary our bodies, resembling Mars and the moon. These come from violent impacts that launch particles into house earlier than …

Article amended on 18 July 2023

We’ve corrected the weather produced in asteroids by cosmic rays