Fragments of a meteorite exploded over Texas earlier this month and scientists have finally found one of the pieces.
from NASA’s Johnson Space Center, the meteorite is estimated to have measured two feet in diameter and weighed roughly 1,000 pounds before it entered out atmosphere.
A comet or asteroid entering the Earth’s atmosphere in an illustration. Image source: Aliaksandr Marko/Adobe
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