Long-lost ‘extinct’ meteorite found

Unusual space rock fragment may have come from 470-million-year-old cosmic collision

Meteorites

ROCKY REMAINDERS  A new meteorite (dark area, center) discovered embedded inside red limestone may have formed during the same space crash that formed L chondrites, one of the most abundant meteorite groups on Earth.

Birger Schmitz

A long-lost sibling to one of Earth’s most common kinds of meteorite has finally been found.