A planetary geologist finds that the meteorite, which fell in June, came from the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter

"This particular meteor that entered the atmosphere has a long history before it made it to the ground of McDonough".

A meteorite that plummeted into the roof and living room of a house in McDonough, Georgia, has now been found to be 20 million years older than Earth. Researchers who examined fragments of the broken meteorite now think that its parent body split from a monster asteroid (which formed before Earth) about 470 million years ago.