REPORT - Stone that fell ruled a meteorite

  • 09/01/2007

  • Asian Age (New Delhi)

It was not from the neighbourhood. The object that tore through the roof of a house in the New Jersey suburbs last week was an iron meteorite, perhaps billions of years old and maybe ripped from the belly of an asteroid, experts who examined it said. It has been tentatively named "Freehold Township' for the place where it landed. The family has not yet given permission for physical testing of the meteorite, but from looking at it, Dr. Delaney and other experts were able to tell that the object it had been part of