Scientists are hopeful that a 17-pound meteorite discovered in Antarctica could reveal morea bout how the Earth formed.
A fragment of a meteorite recovered from Winchcombe. Image source: Trustees of the Natural History Museum
When this debris hits Earth, it can reveal details about other parts of space that it has traveled through, including parts from the early universe. The hope is that any meteorites we find might help us deduce more of the building blocks that helped our planet form as a habitable world where life can not only exist, but it can also thrive.
With the hunt for alien life turning up very little in the past decade, scientists are always looking for more clues to help them find new ways to detect alien life on exoplanets and other worlds. A lot of this process can be made easier by looking at the materials that make up meteorites, because it can tell us much about the material that makes up those planets.
The five meteorites that were discovered most recently in Antarctica will be analyzed at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences to determine whether or not they can help us learn more about how Earth formed, and what kind of rocky material might lie deep beneath the surface of our planet at its core.
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