Meteorite survivor unearthed

Scientists haul up a hefty chunk of ancient asteroid.

A soccer-ball-sized chunk of a several-kilometre-wide asteroid has been found deep inside an ancient crater in South Africa. Finding such a large piece of a huge impactor is extremely rare, since these speeding giants are usually almost completely destroyed when they crash into the Earth.

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