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A meteorite that crashed through the roof of a New Jersey home two years ago contains some of the building blocks of life, scientists say \u2014 and is among the rarest space rocks ever recovered.<\/p>\n

The meteorite fell in Hillsborough, New Jersey, on July 16, 2024, and is the subject of a recent study published in Science Advances on July 15 \u2014 just in time for its two-year anniversary on Earth<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The homeowner heard a “loud crash” at the time and found a hole in the ceiling that “covered the bed, carpet and surrounding areas,” according to a release from the SETI Institute, a private research organization based in Mountain View, California.<\/p>\n

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“I smelled a strong sulfur-like odor and saw many black fragments,” said the homeowner, in a comment originally given to the scientists and researchers at SETI and NASA.\u00a0<\/p>\n

No one was injured at the time, though the property was damaged.<\/p>\n

“The meteorite had broken into many fragments, including dust, and a strong sulfur-like odor was present in the 122 air,” said the report.<\/p>\n

Researchers identified it as a rare intermediate CM1\/2 carbonaceous chondrite, one of only two witnessed meteorite falls of that subtype.<\/p>\n

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“Our cameras in Northford, Connecticut, and Douglassville, Pennsylvania, as well as a doorbell camera in Wayne, New Jersey, captured the meteor, and from that we measured its trajectory. … The path traced back to low in the asteroid belt,” said Mike Hankey, operations manager for the American Meteor Society, in a SETI Institute statement.<\/p>\n

NASA said the meteorite preserves some of the oldest material in the solar system, recording chemical processes that occurred more than 4.5 billion years ago<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Fox News Digital reached out to NASA for additional comment.<\/p>\n

In a July 15 release, NASA said an amateur astronomer quickly recognized that a freshly fallen meteorite had landed on his New Jersey property \u2014 then collected the fragments with gloves and stored them in aluminum foil and glass containers to preserve the samples.<\/p>\n

That proved to be crucial to the research project. The rock is helping scientists “uncover new clues about ancient water<\/a>, the chemical evolution of primitive asteroids, and the ingredients that may have helped make life possible throughout the early solar system,” NASA said.<\/p>\n

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The significant meteorite was dubbed the Hillsborough meteorite<\/a>, and understanding its origins required “expertise from multiple scientific disciplines,” added the agency.<\/p>\n

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Danny Glavin, a senior scientist in the Astrobiology Analytical Laboratory at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and a co-author of the study, said one of the biggest surprises<\/a> was the complexity of the amino acids in the meteorite, as well as its organic compounds.<\/p>\n

Amino acids are the building blocks of proteins, while organic compounds are carbon-based molecules considered essential to life.<\/p>\n

“It’s just more proof that the chemical building blocks of life<\/a> could have been delivered \u2014 and are still being delivered \u2014 to Earth today by these carbonaceous asteroid fragments,” Glavin said in a release.<\/p>\n

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Peter Jenniskens, meteor astronomer at both NASA’s Ames Research Center and a study co-author, said that the team’s analysis of the meteorite’s trajectory, mineral composition and organic chemistry<\/a> are helping scientists better understand primitive asteroids.<\/p>\n

The research enables scientists to “build one of the clearest pictures yet of how primitive asteroids such as the asteroid Erigone evolved chemically over billions of years,” he said.<\/p>\n

“When we have both a documented fireball and a quick recovery of its meteorite, we can learn not only what the rock is made of, but where it came from in the asteroid belt,” added Jenniskens.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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