Scientists suspect the meteorite, found in the Sahara several years ago, was knocked into space by an asteroid, then fell back to our planet
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— spent the next few millennia orbiting our planet, before falling back to the Sahara, where it was picked up by a meteorite hunter in 2018 and sold to a French collector, Albert Jambon.The boomerang hypothesis was presented this month at an international geochemistry conference in Lyon, France. Geophysicist Jerome Gattacceca of the French National Centre for Scientific Research
There are several problems with the hypothesis, however. Most concerning is that an asteroid large enough to knock rocks into space would leave a huge impact crater, and there are no known craters on the Earth that are both large enough and young enough to qualify.
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Boomerang meteorite may be the 1st space rock to leave Earth and returnSharmila is a Seattle-based science journalist. She found her love for astronomy in Carl Sagan's The Pale Blue Dot and has been hooked ever since. She holds an MA in Journalism from Northeastern University and has been a contributing writer for Astronomy Magazine since 2017. Follow her on Twitter at Sharmilakg.
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