In the last century the scientific community has been able to collect about 45 thousand specimens of space rocks in Antarctica, these pieces could be described as meteorites that become residents of Earth waiting to be discovered. And now a group of researchers has found the largest stone in 100 years.
As a context for this finding, it is not surprising that over time the community of specialists find some remains that date back a long time and that help us better understand the history of our planet.
Here we have the case of fossils from the triassic periodwhich would be between 230 and 200 million years old and were discovered completely accidentally by a series of workers while building a road.
Now, in the story that we share today, we have the chronicle of a group of specialists on the hunt for these space rocks, following the lineage of an exhausting tradition that has spanned decades and now achieves a new record in one of the most fertile for this type of discovery: Antarctica.
This meteorite is the largest space rock discovered in the last 100 years.
According to a report from Science Alert, A group of scientific explorers in Antarctica have made the unprecedented discovery of a brutal meteorite weighing 7.6 kilograms.
In other words, it is a monumental stone that would be at the top of the list of the 100 largest space rocks recovered in that territory over the last century.
According to the newspaper, the specimen of this space rock weighing almost eight kilos is currently at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, where it will be studied in depth along with other smaller samples.
In this period of the last 100 years, about 45,000 specimens have been recovered in this icy territory, which has helped to consider Antarctica as an essential site for the study of meteorites that fell to Earth, turned into space rocks.
The number of finds in this region is impressive. But the scientific community itself estimates that there would be close to 300,000 specimens of stones still pending to be discovered.
So the record achieved by this space rock could be surpassed in a short time.