19921776 Club
A 4.4-billion-year-old rock ends its journey in a Chevy Malibu's trunk
Michelle Knapp heard what she thought was a three-car crash; it was a stone that outdated the solar system's planets.
On the evening of October 9, 1992, thousands of people up and down the East Coast watched a fireball streak north-northeast through the sky, having broken apart over Kentucky and crossed West Virginia and Pennsylvania. At about 7:50 pm, an 1-foot, 27-pound fragment of it slammed into the trunk of Michelle Knapp's parked red 1980 Chevrolet Malibu in Peekskill, New York, punching through the metal and burying itself in the ground beneath the car. Knapp, inside her house, heard the impact and said it sounded "like a three-car crash." She found the rock still warm, and still smelling faintly of sulfur, in the pit it had dug under her car…
