ByRafi Letzter-Staff Writer4 hours ago

Where did this strange meteorite come from?

• https://www.livescience.com/mysterious-giant-asteroid-evidence.html

This false-color microscope image of a meteorite sample collected in Sudan shows amphibole crystals, a unique feature, highlighted in orange.(Image: © Courtesy of NASA/USRA/Lunar and Planetary Institute )

There’s a giant asteroid somewhere out in thesolar system, and it hurled a big rock atEarth.

The evidence for this mystery space rock comes from a diamond-studded meteor that exploded over Sudan in 2008.

NASA had spotted the 9-ton (8,200 kilograms), 13-foot (4 meters)meteorheading toward the planet well before impact, and researchers showed up in the Sudanese desert to collect an unusually rich haul of remains. Now, a new study of one of those meteorites suggests that the meteor may have broken off of a giant asteroid — one more or less the size of the dwarf planet Ceres, the largest…