Untouched extraterrestrial compounds recovered from a fallen ball of fire. – The Washington Newsday

On a cold winter night in 2018, as a ball of fire swept across the skies of Canada and the Midwest, a team of meteor hunters turned to weather radar to determine its likely landing site.
The fireball had come to rest on a frozen lake in Michigan. Surprisingly, they managed to collect remains of the meteorite before its contents were contaminated by earthbound water molecules.
In a study published in the journal Meteoritics and Planetary Science on Tuesday, the scientists reported their analysis…

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