{"id":240976,"date":"2026-07-16T00:33:55","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T05:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/alien-world-chemistry-found-inside-meteorite-that-struck-new-jersey-home"},"modified":"2026-07-16T00:33:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T05:33:55","slug":"alien-world-chemistry-found-inside-meteorite-that-struck-new-jersey-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/alien-world-chemistry-found-inside-meteorite-that-struck-new-jersey-home","title":{"rendered":"Alien world chemistry found inside meteorite that struck New Jersey home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/alien-world-chemistry-found-inside-meteorite-that-struck-new-jersey-home.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On July 16, 2024, a daytime meteor shook New York City with a sonic boom as it passed just south of the Statue of Liberty. Now, an international team of researchers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/sciadv.aea2105\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a> in the journal <i>Science Advances<\/i> that a short time later, a meteorite weighing more than 2 pounds crashed through the roof of a house in the town of Hillsborough, New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA forensic study of the fragments revealed that they contained preserved bits from near the surface of a primitive asteroid, where it experienced concentrated salty fluids\u2014a process not previously known from this type of protoplanet world,\u201d said lead author and meteor astronomer Peter Jenniskens of the SETI Institute and NASA\u2019s Ames Research Center in California\u2019s Silicon Valley.<\/p>\n<p>On that day, a rock the size of a heavy airline bag entered Earth\u2019s atmosphere at a speed of 32,000 miles\/h (14.4 kilometers per second). Sixty observers from New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Pennsylvania reported seeing the meteor to the American Meteor Society, while 16 in New York and New Jersey felt the shock wave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On July 16, 2024, a daytime meteor shook New York City with a sonic boom as it passed just south of the Statue of Liberty. Now, an international team of researchers reports in the journal Science Advances that a short time later, a meteorite weighing more than 2 pounds crashed through the roof of a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,19,12,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asteroid-comet-impacts","category-chemistry","category-existential-risks","category-habitats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}