IT’S the Superman of space rocks. A mysterious meteorite that crashed to Earth last year may have been the toughest of its kind.
The Carancas meteorite struck the town of that name in Peru last September, blowing a hole in the ground 13 metres wide. The fact that locals saw a single object strike suggests a meteorite made of iron, like the one that created a similar crater in 1990 in Sterlitamak, Russia, because stony meteorites normally fragment high above the Earth and spread relatively harmlessly over a wide area. However, the debris found by investigators was stone.
“Stony meteorites normally fragment high up above…
