Chunks of meteorite worth $26,000 each fall in a Brazilian town.

Fragments of a 4.6 billion-year-old meteorite fell on Santa Filomena, a town in Brazil.

Fragments of a 4.6 billion-year-old meteorite fell on Santa Filomena, a town in Brazil.In Aug. 2020, fragments of a 4.6 billion-year-old meteorite fell on Santa Filomena. According to a professor from the Sao Paulo University, the meteorite is of chondrite type and one of the first minerals that formed in the solar system before Earth.

News reports that the fragments could approximately cost thousands of dollars but the exact price of the fragments is not known.

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Meteortics and Cosmo Chemistry

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Board of the Brazilian Geochemical Society

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