It contained something much rarer than gold: metal raindrops from the dawn of our solar system. Of the thousands of rocks Henry has examined in his 37 years at the museum, only two have been meteorites. "If you saw a rock on earth like this, and you picked it up, it shouldn't be that heavy." These were once droplets of silicate minerals that crystallised from the super-hot cloud of gas that formed our solar system. About 4.6 billion years ago our solar system consisted of lumps of this chondrite circling the sun.

Source: Stuff July 17, 2019 02:48 UTC