I wrote here<\/a>\u00a0about another object that, it\u2019s been suggested, came from beyond the ordinary asteroid belt of our Solar System. \u00a0A few days later, driving from Stockholm westward across Sweden to G\u00f6teborg, my wife and I took a little detour to go visit the rural stone quarry where that apparent meteorite was found. \u00a0There was nothing there \u2014 no crowd, not even a sign \u2014 to indicate the significance of the place, but it was rather fun to be out in the Swedish countryside, surrounded by trees, grass, and cows, thinking about the cosmic visitor that landed there roughly 470 million years before.<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
We walk daily in, among, and around remarkable things from the deep past. \u00a0Even the dirt on which we step represents a remarkable geological history.<\/p>\n
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Posted from Oslo, Norway<\/p>\n
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