Scientists Say They've Unearthed A Completely New Kind of Meteorite

"Scientists say that in a Swedish quarry, they've uncovered a meteorite unlike any other documented on the planet."

"Its chemical makeup is unique among the 50,000 meteorites known on Earth, as Birger Schmitz of Sweden's Lund University tells The Two-Way. 'This does not resemble anything ... even if we look at the big types that exist today and look at the broad ranges, this one falls completely outside of everything,' he says."

"What's more, the 'mysterious object,' which is about the size of a tennis ball, could 'lead to a better understanding of possible large-scale astronomical perturbations affecting both Earth and the solar system,' the scientists wrote in a newly published paper in Nature Communications."

"But before we get to those lofty heights — this story actually begins in a trash pile."