Alien Rock In Sweden Quarry Discovered, Extraterrestrial Object Flux Resulted To Invertebrate Ocean Life Expansion

First Posted: Jun 17, 2016 04:00 AM EDT
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An alien rock has been discovered in a limestone quarry of Sweden, where it was unearthed from about 470 million years,  according to scientists. This newly-discovered object is different from other meteorites dug up on Earth, and is believed to provide clues about the formation and history of the solar system. The discovery has been written in the journal Nature Communications.

The mysterious alien rock called Oest 65, is assumed to be a fragment of a rock about 20 to 30 km wide that had been thought to have crashed into a larger object and sprinkled the young Earth with debris. Previously, the remnants of just one of the two rocks had been discovered, in a meteorite form called chondrites.

With the discovery of the alien rock, the scientists are convinced that they have already found the second piece of space orb, which supports the theory that a massive smash-up happened between two galactic travels. It is also believed that the breakup of the larger chondrite body of about 100 to 150km across, had given an enormous cluster of rocky debris in the asteroid belt between Jupiter and Mars, IB Times reported.

As explained by co-author Birger Schmits of the Lund University in Sweden, the resultant flux of the extraterrestrial object that had fallen down on Earth corresponded with a large expansion of an invertebrate ocean life at a period when the planet's landmass was greatly fused together into the supercontinent Gondwana. The new alien rock, along with 100 chondrite fragments that have been discovered to date, had sunk to the ocean covering regions of today's limestone quarry in Sweden.

The extraterrestrial lander could be the very first documented example of an "extinct meteorite" since its parent body had been completely eaten by space collisions, which means  no more pieces can fall to Earth today, although chondrites can still drop to the planet from time to time.

Based on the findings, on which the scientists have based the majority of their hypothesis about the formation of the solar system, the meteorites today do not entirely represent the past and the current objects out there, according to The Guardian.

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