Tagish Lake Meteorite

A meteorite that crashed into the frozen Tagish Lake, Yukon, in 2000, is causing quite the stir in scientific circles. The meteorite, a carbonaceous chondrite, containing carbon, silicates and amino acids, may be an example of the wombs from which life as we know it, got started. That in itself is remarkable, but even more remarkable, is the age of the meteorite. It has been dated to be older than our solar system, and contain embedded grains which may be billions of years older than the meteorite itself. The grains are composed of isotopes that could only be formed in extremely cold environments, such as molecular clouds or protosolar discs -- celestial objects from which our solar system would later coalesce from. The meteorite is the oldest object we have yet found on Earth.

How cool is that?!