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Wisconsin. scientists are examining the recovered fragment. joining me now is arlen who is a professor at columbia university. good morning. good morning. if this is part of a meteor, how sure are you, what can you learn from it? meteorites come from a time before the formation of the earth of many of them. this has been erased, we don t know about that. but meteorites are 4.5 million years old, many of them, and they haven t changed very much since then. and the ap report suggests that scientists believe that if this is, indeed, a meteorite, it came from an asteroid between mars and jupiter? most of them do. they can come from the moon, come from mars and most come from the asteroid belt which is further out from the sun than the earth. they have been sitting there for 4.5 billion years and every now ....
This week. residents from northern iowa to wisconsin spotted the streaking space rock. scientists are examining the recovered fragment, which is about the size of an unshelled peanut. earlier reports indicate it could be from between mars and jupiter. in pittsburgh, thunderstorms downed several trees causing widespread power outages. expecting at many affecting as many as 70,000 residents. let s get a check of the weather in your area. alex wallace joins us from the weather channel in atlanta. alex? a little bit quieter here for us in terms of storm action as we head through this saturday. looking for our frontal system that brought us some of the nasty storms through the ohio valley, pressing southward now. really weakening as it does so so we aren t expecting a lot of rain across the deep south. still dealing with some of the snow across portions of the northeast though up into new england. meanwhile we have the rain here across texas. boy, oh boy, with that rain we do have the ....