4.6 billion-year-old meteorite sheds light on early solar system – study

Erg Chech 002 specimen (Yuri Amelin/ Australian National University/Nature Communications)

A 4.6-billion-year-old meteorite could shed light on the early solar system, new analysis suggests.

The meteorite, called Erg Chech 002, was discovered in 2020 in the Erg Chech region of the Sahara Desert in Algeria.