A meteorite

that fell last year in Canada may change the way scientists think about the origin of the solar system.

New Atlas writes about it.

An international group of scientists presented a new study in which they say that this meteorite came to us from the distant Oort Cloud, where there are icy objects.

But scientists found out that this meteorite is not made of ice, as it should be, but of stone.

This discovery calls into question long-held ideas about how the solar system formed.

At the edge of our solar system is a cluster of icy objects called the Oort Cloud.

This is where icy bodies such as comets reside, which then fly into the inner part of our solar system.

And, according to the theories, no stone objects can exist here.

Scientists understood the true meaning of the meteorite that fell in Canada only when they found out where it came from.

Usually, stony meteorites come to Earth either from the asteroid belt located between Mars and Jupiter, or from closer regions of space.

But scientists found that it came from the Oort Cloud, which surrounds the Solar System and where long-period comets appear.

Earlier, scientists from NASA presented a new report on the work of two spacecraft on Mars, in which it is said that during the entire time of observation on the Red Planet, they were able to record the fall of the largest

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