On October 19, South Australian vet Dr Andrew Melville-Smith’s newly collected car was struck by something, leaving damage unlike anything repairers have seen before. The South Australian Museum has requested access to the car to collect samples, and suspects this may be the first recorded case of a meteorite striking a car while it was moving. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

As a vet with two practices more than 100 kilometers (62 miles) apart, Melville-Smith is used to driving on South Australia’s open highways between Whyalla and Cowell. However, he was on the other side of Spencer Gulf that Saturday night when something unprecedented happened.

There was what Melville-Smith describes as a deafening explosion, and he

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