finished with silver. And he tossed pieces of meteorite into the fires of that forge as well, telling News.com.au, “Thunderbolt iron, you see — highly magical, you’ve got to chuck that stuff ...

The discovery of a massive crater formed by the impact of a meteorite more than three billion years ago is changing the way scientists view the history of Earth and the planet's stages of evolution.

Scientists think they may have come from space. For years scientists had been finding organic compounds in meteorites, but could not rule out the possibility that they were Earth-based contamination.