Since he began collecting meteorites five years ago, Roberto Vargas has made several pilgrimages to hunt for cosmic stones that—for him—hold the secrets of life itself.
“They can help understand our origins,” Vargas told The Epoch Times. “They can help us understand the origins of our planet, and whether there is life on other planets.”
When he heard about a meteor exploding over southwest Mississippi at 8:03 a.m. on April 27, Vargas left Connecticut and flew to New Orleans to meet his fellow meteorite-hunter friend Matt Stream, and they began their search.
Bill Cooke, the program manager with NASA’s Meteoroid Environments Office, told The Epoch Times that the basketball-sized piece of an asteroid hit the top of the atmosphere above Mississippi moving at 29,000 mph.
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