How old are the oldest artifacts at the AMNH? - Older than the Earth!

Just when you think you may have seen the world’s oldest fossil at the American Museum of Natural History, you’ll discover several meteorites housed there that are even older than the Earth itself. They’re part of a cosmic mystery that we investigate on the show, which holds clues to how life began on Earth.

Learn how NASA and AMNH researchers set out to bring part of a comet down to Earth on Museum Secrets: Inside the American Museum of Natural History on History Television this Thursday.

Watch NASA’s video now, before you watch Museum Secrets on Thursday night!

Since NASA’s Stardust mission went out in 1999 to collect comet dust, another rendezvous with comet Tempel 1 took place:

Credit: NASA/JPL

Learn more about Museum Secrets - Episode 8 - Inside the American Museum of Natural History on our website.
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Pictured Below: Willamette Meteorite, with Producer Stephen Milton, at the AMNH - Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences.