Finding a piece of one that made it

On June 2, a small (luckily) asteroid was spotted in space by telescopes. It was rapidly realized that this asteroid was headed straight toward Earth.    When it got here, it heated up and disintegrated in the atmosphere, but pieces of the disintegrated body still made it to the Earth's surface.

I even wrote about it.  This includes a picture of the fiery disintegration captured on a security camera.

In that article, I wrote that the incoming piece of space debris was caught "blazing out of existence".  That turns out to be not quite true. Pieces of the incoming 'roid made it down to the surface, and amazingly enough, scientists went out looking for them (after calculating their impact area) -- and found one.  In the Central Kalahari Game Preserve.

Here's what it looked like.

Maybe it doesn't look that impressive, but that rock was from SPACE.

Here's a picture of the search party with their quarry.  It was not large.  It's amazing that they could find it in the savanna of Africa.