On Wednesday evening, just before 7:10pm, Claudine Thomasset was sitting on the couch in Breadalbane, NSW, with her dachshund Paris, when her house started shaking.
When Higgins resident Chris Carson was eight years old and sitting on a bus in the Victorian town of Benalla, he witnessed a meteorite plummet to Earth. He never imagined one day he’d hold that seven-billion-year-old space rock as a project geologist at Geoscience Australia.