The meteorite that crashed to Earth near Berlin in January is about 4.5 billion years old and belongs to the rare class of aubrites, scientists wrote in an article published earlier in the week in the Meteoritics & Planetary Science journal. Diminutive asteroid 2024 BX1 burned up on January 21 near Berlin, in a spectacular celestial show. Fragments fell to the ground in the Havelland region of the state of Brandenburg that surrounds the German capital and many were gathered by scientists and collectors. Some 202 fragments weighing a total of 1.8 kilograms were found in a scatter field near the…