UCLA faculty voice: Is that boulder in your driveway from outer space?

Probably not, but Alan Rubin is frequently educating the public about where meteorites actually come from. Alan Rubin - The UCLA Meteorite Gallery displays this 357-pound iron chunk of an asteroid that crashed into Arizona nearly 50,000 years ago, creating a mile-wide crater. Alan Rubin is a research geochemist in the UCLA Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences and associate curator of the UCLA Meteorite Gallery. Thinking L.A. is a partnership between UCLA and Zócalo Public Square. This column appeared Dec. 3 on Zócalo Public Square. I am a meteorite researcher and a cosmic killjoy.