An arrowhead discovered in the 19th century at the Bronze Age pile-dwelling site of Mörigen on Lake Biel, western Switzerland, has been found to be made of rare meteoritic iron.

 Not only that, but analysis of the metal has allowed the scientists to identify the meteorite in question, and it's one that fell onto an Estonian island in the Baltic Sea.

Testing of an arrowhead found at the Bern History Museum showed it was made partly of aluminum-26 isotopes, which are not found naturally on Earth. They also found an iron and nickel alloy that has only ever been detected in meteorites.

The team also found remnants of an adhesive on the arrowhead, which they guessed to be tar pitch, suggesting that the arrowhead had been attached to a shaft of some sort.

It's fitting that a hunk of metal that spun through the vastness of space for eternity after eternity, but finally, beyond all expectation, met up with the cosmic speck we call Earth, survived the infernal voyage through the atmosphere, only to be picked up by the local life forms and, using their miraculous intelligence, be fashioned into, of all things, an arrowhead.  An object meant to fly again, but this time with purpose.

Freaky.

Kaali is a group of nine meteorite craters in the village of Kaali on the Estonian island of Saaremaa.  Most recent estimates put its formation shortly after 1530–1450 BC.

The craters were formed by a meteor with an estimated impact velocity of between 22,000 and 45,000 mph with a total mass of between 20 and 80 metric tonnes. According to some researchers the meteor arrived from the north-east.

The big crater in Estonia, where curious hominids picked up a shiny rock, and created a tool.

At an altitude of 20,000 to 30,000 feet, the meteor broke into pieces and fell to the Earth in fragments, the greatest of which produced a crater with a diameter of 360 feet and a depth of 72 feet. The explosion removed approximately 2,900,000 cu ft of dolomite and other rocks and formed a 20,000 to 30,000 ft tall, extremely hot gas flow. Vegetation was incinerated up to 3.7 miles from the impact site.

Kaali Lake (Estonian: Kaali järv) is on the bottom of this crater. Eight smaller craters are also associated with this bombardment. Their diameters range from 39 to 131 ft and their respective depths vary from one to 3.3 to 13.1 ft. They are all within 0.62 miles of the main crater.