11,800-pound meteorite withstands a devastating fire at Brazil's National Museum

The hefty metal Bendegó meteorite still sits unscathed inside the charred entrance to Brazil's palatial National Museum, after flames spread through the 200-year-old halls Sunday night.
The iron-and-nickel space rock, weighing in at some 11,800 pounds (5.36 metric tons), withstood flames that ravaged nearly all the ancient paintings, bones, and collections housed inside the main three-story structure, the museum's deputy director Cristiana Serejo told Brazil's news organization G1 on Mond