They need to be chilled, then delivered with accuracy. Just as well we have orbital mechanics to fall back on.

They start cold, and then heat up on entry.

It shows how deeply you have to chill them, for them to still be cold on arrival.

True, true, and they can pack a wallop.

Before and after you take the cap off.

There you have me! I've never taken the cap off a lager meteorite.

The cosmos is full of new experiences.

I wonder if they've moved to screw caps yet, or if you just drink them.

Could be. As Sir Arthur Eddington once said, "Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine". This would fill the bill.

Yup.