Meteorites
Most people have looked up into the night sky and seen the fleeting flashes of light that are known as meteors. These flashes are caused by small sand-sized particles that are debris from c...
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Heavenly Rocks: Asteroids Discovered and Meteorites Explained
Overview
Giuseppe Piazzi discovered the first asteroid, Ceres, on New Year's Day, 1801, then lost it when it traveled behind the Su...
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Meteoroids and Meteorites
The word meteor is derived from the Greek meteron, meaning something high up. Today, however, the term is used to describe the light phenomena produced by the entry of a mete...
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Meteors and Meteorites
Meteors, commonly (and inaccurately) called shooting stars, are particles of interplanetary dust that burn up as they enter the Earth's atmosphere from space. Meteorites are lar...
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The Willamette Meteorite is a sacred icon to the Oregon-based Clackamas Indians. The tribe has its own name for the massive space rock, Tomanowas, and holds an annual religious ceremony with the me...
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A fiery meteorite crashed into southern Peru over the weekend, experts confirmed on Wednesday. But they were still puzzling over claims that it gave off fumes that sickened 200 people.Local residen...
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Two of the world's most famous meteorites failed to attract buyers at an auction Sunday, while an ordinary metal mailbox zapped by a falling space rock in 1984 was sold for the unearthly price of n...
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Peruvian astronomers said Thursday that evidence shows a meteorite crashed near Lake Titicaca over the weekend, leaving an elliptical crater and magnetic rock fragments in an impact powerful enough...
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Two of the world's most famous meteorites failed to attract buyers at an auction Sunday, while an ordinary metal mailbox zapped by a falling space rock in 1984 was sold for the unearthly price of n...
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A forest fire has led to a chance discovery of debris from the impact of a meteorite 1.85 billion years ago, more than 450 miles away at Sudbury, Ontario.Geologists had scheduled a field trip in Ma...
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Lima (dpa) - The health problems reported by locals in south-
eastern Peru following the strike of a meteorite are due to their
fears rather than to any radioactivity of the...
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Peruvian astronomers said Thursday that evidence shows a meteorite crashed near Lake Titicaca over the weekend, leaving an elliptical crater and magnetic rock fragments in an impact powerful enough...
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A hole in the roof, a bathroom full of debris and a strange, silvery rock near the toilet _ the Nageswaran family soon realized they needed an astronomer, not a contractor, to fully explain what da...
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) - Two astronauts on
the International Space Station will make a spacewalk next week
to find out if a micro-meteorite strike damaged a critical part
of the outpost's ...
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Meteorites
Heavenly Rocks: Asteroids Discovered and Meteorites Explained
Meteoroids and Meteorites
Meteors and Meteorites
Indian group blasts meteorite sale
