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According to experts at the American space agency, it may be that the space rock that exploded over Indonesia earlier this month is the largest to have hit the Earth since 1994. The asteroid did not exactly hit the surface, but rather exploded in the atmosphere, far away enough to not cause any damage or casualties. ... |
30 October 2009
02:28 GMT |
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German teenager Gerrit Blank, 14, may consider himself lucky, after being hit in the arm by a falling meteorite. Traveling at more than 30,000 miles per hour, the incandescent, red-hot piece of rock, no larger than the size of a pea, soared extremely close to the boy, rubbing against his hand, and then burying itself... |
12 June 2009
18:01 GMT |
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A few days ago, accidental or dedicated sky watchers in Colorado were offered a nice treat, as a meteor breached in and made its way burning through the atmosphere, up to a climax point where it exploded violently, generating a light that outshone the Moon by a factor of 100. The event happened very fast, though, so ... |
8 December 2008
03:49 GMT |
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It was about the year 900 AD when a large, tree log-sized meteor smashed on the surface of the Earth in a western region of Canada, leaving a large scar as an amphitheater-shaped crater. It still lies there today, filled with small meteorite pieces, under a thick blanket of trees, as a research indicates. The meteori... |
29 November 2008
17:51 GMT |
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Although the science of rocks is regarded as a dull, boring field, there's much more to it than just looking at an inert stone formation. Minerals are intimately linked to a planet's evolution and, moreover, to the emergence and development of life. In fact, this goes both ways, as minerals and life affect... |
14 November 2008
06:06 GMT |
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Valid mathematical calculations based on accurate historical and present facts observations result in a theory that assumes it's more likely to die in a terrorist attack than being blown off by the impact of a meteorite's collision with the Earth. This sort of makes one ponder on the way money is spent in o... |
15 October 2008
05:17 GMT |
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A recent study used a computer simulation in order to prove that the rings of Saturn had formed billions of years ago, when the solar system was young, rather than 100 million years ago, while dinosaurs were still alive and well. Also, the research points out that they are three times more massive than previously tho... |
24 September 2008
04:12 GMT |
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For some reason or another, all of us like to believe that Earth is special - after all, our planet is the only one able to sustain life that we know of. Indeed, Earth is special in its own way, but life would not have been possible without the significant contribution of material coming form space. In fact, a new st... |
14 June 2008
04:46 GMT |
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Earth, unlike the other rocky planets in the solar system, is extremely geologically active, constantly shifting and remodeling the surface through plate tectonics shifts, volcanic eruptions and erosion, and mountains formation. This basically means that any evidence of old meteorite and asteroid impacts are mostly h... |
14 April 2008
08:30 GMT |
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You know what they say: "Lightning never strikes twice in the same place"... but meteorites might! What is the chance of that ever happening? "I am obviously being targeted by extraterrestrials. I don't know what I have done to annoy them but there is no other explanation that makes sense. The chance of being hi... |
11 April 2008
06:46 GMT |
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Primitive organic molecules can be found throughout the whole solar system, but they are mostly present in carbonaceous chondrite meteorites. They can also be found amongst the interplanetary dust particles which formed in the early days of the solar system. However, the materials that have the most scientific value ... |
28 March 2008
10:37 GMT |
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In more than four decades of space study, astronomers have been able to identify more than 140 different molecular substances in interstellar clouds of matter, but also in accretion disks surrounding young stars. Many of these substances fall into the 'bio'-molecule category of molecules and are mostly inte... |
27 March 2008
10:54 GMT |
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According to researchers from the Oxford and Aberdeen universities, about 1.2 billion years ago, a relatively large object entered Earth's atmosphere and fell towards the regions of north-west Scotland, to create the biggest meteorite impact on the territories of the United Kingdom. The exact location of the cra... |
26 March 2008
07:49 GMT |
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Yesterday, Dr. Arthur Hickman, a government geologist, announced the discovery of a rare meteorite crater somewhere near Australia, in Pilbara. According to various sources, the scientist managed to discover the crater using Google Earth, the software application provided by Google that allows you to view satellite m... |
26 March 2008
06:36 GMT |
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The one who says that Google Earth is not useful is surely wrong. And today's piece of news comes to support this statement. Dr. Arthur Hickman, a government geologist, has spotted an impressive meteorite crater while using Google Earth and, as he sustains, he wasn't looking for such a thing on the download... |
25 March 2008
17:31 GMT |
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It is widely known that ancient space rocks floating through the solar system are amongst the oldest bodies in the solar system. Meteorites found on Earth are proof for this. However, now astronomers using the Mauana Kea telescope in Hawaii claim to have discovered three asteroids that seem to be the oldest objects i... |
21 March 2008
05:46 GMT |
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It may seem rather strange, but meteorites - especially iron ones - with gem intrusions are extremely valuable items for collectors. Some of these space rocks may routinely exceed prices of one million US dollars on the market, while less valued items make their way to museums. Don't even think that thieves will... |
19 March 2008
05:39 GMT |
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Add water, a mix of complex chemical substance, sunlight and you might eventually end up creating life. And don't forget about adding meteorites! Only if things were so easy. Previously, scientists believed that the primordial soup, from which the first living being emerged, was formed of ingredients found only ... |
13 March 2008
11:20 GMT |
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The Earth is continuously bombarded by space rocks and small cosmic bodies, probably swallowing up to a few tens of tons of matter each day. Most of these rocks go unnoticed because they burn high up in the atmosphere before reaching the surface of the planet, albeit from time to time larger meteorites and asteroids ... |
13 March 2008
04:19 GMT |
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You might not know this, but in September 2007 a meteorite entered the Earth's atmosphere and eventually reached the ground in a countryside area in Peru, where it formed a small crater, right in front of the eyes of the people living nearby. And this occurred although most of the space rocks hitting our planet ... |
12 March 2008
03:49 GMT |
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On the evening of March 5, Wednesday, the Physics and Astronomy Department at Western Ontario University received a number of calls and e-mails from people claiming to have been a bright streak of light crossing the sky sometime around 10:59 p.m. EST. Luckily, the astronomy department is equipped with a network of al... |
8 March 2008
03:36 GMT |
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The U.S. Pacific Northwest has just experienced an atmospheric meteorite explosion on Tuesday morning. Richard Pugh, a scientist at the Cascadia Meteorite Laboratory of Portland State University in Oregon, said that the lucky ones could find marble to basketball size space rocks in eastern Oregon. The event was witn... |
22 February 2008
04:59 GMT |
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Although most of the time they are associated to death and destruction, asteroids such as the one responsible for the extinction of the marine life 250 million years ago, or that of the dinosaurs more than 65 million years ago, traveling through the immensity of space could have also brought organic materials, necess... |
18 December 2007
04:41 GMT |
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On June 30, 1908, the biggest space impact that Earth suffered in modern times, known as the Tunguska event, took place in a remote Siberian area, destroying more than 2,000 sq km (770 square mi) of forest near the Tunguska River (central Siberia). The ball of fire that could have been a comet or asteroid, blasted a... |
8 November 2007
04:45 GMT |
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Only a skilled space driller like Bruce Willis could have saved the mammoths and Ice Age Americans about 12,900 years ago. Scientists tried to explain the mammoths' disappearance by human overhunting, climate change and disease, but there is an increasingly plausible hypothesis stating that a comet or low-densit... |
25 September 2007
04:33 GMT |
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A strange megacryometeor fell through the roof of a house in Dubuque, Iowa, starting scientific dispute over its origins. Although some phenomena are known to cause this type of large ice meteorite, so far no valid explanation has been found.Megacryometeors are large chunks of ice (mega = very big, cryo = ice), whic... |
30 July 2007
05:32 GMT |
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This comet is one of the few that really spawned some controversy regarding the possibility of a collision with Earth and was even classified as having "a non-zero possibility of impact." This means it could hit our planet or the Moon, sometime around 3044, or at least that is what astronomers thought about four dec... |
17 July 2007
06:31 GMT |
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From time to time, scientists get a little bit of help from Lady Luck and when this happens, they discover something amazing. This is exactly what happened after a forest fire more than 450 miles away at Sudbury, Ontario.A group of geologists were forced to find alternative routes for their field trip, since the fir... |
16 July 2007
10:20 GMT |
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The biggest space impact suffered by Earth in modern times is the Tunguska event, when an impact put down more than 2,000 sq km of forest near the Tunguska River (Siberia) on 30 June 1908. It could have been a comet or asteroid blasting in the atmosphere with a power similar to 1,000 Hiroshima bombs explosions (20 mi... |
26 June 2007
07:36 GMT |
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This week, two Russian cosmonauts on board the International Space Station (ISS) walked out into space and climbed on the station to install deflector shields, in fact protective panels designed to shield the orbiting station from dangerous space debris and small meteorites. During this spacewalk, the two astronauts... |
7 June 2007
08:55 GMT |
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A mysterious silvery space object crashed through the roof of a house.The owners of a New Jersey home were alarmed by the loud noise coming from the bathroom. First, they thought a piece of the ceiling had fallen. Srinivasan Nageswaran and his family were startled to see a chunk of metal that had crashed through the... |
12 May 2007
04:33 GMT |
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A cosmic impact between two bodies resulted in a 200 mile-wide iron meteorite, the size of Lake Mead, behind Hoover Dam, left to chill out in space, and which produced roughly 60 smaller ones.It is believed that asteroidal bodies are just leftover debris from the collisions and subsequent melting that happens when p... |
19 April 2007
03:46 GMT |
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A meteorite is a natural object originating in outer space that survives an impact with the Earth's surface without being destroyed. Meteorites that are recovered after being observed as they transited the atmosphere or impacted the Earth are called falls. All other meteorites are known as finds. As of mid-2006... |
16 April 2007
10:04 GMT |
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The last one has just occurred in the Solomon Islands, taking with it at least 20 victims. But what's a tsunami?Tsunami ("harbor wave" in Japanese) represents a series of great sea waves provoked by an underwater earthquake, landslide, or volcanic eruption and sometimes by the collision of a giant meteor with th... |
3 April 2007
03:31 GMT |
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Without a Bruce Willis to protect, California remained the victim of an Armageddon 35 million years ago. That's the time when a research team believes that a meteorite as big as three football fields hit the golden state. The impact could have made a giant 3.4 miles (5.5 km) wide craterlike formation buried 4,9... |
29 March 2007
04:09 GMT |
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Scientists have noticed a long time ago that Mars' northern and southern hemispheres are very different. While the northern hemisphere is much flatter, it is also lower than the southern hemisphere, with an elevation difference between the two of about 5 km (3 mi).In the 1980s, researchers supposed that the coll... |
16 March 2007
04:22 GMT |
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