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Stirling Meteorite
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Reports of spectacular "balls of fire" falling near Stirling Castle, Scotland have sparked a hunt for the crash sites of two meteors . If discovered, they would be the first meteorites confirmed to have landed in Scotland in almost 100 years. The incidents, reported by several witnesses, were on th...
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IVA iron meteorites
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A fender-bender between two celestial bodies that left a 200 mile-wide metallic chunk to cool in space was the likely source of a group of meteorites known as the IVA iron meteorites, suggests new research by University of Massachusetts Amherst scientists. Their findings, published in the April 1...
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Ramgarh Crater
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Latitude: 25°19'56.02"N, Longitude: 76°37'27.25"E
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Cranbourne meteorite
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A brand new Cranbourne meteorite display is on the agenda almost 150 years after the real deal hit the earth. The yet-to-be-built Cranbourne Aquatic and Leisure Centre could be the new home with coun...
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Yarrabubba crater
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Yarrabubba crater is a 30-70 km diameter eroded impact structure situated in the northern Yilgarn Craton between the towns of Sandstone and Meekatharra, central Western Australia. The age of the impact event is uncertain, but the crater is younger than the granite that it shocked, and which has...
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Yukon Meteor
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Commuters coming into Whitehorse, Yukon, on Thursday morning, saw a meteoroid streaked across the sky.
Witnesses saw a bright fireball streak west to east across the sky just north of the territorial capital at about 8:30 a.m.
"It was blue-white, neon-like and very bright, and lasted ab...
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Aorounga Impact Crater
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As the fragments of shattered comet 73P/Schwassmann Wachmann 3 glide harmlessly past Earth this month in full view of backyard telescopes, onlookers can't h...
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Palm Valley crater
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An aboriginal dreaming story about a star crashing to Earth with a noise like thunder has led to the discovery of an ancient meteorite crater in central Australia. A Sydney astronomer, Duane Hamacher, found the bowl-shaped crater in Palm Valley, about 130 kilometres south-west of Alice Springs, b...
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Evidence for bolide impact?
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Title: Uniquely extensive seismite from the latest Triassic of the United Kingdom: Evidence for bolide impact?
Authors: Simms, Michael J.
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A 2–4 m thick seismite, in places overlain by a previously unreported tsunamite, can be traced across >250,0...
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Murchison meteorite
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Scientists from the Department of Earth Science and Engineering at Imperial College have discovered that the Murchison meteorite that hit Australia in 1969 contains the nucleobases, uracil and xanthine. Nucleobases are m...
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Meteor scatter propagation
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Meteor scatter occurs when a signal bounces off a meteor's ionised trail. When a meteor strikes earth's atmosphere, a cylindrical region of free electrons is formed at the height of the E layer. This slender, ionised column is relatively long, and when first formed is sufficiently dense to reflect...
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Brushy Creek Impact Crater
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The Brushy Creek Feature, a Potential Louisiana Impact Crater Between 1996 and 1997, Richard P. McCulloh, the author, and John Snead of the Louisiana Geological Survey compiled McCulloh et al. (1997). This research revealed an anomalous circular feature, which McCulloh et al. (1997) mapped as &...
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Wold Cottage meteorite
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On December 13th, 1795 a huge 56 pound meteorite, the second largest recorded in England, landed two fields from The Wold Cottage, at the time the home of a magistrate named Mr Edward Topham. Fortunately, the meteorite's passage and impact were observed and the statements of witnesses were taken on...
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East Jakarta Meteorite
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Close Encounters of the Meteorite Kind for East Jakarta Residents Scientists and members of the elite antiterrorism military unit Densus 88 rubbed shoulders on Friday as a crowd of government officials and experts descended on an East Jakarta house after it was apparently struck by an object from...
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Meteorite microfossils
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Title: Fossils of Cyanobacteria in CI1 Carbonaceous Meteorites Authors: Richard B. Hoover, Ph.D. NASA/Marshall Space Flight Centre Dr. Hoover has discovered evidence of microfossils similar to Cyanobacteria, in freshly fractured slices of the interior surfaces of the Alais, Ivuna, and Orgu...
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