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Quillagua impact craters
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Suspected group of at least 7 impact craters in Quillagua, Chile. Quillagua crater Quillagua is in Guinness World Records as the "driest place" for 37 years, yet it prospered off the Loa River, reaching a population of 800 by the...
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A rare 1,400-pound meteorite was discovered seven feet underground by a collector in an area long known for producing prized space rocks.
Using a metal detector mounted on a three-wheel vehicle, Steve Arnold of Kingston, Arkansas, found the huge stony-iron pallasite two weeks ago on a farm near...
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Randy Korotev
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Randy Korotev has spent his life seeking meteorites, but has found meteor-wrongs are a lot more common. Korotev, a lunar geochemist, will speak about lunar meteorites at the 53rd annual William Thomas Jackson Lecture in Science at 7:30 p.m. April 2 in Becker Auditorium in the Cerf Center at Eureka C...
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Gold Basin meteorite strewn field
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Title: Gold Basin meteorite strewn field, Mojave Desert, northwestern Arizona: Relic of a small late Pleistocene impact event Authors: Kring, David A.; Jull, A. J. Timothy; McHargue, Lanny R.; Bland, P. A.; Hill, Dolores H.; Berry, F. J. Over 4450 meteorite specimens with a total mass of 168760 g h...
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Kakat meteorites
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According to Hemant Sharma, a District Collector:
During a rainstorm, a few meteorites fell on the outskirts of the small village of Kakat village, KENDRAPARA district, India, on Thursday, 23 June 2005.
The meteorites, weighed around 20 kg.
Some villagers collected the fallen pie...
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ASU Centre for Meteorite Studies
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Arizona State University's Centre for Meteorite Studies marks 50 years For 50 years the Centre for Meteorite Studies at Arizona State University has served as the intellectual hub for research on meteorites and other planetary materials. It is a place where scientists can conduct critical inqu...
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Researchers have found evidence from an Ice Core of a Large Impact that occurred circa 1443 S.D.
Dallas Abbott of the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO) and her colleagues analysed melt water from nine samples taken from the West Antarctic Siple Dome ice core that date between 1440 and 14...
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Bellevue Boom
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It was just before 11 a.m. Wednesday when Bellevue police Capt. Herb Evers heard the boom. Evers was in the city's fleet maintenance facility, talking to a mechanic. "The windows in the garage doors rattled. It was like you could feel the concussion." He thought a plane had exploded and ca...
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October Camelopardalis meteor shower
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Finnish star-gazer discovers meteor shower - tail of new comet pinpointed
Meteor shower could be sign of comet that could come dangerously close to earth
Jarmo Moilanen, a municipal computer expert and amateur astronomer in the Finnish community of Vaala, has detected a new shower of...
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Bigach crater
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Bigach is an impact crater in Kazakhstan. It is 8 km in diameter and the age is estimated to be 5 ± 3 million years (Pliocene or Miocene). The crater is exposed at the surface. Read more Latitude: 48°36'00"N, Longitude: 82°0'00&qu...
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Crater ejecta
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Western partners with NASA to uncover new hypothesis on crater debris A team of researchers partnered with the NASA Lunar Science Institute has developed a new hypothesis for the origin of crater ejecta - debris that is launched out of a crater during meteorite impacts. These findings may help scie...
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Ancient Mega-Tsunamis
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The BBC and the National Geographic Channel are making a documentary based on the controversial theories of a Wollongong academic, who claims that meteorites hit the earth every 1000 years. New York-based production company Pangolin Pictures has been filming for the documentary this week at Gre...
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Vitim meteorite crash site
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A new scientific expedition has set off for the crash site of a gigantic meteoroid that hit eastern Siberia, between the town of Bodaibo and the village of Balakhninsky near the Vitim River, in the early hours of September 25, 2002.
Researchers investigating the crater said this might be their las...
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Arizona Meteorite Centre
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The world's meteorites are vanishing.
If something isn't done soon, most of Earth's rare space rocks could be gone in a lifetime.
This particularly alarms scientists who want to study meteorites -- rocks from outer space ranging in size from microscopic particles to boulders weighing to...
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Micrometeorites
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Title: Composition and accretion rate of fossil micrometeorites recovered in Middle Triassic deep-sea deposits Authors: Tetsuji Onoue, Tomoki Nakamura, Takeshi Haranosono and Chika Yasuda Micrometeorites, which are submillimetre-sized extraterrestrial particles that survive atmosph...
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