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Thal meteorite
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The Thal (stone; H6 ordinary chondrite) meteorite fell in the Northwest Frontier, Pakistan, in 1950. Recovered weight: 342 g Latitude: 33° 24' N, Longitude: 70° 36' E
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Fuyang meteorite
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The Fuyang (stone) meteorite fell in Anhui, China, in June, 1977. Three stones were recovered, totalling 2-3 kg Latitude: 32° 54'N, Longitude: 115° 54'E
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Kesen Meteorite
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The Kesen Meteorite is a meteorite that fell on June 13, 1850, landing in a swamp in the outskirts of the City of Rikuzentakata, Kesen District in Iwate Prefecture, Japan. The H4-type meteorite initially weighed 135 kg, however some local residents cut off pieces for charms or souvenirs such that it...
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Westbury Junior School
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Westbury pupils over the moon[url=http://www.thisiswiltshire.co.uk/news/9065317.Westbury_pupils_over_the_moon/]Re...
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Wolfe Creek Crater
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Expand (2.7mb, JPEG) Australias Aboriginal people had long known about the crater near Wolfe Creek by the time an aerial survey identified it in 1947. Almost circular, Wolfe Creek Crater (also known as Wolf Creek Crater) is considered the second largest crater in the world from which meteorite fra...
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Chennai museum meteorites stolen
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Insider's hand suspected in theft of meteorites from museum The five meteorite pieces taken away from the Chennai museum were all originals and the one left behind in the display case was a "fake" generally used for study purposes, investigations found on Wednesday. Museum authoritie...
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Newport meteorite
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Prize offered for meteorite The single Newport meteorite was recovered due to the media frenzy from the February 10, 1930 fireball that accompanied the Paragould Meteorite fall. A few days later an 820 pound Paragould meteorite was found at the bottom of an 8 foot hole southwest of Paragould. Mr. Ni...
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New Jersey crater
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Officials Believe Meteorite Hit Basking Ridge Lawn Township officials believe a small meteorite impacted the front lawn of a township home last Friday morning at about 11:35 a.m., creating a trench and spewing dirt and debris on the lawn, driveway and street near the residence. The address of the h...
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Suharau commune meteorite
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A Romanian man planting potatoes almost died when a meteorite believed to be from the tale of Halley's Comet thudded into the ground inches from where he was working. "I heard a brief whoosh of air and then something hit the ground just to one side of me with an enormous thud. I didn't see a meteor, b...
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Rochechouart impact structure
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Rochechouart is an impact crater in France. The crater diameter is still under study but expected to be about 21 km and its current age estimate is given as 214 ± 8 million years, placing it in the Upper Triassic period. Since then the crater has been deeply eroded, and no trace of its original surface mo...
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A metal, rock-like object about the size of a golf ball and weighing nearly as much as a can of soup crashed through the roof of a Monmouth County home, and authorities on Wednesday were trying to figure out what it was.
Nobody was injured when the oblong object, weighing more than 13 ounces, crashed i...
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Sixmilebridge Auction
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A real-life 'Indiana Jones' is auctioning off a 70-million-year-old dinosaur tooth from the spoils of his globe-trotting adventures. The giant molar, along with a 435-year-old meteorite and a Jurassic tree trunk, are among various ancient items going under the hammer. The archaeological trea...
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Antarctic Impact
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An international scientific-mountaineering team discovered in 2004 what appears to be one of the world’s largest meteoroid impact craters.
Prof Van der Hoeven first realised that there may have been a giant asteroid strike in the Antarctic while on an expedition across the continent in 1960 wh...
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Wethersfield (1971) meteorite
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It was 40 years ago this month that an alien visitor dropped in on Wethersfield. Paul J. and Minnie Cassarino were sleeping in their house on Middletown Avenue early on the morning of April 8 when an uninvited guest from outer space crashed through their roof - a meteorite about three inches across. Th...
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El-Hareeq meteorite
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A joint team of the Ministry of Minerals and security organs in North Kordofan State Tuesday found the remains of the meteor that fell in the night of April 4 in the locality of El-Khewi. In a statement to SUNA, the Commissioner of El-Khewi Locality, Ehaimer Ali Ehaimer, said that the remains of the met...
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