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Caille meteorite
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The Caille Meteorite, the largest meteorite ever discovered in France, landed on a mountain beside the village of Caille sometime before 1630. Dragged to the village by four oxen, the iron-stone hung around the village for a century and a half, until it was identified as a meteorite and traded to Par...
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LATE ARCHEAN IMPACT
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Title: Geochemical evidence for an impact origin for a Late Archean spherule layer, Transvaal Supergroup, South Africa
Authors: Bruce M. Simonson, Christian Koeberl, Iain McDonald, Wolf Uwe Reimold
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A Late Archean layer rich in sand-sized spherules o...
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Wassonite
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Scientists Find New Type Of Mineral In Historic Meteorite NASA and co-researchers from the United States, South Korea and Japan have found a new mineral named "Wassonite" in one of the most historically significant meteorites recovered in Antarctica in December 1969. The new minera...
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Ancient New York Tsunami
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Long before New York City was the Big Apple, or even New Amsterdam, a giant tsunami crashed ashore. It was 2,300 years ago. The Palisades that frame the Hudson River were whisper-quiet, the sandy beaches of Long Island and New Jersey empty, and Manhattan was still just an unbroken sylvan carpet. Then...
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Russian scientists to establish origin of Great Flood
Russian researchers from the University of Siberia are planning on proving the theory of Bruce Masse, an environmental archaeologist with Los Alamos National Laboratory, who claims that the Great Flood of 2800 BCE came as a result o...
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A meteor was observed in the Campos dos Goytacazes region, Brazil at about 21.00 UT, 19th June 200. An 600 gram ordinary chondrite meteorite was recovered by a ranch worker in Varre-Sai, Rio de Janeiro State.
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Israeli meteorite
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The first Israeli meteorite has been discovered Since he was a four-year-old in Hungary, Gabriel Shaked of Kibbutz Afikim has been looking for meteorites on the ground. A year-and-a-half ago, he found what he was looking for in the Arava's Timna region. He noticed a black rock, small but heavy, whic...
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Krizevci meteorite
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Piece of meteor found near Krizevci A piece of a meteor was found near the central Croatian town of Krizevci, the first extra-terrestrial item to come down on Croatia in the last 60 years. A black stone weighing 292 grams was found on February 20, following the impact of a larger rock sometime between F...
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Ede Meteorite
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Meteorite hits building in the Netherlands On Friday march 4th a small meteorite hits through the ceiling of a office building at the Kryptonstreet in Ede, The Netherlands. 30 people working at time of impact in the building, no one was hurt...
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Lake Chiemsee strewnfield
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People living in southern Germany during Roman times may have witnessed a comet impact 5,000 times more destructive than the Hiroshima atom bomb.
A strewnfield of craters around Lake Chiemsee, in south-east Bavaria, may have been caused by fragments of a huge comet that broke up in the...
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Zacatecas Meteor
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Object falls in Zacatecas On February 22 militaries of the region found that an object crashed near the city of Zacatecas. Everything indicates that it is meteorite
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Winston Meteorite Research
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On or about the morning of Feb 12th 2011 an unusual object fell to the ground in Winston Oregon leaving a 2.5 " deep x 6" in diameter impact crater . The material is not typical of meteorites and is white quartz in color. The ground was moist yet the high temperature of the object left the soil sc...
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Kofels impact
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A cuneiform clay tablet that has puzzled scholars for over 150 years has been translated for the first time. The tablet is now known to be a contemporary Sumerian observation of an asteroid impact at Köfels, Austria and is published in a new book, A Sumerian Observation of the Köfels Impact Event. [ur...
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Farm Paddock Meteorite
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Midnight Metal Detecting - My First Meteorite Find with Minelab E-Trac I decided to check it out, and just below the surface was this rock thing, it was dark, but could not see it really, I swung my coil over it and it sent of a signal in the 12.04 r...
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Skofja Loka Meteorite
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An object found over a year ago near Skofja Loka, NW of Ljubljana, was confirmed to be in fact a meteorite, according to the website of the National Geological Institute on Wednesday. Read more
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