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Mount Ararat crater
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Title: A meteorite crater on Mt. Ararat? Authors: V.G.Gurzadyan, S.Aarseth We briefly report on a crater on the western slope of Mt.Ararat. It is located in an area closed to foreigners at an altitude around 2100m with geographic coordinates 39° 47' 30"N, 44° 14' 40"E. The diameter of th...
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Meteorite Tracking
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Meteorite Tracking
An international team of scientists has begun installing meteorite-tracking cameras on the Nullarbor, in south-eastern Western Australia, in an attempt to learn more about the universe.
For the past two years the team has successfully recorded material falling from...
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Uxbridge meteorite
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Sussex cricket fan Jan Marszel looked up in amazement as he saw a small, dark round object hurtle towards him on the boundary edge. But it was not one of Luke Wrights mammoth pulls coming his way - it was a meteorite that had fallen from outer space - and nearly struck him on the head. Its thought to be the fi...
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Arizona impact area
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On Sunday October 16, 2005, Dennis Asher discovered a large Franconia impact area of about 800 square feet in Arizona. The meteorite hunter recovered 112 pieces with a weight of 18,272 grams.
On Monday October 17, 2005, Jerry Baird recovered 452 pieces with a weight of 7, 265 grams and Buddy Ortego...
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Yarrie Lake
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Out west, 28 kilometres from Narrabri at the edge of the Pilliga forest, is Yarrie Lake . This natural phenomenon, a perfectly circular 'dish shaped' body of water three kilometres in diameter, is believed to have been formed by a meteorite falling to earth many thousands of years ago. Yarrie Lake is...
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Bigelow farm meteorite
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Charlie Bigelow, who was born in 1881 in Niagara, a farming village near Pleasant Mount about a 35 minute drive north of Honesdale- witnessed the meteor roar from the sky. His son James Bigelow, told the writer this story back in the 1970s. The incident happened one night in about 1914. Charlie Bigelo...
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Charlevoix crater
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The Charlevoix crater is a large eroded meteorite impact crater in Quebec, Canada. Only part of the crater is exposed at the surface, the rest being covered by the Saint Lawrence River. The original crater is estimated to have been 54 km in diameter and the age is estimated to be 342 ± 15 million years (M...
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Cooper Basin
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A University of Queensland (UQ) researcher has found evidence of a major asteroid impact that occurred near the Queensland-South Australia border more than 300 million years ago. The asteroid, which produced a shock zone at least 80km wide, could be the second-largest asteroid ever found in Aust...
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Lufkin meteorite
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A man recently found out that a rock he stumbled upon two years ago is actually a meteorite. George Wright of Denton was walking outside his brother's house in Lufkin when he kicked a rock that was sticking out of the ground. He knew it wasn't like rocks that are typically found in the area, he said, becau...
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Clare meteor
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Scientists believe that a meteorite that landed in Ireland on September 1 may have touched down in north east Clare. According to Ireland's foremost astronomer, David Moore, the September 1 meteorite is likely to have landed in land along the border between Clare, Galway and Tipperary. [url=http...
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Acraman crater
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Acraman crater is a deeply eroded impact crater in the Gawler Ranges of South Australia. Its location is marked by Lake Acraman, a circular ephemeral playa lake about 20 km in diameter. The impact event is estimated to have occurred about 580 million years ago during the Ediacaran Period. [url=http...
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Oman meteorites
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Shining sand and rocks and other factors have turned Oman into a major site of meteorite discoveries, ranking second only to Antarctica in such findings over the past few years, according to an Omani study. In the few years leading up to 2007, Oman contributed around 14 per cent of all the worlds meteo...
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Lakeview meteorite
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[url=http://www.columbian.com/news/2010/sep/21/ore-meteorite-generating-interest/]Read...
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Yarrabubba Project
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Australia-based uranium and other precious metal miner, Impact Minerals Ltd has recently announced that the Yarrabubba project for nickel mining has identified seven priority targets in Western Australia. The Yarrabubba Project covers a large (>50 km) diameter meteorite impact structur...
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Ocean County rock
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The mysterious rock that almost conked township resident Salvadore D'Addario on the head a year ago is still that: a mystery. Experts from the planetariums at Ocean County College, here, and Raritan Valley Community College in Branchburg said Wednesday it most definitely is not a meteorite. [url...
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