Tatahouine: ‘Star Wars meteorite’ sheds light on the early Solar System: The asteroid 4 vesta, left, and Tatooine, as seen in Star Wars, on the right. Nasa and wikipedia Locals watched in awe as a fireball exploded and hundreds of meteorite fragments rained down on the city of Tatahouine, Tunisia, on June 27, 1931. Fittingly, …
Meteorite discovery: unusual finds by South African farmer add to space rock heritage: A digital composite of a meteor shower speeding towards Earth. Adastra Meteorites – fragments of rock that have fallen to Earth from space in spectacularly fiery meteors – have been the subject of public fascination, awe, myths and even religious worship for …
Qu’est-ce qu’une météorite ? Je visite et j’étudie les cratères qu’elles ont laissés sur notre planète: La cratérisation par impact, causée par des météorites entrant en collision avec des surfaces planétaires, est l'un des processus cosmiques les plus fondamentaux. Eshma/Shutterstock Des dizaines de milliers d’astéroïdes – à notre connaissance – errent dans notre système solaire. …
A brief history of the UK’s Winchcombe meteorite: There was little time for water from the Earth's atmosphere to contaminate the meteorite after it fell. Trustees of the Natural History Museum, Author provided On 28 February 2021, for the first time in 30 years, a meteorite fell in the UK and was later recovered by …
Meteorite hunters: how we found the first bit of UK space rock in over 30 years: The fireball. Ben Stanley, processed by Markus Kempf, the AllSky7 network Wednesday 3 March started just like every other day in 2021. We were working from home. But by mid-afternoon, our colleague Luke had told us to pack our …
How scientists found rare fireball meteorite pieces on a UK driveway – and what it could teach us: Image of the fireball in 28 February. UK Meteor Observation Network, Author provided As people in the UK were settling down to watch the late evening news on February 28, a fresh news story, quite literally, appeared …
Gold-Flecked Meteorite Legal Fracas: The case pits a “world-renowned” fossil hunter against a collector of “extraterrestrial objects d’art” and a mineral and gem museum This “Fukang meteorite” in question is at the heart of a battle between Stephan Settgast of Marin County, Calif. and the Maine Mineral And Gem Museum in Maine. Weird News –
There’s the slim chance of being hit by lightning, and then there’s the almost nonexistent chance of being hit by a meteorite. A man in India, however, was apparently killed by the latter, which would likely make him the first person recorded killed by an object that fell from outer space, Mashable reports. Weird News …