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Asteriod 66391 1999KW4
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The first detailed images of a binary asteroid system reveal a bizarre world where the highest points on the surface are actually the lowest, and the two asteroids dance in each other's gravitational pull.
A binary asteroid is a system where two asteroids orbit around one another, like a mini Ea...
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Comet Catalina 2005 JQ5
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A comet has been added to the list of potentially threatening near-Earth objects maintained by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Comet Catalina 2005 JQ5 is the largest - and therefore most potentially devastating - of the 70 objects now being tracked. However, the chances of a collision are ver...
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Weston meteorite
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It's a 2ound rock, coloured grey and brown, the kind you might stumble across on a hike through an old New England quarry. But there's a lot of historical significance to the chunk of stone, which was plucked from an Easton field in this rural town and placed on permanent display at the Peabody Museum of...
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Banbury meteorite
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December 12, 1872 - a meteorite hits a wall close to the market town of Banbury in England.
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Orionid meteor shower
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Under cloudless skies, the Orionid meteor shower may make a fine display peaking on October 21 to 22. The annual meteor shower occurs when Earth passes through the debris stream of Comet Halley, and meteoroids hit the atmosphere at 66 km/s (about 148,000 mph). The shower is the second of two mete...
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Highly Siderophile Elements
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Some of the worlds rarest and most precious metals, including platinum and iridium, could owe their presence in the Earths crust to iron and stony-iron meteorites, fragments of a large number of asteroids that underwent significant geological processing in the early Solar System. Dr Gerhard Sch...
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Earths Formation
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Melting asteroids and the building blocks of early Earth
Important new research documenting how the Earth formed from melted asteroids 4.5 billion years ago is published in the 16 June issue of Nature. The paper was written by Dr Richard Greenwood and Dr Ian Franchi of the Open University...
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Kutch Crater
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Indian geologists claim to have discovered a possible Impact Crater in Kutch district of Gujarat dating back to the Vedic period.
The crater, suspected to have been formed by the impact of an extra-terrestrial object, is seen as a circular feature near Luna village in the northwestern Banni Plai...
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Chicxulub event
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Startling new evidence from boreholes drilled into the 120-mile-wide Chicxulub crater in Mexico indicate that the great impact, happened 300,000 years too early to have been the one that wiped out the dinosaurs.
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Sudbury Impact Structure
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About 1.8 billion years ago, a meteorite or comet the size of Mount Everest slammed into what is now Canada.
According to James Mungall, a University of Toronto geologist, the impact turned part of the Earth's crust inside out and dusted the surface with a rare metal.
Mungall and other experts...
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Middlesborough Meteorite
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A team of space scientists planning a mission to Mars sopped off at the Yorkshire Museum today (January 14) to make a 3D map of the famous Middlesborough Meteorite that will then be installed on a probe bound for the red planet. The meteorite, which landed in 1881 to the surprise of nearby workmen on a ra...
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Shiva crater
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The Shiva crater is a hypothesised impact crater located in the Indian Ocean west of India. It has been suggested that it formed around 65 million years ago, the same time as a number of other impacts that are recorded in the K-T boundary.
The Deccan Traps are located in the theorised centre o...
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Dhala structure
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The Dhala structure is a newly discovered impact structure in central India, that had an estimated diameter of 15 km.
Proterozoic age impact occurred in the western fringe of Bundelkhand craton, Shivpuri district, Madhya Pradesh, India. The impact structure has unequivocal evidences of diag...
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Asteroid collision 470 million years ago
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An asteroid collision showered the earth with meteorites for millions of years. An enormous collision between two asteroids created a meteorite shower that rained down on earth for millions of years. Meteorites of up to 1.5 kilometres in size impacted with the earth. German researchers have no...
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Tunguska impact site
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The Tunguska event was an aerial explosion that occurred at 60°55′ N 101°57′ E, near the Podkamennaya (Stony) Tunguska River in what is now Evenkia, Siberia, at 7:17 AM on June 30, 1908.
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