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On Christmas Eve 1965, what may have been mistaken for the bright star in the east, was in fact a fireball sweeping across England, announcing the arrival of what was to become Britain's largest meteorite. "When it first entered the atmosphere it would have been something like the size of a desk...
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Luotolax meteorite
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The Luotolax (Howardite) meteorite fell in Kymi, Finland, on the 13th December, 1813. A total mass of 885 g was recovered. 61° 12'N, 27° 42'E
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Claxton Meteorite
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The world's most valuable mailbox "At approximately [5:30 in the afternoon] on Monday, December 10, 1984, the skies were partly cloudy over southeast Georgia, U.S.A. and it was preparing to rain. In the late twilight sky, Vietnam veteran, Don Richardson, had just stepped out of his mobile ho...
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Khatryka Impact site
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Once Upon a Time in Kamchatka: The Search for Natural Quasicrystals Over the course of the last year, through a remarkable investigation to be described elsewhere, we have traced the history to show that our sample was, in fact, originally attached to the holotype material; the rock was discovered...
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Muonionalusta
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Muonionalusta, Rare Arctic Meteorite Iron-fine octahedrite Lapland, Sweden Muonionalusta impacted the Earth over 800,000 years ago. Muonionalusta is located north of the artic circle in the northern part of Sweden and the first meteorite was found in 1906. The meteorite that is an iron has been...
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Grossliebenthal meteorite
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An interesting report upon a meteorite which fell at Grossliebenthall, near Odessa, in November, 1881, has just been furnished to the French Academy of Sciences by M. Daubree. About 7 o'clock one morning a bright and serpentine tail of fire was seen passing over the town by the inhabitants of Odessa...
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Ensisheim meteorite
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On the 7th November, 1492, a 127-kg stone meteorite crashed to Earth around noon in a wheat field near Ensisheim, Alsace. The Ensisheim Meteorite is the oldest meteorite with a known impact date. The meteorite was fixed to the wall with iron crampons to prevent it from wandering at night or departi...
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Sihote-Alinn 1610 meteorite
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Russian Police have detained a man who stole a 40 kg meteorite worth $50,000 from the Moscow Planetarium.
He was trying to sell it on the street.
The Sihote-Alinn 1610 meteorite that disappeared...
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Gibeon meteorite
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Gibeon is a meteorite fallen in prehistoric times in Namibia. It was named after the nearest town: Gibeon (Namibia). Read more Iron Meteorite Gibeon -- with patina crust and Thumbprint Click to Play | View Details [url=htt...
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Ouarkziz impact structure
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Ouarkziz impact structure Algeria Diameter: 3.5 km Age: 70.00 million years Expand (77kb, 800 x 600) Latitude 29° 0'42.29"N, Longitude 7°33'5.99"W Ouarkziz is a meteorite impact crater in Al...
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Beddgelert meteorite
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Sixty years ago a meteorite fell on a Snowdonia village, smashing a hole in a hotel roof. Now the Beddgelert incident is being remembered in a series of events involving scientists, the public and schools. Beddgelert Village Hall will be open on 19 September for people to find out more. [url=http://...
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Campo del Cielo meteorite
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The interactive sculpture - shaped like an asteroid - is meant to take the sting out of procedures that, no matter how life-saving, are as scary to the young ones enduring them as a deep black hole in the big dark sky. "It's a bit of whimsy for them. It's a bit of distraction from the frightening busi...
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Stoer Group
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Title: A Precambrian proximal ejecta blanket from Scotland Authors: Kenneth Amor, Stephen P. Hesselbo, Don Porcelli, Scott Thackrey, and John Parnell Ejecta blankets around impact craters are rarely preserved on Earth. Although impact craters are ubiquitous on solid bodies throughout the so...
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Desert Fireball Network Project
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The Western Australian Museum today revealed a new golf ball-sized meteorite that was tracked falling onto the Nullarbor Plain by a network of cameras. PerthNow reports the meteorite was tracked as it fell to Earth in July 2007 landing in a remote area in South Australia. [url=http://www.news.co...
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Juvinas meteorite
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The Juvinas (Eucrite Achondrite) meteorite fell near the village of Libonnes in Rhone-Alpes, France, at 3:00 pm, June 15, 1821. The meteorite is believed to have originated from the surface of asteroid (4) Vesta. The Paris Natural History Museum has on display nearly half of the recovered mass. Re...
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