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Baxter meteorite
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In the 18th January, 1916, a 611 gram ordinary chondrite (L6) meteorite fell through the roof of a house. near the village of Baxter in Stone County, Missouri. Latitude: 36° 45'N, Longitude: 93° 30'W
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Bjurböle meteorite fall
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Bjurböle is the biggest meteorite fall or found in Finland so far. This meteorite was broken in many pieces when it hits the sea ice of gulf of Finland on the 12 March 1899.
328 kg of material were recovered from 8 meter...
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Martian Meteorites QUE 94201
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Meteorite: QUE 94201 Location: Queen Alexandra Range, Antarctica Found: December 16, 1994 Type: Shergottite (SNC) Oxidation is scattered throughout the interior. Thick evaporite minerals are concentrated as small blebs. Read more
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In the true spirit of the British bureaucrat, scientists at a top secret atomic energy research centre were ordered to calculate the precise chances of being killed by a meteorite while out for a stroll.
In 1980, while debates on nuclear safety raged as fiercely as they do today, Whitehall did no...
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Andhara meteorite
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The Andhara stony meteorite fell in Bihar district, India on the 2nd December, 1880. Read more
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Ivuna meteorite
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Meteorite may reveal solar system's birth The little meteorite, known as Ivuna, has been transferred to the museum from a private collection in the US. It fell in Tanzania in 1938. [url=http://www.tel...
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Lockne crater
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Ancient Earth hammered by double space impact Researchers have outlined some of the best evidence yet for a double space impact, where an asteroid and its moon apparently struck Earth in tandem. Using tiny, plankton-like fossils, they established that neighbouring craters in Sweden were the sam...
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Hickman Crater
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Geologist Arthur Hickman has had a crater named after him. He discovered the meteorite crater, now named Hickman Crater, near to the town of Newman in the Hamersley Ranges, Western Australia, while he was using Google earth. Dr Hickman notified his colleague Dr Andrew Glickson at the Australian Na...
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Burckle Crater
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Burckle Crater is an undersea 5,000 years old crater likely to have been formed by a very large scale comet or meteorite impact event. It is located to the east of Madagascar and west of Western Australia in the southern Indian ocean. Its position was determined in 2006 by the Holocene Impact Working G...
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Carbonaceous Chondrite
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Organic compounds in carbonaceous chondrites contain microscopic regions with surprising enrichments in the ratios of deuterium (D) to hydrogen (H) and nitrogen-15 (15N) to nitrogen-14 (14N). Henner Busemann and his colleagues Andrea Young, Conel Alexander, Sujoy Mukhopadhyay, and Larry N...
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Bovedy meteorite
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Is it a bird?, is it a plane?, no it's a meteorite! That was the stark conclusion drawn by Ulster folk who witnessed an extraordinary happening over the skies of Northern Ireland 40 years ago today. On 25 April 1969 the sky literally fell in on the Province and only a select few caught a glimpse of the out-...
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East Warburton Basin
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South Australia asteroid strike you missed - by 300m years Evidence of a massive asteroid strike about 300 million years ago - the third-biggest ever found on Earth - has been discovered in South Australia. Research from the Australian National University says the East Warburton Basin in northeas...
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Alamo Impact Crater
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Alamo Impact Crater: New Study Could Double Its Size Carbonate rock deposits found within the mountain ranges of south-central Nevada, USA, record evidence of a catastrophic impact event known as the Alamo impact. This event occurred roughly 382 million years ago when the ancient seafloor was st...
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Grove Mountains (GRV) 99027
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Grove Mountains (GRV) 99027 Martian meteorite was discovered on the 8th February, 2000, in the Grove Mountains, Antarctic. Latitude: 73006'01" S, Longitude: 75014'13" E Read more
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Cape York meteorite
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The Cape York meteorite, which collided with Earth nearly 10,000 years ago, is named for Cape York, the location of its discovery in Greenland, and is one of the largest iron meteorites in the world. The iron masses were known to Inuit as Ahnighito (the Tent), weighing 31 metric tons; the Woman, weigh...
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