|
|
Chondrules
(Preview)
A University of Toronto scientist has found unexpectedly `young` material in meteorites - a discovery that breaks open current theory on the earliest events...
|
Blobrana
|
5
|
|
|
|
|
|
Los Angeles Meteorite
(Preview)
The Los Angeles Meteorite Location: Los Angeles County, California (original find location unknown) Found: October 30, 1999 (Recognised) Type: Shergottite (SNC) Martian basalt Two stones, weighing 452.6 g and 245.4 g respectively, were found by Bob Verish in his back yard while he was cleaning...
|
Blobrana
|
1
|
|
|
|
|
|
Zimbabwe Meteorite
(Preview)
Villagers in Dotito, Mount Darwin, Zimbabwe, were left dumbfounded last week and are living in fear after they discovered a black stone, which is believed to have fallen from the outer space.
The meteorite was 21cm long and 13cm wide, weighing about 4,1kg.
It has since been taken to Forensi...
|
Blobrana
|
2
|
|
|
|
|
|
Royal Ontario Museum
(Preview)
When you walk into the rocks and minerals section of the ROM, you probably wouldn't look twice at the dull grey, brown and black rocks on display on the far left wall - there are just so many beautiful, colourful rocks to see. But don't be fooled by their bland appearance; these rocks are probably some of...
|
Blobrana
|
1
|
|
|
|
|
|
Yamal crater
(Preview)
A Huge New Crater Is Found In Siberia The area of Russia is said to be called, ominously enough, the end of the world. And that's where researchers are headed this week, to investigate a large crater whose appearance reportedly caught scientists by surprise. The crater is estimated at 262 feet wide an...
|
Blobrana
|
1
|
|
|
|
|
|
Panspermia
(Preview)
Title: Dynamics of escaping Earth ejecta and their collision probability with different Solar System bodies Authors: M. Reyes-Ruiz, C.E. Chavez, M.S. Hernandez, R. Vazquez, H. Aceves, P.G. Nuńez It has been suggested that the ejection to interplanetary space of terrestrial crustal material,...
|
Blobrana
|
5
|
|
|
|
|
|
Walt Whitman meteor mystery
(Preview)
Texas State astronomers say they've solved Walt Whitman meteor mystery Walt Whitman, known as a keen observer of the sky, included significant references to contemporary as well as cosmic events in his poem "Year of Meteors. (1859-60.)" published in Leaves of Grass. A "great com...
|
Blobrana
|
2
|
|
|
|
|
|
Beta Taurids
(Preview)
The Beta Taurids are an annual meteor shower belonging to a class of "daytime showers" that peak after sunrise. Read more
|
Blobrana
|
8
|
|
|
|
|
|
Vredefort-Witwįtersrand Structure
(
1 2
)
(Preview)
One hundred kilometers south west of Johannesburg, South Africa are the towns of Vredefort and Parys, the latter lying next to the Vaal river. The towns are a short deviation from the N1 highway to Cape Town. In an arc to the north and west of the towns is a partial ring of hills, some 70 kilometres in diam...
|
Blobrana
|
15
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mighei meteorite
(Preview)
The Mighei (stone; CM2, carbonaceous chondrite) meteorite fell in Mykolaļv Province, Ukraine, on the 18th June, 1889. Recovered weight: 8 kg Location: 48° 4' N, 30° 58' E The Mighei meteorite is generally considered to be unique amongst the group of stony meteorites known as the carbona...
|
Blobrana
|
2
|
|
|
|
|
|
Portales Valley meteorite
(Preview)
Soon after the Portales Valley meteorite fell in 1998, it was classified as one of the most common types of meteorites, an H6 ordinary chondrite. Although researchers quickly recognized that Portales Valley is not a typical H6 chondrite, there was little agreement about how the meteorite formed....
|
Blobrana
|
2
|
|
|
|
|
|
Ban Rong Du meteorite
(Preview)
Although Thailand has not exactly been in the forefront of space exploration, a rogue [16.7 kg Ungrouped iron] meteorite did hit the Kingdom in [June 13] 1993. It landed on a plot of land owned by an old lady [Mrs. Kumla Ragkon] in Lom Sak district of Phetchabun. She presumed it to be some sort of religio...
|
Blobrana
|
1
|
|
|
|
|
|
Jonzac meteorite
(Preview)
Jonzac meteorite, (stone; eucrite achondrite). Jonzac is a monomict eucrite which fell in the Poitou-Charentes region of France in 1819. Only 5,000g was recovered. Present in NHM collection.
|
Blobrana
|
1
|
|
|
|
|
|
Ellerslie meteorite
(Preview)
In 2004 on June 12th a 1.3 kg chondrite type meteorite struck the house of Phil and Brenda Archer in Ellerslie, New Zealand, causing serious damage but no injuries. The Meteorite is 4,600 million year old and from the Asteroid Belt (which is a ring of space debris between the planets Mars and Jupiter)....
|
Blobrana
|
2
|
|
|
|
|
|
Meteors
(
1 2 3 4
)
(Preview)
Subaru Astronomers Measure Meteoroid Tunnels in Earths Atmosphere When meteoroids flash through the Earths atmosphere, they bore tunnels through the air, leaving behind narrow meteor tracks that are heated by the collision of the fast-moving incoming object with atoms of highly diluted atmos...
|
Blobrana
|
33
|
|
|
