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Silverpit structure
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Silverpit structure What is thought to be the UK's only space impact crater has been mapped in detail in 3D for the first time. The so-called Silverpit structure lies several hundred metres under the floor of the North Sea, about 130km east of the Yorkshire coast. The new pictures show a spectacular s...
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OC2
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A speck of crystal that fell to Earth in a meteorite has been traced back to a red-giant star. It's not the same as having a sample return mission to, say, Aldebaran, but it's still pretty awesome: mounted on a gold pedestal in a laboratory in the Carnegie Institute of Washington and then bombarded by io...
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Periodic Comets
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Researchers have found that comets show a periodic change in brightness linked with the rotation of the sun.
Using 600 observations of brightness outbursts of comets between 1927-2004, a mean period of brightness outburst activity of comets was determined.
The value of this period is T = 6.8d...
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Kitkiojarvi meteorite
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A massive meteorite weighing a staggering 2,607 pounds has been found near the northern Swedish village of Kitkiojarvi, officials say. Thomas Osterberg, one of the two people who found it, said it was the biggest meteorite ever found in Sweden, the Swedish news agency TT reported. [url=http://ww...
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Winsford meteorite
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A Winsford man had an unwelcome visitor on Sunday night in the form of a small meteorite. Graham Brooks, 37, a heavy goods vehicle fitter, lives at his mother Christines house at Railway Cottages in Rilshaw Lane. He was sitting at home looking at wedding magazines with his partner Karen at around 10.3...
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New Mexico Impact Crater
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Expand (186kb, 800 x 600) Impact crater in New Mexico Latitude 35°22'11.26"N, Longitude 106°51'58.63"W
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Brownleeite
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NASA researchers and scientists from the United States, Germany and Japan have found a new mineral in material that likely came from a comet. The mineral, a manganese silicide named Brownleeite, was discovered within an interplanetary dust particle, or IDP, that appears to have originated from c...
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Utah daytime fireball
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Milford Haven flashes
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Milford Haven coastguard operation room received numerous calls about lights, flares and flashes in the sky at around midnight on Saturday night. After research into the conditions they concluded that these had been caused by heavy meteorite activity in the night sky. [url=http://www.west...
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Xianghe meteorite
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An observed fall occurred on May 27, 2007, in Xianghe farm Heilongjiang province China See more
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Hoshiarpur Fireball
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A ball of fire came hurtling from the night skies and fell in a field adjacent to a petrol pump on the Hoshiarpur-Tanda road here, convincing owner Palwinder Singh that its a meteorite. Read more
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Paisley Fireball
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Fireball sighted from Paisley, Scotland Expand (13kb, 560 x 416) Credit ryandean Source (probably debris from the USA 193 satellite.)
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Space pistols
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Given pride of place in an unassuming museum on the East Coast of America is a pair of 200-year-old duelling pistols shrouded in mystery. The intricately decorated guns were said to have been forged from the iron of a fallen meteorite. "We can say for sure they weren't made from meteoritic iron....
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New Mexico fireball
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Significant fireball capture. Possibly over eastern New Mexico or northwest Texas. May 12, 2008 0805:55 UT Read more
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Arequipa Impact
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In one of the distant regions of Peru a fall in the unidentified luminous object occurred. It was reported by the leader of the geophysical university of the district of Arequipa. The earthquake with magnitude 3.5 in Richter's scale was registered on Monday in one of the regions of this district...
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