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Mundrabilla meteorite
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Western Australia is prime meteorite collecting country because its barren expanse makes fallen space debris easy to spot. The Mundrabilla meteorite (named for the town in Western Australia where it was located in 1966) is one of the largest known iron-composition space stones in existence, and...
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Cyrillid Meteor Shower
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This shower was an unusual one-time event that occurred on the 9th February, 1913. The event was unusual because the meteors did not radiate from a single point in the sky; which meant their orbital path was probably around the Earth, rather than the Sun. Because of a lack of a radiant the shower is name...
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Allende meteorite
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The Allende meteorite is the largest carbonaceous chondrite ever found on Earth. The fireball was witnessed at 1:05 a.m. on February 8, 1969, falling over the Mexican state of Chihuahua. Read more
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Yesilkent Meteorite
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Police were inundated with calls from scores of people from Didim to Bodrum after they heard a big bang and a flash of light across the skies. Despite officers being unable to explain the flashing green, yellow and red lights, Voices has solved the phenomena. It was not a UFO but a meteorite which crash...
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Tagish Lake meteorite
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Tagish Lake Meteorite Click to Play | View Details The ultimate deep-space time capsule, this small black rock plummeted from space carrying organic material dating back 4.5 billion years. Much of the meteorite remains frozen in the Royal Ontario Museums vaults for research, but a sizable piece i...
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Lorton meteorite
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Meteorite hits Lorton doctor's office Much later, after the hole in the roof had been fixed and the debris cleaned up, after the cause of the damage finally had become clear, Frank Ciampi wondered: What are the odds? He is a doctor. He has worked for 18 years in the two-story building in Lorton that hous...
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Trolig meteor
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Trolig meteor lös upp himlen Roger Svensson hade precis riktat en övervakningskamera, som han höll på att testa, ut genom fönstret när himlen lös upp. Först trodde han att det var frågan om ett fyrverkeri. Sedan förstod han att det var något mycket kraftigare. Film: 17 januari 2009 [url=http://syd...
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La Criolla Meteorite
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At 18:15, on the 6th January, a large meteor broke up over La Criolla, Entre Rios province Argentina. Meteorites were found over a 7 x 10 km scatterfield East of Estancion La Criolla, with one large piece hitting a farmhouse. Analysis revealed that the fall was of an ordinary L6 Olivine-hypersthene...
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Lost City Meteorite
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On January 3, 1970, 20:14 local time, three stations of the Prairie Network (Hominy and Woodward, Oklahoma, and Pleasanton, Kansas) photographed the track of a meteor after a several year search. The meteor was the first ever photographed in the United States. Analysis of the photographs indicat...
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Molina de Segura meteorite
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Se cumplen 150 años del impacto del mayor meteorito caído en España En la madrugada de la Nochebuena de 1858 "las personas que estaban en las calles, en los caminos y en los campos vieron aparecer un magnífico globo de fuego de una brillantez extraordinaria y deslumbradora, que ostentando los c...
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Australites
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Where is the Crater that formed the Australian tektites?
No crater has been found...
Australites (and Indochinites which are indistinguishable from each other) have been dated to about 710,000 years using fission track and potassium-argon (K-Ar) dating methods; However the stratigraphi...
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Vissannapeta meteorite
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The Vissannapeta (Eucrite) meteorite fell in Andhra Pradesh, India, on the 13th December, 1997. A total mass of 1304 g was recovered. 16° 50'N, 80° 45'E
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Mässing meteorite
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The Mässing (Howardite) meteorite fell in Bayern, Germany, on the 13th December, 1803. A total mass of 1600 g was recovered. 48° 8'N, 12° 37'E
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Sylacauga meteorite
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Sylacauga residents old enough to remember a famous meteorite strike there 52 years ago may understand why Decatur-area residents were so curious about a lime-green object streaking across the ni...
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St-Robert meteorite
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The entry of a ~2 tonne meteoroid into the earth's atmosphere produced a daylight fireball visible from Quebec, Ontario, New Hampshire, Vermont and New York. The terminal point of the fireball was located 50 km northeast of Montreal, Quebec at an altitude of ~36 km. Read more Fall date June 14, 1...
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