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South Australia Meteorite
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So was it a meteorite or space junk falling to earth? No one knows. But at 1.30pm in the afternoon of July 19, many people across the Mid North of South Australia - from Wirrabara Forest to Quorn and Hawker saw a large object moving across the sky.
One witness, John Teague was at Hawker in the Flinders Ra...
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Caister meteorite?
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It came from outer space - and nearly hit three Caister teenagers.
Friends Christian Baker, Liam Luxton and Jason Hewitt, all 14, were on Caister beach at about 6.30pm on Monday when they saw a rock falling from the sky.
"It fell quite close to us and it was going at a high speed. When we picke...
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Ust-Yurt Crater
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Uzbek geologists have found a large meteorite crater located in the unpopulated Ust-Yurt deserted plateau, located in the north-western part of Uzbekistan.
State Committee for Geology and Mineral Resources of Uzbekistan said the collision was so powerful it created an 7 km wide by 10 km long...
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Reisadalen Impact
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Northern Norway was hit with an impact comparable to the atomic bomb used on Hiroshima.
At around 2:05 a.m. on Wednesday, residents of the northern part of Troms and the western areas of Finnmark could clearly see a ball of fire taking several seconds to travel across the sky.
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Jæren Impact
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A meteorite weighing around two kilos landed right in the yard outside Bjørn Herigstad's home in coastal Jæren, western Norway, over the weekend. It's the second meteorite-landing in Norway in a month, and experts are calling the incident sensational.
Bjørn Herigstad says he found the meteo...
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Kercher Lake Crater
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Thunder Sword Resources Inc. is pleased to report that early analyses of the Megatem airborne data suggests that the Kercher Lake Block of claims provides interesting features.
"This area displays some oddly interesting features. The digital terrain elevation values derived from the G...
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Douglasdale Megacryometeors
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An ice ball that landed on a pavement in Douglasdale, South Africa, last week, might be one of the first "megacryometeors" recorded in Africa.
Professor Jesus Martinez-Frias of the Centro de Astrobiologica in Madrid said that despite sharing many chemical characteristics with hail, ice bal...
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Umm al Binni Crater
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This is perhaps the site of a devastating meteor impact in the Middle East.
The catastrophic effect from which could explain the mystery of why so many early cultures went into sudden decline around 2300 BC.
Today's crater lies on what would have been shallow sea 4,000 years ago, and any impact wo...
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Minnesota fireball
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Wendy Zeka was travelling near the Orr Transfer Station, Minnesota, US, at 11:35 p.m. Friday when she saw a green object as large as the moon sailing across the treetops parallel to her car.
Zeka said the object emitted a tail of sparks before "disintegrating."
Zeka doesn't know what the obj...
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German Fireball
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On the evening of the 11th June a fireball, "Feuerkugel", was seen over northern Germany.
It seems to have landed in the Sachsen-Anhalt region.
"Wir sind sicher, daß es sich um einen Meteoriten handelte" - Torsten Poppe vom Institut für Geophysik und Extraterrestrische Physik der T...
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Ohio Fireball
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Residents of the Tuscarawas Valley who heard a deafening boom about 12:40 a.m. Monday and stepped outside likely saw what one person described as “a marvellous fireball with red streaks in the sky.”
Bob Reed, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Pittsburgh, said it pro...
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Zawadzkiej missile
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Niezidentyfikowany Obiekt „Spadający”
On Saturday morning, something fell out of the sky and crashed through a parked car in the town of Zawadzkiej, Poland.
The sound of impact was heard throughout the town.
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Swedish Fireball
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Ett brinnande klot sågs igår kväll på himlen ovanför Småland- och Blekingetrakten. "Det såg ut som en nyårsraket som sköts ner mot jorden istället för upp", beskriver ett vittne fenomenet, som syntes tydligt i flera sekunder. Det kan röra sig om en meteorit som slagit ner någonstans i området.[...
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Gdansk fireball?
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Hum,
i got a strange email with this:
"13 june 2006 at 17:15 UTC defragmented splitt to two fireballs fragments was seen over north Poland over the city Gdansk and Gdynia . fireball came from north direction and was seen in the sky wery bright light of this two fragments for about 3 sekundes an...
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New Lunar Crater
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There's a new crater on the Moon. It's about 14 meters wide, 3 meters deep and precisely one month, eleven days old.
NASA astronomers watched it form:
"On May 2, 2006, a meteoroid hit the Moon's Sea of Clouds (Mare Nubium) with 17 billion joules of kinetic energy—that's about the same as 4 ton...
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