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Dhofar 025
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A team of scientists from St. Petersburg State University and some other research institutions have managed to determine the characteristics of the lunar soil from the dark side of the Moon.
A small piece of lunar soil, weighing 751 grams and designated as Dhofar 025 was found in a desert o...
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Hegewisch Icefall
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Steve McGreevy was sitting at home in Hegewisch, in the 13200 block of South Exchange Avenue, Chicago, US , on Sunday when an ice block fell through his ceiling.
"All of the sudden, I felt all of this stuff falling on me. Then, after I freaked out for a minute, I got up and there was this big cube som...
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2006DQ14 (K06D14Q)
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A small 10 - 23 metre asteroid 2006 DQ14 (K06D14Q) passed 1.2 million miles (about 5.2 Lunar distances) from the Earth during 21-22 February 22nd 2006.
2006 DQ14 follows an orbit around the sun that is very similar to Earth's. This has lead to the speculation that it is a discarded Ap...
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Maine Boom
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A mysterious boom shook buildings in in Anson, Madison, Skowhegan and Norridgewock in the county of Maine, US, on Thursday morning, according to reports of at least a dozen residents.
Shortly before 10 a.m., the Somerset County Communications Centre was inundated with calls from people who s...
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Calgary Fireball
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Residents in Calgary, Canada, awoke to a fire in the sky early Wednesday morning.
Alan Hildebrand, co-ordinator of the Canadian Fireball Reporting Centre, said 20 people reported seeing a fireball, an exceptionally bright meteor, streak across the sky just before 7 a.m., lasting for severa...
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Tenerife fireball
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Dozens of people throughout Tenerife jammed the 112 emergency hotline on the night of January 10, all claiming to have witnessed something strange in the sky: a ball of fire flying through the sky in the direction of Gran Canaria trailing a green light.
One man who contacted the local media told h...
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Katnabil Ice-fall
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A huge chunk of ice that apparently fell from the sky in a West Bengal village caused a flutter in the area even as weather experts dismissed such phenomenon as absurd.
The incident occurred Friday evening, January 27th , in Katnabil village in Burdwan district , about 100 km from Calcutta
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Spalding UK Sonicboom
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Mystery still surrounds a bang that shook Spalding and the surrounding area.
The noise was heard at 2.19pm on Wednesday, January 17, 2006, causing buildings to shake and the ground to vibrate.
But Lincolnshire Police, Lincolnshire Ambulance Service and Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue receive...
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Asteroid 2006BA
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Asteroid 2006 BA was discovered two days ago by Richard Kowalski.
At closest approach the 8-meter rock will pass about 0.0034 AU from the Earth.
Currently it is at 18th magnitude, and moving fast across the sky.
Date UT R.A. (J2000) Decl. Delta r El. Ph. V
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Veritas
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Researchers have found cosmic dust in ocean sediments that indicate the Earth was enveloped in the debris of an asteroidal collision 8.27 million years ago.
The break-up of a large asteroid caused the biggest cosmic dust storm in the last 80 million years and left a blanket of material on the Ear...
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Idaho Meteor
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A very bright meteor lit up the skies of Boise, Idaho, and streaked across the horizon.
The local TV News Channel had numerous calls from people who saw it.
Police dispatch also took several calls, and even one person in the Boise Airport tower saw it.
And though the eyewitness accounts vary sli...
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Aberdeen Sonic Boom
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A Mystery noise, suspected to have been a sonic boom, sent shock waves through communities along a stretch of Aberdeenshire, Scotland, coastline on the 6th January, 2006.
The sound, described as a loud, two-part bang above ground level, shook windows and tiles and prompted several calls to th...
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Mantokoski Crater
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A large impact crater has been found in the Mantokoski river in Utsjoki, northern Finland, approximately one kilometre from the closest settled area.
It is estimated that the impact occurred before Christmas.
The crater has an estimated diameter of 300 meters. Samples are being sent to the Un...
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Whitby Boom
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Mystery still surrounds the huge bang that rattled windows across Whitby and the Esk Valley on Monday afternoon.
The boom could be heard from Whitby to Goathland and Glaisdale at around 3.05pm.
"There was a loud bang coupled with a shaking of the house. It rattled all the doors and the windo...
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Tokyo IceFall
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A disc-shaped piece of ice of unknown origin fell from the sky onto a golf course near Tokyo, Saitama prefecture , narrowly missing four players on the fairway.
The players at the Heisei Club golf course, just outside Tokyo, heard a loud thud on Wednesday and found a disc-shaped hunk of ice about 5...
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