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Peru's Andina News Agency reported today that Puno's Regional Health Directorate sent a group of specialists to the Carancas community in the province of Chucuito near Bolivia to take samples of a meteorite that supposedly landed in the area. Jorge López Tejada, a representative for the institut...
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Bangalore meteorites
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The Friday morning tremors experienced by south Bangaloreans has been attributed to a meteorite shower in Hosur taluk, according to preliminary investigations conducted by a combined team of Geological Survey of India (GSI) and Forensic Science Laboratory, Chennai. The meteorites slammed in...
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Record Breaking Balloon Flight, 1862
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One of the greatest feats of Victorian exploration took place on 5th September, 1862 at Stafford Road Gasworks in Wolverhampton. It consisted of a balloon flight that greatly increased our knowledge of the atmosphere, and helped to lead the way to modern weather forecasting. There were other ball...
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Antarctic Meteor
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A thousand-ton meteor exploded in the atmosphere a year ago, releasing the power of a nuclear bomb and leaving behind an unusual dusty trail that has raised questions about the ways extraterrestrial material finds its way to Earth's surface and the geological record.
The meteor exploded over An...
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Yorkshire Pallasite
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A Milton of Balgonie man has turned up another rare meteorite.
Rob Elliot found the space rock - the first of its kind ever discovered in Britain - in the Yorkshire Dales last August.
The 40lb rock is a pallasite, a metallic meteorite which is packed with semi-precious gemstones.
It's the lates...
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Archie meteorite
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On August 10th, 1932 a 5.1kg H-chondrite-type meteorite fell near Archie in Cass County, Missouri that received national attention. A fragment is on display in the Smithsonian' s National Museum of Natural History in Washington DC. Read more
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Araguainha crater
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Title: Geoelectric evidence for centripetal resurge of impact melt and breccias over central uplift of Araguainha impact structure Authors: C.H. Tong et al., Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Birkbeck, Univ. of London, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HX, UK. Tong et al. present new geophysical...
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Little Rann Bolide
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A bolide was seen between Halwad and Naliya in Jamnagar and Bhuj, Gujarat, India at 9:30pm on July 31, 2006.
Sonic booms, and a meteorite fall were reported in the Little Rann of Kutch.
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Haughton impact crater
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The 23 kilometres in diameter Haughton impact crater is located on Devon Island, Nunavut in far northern Canada. It formed about 39 million years ago (late Eocene). The impacting object is estimated to have been approximately two kilometres in diameter. [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ha...
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Nakhlites
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A new chemical study of Martian meteorites implies that the planet has always been cold and was rarely above freezing.
The researchers have been able to determine the maximum temperature the rock experienced; and they find no evidence that it was ever warm. The meteorites are a record of surfac...
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Bunburra Rockhole meteorite
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But the basaltic Bunburra Rockhole meteorite, named by convention for a feature near where it was found in Australia's Nullarbor Desert, appears to have sprung from a different parent body in the inner asteroid belt. Neither its orbital path nor its chemical signature, as measured by the relative...
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Fort St. John meteorite
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An unusual rock that fell out of the sky, through a shed and into a tractor earlier this month appears to be a meteorite, says a director with the Geological Survey of Canada.
After viewing photographs taken of the stone, Alan Galley said the rock has the characteristics of a "stony meteorite" creat...
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Oslo meteorite
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Astronomers were fending off scores of calls on Friday from Norwegians who reported hearing what experts are calling a meteor explosion over southeast Norway, somewhere over the Oslo Fjord area.
NORSAR, in Kjeller, has registered a signal from the explosion. Officials at NORSAR and at the Un...
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Cali Meteorite
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Según habitantes de la vivienda, el trozo de piedra traspasó una lámina de zinc del techo de la cocina. Miembros de asociaciones de astrónomos aseguran que éste corresponde a restos del meteoro que habría explotado en el centro del Valle. Un fragmento de lo que sería el meteoro o bólido que habría caí...
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Tennasilm meteorite
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The Tennasilm (L4 chondrite) meteorite fell in Tennasilm, Estonia, on the 28th June, 1872. A total mass of 28.5 kg was recovered. 58° 2'N, 26° 57'E
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