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Montevideo Meteorite
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Meteorite or just a big rock? The giant rock in question is located north of Montevideo, out on Town Road/70th Avenue, past the Chippewa River, on the west side. The rock is massive. One letter written by Walter Falkenhagen, quoted in the Montevideo News in 1934, puts the rock at about 400 tons. A more r...
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Northwest African Meteorite
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Meteorite fetches $50 at local auction[url=http://standardspeaker.com/news/meteorite-fetches-50-at-local-auc...
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Sterley pallasite
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A single mass weighing 1724.8 grams, and displaying regmaglypts and some remnant fusion crust, was found ~1950 by a farmer while plowing. Several months later, the finder took the specimen to Texas Tech University where it was classified by a mineralogist Mr. Dennis as a "stony iron sideroli...
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Enon meteorite
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Enon meteorite a promising oddball The late Ulysses Drummond, who for 60 years held on to the 1.65-pound stone the Smithsonian Institution stores as the Enon meteorite, was his fathers 16th child and his mothers 11th. Although this circumstance is easily explained by his parents previous marriag...
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Egremont rock
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Did dog Rocky find meteor fragment? Has a piece of the Russian meteor been found in Egremont? A family is asking readers of The Whitehaven News to help solve the mystery. Read more
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Micrometeoroids
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Title: Simulations of micrometeoroid interactions with the Earth atmosphere Authors: G. Briani, E. Pace (Univ. di Firenze), S. N. Shore (Univ. di Pisa, INFN-Pisa), G. Pupillo (INAF - Istituto di Radioastronomia), A. Passaro (Alta S. p. A.), S. Aiello (Univ. di Firenze) Micrometeoroids (cosmic...
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Aladeniya rock
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Fallen meteorite draws thousands A stone particle resembling a meteorite which had fallen into a quarry at Aladeniya, Kandy, near the seventh mile-post last morning drew a curious crowd. Read more
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Battaramulla meteorite
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Meteorite fragments at Battaramulla? Several fragments suspected to be from a meteorite have fallen into a home garden near parliament at Battaramulla this morning, an official said. Prof. Chandana Jayaratne of the Colombo University, who visited the site, told Daily Mirror online that these o...
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Hong Kong Crater
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Title: Hong Kong is an impact crater: Proof from the geomorphological and geological evidence Authors: Chan, Chu-Lok; Wu, Siben; Luo, Xiuquan Hong Kong is a city in southern China. The urban districts of Hong Kong, Kowloon, and Victoria Harbour are situated within Hong Kong. Hong Kong is surround...
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Oman meteorites
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Oman contributed 16% of world's meteorite finds in 2011 The discovery of several meteorites, including a host of Martian and lunar rocks, in the deserts of Oman in the recent past has lent international recognition to the sultanate as a promising destination for scientific study. [url=http://ww...
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Old Woman Meteorite
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Visit the famed Old Woman Meteorite It's a dark brown colour and there is a part of it polished as some was removed for scientific analysis and also for permanent display at The Smithsonian. No one seems to know exactly when this impressive object decided to fall from the skies, but the formation is lik...
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Raniya object
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'Meteor' found by Saudi man near his house A Saudi man has found a solid object that he believes to be a meteor that fell near his house and broke into several pieces. Mashari Al Subai said the objects fall had created a small pit in the ground behind his house in the western Saudi town of Raniya before it fr...
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