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Ridgecrest Meteorite
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Title: Further Remarks on the Ridgecrest, California, Aerolite (CN-1176,356) Authors: Leonard, F. C. The interesting little 9.6 gram aerolite found by Lee E. Humiston on May 24, 1958, about 5 miles east of Ridgecrest county, California and described by him in the preceding paper, constitutes th...
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Dashoguz
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The Dashoguz (H5) meteorite fell in Tashauz, Turkmenistan, on the 5th September, 1998. A total mass of 7 kg was recovered. 41° 59' 4"N, 59° 41' 6"E A meteor trail was witnessed near the city of Dashoguz, Turkmenistan. After a search of several weeks, a very small crater (depression) with ~...
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Meteorite impact
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Signs of large meteorite impact 4.1 billion years ago More than 4.1 billion years the Earth may collide with a huge meteorite. This conclusion mineralogist at the University of Bonn, together with British and Danish colleagues in a recent study. The researchers analysed ancient rock samples from...
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Winnipeg rock
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Winnipeg teen finds possible meteorite in school yard An astronomy expert is set to examine an unusual-looking rock - a possible meteorite - that a Winnipeg teenager found this summer. Isabella Silva, a 13-year-old collector of fossils and rocks, discovered the heavy, dark rock jutting out of the...
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Kavarpura meteorite
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The Kavarpura (Iron, IIE-an) meteorite was recovered in Rajasthan, India, on 29 August 2006. A total mass of 6.8 kg was recovered. 25°8'36"N 75°48'48"E
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Wingfield Mesa meteorite
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Prehistoric Meteorite 'Shrines' in Arizona May Be Linked, Says Archaeo-Astronomer Two twelfth-century settlements a hundred kilometres apart in Arizona were apparently built by discrete cultures, but they have at least one trait in common: In each complex is a hidden, hollow compartment that...
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Dandenong meteorite
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The Brisbane Courier 25 August 1880 A Monster Aerolite A road party at work on the Dandenong road about twenty miles from Melbourne were about mid-day startled by a loud rushing noise, and looking in the direction of the sound they saw what appeared to be a large ball of fire falling to the earth with gre...
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Arlington meteorite
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The Arlington (Iron, IIE-an) meteorite fell on Minnesota, USA, on the 9 April, 1894. A total weight of 8.94 kg was recovered. Latitude: 44° 36'N, Longitude: 94° 6'W
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Franklin County Rock
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Man finds possible meteorite on hunting trip Leslie Davis was looking for deer when he started out on a hunting trip last November, but what he found was a little out of this world - he thinks. Davis was walking while deer hunting in Kirby in Franklin County when he saw smoke coming from a large hole in the...
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Gerzeh bead
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Iron in Egyptian relics came from space The 5,000-year-old iron bead might not look like much, but it hides a spectacular past: researchers have found that the ancient Egyptian trinket is made from a meteorite. The result, published on 20 May in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science1, ex...
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Patomskiy crater
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Patom crater (Patomskiy crater), is a crater at 59.28449°N 116.58954°E made of shattered calcareous blocks on a slope of Patomskiy upland. The crater site is located in the north of the Irkutsk region of southeastern Siberia, 360 km from the district center Bodaibo. It was discovered in 1949 by a ge...
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Makarewa meteorite
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The Makarewa (L6) meteorite was recovered in Southland, New Zealand, in 1879. A total mass of 2.3 kg was recovered. 46° 19'S, 168° 24'E In 1879 the second stone was unearthed, this time at Makarewa, near Invercargill, in the South Island. Professor Ulrich, F.G.S., writing on the find, says, "T...
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Wairarapa Valley meteorite
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The Wairarapa Valley (H6) meteorite fell in Wellington, New Zealand, in 1863. A total mass of 6 kg was recovered. 41° 19'S, 175° 8'E It was not till 1864 that the first specimen was discovered, by Mr. Richard Collins, at Tohirua, near Masterton, in the Wairarapa Valley, North Island. [url=http://rs...
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Maigatari-Danduma meteorite
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The Maigatari-Danduma (H5/6) meteorite fell in Zinder, Niger, on the 1st August, 2004. A total mass of 4.63 kg was recovered. 12° 50'N, 9° 23'E A meteorite broke into pieces and fell across the Niger-Nigeria border. One stone fell at the border town, Rigar Jobi in Maigatari Local Government Council...
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Thuathe meteorite
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The Thuathe (H4/5) meteorite fell in Berea, Lesotho, on the 21st July, 2002. A total mass of 45.3 kg was recovered. 29° 20'S, 27° 35'E A meteorite travelling east to west exploded over Lesotho producing an elliptical strewn field extending 7.4 by 1.9 km (bearing: ~276°) on the westernmost lobe of the...
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