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						After blazing from outer space to land in West Linn thousands of years ago, the Willamette Meteorite still generates excitement today. Fields Bridge Park will soon house an interpretive trail, located almost exactly where t... |  |  |  |  | 
				|   | Peekskill Meteorite
					
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						The events surrounding the fall of the Peekskill meteorite on October 9th, 1992 are quite remarkable. Not only did the meteorite announce its arrival by hitting a parked car in suburban Peekskill, New York, but also the fireball that proceeded the fall of the meteorite was videotaped by at least 16 i...        |  |  |  |  | 
				|   | Arizona impact area
					
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						On Sunday October 16, 2005, Dennis Asher discovered a large Franconia impact area of about 800 square feet in Arizona. The meteorite hunter recovered 112 pieces with a weight of 18,272 grams. 
On Monday October 17, 2005, Jerry Baird recovered 452 pieces with a weight of 7, 265 grams and Buddy Ortego... |  |  |  |  | 
				|   | Antarctic Search for Meteorites
					
						
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						An astronaut, several geologists, and others are getting ready to troll for solar system rock samples. But they won't leave Earth to do it. Instead, they'll scan the ice fields of Antarctica for meteorites.
Explorers collected the first meteorite from Antarctica almost a century ago. But the fi... |  |  |  |  | 
				|   | Meteorite-asteroid link
					
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						For the last few years, astronomers have faced a puzzle: The vast majority of asteroids that come near the Earth are of a type that matches only a tiny fraction of the meteorites that most frequently hit our planet. Since meteorites are mostly pieces of asteroids, this discrepancy was hard to explain... |  |  |  |  | 
				|   | Sihote-Alinn 1610 meteorite
					
						
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						Russian Police have detained a man who stole a 40 kg meteorite worth $50,000 from the Moscow Planetarium. 
He was trying to sell it on the street.
The Sihote-Alinn 1610 meteorite that disappeared... |  |  |  |  | 
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						In the true spirit of the British bureaucrat, scientists at a top secret atomic energy research centre were ordered to calculate the precise chances of being killed by a meteorite while out for a stroll.
In 1980, while debates on nuclear safety raged as fiercely as they do today, Whitehall did no... |  |  |  |  | 
				|   | OC2
					
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						A speck of crystal that fell to Earth in a meteorite has been traced back to a red-giant star. It's not the same as having a sample return mission to, say, Aldebaran, but it's still pretty awesome: mounted on a gold pedestal in a laboratory in the Carnegie Institute of Washington and then bombarded by io... |  |  |  |  | 
				|   | Mbozi Meteorite
					
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						Title: Mbosi: an anomalous iron with unique silicate inclusions Authors: Olsen, Edward J.; Clayton, Robert N.; Mayeda, Toshiko K.; Davis, Andrew M.; Clarke, Roy S., Jr.; Wasson, John T.  The Mbosi iron meteorite contains millimetre size silicate inclusions. Mbosi is an ungrouped iron with a Ge/G...                                           |  |  |  |  | 
				|   | Campo del Cielo meteorite
					
						
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						The interactive sculpture - shaped like an asteroid - is meant to take the sting out of procedures that, no matter how life-saving, are as scary to the young ones enduring them as a deep black hole in the big dark sky.  "It's a bit of whimsy for them. It's a bit of distraction from the frightening busi...  |  |  |  |  | 
				|   | Gibeon meteorite
					
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						Gibeon is a meteorite fallen in prehistoric times in Namibia. It was named after the nearest town: Gibeon (Namibia).  Read more   Iron Meteorite Gibeon -- with patina crust and Thumbprint Click to Play | View Details   [url=htt...       |  |  |  |  | 
				|   | Holbrook Meteorites
					
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						On July 19, 1912, the quiet of Holbrook, Arizona was interrupted at approximately 6:30 p.m. to 6:40 p.m. local time, by a series of loud booming sounds followed by several explosions in rapid succession. The entire explosive event lasted for about one half to perhaps one minute. As a few Holbrook res...                                                                                             |  |  |  |  | 
				|   | Maine Meteorites
					
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						Though many meteorites probably have landed in Maine, only 5 have been found and authenticated and described in the scientific literature, and portions of each are preserved in museum collections. Four of these were actually observed falling from the sky, and were collected shortly thereafter.... |  |  |  |  | 
				|   | Northwest Africa 869
					
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						Nickel analysis of the meteorite NWA869    Click to Play | View Details   The Northwest Africa 869 (NWA 869) strewn field, was first found in 2000 near Tindouf in Algeria. The regolith breccia meteorites are classified as ordinary chondrites (L4-6). The chemistry of the NWA 869 meteorite shows that it c...                |  |  |  |  | 
				|   | Lake Murray meteorite
					
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						Iron Meteorite Slice - Lake Murray     Click to Play | View Details   Lake Murray is an iron meteorite that was found in Carter County, Oklahoma USA. |  |  |  |  | 
				|   | Paragould Meteorite
					
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						On February 17, 1930, A meteorite impacted near the small town of Paragould, in Northeast Arkansas. At 820 pounds, the samples was, at that time, the largest to ever be seen and recovered. Another meteorite, at 70 pounds,  was recovered nearby. A possible third meteorite remains to be found.  [url=h... |  |  |  |  | 
				|   | La Criolla Meteorite
					
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						At 18:15, on the 6th January, a large meteor broke up over La Criolla, Entre Rios province Argentina. Meteorites were found over a 7 x 10 km scatterfield  East of Estancion La Criolla, with one large piece hitting a farmhouse. Analysis revealed that the fall was of an ordinary L6 Olivine-hypersthene...    |  |  |  |  | 
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						Scientists from the Department of Earth Science and Engineering at Imperial College have discovered that the Murchison meteorite that hit Australia in 1969 contains the nucleobases, uracil and xanthine.  Nucleobases are m... |  |  |  |  | 
				|   | Tagish Lake meteorite
					
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						Tagish Lake Meteorite    Click to Play | View Details   The ultimate deep-space time capsule, this small black rock plummeted from space carrying organic material dating back 4.5 billion years. Much of the meteorite remains frozen in the Royal Ontario Museums vaults for research, but a sizable piece i... |  |  |  |  | 
				|   | Middlesborough Meteorite
					
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						A team of space scientists planning a mission to Mars sopped off at the Yorkshire Museum today (January 14) to make a 3D map of the famous Middlesborough Meteorite that will then be installed on a probe bound for the red planet.  The meteorite, which landed in 1881 to the surprise of nearby workmen on a ra...                                           |  |  |  |  | 
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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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						Meteorite hits Lorton doctor's office  Much later, after the hole in the roof had been fixed and the debris cleaned up, after the cause of the damage finally had become clear, Frank Ciampi wondered: What are the odds? He is a doctor. He has worked for 18 years in the two-story building in Lorton that hous...                             |  |  |  |  | 
				|   | Dhofar 019 Meteorite
					
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				|   | Kirin meteorite
					
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						Mineralogy and petrology of the Kirin meteorite and its formation and evolution.  Research Group of the Composition of the Kirin Meteorite Shower, Kweiyang Institute of Geochemistry, Academia Sinica  Optical identification and X-ray powder study, coupled with monomineral microchemical and e... |  |  |  |  | 
				|   | Meteorite?
					
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						Meteorite or Meteorwrong    Click to Play | View Details |  |  |  |  | 
				|   | Grove Mountains (GRV) 99027
					
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						Grove Mountains (GRV) 99027 Martian meteorite was discovered on the 8th February, 2000, in the Grove Mountains, Antarctic.  Latitude:  73006'01" S, Longitude:   75014'13" E  Read more |  |  |  |  | 
				|   | The High Possil meteorite
					
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						The High Possil meteorite fell on the morning of Thursday, 5 April 1804, in a quarry near High Possil, on the northern outskirts of Glasgow. The High Possil meteorite is one of only four ever to have been found in Scotland - the others being the Perth meteorite of 1830, and the Strathmore meteorite, whi...                                                                    |  |  |  |  | 
				|   | Muonionalusta
					
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						Muonionalusta, Rare Arctic Meteorite Iron-fine octahedrite Lapland, Sweden  Muonionalusta impacted the Earth over 800,000 years ago.  Muonionalusta is located north of the artic circle in the northern part of Sweden and the first meteorite was found in 1906. The meteorite that is an iron has been... |  |  |  |  | 
				|   | Morrow County Meteorite
					
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						Meteorite found along Oregon road estimated at 4.5 billion years old  An extremely rare and pristine meteorite was found on the side of the road in Eastern Oregon and experts say it's 4.5 billion years old. Don Wesson found the rock 11 years ago in rural Morrow County and he is just learning about its rar... |  |  |  |  | 
				|   | Withrow meteorite
					
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						The wonders of Waterville  The town is an unlikely place to have ties to astronomical events, but the Douglas County Historical Museum owns two meteorites. The 82-pound Waterville meteorite discovered in 1917 less than 20 miles away, was the first meteorite found in Washington. For a while, it was k...                                       |  |  |  |  | 
				|   | Northwest Africa 5400
					
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						Florida man uncovers possible Earth-related meteorite  Two years ago Greg Hupe of Lake Placid, Florida, was in Morroco pouring over a meteorite he was considering buying from a contact there. As he turned the 7½-lb. rock in his hands examining it with a loupe, he thought it looked different from the o... |  |  |  |  | 
				|   | Dhofar 378 Meteorite
					
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						Today, is the 10th Anniversary (2000), of the discovery of the Dhofar 378 Mars Meteorite.   Dhofar 378               1809.5' N, 5406.8' E  Oman  Found 2000 June 17  Martian meteorite (basaltic shergottite) A single stone of 15 g, covered with fresh black fusion crust, was recovered by an anonymous finder within the pr... |  |  |  |  | 
				|   | Chicora Meteor
					
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						On June 24, 1938 a meteorite  fell in the vicinity of Chicora. Named the  "Chicora Meteor", the 450+ tonne meteorite exploded approximately  twelve miles above the Earth's surface. Only two fragments of the  meteorite were found following initial investigations. They had masses  242g an... |  |  |  |  | 
				|   | Pahrump Valley meteorite
					
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						Major meteorite find
Count Guido Roberto Deiro figures he probably tripped over several meteorites in his day and never even knew it.
But when the 72-year-old Las Vegan really started looking, he hit the jackpot.
On March 3, Deiro's first hunting expedition, he discovered a 13.7-kilogram, pe... |  |  |  |  | 
				|   | Haviland Meteorite Festival
					
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						The entire community of Haviland is gearing up for its first ever Meteorite Festival, "Ab Astra: From the Stars," July 7-8 on the Barclay College campus.
Games, clowns, live entertainment, food booths, stories, tours, vendors, a parade, a medallion hunt, helicopter rides, a 1,430-p... |  |  |  |  | 
				|   | NWA 7387
					
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						Italian museum makes Mars meteorite find   The Planetary Science Museum of Prato, near Florence, announced the discovery of a new meteorite from Mars on Thursday. Scientists at the museum a few days ago determined that an in-house meteorite named NWA (North-West Africa) 7387 actually originated f... |  |  |  |  |