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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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....

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...

Iron Meteorite Slice - Lake Murray Click to Play | View Details Lake Murray is an iron meteorite that was found in Carter County, Oklahoma USA.

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

A brownish grey olivine-phyric shergottite (Martian basalt) weighing 1056 grams was found on the 24th January, 2000, in the Dhofar region, Oman. Read more [url=http://www-curator.jsc.nasa.gov/antmet/mmc/XVII- D...

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 or Meteorwrong Click to Play | View Details

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 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, 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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Meteorite Willamette Meteorite ( 1 2 3 ) (Preview)	Meteorite News	21	7844	Oct 17 10:10 2012 by Blobrana
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...
Meteorite Peekskill Meteorite (Preview)	Meteorite News	6	3217	Oct 16 09:31 2012 by Blobrana
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...
Meteorite Arizona impact area (Preview)	Meteorite News	2	1642	Jan 20 19:11 2011 by Blobrana
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...
Meteorite Antarctic Search for Meteorites ( 1 2 3 4 5 ) (Preview)	General news	40	12877	Feb 2 20:14 2017 by Blobrana
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 Meteorite-asteroid link (Preview)	Meteorite News	1	1305	Aug 23 13:26 2008 by Blobrana
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...
Meteorite Sihote-Alinn 1610 meteorite ( 1 2 ) (Preview)	Meteorite News	13	6882	Oct 22 03:44 2016 by Blobrana
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...
Meteorite Meteorites ( 1 2 3 4 5 … 9 ) (Preview)	Meteorite News	86	18000	Dec 8 16:00 2015 by Blobrana
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...
Meteorite OC2 (Preview)	Meteorite News	1	1484	Jun 20 09:10 2008 by Blobrana
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...
Meteorite Mbozi Meteorite (Preview)	Meteorite News	3	3002	Feb 29 22:32 2012 by Blobrana
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...
Meteorite Campo del Cielo meteorite ( 1 2 3 ) (Preview)	Meteorite News	22	9717	Sep 14 12:00 2016 by Blobrana
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...
Meteorite Gibeon Gibeon meteorite (Preview)	Meteorite News	7	2288	Oct 18 15:49 2016 by Blobrana
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...
Meteorite Holbrook Meteorites (Preview)	Videos	7	3421	Jul 18 13:44 2014 by Blobrana
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...
Meteorite Maine Meteorites (Preview)	Meteorite News	0	2031	Nov 29 15:20 2009 by Blobrana
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....
Meteorite Northwest Africa 869 (Preview)	Meteorite News	0	1397	Dec 4 21:16 2009 by Blobrana
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...
Meteorite Lake Murray meteorite (Preview)	Videos	2	3271	Jun 14 17:00 2013 by Blobrana
Iron Meteorite Slice - Lake Murray Click to Play \| View Details Lake Murray is an iron meteorite that was found in Carter County, Oklahoma USA.
Meteorite Paragould Meteorite (Preview)	Audio Visual	9	3289	Feb 16 21:18 2014 by Blobrana
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...
Meteorite La Criolla Meteorite (Preview)	Meteorite News	3	2980	Jan 5 18:32 2014 by Blobrana
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...
Meteorite Murchison meteorite ( 1 2 ) (Preview)	Meteorite News	16	5606	Dec 22 22:10 2011 by Blobrana
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...
Meteorite Tagish Lake meteorite (Preview)	Meteorite News	8	3057	Jan 17 17:49 2014 by Blobrana
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...
Meteorite Middlesborough Meteorite (Preview)	Meteorite News	8	3705	Mar 13 13:42 2017 by Blobrana
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...
Meteorite Nakhlites ( 1 2 3 4 5 ) (Preview)	Meteorite News	44	19676	Jul 25 04:21 2013 by Blobrana
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...
Meteorite Lorton meteorite ( 1 2 3 ) (Preview)	Meteorite News	22	6229	Jan 17 11:26 2014 by Blobrana
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...
Meteorite Dhofar 019 Meteorite (Preview)	Meteorite News	3	1631	Jan 24 19:08 2010 by Blobrana
A brownish grey olivine-phyric shergottite (Martian basalt) weighing 1056 grams was found on the 24th January, 2000, in the Dhofar region, Oman. Read more [url=http://www-curator.jsc.nasa.gov/antmet/mmc/XVII- D...
Meteorite Kirin meteorite (Preview)	Meteorite News	2	1927	Jan 27 09:51 2010 by Blobrana
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 Meteorite? (Preview)	All queries go here	1	2193	Aug 4 16:07 2012 by Blobrana
Meteorite or Meteorwrong Click to Play \| View Details
Meteorite Grove Mountains (GRV) 99027 (Preview)	Meteorite News	2	2082	Feb 7 02:35 2015 by Blobrana
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
Meteorite The High Possil meteorite (Preview)	Meteorite News	5	3224	Apr 4 22:58 2012 by Blobrana
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...
Meteorite Muonionalusta (Preview)	Meteorite News	7	4064	Nov 20 13:02 2016 by Blobrana
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...
Meteorite Morrow County Meteorite (Preview)	Meteorite News	2	1562	May 31 21:34 2010 by Blobrana
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...
Meteorite Withrow meteorite (Preview)	Meteorite News	0	1357	Jun 12 13:50 2010 by Blobrana
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...
Meteorite Northwest Africa 5400 (Preview)	Meteorite News	0	1101	Jun 15 22:37 2010 by Blobrana
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...
Meteorite Dhofar 378 Meteorite (Preview)	Meteorite News	1	1447	Jun 16 23:20 2011 by Blobrana
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...
Meteorite Chicora Meteor (Preview)	Meteorite News	3	4754	Jun 23 23:16 2011 by Blobrana
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...
Meteorite Pahrump Valley meteorite (Preview)	Meteorite News	1	3585	Jun 30 20:40 2010 by Blobrana
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...
Meteorite Haviland Meteorite Festival (Preview)	Events	4	2051	Nov 22 02:25 2007 by Blobrana
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...
Meteorite NWA 7387 (Preview)	Meteorites 2012	0	1275	Aug 23 19:17 2012 by Blobrana
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...