Costa Rica's mudball meteorite: A cosmic survivor that avoided collisions in the pinball world of asteroids
In April 2019, rare primitive meteorites fell near the town of Aguas Zarcas in northern Costa Rica. In an article published ...
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Meteorites and asteroids tracked back to their place of origin in the solar system
Meteorites are rocks from space that survive their fiery descent through Earth's atmosphere and reach the ground. More than ...
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Strange Rock Eggs Were Spotted On Mars, And Scientists Are Puzzled Over How They Got There
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover spotted a strange rock made up of hundreds of tiny spheres that look like clusters […] ...
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Winchcombe meteorite went from ice to fire, smashed through solar system
The Winchcombe meteorite landed in an English sheep field in 2021. Soon after the landing, on February 29, a family spotted it in the town of Winchcombe in Gloucestershire. They “woke to ...
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Cameras Capture Meteor Lighting Up Night Sky in Florida
Sometimes they survive the trip through the atmosphere and hit the ground, at which point they're called meteorites. Monday's meteor was spotted around the same time the asteroid 2021 GW4 was ...
The hunt for the Hawkes Bay meteorite
New Zealand is the landing place for a growing number of meteorites, and Hawkes Bay is the latest focus. A fireball hurtled towards the ground last Wednesday night, and based on eyewitnesses and ...