The largest meteorite ever found is a 66-ton meteorite in Namibia called the Hoba.
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"Considering that there was no prediction of a meteorite shower and there was no meteorite shower observed, this certainly is a rare phenomena if it is a meteorite," said Prof.
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The meteorite, discovered fossilized in a limestone bed in Sweden, has a different composition to all of the known meteorite types.
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Mustapha Oulkouch, who began meteorite hunting as a hobby after quitting hotel work in 2006, sold his first meteorite ten years ago.
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In 1825 a man was allegedly struck by a meteorite and killed, although no fragments of the offending meteorite could be recovered.
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Then, they ran computer meteorite impact simulations of a 10-kilometer-wide meteorite hitting a mafic crust at 12 to 17 kilometers per second.
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"Everybody in the meteorite community is really excited for the museum," said Carri Corrigan, a meteorite expert at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History.
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That meteorite, known as the Block Island meteorite, is 2-feet-long, but Opportunity also found another, smaller space rock on the red planet in 2004.
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In 2005, the rover discovered a basketball-sized meteorite near its discarded heat shield called the Heat Shield Rock (or more formally, the Meridiani Planum meteorite).
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Ann Hodges herself got caught up in meteorite mania and became embroiled in a battle with her landlord as to who owned the meteorite that hit her.
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Meteorite with layer of fusion crust / Image courtesy of North Carolina's Museum of Natural Sciences Meteorite with layer of fusion crust / Image courtesy of North Carolina's Museum of Natural Sciences Ultimately, however, definitively differentiating a meteorite from an Earth rock requires knowledge of the rock's age and composition.
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The rover has sniffed out several such objects over the course of its travels, including a huge metal meteorite in 2015 and a shiny nickel-iron meteorite the following year.
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So, too, is Omega, apparently, which sexied up its Speedmaster this year with a Grey Side of the Moon Meteorite model featuring a dial shaved from the actual Gibeon meteorite.
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Before, I leave Kageyama's shop, the old man strikes his iconic pose in front of his altar area, before gifting me some meteorite power infused stickers and a meteorite shard.
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Planetary geologists can be confident that a meteorite came from the moon because we can match the chemical makeup of the meteorite to the lunar samples astronauts brought back during the Apollo era.
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Meteorite collecting took off during the space race of the late 1950s and peaked in the 1980s when rock star dealers like Robert Haag established networks of "meteorite hunters" to scout for rocks.
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An extremely rare 70-pound meteorite, referred to as a Canyon Diablo, sold for a record $237,500 through Christie's auction house, the highest price for a meteorite sold through an online Christie's auction.
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Veilhan drinks from an unassuming institutional water fountain that is actually a sculpture by the American artist Marc Ganzglass, titled "Meteorite Inclusions (Fountain)"; the pipes are formed from fragments of an iron meteorite.
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The meteorite strikes continued, some excavating craters 1,4.33 kilometers across.
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That Curiosity may have stumbled upon a meteorite isn't shocking.
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That exact composition was traced to a specific meteorite nearby.
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But is it really the world's second largest intact meteorite?
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The meteorite leaving a trail in the atmosphere behind it.
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It's still Brazil's largest known meteorite, according to the museum.
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That fatality is not confirmed to be from a meteorite.
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The Monahans meteorite was also housed at Johnson Space Center.
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Other meteorites have dismembered people (including a Chinese woman who allegedly had her arm "torn off" by a meteorite in 1915) and one woman in Alabama was directly struck by a meteorite in 1954.
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So, while there may be no confirmed deaths-by-meteorite yet, odds are about 50-50 that if you get struck and killed by a meteorite, 7 billion other people are going out with you.
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It wasn't a tectonic earthquake, a landslide, nor a meteorite impact.
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So how much will a meteorite set you back in 2018?
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The search team identifying the spot where the meteorite was found.
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Farmer says a meteorite paid for his house in Tucson, Arizona.
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A glimpse of the meteorite as is fell towards Lake Eyre.
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If vindicated, Curry wrote, Reed must abandon the meteorite business forever.
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The tsunamis may have been caused by meteorite impacts, researchers say.
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And, of course, they'd get some money from the meteorite itself.
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As he found out years later, it was a rare meteorite.
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InSight can also investigate the planet's tectonic activity and meteorite impacts.
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The fossilized meteorite was discovered in a limestone quarry in Sweden.
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I read that a small meteorite killed someone earlier this year.
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It was the second meteorite strike in Wethersfield in 11 years.
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"Think of it as the quintessential American meteorite," Pitt told CNBC.
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Better still, the full moon appliqué is fashioned from actual meteorite.
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About 2 metric tons of meteorite fragments are now thought to be on the seabed, according to Fries, who says that the "meteorite fall" is the largest he has seen in 21 years of radar data.
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If the object is confirmed to be a meteorite -- a fragment of a comet or asteroid that has fallen to Earth -- the death would be the first fatality from a meteorite on record, it is believed.
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It was an iron-nickel meteorite the size of a tennis ball.
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Later expeditions used that trajectory to find meteorite fragments of 2008 TC3.
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A 2600 oz Chelyabinsk meteorite chunk next to a 1 cm cube.
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Red lines indicate cometary dust grains while black lines indicate the meteorite.
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But a meteorite strike like this would be an incredibly rare event.
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The researchers argue that the Maryborough meteorite is much rarer than gold.
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This is a new meteorite type and there are probably many more.
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Piece of a meteorite found at a private engineering college in Vellore.
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However, this risk increases as the size of the meteorite gets bigger.
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Hachiro Kageyama claims to have the largest meteorite collection in the world.
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The custom steel and meteorite blade was given to Bourdain in 2016.
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To get worse we would have to be hit by a meteorite.
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Hupe sold Jain two slices of a lunar meteorite, originally discovered in Morocco.
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Other times, they raked the lunar floor to collect fine, meteorite-smashed soil.
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The victim of the meteorite explosion was a bus driver for the college.
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The Montrose meteorite man let out a snort and, at last, went limp.
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And then there's 60-mile-per-hour dust storms and the occasional meteorite.
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They classified all but one as L-chondrites, a common type of meteorite.
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No one has ever retrieved a meteorite from the ocean before, he said.
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The Mars Curiosity rover stumbled upon an iron meteorite in the Martian desert.
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The largest meteorite ever found in Brazil is also housed in the museum.
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Berlusconi dismissed him as a "little political meteorite" with no practical know-how.
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But until now, researchers had never found the site where the meteorite hit.
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Geologists have found a new type of meteorite which smashed into the planet around 470 million years ago, and they reckon it could be the first example of an "extinct" meteorite—a kind that no longer falls to Earth today.
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The new meteorite — which is unlike any meteorite yet found falling to Earth — was found nearby about 100 L chondrite space rocks, and they all date to around the same time period of 470 million years ago, according to the study.
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There are also stacks of star stickers and waters infused with what he dubs "meteorite power"—a phrase he coined 20 years ago when he "discovered" how owning and wishing on a meteorite could change your luck, health, and happiness.
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A 140-meter untracked meteorite showing up out of nowhere would spell bad news.
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New computer modeling suggests that meteorite impacts would perfectly explain this differing rocky makeup.
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"It's the first meteorite we have found that represents the background flux," he said.
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Moreover, how can scientists tell when a meteorite originated from our moon or Mars?
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Other parts of the world are flat out against any "finders keepers" meteorite policy.
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For help tracking down such rare rocks, private collectors turn to professional meteorite hunters.
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Dino death Still sad over the dinosaurs getting wiped out by that massive meteorite?
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Overall, the odds of getting hit by a meteorite are about 20033 in 125,000.
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In 1915, another report claims that a meteorite tore off a Chinese woman's arm.
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"Oh yeah, this is an iron meteorite I discovered in western Colorado," he said.
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Scientists knew that the water plumes corresponded to times when meteorite streams were present.
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Curiosity took this close-up image of the metallic meteorite on October 30, 2016.
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As it rolled on, Opportunity came across a meteorite, its lithology distinctively un-Martian.
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Bray estimated the size of the meteorite at around 1.5 meters (5 feet) wide.
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A bidding war erupted for the rest, and meteorite hunting suddenly became a business.
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This was about a mystery meteorite that blocks Earth's light, making everyone incredibly cold.
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It may have already been gone when the meteorite hunters arrived in the town.
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At 4.6 billion years old, NWA 11119 is the oldest igneous meteorite ever discovered.
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Local scientists still have to confirm that a meteorite was responsible for the death.
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Thousands of years ago a meteorite struck Bolivia and created a vast mountainous crater.
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The meteorite crashed to Earth thousands of years ago in what is today Oregon.
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China is not the only country where meteorite claims have led to court battles.
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Then the crushed meteorite gets dissolved with acid until only the presolar grains remain.
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One meteorite landed with a "loud explosion" in the town of Viñales, Granma said.
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Eric Twelker, the founder of the Meteorite Market, an online emporium based in the United States, said he doubted that the Xinjiang meteorite was worth millions of dollars because he rarely saw specimens of any size selling for much more than about $30,000.
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This meteorite is referred to as a Canyon Diablo iron meteorite because it is made of iron and comes from Barringer Crater (also known as Meteor Crater) in Arizona, a famous site where a meteor crashed into the desert nearly 50,000 years ago.
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This is the highest price for a meteorite sold through an online Christie's auction, and the highest price ever paid for a Canyon Diablo meteorite, said the meteorite's now former owner Darryl Pitt, who is curator of the Macovich Collection of Meteorites.
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The blazing fireball sent meteorite hunters scrambling to find fragments of the rare space rock.
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Amino acids have also been found in the Murchison meteorite, including nine previously unknown types.
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This makes one place, the perfect combination of both, an ideal meteorite hunting ground—Antarctica.
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The evidence for this hypothesis comes from a rare type of meteorite called a ureilite.
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In June 1944, two geologists unearthed a black, 125-pound meteorite in the Swiss Alps.
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The name of the Brazilian state where the Bendegó meteorite was found is called Bahia.
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He had no reason to think that I wasn't in D.C. when the meteorite struck.
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There's another meteorite previously discovered in the same field of a similar size: El Chaco.
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"That didn't happen in these objects," he continued, referring to the meteorite samples they examined.
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The researchers reported finding a 0.1 millimeter, carbon-rich rock fragment inside of a meteorite.
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The discovery, which became Michigan's sixth-largest recorded meteorite, is estimated to be worth $100,000.
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Robert Ward, Farmer's meteorite hunting partner of late, took the rock and held it up.
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Yes, pits, as distinct from craters, which are essentially surface features caused by meteorite impacts.
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Rogozin ruled out speculation that the hole was made by impact with a small meteorite.
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This stuff was deposited within the Earth by a meteorite 10,000 or so years ago.
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When a six-pound meteorite ripped through the roof of a house in Wethersfield, Conn.
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That theory stemmed from another Martian meteorite, but this one came from the planet's mantle.
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Among the surviving materials were a large meteorite and a portion of the zoology exhibit.
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A meteorite hit Western Australia 2.2 billion years ago, leaving a 40-mile-wide crater.
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About 2.2 billion years ago, a massive meteorite left a crater there 43 miles wide.
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That makes the meteorite and its stardust the oldest solid material ever discovered on Earth.
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But one major meteorite impact that occurred roughly 800,000 years ago has long baffled researchers.
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There are also other meteorite samples with well-preserved crystals that they want to test.
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The meteorite would have welled up rock that then collapsed outward, creating a hilly ring.
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Researchers discovered a brand new mineral in a tiny meteorite Welcome to the world, edscottite.
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"It heads to target like a meteorite, like a fireball," he said at the time.
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With animals, we have a few solid reports of death-by-meteorite, including a horse that was struck and killed in New Concord, Ohio in 1860, and a dog that had the misfortune of getting walloped during a meteorite shower over Nakhla, Egypt, in 1911.
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"We can buy a new meteorite on eBay and have it in by Tuesday," said Conti.
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Water vapor escaping from the meteorite could have been trapped by the forming breccias and glasses.
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"In the United States, the meteorite belongs to the person who owns the land," Baalke explained.
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Geologists working in Australia have recovered a primordial meteorite that fell to Earth this past November.
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Meteorite hunters naturally started searching the hillsides above Montrose for debris, but most left empty-handed.
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The mineral came from the Uakit meteorite, named for the Russian location where it was found.
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Open up a chondrite, the most common form of stony meteorite, and you see spangled stardust.
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But these break up in the sky and will maybe rain down a few meteorite shards.
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The meteorite encrusted in extraterrestrial gemstones, given a high valuation of $1.1 million, did not sell.
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KFC's specialty website, KFC Limited, was selling a $20,000 meteorite shaped like a Zinger Chicken Sandwich.
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Kageyama claims to have around three and a half tonnes of meteorite pieces in his shop.
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"When I was a teenager, my neighbour in the countryside showed me a meteorite," recalled Kageyama.
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The stardust found on the meteorite are called presolar grains because they formed before our sun.
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After testing, she determined it was a meteorite, made of of 88.5% iron and 11.5% nickel.
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While most scientists agree the meteorite impact likely occurred in Southeast Asia, that presents a puzzle.
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Crater: A major meteorite impact that occurred roughly 800,000 years ago has baffled researchers for years.
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A world-class meteorite collection is among the highlights of the new Maine Mineral & Gem Museum.
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Chan's adviser at NASA's Johnson Space Center, Michael Zolensky, had the Zag meteorite sample since 1998.
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A meteorite struck the Moon during Monday's lunar eclipse, causing a brief, bright flash on the surface.
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Some suspected the flash was caused by a meteorite strike—and it turns out they were right.
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Of course, the odds of being harmed by a meteorite are exceedingly low, as National Geographic reported.
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Weir's Martian rock came from the Northwest Africa 7635 meteorite which was found in Morocco in 2012.
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Researchers from Botswana, South Africa, Finland, and the United States have now found pieces of the meteorite.
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Or if he's a fan of science fiction, look for jewelry made from meteorite or carbon fiber.
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When a space rock passes through the atmosphere and lands on the ground, it's called a meteorite.
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Although Curry lost his battle against the meteorite community, he still won the war of public opinion.
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Earlier this week, the rover stumbled upon a tiny metallic meteorite, which features some rather peculiar features.
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Out of this world Turns out a dagger found with King Tut was made from a meteorite.
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"We wait until the investigation is over to confirm if the object was a meteorite," she said.
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As the band built up into a crescendo, Travis Scott inexplicably flew into the stadium via meteorite.
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Melody picked up odd jobs while Farmer followed the news for any hint of a meteorite sighting.
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But a bigger worry is what eons of meteorite impacts have created: regolith, also called moon dust.
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The meteorite was a part of a cosmic collection put up for sale at Christie's in London.
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Sunday marks the first time a meteorite has been captured on film during a total lunar eclipse.
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A new analysis of the meteorite revealed stardust that formed between five to seven billion years ago.
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The impact of the 1.2 mile-wide meteorite flung debris across 10% of the planet&aposs surface.
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By examining where tektites are strewn, scientists can trace the origin of the meteorite that created them.
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An extremely rare 823-pound meteorite sold for a record $237,500 through Christie's auction house on Wednesday.
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That meteorite will be auctioned off at another Christie's auction, based out of London April 10-17.
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"The matrix itself is very fine-grained material that holds everything in the meteorite together," Epifanio said.
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Even getting hit by a meteorite is more likely than winning the Powerball — 2957 in 2300 million.
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Even a 20-meter object, the size of the Chelyabinsk meteorite, hitting an urban area could cause catastrophe.
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However, the more likely explanation is that life may have been brought by a meteorite, Schulze-Makuch noted.
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Perhaps further experiments or studies of other planets could help bolster the evidence for this meteorite-impact theory.
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The tiny fracture is thought to have formed on the outside when a micro-meteorite struck the ISS.
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Scientists have discovered traces of moganite in a lunar meteorite that was discovered 13 years ago in Africa.
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Meteorite hunters often donate a portion of their discoveries to university labs in exchange for assistance with authentication.
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It's King's largest role to date: He plays the doomed protagonist who touches a meteorite and sprouts weeds.
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Phil Bland, a planetary geologist at Western Australia's Curtin University, found the ancient meteorite on New Year's Eve.
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The 23 pound specimen  is now believed to be the sixth largest meteorite ever found in Michigan.
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His death took on added significance when local officials declared that the man was killed by a meteorite.
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I contacted Harris—the guy who calculated the odds of being killed by a meteorite—and he's skeptical.
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Now the biggest mystery is why there were copper aluminum alloys in that meteorite in the first place.
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Beyond looking cool, the opal-studded meteorite also offers new clues about the origins of life on Earth.
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And Robert Stollsteimer still takes walks up to Sunset Mesa, where Curry wanted to establish a meteorite park.
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These are the cones that look a lot like the cone-shaped specimens that meteorite hunters have found.
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Trouble is, scientists aren't sure exactly where the meteorite struck, as traces of the crater are long gone.
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Humans weren't around to watch this meteorite form, so we can't determine an exact origin of the fragment.
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The meteorite left a crater in the Peruvian altiplano that was 50 feet wide and 20 feet deep.
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On the popular meteorite-list listserv, scientists and amateur enthusiasts alike debated the nature of the Carancas event.
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Officials settled on the meteorite theory after no evidence of explosives was found, according to the Chicago Tribune.
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Meteorite hunting is an obsession, and that sometimes means making ill-advised decisions and putting oneself at risk.
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Both science and superstition attributed something special to the meteorite, and therein resided its spiritual or material worth.
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Trilobites This polished sphere was fashioned from a meteorite that crash-landed into a dry riverbed in Russia.
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His advice: Turn to his self-test checklist and meteorite realities list before pressing send on that email.
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Price: $275,000It's a limited-edition version of Norman Mailer's "Moonfire," which, yes, comes with its very own meteorite.
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The beads were probably formed during one or multiple meteorite impacts in the area, which were previously unknown.
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On the weather radar, Fries picked up a meteorite as large as 10 pounds and 12 centimeters across.
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In the morning, the farmer and his father found the crater and dug out the still-warm meteorite.
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The Smithsonian and a mineral museum in Maine are considering purchasing the meteorite for display, according to CMU.
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The meteorite now sits in a wooden crate outside a government office in the nearby city of Altay.
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Most of the grains in the Murchison meteorite came from various stars that formed around the same time.
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Researchers from several Cuban agencies, including the Institute of Geophysics and Astronomy, confirmed the meteorite strikes, Granma reported.
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Not only did the microorganisms find the meteorite tasty—it turned out that they came back for seconds.
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Today, the museum also announced the salvaging of their Angra dos Reis meteorite by their technicians and researchers.
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Image: NASAAt the end of the Cretaceous era, a large meteorite ploughed into what is now Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula.
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One Twitter user noted that the meteorite appears to have been picked up by the GOES-East weather satellite.
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Its goals are to facilitate collaboration with international dealers and collectors, and to promote meteorite science within Morocco itself.
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Microscopic image showing the inside of one of the diamonds found within a fragment of the Almahata Sitta meteorite.
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The meteorite was found on lower Mount Sharp, the part of the Gale Crater that Curiosity is currently exploring.
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In 1996 NASA scientists announced they had found evidence for fossilized microbial life embedded in a meteorite from Mars.
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We found three different types in the same meteorite, including one that had never been made in a laboratory.
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A meteorite from a galaxy far, far away touched down in Australia just in time for the New Year.
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According to Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa, the cause of the explosion was determined to be a meteorite, e.g.
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"What is that?" asks Robinson, while he plays a noise that sounds like a meteorite crashing into the ground.
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While nobody knows what this meteorite is or what it does, every so often, it subtly changes its appearance.
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Robinson decorated their yard in blue and purple lights and placed a fake meteorite outside for Knox to find.
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If a meteor is big enough, some of it will survive the descent to the surface, becoming a meteorite.
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Ward has a display case in his home where he keeps fragments of the meteorite that fell in Carancas.
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Even at their deepest rationalist moments, the meteorite hunters are hoping for life to be changed by celestial intervention.
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Every meteorite that falls to Earth has an incredible story to tell about its extraterrestrial origins and interplanetary adventures.
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He later took his finding to the Melbourne Museum where he discovered the "rock" was actually a rare meteorite.
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"We wouldn't be here talking on the phone if that meteorite hadn't fallen," Smit told me, with a laugh.
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For instance, in 2013, a meteorite hit the Russian city of Chelyabinsk injuring over 1,000 people and damaging buildings.
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The team's finds were only the sixth time that meteorite chunks were found in Florida, according to Mr. Hankey.
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Notably, the other meteorite that blew up over Russia—the 2013 Chelyabinsk meteor—was only 20 meters in diameter.
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Mr. Pitt was later a consultant to Bonhams, Heritage and Christie's when those auction houses entered the meteorite market.
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Although Earth is considered stable, it has still suffered global glaciations and meteorite impacts — and yet life has survived.
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She was a social worker on a walk through the desert in Albuquerque when a radioactive meteorite landed nearby.
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A new study suggests the meteorite struck present-day Laos, and its impact crater lies beneath a volcanic field.
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It's named for Ed R.D. Scott, a cosmochemist at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and pioneering meteorite researcher.
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That was the year a meteorite hit Russia, landing near Chelyabinsk, 930 miles east of Moscow, and injuring 1,000 people.
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Instead, they used a laser pulse to zap a four-millimeter asteroid model, based on the composition of meteorite fragments.
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Among the spared items are books from the museum's central library, a meteorite, and a part of the zoology exhibit.
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Each meteorite distributed for purchase is supposed to come with a record of its classification, and its trail of ownership.
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But among the branded T-shirts and pins, KFC is also selling a meteorite shaped like a Zinger chicken sandwich.
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But if someone finds a meteorite on public land in the United States, the laws are a bit more cumbersome.
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At first, it was thought that the hole may have been caused by a tiny meteorite slamming into the Soyuz.
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Still, a report by the National Resource Council estimates that there should be approximately 91 meteorite-related fatalities every year.
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Either way, EET 83309 now has the very sweet claim to fame of being far blingier than its meteorite cousins.
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Even with Curry locked up, the good people of Montrose still want to believe they're living in the Meteorite Capital.
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Some of these people will tell you that Curry was "railroaded" by the courts, by the meteorite cartel, by Reed.
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A meteorite, a stray strand of code that confounds, the existence of bots hooked on vegetation in the first place.
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Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech/CornellA rock found near Oppy's heat shield, determined to be a meteorite, taken on sol 346.
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For almost two decades, Sirbescu has been asked to examine rocks, routinely receiving the same question — Is this a meteorite?
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The nano-sized gems were much larger than any meteorite diamond that had been previously found, according to Dr. Gillet.
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But before you go hunting for the next million-dollar meteorite, know that it's rare to unearth a space rock.
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While quasicrystals are most often studied via artificial synthesis in labs, the Khatyrka meteorite demonstrates that they can form naturally.
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The NWA 11119 meteorite is about the size of a baseball and is estimated to be 4.6 billion years old.
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That dealer sent the specimen to Carl Agee, a planetary geologist and meteorite curator at the University of New Mexico.
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According to a study by astronomer Alan Harris, the odds of being killed by a meteorite are 1 in 700,000.
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Strikingly, too, the meteorite had an intensity that made the art works elsewhere in the room seem wan and pallid.
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A tiny meteorite stands in for the full moon, and the new moon is represented by an empty silver circle.
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The farmer told him it was a meteorite, that it was part of the property and he could have it.
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Mr. Sun said he thought it was worth nearly $320 million based on his understanding of the commercial meteorite market.
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But the edscottite discovered in a tiny meteorite and officially named this year is the first to occur in nature.
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He said he had not noticed the meteorite before that day; he did not say that it had appeared overnight.
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This is not one of those circumstances: Museum officials in Richmond, Virginia, say the stolen meteorite is worth only about $1,500.
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SEIS should be able to detect the slightest vibrations, including those caused by Marsquakes or the thumps of a meteorite impact.
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As a result of the trust necessary in these expensive exchanges, meteorite hunters have always been a fairly tight-knit community.
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Currently a dealer based in England, he now works most frequently with meteorite hunters in countries like Mauritania, Egypt and Libya.
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A close-up of the Egg Rock meteorite showing the grid of white points caused by the blasts from Curiosity's laser.
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Hordes of meteorite hunters flocked to the state in search of a bit of the space gold (technically iron and nickel).
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After finally investigating the rock he'd used as a doorstop for literal decades, Mazurek discovered it's actually a meteorite worth $100,000.
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Based on the data compiled in the International Comet Quarterly, it seems as though Indians are particularly vulnerable to meteorite attacks.
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If true, it would have been the first scientifically confirmed report in history of someone being killed by a meteorite impact.
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In the sixth grade, Reed finally got his hands on his first meteorite, a flake that crumbled off a planetarium specimen.
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Curry also filed a 55-page lawsuit against Reed, alleging an international meteorite conspiracy that prevented new material from depressing prices.
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Since then, she has simulated moonlight in a lightbulb, made maps of dead stars and sent a meteorite back to space.
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But this video in particular—which features an exploding meteorite and a rare flash of zodiacal light—does so much more.
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But there are still some questions that need to be answered before we give this boulder Earth's number two meteorite spot.
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First, the rock needs to be confirmed as an actual meteorite which, given the field it was found, is not unlikely.
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Let's first define a few things: A meteorite is a rock from space that's already landed on the surface of Earth.
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As music played in the background, Knox picked up the smoking meteorite and read from an electronic tablet Robinson had created.
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Meteorite hunting has always relied on an unkind ratio of perseverance to providence, going back to H. H. and Addie Nininger.
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The meteorite hunters might not talk about it this way, but they too were here to find fortune from the sky.
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Even stranger was the presence of anorthite and mullite crystals, rare earth minerals usually seen around meteorite impact sites and volcanoes.
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Earlier studies, in the 1970s and 1990s, examined whether the blade came from a meteorite but they were inconclusive or disputed.
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Much of the variation in the moon's pace of movement comes from lunar meteorite impacts and major geological changes on Earth.
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The remarkable, baseball-size space rock, called Northwest Africa (NWA) 11119, was acquired by a meteorite dealer in Africa in 2016.
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To inspect the area, the cosmonauts will have to temporarily detach some thermal insulation and the meteorite shield protecting the capsule.
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The sale's top lot, a massive sculpture from outer space of an aesthetic campo del cielo iron meteorite, sold for $275,2375.
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And her meteorite studies earned her a similar honor in 1991, when the International Astronomical Union named an asteroid for her.
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It was created by a meteorite impact 15 million years ago and features intriguing layers of well-preserved rocks and minerals.
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Researchers think that when the meteorite hit Earth, it released more than 100 billion tons of water vapor into the sky.
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Trilobites Scientists knew a meteorite impact had flung debris all over the world, but where it struck has remained a mystery.
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But in 2011, local officials declared the rock a meteorite and hauled it away, arguing that natural resources were state property.
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"I have visited our local government bureau several times and saw some guards standing around the meteorite," he said by telephone.
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Meteorite fragments found in Australia appear to have brought rare, interstellar passengers to Earth: pieces of stardust older than the sun.
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A meteorite is a an object from space that survives a trip through the atmosphere and falls on the Earth's surface.
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From dust that cuts like glass to moonquakes and meteorite strikes, read about the hazards of life on the moon here.
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The Nahkla, a rare Martian meteorite, which landed in Egypt in 1911 on display at Natural History Museum's the Vault in London.
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People, he explains, may want particular meteorite types for their collections, and scientists might wish to study materials of a certain origin.
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They're very hard to find, but there are a few characteristics that differentiate a meteorite from a rock that originated on Earth.
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The researchers found the meteorite fragments in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve on June 23, according to a University of Helsinki release.
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"The "Number #1 Priority' for all 'Meteorite Research Scientists,' is to produce revenue for themselves, their research centers, and their home universities.
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Though it looks like some kind of discarded alien artifact, this iron meteorite likely originated from the planetary core of a planetesimal.
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The meteorite fragment was found in 2000 on a limestone plateau at Mersa Matruh, a seaport some 150 miles west of Alexandria.
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The rock was pulled on Saturday from Campo del Cielo—a well-known meteorite crash site in Argentina, where iron meteorites abound.
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Previous reports, however, put El Chaco's size at 37 tons, which would give it the number two spot over this new meteorite.
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To explain the Martian blueberries, Burt, along with his co-authors Paul Knauth and Ken Wohletz, revisited an earlier consideration: meteorite impacts.
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It didn't occur to Mazurek to take the rock in for inspection until a recent meteorite shower in Michigan occurred on Jan.
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The space rock is classified as ureilite, a type of rare meteorite that has embedded within it several different types of minerals.
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Or so the hunters hoped: The meteorite must have been many metric tons, but they couldn't see it because of the water.
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He is, however, somewhat willing to entertain the idea that the meteorite came from the heart of one of the D-types.
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"This is only the 17th meteorite found in Victoria, whereas there have been thousands of gold nuggets found,"Henry told 10 daily.
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Geologists in Sweden have found what they call the first-ever "extinct" meteorite buried within a 470-million-year old limestone slab.
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Or better yet, don't ask Dr. Korotev, as his email has been clogged with meteorite identification requests for more than a decade.
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Dr. Korotev's personal website now carries a disclaimer for people who think they have found a meteorite that could make them rich.
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There are also fossils on view and pieces made from extraterrestrial objects, like a 19th-century sword fashioned from a meteorite. mori.art.
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A 21-year-old Indian man may have become the first person known to be killed by a meteorite falling from space.
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"At first we thought that some meteorite fell here but turns out it was all human factor," says local resident Erel Struchkov.
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Video uploaded to social media appeared to show that a famed meteorite found in 1784 survived the fire intact, surrounded by debris.
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Records vary from oldest performing clown to largest collection of Mickey Mouse memorabilia to first person to get injured by a meteorite.
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As is explained in the movie's opening scenes, a meteorite made of vibranium crashed into the land that would one day become Wakanda.
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At the 66 million year mark—when the meteorite struck—the researchers documented evidence of short-lived magma bursts along ancient ocean ridges.
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This crater, called Ismenia Patera might be an ex-volcano, though some suspect it could be a scar from a major meteorite impact.
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Using astronomical data from multiple observatories, MIDAS uses software to identify the moment a meteorite hits the darkened portions of the lunar surface.
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Meteor hunter Robert Ward displays a piece of a meteorite found in Lotus, California believed to between 4 to 5 billion years old.
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Today, irons like the Sikhote-Alin meteorite, which fell in Russia in 1947, appear for sale the world over, often fashioned into jewelry.
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A 1911 fall near El Nakhla El Bahariya in Egypt yielded what is known as the Nakhla meteorite, believed to be from Mars.
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No parties in court represented the Clackamas people, who had originally inhabited the area and to whom the meteorite, called Tomanowos, was important.
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And instead of an epochal, final bombardment, meteorite strikes might have slowly tapered off as the solar system settled into its current configuration.
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Weir told TechCrunch that his meteorite came with paperwork explaining the geological analysis that had been performed on the rock validating its origin.
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This image was taken by geologist Louis Hagen in the Swiss Alps right before he discovered the first meteorite from Ferox in 1944.
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This image was taken by geologist Louis Hagen in the Swiss Alps right before he discovered the first meteorite from Ferox in 42.
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Phil Bland and PhD student Robert Howie digging the meteorite out of the mud in the middle of Kati Thanda (Lake Eyre) South.
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UPDATE 27/10/16: NASA officials do not believe a meteorite killed a man in India this weekend, the New York Times reports.
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He peppered his lectures with technical words like "regmaglypt," the thumbprint impression caused when hot atmospheric gases scour the surface of a meteorite.
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He and his wife, Sandra Lee Tyler, were both caught up in the excitement, imagining how they might capitalize on their meteorite bounty.
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The asymmetric debris field surrounding the crater looks a lot what we'd expect from a meteorite impacting the surface at a low angle.
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Such a weapon reaches "its target like a meteorite, like a ball of fire," Putin said, at 20 times the speed of sound.
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Image Courtesy of Christie'sThe only thing worse than getting struck by lightning or a large, flying bird is getting struck by a meteorite.
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It was the first meteorite ever found on another planet, though two of these space rocks had previously been discovered on the Moon.
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They formed, for example, during the meteorite impact event that is believed to have killed off the dinosaurs about 65 million years ago.
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Misra's primary argument was that the concretion theory couldn't explain the narrow sizes of the Martian blueberries, whereas the meteorite impact theory could.
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When a giant meteorite strikes, you'd expect chaotic effects, like rocks altered by the impact's high pressures and temperatures, enormous earthquakes, and tsunamis.
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They analyzed it with an electron microscope, revealing the tiny carbon-rich section that differed from the rest of the otherwise typical meteorite.
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Scientists recently presented their discovery of the meteorite&aposs new mineral, named uakitite, at the Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society in Moscow.
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Steven Ehlert at NASA's Meteroid Office, believes that any meteorite fragments from the fireball likely landed on the ground close to Bancroft, Ontario.
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He could tell immediately that it was a eucrite, similar to a meteorite that landed in Brazil in 20183, and likely very valuable.
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"Wind or someone hitting a drum or a meteorite exploding in the atmosphere — all these make pressure changes in the air," explained Banfield.
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The team was able to reconstruct this scale by meticulously studying a meteorite sample, called Almahata Sitta MS-170, using transmission electron microscopy.
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I couldn't verify if Kageyama possessed the largest meteorite collection in the world, but he insisted that his was the largest "unofficial" collection.
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The area's sediments also had high concentrations of nickel, cobalt, chromium, gold and platinum, an indicator that the meteorite was made of iron.
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When the father, Nathan (Nicolas Cage), finally manages to reignite the spark missing from his marriage, a meteorite crashes into his front yard.
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"The meteorite wasn't made on land, or even on the earth," the family's lawyer, Sun Yi, said in a telephone interview from Shanghai.
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Kruijer and the team of researchers were able to differentiate between the two reservoirs of material by measuring isotopes in the meteorite samples.
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At 12:45 pm, a meteorite ripped through her living room ceiling and woke her up with a direct hit to the stomach.
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As noted, MIDAS had (prior to yesterday) never captured a meteorite strike during a total lunar eclipse—but it wasn't for lack of trying.
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Scientists aren't sure when Curiosity's meteorite (named Egg Rock) fell to the Martian surface, but the rover's laser may help them figure it out.
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The meteorite, which fell to Earth on November 27, 2015, was witnessed by a number of locals in the William Creek and Marree areas.
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Using this footage, DFN team members conducted image analysis, triangulation, and other calculations to get a sense as to where the meteorite had fallen.
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A (possibly apocryphal) report declares that a meteorite struck a house in China in 1907, causing it to collapse and killing the family inside.
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According to new research from a team of British researchers, however, they're also adding some sweet bling to a meteorite recently found in Antarctica.
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It occurs when a meteorite punches a hole in the atmosphere and the blast material is sucked into space, then falls back to Earth.
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Any curium that might have been created during the early universe would be long gone by the time we got hold of a meteorite.
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Other pieces, like a slice of a Gibeon Meteorite that originated from the iron-rich core of an ancient asteroid, sold today as well.
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This ship crash-landed onto the tent-area on the map that houses a meteorite that mysteriously appeared at the beginning of the season.
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In fact, it was so loud that she thought it was a satellite or a meteorite, and Kimmel couldn't resist making a "meateorite" pun.
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A tube-like formation on the Martian meteorite, named Allan Hills 84001, which NASA cited as potential evidence of primitive extraterrestrial life in 1996.
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The over-the-top moments (Marie imagines a meteorite colliding with Earth) seem appropriate explosions of a teenage imagination, and the moodiness is infectious.
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In an age when comets, shooting stars, and other celestial phenomenon remained unexplained, the appearance of the meteorite was quickly attributed to divine intervention.
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But Fries has narrowed down the meteorite fall to a one square kilometer area, where the ocean is about 100 meters (330 feet) deep.
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He started collecting in 2011 after he was transfixed by a show he chanced upon while channel-surfing: "Meteorite Men," on the Science Channel.
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She says she was mid-interview with a reporter from the New Delhi Times when she saw a "great big meteorite" zooming toward her.
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It happens that among the only artifacts known to have survived the fire last week is Brazil's version of Tomanowos: a meteorite nicknamed Bendegó.
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Scientists believe tektites formed from Earth material that melted upon meteorite impact and were thrown into our atmosphere, before falling back to the ground.
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And the meteorite collection, amassed with the assistance of Darryl Pitt, doesn't simply supply a cosmic complement to the museum's emphasis on local history.
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But the matrix itself made the meteorite difficult to study because they didn't have the technology to peer through the fine grains until now.
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METEORITE HUNTERS: SCIENTISTS SET TO SCOUR ANTARCTICA FOR RARE SPACE ROCKS A small chunk of an asteroid or comet is also known as a meteoroid.
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Photo: Virginian-Pilot (Police Handout)Police are searching for the thief, or thieves, who stole a meteorite from the Science Museum of Virginia last week.
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Screenshot: Juan Alberto Pérez Pozo (YouTube)What seems to be a meteorite has struck the western Cuban town of Viñales, according to local news reports.
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Photo: Svend Buhl / Meteorite ReconDespite an estimated 100 tons of this material falling to Earth each day from space, much of it arrives as dust.
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With its potential for global travel and remote locations, there has recently been a certain Indiana Jones quality attached to the profession of meteorite hunting.
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Sharing a fraught legal area with the likes of oil and gold, ownership of a meteorite depends very much on whose land it falls on.
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If a meteorite falls in the forest, and no one is there to hear it... it's likely to stay there for a very long time.
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So, I think that maybe the meteorite origin is a cover story by the Wakanda, and that they have actually developed advanced metal 3D printing!
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A local resident shows a fragment thought to be part of a meteorite collected in a snow-covered field in Russia's Ural mountains in 2013.
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Meteorite fragmentPhoto: PETER JENNISKENSLast month, a fireball lit up the skies over Botswana just hours after scientists first spotted the space rock hurtling toward Earth.
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The question comes in form of a tablet on top of the "meteorite," with a long speech that reads like the Star Wars title crawl.
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He tracked it down to a meteorite that landed in the Koryak mountains in Russia, even forming an expedition there to find more quasicrystal samples.
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The discovery of the opal-laden meteorite adds further fuel for the theory that water found its way to Earth on the backs of asteroids.
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He spoke of building a meteorite museum in town and creating a fenced-in park atop Sunset Mesa, where visitors could observe meteorites in situ.
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The researchers analyzed a meteorite from Antarctica called LAP 02342, which is interesting because it's been minimally weathered or eroded during its time on Earth.
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A Legend of the Future concerns the Federation spaceship Sviatagor, which is struck by a meteorite while on an all-important test run to Saturn.
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Holy Crap, the Moon Was Struck by a Meteorite During the 'Super Wolf Blood Moon' EclipseIf at first you don't succeed, try and try again.
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The cometary fragmentImage: Larry Nittler/NASAScientists have found a cometary building block in an unexpected place: deep inside a meteorite, according to a new paper.
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Sirbescu's conclusion was also confirmed by a curator at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C, which is reportedly considering to buy the meteorite for display.
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After the meteorite landed, the local shaman, Marcial Laura Aruquipa, was called in to assess the situation and to make a sacrifice to the gods.
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If it is shown to be a rock originating from space, it would be the first recorded event of someone dying from a meteorite impact.
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"No human in the past 1,000 years is known to have been killed by a meteorite or by the effects of one impacting," says NASA.
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New evidence suggests they're microtektites—a byproduct of meteorite impacts—marking the first time these celestial remnants have been found hiding in old clam shells.
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If they could get that thing, they knew, it would be a career-defining recovery, a glorious entry in the great ledger of meteorite hunting.
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It starts with Knox going outside after she hears weird noises and finding what looks like a meteorite with blue light glowing in the backyard.
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Meteorite-like silver rings, among the first pieces she made six years ago, lie near sleek double-finger rings that resemble mini Richard Serra sculptures.
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One day Monty spots an online ad for the "Eye of Know," a mystical crystal amulet from an actual meteorite, on sale for only $5.99.
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It was also the first time that a team of meteorite hunters had recovered fragments in the state from a fireball that people had witnessed.
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A new study of presolar grains from the Murchison meteorite recovered in Australia published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal.
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The case of a missing impact craterWhen a meteorite hits, it super-heats rocks at the point of impact and catapults them into the sky.
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For a new study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, scientists analyzed presolar grains from one of these meteorite fragments.
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The lives and deaths of those bygone stars are now written in the grains trapped within the Murchison meteorite, which serendipitously ended up on Earth.
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This event is not to be confused with the meteorite impact that happened 65 million years ago—the one that supposedly wiped out the dinosaurs.
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Ten years ago, the same Canyon Diablo iron meteorite would have sold for one-tenth of the price it sold for on Wednesday, Pitt said.
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He first identified the unique iron carbide in 1971 while studying the meteorite, but technology hadn't advanced far enough for him to characterize its structure.
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The rocky material that forms this crater rim, originally below the surface of Mars, was ejected onto the planet's surface by a meteorite, asteroid or comet.
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The rocky material that forms this crater rim, originally below the surface of Mars, was ejected onto the planet's surface by a meteorite, asteroid or comet.
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In a new study, Maven mission scientists found that Mars' ionosphere is full of metal ions, tiny charged flecks of meteorite pulled apart by atmospheric forces.
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"If found, meteorite fragments will be shipped to the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, D.C. and become part of their research collections," it added, in a statement.
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The Zinger Meteorite is selling for a cool $20,000, and KFC reassures everyone that is is real and not just a heavy piece of earth rock.
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The footage shows Knox led outside by a strange noise only to discover the apparent meteorite — complete with ominous lighting and smoke — had crashed into Earth.
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The meteorite itself is of interest to scientists, who want to know what these rocks are made of in order to better understand our Solar System.
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Let the meteorite come, he said, and destroy human kind; we've had our chance, we fucked up big time; let some other lifeform have a go.
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What are the odds of one such death being claimed as due to a meteorite rather than some other cause that someone would like to conceal?
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But as one of the preeminent meteorite dealers in the country, he was always on the lookout for something valuable to come in over the transom.
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Though some scientists resent the idea of potential research material being locked away by private owners, the meteorite trade has also surfaced new scientifically valuable material.
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He was referring to the calcium-rich deposits inside a recently-sold carbonaceous meteorite from Chihuahua, Mexico, which are estimated to be 4.567 billion years old.
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And there are a lot of potential catastrophes that come with one meteorite strike, from high-speed winds to tsunamis to body-cooking heat to shockwaves.
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On analyzing a calcium-aluminum-rich inclusion from the Efremovka meteorite, the researchers found an excess of two other isotopes, called beryllium-9 and lithium-7.
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The remaining 1 to 2 percent of the meteorite consists of just over a dozen minerals that, for the most part, are exclusively formed in space.
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There is no wind or water erosion on the moon, so unless a meteorite comes by and wipes away the prints, they could be there...forever.
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" The cause of the fire is "undetermined," but the local CBS affiliate is saying that the meteorite theory is a "hoax" and that "arson is suspected.
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Indian officials claim that a man was killed by a meteorite strike on a college campus in the southern state of Tamil Nadu over the weekend.
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As a new report in The Astronomical Journal suggests, it's likely the first known meteorite from the Kuiper Belt, the frigid ring of rocks beyond Neptune.
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The so-called "mysterious object" landed on Earth around the same time as the other meteorite fossils, but it had different chemical signatures and grain patterns.
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Once there he met with a few other amateur meteorite hunters and they began searching a large ranch near the map's metaphorical "X," but found nothing.
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"Collectors of every financial means can afford meteorites — it could be as cheap as $5," said Mendy Ouzillou, vice president of the International Meteorite Collectors Association.
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The meteorite dealer has long enjoyed minor celebrity status in Japan for his love of collecting space rocks, and has been interviewed by several Japanese newspapers.
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When I visited Kageyama's shop, Keisyu Kamiya, a Shinto priestess clad in black, was o on hand to explain how she'd benefited from Kageyama's meteorite collection.
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With that data, the team was able to characterize a protein they call hemolithin in the Acfer 086 meteorite, which was found in Algeria in 1990.
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METEORITE HUNTERS: SCIENTISTS SET TO SCOUR ANTARCTICA FOR RARE SPACE ROCKS In addition to its scientific research, E/V Nautilus has also captured stunning images of shipwrecks.
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While Azzarello believes that U.S. markets are already looking a bit too optimistic, she sees the upcoming French election as the next "meteorite" that could hit equities.
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It also held the largest meteorite ever found in Brazil, bones of Brazilian dinosaurs as well as Latin America's oldest collection of ancient Egyptian mummies and artifacts.
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Why it matters: While scientists have observed meteorite collisions on the moon before, this appears to be a first to be observed during a total lunar eclipse.
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This marks the first human fatality directly attributed to a meteorite with any certainty, which makes sense considering just how unlikely it is for this to happen.
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He got his first clue when Steinhardt mentioned he'd found some strange textures (in the form of iron metallic beads) in the grains from the Khatyrka meteorite.
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As fires continue to rage on the east coast of the United States, other countries are beginning to see the first effects of this morning's meteorite strike.
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Thankfully, the chances of this happening to you are incredibly low—according to National Geographic, there is only one confirmed case of a meteorite striking a person.
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"Estimated at $5000-8000, the 10.3 gram specimen of Sylacauga sold for $7500 ($728/g) including the buyer's premium," Daryl Pitt, meteorite consultant for Christie's, told Gizmodo.
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Even if the rock is confirmed as a meteorite and does measure in at over 30 tons though, that still wouldn't make it the world's second biggest.
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For now, though, all we really know is that another really big rock has been plucked from a meteorite field—for everything else, we'll have to wait.
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Scientists, however, have never been able to prove that these microbe-like forms on the meteorite, which was found in Antartica, were clear evidence of extraterrestrial life.
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Just this year, we reported that a bright, hot flash of light appeared during a lunar eclipse; in this case, it was caused by a meteorite impact.
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