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No, it was a meteorite. For a few brief moments today, a bright fireball lit up the midnight skies above Scotland. The meteor ...
A science museum in Georgia is studying a piece of a meteor that blazed over the Southeast last week and was later recovered ...
BARTOW COUNTY, Ga. — A meteorite fell to Earth in Georgia last Thursday, and Channel 2’s Linda Stouffer visited scientists in ...
It only took Ed Albin a few steps to spot it as he wandered onto an empty construction site Sunday in Henry County about 45 minutes southeast of Atlanta.
Shock features in meteorites are a sort of forensic evidence — they reveal how often, and how violently, space rocks have collided with each other, and with planetary bodies, over the eons.
Remnants of a cosmic 'fireball' object witnessed soaring across Georgia may have broken off and plummeted through the roof of ...
Carbon-containing meteorites look like they had less severe impacts than those without carbon because the evidence was blasted into space by gases produced during the impact. The Kobe University ...
Carbon-containing meteorites look like they had less severe impacts than those without carbon because the evidence was blasted into space by gases produced during the impact. The discovery not ...
From what we can see, and comparing it with what we know from other samples around the world, the meteorite looks like it’s part of an achondrite sub-group known as HED (howardite–eucrite ...
Against all odds, NASA may have actually found a meteorite on the bottom of the ocean. By Mike Wehner. Updated Jul 6th, ... Now it’s beginning to look like the expedition has paid off.
You'd expect to see clear signs of impact in the ensuing meteorites — but for over 30 years, scientists have puzzled over why meteorites that contain carbon appear less affected by such violent ...