News tagged with meteorite craters

Finding a meteorite's final resting place

Nov 27, 2008 | 4.1 / 5 (9) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Alberta researcher Chris Herd doesn't want people craning their necks, worrying about giant rocks falling from space. But he's unleashed new technology that could prove meteorite ...

Meteorite hits on Earth: There may be a recount

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Nov 25, 2008 | 4.3 / 5 (9) | 0

Meteorite craters might not be as rare as we think. A University of Alberta researcher has found a tool that could reveal possibly hundreds of undiscovered craters across Canada and around the world.

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Britain’s biggest meteorite impact found

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Mar 26, 2008 | 4.3 / 5 (13) | 0

Evidence of the biggest meteorite ever to hit the British Isles has been found by scientists from the University of Aberdeen and the University of Oxford.

Possible Meteorite Imaged by Opportunity Rover

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Aug 03, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (6) | 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Opportunity rover has eyed an odd-shaped, dark rock, about 0.6 meters (2 feet) across on the surface of Mars, which may be a meteorite.

Scientist answers how Peruvian meteorite made it to Earth

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Mar 11, 2008 | 4.2 / 5 (46) | 7

It made news around the world: On Sept. 15, 2007, an object hurtled through the sky and crashed into the Peruvian countryside. Scientists dispatched to the site near the village of Carancas found a gaping ...

Rover Confirms Meteorite on Mars

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Aug 06, 2009 | 4.8 / 5 (6) | 9

(PhysOrg.com) -- Composition measurements by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity confirm that this rock on the Martian surface is an iron-nickel meteorite.

Latvian experts say meteorite crater was hoax (Update)

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Oct 26, 2009 | 3.7 / 5 (3) | 0

(AP) -- Scientists investigating a large crater initially believed to have been caused by a meteorite said a closer analysis Monday revealed it was a hoax.

Distal Rampart of Crater in Chryse Planitia

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Nov 13, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Impact craters on Mars are kind of neat. Many of them look very different than impact craters seen on Earth's moon or Mercury. Fresh lunar and Mercurian craters have ejecta blankets that look ...

Space rock yields answers about origins of life on Earth

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Jun 03, 2009 | 4.4 / 5 (12) | 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Formic acid, a compound implicated in the origins of life, has been found at record levels on a meteorite that fell onto a frozen Canadian lake in 2000.

Unusual meteorite found by time-lapse camera observatory

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Nov 05, 2009 | 4.3 / 5 (15) | 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- An unusual meteorite with an interesting orbit has been tracked to the ground using a photographic observatory that records time-lapse images of fireballs traveling across the sky.

Scientists see water ice in fresh meteorite craters on Mars

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Sep 24, 2009 | 4.8 / 5 (16) | 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists are seeing sub-surface water ice that may be 99 percent pure halfway between the north pole and the equator on Mars, thanks to quick-turnaround observations from orbit of fresh ...