News tagged with meteorite debris
Russian satellite breaks up over perplexed Mexicans
A loud explosion and ball of fire that people in central Mexico reported seeing in the sky was actually a Russian satellite plunging back to earth, experts said Thursday.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 12, 2010 |
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Geologists point to outer space as source of the Earth's mineral riches
According to a new study by geologists at the University of Toronto and the University of Maryland, the wealth of some minerals that lie in the rock beneath the Earth's surface may be extraterrestrial in origin.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 18, 2009 |
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Extraterrestrial platinum was 'stirred' into the Earth
(PhysOrg.com) -- A research program aimed at using platinum as an exploration guide for nickel has for the first time been able to put a time scale on the planet’s large-scale convection processes.
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Jul 30, 2009 |
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Asteroid Impact Helps Trace Meteorite Origins
(PhysOrg.com) -- The car-sized asteroid that exploded above the Nubian Desert last October was small compared to the dinosaur-killing, civilization-ending objects that still orbit the sun. But that didn't ...
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Mar 25, 2009 |
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Was that Santa up there? No, Soyuz rocket debris
A ball of light streaking across the night sky in northern Europe on Saturday at a time when many imagined that Father Christmas was doing his rounds was nothing more than Soyuz rocket debris, Belgian experts ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 25, 2011 |
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New app helps NASA keep track of meteoroids
Surprising but true: Every day, on average, more than 40 tons of meteoroids strike our planet. Most are tiny specks of comet dust that disintegrate harmlessly high up in Earth's atmosphere, producing a slow ...
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Dec 15, 2011 |
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CSI-style investigation of meteorite hits on Earth
Volcanologists from the Universities of Leicester and Durham have forensically reconstructed the impact of a meteorite on Earth and how debris was hurled from the crater to devastate the surrounding region.
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Oct 18, 2011 |
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New hypothesis on crater debris
A team of researchers partnered with the NASA Lunar Science Institute (NLSI) has developed a new hypothesis for the origin of crater ejecta—debris that is launched out of a crater during meteorite impacts.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 27, 2011 |
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Lots of space junk is circling our planet at high speeds
Dr. William Schonberg says academia is cool because you usually get to research what you're really curious about. As chair of civil, architectural and environmental engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology, ...
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Sep 23, 2011 |
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High confidence meteorite fall in Northeast Ohio
On August 8 at 1:22 Eastern Daylight Time, 4 all sky cameras belonging to the Southern Ontario Meteor Network detected a fireball entering the atmosphere 54 miles above Lake Erie (80.944 W, 41.945 N), moving ...
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Aug 18, 2011 |
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Venture to the last protoplanet
(PhysOrg.com) -- Max Planck scientists have front row seats in the exploration of the asteroid with two onboard cameras. The aim is to travel back in time to the origins of the solar system.
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Jul 22, 2011 |
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Dawn craft to circle giant asteroid in 1st stop
(AP) -- After four years sailing through space, the Dawn spacecraft was expected to slip into orbit late Friday around a giant asteroid to begin a yearlong investigation into the origins of the solar system.
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Jul 15, 2011 |
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Honing in on landing site for new Mars Rover
NASA's new Mars probe, a $2.5 billion, nuclear-powered rover the size of a small car, is at the Florida launch site being prepared for its nine-month journey to the red planet, with one key issue still unresolved ...
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Jun 29, 2011 |
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Mars formed rapidly into runt of litter
(PhysOrg.com) -- Mars developed in as little as two to four million years after the birth of the solar system, far more quickly than Earth, according to a new study published in the May 26 issue of the journal ...
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May 25, 2011 |
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