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Extraterrestrial platinum was 'stirred' into the Earth

Extraterrestrial platinum was 'stirred' into the Earth

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jul 30, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (10) | comments 3

(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.


Asteroid impact helps trace meteorite origins

Asteroid Impact Helps Trace Meteorite Origins

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 25, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 0

(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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Possible Meteorite Imaged by Opportunity Rover

Possible Meteorite Imaged by Opportunity Rover

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Aug 03, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 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.


Rover Confirms Meteorite on Mars

Rover Confirms Meteorite on Mars

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Aug 06, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 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)

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created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 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.


Space rock yields answers about origins of life on Earth

Space rock yields answers about origins of life on Earth

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created Jun 03, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (12) | comments 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

Unusual meteorite found by time-lapse camera observatory

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created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (15) | comments 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.


Scientist answers how Peruvian meteorite made it to Earth

Scientist answers how Peruvian meteorite made it to Earth

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created Mar 11, 2008 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (46) | comments 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 ...


Nullarbor fireball cameras find rare meteorite

Researchers make rare meteorite find using new camera network in Australian desert

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created Sep 17, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (19) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have discovered an unusual kind of meteorite in the Western Australian desert and have uncovered where in the Solar System it came from, in a very rare finding published today ...


Meteorite from Sept. 25 fireball event recovered and presented

Meteorite from Sept. 25 fireball event recovered and presented

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created Oct 16, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (10) | comments 2

When Tony Garchinski heard a loud crash just after 9 p.m. on Friday, September 25 he didn't think much of it. That is, until he awoke the next morning to find the windshield of his mom's Nissan Pathfinder ...


Meteorite grains divulge Earth's cosmic roots

Meteorite grains divulge Earth's cosmic roots

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jun 15, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 3

The interstellar stuff that became incorporated into the planets and life on Earth has younger cosmic roots than theories predict, according to the University of Chicago postdoctoral scholar Philipp Heck and ...


Drilling set at Chesapeake Bay meteor site

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created Jul 19, 2005 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists will drill more than a mile under Chesapeake Bay this fall to study a 35-million-year-old meteorite impact, the Baltimore Sun reported Monday.



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