Joe Velaidum of Charlottetown on Prince Edward Island narrowly avoided a collision with an incoming meteorite at his home in July.
It’s classified as an “ordinary chondrite” — dubbed “ordinary” because they are common as far as meteorites go. But its ...
The space rock, dubbed the Charlottetown Meteorite, is an "ordinary" chondrite, a stony meteorite containing small mineral granules, with features that help explain why it broke apart as it hit ...
New findings reveal that a NASA mission traveled to an asteroid that may have once been covered in salty lakes containing ...
It’s classified as an “ordinary chondrite” — dubbed “ordinary” because they are common as far as meteorites go. But its origin is no less fascinating: “We’re quite certain in the ...
A home security camera captured a falling meteorite and the sound it made when it hit the walkway leading to a house in Canada, the incident occurring just moments after the homeowner departed for ...
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned from space with a sample of an asteroid named Bennu and scientists got to dive into a tale ...
A man in Prince Edward Island got doubly lucky last July, recording a meteorite's impact on his home security cameras. The ...
Herd says the rock in question is what’s known as an “ordinary chondrite,” the most common type of meteorite, composed of iron and nickel (hence the magnet) and various other elements includ ...
When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ...