On June 9, 1952, the Abee meteorite fell in Alberta, Canada, at 11:05 at night. The space stone weighed nearly 326 pounds and ...

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A new study suggests a massive meteorite impact 3.26 billion years ago, far larger than the dinosaur killer, may have acted ...

Two fragments of a four-billion-year-old meteorite have been recovered from a remote salt lake, just days after a fireball blazed across the night sky. Researchers from Curtin University ...

We think of impact events as being disastrous for life,” said Dr. Nadja Drabon, a Harvard geologist whose recent research is transforming the way scientists understand the brutality of Earth’s ...

As a typical result for a thermal metamorphic chondrite, such as petrologic type 4 to 6, the striking feature of cathodoluminescence of Parauapebas meteorite is the blue color dominance in the ...

Famous examples include the Hoba meteorite in Namibia (60 tons) and the Allende carbonaceous chondrite, rich in presolar grains. Asteroids are rocky worlds larger than a meter across, ranging up ...

A police officer has found the first sample of a meteorite that blazed across WA skies a week ago. The impact location was traced to a salt lake between Norseman and Hyden in the state's south.

This paper presents geochemical behaviour of trace elements of the felsic alkaline rocks of the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with special attention of fractional crystallization and continental ...

Two more stones followed it,” said Sunita Vijayanath Korade, a resident of Khalwat Nimgaon village, who was visiting her parents’ house, where two pieces of a meteorite fell on 3 March. The rock-like ...