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A meteorite that crashed through a metro Atlanta home in June now has a name, thanks to University of Georgia researchers, who say it’s “older than the Earth itself.” ...
A scientist says fragments of a meteorite that punched through a Georgia homeowner's roof after blazing across the sky in a fiery streak is older than the Earth itself. University of Georgia ...
A meteorite that crashed in Germany almost 300 years ago is now helping scientists change how we understand heat. Carved from ...
A Martian meteorite, weighing 54.388 lbs. (24.67 kg), said to be the largest piece of Mars on Earth, estimated at $2 – 4 million, is displayed at Sotheby’s, in New York, Wednesday, July 9 ...
An auction in New York City featured rare geological artifacts, including the largest piece of Mars sold for $5.3 million and a juvenile dinosaur skeleton that fetched over $30 million, marking it ...
The red, brown and gray meteorite is about 70% larger than the next largest piece of Mars found on Earth and represents nearly 7% of all the Martian pieces currently on this planet, AP reported.
A Martian meteorite said to be the largest piece of Mars on Earth is displayed at Sotheby's in New York, July 9. The 54-pound rock fetched nearly $5.3 million at an auction on Wednesday.
A large rock broke off Mars’s surface when an asteroid struck the planet, sending it flying through space. The roughly 54-pound slab then traveled 140 million miles to Earth, where it breached ...
The largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth was sold for just over $5 million at an auction of rare geological and archaeological objects in New York on Wednesday.
Adding various fees and costs, the official bid price for the Martian meteorite was about $5.3 million (AP) The red, brown and gray meteorite is about 70 per cent larger than the next largest piece of ...