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The Murchison meteorite is a meteorite that fell in Australia in 1969 near Murchison, Victoria. It belongs to the carbonaceous chondrite class, a group of meteorites rich in organic compounds. Due to its mass (over 100 kg or 220 lb) and the fact that it was an observed fall, the Murchison meteorite is one of the most studied of all meteorites. [2]
Joe Velaidum and his partner, Laura Kelly, set out to walk their dog when their doorbell camera captured a meteorite striking their front walkway — where Velaidum had been standing moments before.
A meteorite crashed in the area of Mission, Texas, Wednesday night causing a loud boom that startled residents, authorities said. Meteorite crashes in South Texas causing startling boom ...
In April 2021, CAMS published work that identified 14, and perhaps as many as 20, already known long-period comets as parent bodies of one of our meteor showers. Meteor showers were found for nearly all known comets approaching Earth orbit to 0.01 AU that have orbital periods in the 250 to 4,000 year range.
Dalgaranga crater is a small meteorite impact crater located on Dalgaranga pastoral station 75 km (47 mi) northwest of Mount Magnet (or north of Yalgoo) in Western Australia. It is only 24 m (79 ft) in diameter and 3 m (9.8 ft) deep, making it Australia's smallest impact crater (with exception of the smallest members of the Henbury crater field ).
An asteroid that crashed into the Earth’s atmosphere over the UK and France was spotted just hours before it crashed. The world was given only seven hours warning that it was being approached by ...
Satellites in geostationary orbit. From the list in the first section, these are the closest known asteroids per year that approach Earth within one lunar distance.More than one asteroid per year may be listed if its geocentric distance [note 1] is within a tenth of the lunar distance, or 0.10 LD.
Harvard researchers found that when a meteorite nicknamed S2 paid a visit to our planet 3 billion years ago, it may have helped life flourish.