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The cougar is also commonly known as mountain lion, puma, mountain cat, catamount, or panther. The sub-population in Florida is known as the Florida panther. Over 130 attacks have been documented in [ 1 ] North America in the past 100 years, with 28 attacks resulting in fatalities.
The Zacatecas Meteorite found in 1782 in Zacatecas Mexico, weighing 780kg. See also: Iron meteorite § Structural classification Octahedrites can be grouped by the dimensions of kamacite lamellae in the Widmanstätten pattern , which are related to the nickel content: [ 3 ]
Stony-iron meteorites or siderolites are meteorites that consist of nearly equal parts of meteoric iron and silicates. This distinguishes them from the stony meteorites, that are mostly silicates, and the iron meteorites, that are mostly meteoric iron. [1] Stony-iron meteorites are all differentiated, meaning that they show signs of alteration.
The Old Woman Meteorite is the largest meteorite to have been found in California and the second largest in the United States. It was discovered in the Old Woman Mountains in southern California in late March 1976. [1] It is 38 inches (970 mm) long, 34 inches (860 mm) high, and 30 inches (760 mm) wide.
A 5-year-old boy was attacked by a mountain lion and required hospital treatment over the Labor Day weekend at a California state park. The attack unfolded Sunday afternoon as a family from ...
The mountain lion attack in El Dorado County over the weekend was California’s first that resulted in a fatality in 20 years and the victims — a 21-year-old who died and his 18-year-old ...
A man has been left dead in California after a mountain lion attacked two brothers, the first fatal attack of its kind in two decades in the state.. An 18-year-old man and his 21-year-old brother ...
The Sikhote-Alin meteorite is the heaviest of these and was an observed fall, [7] while the Old Woman meteorite is, at 38 × 34 × 30 inches (970 × 860 × 760 mm) and 6,070 pounds (2,750 kg) originally, the largest meteorite found in California and the second largest found in the United States.