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27.70 g (0.977 oz) fragment of the Carancas meteorite fall recovered several days after the fall. The scale cube is 1 cm 3 (0.061 cu in). On 20 September, the X-Ray Laboratory at the Faculty of Geological Sciences, Mayor de San Andres University, La Paz, Bolivia , published a report of their analysis of a small sample of material recovered from ...
The Sikhote-Alin meteorite is classified as an iron meteorite belonging to the meteorite group IIAB and with a coarse octahedrite structure. It is composed of approximately 93% iron , 5.9% nickel , 0.42% cobalt , 0.46% phosphorus , and 0.28% sulfur , with trace amounts of germanium and iridium .
In 1998, a meteorite, approximately 2.5 millimeters (1 ⁄ 8 in) across, was described from a deep sea sediment core from the North Pacific, from a sediment sequence spanning the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary (when the site was located in the central Pacific), with the meteorite being found at the base of the K-Pg boundary iridium anomaly ...
Without Warning (also known as July 13th [1]) is an American television film directed by Robert Iscove. [2] It follows a duo of real-life reporters covering breaking news about three meteor fragments crashing into the Northern Hemisphere.
The space rock that slammed into Earth 66 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous Period caused a global calamity that doomed the dinosaurs and many other life forms.
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]
Harvard researchers found that when a meteorite nicknamed S2 paid a visit to our planet 3 billion years ago, ... S2 meteorite may have helped life thrive, new study finds. Show comments.
A meteorite fall, also called an observed fall, is a meteorite collected after its fall from outer space was observed by people or automated devices. Any other meteorite is called a "find". [1] [2] There are more than 1,300 documented falls listed in widely used databases, [3] [4] [5] most of which have specimens in modern collections.