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At 11:40:14 local time (16:40:14 GMT) on 15 September 2007, a chondritic meteorite crashed near the village of Carancas in the Puno Region, Peru, near the Bolivian border and Lake Titicaca (see map box on right).
Meteor, or MeteorJS, is a partly proprietary, mostly free and open-source isomorphic JavaScript web framework [3] written using Node.js. Meteor allows for rapid prototyping and produces cross-platform (Android, iOS, Web) code. The server-side MongoDB program is the only proprietary component of Meteor and is part of the Meteor download bundle ...
[103] [104] The Chelyabinsk meteor was estimated to have caused over $30 million in damage. [105] [106] It is the largest recorded object to have encountered the Earth since the 1908 Tunguska event. [107] [108] The meteor is estimated to have an initial diameter of 17–20 metres and a mass of roughly 10,000 tonnes. On 16 October 2013, a team ...
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.
Declassified Ministry of Defence documents also suggest the incident was caused by the combined effects of an earthquake and a meteor. The Institute of Geological Sciences (now British Geological Survey ) reported that a magnitude 3.5 earthquake was felt at 8:38 p.m. that night over a wide area of northern Wales and as far as Formby in England ...
This list includes all 60 confirmed impact structures in North America in the Earth Impact Database (EID). These features were caused by the collision of large meteorites or comets with the Earth.
Bolide – Extremely bright meteor; Earth Impact Database – Database of impact structures on Earth; Extinction event – Widespread and rapid decrease in the biodiversity on Earth; Impact event – Collision of two astronomical objects; Impact Field Studies Group; List of craters in the Solar System; List of largest craters in the Solar System
The Decorah crater has been conjectured as being part of the Ordovician meteor event. [ 346 ] [ better source needed ] Several twin impacts have been proposed, such as the Rubielos de la Cérida and Azuara (30–40 Ma), [ 347 ] Cerro Jarau and Piratininga (c. 117 Ma), [ 73 ] and Warburton East and West (300–360 Ma). [ 348 ]