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The disturbance area as seen from County Highway HH and County Road CC near Plum City, Wisconsin. The meteorite that caused the impact crater is estimated to have been 170 m (560 ft) in diameter with a mass of 9 × 10 9 kg (2.0 × 10 10 lb) and impact velocity of 30 km/s (67,000 mph).
The Auckland meteorite, also known as the Ellerslie meteorite, [2] landed in Ellerslie, a suburb of Auckland, New Zealand, on 12 June 2004. It crashed through the roof of a house and landed in the living room. As the ninth meteorite to ever be discovered in New Zealand, it is the only one to have ever hit a house in the country.
The key in declaring the site a meteorite impact crater centers around the existence of shatter cones, basically branch-like cracks in the bedrock. “Those are essentially unequivocal evidence of ...
Although the meteorite had crashed through the Hodges home and hit Mrs. Hodges, the owner of the house, Birdie Guy, declared ownership. [8] After a year-long legal battle, [7] Mrs. Guy and the Hodgeses agreed on a $500 settlement and Mrs. Hodges was able to keep the meteorite. [8] Ann Hodges had immense, although short-term, attention for the ...
The Peekskill meteorite is the object resulting from a well-documented meteorite event that occurred in October, 1992, in Peekskill, New York, United States. [1] Sixteen separate video recordings document the meteorite burning through the Earth's atmosphere , whereupon it struck a parked car in Peekskill. [ 2 ]
The meteor "fragmented so violently," it shook buildings across the state and produced a loud boom, NASA said. NASA said on Facebook that over 100 eyewitnesses reported details of the meteor in ...
An Earth-grazing fireball (or Earth grazer) [2] is a fireball, a very bright meteor that enters Earth’s atmosphere and leaves again. Some fragments may impact Earth as meteorites, if the meteor starts to break up or explodes in mid-air. These phenomena are then called Earth-grazing meteor processions and bolides. [1]
When the meteor struck, this part of the Earth was covered by a shallow sea. The object, traveling at an estimated speed of 70,000 mph (110,000 km/h), created a crater in the Earth's crust. This created enormous pressures below the point of impact, which made the remnant of the meteorite recoil slightly, creating an uplift.