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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]
A meteor streaks through the night sky during the annual Geminid meteor shower in Lukeville, Arizona, on December 14, 2023. (Go Nakamura/Reuters) Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter.
In some years, they've been a full-fledged meteor "storm." The 1833 Leonid meteor storm included rates as high as an incredible 100,000 meteors per hour, EarthSky said.
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.
NEW YORK (AP) — A meteor streaked over the New York City skyline before disintegrating over nearby New Jersey, according to NASA. William Cooke, the head of the space agency's Meteoroid ...
A meteor air burst is a type of air burst in which a meteoroid explodes after entering a planetary body's atmosphere. This fate leads them to be called fireballs or bolides , with the brightest air bursts known as superbolides .
This weekend brings a chance to view November’s full moon, 2024’s last supermoon, followed by the Leonid meteor shower that’s set to peak Saturday night into Sunday.
Peary sold this specimen for $40,000 (equivalent to $1.47 million in 2023 [20]) to the American Museum of Natural History in New York, where all three of the first discovered Cape York fragments are still on display. 3.4-by-2.1-by-1.7-metre (11.2 ft × 6.9 ft × 5.6 ft) Ahnighito is the second heaviest meteorite known to date (after the Hoba ...