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The 60-tonne, 2.7 m-long (8.9 ft) Hoba meteorite in Namibia is the largest known intact meteorite.[1]A meteorite is a rock that originated in outer space and has fallen to the surface of a planet or moon.
The other observed mesosiderite falls occurred in 1842 at Barea (Spain), in 1880 at Varamin (Iran), in 1933 at Dyarrl Island (Papua New Guinea), and at Patwar (India) in 1935. [4] The legendary Chinguetti meteorite is also supposed to be a mesosiderite. The asteroid 16 Psyche is a candidate for the parent body of the mesosiderites. [5]
The Charlottetown meteorite was a meteorite fall observed on July 25, 2024. It is notable as the first meteorite known with video and audio of the impact recorded and as the only known meteorite fall in Prince Edward Island, Canada. [2] The Charlottetown meteorite is classified as H5 ordinary chondrite. [1]
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Pallasites are a rare type of meteorite. Only 61 are known to date, including 10 from Antarctica, with four being observed falls. [9] [10] The following four falls are in chronological order: Mineo, Sicily, Italy. A luminous meteor was observed and an object seen to fall with a loud roar in May 1826. Only 46 grams (1.6 oz) are preserved in ...
Fans of Meteor Games' Facebook outing Island Paradise have been greeted with some potentially heartbreaking news this weekend, as Island Paradise looks to have been shut down. In attempting to ...
Block Island may be extensively weathered, [2] [6] or conversely the features covering it may simply be the regmaglypts formed by its passage through the atmosphere. Contrary to some claims, Block Island is not too large for the modern martian atmosphere to produce [ specify ] , though the denser the atmosphere the more effectively it would ...
Meteor Games was an independent online gaming studio formed in 2007 by Neopets founders Adam Powell and Donna Powell. [2] It went bankrupt in 2012. According to a statement released by the company, its games will "cross the appeal of social networks, web-based casual games and traditional massively multiplayer online games."