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2. Meteorite fall - Wikipedia

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   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.

3. Meteorite fall statistics - Wikipedia

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   Meteorite fall statistics are frequently used by planetary scientists to approximate the true flux of meteorites on Earth. Meteorite falls are those meteorites that are collected soon after being witnessed to fall, whereas meteorite finds are discovered at a later time. Although there are 30 times as much finds than falls, their raw ...

4. Homestead (meteorite) - Wikipedia

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   About 100 meteorite fragments fell over a 18-square-mile (47 km 2) snowy countryside area from Amana to Boltonville in Iowa County. The first found fragment, a stone weighing about 3.5 kilograms (7.7 lb), was discovered by Sarah Sherlock 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) south of Homestead. [2] The area was wooded and covered by snow, impeding recovery ...

5. Norton County (meteorite) - Wikipedia

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   After a brilliant fireball and a loud noise, a very large shower of meteorites fell over a large area of Norton County and Furnas County on February 18, 1948. On April 28, a research team from the University of New Mexico set out to identify and recover pieces of the meteorite. Everything that they recovered was either donated to or sold to the ...

6. Gancedo (meteorite) - Wikipedia

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   The Gancedo Meteorite is the largest known fragment of the meteor shower that fell in Campo del Cielo, in Charata, Chaco Province, Argentina. [1]According to early reports, the meteorite weighs approximately 30,800 kilograms (34.0 short tons), making it the largest meteorite found in the Americas and the third-largest in the world.

7. This Rare Meteorite Contains Earth-Like Water and Could ... - AOL

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   The Winchcombe meteorite is a rare find, with a similar hydrogen isotope ratio to the water on Earth.. Recovering a meteorite within 12 hours of arrival means it is as pristine a specimen as we ...

8. Dimmitt (meteorite) - Wikipedia

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   Dimmitt is also currently one of 311 approved meteorites from Texas and one of 1801 approved meteorites from the United States. There is currently a large collection of Dimmitt meteorites held in the Meteorite Collection of the University of New Mexico Institute of Meteoritics and in the Oscar Monnig Collection. [3]

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