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The Sutter's Mill meteorite is a carbonaceous chondrite which entered the Earth's atmosphere and broke up at about 07:51 Pacific Time on April 22, 2012, with fragments landing in the United States. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] The name comes from Sutter's Mill , a California Gold Rush site, near which some pieces were recovered.
The first samples of this meteorite fall were recovered close to Sutter's Mill, so it was named the Sutter's Mill meteorite. Several dozen fragments were eventually identified, with a total weight of about a kilogram. The meteorite is classified as a carbonaceous chondrite and contains some of the oldest known material in the Solar System. [17]
A meteorite crashed in the area of Mission, Texas, Wednesday night causing a loud boom that startled residents, authorities said. Meteorite crashes in South Texas causing startling boom ...
A meteorite fall was presumed to have occurred along the south shores of Lake Ontario, from east of Grimsby to Niagara-on-the-Lake with most meteorites landing in the water. [15] Larger fragments would have fallen farther to the east. [15] During dark flight, weather radar signatures appeared from an altitude of ~15 km down to 850 metres. [15]
An asteroid that crashed into the Earth’s atmosphere over the UK and France was spotted just hours before it crashed. The world was given only seven hours warning that it was being approached by ...
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The estimated speed of the meteor, around 60 km/s (37 mi/s), was likely produced in the innermost cores [clarification needed] of another stellar system. [24] A 2019 study by Jorge I. Zuluaga published as a research note by the American Astronomical Society concluded that even if the direction were completely unknown, the probability that CNEOS ...