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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 Charlottetown Meteorite sure announced its arrival in a spectacular way,” Herd, who collected the specimen and curates the University of Alberta’s meteorite collection, told CNN.
The crash sounds like glass breaking or a pot falling as the meteorite hits the walkway. University of Alberta science professor Chris Herd said this is the first time the sound and image of a ...
It was the most powerful asteroid strike in more than 100 years, and left around 1,500 people injured as well as causing significant damage to buildings and blowing out windows. Show comments ...
2024 UQ, designated formerly as A11dc6D, was a one-meter meteoroid that struck the Earth's atmosphere and burned up harmlessly on 22 October 2024 above the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California. 2024 UQ is the tenth impact event that was successfully predicted, which was discovered by the ATLAS survey.
Sutter's Mill was a water-powered sawmill on the bank of the South Fork American River in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada in California. It was named after its owner John Sutter . A worker constructing the mill, James W. Marshall , found gold there in 1848.
2024 RW 1, previously known under its provisional designation CAQTDL2, [5] was a 1-meter-sized asteroid or meteoroid that struck the Earth's atmosphere and burned up harmlessly on September 5, 2024, at around 12:40 a.m. PHT (September 4, 16:40 UTC) above the western Pacific Ocean near Cagayan, Philippines.
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 ...