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Smaller of the Wabar craters visible on the surface. The crater on the left is about 11 m in diameter. The Wabar craters are impact craters located in Saudi Arabia first brought to the attention of Western scholars by British Arabist, explorer, writer and Colonial Office intelligence officer St John Philby, who discovered them while searching for the legendary city of Ubar in Arabia's Rub' al ...
The Auckland meteorite, also known as the Ellerslie meteorite, [2] landed in Ellerslie, a suburb of Auckland, New Zealand, on 12 June 2004. It crashed through the roof of a house and landed in the living room. As the ninth meteorite to ever be discovered in New Zealand, it is the only one to have ever hit a house in the country.
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When the water level is low, rocks can be seen penetrating the surface: in the middle of the crater. Tilted dolomite bedrock in the walls of the main crater. Kaali is a group of nine meteorite craters in the village of Kaali on the Estonian island of Saaremaa. [1] Most recent estimates put its formation shortly after 1530–1450 BC (3237+/-10 ...
A Nevada County man's home was destroyed in what locals believe was a meteor strike. Fire officials are investigating the claims. Meteor may have caused fire that destroyed California home ...
Millennia ago, a meteor half the size of the Statue of Liberty struck an Middle Eastern city. The event may have inspired the biblical story of Sodom.
The meteor and meteorite are named after Chelyabinsk Oblast, over which the meteor exploded.An initial proposal was to name the meteorite after Lake Chebarkul, where one of its major fragments impacted and made a 6-metre-wide (20 ft) hole in the frozen lake surface.
The reason may be, at least partly, price. Toledano declined to disclose how much the fragment used for the B/1M cost, but he noted that raw meteorite can sell for more, per gram, than gold.