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Although the meteorite had crashed through the Hodges home and hit Mrs. Hodges, the owner of the house, Birdie Guy, declared ownership. [8] After a year-long legal battle, [7] Mrs. Guy and the Hodgeses agreed on a $500 settlement and Mrs. Hodges was able to keep the meteorite. [8] Ann Hodges had immense, although short-term, attention for the ...
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.
A Wabar meteorite: etched section showing the Widmanstätten pattern. The presence of iron fragments at the site also pointed to a meteorite impact, as there are no iron deposits in the region. The iron was in the form of buried fist-sized cracked balls and smooth, sand-blasted fragments found on the surface.
When a gargantuan space rock, estimated to be the size of four Mount Everests, crashed into Earth more than 3 billion years ago, many may assume that it would have wreaked havoc on a young planet. ...
The meteorite was a type called a carbonaceous chondrite that is rich in carbon and also contains phosphorus. Its diameter was approximately 23-36 miles (37-58 km), Drabon said, making it about 50 ...
A giant meteorite first discovered in 2014 caused a tsunami bigger than any in known human history and may have sparked life, scientists reveal. A giant, ancient meteor four times the size of ...
A slice of the meteorite, the National Museum of Natural History, the Smithsonian, DC. The day after the fall, local farmer Julius McKinney came upon the second-largest fragment from the same meteorite. [10] An Indianapolis-based lawyer bought it for the Smithsonian Institution. [10] The McKinney family was able to use the money to buy a car ...
An illustration (1833) of the Victorian vision of a meteorite storm. Domenico Troili (1722–1792) was an Italian abbate [1] and a Jesuit, who held the appointment of custodian of the library of the ruling family of Este in Modena. [2] He is recognized as the first person who documented the fall of a meteorite, in 1766. [3] [4]