(MoneyWatch) Get 'em while they're hot! Well, maybe not, in thecase of the sudden mania for meteorite fragments that slammed into a lake near the Russian city of Chelyabinsk on Friday -- and not just ...
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Where do meteorites of different types come from?
For centuries, scientists have sought to understand the origins of meteorites that fall to Earth. Recent research has ...
If you have some serious cash lying around, a chunk of the moon could be yours. A piece of lunar meteorite is on sale at auction, and experts estimate the final price will tally at keast $340,000. The ...
CANBERRA, Australia. — For the first time, scientists have been able to precisely map the flight path of an asteroid that landed on Earth and trace it back to its point of origin. The boulder-size ...
On The Block: A doghouse that was struck by an asteroid has the second-highest estimate at an upcoming Christie's auction. An upcoming Christie’s auction has collectors starry-eyed: Deep Impact, ...
Two asteroids smashed into one another about 470 million years ago, spilling their cosmic guts out into the solar system. Today, scientists reported that they have found a new kind of meteorite which ...
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Tracing Earth’s Meteorites to Ancient Asteroid Collisions and the Families That Shaped the Solar System
Seventy percent of meteorites that hit Earth today can be traced back to only three families of asteroids a finding that overturns decades of hypotheses regarding the randomness of cosmic rubble and ...
The Fukang pallasite at the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory at the University of Arizona. Copyright 2014 Symeon Platts/Arizona Board of Regents Cut off a thin slice of ...
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