Where do meteorites of different type come from? In a review paper, astronomers trace the impact orbit of observed meteorite falls to several previously unidentified source regions in the asteroid ...

Meteorites are rocks from space that survive their fiery descent through Earth's atmosphere and reach the ground. More than ...

He was not involved in the new study. Scientists recognized meteorites collected in the region in 1979 and 1981 as originating from the moon, Righter noted. Before these finds, the only samples ...

Where do meteorites of different types come from? In a review paper in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science, ...

A team of astronomers has spent over a decade tracing meteorite impacts on Earth back to their original sources in the ...

Gibson and his colleagues track meteorite finds and falls all over the country ... obtain samples and learn as much as they can from the recent meteorite fall. The scientists are urging people ...

and Delivers Inspiring Speech: ‘Fly Among the Stars’ It didn’t occur to Mazurek to take the rock in for inspection until a recent meteorite shower in Michigan occurred on Jan. 17 ...

It was a respectable tenure, but the world’s oldest known meteorite site is no longer western ... Survey of Western Australia (GSWA) say the new recordholder is located about 660 miles north ...

Large asteroids are expected to hit Earth once every 2000 years. The most damaging meteorite strike in recent times was the Tunguska event, a megaton-scale explosion that destroyed a swathe of ...