Meteorite Find

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NGRI scientists find meteorite in Kurnool

The Times of India 13 Sep 2024

The findings were unveiled during a presentation titled ‘A commentary on the discovery of a probable meteorite from Jonnagiri’ held at CSIR-NGRI on Friday. Meteorites are pieces of rock or metal that have fallen to Earth from outer space.

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Man accidentally finds an ancient meteor crater on Google Maps

Metro UK 12 Sep 2024

If the ring is confirmed to be created by a meteorite impact, the crater could be a major find – the last one that was found of this size was discovered in 2013 ... If the researchers find the presence of ...

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Man Finds Unusual Spherical Structure While Browsing Google Maps. It Could Be A Huge Discovery

IFL Science 09 Sep 2024

In the latest find, Joël Lapointe stumbled across an unusual, roughly spherical structure about 15 ... The findings were presented in a at the 86th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society 2024.

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Scientists break down South Africa’s Nqweba Meteorite

Mail Guardian South Africa 05 Sep 2024

... from the dawn of our solar system, encountered Earth’s atmosphere and as it did so, it came in over the coastline,” said Gibson, who keeps a close watch on meteorite finds and falls in the country.

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Rare meteorite fragment found in Eastern Cape provisionally named the ‘Nqweba’

Mail Guardian South Africa 04 Sep 2024

The meteorite, after splitting into several smaller fragments, disappeared from view ... The results of their search for facts about the meteorite were announced at a media briefing at Nelson Mandela University on Tuesday.

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Eastern Cape meteorite find revealed (University of the Witwatersrand)

Public Technologies 03 Sep 2024

... is only 2% of the total number of discoveries, this means that in South Africa we have not really detected our fair share of meteorite finds (meteorites that cannot be linked to an observed bolide).

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Q&A: Scientist discusses the MESSENGER mission to Mercury

Phys Dot Org 02 Sep 2024

MESSENGER documented that Mercury has a sulfur-rich, iron-poor surface, indicating that the planet formed from much more chemically reduced materials than those that formed the other inner planets and most meteorite parent bodies.

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“Space Junk” Turns Out To Be Car-Sized Space Rock Falling Over South Africa

IFL Science 27 Aug 2024

“Meteorites are rare and hold deep scientific value as they give us a glimpse of the make-up and birth of our solar system, so it is extremely important for us to track, trace and find possible meteorites that may have fallen in our country.

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'Space junk' that fell in Eastern Cape was a car-size meteorite

Phys Dot Org 26 Aug 2024

Gibson and his colleagues keep a close watch on meteorite finds and falls in the country ... for us to track, trace and find possible meteorites that may have fallen in our country," says Gibson.

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Just 5 impacts on Mars sent hundreds of meteorites to Earth

Popular Science 23 Aug 2024

Meteorites that strike Earth don’t always come from the deepest regions of our solar system—sometimes they originate from one of our closest planetary neighbors ... “This will fundamentally change how we study meteorites from Mars,” Herd said.

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The means for mapping Martian meteorites

SpaceDaily 22 Aug 2024

Martian meteorites find their way to Earth when something hits the surface .

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Botswana diamond could be second-largest gem-quality example ever found

The Observer 22 Aug 2024

Lucara’s president, William Lamb, said ... Black “carbonado” stones such as the Sergio are thought to be parts of meteorites. Russia is the world’s largest diamond producer, but most large valuable finds have been made in Botswana in recent years ... Share ... .

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The moon was once covered in an ocean of magma: new data supports theory

Popular Science 21 Aug 2024

Vadawale explains that finding this mineral isn’t remarkable in and of itself ... As the paper notes, “This a new finding and is at odds with other lunar highland soils (from the repository of returned samples and lunar meteorites).”.

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Mapping Martian meteorites: Tracing origins on the red planet

Phys Dot Org 19 Aug 2024

Martian meteorites find their way to Earth when something hits the surface of Mars hard enough so that material is "blasted off the surface and accelerated fast enough to leave Mars' gravity," says ...

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Crater formed from Earth’s extinction produced by carbon-rich ‘C-type’ asteroid, scientists suggest

AOL 15 Aug 2024

Instead the ruthenium isotope findings tally with the average composition of meteorites from carbonaceous (C-type) asteroids – carbon-rich space rocks that would have formed at the beginning of the solar system, beyond the orbit of Jupiter.