Space race! Meteorites hit Maine, museum offers $25K reward
Somewhere in a remote stretch of forest near Maine's border with Canada, rocks from space crashed to Earth and may be scattered across the ground—just waiting to be picked up.
Somewhere in a remote stretch of forest near Maine's border with Canada, rocks from space crashed to Earth and may be scattered across the ground—just waiting to be picked up.
Space Exploration
Apr 12, 2023
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Meteorite impacts can be cataclysmic events in the history of a planet, melting rock, changing atmospheric chemistry, and wreaking general havoc.
Planetary Sciences
Apr 12, 2023
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A pair of Earth, atmospheric and planetary scientists at Massachusetts Institute of Technology has shown how the magnetic field of a meteorite can be damaged by amateur collectors using hand magnets. In their paper published ...
Scientists have discovered a new and renewable source of water on the moon for future explorers in lunar samples from a Chinese mission.
Planetary Sciences
Apr 2, 2023
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If you've ever seen a shooting star, you might have actually seen a meteor on its way to Earth. Those that land here are called meteorites and can be used to peek back in time, into the far corners of outer space or at the ...
Planetary Sciences
Mar 26, 2023
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The cohesive force of asteroid particles influence microgravity and can be evaluated under several assumptions of particle size and their sensitivity to particle shape. Approximately hundreds of kilograms of material fall ...
Water makes up 71% of Earth's surface, but no one knows how or when such massive quantities of water arrived on Earth.
Planetary Sciences
Mar 15, 2023
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On February 28, 2021, for the first time in 30 years, a meteorite fell in the U.K. and was later recovered by scientists. Today, there's an international effort to study this space rock and learn more about its place in the ...
Planetary Sciences
Mar 13, 2023
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Countless meteorites have struck Earth in the past and shaped the history of our planet. It is assumed, for example, that meteorites brought with them a large part of its water. The extinction of the dinosaurs might also ...
Planetary Sciences
Feb 22, 2023
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A NASA study describes how rocks could have been "shocked" and changed by meteorite impacts, once frequent on ancient Mars. This will improve our analysis of rock samples collected from the Red Planet.
Planetary Sciences
Feb 16, 2023
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