It happens a few times every year. Last week, we poured our morning coffee, powered up our laptop and phone, and prepared to engage the day.
Space Exploration
Aug 2, 2016
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Social media is lighting up with reports from Nevada, Utah and California of a small fireball streaking across the sky.
Space Exploration
Jul 28, 2016
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Having been reported in lunar samples returned by Apollo astronauts, meteorites, impact glass, and at a number of meteorite craters on Earth, granular zircon is the most unusual and enigmatic type of zircon known. The mechanisms ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 27, 2016
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In molten sandstone extracted by prospectors a century ago, an international team of scientists has discovered microscopic crystals telling of unimaginable pressures and temperatures when a 50-meter asteroid (traveling 12 ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 26, 2016
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An expert in meteorites says a bright flashing light and loud boom over the skies in metro Phoenix looks like a single meteor burning up as it entered the Earth's atmosphere at thousands of miles per hour.
Space Exploration
Jun 2, 2016
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(Phys.org)—Discovered in 1983, the near-Earth asteroid Phaethon is an intriguing object, primarily due to its unusual orbit. Recently, an international team of astronomers has conducted a detailed study of this unique space ...
A police sergeant looking for speeders captured a fireball streaking across the sky on his dashboard camera early Tuesday.
Space Exploration
May 17, 2016
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Itching to watch a meteor shower and don't mind getting up at an early hour? Good because this should be a great year for the annual Eta Aquarid (AY-tuh ah-QWAR-ids) shower which peaks on Thursday and Friday mornings May ...
Space Exploration
May 5, 2016
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For those of you needing to escape the (Australian) budget this week, the cosmos has produced a perfect distraction with the regular and reliable meteor shower, the Eta Aquarids, to give you a reason to look up from the paperwork.
Space Exploration
May 4, 2016
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Mars will have its best opposition in more than a decade in May.
Space Exploration
Apr 29, 2016
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