A meteorite that stunned the world when it blazed through the sky and plummeted into a frozen Lake Michigan on January 16, 2018 has been analysed by scientists. The six-foot wide rock fragmented and illuminated the sky while travelling at 30,000mph, with footage of the event going viral around the world. Fragments were rapidly tracked … Read more
Massive three mile wide meteorite crater is discovered by gold miners in Australia’s Outback that formed some 100 MILLION years ago A meteorite crater was discovered in Western Australia’s Outback Scientists determined the crater stretches three miles across The team found shoot cones at the site, which is a sign of a meteorite impact These … Read more
Massive three mile wide meteorite crater is discovered by gold miners in Australia’s Outback that formed some 100 MILLION years ago A meteorite crater was discovered in Western Australia’s Outback Scientists determined the crater stretches three miles across The team found shoot cones at the site, which is a sign of a meteorite impact These … Read more
Thousands of people have rushed to a remote Brazilian town after hundreds of chunks of a 4.6 billion-year-old meteorite began to fall ‘like rain’ from the sky. As many as 200 fragments of the meteorite, which fell on August 19, have been found so far in Santa Filomena, northeastern Brazil. The biggest weighed 40kg and … Read more
Thousands of people have rushed to a remote Brazilian town after hundreds of chunks of a 4.6 billion-year-old meteorite began to fall ‘like rain’ from the sky. As many as 200 fragments of the meteorite, which fell on August 19, have been found so far in Santa Filomena, northeastern Brazil. The biggest weighed 40kg and … Read more
A small, rainbow colored meteorite discovered in Costa Rica last year may be harboring the building blocks of life. The cosmic rock was once connected to washing machine-sized asteroid that fell to the Earth on April 23, 2019, scattering across two villages – La Palmera and Aguas Zarcas. The asteroid was a remnant of the … Read more
First ever proof a meteorite killed a human: Study uncovers 1888 report to Ottoman sultan of a meteor ‘falling like rain’ and killing a man and paralysing another Researchers at the Meteoritical Society found evidence of event in August 1888 Documents kept by Turkish government archives describe a meteorite in Iraq It fell on village … Read more