Scientists have offered new insights into the origin of diamonds in a group of stony meteorites called ureilites. These diamonds most likely formed by rapid shock transformation from graphite during one or more major impacts into the ureilite parent asteroid in the early solar system.
A new study, posits that impact craters should absolutely be considered by space agencies like NASA and ESA as top exploration targets, not just for their invaluable post-impact geological records, but also -- and perhaps more importantly -- as prime locations for seeking potential habitats for extraterrestrial life.
The teams of geologists in the Geographical Survey of India's Ahmedabad and Jaipur office have been contacted for further examination. The object is currently at Sanchore police station.
Christie's Auctions & Private Sales on Thursday announced that one of the world's largest lunar meteorites will be on private sale valued at 2 million pounds ($2.49 million). The moon rock, weighing over 13.5 kg, was probably struck off the surface of the moon by a collision with an asteroid or comet and then showered down on the Sahara desert.
Volcanic activity in India's Deccan Traps, previously thought to have contributed to the extinction of dinosaurs, did not play a role in their die-off, according to a study which suggests meteorite impact alone led to death of the ancient reptiles.
According to the information, the town of Murchison in Victoria state witnessed oldest of 40 tiny dust grains, that were trapped inside the meteorite fragments about 7 billion years ago, about 2.5 billion years before the sun, Earth and rest of our solar system formed.
In a first, researchers have found that the dinosaur-killing meteorite that crashed into the Earth 66 million years ago may have instantly acidified the oceans by causing a release of excess sulphur into the atmosphere and the seas. The researchers, including those from Yale University in the US, said that the impact from the space rock pulverised sulphur-rich rocks, and caused the raining-out of sulphuric acid which may have led to increased ocean acidity.
Weighing 13 kgs, the suspected meteorite crashed with a loud thud in Mahadeva village under Laukahi police station area on Monday, following which a group of farmers working in a field extracted it from a five-feet-deep hole in the ground – caused by the fall, a release from the Chief Minister's Office said.
A celestial object, weighing more than 10 kg and having magnetic properties, landed in a village of this north Bihar district a couple of days ago, a senior official said on Wednesday.
The objects also include Gibeon Meteorites that landed on landed on Earth thousands of years ago when a wandering iron mass slammed exploded and rained down in the Kalahari Desert in Nambia.
A space rock collided with the Moon at a speed of 61,000 kilometres an hour during the total lunar eclipse in January this year, excavating a crater 10 to 15 metres across, scientists say.
The nearly 23-pound hunk of iron and nickel is the sixth largest meteorite found in Michigan, according to the Smithsonian Museum and Central Michigan University.
SaU008 will be the first Martian meteorite to have a fragment return to the planet’s surface.
A recent study has found that water may have been brought to Earth by meteorites during the first two million years of birth of the solar system.
As the word spread, crowd gathered on the field to look, with many of them terming it a ‘meteor’ that shooted from the sky.
A 50-year-old resident of a village in northern Bosnia (a country on the Balkan Peninsula in southeastern Europe), near Prijedor claims that he has been attacked by aliens through the meteorite strikes that always happen
Chennai: Challenging NASA's statement that the object that killed a driver in an engineering college in Vellore was not a meteorite, experts from the Tiruchirapalli-based National College said that the 'samples collected from the spot
Washington: US space agency NASA has said that an explosion in Tamil Nadu that left one man dead and three others injured does not appear to be a result of a meteorite crash.According to a
Chennai: This may be the first official confirmation of an object from space killing a living thing on earth this side of the 20th century.If the object is confirmed to be a meteorite -- a
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