The object, identified as a fireball, "exploded 27 miles above West Forest, Georgia, unleashing an energy of about 20 tons of ...

Meteorites are fragments of space rocks like asteroids or comets that survive passing through Earth's atmosphere, landing on the surface. ... 1857: Octahedrite, Laurens County; ...

Ann Hodges is the only confirmed person in history to have been hit by a meteorite. Moody Jacobs shows a giant bruise on the side and hip of his patient, Ann Hodges, in 1954, after she was struck ...

They are known to exist in four meteorites, one being the crater-forming Canyon Diablo coarse octahedrite (iron), and the others the three known members of the ureilite class of stony meteorites1 ...

Without meteorites, you probably wouldn’t be reading this. As writer Maria Golia explains in her new book, Meteorite: Nature And Culture, meteorite bombardments during Earth’s infancy may have ...

Tucson is the epicenter of a meteorite hunt after a shower of space rocks landed north of the city Tuesday night. The event began at 7:11 p.m. with a window-rattling sonic boom, as a massive ...

Meteorite source identification utilizes a suite of methods. Reflectance spectroscopy, on the other hand, enables researchers to study the mineral composition of asteroid surfaces through the ...

Nature - Abundances of the Rare-Earth Elements, Lanthanum to Lutetium, in Chondritic Meteorites ...

Want to watch a meteor shower, but your evenings usually involve conking out on the sofa by 9 pm? We come bearing great news – it’s the peak of the Arietids this weekend, the most active ...