A slice of the El Ali meteorite, now housed in the U of A's Meteorite Collection, contains two minerals never before seen on Earth. A team of researchers has discovered at least two new minerals that ...
The Wedderburn meteorite is named for the remote gold rush town of Wedderburn in the state of Victoria, Australia, where it was found in 1951. The small, 210-gram (7.4 ounces) space rock is red and ...
Man’s “gold nugget” find in Australia turns out to be a 4.6-billion-year-old meteorite, offering rare clues to the early ...
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Man Keeps Rock For Years, Hoping It's Gold. It Turned Out to Be Way More Valuable.
"Meteorites provide the cheapest form of space exploration. They transport us back in time, providing clues to the age, ...
BETHEL, Maine -- Meteorite hunters, get ready to head into the woods. A museum in Maine is offering $25,000 for the remains of a space rock that streaked across the sky last week before landing near ...
Allabogdanite was first reported in the early 2000s from the Onello – a small iron meteorite recovered from the gold placer at the Bolshoi Dolguchan River in Eastern Yakutia. Chemically, the mineral ...
Evidence is growing that Mars was once sloshy and wet, draped with lakes and oceans, which lapped at shorelines and deposited sediments that are, even as you read these words, being scrutinized by ...
After a 500 million mile journey, a piece of the asteroid Bennu is now on display at the Smithsonian. But how did it get here? Ellyn Lapointe The Smithsonian is the first institution to display a ...
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This Mysterious Meteorite Holds Evidence That Water Existed On Mars Around 742 Million Years Ago
In 1931, a meteorite was discovered in a drawer at Purdue University. No one knew who it originally belonged to or where it came from. Researchers didn't realize that the gases trapped within the rock ...
A bright fireball streaked across the sky above mountains, glaciers and spruce forest near the town of Revelstoke in British Columbia, Canada, on the evening of March 31, 1965. Fragments of this ...
Samples brought back to Earth from asteroid "Bennu" in 2023 have been found to contain crucial building blocks for life—including amino acids and all five DNA and RNA nucleobases. The findings, ...
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