Hikers in Scotland are being asked to assist scientists in a “race against time” to recover fragments of a meteorite streaked across the sky on July 3. On September 12, the UK Fireball Alliance ...
Carbon-containing meteorites look like they had less severe impacts than those without carbon because the evidence was blasted into space by gases produced during the impact. The discovery not only ...
A fireball disintegrated in the sky over Eureka Springs on Saturday night, possibly strewing meteorites from the tourist town northwest to Gateway. Or, it may have burned up entirely as it entered the ...
Imagine walking across your field, picking up rocks like you've done a thousand times before, when suddenly you're holding a piece of space itself. Maybe it's been sitting there for centuries.Or maybe ...
In carbon-containing meteorites, impacts create extremely hot carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide gases (yellow). Kurosawa says: “We found that the momentum of the ensuing explosion is enough to eject ...