Weatherwatch: Meteorology blame it on Aristotle
The Guardian
The word meteor was in 1590 specifically used to mean a fireball or shooting star. Photograph: Alamy Why is the study of the weather confusingly known as meteorology? We can blame Aristotle, who wrote a book on the weather describing the interplay of ...
Farmer Finds Rare Meteorite
Discovery NewsScientists are analyzing an extremely rare meteorite found by a farmer in a tiny Missouri town called Conception Junction (population 202), reports Washington University in St. Louis, which helped identify the rock. An unnamed farmer had found the ...
