The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 17AUG2024

Strange meteorites have been traced to their source craters on Mars | New Scientist
New Scientist
The meteorites are all igneous rocks, meaning they are pieces of solidified lava. Pete Mouginis-Mark at University of Hawai'i at Mānoa says that while ...

Scientists Have Traced Six Meteorites Back to Their Original Craters on Mars in a Scientific First
The Debrief
Christopher Herd, a professor and curator at the University of Alberta Meteorite Collection, led recent research that revealed that these meteorites ...

The Chicxulub Impactor Was A Carbonaceous-type Asteroid From Beyond Jupiter
the Astrobiology Web
... meteorites. These elevated PGE levels have been found globally, suggesting the impact spread debris worldwide. While some propose large-scale ...

Ruthenium isotopes show the Chicxulub impactor was a carbonaceous-type asteroid | Science
Science
However, unlike other meteorite groups, the CCs have large variations between individual meteorites (Fig. ... meteorite Allende, and the CI meteorite ...

Isotope analysis reveals origins of asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs - Chemistry World
Chemistry World
... asteroids and meteorites. The Earth's crust is normally very poor in precious metals such as platinum, palladium and ruthenium because these ...

Crater formed from Earth's extinction event produced by carbon-rich 'C-type' asteroid ...
The Guardian
Experts studying material from event 66m years ago find signs to show how Chicxulub impact crater was formed.

Découverte exceptionnelle d'une météorite riche en grains pré-solaires nés dans des étoiles ...
Futura-Sciences
Jean Redelsperger a ainsi expliqué à Futura qu'il avait « eu la chance de faire classifier une météorite qui s'est avérée être une météorite carbonée ...

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The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 16AUG2024

Dazzling photo shows Perseid meteor shower's "ancient fireworks" raining down on Stonehenge
CBS News
The Perseid meteor shower, one of the most highly anticipated celestial events every year, just took place — and at Stonehenge, one photographer ...

The Chicxulub Impactor Was A Carbonaceous-type Asteroid From Beyond Jupiter
the Astrobiology Web
... meteorites and black solid symbols indicate their averages. All plotted terrestrial and meteorite data are listed in Table 1 and table S3 ...

Crater formed from Earth's extinction event produced by carbon-rich 'C-type' asteroid ...
Guardian
Instead the ruthenium isotope findings tally with the average composition of meteorites from carbonaceous (C-type) asteroids – carbon-rich space rocks ...

We just learned where the asteroid that ended dinosaurs came from - National Geographic
National Geographic
Geological clues suggest that the space rock that created Chicxulub crater was a carbonaceous chondrite meteorite ... meteorites and asteroids.

Dino-killing asteroid came from beyond Jupiter | Science | AAAS
Science
They find the samples have the same mixture of isotopes seen in carbonaceous chondrite meteorites. “It really bolsters the work that's been done ...

Dinosaur-killing Chicxulub meteorite came from the edge of the solar system
Natural History Museum
The prime suspect in the extinction of the dinosaurs was no ordinary meteorite, researchers have revealed. Comparisons between the chemical record ...

Exploring stellar Charlevoix: Come with me to quaint Quebec - Canada.Com
Canada.Com
Around 450 million years ago a massive meteor crashed on Earth leaving a large crater, which we now call Charlevoix, Quebec. Charlevoix (pronounced, ...

Richard Jefferies' meteor - NASA/ADS - Astrophysics Data System
Astrophysics Data System
Richard Jefferies' meteor. Denning, W. F.. Abstract. Publication: The Observatory. Pub Date: October 1922; Bibcode: 1922Obs....45..316D. full text ...

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