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Auction of world's largest Mars meteorite sparks ownership debate - Phys.org

Phys.org

The recent auction of a Martian meteorite—for a record-grabbing $5.3 million at Sotheby's New York—has sparked questions over its provenance and ...

Fireball seen in SC was older than Earth. Why didn't NASA spot it? - Greenville Online Greenville Online Additional pieces of the meteorite can be viewed at the Tellus Science Museum in Cartersville, Georgia, where it will be publicly displayed.

Meteorite That Punched Through Georgia Home's Roof 4.56B Years Old Roofing Contractor The ancient space object had enough velocity to blow through a residential roof and HVAC duct · The McDonough Meteorite · Does Insurance Cover ... Auction of world's largest Mars meteorite sparks ownership debate - France 24 France 24 The recent auction of a Martian meteorite -- for a record-grabbing $5.3 million at Sotheby's New York -- has sparked questions over its provenance ... Auction of world's largest Mars meteorite sparks ownership debate - Bangkok Post Bangkok Post WASHINGTON - The recent auction of a Martian meteorite -- for a record-grabbing $5.3 million at Sotheby's New York -- has sparked questions over ... Cosmic ray exposure ages and pre‐atmospheric shielding of Omani meteorites - ResearchGate ResearchGate For these meteorites, the new terrestrial ages are systematically younger than the ages calculated earlier using a shielding‐independent approach.

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Mars Meteorite Found in Niger Sells for $4.3M in New York, Sparking Legal Battle - Tekedia Tekedia Weighing 24.7 kilograms (54 pounds), it is the largest known Martian meteorite ever discovered on Earth. To put that into perspective, out of the ... Niger investigates how Mars meteorite that landed in Sahara has been sold privately in New York Morning Star Meteorite hunters often scour the Sahara, where the climate encourages preservation and a lack of human disturbance leaves extraterrestrial matter ... The world's biggest Mars rock sold at auction, but Niger wants to know how it got there Euronews.com But Niger, where the meteorite was found, has launched an investigation into whether it was illegally smuggled out of the country.

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The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 10AUG2025

Mars rock found in Niger sells for millions in New York - now the country wants answers - BBC BBC Prof Paul Sereno says down the phone line from Chicago. He makes no effort to disguise his anger that a rare meteorite from Mars discovered two years ... A meteorite crashed into a Georgia home. Scientists say it's older than the Earth itself The Independent Fragments of the meteorite hurtled into the roof of a homeowner in McDonough, Henry County, just south of Atlanta, leaving behind a hole the size of a ... Meteorite fragment that slammed through homeowner's roof is billions of years old, predates Earth New York Post University of Georgia geology professor Scott Harris determined that a meteorite fragment that crashed through the roof of a home in Georgia last ... Meteorite identified after crashing into Georgia home | Fox Weather FOX Weather The space debris, now known as the "McDonough Meteorite," crashed through Earth's atmosphere on June 26, creating a large fireball before damaging a ...

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Chinese scientists create meteorite diamond in laboratory breakthrough

South China Morning Post

The first hexagonal-structured diamond was discovered in 1967 within the Canyon Diablo meteorite that hit Arizona 49,000 years ago. It was widely ...

A fiery meteor that punched through a Georgia home's roof is older than Earth, a scientist says AP News A scientist says fragments of a meteorite that punched through a Georgia homeowner's roof after blazing across the sky in a fiery streak is older ... UGA names meteorite that crashed in Henry County home, receives portion for study WSB-TV The University of Georgia has identified and named a meteorite that crash-landed in a Georgia residence as the McDonough Meteorite, estimated to ... UGA analyzes and names new meteorite | State & National | tribuneledgernews.com Cherokee Tribune Andrew Davis Tucker/University of Georgia. Detail of fragments of a meteorite that are being analyzed by researcher ...

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Meteorite slams into Earth's atmosphere at 34km per second above Western Australia News.com.au A meteorite has been captured lighting up skies over Western Australia on “as a fist-sized chunk of space rock slammed” into the Earth's .. Meteorite lights up Perth skies | The Chronicle The Chronicle A meteorite lit up the skies of WA overnight slamming through the Earth's atmosphere at 34km per second.

The Meteorite That Hit A Georgia Home Was Older Than Earth The Georgia Sun The rock that punched a Georgia roof now has a name and a backstory. The name they have chosen is the McDonough Meteorite. Aug. 7, 1996: NASA announces martian life - Astronomy Magazine Astronomy Magazine Today in the history of astronomy, analysis of a meteorite jump-starts research in astrobiology. Diaphite structures of Campo del Cielo cliftonites indicate a terrestrial collision‐induced ... ResearchGate Cliftonites, polycrystalline aggregates of graphite with unusual cuboid morphology, are important carbon components of certain iron meteorites. Oman's giant sinkholes draw tourists — and safety concerns - Gulf News Gulf News Dhofar folklore has it that the sinkholes were created by meteorite strikes.

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The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 07AUG2025

Perth Observatory's Matt Wood confirms stony iron Meteorite lit up sky across WA on ... - PerthNow PerthNow A meteorite travelled through the atmosphere just after 9.30pm. Matt Woods, from the Perth Observatory, said the meteor was travelling anywhere ... Decoding Space Rocks with AI: The Meteorite Breakthrough - Securities.io Securities.io A meteorite is made up of various materials, including rock, metal, or a combination of both. These meteorites are studied by scientists in great ...

Hexagonal diamond inspired by meteorites is the hardest yet - Earth.com Earth.com Meteorites hinted at what was possible. Tiny lonsdaleite inclusions found in the Canyon Diablo meteorite in 1967 revealed a form of carbon harder ... AI Unlocks Meteorite's Secret, A Heat-Defying Mineral from Outer Space | Asianet Newsable Asianet Newsable A 1724 meteorite holds a rare mineral that defies the rules of heat. Thanks to AI, scientists just uncovered its thermal superpower. Fireball over South Africa - giant meteor caught on CCTV - TechCentral TechCentral No meteorite fragments have been recovered yet.” Details of the object are scant, but video footage from locations almost 200km apart suggest it ... Mineralogical and Chemical Mapping of Martian Meteorite SaU 008 Using Deep UV Raman ... ResearchGate PDF | The NASA Mars 2020 mission Perseverance rover carries a piece of Martian meteorite Sayh al Uhaymir (SaU) 008 as part of the calibration ...

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The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 06AUG2025

Earth's 'oldest' impact crater is much younger than previously thought, new study finds Space Case in point: the discovery of an ancient meteorite impact crater was recently reported in the remote Pilbara region of Western Australia. The ...

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The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 05AUG2025

Fireball lights up night sky over several provinces - Bangkok Post Bangkok Post According to astronomers, the fireball was caused by a meteorite entering the Earth's atmosphere at a height of 80 to 120 kilometres. The intense ... Rare green fireball illuminates Thai night sky, nickel content suspected - MSN MSN ... Fireball. The distinct green light observed is a key indicator, potentially signifying the meteor's metallic composition, specifically nickel. The ... Become an IMO Meteor Alerter! International Meteor Organization Unlike other astronomical phenomena—such as solar or lunar eclipses, stellar and planetary occultations—meteor events are largely unpredictable. Sultan bin Ahmed reviews latest developments at SAASST wam.ae ... Meteorite Laboratory Exhibition, which aims to catalogue and document meteorites and impact fragments. The briefing also covered the development ...

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Rare Green Fireball Illuminates Thai Night Sky, Nickel Content Suspected - Nation Thailand Nation Thailand Thai Astronomical Society confirms 'exceptionally bright' meteor, offering insights into its vivid hue.- NOTE- Color DOES NOT INDICATE NICKLE- poor reporting. Additional note- The newspaper ran a photo of the Sun and not that of a meteor. LMH

Rare green fireball illuminates Thai night sky, nickel content suspected | The Straits Times The Straits Times Footage and images widely circulated on social media depict this particular meteor as remarkably large and bright, with a luminosity described as ... NOTE- Photo used was not that of a meteor. LMH

Scientists Synthesize Meteorite Diamond Harder than Earth Diamond ana.ir TEHRAN (ANA)- Researchers have succeeded in synthesizing the hundred-micron-scale hexagonal diamond, a material primarily found in meteorites, ...

Scientists design superdiamonds with theoretically predicted hexagonal crystal structure Phys.org A 2022 study suggested that the high temperatures and shock compressions created during the meteor impact turn graphite in the meteorite into HD. Perseverance rover discovers mysterious spheres on Mars - Universe Space Tech Universe Space Tech ... meteorite impact or volcanic eruption. When a meteorite hits the surface of Mars, it can melt rock and spray droplets of molten rock into the air.

Meteoroid Stream Identification with HDBSCAN Unsupervised Clustering Algorithm - IOPscience IOP Science ... meteor shower observations to infer lunar meteoroid impact parameters. ... Meteoroids; Meteors; Meteor streams; Meteor showers; Classification.

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What happened when a meteorite the size of four Mount Everests hit Earth? 22OCT2024

What happened when a meteorite the size of four Mount Everests hit Earth?

What happened when a meteorite the size of four Mount Everests hit Earth?

Anne J, Manning, The Haravrd Gazette, October 21, 2024

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2024/10/what-happened-when-a-meteorite-the-size-of-four-mount-everests-hit-earth/

The open access paper is:

Drabon, N., Knoll, A.H., Lowe, D.R., and Mucciarone, D.A.

2024, Effect of a giant meteorite impact on Paleoarchean surface environments and life. Proceedings of the National

Academy of Sciences. 121 (44) e2408721121 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2408721121

https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2408721121

Yours,

Paul H.

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Kamil Crater, Egypt, "Strip-mined" and Destroyed by Meteorite Criminals 13OCT2024

Kamil Crater, Egypt, "Strip-mined" and Destroyed by Meteorite Criminals 13OCT2024

by Paul V. Heinrich

 https://theepistlesofpaul.blogspot.com/

Imagery of Kamil impact crater showing the extent of destruction as of 2023 and near intact crater in 2020.
©2024 Google Earth CNES/Airbus
Click on image to enlarge.

I was looking at Wikipedia at the write up about the Kamil Crater at 22° 1'5.89"N latitude and 26° 5'15.69"E longitude. A recent addition to the article by Enrique Díaz-Martínez, Spain at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamil_Crater
states:

"According to evidence provided by Google Earth images, Kamil crater morphology and its prototypical rayed structure (well-preserved radiating features) have been destroyed between 2020 and 2023, most probably due to exhaustive plundering of meteorite fragments. The last image of the well preserved crater is of February 2020, whereas it is fully destroyed in the next image dated May 2023, so it was destroyed between those two dates. The size of the wheel tracks visible on trails to/from the former crater indicate that heavy machinery was used for the collection of meteoritic material."

The note was added on October 10, 2024

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kamil_Crater&diff=prev&oldid=1250464561

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Ediazmartinez

I looked at the Google Earth images and essentially agree with what is written. Although the exact timeline is open to interpretation, the aerial images do show that this crater, which is a protected site, has been destroyed by people illegally mining it presumably for iron meteorite fragments and spherules. Heavy machinery, presumably electromagnets and other methods were used to vandalize, desecrate, and otherwise destroy this irreplaceable part of the Egypt's geological heritage for personal gain.

Undoubtedly, there are stolen Egyptian meteorites already in the marketplace for sale somewhere.

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Just Discovered Asteroid 2024 RW1 to Hit Luzon Philippines abt. 16h39 UT 5SEP2024

by Evgeniy Trofimov

Attention Philippines
9th Earth impactor on its way to Northern Philippines!
Freshly discovered in the first hours of September 4th by the Mt. Lemmon Survey (G96), part of Catalina Sky Survey, Asteroid 2024 RW1, CAQDTL2, is a small asteroid (around 1 m dimensions) coming from the main asteroid belt. But what’s exceptional with it, is that its orbit will soon bring it into the Earth atmosphere! For the 9th time in human history, an extraterrestrial object is discovered BEFORE it enters the Earth atmosphere. Seen the size of the impactor, the main highlights will be a major fireball and potential meteorites recoveries, but this remain a dramatic and scientifically valuable event.
From the actual calculations, which will be more and more accurate as long as we receive some new observations of the small Near Earth Object which is in space right now, it seems the entry area of the asteroid is in Northern Philippines, close to Luzon island, around 16h39 UT. Inhabitants close to this position should remain alert around that time, and try to enjoy the show. Best would even be to record it, and to send a Fireball Report Form to the IMO!
Today 04 you can make a video of a meteor (meteorite) at 00:32 - 44 (local time). You need to set up your camera and point it to the sky in the northern direction at this time 00:32 - 44 (local time) and wait for the Fireball
source: https://www.imo.net/9th-earth-impactor-on-its-way-to.../




Video by Jayrold P. Del Mundo

2024 RW1 • 12:39 AM LOCAL
SOLANA / TUGUEGARAO, CAGAYAN VALLEY, PHILIPPINES

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The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 03SEP2024

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