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Part of Mars broke off and fell on Earth. It has revealed a big secret
1 month, 1 week ago

Part of Mars broke off and fell on Earth. It has revealed a big secret

India Today  

Eleven million years ago, an asteroid slammed into Mars, scattering fragments of the red planet into space. In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have determined that liquid water was present on Mars 742 million years ago, thanks to the meteorite found at Purdue University. The team's analysis revealed that these minerals formed 742 million years ago, a time when liquid water …

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New research shows most space rocks crashing into Earth come from a single source
1 month, 2 weeks ago

New research shows most space rocks crashing into Earth come from a single source

Raw Story  

The sight of a fireball streaking across the sky brings wonder and excitement to children and adults alike. The papers trace the origin of most meteorites to just a handful of asteroid breakup events – and possibly even individual asteroids. NASA/McREL One family of asteroids The two new studies place the sources of ordinary chondrite types into specific asteroid families …

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Breakthrough technique may help spot ‘city-killer’ meteorites years in advance
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Breakthrough technique may help spot ‘city-killer’ meteorites years in advance

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Astronomers have developed a new way to trace the paths of potential “city-killer” …

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Scientists find where most meteorites come from
2 months, 1 week ago

Scientists find where most meteorites come from

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Those families came about after collisions in the asteroid belt: one 5.8 million years ago, one 7.5 …

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Secret spacecraft and lost meteorites herald golden age of amateur astronomy
4 months, 1 week ago

Secret spacecraft and lost meteorites herald golden age of amateur astronomy

The Independent  

On a Sunday evening in late February 2021, a fluorescent green fireball flashed across the skies of Gloucestershire, heading in the direction of the village of Winchcombe. “We are in a new golden age of amateur astronomy,” Steve Brown, an amateur astronomer from North Yorkshire, tells The Independent. In modern times though, anyone can take up the hobby and it …

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New Moon research yields tantalizing clues about its geological history
10 months, 2 weeks ago

New Moon research yields tantalizing clues about its geological history

Salon  

The Moon has a long, chaotic geological history almost as old as Earth itself. As the study itself explained, the finding of high pressure silica polymorphs in that sample "highlights the potential of multiplying high-pressure minerals in lunar materials, which could provide new information about impact processes on the Moon and other planetary bodies in the early Solar System." "New …

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The longstanding mystery of Mars’ moons – and the mission that could solve it
1 year ago

The longstanding mystery of Mars’ moons – and the mission that could solve it

The Hindu  

The two small moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos, have been puzzling scientists for decades, with their origin remaining a matter of debate. Giveaways If an impact origin did indeed occur, we would expect to find similar material on Phobos to that which is found on Mars. If Phobos formed in the same or at least similar location in the …

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Watch with 12 meteorite inserts from ‘Moon, Mars and space’ breaks world record
1 year, 2 months ago

Watch with 12 meteorite inserts from ‘Moon, Mars and space’ breaks world record

Hindustan Times  

A video of an incredible watch with meteorite inserts was shared online. The video is posted on Instagram with a caption that reads, “Most meteorite inserts in a watch 12 by Les Ateliers Louis Moinet S.A.” The image shows the record-breaking watch made with meteorite inserts. A voiceover on the video explains that the rocks are "extremely rare and valuable.” …

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The Art of Capturing Meteorites’ Mineral Mosaics
1 year, 8 months ago

The Art of Capturing Meteorites’ Mineral Mosaics

Wired  

When Neil Buckland, an artist based in Seattle, met a geologist named Tony Irving a few years ago, he had no idea it would launch an extraterrestrial collaboration. 1 / 4 Chevron Chevron Photograph: Neil Buckland Found by hunters in Algeria after a fireball event in 2013, this meteorite displays the blues and greens of pyroxene, a mineral typically found …

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A rare fireball flew over Maine. Now there's a $25K reward for pieces of space rock
1 year, 8 months ago

A rare fireball flew over Maine. Now there's a $25K reward for pieces of space rock

NPR  

A rare fireball flew over Maine. Now there's a $25K reward for pieces of space rock Enlarge this image toggle caption AP AP A rare fireball was spotted streaking across the northern Maine sky in broad daylight last week. "The existence of positive Doppler radar returns — meteorites detected descending through the atmosphere just several miles above ground — assures …

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Meteorite that fell in Gujarat in August rare aubrite seen last 170 years back
1 year, 10 months ago

Meteorite that fell in Gujarat in August rare aubrite seen last 170 years back

Hindustan Times  

The meteorite that fell in Gujarat’s Banaskantha district on August 17 last year was a rare specimen of an aubrite seen in India for the first time since 1852, according to a paper published in the Indian Academy of Sciences peer-reviewed journal Current Science last month. The researchers said aubrites are rare meteorites originating from an extremely reduced differentiated parent …

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Rare 17-pound meteorite discovered in Antarctica
1 year, 11 months ago

Rare 17-pound meteorite discovered in Antarctica

CNN  

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. “We’re either walking around or driving on a snowmobile, looking on the surface.” The expedition team is shown: Maria Schönbächler of ETH-Zurich, Ryoga Maeda of Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Université Libre de Bruxelles, Vinciane Debaille of ULB, and Maria Valdes of the Field Museum and University of Chicago. And it plugged into …

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Researchers say meteorites could have paved way for life on Earth. Here's how
2 years ago

Researchers say meteorites could have paved way for life on Earth. Here's how

Hindustan Times  

Even as detailed images of distant galaxies from the James Webb Space Telescope show us more of the greater universe, scientists still disagree about how life began here on Earth. One hypothesis is that meteorites delivered amino acids life's building blocks to our planet. Now, researchers have experimentally shown that amino acids could have formed in these early meteorites from …

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How was Moon formed? Scientists shed new light on its origin
2 years, 4 months ago

How was Moon formed? Scientists shed new light on its origin

India TV News  

Highlights Scientists have informed new facts about presence of gases on its surface The study will help understand how Moon and potentially, the Earth & other celestial bodies formed For the study, team ETH Zurich analysed six samples of lunar meteorites from Antarctic collection Moon Exploration: Scientists have discovered the first definitive proof that the Moon inherited indigenous noble gases …

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Do we have new evidence of the Moon’s origin linked to the Earth?
2 years, 4 months ago

Do we have new evidence of the Moon’s origin linked to the Earth?

The Hindu  

Over the course of nearly five centuries, researchers put forward numerous, much debated theories as to how the Moon was formed. Now, researchers at ETH Zurich discover the first definitive proof that the Moon inherited indigenous noble gases from the Earth’s mantle. They show that the Moon inherited the indigenous noble gases of helium and neon from Earth’s mantle. Their …

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Scientists finally understand the strange behaviour of meteorites as they fall to Earth
2 years, 4 months ago

Scientists finally understand the strange behaviour of meteorites as they fall to Earth

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. "Most of our meteorites fall from rocks the size of grapefruits to small cars," said lead author …

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Scientist discover all ingredients necessary for DNA in meteorite for first time
2 years, 7 months ago

Scientist discover all ingredients necessary for DNA in meteorite for first time

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. These “nucleobases” are not examples of extraterrestrial life, but instead the result of chemistry taking place on …

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First look at Japanese Hayabusa2 asteroid sample indicates Ryugu is similar to Earth's rarest meteorites
3 years ago

First look at Japanese Hayabusa2 asteroid sample indicates Ryugu is similar to Earth's rarest meteorites

ABC  

Just over a year ago, a space capsule carrying a very special cargo streaked across the sky and touched down in the South Australian outback. Key points: The Japanese Hayabusa2 mission is the first to bring a sample of dust and pebbles back to Earth from a carbon-rich asteroid The sample indicates Ryugu is very similar to the rarest type …

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Our early solar system had a gap between its two regions, study finds
3 years, 2 months ago

Our early solar system had a gap between its two regions, study finds

Daily Mail  

Our early solar system had a gap between its inner and outer regions even when it was just a swirling mass of gas and dust, a new study reveals. In the early solar system, the 'protoplanetary disk' of dust and gas rotated around the sun and eventually coalesced into the planets we know today Previously, scientists have proposed that this …

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Size matters: Mars was 'doomed from beginning' due to its small size to hold water
3 years, 3 months ago

Size matters: Mars was 'doomed from beginning' due to its small size to hold water

India Today  

Mars, the crimson Red Planet was always doomed and headed towards deterioration, not just because of major climatic events, but due to its small size to hold onto large amounts of water. Researchers have long believed that the Red Planet once hosted vast water lakes just like Earth, which is the centre of research for Curiosity and Perseverance rovers trundling …

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500 Million Years of Data Shows Meteorites Hit Earth Way Less Than What Scientists Thought
3 years, 6 months ago

500 Million Years of Data Shows Meteorites Hit Earth Way Less Than What Scientists Thought

News 18  

Scientists at Lund University in Sweden tracked meteorite impacts on earth that happened over the past 500 million years. To scientists' surprise, the influx of meteorites – space rocks – has been surprisingly stable despite major collisions happening in the asteroid belt of our solar system. Using the information from chromium oxide that came from almost 10,000 meteorites, the astronomers …

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Martian subsurface has ingredients for present-day microbial life
3 years, 8 months ago

Martian subsurface has ingredients for present-day microbial life

India TV News  

The Martian subsurface might be a good place to look for possible present-day life on the Red Planet, according to a study. The study, published in the journal Astrobiology, looked at the chemical composition of Martian meteorites -- rocks blasted off of the surface of Mars that eventually landed on Earth. "The big implication here for subsurface exploration science is …

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US Scientists Literally Baked Meteorites in a Lab to Recreate the Formation of Planets
3 years, 8 months ago

US Scientists Literally Baked Meteorites in a Lab to Recreate the Formation of Planets

News 18  

A team of scientists at the University of California, Santa Cruz in the US are baking up meteorites in order to seek answers regarding the formation of planets. One of the co-authors of the study Myrian Telus spoke of the study, “We’re trying to simulate in the laboratory this very early process when a planet’s atmosphere is forming so we …

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Lightning may have sparked life on Earth, study finds
3 years, 9 months ago

Lightning may have sparked life on Earth, study finds

Hindustan Times  

Lightning strikes may have supplied primordial Earth with enough phosphorus to support the emergence of life, according to new research Tuesday that offered an alternative explanation as to how living organisms were born. They then estimated how much schreibersite could have been produced over the eons before and around the time of the emergence of life on Earth, around 3.5 …

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