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Shocking find by NASA Parker Solar Probe; Lightning on Venus may be meteors crashing

7Oct

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Shocking find by NASA Parker Solar Probe; Lightning on Venus may be meteors crashing

[ad_1] NASA is running various space missions to find out the secrets of the universe. One of the major missions of the space agency is the Parker Solar probe. The spacecraft has been tasked with orbiting the Sun to find out crucial data around sunspots, solar flares, coronal mass ejections (CME), and solar storms. However, in its journey, it routinely flies past Venus. And this has allowed Parker Solar Probe to possibly find the reason behind one of the biggest phenomena that has confused scientists for years. It found that the lightning on Venus may not actually be lightning at all. In fact, they are likely to be meteors that are striking the planet and are burning up in its atmosphere.Venus lightning stormsThe revelation came in 2021 when the Parker Solar Probe executed a routine fly...

Blazing meteors seen crashing into the Sun for the first time ever; Know what it is

5Jul

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Blazing meteors seen crashing into the Sun for the first time ever; Know what it is

[ad_1] For decades, scientists have been trying to study the Sun's outermost layer and its increasing temperature. However, recently researchers have discovered plasma fireballs that are looking like blazing meteors or shooting stars on the sun's surface. The stunning incident was captured by the European Space Agency's Solar Parker spacecraft recently.A shooting star and a solar shooting star are quite different. The shooting stars that we can see from Earth are the particles of space dust, rock, or small asteroids that enter the Earth's atmosphere. While Solar shooting stars are massive clumps of plasma that crash to the sun's surface at extraordinary speeds. As per IFLScience, European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter (SolO), discovered that coronal rain was hiding these meteor-like fire...

Flash over Kyiv believed to be meteorite

21Apr

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Flash over Kyiv believed to be meteorite

[ad_1] A bright flash seen over Kyiv was probably a meteorite, Ukraine's space agency said Thursday, after officials denied it was a satellite or a Russian missile attack.The head of the city's military administration had said that the flash was caused by a NASA satellite returning to Earth. But a NASA spokesman told AFP that this was not the case as the satellite in question was "still in orbit". "We cannot identify what it was exactly, but our assumption is that it was a meteorite," Igor Korniyenko, the deputy head of a control centre at Ukraine's national space agency said Thursday.But he said there was not sufficient data to determine "the exact nature" of what might have caused the flash."Our observation devices showed it was a powerful explosion. We recorded it and determined wher...

Space race! Meteorites hit Maine, museum offers $25K reward

13Apr

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Space race! Meteorites hit Maine, museum offers $25K reward

[ad_1] Somewhere in a remote stretch of forest near Maine's border with Canada, rocks from space crashed to Earth and may be scattered across the ground — just waiting to be picked up.If you're the first to find a really big one, a museum says it'll pay out a $25,000 reward. The unusually bright fireball could be seen in broad daylight around noon Saturday, said Darryl Pitt, chair of the meteorite division at the Maine Mineral and Gem Museum in Bethel. NASA said the falling meteors was observed on radar — a first for Maine — and witnesses heard sonic booms.The museum wants to add to its collection of moon and Mars rocks, Pitt said, so the first meteorite hunters to deliver a 1-kilogram (2.2-pound) specimen will claim the $25,000 prize.According to Pitt, the fact that radar detected the ...

Astonishing discovery! Oldest meteor strike in history found

6Apr

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Astonishing discovery! Oldest meteor strike in history found

[ad_1] Meteors are objects in space which enter Earth's atmosphere at high speed and burn up, and are visible in the form of fireballs or “shooting stars”. If the meteor falls on the surface of the planet without burning up completely, it is called a Meteorite. Earth's atmosphere usually acts as a barrier and incinerates these objects, but there are instances where this does not happen and fragments reach the surface of the Earth.Oldest meteor to dateScientists in Australia have recently uncovered evidence of the oldest meteor strike on Earth. Prior to this discovery, the most ancient evidence of meteor collisions were the 3.47 billion years old spherical fragments discovered in the Pilbara Craton in Western Australia. Now, researchers have revealed that they have found evidence of mete...

1000-pound meteorite crashed in Texas; it had energy of 8 tons of TNT

23Feb

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1000-pound meteorite crashed in Texas; it had energy of 8 tons of TNT

[ad_1] Several people observed a meteorite illuminating the skies in Texas a few days ago on February 15 as it transformed into a fireball. While these space rocks usually have close encounters with Earth, they rarely come close enough to crash. The likelihood of meteors hitting the Earth's surface is low. However, this doesn't imply that these celestial rocks have never collided with Earth. An asteroid crashed on Earth around 10 days ago and, if you include this new meteorite crash, it makes for two surface impacts in the span of 20 days.NASA revealed that a meteorite turned into an atmospheric fireball and crashed near McAllen, Texas, on February 15 around 6:00 PM EST. It was a 1000-pound rock and it broke into pieces about 21 miles above Earth's surface. According to NASA, the meteo...

SHOCKING! Historic interstellar meteor CRASHED into Earth; NASA clocked it at 144000 kmph

12Oct

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SHOCKING! Historic interstellar meteor CRASHED into Earth; NASA clocked it at 144000 kmph

[ad_1] The 2nd ever interstellar meteor that crashed into Earth was speeding at a shocking 144000 kmph, NASA shows. In 2014, a meteor was observed by NASA sensors. Back then, it wasn't thought to be of much importance apart from the fact that it was placed very far in the solar system. In 2019, NASA began looking for interstellar celestial bodies and the meteor, known as IM1, was confirmed to be the first ever interstellar meteor seen. For the unaware, interstellar celestial bodies are unique. They are any object from outer space that enters the solar system. These objects are very rare to spot since the Earth is placed in the inner circle of the solar system and asteroids and meteors don't come so close to the Sun. In fact, so far only one such space rock has been identified. Or so w...