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Flash over Kyiv believed to be meteorite

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 where it t...
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Space race! Meteorites hit Maine, museum offers $25K reward

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 fiery ...
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Astonishing discovery! Oldest meteor strike in history found

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

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 meteor's sp...
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1000-pound FIREBALL explodes over US, terrifies locals; NASA identifies it as meteoroid

An amazing event occurred in the evening skies of Texas, USA that left the local citizens terrified. On Wednesday, February 15, a gigantic fireball was seen zooming across the sky near the USA and Mexico border. McAllen, Texas got the best view of the event and many residents reported hearing loud boom and experienced their houses shaking as the fireball flew past in the sky. NASA, after running a preliminary analysis, believes that the fireball was caused by a meteoroid that exploded yesterday. As further examination continues, local authorities have issued a warning asking residents to not touch the debris from the explosion.In a report posted by NASA, the space agency stated, “Based on analysis of preliminary information from several sources, NASA experts believe the object was a m...
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Researchers discover largest known fresh meteorite strike on Mars

Researchers have helped discover the largest fresh meteorite impact craters on Mars since NASA's Orbiter began scouring the planet. Since NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter began scouring the planet for them 16 years ago, Curtin University researchers have assisted in the discovery of the largest fresh meteorite impact craters on Mars, one of which contained ice at the lowest altitude ever observed. The two Curtin scientists were the only Australian representatives on a NASA-led international research team that helped make the rare discovery of two impact craters larger than 130 meters in diameter each that formed on Mars in the second half of 2021. Associate Professor Katarina Miljkovic, from Curtin's Space Science and Technology Centre and the School of Earth and Planetary ...
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Touch the skies! NASA scientist hot in hunt for fiery meteorite that crashed to Earth

NASA scientist has literally taken to the sky to track the meteorite that tore through Utah. Weeks after a fiery meteorite into Earth, a scientist from NASA has taken to the skies to track down the path of the meteorite. The meteorite had crashed in Utah. Peter Jenniskens boarded a KSL-TV chopper to look for a hole in the ground where the meteorite hit the earth. He said, “"We're literally looking for a hole in the ground, yeah, because the soil here is fairly soft and it looks like the rocks are just punching through." The empty hole that Jenniskens did discover shows no evidence of the rock, but the information will help Jenniskens in tracking the details as he said, “So, it does look like something was dug out here, so it...