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Meteorites

Possible Meteorite Fragments from 1908 Tunguska Explosion Found

May 2, 2013

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter The 1908 explosion over the Tunguska region in Siberia has always been an enigma. While the leading theories of what caused the mid-air explosion are that an asteroid or comet shattered in an airburst event, no reliable trace of such a [...]

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Cosmic C.S.I.: Searching for the Origins of the Solar System in Two Grains of Sand

April 24, 2013

“The total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth,” Carl Sagan famously said in his iconic TV series Cosmos. But when two of those grains are made of a silicon-and-oxygen compound called silica, and they were found hiding deep inside [...]

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Meteorite Crashes Through Roof of a House in Connecticut

April 24, 2013

A rock that crashed through a house in Connecticut last weekend has been confirmed to be a meteorite. Homeowner Larry Beck called police in Wolcott, CT at 10:30 a.m. on April 20, 2013 and said a baseball-sized rock crashed through his home the night before, causing damage to his roof and pipes in the attic [...]

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Earth is the Most Exotic Place In The Universe

April 19, 2013

I’m often asked by students in my community education astronomy classes whether any new elements have been found in outer space unknown on Earth. The answer to the question is no – nature uses the same 98 natural elements to fashion everything from the familiar stars and planets to those in the farthest galaxies we [...]

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Giant Ancient Impact Crater Confirmed in Iowa

March 6, 2013

A monster lurks under northeastern Iowa. That monster is in the form of a giant buried basin, the result of a meteorite impact in central North America over 470 million years ago. Remove this ad

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