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A nuclear test creates a forbidden crystal. This is the fivefold way.

Phil Plait

May 18, 2021

The mushroom cloud that formed after the first atomic bomb test, called Trinity, in 1945 in Alamagordo, New Mexico. Credit: US Air Force, US Army, Department of Energy and National Park Service

Tag: Bad Astronomy

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Dating craters: Wolfe Creek is younger, Meteor Crater older, than previously thought

Phil Plait

Apr 29, 2021

Meteor Crater in Arizona is one of the best-preserved impact craters on Earth. Credit: Mario Roberto Durán Ortiz

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Meteorite that once had CO2-rich water could mean Earth’s water came from real far out

Elizabeth Rayne

Apr 25, 2021

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Tag: Exoplanets

Heating up meteorites could tell us more about exoplanet atmospheres and potential for life

Elizabeth Rayne

Apr 22, 2021

Perseid meteor shower

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Is it dusty in here or is it just the 14 tons of meteorite dust that settles to Earth every day?

Phil Plait

Apr 12, 2021

An electron microphotograph of an unmelted micrometeorite found in Antarctica. Credit: Cécile Engrand/Jean Duprat

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Canada's famous Tagish Lake meteorite found to contain cosmic compounds

Jeff Spry

May 16, 2020

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Chelyabinsk's (much) smaller sibling asteroid fell over Arizona in 2016

Phil Plait

May 13, 2020

Artwork depicting the entry of asteroid 2014 AA into Earth's atmosphere. Credit: Dieter Spannknebe / Getty images / NASA

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: Bad Astronomy

New technique shows Martian meteorites are capable of transporting evidence of life to Earth

Phil Plait

Apr 30, 2020

Billions of years ago, Mars had surface water: lakes, rivers, and oceans. This artwork uses actual topographical data to map where that water would have been. Credit: lttiz / wikipedia

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Scientists may have just found the first evidence of a human being killed by a meteorite

Elizabeth Rayne

Apr 29, 2020

perseid meteor shower

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Tag: solar system

Just when we thought we found the oldest stuff on Earth, there’s... weirder stuff

Elizabeth Rayne

Feb 4, 2020

NASA image of a nebula

Tag: solar system

Tag: solar system

The oldest stuff on Earth is 7-billion-year-old stardust that smells like rotten peanut butter

Elizabeth Rayne

Jan 14, 2020

stellar debris in the Large Magellanic Cloud

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Sweet! Sugars found in meteorites for the first time

Phil Plait

Dec 9, 2019

Artwork depicting meteors falling on the early Earth. Did they carry the building blocks for life on them? Many certainly did. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab

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Tag: Bad Astronomy

LISA Pathfinder got whacked by dozens of hypervelocity 'comet crumbs'

Phil Plait

Nov 26, 2019

A somewhat fanciful depiction (there would be no trail in the vacuum of space) of a micrometeorite hitting the LISA Pathfinder spacecraft. Credit: NASA

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: solar system

A meteorite older than Earth shows evidence of ancient volcanism on a long-gone protoplanet

Phil Plait

Sep 5, 2019

A close-up of NWA 11119 shows the lovely green crystals of pyroxene. Credit: UNM Institute of Meteoritics

Tag: Bad Astronomy

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Tag: Bad Astronomy

The asteroid Ryugu is a weird, fragile thing

Phil Plait

Aug 26, 2019

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