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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
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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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Just when we thought we found the oldest stuff on Earth, there’s... weirder stuff
Elizabeth Rayne
Feb 4, 2020
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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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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
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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
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The asteroid Ryugu is a weird, fragile thing
Phil Plait
Aug 26, 2019
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Can you really find micrometeorites in your gutter? Well…
Phil Plait
May 16, 2019
Cross-sections of various micrometeorites show different grain and mineral structures. Credit: Wikipedia / S. Taylor / Shaw Street
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Ice blue meteorite crystals show evidence of an active young Sun
Phil Plait
Aug 8, 2018
hiboHibonite crystals formed very early in the solar system's history and bear evidence of an active young Sun. Credit: Field Museum, University of Chicago, NASA, ESA, and E. Feild (STScl).nite
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Cosmic sleuthing: An origin story for a really weird meteorite
Phil Plait
Mar 26, 2018
When examining the manufactured quasicrystal using a technique called X-Ray Diffraction, the fivefold symmetry becomes apparent. Inset: The fragment examined is attached to a thin length of carbon fiber. Credit: Asimow et al.
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King Tut's jewelry and other ancient artifacts came from meteorites
Elizabeth Rayne
Dec 14, 2017
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How old is Jupiter?
Phil Plait
Jun 13, 2017
cutaway view of Jupiter
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Why has a 260-foot crater opened up in Siberia?
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Jul 17, 2014
Siberian Crater
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