Meteorites
Asteroid Lutetia… A Piece Of Earth?
[/caption] According to data received from ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft, ESO’s New Technology Telescope, and NASA telescopes, strange asteroid Lutetia could…
Rare Pallasite Meteorite Found in Missouri
[/caption] Meteorite hunter Karl Aston finds meteorites not by digging in the ground, but by placing ads in local newspapers.…
Did A Supernova Shape Our Solar System?
[/caption] Away in space some 4.57 billion years ago, in a galaxy yet to be called the Milky Way, a…
The Asteroid That Fell To Earth: Meteorites from 2008 TC3 Still Giving Up Their Secrets
[/caption] It was an unprecedented event: On October 6, 2008, asteroid 2008 TC3 was spotted by the Catalina Sky Survey…
Meteorite Impact Sites Treated To CSI Techniques
[/caption] Over the last several years, we've been treated to television programs which have awakened us to how a crime…
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Dawn Discovers Surprise 2nd Giant South Pole Impact Basin at Strikingly Dichotomous Vesta
[/caption] Scientists leading NASA’s Dawn mission have discovered a 2nd giant impact basin at the south pole of the giant…
Taking Mars’ Temperature – The ALH84001 Meteorite
[/caption] It might be four billion years old, but this meteorite which may have originated near the surface of Mars…
A Meteorite Visits the Comettes
[/caption] When your last name is Comette, I'm sure the occasional astronomy-themed joke is never far away. But it's no…
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Rheasilvia – Super Mysterious South Pole Basin at Vesta is Named after Romulus and Remus Roman Mother
http://youtu.be/tYiOOScjPFI Video caption: Rheasilvia Impact Basin and Vesta shape model. This false-color shape model video of the giant asteroid Vesta…
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3 D Alien Snowman Graces Vesta
[/caption] An alien ‘Snowman’ on an alien World. The ‘Snowman’ is a string of three craters and is among the…