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P.E.I. homeowner captures sound and video of meteorite strike on camera, and scientists believe it's a first | CBC News
A man in Prince Edward Island got doubly lucky last July, recording a meteorite's impact on his home security cameras. The space rock also landed in the exact spot he'd been standing minutes earlier.
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UGA analyzes and names new meteorite
The McDonough Meteorite crashed in Atlanta in June. Now UGA researchers are determining its origin and what group of asteroids it belongs to.
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Ancient Meteorite Contains Clues to Life's Origins
A rare meteorite that crashed into a New Jersey home has provided scientists with critical insights into the origins of life on Earth. The meteorite, which weighed over two pounds, struck a house in Hillsborough, New Jersey, in July 2024. Analysis revealed it contained ancient salty fluids, organic compounds, and amino acids from a primitive asteroid. This discovery suggests that asteroids may have delivered essential ingredients for life to early Earth. The meteorite belongs to a rare CM1/2 carbonaceous chondrite category, making it the second witnessed fall of its kind. Researchers believe the salts found in the meteorite indicate briny fluids once existed on its parent asteroid, which could have facilitated chemical reactions necessary for life. The homeowner's quick action to preserve the sample was crucial, as it allowed scientists to study the meteorite's pristine condition. Findings from this event could help understand how prebiotic molecules formed and were transported to Earth. The study highlights collaboration between amateur observers and scientific institutions, emphasizing the importance of public engagement in astronomical research.
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Meteorite that smashed through a New Jersey roof reveals clues to life’s origins
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Meteorite that smashed through a New Jersey roof reveals clues to life’s origins
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911-Comet Brightness Explosion
Comet 220P/McNaught orbits the Sun once every 5.5 years on a path which is between Mars and Jupiter. At that extreme distance, more than 1.5 times the Earth’s distance from the Sun, it still receives a significant amount of solar radiation. In 2026 Comet 220P/McNaught had an outburst which caused it to brighten 600 times in about 13 hours and then to continue to brighten to about 8,000 times brighter than in was in its pre-outburst state.
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Out of Space is Allcollect’s out of this world coin formed from meteorite material almost as old as the Earth itself - AgAuNEWS
Out of Space is Allcollect's out of this world coin formed from meteorite material almost as old as the Earth itselfIt wasn't so long ago that meteorite coins were a recurring feature of the numismatic calendar,
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400E-441-Carson's Pair
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Carson Fuls was observing, in the constellation Lynx, with our Schmidt telescope on Mt. Bigelow, Arizona , when within the space of only 35 minutes, he discovered two small space rocks well before they made very close approaches to Earth. 79 hours after Carson discovered the first, 2018 CB, this approximately 70 foot diameter space rock passed about 1/5 of the Moon's distance from us. Turns out that the second of Carson's duo, an approximately 50 foot diameter space rock got near us first, when 62 hours after Carson discovered 2018 CC, it came to less than 1/2 of the Moon's distance from the surface of planet Earth. Since we didn't have a large enough, properly equipped telescope to measure the pattern of colors each of Carson's discoveries reflects from the Sun we can only estimate their physical sizes and guess at their densities and chemical compositions. In any event, if either of these space rocks were to strike the Earth they would likely explode at an altitude about 100,000 feet above the Earth's surface, releasing the energy of tens of thousands of pounds of TNT, producing a spectacular light show. Both of Carson's discoveries could be similar to the space rock which exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia breaking windows, injuring nearly 1,500 people, and producing numerous fragments which made it to the ground. If either of Carson's discoveries had been on an impact trajectory with Earth, asteroid hunters would have had time to warn people in the effected area to stay away from doors and windows.
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910-Mega Constellations
In an experiment that will involve all of the residents of planet Earth SpaceX has asked the FCC for permission to launch 1 million satellites into low Earth orbit to create a solar powered data center. Since the agriculture which produces our food is very sensitive to weather and climate it is important to conduct serious research about the effect of a mega constellation of satellites before allowing such a project to produce changes to the environment we don’t understand.
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399E-440-Tracking Elon's Car
Elon Musk decided not to use a traditional mundane concrete block dummy payload for the first launch of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch vehicle to test his rockets lifting capabilities. After orbiting the Earth for 5 hours a third burn by the Falcon second stage placed a 2,750 pound payload consisting of a 2008 Tesla Roadster, Starman mannequin, Hot Wheels toy model roadster, electronic copy of Isaac Asimov's Foundation novels, and plaque etched with the names of more than 6,000 Space X employees into orbit around the Sun. Surrealistic video from a camera mounted ahead of this unusual spacecraft showed the red roadster and its dummy pilot with the Earth in the background. My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Greg Leonard joined with astronomers around the world in tracking starman and his booster rocket. The JPL Horizons Software system used 269 such ground-based optical astrometric observations spanning Feb 8 through 13 of 2018 to determine that Tesla and Starman will cross the orbit of Mars on July 31, 2018 and reach it's furthest distance from the Sun on November 9, 2018 before coming back to it's closest point about the Sun near the Earth's orbit on August 14, 2019. After that Starman and Tesla will continue to orbit the Sun for millions of years to come as a physical testament to human ingenuity and our sense of humor.
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