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Dateline Mars: A cloud up to 1,100 miles reoccurs alongside one of Mars' tallest volcanoes nearly every day of the planet's spring and summer months. A healthy dose of "exotic physics" not seen here on Earth, seems the answer. www.livescience.com/space/mars/1...

The Moon: Ever wondered if the moon has an atmosphere? Surprisingly, it does. Meteorites keep the Moon's fragile atmosphere alive. It's atmosphere, such as it is, is extremely thin and almost ghost-like. www.zmescience.com/space/yes-th...

Old Woman Meteorite: Prospectors looking for gold in the Southern California found a meteorite dubbed the Old Woman from the mountains which contained it. Largest meteorite in CA...Notice geologist Cari Corrigan was involved in the research. desertdc.com/old-woman-me...

Springwater meteorite: The Field Museum of Chicago has a world-renowned collection of meteorites. That distinction is due to the early work of Oliver C. Farrington. The pallasite meteorite included the phosphate mineral Farringtonite. www.meteorite-times.com/a-certain-ty...

Micrometeorites: Roughly 100 tons of interplanetary dust enters Earth's atmosphere every second — a slow rain of cosmic grains that settles on rooftops, oceans, and gutters. Some of these microscopic grains recovered do not fit the common known model. spacedaily.com/sd-matthias-...

Antarctic Meteorites: Cari Corrigan gathers meteorites from the South Pole to help researchers understand the mineral makeup of asteroids and planets. The journey from space to Earth is not an easy one for most meteorites, but Cari helps figure it out. www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/nation...

Old Arrowhead: This Arrowhead found in Switzerland, is meteoric iron from a 3,000 year old meteorite of the Bronze Age. Meteors are natural objects that enter Earth’s atmosphere from space, leaving beautiful streaks of light and special artifacts. www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/t...

The Moon’s soil preserves signatures of the solar wind, cosmic rays, and stellar events, but frequent meteorite strikes scramble what would otherwise be a neatly layered record of cosmic history. The team derived an equation that describes its evolution over time. physics.aps.org/articles/v19...

Meteorite Delivered: A prehistoric plant distills water so intensely it looks it came from space. Scientists have discovered that a common, prehistoric plant distills water to such an extreme degree that its chemical signature resembles that of meteorites. www.zmescience.com/science/news...

Meteorites & Meteors: From the colors they glow to where they come from, learn all about these space rocks in celebration of the year’s largest meteor shower. Excellent pictures. www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/nation...

Climate Change: Most of the frozen water has vanished because glaciers have been flowing faster into the ocean, rather than because of surface melting of ice sheets. No surprising since a lot of ice to water melting occurs at the glaciers base. www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/s...

New research shows meteorites are shaped by melting, cracking and violent breakup. Scientists have found that a rock’s fate depends less on simply “burning up” than on melting, cracking, and breaking apart as it punches through increasingly dense air. www.zmescience.com/science/news...

ESA partnered with LEGO to make 3D-printed 'space bricks' that inspire next-gen space engineers. Instead of transporting building materials to the Moon, we use the lunar regolith—rock and mineral fragments covering the Moon’s surface to create space bricks. www.zmescience.com/space/lego-s...

The Chicxulub meteorite impacted limestone and gypsum rocks in the Yucatán, which were part of the ancient seabed at that time. This event led to an extinction of the dinosaurs around 66 million years ago... and swathed the planet in an insulating dust cloud. www.purdue.edu/newsroom/202...

Wilkes Land crater: A 315 miles wide crater in Antarctica's gravitational field have been proposed as having many possible origins for the gravity anomaly. The latest evidence suggests the subglacial hole is an impact crater. www.livescience.com/planet-earth...

KT-Boundary: The Chicxulub Impact Event, which occurred 65 million years ago, was one of the most impactful meteorite impact events in Earth's history. It literally killed the dinosaurs and paved the way for mammals and us to evolve into Earth's dominant species. www.lpi.usra.edu/science/krin...

Hoba Meteorite: Weighing about 60 metric tons it crashed into the Earth about 80,000 years ago...but no crater. Hoba survived because it had three unique advantages: it was strong, it was flat, and it probably entered at a shallow angle. www.zmescience.com/feature-post...

Fukang Pallasite: In 2000, a dealer purchased an unusual-looking rock weighing about a ton. He removed a 44 lb piece from it, and then took the rock to the Tucson Gem and Mineral Show where Dr. Dante Lauretta of the University of Arizona realized what it was. www.zmescience.com/other/great-...

Martian meteorite: When a rock is blasted off Mars it's not a comet and is only a meteor for seconds; in space it is a meteoroid, and on the ground it becomes a Martian meteorite. An energetic impact can produce a small amount of fast-moving ejecta and can arrive here. spacedaily.com/t-a-rock-bla...

Antarctica: More than 45,000 meteorites have been collected from Antarctica. The greatest meteorite collection exists not because Antarctica attracts space rocks, but because the continent's ice and wind are nature's most efficient sorting machines. spacedaily.com/t-more-than-...

The Vatican: Who would guess The Vatican has world class meteorite collection including older specimens. The Vatican observatory dates back to 1582, one of the oldest active observatories. They posses a meteorite which was collected in 1492...a date all USA knows. www.meteorite-times.com/12625-2/

Tunguska: In 1908, something exploded in the sky over Siberia with hundreds of times the energy of the Hiroshima bomb, flattening more than 2,000 square kilometres of forest. Comet or meteorite? spacedaily.com/t-in-1908-so...

Bronze Age Rings: Some of the strangest jewelry in Bronze Age Greece didn’t come from a mine. It fell from the sky. Minoan and Mycenaean elites wore finger rings likely made with meteoritic iron long before ironworking became common in Greece. www.zmescience.com/science/arch...

The l’Aigle meteorite: A meteor passing over France in 1803 exploded . Once word got around with many witnesses to over 3000 meteorites that fell to Earth, it all fell into place...Meteorites are space rocks. www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/1...

Washington Meteorite: The fall occurred at Sim Corner, WA on 12:49 AM on August 14 2026 in central Washington state. This is a low mass fall as evidenced by the sparse radar detections. There were two larger meteorites tracked and probably a few smaller. ares.jsc.nasa.gov/meteorite-fa...

micrometeorites: With tons a very small(micrometeorites) landing on the Earth daily gutters and drip lines around older building are prime territory to find one. 20 to 100 tons of cosmic dust and micrometeorites hit the Earth each day. britastro.org/forums/topic...

Nantan Meteorite: One of the oldest objects anywhere on Earth is on display at the Museum of Natural History at Oxford. This 4.5 billion years old, meteorite is as ancient as the Earth itself. It fell to Earth in 1519 and this piece was not found until 1958 in China. oumnh.ox.ac.uk/nantan-meteo...

Algerian Shergottite: It was named NWA 13441 with a combined mass of 84.69 grams and an age of approximately 1,273 million years. Camel herders found these Martian meteorites in December 2019 near Rafsa, Oum El Assel. spacedaily.com/t-of-the-rou...

Perseids: The Perseids meteorite showers commence. The peak is predicted for 14:53 UTC on August 13, 2026. So the mornings of August 12 and 13 are probably your best bets. But August 11 and August 14 might be good as well. earthsky.org/astronomy-es...

Ivory Coast Tektites: I have always been enamored with tektites and these tektites are rare. The tektites of Ivory Coast are without a doubt the rarest of the tektites in many collections. The source crater is probably the 1 million year old Bosumtwi crater. www.meteorite-times.com/ivory-coast-...

S2-Meteorite: 3.26 billion years ago, Earth had a “what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger” moment. A huge meteor dubbed “S2” the size of four Mount Everests and 200 times larger than the rock that decimated the dinosaurs, landed off S. Africa in the ocean. www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a...

The Common Meteorite: The chondritic meteorites that land on Earth most often are the shattered remains of tiny moons that once circled young, growing planets, according to a new study. Chondrites, account for around 85 percent of all our meteorites. www.earth.com/news/chondri...

Iron Meteorite: This study suggests that our solar disk didn’t share a similar ring structure at the start. “Iron meteorites are hidden gems. The more we learn about iron meteorites, the more they unravel the mystery of our solar system’s birth.” www.earth.com/news/iron-me...

Pallasite: One of the most significant meteorites in this Museum's collection is a 1.7kg mass of the Krasnojarsk meteorite which was found in 1772. Found in Krasnojarsk, Russia, the meteorite is composed of glassy green olivine crystals embedded in Fe-Ni alloy. Unique oumnh.ox.ac.uk/learn-meteor...

Canada Meteorites: Several meteorite fragments totaling 55 grams were recovered on Cockburn Island roughly four weeks after the June 19 fireball event. Western University verified fragments are from June 19 fireball that landed on Cockburn Island. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Did I just find a meteorite: A quick checklist to help you identify that rock you just found...meteorite or leaverright www.usgs.gov/faqs/i-think...

Meteorite Crater: A meteorite crater From 390 million years ago confirm there was an impact...but where is the culprit. This impact in northeastern Canada has folks on the look. Thank you Google Maps and the right person to peruse them. www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a...

Chicxulub meteor: During the late Cretaceous period 66 million years ago, a massive impact triggered an extinction-level event, wiping out about three-quarters of all plant and animal species on Earth, including the dinosaurs. A rare carbonaceous chondrite appears guilty.

Rare Meteorite: A meteorite crashed through the roof of a Hillsborough, New Jersey home on July 16, 2024. A rare primitive CM1/2 carbonaceous chondrite is one of the most scientifically valuable meteorites ever recovered...it contains the building blocks of life. www.seti.org/news/alien-w...

Siderophile: Gold & the Platinum Group are siderophiles. Siderophile, is Greek for iron-loving. Those of us who have chased gold know finding pyrite is a good sign, but no guarantee on locating gold. Most resides in the Earths core and we chase the rest. However...😉 spacedaily.com/j-gold-plati...

Australian Meteorite: An asteroid impact about 11 million years ago produced molten debris that landed far to the south and across a long elliptical field in South Australia. The crater that made it has not been located, but scattered a lot of Australian tektites. spacedaily.com/t-an-asteroi...

Meteorite Video: A video about the different types and origin of these meteorites. Size, component material and speed shape the explosive power when asteroids impact the Earth. Other info videos available at this link if interested. www.britannica.com/video/Meteor...

ANSMET: Antarctic Search for Meteorites Program has had their 2025-26 Field Season cancelled. The most productive search area by far has been cancelled. Result is a marked decline in meteorite and scientific discovery. Funding cuts to NSF astrobiology.com/2025/12/03/a...

Meteor Crater: A lot of folks stopped off I-40 outside Winslow, Arizona at Meteor Crater. A 150-foot Iron meteorite that came in at about 26,000 miles per hour. A visit to the museum and getting into the lab made my day....Interesting read. www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2...

12 States : A bolide lit up the night sky on Sunday evening, June 14th in a dozen states. It sparked awe and hundreds of eyewitness reports. The celestial event provided a glimpse into the dynamics of our solar system as a fragment of an asteroid blazed above. www.amsmeteors.org/2026/06/spec...

Meteorites: The 5 most expensive meteorites ever found on Earth. Nice read...please continue to look up...and down. Remnants from the early Solar System or fragments blasted off other planets, they hold scientific value, historical significance and beauty. www.skyatnightmagazine.com/space-scienc...

(NWA) 12774): An angrite meteorite. This rare meteorite has revealed evidence of a massive lost world that once orbited the young Solar System. Discovery suggests some early planets formed from dramatically different materials than Earth and Mars. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

COCKBURN ISLAND ONTARIO: 5/20/26 a group of meteorites and the resulting strewn field landed on the Eastern end of the Island. Four different NEXRAD radars nailed it. High reflectivity values indicate this was a relatively high mass fall...Good luck ares.jsc.nasa.gov/meteorite-fa...

Panspermia: Did a meteorite from Mars transport life from Mars to Earth? Mars likely once had conditions that could support life. Several scientists think the interplanetary transfer of biologically viable material to Earth is plausible. astrobiology.com/2026/05/coul...

NWA 8171-More Info: The garnet found in this Mars meteorite was an iron-rich form of garnet known as andradite is often more of a yellowy-green color. Discovery is going to expand our knowledge of the geologic processes that are possible on this planet. www.sciencealert.com/scientists-c...