In 1954 in Alabama, a meteorite the size of a grapefruit crashed through a roof, bounced off a radio and hit Anne Hodges as she sat in her living room. Luckily she got away with just bruising and ...

Meteorites and Their Parent Planets provides an engrossing overview of a highly interdisciplinary ... no oversimplification, no omission of hard-to-describe facts like ages, isotopic and chemical ...

A complete visual reference for meteorite classification, this atlas combines high resolution optical microscope images with detailed descriptions. It provides a systematic account of meteorites and ...

The Bovedy meteorite entered the atmosphere over the Bristol Channel as a blue-green fireball and sped across Wales releasing a sonic boom, before breaking up in an orange flash over Northern Ireland.

The story made headlines around the world - a meteorite crashes through the roof of an Indonesian villager's home and turns out be worth millions, changing his life forever. It was suggested that ...

The Leonid meteor shower is active from Nov. 3 to Dec. 2 this year and will peak overnight from Nov. 17 to 18. The Leonids are produced when Earth passes through the debris left behind by comet ...

Until now, only around 6 percent of meteorites had been traced back to their source. These were meteorites that came from ...

Six Martian meteorites have been traced back to the craters they were ejected from on Mars millions of years ago. Finding the ...

A meteor that exploded in a spectacular fireball over Niagara Falls in 2022 was the smallest asteroid ever measured, a new ...