Finding a meteorite anywhere in Canada is something of a rarity. Last July, the first one discovered in Prince Edward Island was extra special, as it is likely the first meteorite impact to ever be ...
"No other meteorite fall has been documented like this, complete with sound," says Dr. Chris Herd, a meteorite expert from the University of Alberta. Finding a meteorite anywhere in Canada is ...
In 2015, Australian prospector David Hole searched for gold in Maryborough Regional Park, near Melbourne, with his metal detector. While this wasn't an unusual outing for the prospector, what he ...
An asteroid struck Mars 11 million years ago and sent pieces of the red planet hurtling through space. One of these chunks of Mars eventually crashed into the Earth and is one of the few meteorites ...
In 2015, David Hole found a heavy rock, believing it to contain gold. After years of futile attempts to crack it open, he took it to the Melbourne Museum, where it was identified as the ...
Two fragments of a four-billion-year-old meteorite have been recovered from a remote salt lake, just days after a fireball blazed across the night sky. Researchers from Curtin University, part of the ...
The fiery ball that streaked across the South Carolina sky Thursday was a meteor, according to NASA.So what is a meteorite? NASA says this: A meteorite is a solid piece of debris from an object, such ...