When you find a strange looking rock in the desert, it’s likely worth having some experts take a proper look at it, just like in this case.
Joe Velaidum and his partner, Laura Kelly, set out to walk their dog when their doorbell camera captured a meteorite striking ...
but not as rare as you might think. Objects the size of the smallest asteroids, which are about 3 feet across, strike Earth a few times a year. About once every 2,000 years, a meteorite the size ...
An irreverent tour of the science and folklore behind the space debris that makes it to Earth and the people for whom these rare finds are almost a religion ...
Splat! A meteorite impact recorded by a doorbell camera gave scientists a rare view of a space rock at the moment it hit Earth. The sound is like shattering glass.
But slag often has visible bubbles — and “bubbles are extremely rare in in meteorites.” What’s valuable and fascinating about sorting the “meteorwrongs,” as the scientific community ...