A 10.22-kg rock used as a Michigan barn doorstop was identified as a new iron meteorite

In 1939, a meteorite was unearthed on a Michigan farm and innocently pressed into service as a doorstop for many years. It ...
earthsky

Wham! Hear a meteorite hit the ground for the 1st time

See and hear a meteorite impact on Prince Edward Island. Video via Laura Kelly/ University of Alberta. Meteorites – small fragments of space rocks – hit Earth on a regular basis. But a meteorite that ...
Phys.org

Youngest basaltic lunar meteorite fills nearly one billion-year gap in moon's volcanic history

A 2.35-billion-year-old meteorite with a unique chemical signature, found in Africa in 2023, plugs a major gap in our understanding of the moon's volcanic history. Presented at the Goldschmidt ...

Tutankhamun’s famous dagger came from a meteorite; A hidden pattern in the blade reveals how ancient Egyptians forged it

King Tutankhamun’s famous iron dagger was made from a meteorite. Now, a hidden crystalline pattern inside its blade has revealed how ancient Egyptian craftsmen worked with metal from space thousands ...
CNN

Doorbell camera catches rare footage of meteorite striking home’s front walkway

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4.6-billion-year-old meteorite increases our understanding of the early solar system

An analysis of the approximately 4.6-billion-year-old meteorite Erg Chech 002, discovered in 2020 in the Erg Chech region of the Sahara Desert in Algeria, is presented in Nature Communications. In ...
Euronews (Spain)

Up to 1km-thick ice: Swiss meteorite offers new insight into the Ice Age

More and more fragments of the Twannberg meteorite are being found in the Bernese Jura; over 2,200 pieces are known, and the rare iron meteorite is highly valuable for research. In the canton of Bern, ...