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Detecting strange minerals on the Moon volcano
This statement was made in an article published in Nature Geoscience. Scientists have used computers to show that these rare minerals may not have originated from the Mo…
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Giant meteors are about to fly through the earth
The 1998 QE2 meteorite will be closest to Earth at a distance of 5.7 million kilometers (15 times the distance between the earth and the moon) on May 31.
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Great meteorite discovered on the moon
The US Aeronautics Agency (NASA) announced that the rock rushed into the moon on March 17 at a speed of 90,000km / h, creating a hole about 20m in diameter.
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Water on the Moon and Earth has the same origin
Water on the Moon and Earth can come from the same origin. Research published May 9 has led researchers to question the theory of Moon formation as well as the origin of…
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ISS inspired 'cosmic bullet'
A small object, possibly a meteorite, pierced the solar panel on the International Space Station (ISS), creating a
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Found evidence in the Tunguska case?
A Russian scientist has claimed to have found the first meteorite in a mysterious explosion in Siberia in 1908. The Tunguska event in June 1908 was one of the mysterious…
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Americans do not want to return to the moon
NASA director Charles Bolden said the US would not bring people back to the moon to concentrate resources on the program to send people to a meteorite and Mars.
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America exhibits Russian meteorite fragments
The Field Museum in Chicago (USA) said it had collected 234 meteorite pieces of the terrorist that exploded in the sky of Russia's Urals region in February.
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Discovered a $ 5.3 million meteorite in the field
Few doubts, the rock lying between the farm of a Spanish farmer during the past 30 years is the remains of an asteroid that plunges into the earth since ancient times, w…
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Stone from Mercury has fallen to Earth
Many people saw a meteorite on fire in the sky in North Africa in July last year, but it was not until late December that scientists discovered its fragments at a place…
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Russia wants to
The Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) may join the US Aerospace Agency (NASA) in an effort to kidnap a meteorite.
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NASA admits helplessness against meteors
Officials from the US Aeronautics Agency (NASA) concede there is nothing to be done if the meteorite on the collision with the Earth within 3 weeks.
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Radar detects a meteorite pit under Russian lake
Thanks to radar technology, an asteroid crater has been exposed at the bottom of Lake Chebarkul, after experts attempted to find a meteorite collision point in Russia wi…
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The largest meteorite piece in Russia weighs several tons
The largest piece of meteorite that attacked Russia that scientists have not found a fall site can weigh several tons and size up to several meters.