Earth's Oldest Rocks Could Have Been Formed by Meteorite Impacts
We call our planet’s earliest era the Hadean because it was likely quite hellish. Incredible meteorite impacts wouldn’t be out of place.
We call our planet’s earliest era the Hadean because it was likely quite hellish. Incredible meteorite impacts wouldn’t be out of place.
The meteorite itself is of interest to scientists, who want to know what these rocks are made of in order to better understand our Solar System.
NASA tracks 90 per cent of near-Earth objects that are larger than 150 metres in diameter, which means it misses lots of smaller asteroids - like this one - until they’re close by.
New research suggests the diamonds could have only formed within a planetary body the size of Mercury or Mars—a planet that no longer exists.
With its potential for global travel and remote locations, there has recently been a certain Indiana Jones quality attached to the profession of meteorite hunting.
Lucky observers across parts of the US and Canada were treated to a spectacular light show yesterday, as the break up of a Meteor briefly illuminated the night sky as if it were daytime.
A single collision before the time of the dinosaurs appears to have influenced the types of space rocks bombarding the Earth for hundreds of millions of years.
Using the ChemCam Remote Micro-Imager, Curiosity captured a detailed close-up shot of the object, which has been dubbed “Egg Rock.”
The discovery adds further fuel for the theory that water found its way to Earth on the backs of asteroids.
The 4.5-billion-year-old hunk of meteor was found just in the nick of time, nearly being lost to rains.
The expedition involves the Imperial College London and University of Texas as will explore the crater's "peak ring".
Sounds like something you'd read about in a science-fiction book but it's true, and it managed to crash into the Earth in 2008.
It sounds weird, but the most abundant mineral on Earth finally got a name last week, thanks to a century-old meteorite.
