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Meteor crater discovered hidden by polar ice

Posted on November 15, 2018 by

An international team of researchers that includes a NASA glaciologist has discovered a 19-mile-wide meteorite impact crater hiding beneath more than half a mile of ice in northwest Greenland. This is the first impact crater of any size ever found … Continue reading →

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Crucial data gained from Chelyabinsk meteor fall

Posted on November 6, 2013 by

News from NASA…. A team of NASA and international scientists for the first time have gathered a detailed understanding of the effects on Earth from a small asteroid impact. The unprecedented data obtained as the result of the airburst of … Continue reading →

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Confirmed: Earth’s “Martian meteorites” really are from Mars

Posted on October 17, 2013 by

PASADENA, Calif. — Examination of the Martian atmosphere by NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover confirms that some meteorites that have dropped to Earth really are from the Red Planet. A key new measurement of the inert gas argon in Mars’ atmosphere … Continue reading →

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February asteroids: A hit and a miss!

Posted on February 16, 2013 by

NASA Statement, 2/15/2013 New information provided by a worldwide network of sensors has allowed scientists to refine their estimates for the size of the object that entered that atmosphere and disintegrated in the skies over Chelyabinsk, Russia, at 7:20:26 p.m. … Continue reading →

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