Showing posts with the label Meteorite

The L'Aigle Meteorite Shower And The Birth of Meteoritics

Jan 17, 2024

Prior to the 1800s, scientists were skeptical about the existence of meteorites. Despite historical reports of meteorite sightings dating ba...

The Willamette Meteorite

Jun 21, 2023

One of the treasures of the American Museum of Natural History’s permanent collection is a large piece of extra-terrestrial rock called the ...

The Woman Who Was Hit by a Meteorite

Oct 26, 2021

At the Alabama Museum of Natural History located in the University of Alabama campus in Tuscaloosa, there is a small chunk of black space ro...

The Meteorite That Changed The Course of Christianity

Jan 2, 2020

For more than two centuries, Christianity suffered under the Roman Empire. Christians were arrested, tortured, mutilated, burned, and starve...

Robert Peary’s Meteorite And Minik

Oct 8, 2018

Many historical figures are celebrated for achieving great things but conveniently forgotten of all the terrible things they did to other pe...

The Meteorite That Crashed Into A Car

Jun 4, 2018

The Peekskill meteorite car sitting at a collector’s garage in Peekskill. Photo credit: Ryan Thompson/Flickr On October 9, 1992, a brill...

The Incredible Barringer Meteor Crater of Arizona

Jul 31, 2013

About 50,000 years ago, a rock fragment broke away from the asteroid belt and hurtled towards earth. The rock, composed of nickel and iron, ...

The Beautiful Fukang Meteorite

May 21, 2013

The Fukang meteorite, believed to be some 4.5 billion years old, which is as ancient as Earth itself, was unearthed near a town of the same ...