Meteorites

World
April 9, 2023
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Astronomers urge not to search for meteorites with magnets
(ORDO NEWS) — Recently, astronomers issued a warning about the potential danger of approaching meteorites with magnets. A team of…
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World
March 27, 2023
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Meteorites were not the main source of water on Earth
(ORDO NEWS) — Deep oceans cover most of our planet, but the origin of this vast body of water is…
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World
February 21, 2023
2,670
Our planet immediately pollutes meteorites upon arrival
(ORDO NEWS) — A space rock recovered just hours after entering Earth‘s atmosphere has shown that there can be no…
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World
February 15, 2023
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Earth’s atmosphere affects the composition of meteorites
(ORDO NEWS) — A new analysis of the Winchcombe meteorite has shown how quickly space rocks that have fallen to…
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World
February 4, 2023
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Meteorites reveal likely origin of Earth’s volatile chemicals
(ORDO NEWS) — Meteorites have told researchers about the likely distant origin of Earth‘s volatile chemicals, some of which make…
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World
February 3, 2023
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Meteorites point to likely origin of Earth’s volatile chemicals
(ORDO NEWS) — Researchers at Imperial College London have reported the likely origin of Earth‘s volatile chemicals, some of which…
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News
January 21, 2023
5,840
5 new meteorites discovered in Antarctica
(ORDO NEWS) — Antarctica is a pretty tough place to work. However, this is one of the best places in…
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December 18, 2022
5,278
Meteorites might need one thing to help create life on Earth
(ORDO NEWS) — Earth is the only planet in the universe known to have life, but even that was desolate…
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December 2, 2022
3,861
How satellites, radars and drones track meteorites
(ORDO NEWS) — On July 31, 2013, a group of American satellites recorded the collision of an asteroid with the…
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December 1, 2022
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Ancient oceans on Mars were formed by water brought to the planet by meteorites
(ORDO NEWS) — A team of researchers led by astronomers at the University of Copenhagen has found evidence that much…
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November 28, 2022
4,004
Researchers discover field littered with meteorites
(ORDO NEWS) — A field team led by Professor Andy Tomkins of Monash University discovered the largest meteorite-strewn field in…
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November 21, 2022
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There is evidence that meteorites brought water to Earth
(ORDO NEWS) — Where does this amount of water come from on Earth? Scientists do not have a definite answer…
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October 25, 2022
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Scientists have discovered the source of one of the rarest groups of meteorites
(ORDO NEWS) — Ever since the Hayabusa 2 mission brought samples of the asteroid Ryugu back to Earth in 2020,…
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October 14, 2022
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Scientists discover three meteorites contain all the building blocks of DNA
(ORDO NEWS) — Scientists have found that three meteorites contain the chemical building blocks of DNA and its companion RNA.…
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October 5, 2022
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Study of meteorites suggests Earth’s composition has been altered by collisional erosion
(ORDO NEWS) — A team of researchers from the University of Clermont-Auvergne and the University of Bayreuth have found evidence…
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News
September 1, 2022
2,383
How many meteorites fall on Earth every year
(ORDO NEWS) — We regularly see “shooting stars” – meteorites burning up in the atmosphere. But how many such objects…
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Science
August 22, 2022
2,730
Meteorites falling to Earth could form continents, scientists say
(ORDO NEWS) — Scientists believe that roughly four billion years ago, the inner part of the solar system was destroyed…
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July 8, 2022
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Far fewer meteorites hit the moon than scientists thought
(ORDO NEWS) — An analysis of the porosity of the lunar crust made it possible to more accurately assess the…
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April 28, 2022
2,614
For the first time, a complete set of components for creating DNA has been found in meteorites
(ORDO NEWS) — Using a new ultra-precise analysis, scientists from Japan and the US have found a complete set of…
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April 23, 2022
3,320
Meteorites from the desert of Australia support the search for life on Mars
(ORDO NEWS) — Researchers at Monash University, the University of Queensland and the Australian National University have used the ANSTO…
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April 6, 2022
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Panspermia Meteorites carrying spores of life
(ORDO NEWS) — Panspermia is the idea that life exists throughout the universe and originates on new planets through comets,…
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March 1, 2022
3,676
Traces of ancient meteorites
(ORDO NEWS) — In its 4.5 billion years, the surface of the Earth has been hollowed out by hundreds of…
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February 22, 2022
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Fingerprints of minerals will help to understand their changes in collisions with meteorites
(ORDO NEWS) — When a space rock passes through Earth‘s atmosphere and falls to the surface, it generates shock waves…
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February 8, 2022
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‘Treasure Map’ Predicts The Hiding Places of 300,000 Meteorites Across Antarctica
(ORDO NEWS) — Although meteorites are known to fall all over the world, the environment and unique processes in Antarctica…
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January 28, 2022
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When it comes to mass extinction, the size of meteorites doesn’t matter.
(ORDO NEWS) — A new study shows that it is the composition of the rock that the meteorite crashes into,…
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January 28, 2022
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May be up to 300,000 meteorites in Antarctica
(ORDO NEWS) — Nearly two-thirds of all meteorites found on Earth have been collected in Antarctica. Researchers from a Belgian-Dutch…
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