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The Murchison meteorite is a meteorite that fell in Australia in 1969 near Murchison, Victoria. It belongs to the carbonaceous chondrite class, a group of meteorites rich in organic compounds. Due to its mass (over 100 kg or 220 lb) and the fact that it was an observed fall, the Murchison meteorite is one of the most studied of all meteorites. [2]
Kamacite occurs naturally only in meteorites. The official classification of the Carancas meteorite, accepted by the Meteoritical Society, was done by a team of scientists working at the University of Arizona. The meteorite is an ordinary chondrite, an H chondrite breccia, containing clasts of petrologic types 4 to 5. The formal classification ...
Athanasius the Meteorite ( Greek: Αθανάσιος ο Μετεωρίτης; 1302–1380) was a 14th-century Christian monk. He is canonized as a saint by the Eastern Orthodox Church. His feast day is celebrated on April 20. [1] [2] He is best known as the founder of the monastery of the Great Meteoron in Meteora, Greece. [3]
meteors falling to Earth. A meteor is what you see when a space rock falls to Earth. It is often known as a shooting star or falling star and can be a bright light in the night sky, though most are faint. A few survive long enough to hit the ground. That is called a meteorite, and a large one sometimes leaves a hole in the ground called a crater.
A slice of the Esquel meteorite showing the mixture of meteoric iron and silicates that is typical of this division. Stony-iron meteorites or siderolites are meteorites that consist of nearly equal parts of meteoric iron and silicates. This distinguishes them from the stony meteorites, that are mostly silicates, and the iron meteorites, that ...
Meteori. Meteori është trup qiellor që lëviz brenda hapësirës së sistemeve të yjeve. Lëvizja e këtyre trupave mund të shikohet thjeshtë me sy. Vëzhgimi i lëvizjeve dhe rënieve të tyre në Tokë ka filluar që në kohët e lashta. Që në vitin 467 p.e.s, Anaksagorasi i Klazomenait, përshkruan rënien spekulatore të një trupi ...
Pallasite. A slice of the Esquel pallasite, clearly showing the large olivine crystals suspended in the metal matrix. The pallasites are a class of stony–iron meteorite. They are relatively rare, and can be distinguished by the presence of large olivine crystal inclusions in the ferro-nickel matrix.
