A 200-foot-wide asteroid found in December has a one-in-83 chance of hitting Earth, according to space agencies.

But it’s the bit in between these two extremes where things get interesting – because that’s where we get the stony-iron meteorites (hey, nobody ever accused astronomers of being inventive ...

The stony-iron meteorites known as pallasites are famed for the areas of yellowish green olivines they contain. Since the earliest description by Peter Simon Pallas in the 18th century, reference has ...

Within a fairly sharp surface of discontinuity comes what may be called the stony zone ... largely composed of iron, its density being a^mU 8. In a number of meteorites, the radium content ...

Within the stony zone, which extends down several hundred miles, lies the heavy core of the Earth, probably of metallic composition, like the Iron meteorites. If we may judge from the latter ...

This meteor strike was similar to the “Tunguska event” in Siberia in 1908, in which a stony meteor the size ... “spherules” of iron and sand that melted at over 2900 degrees, “melted ...

A family woke up and found their car windshield with a hole in it, but their curious son soon cracked the mystery— it was a ...

Joe Velaidum of Charlottetown on Prince Edward Island narrowly avoided a collision with an incoming meteorite at his home in July.

Joe Velaidum and Laura Kelly, who live on Prince Edward Island, caught a meteorite hitting their property on their doorbell camera. Some say this could be the first video recording of a meteorite ...

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“It landed right between my legs where I was standing,” he told CTV.A meteorite crash-landed on his home’s walkway. Hoping to confirm what he saw on his camera, Velaidum sent his home ...

CHARLOTTETOWN, Prince Edward Island (CTV News) - About two minutes after a Canadian man left his home to go for a walk with his dogs, a meteorite crashed onto the path where he had been standing.