The Campo del Cielo in Argentina is a field of meteorite craters formed by an iron meteorite that broke apart in the atmosphere around 4,000 years ago. The site contains numerous craters and scattered ...

The illegal traffic of pieces of the Campo del Cielo meteorite is very frequent, but not as big as this one,” she stressed. Categories: Health & Science, Argentina, Uruguay.

Scientists say a massive meteorite struck north-west Scotland 200 million years later than previously thought - and may have influenced early life on Earth. The meteorite, which created a layer of ...

Most meteorites that impact the Earth come from the asteroid belt—the region between Mars and Jupiter's orbits, where over a million space rocks, each more than 0.6 miles wide, circle the sun.

The meteorite pierced through the vehicle’s rear window and landed on an ice cream container. A Brown University lab helped verify a meteorite that landed on a Pennsylvania resident's ice cream.

Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar: Nearly 48 hours after two stones fell from the sky in the Khalwat-Nimgaon village of Beed's Wadwani taluka, scientists described the objects as meteorites on Wednesday ...

This period is thought to coincide with the Moon’s formation,” Bermingham said. A piece of iron meteorite Campo del Cielo, one of the samples measured in the study. Credit: Katherine ...

The second group, “NC,” has characteristics indicating its meteorites formed in the inner, presumably drier, solar system. This study focused on samples that belong to the NC group. A piece of iron ...

Coincidentally, Dr. Chris Herd, the curator of the University of Alberta's meteorite collection, was vacationing in P.E.I. with his family shortly after this meteorite fell from the sky.