Meteorites - How To Recognize Visitors From Space
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Visitors from Outer Space—Meteorites
This pound kg meteorite is the largest-known stony meteorite found in California. After it was knocked off the surface of an asteroid, it wandered through space, and then fell to Earth thousands of year ago. When meteorite hunter Robert Verish discovered two small stones in the Mojave Desert, he knew they were unusual. These rocks were once part of a lava river on Mars some million years ago.
A thin slice shows the structure of the stones. Although countless meteorites fall to Earth each year, finding them is tricky. They land everywhere, but if they plunge into the ocean or drop into forests and fields, they are probably lost forever. The best meteorite hunting grounds are places where these rocks stand out against the landscape: Meteorites can be hidden by Antarctic snow for years. Every year, expeditions hunt for them on the ice fields during summer in the southern hemisphere.
The figures represent folks who spotted the fireball Tuesday night. The strewn field extends about 5 miles, oriented east-southeast to west-northwest, from about Highway 23 up to Bass Lake, some 20 miles northwest of Ann Arbor. Since the area has many lakes, make sure the ice is sound before venturing out. Anyone living in that area should be on the lookout for black rocks poking out of the snow similar to what Ward is holding in the photograph above. The black coating, called fusion crust , forms when the outside of the meteoroid is heated and melted by friction from the air during its flight through the atmosphere.
Before such an object collides with the earth, however, it must pass through our atmosphere. Asteroid material can also be heated and metamorphosed by impact, too. Is this mysterious space rock actually an alien spaceship? Great article, I would love to visit Namibia some day — amazing dark skies, wildlife and rare plants! Determining if a rock is a meteorite can be difficult even for professionals.
Fusion crust is typically only mm thick. This is a trace of the pressure wave recorded at Ann Arbor. The blast was not from the impact itself but from the air pressure wave created during the explosive breakup of the meteoroid in the atmosphere. A preliminary analysis indicates it's possibly an L6 chondrite, a common stony meteorite type.
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The "L" stands for low iron and "6" on a scale from 3 to 7, from least to most altered by heat indicates that the meteorite was strongly heated, so it likely originated from a larger asteroid. Samples are on their way now to the Chicago Field Museum for more detailed analysis.
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He advised against using a magnet to search for meteorites. An iron-bearing meteorite will be attracted to the magnet, but the magnet will scramble whatever weak magnetic signature the meteorite may have brought to Earth, destroying information that would be useful to researchers. Jenniskens also said not to pick up a meteorite with your bare hands, as the oils in your skin will get into the meteorite and, again, degrade the usefulness of the meteorite to researchers.
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He said aluminum foil is good to use to handle and store meteorites. Hopefully some of these meteorites have been handled carefully for study by planetary scientists. Yes, I saw your report. All that snow and ice is good for something! I live in Cleveland, OH, and shortly before news reports of the fireball began to surface, I noticed what appeared to be a flair falling straight down from the sky.
Fast forward a couple of hours and reports of the fireball started leading me to believe what I saw was possibly a remnant from the same event observed over Michigan.
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In fact, the city of Johannesburg, with a population of over 4 million, lies just within the original confines of the crater. Formed more than 2 billion years ago by the impact of a city-sized asteroid, Vredefort originally measured some km across. Even from the air or from space, the multi-ringed impact crater is hard to recognize.
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That night, I park my truck at a small camping site on the south bank of the Vaal River, just north of Vredefort. Lying in my rooftop tent, I admire the serene view of the stars rising above the distant hills. I try to imagine how the surrounding area must have looked two billion years ago, when the asteroid struck out of the blue.
Camping at the shore of the Vaal River, close to the center of the km Vredefort impact crater. The granite hills in the distance are part of the crater's central ring structure. Even impacts of huge space rocks like the Hoba Meteorite are pretty rare. No need to worry. Great article, I would love to visit Namibia some day — amazing dark skies, wildlife and rare plants!
How big is the Berringer Meteorite? I would think it bigger than the Hoba Meteorite, or is it that it is still buried?
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Is the Congo basin a meteor crater? Salonga National Park is near the center. The circle is about km across. You must be logged in to post a comment.