Wide Angle: Balls Of Fire!
Meteors and meteorites are both meteroids when in space, but they are entirely different entities when screaming through our atmosphere. Sit back and enjoy the lightshow as we uncover the nature of these balls of fire...
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Slide Show: Top 5 Meteorite Uses
If you found a meteorite, what would you do with it? Would you keep it as an ornament? Sell it on eBay? Carve it into a crude space weapon? Before you try any of the above, read our top 5 uses for meteorite fragments that have already been tried and tested...
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News: Meteorite Proves Mars Had Thicker Atmosphere
Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has discovered a huge iron-nickel meteorite on the surface of Mars. However, this isn't a routine find. For the meteorite to have been discovered at all, Mars needed to have a far thicker atmosphere in the past to slow the thing down before hitting the martian surface...
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News: Shooting Star Hunt Yields Meteorite
In March 2009, an amazing event stunned the world. A small asteroid was tracked by scientists before it hit our atmosphere. When the rock did hit the skies over Sudan, it exploded to life, scattering meteorite fragments over the African desert...
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News: Killer Asteroids May Escape NASA's Notice
Meteorites come in all sizes, but once they become more asteroid-like than meteoroid-like, we're in for a rough ride should one be heading toward Earth. Unfortunately, NASA may not even have sufficient funds to spot the next devastating asteroid...
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Video: Fireballs from Space: Reenacting a Meteor's Impact
How can you understand the dynamics of a meteorite impact? You build a 25 foot-long gun capable of blasting an aluminum bullet 4 miles per second of course!
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Video: Fireballs from Space: The Yukon Meteor
Fireballs can be startling events. As a sizable meteoroid enters the Earth's atmosphere, it burns like a meteor and then explodes, often scattering bits over a wide area. The Yukon meteor was one such event...
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Interview: An Asteroid's Greatest Threat to Earth? Human Nature
Dave Mosher chats with former astronaut Rusty Schweickart about the dangers of near-Earth asteroids and humanity's danger to itself in stopping them.
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Blog: Ignoring a Clear and Present Danger (Cosmic Ray)
Why does the risk of a devastating asteroid impact seem to send members of Congress asleep when NASA asks for more money to search for these harbingers of doom? Ray Villard investigates...
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Blog: Perseids Peak -- And There's An App For That (Free Space)
It seems technology can cater for just about every corner of life, and that goes for the Perseids Meteor Shower...
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Science Channel: Meteors, Meteorites, Oh My!
Right in time for the Perseid meteor shower, take a look at this feast of shooting star goodness...
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