The L'Aigle Meteorite Shower And The Birth of Meteoritics
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 17, 2024
Prior to the 1800s, scientists were skeptical about the existence of meteorites. Despite historical reports of meteorite sightings dating ba...
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The Willamette Meteorite
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 21, 2023
One of the treasures of the American Museum of Natural History’s permanent collection is a large piece of extra-terrestrial rock called the ...
The Woman Who Was Hit by a Meteorite
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 26, 2021
At the Alabama Museum of Natural History located in the University of Alabama campus in Tuscaloosa, there is a small chunk of black space ro...
The Meteorite That Changed The Course of Christianity
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 2, 2020
For more than two centuries, Christianity suffered under the Roman Empire. Christians were arrested, tortured, mutilated, burned, and starve...
Robert Peary’s Meteorite And Minik
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 8, 2018
Many historical figures are celebrated for achieving great things but conveniently forgotten of all the terrible things they did to other pe...
The Meteorite That Crashed Into A Car
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 4, 2018
The Peekskill meteorite car sitting at a collector’s garage in Peekskill. Photo credit: Ryan Thompson/Flickr On October 9, 1992, a brill...
The Incredible Barringer Meteor Crater of Arizona
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 31, 2013
About 50,000 years ago, a rock fragment broke away from the asteroid belt and hurtled towards earth. The rock, composed of nickel and iron, ...
The Beautiful Fukang Meteorite
Kaushik Patowary
May 21, 2013
The Fukang meteorite, believed to be some 4.5 billion years old, which is as ancient as Earth itself, was unearthed near a town of the same ...
