meteorite
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Bennu Asteroid Samples Expected to ‘Fundamentally’ Shift Our Perspective on Cosmic Life
If NASA ever manages to pry open the sample canister, that is.
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NASA’s Perseverance Rover Finds a Doughnut on Mars
While roaming the Martian terrain, NASA’s Perseverance rover spotted an odd-shaped rock that may have travelled its way from space to land on the Red Planet. Using its SuperCam Remote Micro-Imager, the Perseverance rover snapped a series of images on Friday that revealed a doughnut-shaped rock laying on the surface of Mars. The large rock…
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Meteorite Hunters Find 8 kg Space Rock in Antarctica
Researchers combing the surface of Antarctica for space rocks hit the jackpot by finding five meteorites in the tundra, one of which weighs almost 8 kg.
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Weird Hexagonal Diamonds Came From an Asteroid-Dwarf Planet Smashup
New research indicates that a rare form of diamond may originate in the burbling cores of distant worlds, arriving on Earth thanks to violent cosmic collisions.