The N.B.-Maine meteorite would be added to the Stifler Collection – made up of 6,000 meteorites from hundreds of individual falls.

Of the meteorites confirmed to have landed between our shining seas, the closest to Ottawa was the Blithfield meteorite, a 1.83-kilogram rock discovered in August 1910 near Renfrew.

The person who finds a whole or partial meteorite on public property must complete an export application that's reviewed by an expert examiner, said Herd, who is one of several such experts in ...

Edmonton · Audio Meteorite or 'meteowrong': Don't be fooled by that rock that looks like it's from outer space 'There are a lot of rocks out there that look like what we call the meteo-wrongs' ...

Both meteorites contain only trace amounts of plagioclase, in contrast to Mercury's surface, which is estimated to contain over 37%. Furthermore, our study suggests that the age of the samples is ...

Two meteorites found in the Sahara in 2023 might be from Mercury, a study suggests, but doubts remain due to how little is known about the planet closest to the sun.

That means most meteorites that strike Earth today are from fewer asteroid groups than might have been expected – and from more recent collision events, too. Those (relatively) recent collision ...

Citations M. Brož et al. Young asteroid families as the primary source of meteorites. Nature. Published online October 16, 2024. doi: 10.1038/s41586-024-08006-7. M. Marsset et al.

Meteorites - rocks that fall to Earth from space - have pelted our planet from its birth about 4.5 billion years ago to today, often causing scant damage but sometimes triggering cataclysms.