News articles tagged with 'meteorite' (Page 2)
Missing piece inspires new look at Mars puzzle
— 4 Sep 2010 09:54 | AstronomyExperiments prompted by a 2008 surprise from NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander suggest that soil examined by NASA's Viking Mars landers in 1976 may have contained carbon-based chemical building…
Martian meteorite may hold clues to water on the Red Planet
— 24 May 2010 10:13 | AstronomyScientists are examining fragments of a Martian meteorite to try to establish when water was freely flowing on the red planet. Using powerful electron microscopes, Dr Martin Lee and…
Silver tells a volatile story of Earth's origin
— 14 May 2010 12:59 | Geology and palaeontologyTiny variations in the isotopic composition of silver in meteorites and Earth rocks are helping scientists put together a timetable of how our planet was assembled beginning 4.568 billion…
Rock of ages: Clues about Mars evolution revealed
— 16 Apr 2010 00:59 | AstronomyThrough the study of a popular Martian meteorite's age, a University of Houston professor and his team have made significant discoveries about the timeline of volcanic activity on Mars…
Proposed mission would return sample from asteroid 'time capsule'
— 19 Mar 2010 14:32 | AstronomyMeet asteroid 1999 RQ36, a chunk of rock and dust about 1,900 feet in diameter that could tell us how the solar system was born, and perhaps, shed light on how life began. It also might…
MIT: New research suggests that near-Earth encounters can 'shake' asteroids
— 21 Jan 2010 18:12 | AstronomyFor decades, astronomers have analysed the impact that asteroids could have on Earth. New research by MIT Professor of Planetary Science Richard Binzel examines the opposite scenario:…
Life on Mars theory boosted by new methane study
— 9 Dec 2009 09:07 | AstronomyScientists have ruled out the possibility that methane is delivered to Mars by meteorites, raising fresh hopes that the gas might be generated by life on the red planet, in research…
Meteorite from 25 September fireball event recovered and presented
— 18 Oct 2009 12:38 | AstronomyWhen Tony Garchinski heard a loud crash just after 9 PM on Friday, 25 September he didn't think much of it. That is, until he awoke the next morning to find the windshield of his mom's…
Western astronomers capture spectacular meteor footage and images
— 9 Oct 2009 10:27 | AstronomyAstronomers from The University of Western Ontario in London, Canada have released footage of a meteor that was approximately 100 times brighter than a full moon. The meteor lit up…
Nullarbor fireball cameras find rare meteorite
— 18 Sep 2009 14:14 | AstronomyUsing cameras which capture fireballs streaking across the night sky and sophisticated mathematics, a world-wide team of scientists have managed to find not only a tiny meteorite on…