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  • Review: An engaging show of 'Meteorites' at Winston-Wächter

    The Seattle Times 2010

  • Meteorites are lucrative, and after the tennis-ball-sized rock fell from the sky and landed in an examination room in the office in January 2010, the landlords at the doctors' building made a legal claim to it.

    Smithsonian keeps meteorite that fell in Va. 2011

  • Meteorites — little bits of leftover planetary building material — reveal radioactive signs that show our sun is about 4.6 billion years old.

    Comet clues buried in Antarctic snow 2010

  • Meteorites bombarded the Earth 4 billion years ago and they delivered an impressive amount of carbon-based material to Earth, something on the order of hundreds of thousands of tons per year.

    First Contact Marc Kaufman 2011

  • Meteorites bombarded the Earth 4 billion years ago and they delivered an impressive amount of carbon-based material to Earth, something on the order of hundreds of thousands of tons per year.

    First Contact Marc Kaufman 2011

  • Meteorites that fall to Earth contain amino acids and organic carbon molecules such as formaldehyde.

    Crossroads 2009

  • Meteorites are classified into three broad categories; stony, stony iron, and iron.

    Cosmic Projectiles 2008

  • One Response to “Night of the Meteorites!” izzy99 Says:

    Night of the Meteorites! « Skulls in the Stars 2007

  • Meteorites usually leave dark marks when they crash into dust-covered Mars terrain.

    WHAT IS WATER? News from Mad Plato 2009

  • Meteorites usually leave dark marks when they crash into dust-covered Mars terrain.

    Archive 2009-10-01 News from Mad Plato 2009

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