Group items tagged

Astronomers say they have found a meteorite fragment the size of a golf ball near Hamilton, which they believe streaked across the night sky above Southern Ontario in late September.

Asteroid 2008 TC3 hit the scene - literally? This was the first asteroid that was predicted --and predicted correctly -- to to impact the Earth

Fist-sized stones scattered around Victoria Crater on Mars appear to be meteorites - and might be fragments of the object that punched out the crater, researchers say.

Observations show the production of crystalline silicates like those found in comets and meteorites in our own solar system.