Meteorite News

The first confirmed case of a meteorite directly striking a person occurred in the US in 1954, where a woman was struck by an 3.6 kg stony meteorite that crashed through her roof, leaving her with severe bruising.

USSC confirmed that a meteor that had hit Earth in 2014 came from another solar system and is, therefore, declared as the interstellar object.

A bright light was seen in the sky on Saturday night in Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh. Soon after the incident, this light was being told as a meteorite but ISRO believes that this light was of the burning debris of a Chinese rocket.

Researchers have succeeded in revealing the mystery behind a diamond-studded meteorite that exploded in 2008. The incident took place in Sudan. The meteorite was part of a giant asteroid.

The Hindi proverb about through-the-roof blessing from God literally came true for an Indonesian man who became an overnight millionaire as a meteorite crashed through his roof. The man with the meteorite, is a humble coffin maker. Selling the meteorite has made him immensely rich literally overnight to the extent that he can easily live his life without having to pursue his current line of work.

A man became a millionaire overnight when a meteorite worth Rs 10 crore crashed through the roof of his house. The man Josua Hutagalung is a coffin-maker by profession. The space rock weighing 2.1kg got buried 15cm deep in the soil after crashing through the roof.

In fact, all of the dust specks analyzed in the research came from before the solar system`s formation - thus known as "presolar grains" - with 60% of them between 4.6 and 4.9 billion years old and the oldest 10% dating to more than 5.6 billion years ago. 

Scientists say they have uncovered the oldest meteorite collection on Earth's surface in Chile's Atacama Desert, allowing them to reconstruct the rate of falling meteorites over the past two million years.

The discovery was made while exploring a metre-thick layer at the base of a lava flow.   

Much of what we know about the composition of rocks from volcanoes on Mars comes from meteorites found on Earth.

After analysing minerals from 43 rare meteorites that landed on Earth 470 million years ago, a team of scientists proposes to revise the current understanding of the history and development of the solar system.

The meteorite weighing over 30 tonnes was found in the town of Gancedo, 1,085 km north of capital Buenos Aires, Mario Vesconi, president of the Astronomy Association of Chaco, said on Monday.

An ancient space rock in a Swedish quarry has been discovered by scientists. The new space rock is a type of meteorite which was never found before on the Earth and can shed more light on the evolution of life.

It was indeed a meteorite that killed a driver in an engineering college in Vellore and shattered the window panes of buildings and buses, the Tiruchirapalli-based National College categorically said on Monday.

The US daily also cited a scientist at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics which is analysing samples of the rock provided by the police as doubting if it was a meteorite.

Scientists at the US space agency NASA have discounted reports that an Indian bus driver in Tamil Nadu was killed by a meteorite, saying he was likely hit by a land based explosion.

 Researchers have found traces of two simultaneous meteorite impacts in the Swedish county of Jamtland - first evidence of a twin strike that occurred around 460 million years ago.