World's Biggest, Oldest Meteorite Crater Revealed By Rocks

Meteorite crater under Iowa confirmed in new images

Buried beneath the rocks, dirt, buildings and roads of the city of Decorah, Iowa, lies a 470 million-year-old meteorite crater.

foxnews.com (3 months and 14 days ago)

Russian Scientists Find Crater in Meteorite-Hit Lake

A radar probe of the bottom of Chebarkul Lake in Russia’s Urals has revealed a crater possibly created by a fragment of a meteorite that exploded over the city of Chelyabinsk last month, a Russian scientist told RIA Novosti on Thursday.

rian.ru (2 months and 30 days ago)

Moon Rocked By Biggest Meteorite Explosion

The meteorite strike creates a crater up to 20m wide and triggers a bright flash that could be seen from Earth.

sky.com (1 month and 1 day ago)

Ancient Meteorite Crater Discovered Beneath Small Town

By: Andrea Thompson, OurAmazingPlanet Managing Editor Published: 03/06/2013 12:49 PM EST on LiveScience Buried beneath the rocks, dirt, buildings and roads of the city of Decorah, Iowa, lies a 470 million-year-old meteorite crater. Unlike the craters on the pockmarked surfaces of the moon and Mars, this crater can't be seen by looking down at Earth's surface, at least not...

huffingtonpost.com (3 months and 14 days ago)

Meteorite crater reveals future of a globally warmed world

The future of a globally warmed world has been revealed in a remote meteorite crater in Siberia, where lake sediments recorded the strikingly balmy climate of the Arctic during the last period when greenhouse gas levels were as high as today. Unchecked burning of fossil fuels has driven carbon dioxide to levels not seen for 3m years when, the sediments show, temperatures...

guardian.co.uk (1 month and 9 days ago)

Space Rocks 101: What You Need To Know About Russia's Meteorite Impact

Confused about the difference between a meteorite and a killer asteroid? We've got you covered. As updates roll in from Russia and the meteorite-related injury toll rises, you may be scrambling to remember what a meteorite really is. If you're a little rusty on your astronomy, here's some basic info about space rocks and why this one was unusual. What is the difference...

popsci.com (4 months and 3 days ago)

At 18kg, meteorite found in Antarctica is biggest in 25 years

An 18-kg heavy meteorite has been discovered embedded in the East Antarctic ice sheet by an international team of scientists - the largest such meteorite found in the region since 1988.

indiatimes.com (3 months and 18 days ago)

Meteorite Crater Under Iowa

foxnews.com (3 months and 14 days ago)

There Was Drinkable Water On Mars According To Opportunity

Opportunity, aka The Little Rover That Could, is still making important discoveries 10 years into its Martian jaunt. After the devastating loss of twin rover Spirit in 2011, Opportunity rallied and kept trekking, only to recently discover a fascinating rock near Endurance Crater. One of the oldest rocks ever analyzed, the specimen shows that drinkable water once existed on...

gizmodo.com (9 days ago)

An Animation Of Every Recorded Meteorite Blast In History

People didn't start really noticing rocks from the sky until after the Enlightenment. Earth is bombarded all the time by space rocks, but people rarely notice them--only 1,042 have ever been seen falling. People didn’t start recording these impacts until a couple hundred years ago, and then suddenly, they noticed all the time. Data designer Carlo Zapponi has a lovely new...

popsci.com (1 month and 12 days ago)