A team of astronomers has spent over a decade tracing meteorite impacts on Earth back to their original sources in the ...

The discovery that weather radar systems can detect meteorite falls marks a significant leap in how scientists study and ...

Where do meteorites of different type come from? In a review paper, astronomers trace the impact orbit of observed meteorite falls to several previously unidentified source regions in the asteroid ...

Scientists traced origins of 75 meteorites back to specific regions in the asteroid belt, revealing new insights into their ...

Meteorites are rocks from space that survive their fiery descent through Earth's atmosphere and reach the ground. More than ...

Where do meteorites of different types come from? In a review paper in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science, astronomers trace the impact orbit of observed meteorite falls to several ...

"This has been a decade-long detective story, with each recorded meteorite fall providing a new clue," said one astronomer.

The team also determined that, overall, the meteorite was a hefty 60 cm (23.6 in) in diameter when it hit our atmosphere, a long way from its origins in the asteroid belt.

“Altogether, this quest has yielded 75 laboratory-classified meteorites with an impact orbit tracked by video and photographic cameras,” said Jenniskens. “That proves to be enough to start seeing some ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) In April 2019, primitive meteorites fell near Aguas Zarcas, Costa Rica, marking the largest fall of its kind since 1969. The meteorite entered Earth's atmosphere ...