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NEWS ABOUT: meteorites

meteorites stories: 6 news summaries

 Mobile Firm's 
 Meteor Stunt 
 Backfires 

Hoaxed Latvians plan to cancel Swedish company's contracts

Oct 28, 09 4:42 AM CDT
(Newser) - A Swedish mobile phone company has dug itself into a crater with a marketing stunt involving a fake meteorite. Tele2 dug a hole in a meadow in Latvia and placed burning chemicals in the bottom to simulate a meteor strike, making headlines worldwide and fooling emergency services into cordoning off... More »

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Iraq • hoax • meteorites

 Schoolboy Survives 
 Meteor Strike 

Red-hot chunk of rock traveling 30,000 miles an hour bounced off boy's hand

Jun 13, 09 3:11 AM CDT
(Newser) - A 14-year-old German schoolboy survived with just a scar on his hand after being hit by a meteorite traveling 30,000 miles an hour, the Daily Telegraph reports. The red-hot pebble buried itself in the road after bouncing off Gerrit Blank, who doused it with a drink, dug it out... More »

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meteor • meteorites

 Scientists Track Meteor 
 to Earth for First Time 

Discovery is like first clue to asteroid 'Rosetta Stone'

Mar 25, 09 5:56 PM CDT
(Newser) - Scientists have accomplished a first by tracking an asteroid from space into Earth's atmosphere and down to a Sudanese desert, Wired reports. A team of searchers found about 280 small chunks of the meteor, all of a type never before collected. "This is like the first step toward a... More »

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astronomy • Sudan • asteroid • scientific discoveries • meteorites • scientific breakthroughs

 Did Volcanoes 
 Drive Dinos to 
 Extinction? 

Scientists question 30-year-old crater theory

Dec 17, 08 2:51 PM CST
(Newser) - Colossal, repeated volcanic eruptions in India 65 million years ago released sulfuric gases that sent the dinosaurs, well, the way of the dinosaurs, reports the San Francisco Chronicle. A group of scientists at a Bay Area conference this week is questioning the decades-held theory that a meteor killed off dinosaurs.... More »

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India • Mexico • science • Earth • dinosaur • meteorites • volcanoes • scientific study

 Asteroids Could Reseed
 a Devastated Earth 

Rock-dwelling microorganisms would make it back from space

May 18, 08 3:13 PM CDT
(Newser) - If a comet ever obliterates life on Earth, don't worry—space rocks could later fall in and reseed a few basic life forms. A new study shows that organisms can survive being hit by a meteor, ejected into space, and hurtled back to Earth on the face of a rock—... More »

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Mars • space • Earth • microorganisms • life • asteroid • meteorites • space debris

Meteorite Hunter Gets His Due

He finds fame, maybe fortune, by digging through dust

Oct 27, 07 1:17 PM CDT
(Newser) - He’s not exactly Indiana Jones, but Steve Arnold does have fame, wild adventures, and an 18-foot-wide metal detector. Arnold, a meteorite hunter, has combed the deserts of Chile, the tundras of Siberia, and the streets of Chicago looking for the extraterrestrial lumps of metal, the LA Times reports.... More »

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Chicago • Oman • Chile • Kansas • South America • farmer • Bonhams Auctions • meteorites • Steve Arnold • Sahara • Houston Museum of Natural Science

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