The fall of asteroid 2024 XA1 and the location of possible meteoritesOPEN ACCESS
Francesco Gianotto, Albino Carbognani, Marco Fenucci, Maxime Devogèle, Pablo Ramirez-Moreta, Marco Micheli, Raffaele Salerno, Toni Santana-Ros, Juan Luis Cano, Luca Conversi, Charlie Drury, Laura Faggioli, Dora Föhring, Reiner Kresken, Selina Machnitzky, Richard Moissl, Francisco Ocaña,…
SMALYAVICHY meteorite fall (>581.5 g, H6, S2) Woblast Minsk, Belarus on 25 December 2024 (14:29:15 UTC) east of Smalyavichy (Смалявічы)
Last update: 18 March 2025 (18.30 CET) On 25 January 2025 the first media reports about potential meteorite finds (H chondrite), were published citing members of the Minsk Planetarium. By 27 January four potential meteorite…
The MetBase database has been merged into AstromatOPEN ACCESS
Dominik C. Hezel, Kerstin A. Lehnert, Premkumar Elangovan, Peng Ji, Jennifer Mays, Jörn Koblitz MAPS, First published: 17 December 2024 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “MetBase has been the world’s largest database for meteorite compositions,…
New evidence on the lost giant Chinguetti meteoriteOPEN ACCESS
Robert Warren, Stephen Warren, Ekaterini Protopapa Submitted to Meteoritics and Planetary Science (20 Feb 2024) PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “The giant Chinguetti meteorite that Gaston Ripert reported seeing in 1916 has never been found. A radionuclide…
The “Meteorite meter”: A handheld instrument for the combined measurement of magnetic susceptibility and electrical conductivity, with application to meteorite identification and classificationOPEN ACCESS
Minoru Uehara, Jérôme Gattacceca MAPS, Version of Record online: 18 October 2023 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “We developed a simple, handheld, and user-friendly magnetic susceptibility meter specialized for the identification of meteorites. The measurement…
Identifying meteorite droppers among the population of bright ‘sporadic’ bolides imaged by the Spanish Fireball Network during the spring of 2022OPEN ACCESS
Eloy Peña-Asensio, Josep M. Trigo-Rodríguez, Albert Rimola, Marc Corretgé-Gilart, Detlef Koschny Accepted in MNRAS PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “We take advantage of the extraordinary weather conditions available between February and March 2022 over Spain to analyze…
Characterization of the Fireballs Detected by All-sky Cameras in RomaniaOPEN ACCESS
Ioana Boaca, Maria Gritsevich, Mirel Birlan, Alin Nedelcu, Tudor Boaca, François Colas, Adrien Malgoyre, Brigitte Zanda, and Pierre Vernazza The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 936, Number 2 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Some of the fields…
The Meteoritic Origin of Morocco Iron Dagger BladesOPEN ACCESS
Abderrahmane Ibhi, Lahcen Ouknine, Fouad Khiri, Ahmed Ait Touchnt, Hassan Nachit, Olga De Pascale, Giorgio S. Senesi Heritage 2022, 5(3), 1395-1400Published: 23 June 2022 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Up until now, a few artifacts…
Connecting Asteroids and Meteorites with visible and near-infrared spectroscopyOPEN ACCESS
Francesca E. DeMeo, Brian J. Burt, Michaël Marsset, David Polishook, Thomas H. Burbine, Benoît Carry, Richard P. Binzel, Pierre Vernazza, Vishnu Reddy, Michelle Tang, Cristina A. Thomas, Andrew S. Rivkin, Nicholas A. Moskovitz, Stephen M….
Modeling of the Dark Phase of Flight and the Impact Area for Meteorites of Real ShapesOPEN ACCESS
Karol Havrila, Juraj Tóth, and Leonard Kornoš Advances in AstronomyVolume 2021, Article ID 5530540Published: 23 December 2021 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Aims. The complex dynamics of bodies, originating from the interplanetary matter and…
Editorial for Special Issue “Mineralogy of Meteorites”
Victor V. Sharygin Minerals 2021, 11, 363 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) Published: 31 March 2021(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mineralogy of Meteorites
Historical List of Harmful Meteorites
Lev A. Muravyev, Viktor I. Grokhovsky Minerals: Structure, Properties, Methods of Investigation pp 147-159, Conference paper LINK “As is known, the possibility of stones falling from the sky was completely confirmed by scientists only in…
Cascade Model for Planetesimal Formation by Turbulent Clustering
Thomas Hartlep and Jeffrey N. Cuzzi The Astrophysical Journal Volume 892, Number 2, 2020 April 1 LINK “We use a newly developed cascade model of turbulent concentration of particles in protoplanetary nebulae to calculate several…
Meteorite flaws and scaling for atmospheric entry
Kathryn L. Bryson, Daniel R. Ostrowski, Aline Blasizzo Planetary and Space Science Available online 28 June 2018 doi.org/10.1016/j.pss.2018.06.018 LINK “Highlights • Scale strength of meteorite to parent body using scaling factor. • Non-destructive technique to…
MANGUI (L6, S5) meteorites found in and around the villages Manlun (曼伦) and MANGUI (曼桂), Menghai County (勐海县), Autonomous Dai Prefecture Xishuangbanna (西双版纳) in Yunnan (云南), China. Meteorite fall at ~21:43 (CST, UTC+08:00) on 1 June 2018
Last update: 31 August 2018 A meteorite, an ordinary chondrite (L6 / 84 g), was found by a local villager in the early morning of 2 June 2018. The meteorite hit a roof tile of…
Towards a theoretical determination of the geographical probability distribution of meteoroid impacts on EarthOPEN ACCESS
Jorge I. Zuluaga, Mario Sucerquia Accepted for publication in MNRAS PDF (OPEN ACCESS) update (15 March 2018 ): LINK “Tunguska and Chelyabinsk impact events occurred inside a geographical area of only 3.4% of the Earth’s…
Meteorites from Phobos and Deimos at Earth?OPEN ACCESS
P. Wiegert, M.A. Galiazzo Planetary and Space Science In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 6 May 2017 PDF (OPEN ACCESS) LINK “Highlights • The transfer process of material from Phobos and Deimos to Earth is…
San Pedro de Urabá – Fall on 16 February 2017 (~5.30 p.m.) in San Pedro de Urabá, Turbo, Urabá, Antioquia, Colombia
Last update: 8 June 2018 Meteorite fall in the afternoon (~ 5.30 p.m.) of 16 February 2017 in San Pedro de Urabá, in the municipality of Turbo, Urabá, Antioquia, Colombia. The meteorite, an ordinary chondrite…
Mass Accumulation of Earth from Interplanetary Dust, Meteoroids, Asteroids and Comets
Gerhard Drolshagen, Detlef Koschny, Sandra Drolshagen, Jana Kretschmer, Björn Poppe Planetary and Space Science SI:Meteoroids 2016 Available online 14 February 2017 LINK “Using new data and recent models this paper derives a total combined flux…
First British meteorite search expedition to Antarctica in 2019/20 – Searching for iron meteorites
Last update: 28 March 2018 A first British meteorite expedition to Antarctica to locate subsurface iron meteorites in 2019/20 is being planned. The expedition of a University of Manchester multidisciplinary research team is operationally and…
A model for meteoritic and lunar 40Ar/39Ar age spectra: Addressing the conundrum of multi-activation energies
P. Boehnke, T. Mark Harrison, M.T. Heizler, P.H. Warren Earth and Planetary Science Letters In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 30 August 2016 LINK “Highlights • Reconcile 40Ar/39Ar age spectra of extra-terrestrial samples with diffusive…
Peculiarities in the formation of complex organic compounds in a nitrogen–methane atmosphere during hypervelocity impacts
M. A. Zaitsev , M. V. Gerasimov, E. N. Safonova, A. S. Vasiljeva Solar System Research March 2016, Volume 50, Issue 2, pp 113-129 First online: 12 April 2016 LINK “Results of the experiments on…
Astronomy through the microscope: A workshop during the opening night of the 2016 IMC;-)
Netjes, G. J.; de Vet, S. Proceedings of the International Meteor Conference, Egmond, the Netherlands, 2-5 June 2016, Eds.: Roggemans, A.; Roggemans, P., ISBN 978-2-87355-030-1, pp. 205-208 Publication Date: 01/2016 PDF “During the IMC workshop…
Ciechanów fireball: the body possibly related to near earth asteroids 2010 TB54 and 2010 SX11
A. Olech, P. Żołądek, M. Wiśniewski, R. Rudawska, J. Laskowski, K. Polakowski, M. Maciejewski, T. Krzyżanowski, T. Fajfer, and Z. Tymiński MNRAS(December 11, 2015) Vol. 454 2965-2971 doi:10.1093/mnras/stv1993 First published online October 17, 2015 LINK…
Predictions for impactor contamination on Ceres based on hypervelocity impact experiments
R. Terik Daly and Peter H. Schultz Geophys. Res. Lett., 42, doi:10.1002/2015GL065601 Article first published online: 13 OCT 2015 LINK “New experiments predict that Ceres should be extensively contaminated with meteoritic debris derived from the…
The Meteoritical Bulletin, No. 102
Ruzicka, A., Grossman, J., Bouvier, A., Herd, C. D. K. and Agee, C. B. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12491 LINK
The Meteoritical Bulletin, No. 101
Ruzicka, A., Grossman, J., Bouvier, A., Herd, C. D. K. and Agee, C. B. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12490 LINK
The story of the theft and recovery of the Serooskerke mass of the Ellemeet meteorite (Dutch documentary) – De diefstal van de meteoriet van Serooskerke
The story of the theft and recovery of the Serooskerke mass of the Ellemeet meteorite (18/19 August 2014): De diefstal van de meteoriet van Serooskerke (RTV Utrecht, Netherlands, 9 May 2015)
Common origins of RNA, protein and lipid precursors in a cyanosulfidic protometabolism
Bhavesh H. Patel, Claudia Percivalle, Dougal J. Ritson, Colm D. Duffy, John D. Sutherland Nature Chemistry (2015) doi:10.1038/nchem.2202 LINK Update (2 April 2015): Interview with John Sutherland in Science Friday Podcast (26 March 2015 /…
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Grønlands jernalder kom fra rummet (Cape York, iron)
Grønlands jernalder kom fra rummet (videnskab, 29.12.2014) Polarfronten 3/2014 (Danish e-paper, pages 22-23) UPDATE (Text in English) Greenland’s Iron Age came from space (Science Nordic, 13.1.2015)
Meteorites in the exhibition “Trésors de la Terre” in the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle in Paris (starting 19 December 2014)
Trésors de la Terre (19th – 31st December 2014)
Fragments of the Serooskerken mass of the Ellemeet meteorite on public display at Sonnenborgh observatory
The fragments of the Serooskerken mass of the Ellemeet meteorite have been on public display at the Sonnenborgh observatory in Utrecht, Netherlands, today. VIDEO LINK Jeroen de Jager was there and listened to the story…
ELLEMEET (Serooskerken mass) meteorite stolen from Sonnenborgh observatory in Utrecht
Interview with Bas Nugteren, director of the Sonnenborgh Observatory NOS , 20 August 2014 ———————————————————————————————————— automatic translation:Last night, 18 on August 19, broke into Sonnenborgh – museum & observatory in # Utrecht. The burglars have…
Handheld and non-destructive methodologies for the compositional investigation of meteorite fragments
Vincenza Crupi, Alessandra Giunta, Barry Kellett, Francesca Longo, Giacomo Maisano, Domenico Majolino, Antonella Scherillo and Valentina Venuti Anal. Methods, 2014,6, 6301-6309 DOI: 10.1039/C4AY00253A Received 29 Jan 2014, Accepted 07 May 2014 First published online 08…
1.8 ton iron meteorite found near Tschad and Sudan border
credit: Aziz Habibi
Vesta and extensively melted asteroids: Why HED meteorites are probably not from Vesta
John T. Wasson Earth and Planetary Science Letters Volume 381, 1 November 2013, Pages 138–146 DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2013.09.002 Available online 25 September 2013 LINK
