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The largest Martian meteorite ever sold fetched a record-breaking $5.3 million at an auction in the United States, according to a statement published by Sotheby’s on Wednesday. Weighing 24.67 kilograms, the rock called Northwest Africa 16788 (NWA 16788) is a fragment that broke off the surface of Mars after an …

So a bright flash triggered cosmic body the size bead. CCTV camera in Victoria recorded a massive explosion of the meteorite. The event occurred at night on may 22. Scientists say that this is just space shrapnel.

The fall of the meteorite weighing 1.1 kg occurred on April 23. Scientists from Costa Rica confirmed that the cosmic body that fell on one of the houses in the province of Alajuela in the North, was a meteor or what’s left of it after passing the dense layers of …

The explosion has done without victims. The national Board of the USA on Aeronautics and research of space administration (NASA) has recorded the explosion of a meteorite over the Bering sea, near the coast of Kamchatka. The power of the explosion that occurred at the height of 25.6 kilometers, 10 …

Under attack may be Samara, Perm, Nizhny Novgorod and Kazan. Clarifies that the opinions of scholars regarding alleged damage to the Land was divided. Western astronomers said that the planet at great speed sent a huge meteorite. Its weight is about 20 thousand tons and a diameter greater than 25 …

In a network there was video of a meteorite in the sky over Japan.Posted on YouTube suitable video. The fall of the fireball was observed by several thousand people. No consequences from the meteorite will not, claim scientists, however, worried the Japanese had, after all, rarely fall from the sky …

November 25 will fall to Earth meteorite “Julia”. Scientists have focused on the fact that the meteorite was seen on 19 November and was initially assessed as safe for the population. After some time, experts have analyzed the trajectory of the meteorite “Julia” came to a disappointing conclusion. Previously, cosmic …

Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli published Twitter account. In the Internet appeared the unique footage of the falling meteor in the dense layers of the atmosphere over the Atlantic ocean taken from the ISS. The author of this video of Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli published an entry on his Twitter page. …

Information about the meteorite appeared in social networks. Thursday, November 16, in the Murmansk region of the Russian Federation, a meteorite fell. The corresponding video is published on YouTube. It is noted that this took place near the Russian-Finnish border, and now scientists are looking for the exact place of …

Colorful phenomenon occurred in the American state. In the United States, the city of Arizona, the camera recorded the colorful fall of the meteorite. One of canadian TV has posted video of the incident on Youtube. The meteorite lit up the whole city for a few seconds, and then ceased …