meteorite
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Zolensky and colleague JangMi Han discovered small CM1 fragments rich in salt inside the Hillsborough meteorite.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026
Not long afterward, a meteorite weighing more than two pounds punched through the roof of a home in Hillsborough, New Jersey.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026
The first was the Kolang meteorite, which fell in North Sumatra, Indonesia, in 2020.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026
"The Hillsborough meteorite contained 1.8% by weight of carbon and 0.07% of nitrogen, and had carbon and nitrogen isotopes typical for CM-type meteorites."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026
He has no meteorite bag, no magnet rake, which means he came all the way down here to find me.
From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson
"The Hillsborough meteorite contained 1.8% by weight of carbon and 0.07% of nitrogen, and had carbon and nitrogen isotopes typical for CM-type meteorites."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026
That difference was difficult to explain because the Sun and those meteorites formed from the same cloud of gas and dust about 4.6 billion years ago.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 25, 2026
The database could also improve scientists' ability to interpret the history recorded inside meteorites and asteroid fragments.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 19, 2026
It also raises new questions about how organic molecules found in meteorites acquire contamination and what increasing levels of petroleum related pollution in Earth's atmosphere may mean for future studies.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 9, 2026
The entire underside of the dome looked like space as seen from the Hubble telescope: A dusty spiral nebula billowed up, a galaxy of stars twinkled, and meteorites whizzed across the ceiling.
From "Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library" by Chris Grabenstein
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