A network of cameras helped guide a group of space enthusiasts to New Zealand’s 11th confirmed meteorite Days after a massive fireball flashed through New Zealand’s skies last month , Steve Wyn-Harris spotted a small, black stone on the bare ground. The citizen astronomer was on the hunt for debris from the meteor that had flown over the North Island. He bagged the rock but wasn’t too confident, …
Meteorite Hits Home in Canada, Literally
Hard to think something so remote, distant and rare will actually land somewhere someone will see, but just last month a meteorite crashed through a roof and landed on someone’s bed in Canada! Read all about it in the NYTime article here.
I was searching for some old images and I have found this nice photo of our Ringo with his own meteorite. Ringo got this meteorite as a gift in July 2017. The meteorite is a piece of a big meteorite that was found in the location called Campo del Cielo in Argentina The Campo del […]
This is one of my favorite things: a piece of shrapnel from the Sikhote-Alin meteor that exploded over Russia on February 12, 1947. I picked it up at RTMC a couple of years ago. I love it because it looks exactly like what it is: a wrecked piece of iron, fractured with the rest of […]
