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News

Purdue Scientists Find Evidence To Back Meteorite Theory - 31/07/1992
Europe's biggest smash hit - 15/02/1999 largest meteorite crater ever found in Europe - in the Barents Sea
Sound of shooting stars - 19/04/1999
Return to Tunguska - 28/06/1999
CNN - Meteor blasts New Zealand with sonic boom - July 8, 1999
Small but deadly comets identified - 16/09/1999
Surprise meteor shower possible - 08/11/1999
Voyage through a Comet's Tail - 17/11/1999
How to catch the Leonids - 17/11/1999
ESA Science - Leonids meteor shower 1999
Pace of Leonid meteors expected to increase - 17/11/1999
In the Leonids' lair - 18/11/1999
Leonid strikes the Moon - 23/11/1999
Geminid meteor shower peaks - 14/12/1999
Robot hunts for space rocks - 19/01/00
Meteor explodes in air near Alaska, Yukon border - 20/01/00
Woman finds space fireball debris - 31/01/00
New Mars meteorite found - 31/01/00
Rock hunter finds second Mars meteorite known in U.S. - 04/02/00
Meteorites reveal deep secrets - 08/02/00
Rare meteorite promises glimpse into dawn of creation - 17/03/00
Rare Mars meteorite discovered in Middle East - 25/05/00
A meteorite worth its salt - 08/06/00
Meteorite Zag sheds light on life in cosmos - 09/06/00
Awaiting Perseids' shooting stars - 23/07/00 RealVideo
Rock that damaged car is a meteorite - 25/07/00
Northern lights join meteors in dazzling sky display - 14/08/00
Chemists find primordial meteorite in a class by itself - 01/09/00
Meteorite records early Solar System - 05/09/00 "Tagish Lake Meteorite" ... a sample of the pre-solar nebula, out of which the planets formed
Primordial meteorite defies known categories - 06/09/00 Tagish Lake meteorite
Rare space rock in British lab - 08/09/00 Tagish Lake meteorite
Call for asteroid defences - 18/09/00
Fireball ignites scientific curiosity - 12/10/00
Study: Carbon-rich meteorite may give new clues to origin of life - 12/10/00
Lunar meteorites reveal life's troubles - 30/11/00
Listen to the sound of falling meteors - 13/12/00
Asteroid misses Earth 'by whisker' - 23/12/00
Quadrantid meteors promise fireworks this week - 01/01/01
Meteorite 'seeds' clue to origins of life on Earth - 12/04/01
Trade growing in stolen meteorites - 11/05/01
Listening for secret nukes, hearing giant meteors - 23/05/01
Martian meteorite may contain water - 13/06/01
Newly discovered Mars meteorite - 18/06/01 named Sayh al Uhaymir 094 after the region of Oman desert where the team found it and more than 180 other meteorites
Meteorite leaves trail of fire, confusion - 24/07/01 Eastern USA
Perseid Meteor Shower, 2001 - 10/08/01 How to observe the summer's best sky show
Leonid Meteor storm may be spectacular - 15/11/01 Rock hunters bag five Mars meteorites - 25/01/02
New Mars meteorites reunited after long split - 15/05/02
Mercury meteorite puzzle - 17/05/02 NWA 011 was found in the Moroccan Sahara in Dec 1999
Space rock 'on collision course' - 24/07/02 Asteroid 2002 NT7 is on an impact course with Earth and could strike the planet on 1 February, 2019
Earth's early battering revealed - 24/07/02
UK's first impact crater discovered - 01/08/02
Skywatchers treated to celestial display - 13/08/02
Meteorite hit Earth at the dawning of life - 23/02/08 about 3.5 billion years ago
Meteorite 'changed Earth's history' - 23/08/02
Giant meteorite rocked life on young Earth? - 23/08/02
Cash plea for Russian meteor chasers - 08/10/02
Skywatchers prepare for meteor show - 18/11/02
Dino crater viewed from space - 10/03/03 Chicxulub
Meteor caused Lesotho 'poltergeist' - 22/04/03
Space impact 'saved Christianity' - 23/06/03 Did a meteorite form the Cratere del Sirente in central Italy in AD 312?
Perseids set for sky show - 11/08/03
Space rock's close call - 24/09/03
Schoolboy's photo amazes Nasa - 02/10/03
Leonid meteors to light up night - 16/11/03 They cannot be seen before 2300 GMT and the best time to spot them is about 0300 GMT or 0400 GMT
New Mars rock hints at past water - 21/01/04
Boost to asteroid wipe-out theory - 13/05/04
Space rock smashes into NZ home - 13/06/04
Public invited to hunt meteorites - 03/08/04
Meteor show may be 'spectacular' - 10/08/04
Antarctic craters reveal strike - 19/08/04
Meteor Crater formation revisited - 10/03/05
North Sea crater shows its scars - 18/03/05
Huge impact crater found in Egypt - 06/03/06
Space impact clue in Antarctica - 17/03/06
Meteorites carry ancient carbon - 08/05/06
Big crater seen beneath ice sheet - 03/06/06
Tut's gem hints at space impact - 19/07/06
Sky-watchers await celestial show - 11/08/06
Unusual meteorite found in Kansas - 16/10/06
'Crater' spied under California - 16/03/07 The 5.5km-wide bowl is buried under shale sediments west of Stockton, in San Joaquin County, and is thought to be between 37 and 49 million years old
Meteorite smugglers anger scientists - 16/04/07
Team makes Tunguska crater claim - 26/06/07
Stargazers set sights on meteors - 10/08/07 The Perseids
Scores ill in Peru 'meteor crash' - 19/09/07
Great beasts peppered from space - 11/12/07
"Year's Best" Meteor Shower to Peak December 13-14 - 10/12/07 Geminids
Peru meteorite may rewrite rules - 12/03/08
Antarctica's unique space rocks - 13/03/08
'Biggest UK space impact found' - 26/03/08 Ullapool, 1.2 billion years ago
Meteorite could hold solar clues - 19/06/08 The Ivuna meteorite landed in Tanzania in 1938 as one 705g stone
Meteor lights up Canada's skies - 22/11/08
Tiny clues to collision in space - 22/12/08
Space rock yields organics bounty - 26/05/09 formic acid
The Perseids are Coming - 31/07/09
Giant impact near India -- not Mexico -- may have doomed dinosaurs - 15/10/09
Asteroid explosion over Indonesia raises fears about Earth's defences - 28/10/09
Atomic Particles Help Solve Planetary Puzzle - 10/11/09 UALR
'Fried Egg' may be impact crater - 18/12/09
Meteorite colour mystery 'solved' - 21/01/10
Meteorite yields carbon crystals harder than diamond - 03/02/10
Meteorite found in attic is 'four-billion-years old' - 11/02/10
Space rock contains organic molecular feast - 16/02/10 The Murchison meteorite could even be older than the Sun
DR Congo ring may be giant 'impact crater' - 10/03/10
Untouched meteorite impact crater found via Google Earth - 26/07/10
Impossible crystals are 'from space' - 03/01/12 Quasicrystals have been found in rocks from Russia's Koryak mountains
Meteor witnessed across Britain - 04/04/12
Meteorite crater discovered in Arctic - 26/07/12
New Impact Crater in the Arctic Discovered - 08/08/12
Massive meteorite crater found in Canadian Arctic - 08/08/12
'Meteors' sighted in skies across UK - 21/09/12
Russian meteor visits shock and awe on Chelyabinsk - 15/02/13
Russian meteor leaves trail of damage across region - 15/02/13
The science behind Russian meteor strike - 15/02/13
Russian meteor exploded with force of 30 Hiroshima bombs - 16/02/13
Meteor clean-up underway in Russia - 16/02/13

Meteorite fragments found in Russia's Urals region - 17/02/13
Fireballs reported in skies above Cuba and California - 16/02/13
Russia meteor's origin tracked down - 26/02/13
Dinosaur-killing space rock 'was a comet' - 22/03/13
Russian meteor shockwave circled globe twice - 27/06/13
Russian Chelyabinsk meteorite pieces go under microscope - 12/07/13 a chondrite containing olivine, pyroxene, troilite and kamacite
Ice core data supports ancient space impact idea - 01/08/13
Chelyabinsk Meteorite's Rocky Past: Research Points to Previous Collision or Near Miss in Space - 26/08/13
'Meteorite' pulled from Russian lake - 16/10/13
'Biggest observed meteorite impact' hits Moon - 24/02/14
Scientists reconstruct ancient impact that dwarfs dinosaur-extinction blast - 09/04/14 study reveals the power and scale of the event some 3.26 billion years ago which scientists think created geological features found in a South African region known as the Barberton greenstone belt
Researchers find proof of global cooling after Chicxulub asteroid impact - 13/05/14
NASA video shows a fireball burning through the skies of Pennsylvania - 18/02/15
Crater? in Mozambique
Globally unique double crater identified in Sweden - 11/09/15







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