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- Meteorite Pictures, Information & Articles by Geoffrey NotkinSikhote-Alin Iron Meteorite: A fine example of a Sikhote-Alin iron meteorite, weighing 409.9 grams, which was seen to fall in eastern Russia in February of 1947. This meteorite is described as an individual, as it is a complete mass (rather than an exploded shrapnel fragment) which fell to earth on its own.
- Meteorite: Learn About Meteorites, Meteors & Meteorites For SaleMeteorites land at random everywhere on Earth. Most land in the oceans and are not at present recovered from the water. Of those that fall on the land many are also not recovered. Meteorites often arrive in a very dramatic display with blinding light, smoke trails and thunderous detonations.
- Overview | Meteors & Meteorites – NASA Solar System ...Kid-Friendly Meteors & Meteorites A meteor is a space rock—or meteoroid—that enters Earth's atmosphere. As the space rock falls toward Earth, the resistance—or drag—of the air on the rock makes it extremely hot. What we see is a "shooting star."
- Meteorite Identification - The Meteorite Exchange, Inc.Stone meteorites often have grains of nickel-iron in them. Metallic iron in rocks from the Earth is very rare. The moist atmosphere of the Earth has turned almost all native iron to some other chemical form of iron long ago.
- meteorite | Definition, Types, Identification, & Facts ...Meteorite, any fairly small natural object from interplanetary space—i.e., a meteoroid —that survives its passage through Earth’s atmosphere and lands on the surface. In modern usage the term is broadly applied to similar objects that land on the surface of other comparatively large bodies.
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