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This Could Be the First Record of Someone Getting Killed by a Meteorite

[ad_1] A drawing of a meteorite falling in Ukraine in 1866.Illustration: Public Domain (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Knyahinya_Meteorite_Fall.jpg) A team of scientists think they’ve found the oldest evidence of a meteorite striking and killing a person, according to a new report published in the journal journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science. Given the hype around …

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The meteorite that survived the great floods and human madness

[ad_1] The rock with possibly the most fascinating history on Earth has an ancient name: Tomanowos. It means “the visitor from heaven” in the extinct language of the Clackamas Indian tribe of Oregon. The Clackamas revered the Tomanowos, also known as Willamette meteorites, believing that they came to unite heaven, …

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Survival of Earth from an asteroid collision on April 29

[ad_1] Bhubaneswar: A very large asteroid will pass close to Earth on April 29. People around the world are currently in a dilemma about the asteroid’s collision with Earth. The asteroid’s dimensions are 1.8 km wide and 4 km long. In simpler terms, the size of the asteroid is approximately …

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