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[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 …

[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, …