It was a balmy spring day in May 2009 when Jim Koch’s plow kicked up an unusually hefty rock.Koch was prepping a field for alfalfa on his farm in the Town of Vienna just a short drive north of Madison. At first, he didn’t notice the rock. But after s
Exceptional meteorite, plowed up from a Dane County field, finds new home in UW Geology Museum wisc.edu - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wisc.edu Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The moon is 40M years older than previously thought scienceblog.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from scienceblog.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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More than 4 billion years ago, when the Solar System was still young and the Earth was still growing, a giant object the size of Mars crashed into the Earth. The biggest piece that broke off of the
"Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone." -Henry W. Longfellow
When you look at the meteors striking Earth today, as well as over the past 466 million years, you find something surprising: they don’t line up with the population of near-Earth asteroids we find in our Solar System today. In fact, more than 80% of the meteorites we find on Earth’s surface are entirely of the wrong class.
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Moon 40 million years older than earlier thought, reveal crystals from lunar surface orissapost.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from orissapost.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.