Block Island meteorite, officially named Meridiani Planum 006 shortened as MP 006, was found on Mars by the Opportunity rover on July 17, 2009. It is about...
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three iron meteorites encountered by the rover on Meridiani Planum within a few hundred meters, the others being Shelter Island and Block Island. Mackinac...
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Block Island meteorite and Heat Shield Rock – Discovered on Mars by Opportunity rover among four other iron meteorites. Two nickel-iron meteorites were...
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Heat Shield Rock (redirect from Meridiani Planum meteorite)
Island meteorite – Martian meteorite Oileán Ruaidh meteorite – Meteorite found on Mars Shelter Island meteorite – Meteorite on Mars The Meteoritical Society...
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three iron meteorites encountered by the rover on Meridiani Planum within a few hundred meters, the others being Block Island and Mackinac Island. Shelter...
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crater Block Island meteorite Bounce Rock El Capitan Heat Shield Rock Last Chance Mackinac Island meteorite Matijevic Hill Oileán Ruaidh Shelter Island meteorite...
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Oileán Ruaidh (Mars rock) (category Wikipedia infobox meteorite articles without coordinates)
spacePages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets Block Island meteorite – Iron meteorite on Mars Bounce Rock – Football-sized primarily pyroxene...
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Schreibersite (category Meteorite minerals)
phosphide mineral, (Fe,Ni)3P, though common in iron-nickel meteorites. It has been found on Disko Island in Greenland and Illinois. Another name used for the...
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Chelyabinsk meteor (category Meteorite falls)
penetrated to 26 kilometres (16 mi), and many surviving small fragmentary meteorites. Most of the object's energy was absorbed by the atmosphere, creating...
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Madhubani district (section Blocks and circles)
ancient Mithila Kingdom. In 2019 a Meteorite fell at a farm in village which was named scholars as Mahadeva Meteorite of the Madhubani district in India...
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sufficient to give the character of meteorites to loose iron blocks. Steenstrup's findings were later confirmed by meteorite expert J. Lawrence Smith in 1879...
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Hiiumaa (redirect from Hiiumaa Island)
the Ordovician (c. 455 million years ago) the sea floor was hit by a meteorite forming the 4 km wide Kärdla impact structure. This structure was then...
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but nobody was hurt. This meteorite is officially named the Auckland Meteorite, despite tradition demanding that a meteorite is named after the nearest...
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S2CID 1735841. Poag, C. Wiley. Chesapeake Invader: Discovering America's Giant Meteorite Crater. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999. ISBN 0-691-00919-8...
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observation of three cosmogenic superheavy nuclei in olivine crystals in meteorites. The atomic number of these nuclei was estimated to be between 105 and...
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Allan Hills A81005 (category Achondrite meteorites)
the "A" in front of the number) was the first meteorite to be recognised as a lunar meteorite. The meteorite Yamato 791197 was discovered in 1979 but its...
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The following is a list of notable rocks and stones. List of largest meteorites on Earth List of longest natural arches List of rock formations List of...
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large iron-nickel meteorites just sitting on the plains (Heat Shield Rock (shown in Figure 8), Block Island, Shelter Island, Mackinac Island, Oileán Ruaidh...
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the shield since the Sudbury Basin is an ancient meteorite impact crater. Ejecta from the meteorite impact was found in the Rove Formation in May 2007...
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List of rocks on Mars (redirect from List of meteorites on Mars)
(Mars Exploration Rover, 2004 - 2018): Block Island Bounce El Capitan Heat Shield Last Chance Mackinac Island Oileán Ruaidh Curiosity rover (Mars Science...
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Lara Croft as she embarks upon a quest to recover four pieces of a meteorite that are scattered across the world. To progress through the game, the...
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Archibald the Koala (category Animated television series set on fictional islands)
other civilians on Rastepappe. 1. The Dragon 4 September 1998 2. The Meteorite 11 September 1998 3. The Rugby-Basket Mystery 18 September 1998 4. A Hazardous...
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turned out to be a meteorite and was named Block Island. Opportunity spent until September 12, 2009 (Sol 2004) investigating the meteorite, before returning...
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version is titled "This Side of Paradise" by Bree Sharp. A mysterious meteorite is hurtling towards the earth, and during its entry into the atmosphere...
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401–403. doi:10.1038/458401a. PMID 19325604. "Life's Building Blocks Found on Surprising Meteorite". Space.com. December 16, 2010. Retrieved August 13, 2013...
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Panspermia (section Orgueil meteorite)
winds, so can life be brought to Earth by the infall of a life-bearing meteorite. He further proposed the idea that life can only come from life, and that...
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the episodes without reruns, albeit in two separate blocks. In the United States, the first block consisted of six episodes aired on Wednesdays at 9:00...
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Extended periodic table (redirect from G block)
speculated that such elements might exist in the Earth's core, in iron meteorites, or in the ice caps of Greenland where they had been locked up from their...
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composition. Determining their composition permits a correlation between meteorites falling to the Earth and their origin in the asteroid belt. Data returned...
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Pacific), with the meteorite being found at the base of the K-Pg boundary iridium anomaly within the sediment core. The meteorite was suggested to represent...
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