Objects Space It is believed that the Willamette meteorite falls to earth somewhere in Canada, but actually shifted south to the region of Oregon, where the object was found in 1902. It is the largest meteorite found in the United States, and sixth largest the world.
Impact Crater Gosses Bluff, near Alice Springs, Australia was formed by a meteor or comet impact about 143 million years ago. It is one of approximately 170 terrestrial craters on the surface of the earth.
Meteor showers A photograph captures an interval of two lines meteor in the sky above Amman, Jordan. Red stripes in the middle left and bottom right is a meteor; white stripes star. Most meteors disintegrate in the heat created from entering the Earth's atmosphere.
Meteorite Ahnighito, at the Museum of Natural History, New York, USA. Is one part of a much larger meteorites that fall to Earth (landed in Greenland) thousands of years ago. However, at the age of 34 tons, it is the second largest meteorite in the world.
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