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• Gem show's meteorites give 'rare' a whole new meaning Arizona Daily Star An excited Geoff Notkin, right, explains the characteristics of a meteorite to his sales manager, Lisa Marie Morrison. Tucsonan Seth Heil listens to the conversation. The 25-pound meteorite was discovered in eastern Russia, Notkin said. and more »

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  Great ball of fire: Fiery meteor wows Oklahoma and Texas Los Angeles Times [For the Record, 1:05 pm, Feb.3: An earlier version of this post -- and its headline -- referred to the meteor as a meteorite. A meteorite is a portion of a meteor that reaches the Earth intact.] Meteor spotted in Kansas KSN-TV Meteor hurtled over Dallas on Wednesday night Pegasus News Meteor reported in Oklahoma, Texas skies NewsOK.com KENS 5 TV - Fort Worth Star Telegram - KSAT San Antonio all 93 news articles »

• Meteorite hunters say big payday may be on the ground east of Dallas WFAA "This is going to be a huge, huge meteorite," said meteor hunter McCartney Taylor. "I think that it was at least the size of an SUV when it came into the atmosphere. It was large enough and it fragmented enough to where it was visible, [so] it could ...

• Object Over Texas Skies Believed To Be Bolide Meteorite KBTX It turns out there's a lot of meteorite myths out there. Texas A&M Astronomy Professor Nicholas Suntzeff tells us what was high in the sky was likely only about the size of your fist. "If they do hit the earth they are not hot they are cold. and more »

• Meteorite moving plan blocked News24 Buenos Aires - An unlikely alliance between the native Moqoit people and leading Argentine scientists has thwarted plans to ship the world's second largest meteorite to Germany as a prestigious art exhibit. The 37-ton space rock crashed to Earth as ... and more »

• Scottish man launches meteorite-aged wine Telegraph.co.uk Scottish expat Ian Hutcheon who has made his home in Chile the last 14 years has revealed his 2010 Meteorito, a robust Cabernet infused with nothing less than a 4.5 billion-year-old meteorite. Wine lovers looking to expand their palates by light-years ... Brit astronomer creates wine from 4.5billion-yr-old meteorite in Chile Economic Times Chilean Wine Out of This World NTDTV all 11 news articles »

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  Meteorites in Morocco confirmed to be Martian in origin Christian Science Monitor The meteorites fell in the Moroccan desert in July and were recovered a few months later. By Mike Wall, SPACE.com Senior Writer / January 18, 2012 This handout photo provided by Darryl Pitt of the Macovich Collection shows an external view of a Martian ... Scientists confirm rocks fell from Mars The Associated Press Meteorites from Mars Confirmed TIME Meteorite from Mars fell in Morocco AFP Washington Post (blog) - New York Daily News - Voice of America all 554 news articles »

• Fox News

  Hundreds of meteorites uncovered in Antarctica Fox News They are participants in the Antarctic Search for Meteorites program, or ANSMET for short. Since 1976, ANSMET researchers have been recovering thousands of meteorite specimens from the East Antarctic ice sheet. ANSMET is funded by the Office of Polar ... and more »

• Meteorites more than streaks of light Springfield News-Leader A Mars rover photographed this basketball-size iron meteorite on Mars in 2005. / NASA / JPL / Cornell Manicouagan Reservoir, a large annular lake, marks the site of an impact crater 100 kilometers wide. Formed almost 212 million years ago when a large ...

• CTV.ca

  Meteorite stolen from UNM museum KRQE ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) - A very expensive meteorite was stolen before the University of New Mexico's Winter break and the international hunt to find it, worked. The meteorite was once part of the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, it crashed onto ... Stolen meteorite recovered in New Mexico The Associated Press Stolen New Mexico meteorite worth $20K-$40K found after man in Missouri man ... Washington Post all 88 news articles »