At midday on February 20, 1825, the Nanjemoy meteorite fell to earth in the young United States, as of which there were only 24 states united at the time. A number that would remain steady for over a decade more. Nanjemoy is a H6 chondrite with a total known weight of 7.5kg, and was the fourth meteorite to
The Nanjemoy Bicentennial: A wise old meteorite lives on. Read Post »
To be honest with all my readers, after 25 years of writing hundreds of articles on meteorite related topics my mind is as dry as the desert sand of places meteorites often come from. It takes me longer to come up with a good idea for an article. As I sat here in despair of any mental stimulation for what
Sayh al Uhaymir 001 was a huge find, well over 400 kg. Steve Brittenham’s recent post on Paul Swartz’s Meteorite Picture of the Day induced me to check out a couple thin sections I had made some years back. The meteorite is “only” an L5 and has suffered shock, thermal metamorphism and terrestrial weathering, but it still retains interesting features.
A bright daytime fireball was witnessed over Georgia at around 16:25 Universal Time (UT) on the 26th of June. 239 reports of the bolide from as far away North Carolina, Alabama and Florida were logged with the American Meteor Society’s fireball log. The log includes five videos including one doorbell videocam in which a prominent sonic boom can be heard.
Accounts Of The Fall And Findings In Blacksville / McDonough / Georgia Read Post »
A June 2025 article published by LiveScience claimed that a “swarm of ‘city killer’ space rocks, known as co-orbital asteroids,” pose an “invisible” threat to Earth. These asteroids are found alongside another planet or large body, but they actually orbit the sun, not the celestial body. There are 20 of these asteroids currently found around Venus, and some of them
