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The Japanese Space Agency (JAXA) launched a spacecraft named Hayabusa2 (Hayabusa means Falcon) to study asteroid 162173 Ryugu on December 3, 2014. Ryugu is classified...

The St-Robert meteorite fall (As if you were there) In Saint-Robert, a small village 15 km from Sorel-Tracy, as in all of southwestern Quebec, Canada,...

An amazing exhibit of meteorite photography has opened at the High Desert Museum in Bend, Oregon. Yes—Bend, Oregon, the largest town in Central Oregon, best...

The year 1969 was a pivotal point in the history of space science. The Allende CV3 carbonaceous chondrite fell on February 8, 1969 in Chihuahua...

This November 2020 is the 25th anniversary of the discovery of the Gold Basin strewn field. I doubt that anything will be organized with the...

From the ruins near the Arizona Crater to the unknown building that now belongs to a Hotel. Harvey Harlow Nininger (1887 – 1986), a name...

A few months back I was asked to help with an appraisal of a 14.6 pound stone meteorite that had been in a family’s collection...

Ever since I started collecting meteorites my interest in the history and stories surrounding the specimens has been a prime motivator for what I would...

“Sikhote-Alin adventure in May 1995”, summarized for the Meteorite Times magazine I bought my first Sikhote-Alin collection sample, an explosion fragment (shrapnel) with some 270...

Not that it matters, but the following story could be true They rode into town one dusty December day, fresh from the High Plains of...

The fall of the Murchison meteorite on September 28, 1969 in Victoria, Australia is perhaps one of the most serendipitous events in the history of...

“Look! Brahmins and Chumars, bankers and tinkers, barbers and bunnias, pilgrims and potters – all the world going and coming. The Grand Trunk Road is...