Hole took the nugget to the Melbourne Museum for identification. "I've looked at a lot of rocks that people think are meteorites," Henry told Channel 10 News. In fact, after 37 years of working at ...

A meteorite is a piece of rock that originated in space, then survived the fall through the Earth’s atmosphere to end up on the surface of our planet. We estimate that nearly 5000 rocks ...

After carefully looking at the 22.5-pound rock — the largest Sirbescu ... play a major role in discovering the identification and classification of this meteorite, CMU is going to establish ...

Researchers discovered the crater thanks to 'shatter cones', distinctive rock formations only formed under the intense pressure of a meteorite strike. The shatter cones at the site, about 40 ...

Where do meteorites come from? Most are from the asteroid belt, a jumble of rocks between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. They range in size from nearly 1000 kilometres across, to microscopic dust ...

Researchers discovered the crater thanks to "shatter cones," distinctive rock formations only formed under the intense pressure of a meteorite strike. The shatter cones at the site, about 40 ...

After years of frustration, Hole decided to take the mysterious rock to the Melbourne Museum for identification ... was not a gold nugget but a rare meteorite. The Maryborough meteorite, as ...