"The fall of Aguas Zarcas was huge news in the country. No other fireball was as widely reported and then recovered as stones ...
One of the most studied space rocks of all time has given scientists another big surprise, with the "mudball meteorite" Aguas ...
In April 2019, rare primitive meteorites fell near the town of Aguas Zarcas in northern Costa Rica. In an article published ...
A mysterious "mudball" meteorite exploded in the skies above Costa Rica in 2019, scattering rare, water-rich rocks across the ...
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 ...
Shatter cones are chunks of rock resulting from meteorite impacts. The shatter cones pictured here are dolomite cones from the U.S., not Australia. (Image credit: The Book Worm/Alamy) Evidence of ...
The impact could have kicked up rock deep beneath the earth that eventually spread globally as the meteorite strike sent debris flying. The age of the impact is “statistically indistinguishable ...