Fifty thousand years ago, a meteor carrying trace amounts of silicone carbide crashed into present-day Arizona.
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Some people wondered whether Facebook was just a meteor that, like Myspace, would crash.
Once a piece of space-rock enters our atmosphere, it becomes known as a meteor.
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If a Meteor Shower is big enough you might think all the stars are falling from Heaven.
The Federal Aviation Administration fielded calls about a meteor from Virginia to Maine, said agency spokeswoman Arlene Salac.
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"A meteor could hit this country and bounce right off, there's so much fiber under the ground, " jokes Jim Southworth.
People have reported seeing a bright light, thought to be a meteor, in the sky in parts of England and Wales.
On Saturday, Bill Cooke from NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office explained that the bright, fast-flying object was, in fact, a meteor.
Astronomers have traced the origin of a meteor that injured about 1, 000 people after breaking up over central Russia earlier this month.
When a meteor lands, researchers can get a better fix about its size and composition by studying isotopes found in the fragments.
Not everyone in Russia is convinced that this was a meteor, however.
Ad a Meteor Shower like the 13 and 14 of December of 2012, it might go through or bump into one of them?
It starts as a fifties war-of-the-worlds pastiche: an alien life-form arrives in a meteor and quickly mutates, threatening to destroy Arizona as we know it.
Initially, there is great hope that the company will revolutionize the world and that the stock will rise like a meteor, as they did in the 1990s through the tech bubble.
Clinging to the edge of the San Jacinto Mountains, the structure embraces the elements via a boulder that crashes through the north wall like a meteor and partitions the open-plan space.
Plans also include the suspension of a Meteor and a Jaguar jet from the ceiling of the building with an elevated viewing gallery for visitors to see the planes hanging in mid-air.
More recently, a meteor exploded over the steppes of southwestern Russia on February 15, a blast that scientists at Canada's University of Western Ontario estimated had the energy of about 30 early nuclear bombs.
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Sadly, in 2006 it is painful to contemplate the state of the American space program, to look back and remember how far and fast it progressed in the 1960s, only to slow down abruptly, as if slamming into a meteor field.
"You can see a few almost every clear dark night if you look long enough, but periodically the Earth passes through a dense swarm of these particles which have only recently come from their parent comet, giving what we call a meteor shower, " he said.
The asteroid's arrival was preceded by a damaging meteor event in Russia on Friday - but indications from the meteor's path suggest that the two events are entirely unrelated - just a "cosmic coincidence", as Alan Fitzsimmons of Queens University Belfast told BBC News.
The fragments point to a rocky meteor with about 10% iron mixed in, Grokhovsky told CNN.
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Then, one year, a powerful meteor struck the planet, and, virtually overnight, the entire species was wiped out.
The planes that are now based at the Newquay aero-hub include a Gloster Meteor, and De Havilland's Vampire.
"OMG I saw a real meteor in the Brooklyn's sky, " wrote one person on Twitter, with the handle Curious Sergey.
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Our rough calculation says a large meteor impact on the same day as closest passage of the DA14 asteroid is really improbable.
As researchers studied images of the McLaughlin Crater, a crater 57-miles across and 1.4 miles deep that formed as the result of an impact with a large meteor, they noticed sedimentary rocks.
After a surprising meteor shower sent meteorites crashing on sonic speeds in the Ural mountains of Russia, injuring thousands, the Russian military said Wednesday it will develop technology to shoot them down before the hit Earth.
If asteroids as big as DA14 pass close to Earth once every decade or two, and meteors as large as the Chelyabinsk one impact once every 100 years (a similar meteor having caused the Tunguska event in 1908), the chance of both events happening on any one day are indeed very small: 1 in 3, 650 days times 1 in 36, 500 days, or about 1 in 100 million -- not odds you would bet against.
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