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Wired
January 2007
Ben Paynter |
The Meteor Farmer Using a souped-up metal detector, a shovel, and a treasure map, Steve Arnold combs the flat Kansas wheat fields for rocks from outer space.   |
Geotimes
May 2005
Megan Sever |
Meteor Crater's Slow Impact New findings suggest that rather than one large meteorite striking the ground at a high velocity, a lower velocity, pancake-shaped swarm of meteorite pieces -- formed from the explosion a larger meteorite -- likely carved out Meteor Crater. |
Geotimes
July 2004
Lisa Rossbacher |
Manna from the Heavens? Most geologists have multiple opportunities to identify rock samples collected by the public. And the more valuable the finder believes the materials to be, the less he wants to believe it is pyrite or quartz or a bovine femur. |
Chemistry World
April 11, 2008
Richard Van Noorden |
Seawater Osmium Sizes up Meteorites Osmium isotopes in seawater sediment can be used to reveal ancient meteorite strikes, US-based scientists say. |
Chemistry World
April 15, 2010
Lewis Brindley |
Mars meteor gets a boost of youth A Martian meteorite that has played a pivotal role in our understanding of the Solar System has been found to be half a billion years younger than previously thought, say US researchers. |
Geotimes
November 2004
Jay Chapman |
Impacting the Origin of Life Impact events and meteorite strikes are often associated with mass extinctions and widespread devastation. But, despite this destructive reputation, impact events may have played a role in the evolution of life, according to several new studies. |
Science News
April 16, 2005 |
From the April 13, 1935, Issue Giant Meteorite Found in Southwestern Kansas... Good Antiknock Gasoline Made From Coal in Germany... Elastic Rock Layers Found 35 Miles Down in Earth... |
Chemistry World
December 8, 2008
Hayley Birch |
Meteorites hitting oceans may have kick-started life Japanese scientists have done laboratory experiments to test the idea. |
Popular Mechanics
December 16, 2008
Matthew Hutson |
5 Projects Ask if Life on Earth Began as Alien Life in Space For years, scientists have considered the possibility of exogenesis, the idea that life arrived on Earth from another planet, and not just the building blocks of life, but organisms that were ready to rock and roll when they arrived. |
Geotimes
May 2004 |
Geomedia Chasing Lava: A Geologist’s Adventures at the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory... Frozen Wonders... Maps: Digital Mapping for Washington State... |
