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2.1Bil BC |
A meteorite, dubbed NWA 7034, blasted to Earth from Mars about this time and landed in the Sahara Desert. Analysis in 2012 revealed that it contained water. Links: Mars, HistoryBC, Meteor 
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1.85Bil BC |
In Ontario, Canada, near the town of Sudbury, a meteor that was at least 10 miles across struck down. The remaining crater is 60 by 45 miles and was found to contain a profusion of "buckyballs" (peculiar hollow molecules of carbon) with samples of ancient star stuff packed inside. Links: Canada, HistoryBC, Meteor
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500Mil BC |
A 30-mile size crater, a mile underneath the bed of Lake Huron, just north of Port Huron, Michigan, marks the impact of a meteor. It was discovered in 1990 by scientists from the Geological Survey of Canada. Links: Canada, HistoryBC, Meteor
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254.7Mil BC |
In 2012 scientists dated the 40km Araguainha crater, on the border of Brazil’s Mato Grosso and Goias states, to this time. They believed that the release of oil and gas from the impact of a meteorite led to the great Permian extinction. Links: Brazil, Extinction, HistoryBC, Meteor
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150Mil BC |
In 1999 Norwegian scientists discovered an undersea meteor crater in the Arctic Ocean 125 miles north of Norway that dated to this time. It measured 25 miles wide. The meteor was estimated at 1 1/4 mile wide traveling at 18,600 mph. Links: Arctic, Norway, HistoryBC, Meteor
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16Mil BC |
A huge asteroid hit Mars and blasted rock into space about this time. The 1984 meteorite labeled Allan Hills (ALH) 84001 was knocked into space and landed in Antarctica around 11,000BC. Links: Mars, Antarctica, Asteroid, HistoryBC, Meteor
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80000 BC |
A 66-ton meteorite called Hoba hit the Earth about this time. It was the world's largest intact meteorite when found in Namibia around 1920. Links: Namibia, HistoryBC, Meteor
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50000 BC |
Arizona’s Barringer Crater was created about this time by a meteor. Named after mining engineer Daniel Barringer, it measures 3/4 of a mile wide and 640 feet deep and is suspected to have resulted from a meteor of about 100 feet in diameter. An iron meteor 100 feet in diameter and weighing about 60,000 tons crashed into the desert at about 45,000 miles per hour near Winslow, Az. A crater 4,000 feet wide and 570 feet deep was created. 85% of it melted and the rest broke into bits called Canyon Diablo meteorites. Links: Arizona, HistoryBC, Meteor
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11000 BC |
A meteorite from Mars (ALH 84001), discovered in 1984, landed in Antarctica. Scientists in 1996 claimed to have found evidence of organic minerals, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, in the meteorite that formed some 3.6 billion years ago. Links: Comet, Mars, Antarctica, HistoryBC, Meteor
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3000 BC 2800 BC |
The Burckle Crater, an undersea crater, formed during this period by a very large scale comet or meteorite impact event. It is located to the east of Madagascar and west of Western Australia in the southern Indian ocean and is estimated to be about 30 km (18 mi) in diameter. In 2006 the Holocene Impact Working Group believed that it was created when a comet impacted in the ocean, and that enormous megatsunamis created the dune formations which later allowed the crater to be pin-pointed. As not only the Bible, but other ancient writings from various cultures make reference to a 'great flood', it is hypothesized that these legends are associated with this event. Links: Israel, Earth, Bible, HistoryBC, Meteor
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2500 BC |
A meteor shower hit Argentina about this time in "Campo del Cielo" (Field of Heaven) on the border between Chaco and Santiago del Estero. In 2016 scientists uncovered a 30-ton meteorite in the area they called Gancedo. Links: Argentina, HistoryBC, Meteor
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Ancient Chinese records recorded an August meteor shower that was later assumed to be the Perseids. The meteorites originated when the Swift-Tuttle comet passed so close to the sun that its ice head melted and left a stream of pea-sized particles. Links: China, Meteor
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1492 Nov 7 |
A meteorite landed in Ensisheim, Germany. Emperor Maximilian visited Ensisheim 15 days after the fall and ordered that the stone be preserved in the local church. Links: Germany, Meteor
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1807 Dec 14 |
A number of meteorites fell onto Weston, Connecticut. Links: USA, Connecticut, Meteor
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1833 Nov 12 |
The sky over North America seemed to explode with falling stars. Following the Great Leonids Meteor Storm of 1833, American astronomer Denison Olmsted concluded that since the meteors were coming from outer space. Links: USA, Astronomy, Meteor
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1894 |
A fireball was seen streaking across the skies of southern Nevada. 14 years alter a prospector found a 1.45 kg meteorite that was named the Quinn Canyon meteorite. Links: USA, Nevada, Meteor
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1908 Jun 30 |
An explosion near the Tunguska River in Siberia incinerated some 300 sq. km. that encircled the impact of an estimated 60 meter diameter stony meteorite. It flattened some 40,000 trees over 900 sq. miles and caused damage equivalent to a 15-megaton hydrogen bomb. The explosion in Siberia, which knocked down trees in a 30-mile radius and struck people unconscious some 40 miles away, is believed by some scientists to be caused by a falling fragment from a meteorite. Links: Siberia, Meteor
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1927 Dec |
Leonid Kulik (d.1942), Russian expert on meteorites, delivered his report to the Russian Academy of Sciences on his 2nd trip to the Tunguska site in Siberia regarding the 1908 meteorite explosion. He estimated that the meteorite had weighed several thousand metric tons and convinced the academy to sponsor another expedition in 1928. Links: Russia, Siberia, Meteor
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1969 Feb 8 |
A meteor shower hit Mexico creating a luminance in the night sky as bright as day. A meteorite weighing over 1 ton fell in Chihuahua, Mexico. Links: Mexico, Meteor
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1969 Sep 28 |
The Murchison Meteorite crashed into Australia. It was found to contain amino acids and frozen ice. Links: Australia, Meteor
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1972 Aug 10 |
An Earth-grazing meteoroid grazed the atmosphere above Canada. It entered the Earth's atmosphere in daylight over Utah. Links: Canada, Utah, Meteor
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1980 |
Louis Alvarez (1911-1988) proposed that the extinction of dinosaurs 65 million years ago at the Tertiary - Cretaceous boundary was due to a large meteor impact based on a thin line of sediment of dark clay containing unusually high levels of iridium at the boundary. Links: USA, Dinosaur, Meteor
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1980 1996 |
Scientist over this period established that 12 meteorites in a worldwide collection had come from the moon. They are called SNCs ("snicks"), an abbreviation for the locations where they were discovered: Shergotty, India; Nakhla, Egypt; and Chassigny, France. Links: Astronomy, Moon, Meteor
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1992 Oct 9 |
A great Peekskill Meteorite was seen from Kentucky to NY. Links: USA, Meteor
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1994 Apr 22 |
The Lyrid meteor shower was on this day. Links: Meteor
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1994 May 5 |
The peak of the Eta Aquarid meteor shower. It displayed 10-40 meteors per hour. Links: Meteor
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1998 Nov 17 |
The Leonid meteor storm was expected to peak and damage was feared to the nearly 500 satellites in orbit. The storm was the result of the Earth’s intersection with the debris field of the comet Tempel-Tuttle, last seen 33 years ago. Links: Comet, Space, Meteor
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1998 Dec 14 |
This was the peak of this year's Geminid meteor shower. Links: Earth, Space, Meteor
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2005 Nov 11 |
It was reported that a rare 1,400-pound meteorite was recently discovered seven feet underground in southern Kansas by Steve Arnold of Kingston, Ark., in an area long known for producing prized space rocks. Links: USA, Kansas, Meteor
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2006 Mar 3 |
Scientists reported the discovery of a 19-mile wide crater in Egypt’s Sahara desert. The newfound crater, named Kebira, was likely carved by a space rock that was itself roughly 0.75 miles wide in an event that would have been quite a shock, destroying everything for hundreds of miles. It was discovered in satellite images by Boston University researchers Farouk El-Baz and Eman Ghoneim. Links: Egypt, Massachusetts, Meteor
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2007 Feb 8 |
An object fell from the sky and killed 3 nomads in northern India’s Rajasthan state. The impact left a crater and the object was believed to have been a meteor. Links: India, Meteor
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2007 Sep 15 |
A meteorite made a fiery crash to Earth in southern Peru and villagers were soon struck by a mysterious illness. Links: Peru, Medical, Meteor
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2008 Oct |
The Almahata Sitta meteorite crashed in Sudan's Nubian Desert. It was later reported that diamonds in the meteorite, would have required great pressure to form and were most likely formed by a proto-planet at least 4.55 billion years ago. The mystery planet was thought to have been least as big as Mercury, possibly even Mars. Links: Sudan, Diamonds, Meteor
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2008 Nov 20 |
A meteor streaked across the sky of the Canadian Prairies producing a fire ball that shone brightly enough to be seen over an area 700 km (435 miles) wide. Searchers soon found the remains of the 10-ton meteor. Links: Canada, Meteor
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2011 Mar 3 |
Dr. Richard B. Hoover, an astrobiologist at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, said he has found conclusive evidence of alien life, fossils of bacteria found in an extremely rare class of meteorite called CI1 carbonaceous chondrites. (There are only nine such meteorites on planet Earth.) His findings were published today in the Journal of Cosmology, a peer-reviewed scientific journal. Scientists inside and outside NASA distanced themselves from Hoover saying he does not have expertise in astrobiology. Links: USA, Microbiology, NASA, Meteor
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2011 Jul |
A meteor shower dropped rocks from Mars on the ground in Morocco. 15 pounds of the rocks were found in December. Links: Morocco, Mars, Meteor
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2012 Apr 22 |
A meteor, dubbed the Sutter’s Mill Meteriote, exploded into fragments over northern California. It weighed barely 2 pounds and was apparently from a family of known asteroids named 495 Eulalia. Links: California, Meteor
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2013 Feb 15 |
In Russia a meteor, estimated to be about 10 tons, streaked through the sky and exploded over Chelyabinsk in the Ural Mountains with the power of an atomic bomb. Its sonic blasts shattered countless windows and injured some 1200 people. Links: Russia, Meteor
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2013 Mar 17 |
A boulder slammed into the Moon, creating the biggest explosion scientists have seen there since they started monitoring it. Links: Moon, Meteor
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2016 Sep 10 |
Scientists in Argentina uncovered a meteorite they called Gancedo in "Campo del Cielo" (Field of Heaven) on the border between Chaco and Santiago del Estero. It was thought to have hit the region about 4,500 years ago. Links: Argentina, Meteor
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2017 Nov 16 |
A fireball lit up the skies of Arctic Finland with a glow of 100 full moons. Experts scrambled to find where the meteorite landed. Links: Finland, Meteor
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2020 |
A 15-ton meteorite was found in rural Somalia. Locals called the stone Nightfall, and say it is documented in poems, songs and dances that stretch back five generations. It is used today to sharpen knives. In 2022 scientists named new minerals in the rock: elaliite and elkinstantonite. Links: Somalia, Meteor
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2022 Nov 19 |
The European Space Agency said a fireball that soared over Ontario, Canada, early today was the sixth object to be detected in space before it struck Earth. Links: Canada, EU, Meteor
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