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Image of the meteorite Allen Hills 83100 illustrating spectral differences
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Pushing the Limits of IR Spectra: Using Nano-FTIR on Meteorites

by David Trang 16 May 202213 May 2022

A new method, nano-FTIR, is used to examine microstructures and processes on grains, displaying its benefit for examining asteroid returned samples through a meteorite.

An artist’s impression of planet formation: Close to the star, dust particles grow into planetesimals and Earth-like planets. Farther away, gas accretes on planetary cores to create Jupiter-like giants.
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Krypton Isotopes Provide New Clues to Planets’ Pasts

by Carolyn Wilke 4 May 20224 May 2022

To trace how crucial ingredients for life arrived at Earth, scientists track noble gases. Now, improved methods are drawing new clues from krypton, the most cryptic of noble gases.

An impact on the surface of Mars creates a shower of debris.
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Martian Meteorites Reveal Evidence of a Large Impact

by Katherine Kornei 15 March 202215 March 2022

By analyzing rare Martian meteorites, researchers have uncovered a crystalline structure created by a large asteroid or comet impact that potentially affected the Red Planet’s habitability.

Parka-clad volunteers collecting a meteorite that fell in Antarctica
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Machine Learning Pinpoints Meteorite-Rich Areas in Antarctica

by Katherine Kornei 1 March 202210 May 2022

A new algorithm suggests that only a small fraction of meteorites present on the White Continent’s surface have been recovered to date.

Martian meteorite ALH84001 shown with a 1-centimeter cube for scale
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A New Explanation for Organics on a Mars Rock That Fell to Earth

by Derek Smith 26 January 20228 March 2022

Organic molecules on a Martian meteorite have fueled nearly 30 years of scientific debate. New evidence suggests they were formed by Martian processes, offering more support for a once habitable environment on the Red Planet.

A bolide in the sky
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Data from Satellites Help Uncover Exploding Meteors

by Emily Moskal 13 December 202113 December 2021

By using data from two lightning-spotting satellites, researchers measure explosions of thousands of small meteors and create a database that could help the planetary defense community.

Wearing a white lab coat, Yiming Zhang, a doctoral student at the University of California, Berkeley, sits in front of a computer screen, examining data, with a mouse in his right hand. To his left, a gray microscope with four copper-colored rings encircling the stage perches on a black table.
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Diamonds Are a Paleomagnetist’s Best Friend

by Alka Tripathy-Lang 19 October 202125 October 2021

Typical paleomagnetic measurements average a sample’s signal. The quantum diamond microscope helps scientists make micrometer-scale maps of magnetism, showing where a sample locked in its magnetic signatures.

Bull’s-eye features in rock
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Ejecta Discovered Near Site of Ancient Meteorite Impact

by Katherine Kornei 17 August 20218 April 2022

South Africa’s Vredefort impact structure is the largest on the planet, and researchers have now discovered the first proximal ejecta possibly deriving from the cataclysmic impact.

A lump of glass
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Glassy Nodules Pinpoint a Meteorite Impact

by Katherine Kornei 5 August 20215 May 2022

Researchers working in Chile’s Atacama Desert have collected thousands of “atacamaites” that suggest a meteorite struck the region roughly 8 million years ago.

Asteroids in space
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A Remarkably Constant History of Meteorite Strikes

by Katherine Kornei 13 July 20214 October 2021

Researchers dissolve chunks of the ancient seafloor to trace Earth’s impact history and find that colossal clashes between asteroids don’t often trigger an uptick in meteorite strikes.

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