Exposed to the elements for thousands of years, rainwater interacted with the mineral troilite, resulting in a form of sulfuric acid which slowly dissolved portions of the meteorite.

One meteorite went though a front of a car, destroying the engine.

From an estimated mass of 25 g for a zero-magnitude meteorite, the other masses are derived with the assumption of a mass decrease by a factor of 2.512 for each unit increase in magnitude.

These conditions are met in two places on Earth ; in the lithospheric mantle below relatively stable continental plates, and at the site of a meteorite strike.

A small, recent cluster of meteorite craters, the largest of which is called Kaali are found near Saaremaa, Estonia.

In contrast, there are over 38, 660 well-documented meteorite finds.

Several phenomena are well documented during witnessed meteorite falls too small to produce hypervelocity craters.

Explosions, detonations, and rumblings are often heard during meteorite falls, which can be caused by sonic booms as well as shock waves resulting from major fragmentation events.

Most meteorite falls are recovered on the basis of eye-witness accounts of the fireball or the actual impact of the object on the ground, or both.

The reason there are now over 30, 000 meteorite finds in the world's collections started with the discovery by Harvey H. Nininger that meteorites are much more common on the surface of the Earth than was previously thought.

The Murchison meteorite that fell near Murchison, Victoria, Australia in 1969 was found to contain over 90 different amino acids, nineteen of which are found in Earth life.

A moon rock, meteorite and other geologic samples are on display.

The site was formerly known as the Canyon Diablo Crater, and fragments of the meteorite are officially called the Canyon Diablo Meteorite.

As of 2011-07-30, 98 of the 99 Martian meteorites are divided into three rare groups of achondritic ( stony ) meteorites: shergottites ( 83 ), nakhlites ( 13 ), and chassignites ( 2 ), with the oddball meteorite Allan Hills 84001 usually placed within a specific " OPX group ".

They are named after the Shergotty meteorite, which fell at Sherghati, India in 1865.

There are 13 known nakhlites, the first of which, the Nakhla meteorite, fell in El-Nakhla, Alexandria, Egypt in 1911 and had an estimated weight of 10 kg.

Formation ages of SNC meteorites are often linked to their cosmic-ray exposure ( CRE ) ages, as measured from the nuclear products of interactions of the meteorite in space with energetic cosmic ray particles.

In 1994, a meteorite known as the " Coleman meteorite " fell near the city, which is coincidental because the community schools ' mascot are the Coleman Comets.

The standard reference for carbon, nitrogen and sulfur are PeeDee Limestone, nitrogen gas in the atmosphere and Cañyon Diablo meteorite respectively.

The presence of iron fragments at the site also pointed to a meteorite impact, as there are no iron deposits in the region.

The debate over whether the organic molecules in the meteorite are in fact of exobiologic origin or are due to abiotic processes on Mars or contamination from the contact with Antarctic ice on Earth is still ongoing.

Some experts argue that the biomorphs found in the meteorite are not indicative of life on Mars, but instead are caused by contamination by earthly biofilms.

The first of these was the Příbram meteorite, which fell in Czechoslovakia ( now the Czech Republic ) in 1959.

Early expeditions to Oman were mainly done by commercial meteorite dealers, however international teams of Omani and European scientists have also now collected specimens.

The first of these was the Pribram meteorite, which fell in Czechoslovakia ( now the Czech Republic ) in 1959.

In November 2009, a team of scientists at Johnson Space Center, including David McKay, reasserted that there is " strong evidence that life may have existed on ancient Mars ", after having reexamined the meteorite using more advanced analytical instruments now available, in light of the objections that had been made since the biogenic hypothesis for the biomorphs first had been put forward.

Shortly thereafter, the meteorite now called Allan Hills 81005 was sent to Washington, DC, where Smithsonian Institution geochemist Brian Mason recognized that the sample was unlike any other known meteorite and resembled some rocks brought back from the Moon by the Apollo program.

Although it has often been described as a meteorite, this hypothesis is now uncertain.

The meteorite impact occurred about 250, 000 years ago ( Pleistocene ) on what is now the flat Karoo landscape.

It has been inferred that the original meteorite was in the size range of 100-1000 tonnes, probably closer to the latter, now dispersed as fragments within the crater breccia and ejecta.

On 14 May 1864 a rare carbonaceous chondrite meteorite landed there, now known as the Orgueil meteorite.

On January 18, 2000, a carbonaceous chondrite meteorite now known as " Tagish Lake ", fell on the frozen surface of the Taku Arm.

There was no impact crater at the discovery site ; researchers believe the meteorite landed in what is now Canada or Montana, and was transported as a glacial erratic to the Willamette Valley during the Missoula Floods at the end of the last Ice Age (~ 13, 000 years ago ).

A meteorite destroys Usaji's television satellite, causing Domo-kun to become frustrated at their now non-functional TV.

Under his direction, the now emerged Brotherhood of Nod began researching the alien substance of Tiberium almost immediately after its arrival on Earth through a meteorite impact in the year 1995, stating that it had the potential to bring about the next stage in humanity's evolution.

The Hunterian Specimen, GLAHM M172, now weighs about 151g, and is the largest surviving piece of the meteorite.

In October 1951 a meteorite exploded in the atmosphere over Denmark and part of it, about the size of a clenched fist, was found in Riis Skov, where a memorial stone now commemorates the event.

However, most other lunar data strongly challenged the O ' Keefe hypothesis, and almost all researchers in this field now accept that tektites are of terrestrial origin, the products of large meteorite or cometary impacts on Earth.

A summary of meteorite data, prepared by Whipple ( 1958 ) on the basis of photographic, visual, and radar evidence, is given in Table 5-1.

The mass scale used in Table 5-1 was derived on the assumption that the motion of the glowing trail is related to the momentum transfer to the trail by the meteorite, permitting the calculation of the mass if the velocity is known ( Cook and Whipple, 1958 ).

A lavish temple called the Elagabalium was built on the east face of the Palatine Hill to house Elagabal, who was represented by a black conical meteorite from Emesa.

The latter mineral can only be formed on Earth by meteorite impacts, and its structure has been composed so much that it had changed from a silicate structure to that of rutile ( TiO < sub > 2 </ sub >).

More generally, a meteorite on the surface of any celestial body is a natural object that has come from elsewhere in space.

Therefore, despite the fact that meteorites actually fall with virtually equal probability everywhere on Earth, verified meteorite falls tend to be concentrated in areas with high human population densities such as Europe, Japan, and northern India.

The images were used both to determine the location of the stones on the ground and, more significantly, to calculate for the first time an accurate orbit for a recovered meteorite.

Structures resembling a organism | life form on meteorite fragment ALH84001, discovered in Antarctica

In this he compiled all available data on several meteorite finds and falls concluded that they must have their origins in outer space.

Biot's study, initiated by the French Academy of Sciences, was compelled by a meteorite fall of thousands of meteorites on April 26, 1803 from the skies of L ' Aigle, France.

The Hodges meteorite, or Sylacauga meteorite, is currently on exhibit at the Alabama Museum of Natural History.

* Allan Hills 84001 – Mars meteorite that was claimed to prove the existence of life on Mars.

A 34 ton fragment called " Ahnighito ", is exhibited at the American Museum of Natural History ; the largest meteorite on exhibit in any museum.

* Sikhote-Alin – Massive iron meteorite impact event that occurred on February 12, 1947.

Apart from meteorites fallen onto the Earth, two tiny fragments of asteroids were found among the samples collected on the Moon ; these were the Bench Crater meteorite ( Apollo 12, 1969 ) and the Hadley Rille meteorite ( Apollo 15, 1971 ).

Furthermore the Opportunity rover discovered the " Heat Shield Rock " meteorite on Mars in addition to five similar iron meteorites.

* Vredefort Crater in South Africa, the largest known impact crater on Earth ( 300 km diameter from an estimated 10 km wide meteorite ).

A separate fragment of the Orgueil meteorite ( kept in a sealed glass jar since its discovery ) was found in 1965 to have a seed capsule embedded in it, whilst the original glassy layer on the outside remained undisturbed.

Kaali is a small group of nine unique meteorite craters on Saaremaa.