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A Meteorite The Size Of A Car Entered Earth's Atmosphere At High Speeds, Broke Up In Flight, And Fell In South Africa
On a Sunday morning in St. Francis Bay, a town in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa, a streak of bright light was ...
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‘Nqweba meteorite’ could be a rare achondritic – scientists on Eastern Cape’s supersonic rock [VIDEO]
The rock, black and shiny on the outside with a light grey concrete-like interior, was still warm when when the Eastern Cape ...
Meteorite strike in South Africa: scientists offer clues about what it is and where it came from
On a Sunday morning in late August 2024 a nine-year-old girl named Eli-zé du Toit was sitting on her grandparents’ porch near ...
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Rare meteorite fragment found in Eastern Cape provisionally named the ‘Nqweba’
The Nqweba Meteorite is believed to be an achondritic meteorite, a rare type in the Howardite-Eucrite-Diogenite group. It ...
Meteor strike in South Africa: What do we know? Where did it come from?
Meteorites are pieces of our solar system which fall to Earth, where they can be studied without having to send expensive ...
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Rare Meteorite Discovery in Eastern Cape Prompts Collaborative Scientific Investigation
Scientists from Rhodes University, Nelson Mandela University, and the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) have since ...
Not a meteor, not a comet: SpaceX's Polaris Dawn launch spotted across Philadelphia area
A few people on social media thought they might have seen a comet, meteor or UFO over the Philadelphia region - it was ...
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Collaborative effort uncovers rare meteorite in Eastern Cape
The spectacular entry of a meteorite into Earth’s atmosphere over South Africa’s Eastern Cape Province on Sunday 25 August ...
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Universities collaborate to uncover rare meteorite in Eastern Cape
provisionally named the ‘Nqweba Meteorite’ after the town in which it was discovered. At 08:51 on August 25, residents in the Garden Route and Karoo and others in the Western Cape and Free ...
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Collaborative effort uncovers rare meteorite in the Eastern Cape
A significant meteorite that fell in the Eastern Cape last month has sparked a collaborative scientific investigation ...
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South Africa: Meteorite Strike in South Africa - Scientists Offer Clues About What It Is and Where It Came From
Analysis - On a Sunday morning in late August 2024 a nine-year-old girl named Eli-zé du Toit was sitting on her grandparents' porch near a small town in South Africa's Eastern Cape province, when she ...
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Collaborative Effort Uncovers Rare Meteorite in Eastern Cape
A significant meteorite fall in South Africa's Eastern Cape Province on Sunday ... provisionally named the "Nqweba Meteorite" after the nearby town of its discovery. At 8:51 am on the day of ...