"We found that the momentum of the ensuing explosion is enough to eject the surrounding highly shocked rock material into ...

A fireball dubbed the Mother's Day Meteorite has been found in a salt lake in Western Australia by a country police officer ...

Carbon-containing meteorites look like they had less severe impacts than those without carbon because the evidence was blasted into space by gases produced during the impact. The Kobe University ...

Carbon-containing meteorites look like they had less severe impacts than those without carbon because the evidence was blasted into space by gases produced during the impact. The Kobe University ...

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You'd expect to see clear signs of impact in the ensuing meteorites — but for over 30 ... larger bodies like the dwarf planet Ceres should have enough gravity to to pull the ejected material ...

In carbon-containing meteorites, impacts create extremely hot carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide gases (yellow). Kurosawa says: “We found that the momentum of the ensuing explosion is enough to ...