Crystals inside a Martian meteorite hint that there may have been plentiful hot water on Mars when the rock formed 4.45 billion years ago. The rock, nicknamed Black Beauty, ...

The Richard F. West Meteorite Collection was unveiled on Friday at JMU and includes everything from primitive chondrites to rare tektites.

Collectibles A 275-Pound Crystal-Filled Meteorite and Other Rare Natural Artifacts Head to Auction. The themed sale at Heritage Auctions speaks to a growing collecting appetite for ancient treasures.

This layer contains tektites and shocked zircon crystals, ... Created between 35,000 and 50,000 years ago by a meteorite impact, the crater is about 1.8 miles in diameter and 500 feet deep.

“Moldavite is actually a green tektite that was formed by a meteorite hitting Earth 14.7 million years ago in where is now southern Germany,” Mariah K. Lyons, a crystal expert and author of ...

Read this article to know which crystal is lucky for you based on your zodiac sign. , Cosmic News, Times Now. Open Popup. ... using special crystals like Libyan Gold Tektite can help in making your ...

800,000 years ago, a huge meteorite hit Earth. Scientists may have just found where. The missing crater formed in a catastrophic collision that may have scattered debris from China to Antarctica.

The nearest known meteorite craters, named GP and Oasis, are 2km and 18km in diameter respectively, and quite far away from where the glass we tested was found. They are too far and too small to be ...

Microtektites found in Caribbean may shed light on tektite origin — Science News, August 11, 1973. Though their origin remains a mystery to scientists, huge strewn fields of tektites have been ...

The meteorite was nickel-iron and 160 feet (50 m) in diameter. It hit with a speed of around 30,000 mph ( 12.8 km/s ), and about half of the meteorite had been vaporized before impact. 11.