Meteors & Meteorites
Shooting Stars
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Beautiful Color Photos and Summaries of Meteors & Meteorites:
Meteors:
Catching Falling Stardust Meteorites:
Fine Octahedrite - Namibia Impact Craters:
Barringer Meteor Crater, Arizona 49,000 years old
The Leonid Meteor Shower
Orionids Meteor Shower to Peak Tonight
The Perseid Meteor Shower
A Perseid Meteor
Fireball!
Bright Meteor, Dark Sky
Quadrantids: Meteors in Perspective
A Meteoric View of Apollo 13
Meteors Now and Again
Coarse Octahedrite - Arizona
Coarsest Octahedrite - Russia
Medium Octahedrite - Australia
Anomalous Iron - France
Chondrite Meteorite
Achondrite Meteorite
Iron Meteorite
A Meteorite From Mars
SIR-C/X-SAR image Aorounga impact crater, Chad 200 million years old
Bosumtwi, Ghana 1.3 +- 0.2 million years old
Roter Kamm, South West Africa/Namibia 5 +- 0.3 million years old
Gosses Bluff, Northern Territory, Australia 142.5 +- 0.5 million years old
Wolfe Creek, Australia 300,000 years old
Mistastin Lake, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada 38 +- 4 million years old
Manicouagan, Quebec, Canada 212 +- 1 million years old
Clearwater Lakes, Quebec, Canada Both Craters are 290 +- 20 million years old
Deep Bay, Saskatchewan, Canada 100 +- 50 million years old
Chicxulub, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico 64.98 million years old
Kara-Kul, Tajikistan 10 million years old
Since January 1, 2000