Meteorites.

Meteorites. space

Tissint, a Moroccan meteorite

It was only in the nineteenth century that it was accepted that meteorites were really pebbles falling from the sky. Today we know that these are the keys to understanding the origin of the Solar system and the planets. It has even been discovered that some of them came from La Luna and others from […]

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Interesting things about space objects.

Each of us knows what to do when a star falls — of course, make a wish. Everyone has also heard about the meteorite from Chelyabinsk and the famous Tunguska meteorite.Where do asteroids come from, what do they look like, and what happens if a meteorite hits the Earth?Bolid is a very bright meteor that […]

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An asteroid that could fall.

If the asteroid Apophysis falls to Earth in 2036, the explosion power is 400 megatons.An American company has won a tender for the construction of a spacecraft capable of preventing the asteroid Apophysis from colliding with Earth.In January, this space giant flew at a distance of only half a million kilometers from our planet (by […]

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Definition of a meteorite.

The Greek word bolis came from the Latin, as bolis, which soon came to the French, as bolide . In our language, it has become a race car, a concept that hints at a body that achieves tremendous speed .For example: “A fireball crashed into the wall of a house and destroyed it”, “An Italian […]

Meteorites.

A fireball is a fairly rare phenomenon-a fireball flying through the sky. This phenomenon is caused by the intrusion into the dense layers of the atmosphere of large solid particles called meteor bodies. (And the remnants of meteor bodies that have fallen to Earth are called meteorites.) Moving in the atmosphere, the particle heats up […]