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Meteorite Fragment Could Be 'Space Junk' Print this story The National Radiation Laboratory says a rock fragment suspected to be part of a meteorite could simply be a piece of "space junk". A Canterbury farmer found the rock on Tuesday after a meteor streaked through the sky, and it was passed to the laboratory for testing. Scientists have confirmed that the palm-sized fragment is not radioactive, but they are not sure of its origins and it could be a piece of an old satellite that has fallen back to Earth. -- Newswire
Meteorite van fright A HOLIDAY couple cheated death when a meteorite the size of a cricket ball crashed into their caravan.
Mysterious bright patches on asteroids explained Asteroids gradually become coated with iron dust in space, becoming darker and redder with time, close-up observations of the asteroid Itokawa suggest. This confirms long-held suspicions about why asteroids look different than the space rocks that land on Earth as meteorites.
What put 2 holes in roof? CARMEL, Ind. -- There's a scientist in Bloomington who plans to travel here the day Mick and Mary Zakrajsek fix the two tennis ball-sized holes in their roof. "The physical evidence points to a possible meteorite fall," said research scientist Nelson R. Shaffer of the Indiana Geological Survey. "But no meteorite has been recovered to date."