Asteroid skimming past Earth may loom larger than exploding Russian meteor

File illustration of an asteroid (Texas A&M) A freshly found asteroid that will fly securely past Earth today (Feb 9) may be larger than a celestial things that took off over Chelyabinsk, Russia, 5 years back. The freshly discovered trespasser, called 2018 CB, is approximated to be from 50 to 130 feet in size, and […]

60-million-year-old meteor strike uncovered on remote Isle of Skye

A thin piece of ejecta transferred on the Isle of Skye, Scotland, 60 million years earlier.(SimonDrake) A remote island in Scotland bears traces of out-of- this-world minerals from a 60- million-year-old meteorite effect. A group of geologists from Birkbeck, University of London was analyzing volcanic rocks on the remote Isleof Skye in Scotland when they […]