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The Greeks, and Babylonians before them, saw the upper sky as the home of the gods when meteors fell to Earth, instead of reasoning that there might be rocks up there, they felt that divinity must reside in the fallen meteorite and worshipped it. – Bonnie MacLachlan	Found on CNN 3 years ago
The meteorite is named' Motopi Pan' after a local watering hole, this meteorite is a national treasure of Botswana. – Mohutsiwa Gabadirwe	Found on CNN 3 years ago
I could hardly believe my eyes when I came upon a little object that appeared to be moving across images taken by SkyMapper, these last images before the asteroid entered Earth's atmosphere were SkyMapper's biggest contribution. They helped to pinpoint both the search area for the meteorite fragments on Earth and the meteor's origin in space. – Christopher Onken	Found on CNN 3 years ago
When the meteorite arrived at the Field, I spent the entire weekend analyzing it, because I was so excited to find out what kind of meteorite it was and what was in it, with every meteorite that falls, there's a chance that there's something completely new and totally unexpected. – Jennika Greer	Found on CNN 4 years ago
This meteorite shows a high diversity of organics, in that if somebody was interested in studying organics, this is not normally the type of meteorite that they would ask to look at, but because there was so much excitement surrounding it, everybody wanted to apply their own technique to it, so we have an unusually comprehensive set of data for a single meteorite. – Jennika Greer	Found on CNN 4 years ago
But we also keep looking out for new meteorite falls, every meteorite that falls to Earth is worth studying, as it may provide a unique perspective onto the solar system and may shed new light on its history and our origins. – Philipp Heck	Found on CNN 4 years ago
This meteorite is special because it fell onto a frozen lake and was recovered quickly. It was very pristine. We could see the minerals weren't much altered and later found that it contained a rich inventory of extraterrestrial organic compounds, these kinds of organic compounds were likely delivered to the early Earth by meteorites and might have contributed to the ingredients of life. – Philipp Heck	Found on CNN 4 years ago
I find this extremely exciting, despite having worked on the Murchison meteorite and presolar grains for almost 20 years, I still am fascinated that we can study the history of our galaxy with a rock. – Philipp Heck	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
This meteorite had an abundance of carbon in it. And as it slowly cooled down, the iron and carbon came together and formed this mineral. – Stuart Mills	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Ive been looking at the matrix of primitive meteorites, the material that holds the structure together, the meteorite in question dates to roughly 4.6 billion years ago, when the Sun was born and our Solar System formed. The matrix of these meteorites is therefore thought to be the starting material from which all the planets formed. – Epifanio Vaccaro	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
These are the ashes of different kinds of stars that have faded or are on their way to fading out of the universe, moreover, because we find them preserved inside of meteorites and because we can age date meteorites using radioisotopes, we know they must be older than the meteorite itself. – Tom Zega	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
Folks have hypothesized that being small and having the ability to potentially hide underground when a big meteorite comes along would have preadapted these guys to survival. – Jaelyn Eberle	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
Every year, we provide hundreds of meteorite specimens to scientists all over the world to for study, this is a first for us: sending one of our samples back home for the benefit of science. – Caroline Smith	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
It made such a loud noise like a meteorite crashing down. – Amir Khan	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
A meteorite fell within the college premises. – Jayalalithaa Jayaram	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
This sort of spectral matching is a way to identify an unknown, good spectral matches suggest possible identifications, while bad matches eliminate them. Most of the spectra are dominated by minerals that are consistent with the identification of this meteorite as a carbonaceous chondrite. – Scott Sandford	Found on FOX News 9 years ago

The Greeks, and Babylonians before them, saw the upper sky as the home of the gods when meteors fell to Earth, instead of reasoning that there might be rocks up there, they felt that divinity must reside in the fallen meteorite and worshipped it.

– Bonnie MacLachlan

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The meteorite is named' Motopi Pan' after a local watering hole, this meteorite is a national treasure of Botswana.

– Mohutsiwa Gabadirwe

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I could hardly believe my eyes when I came upon a little object that appeared to be moving across images taken by SkyMapper, these last images before the asteroid entered Earth's atmosphere were SkyMapper's biggest contribution. They helped to pinpoint both the search area for the meteorite fragments on Earth and the meteor's origin in space.

– Christopher Onken

Found on CNN
3 years ago

When the meteorite arrived at the Field, I spent the entire weekend analyzing it, because I was so excited to find out what kind of meteorite it was and what was in it, with every meteorite that falls, there's a chance that there's something completely new and totally unexpected.

– Jennika Greer

Found on CNN
4 years ago

This meteorite shows a high diversity of organics, in that if somebody was interested in studying organics, this is not normally the type of meteorite that they would ask to look at, but because there was so much excitement surrounding it, everybody wanted to apply their own technique to it, so we have an unusually comprehensive set of data for a single meteorite.

– Jennika Greer

Found on CNN
4 years ago

But we also keep looking out for new meteorite falls, every meteorite that falls to Earth is worth studying, as it may provide a unique perspective onto the solar system and may shed new light on its history and our origins.

– Philipp Heck

Found on CNN
4 years ago

This meteorite is special because it fell onto a frozen lake and was recovered quickly. It was very pristine. We could see the minerals weren't much altered and later found that it contained a rich inventory of extraterrestrial organic compounds, these kinds of organic compounds were likely delivered to the early Earth by meteorites and might have contributed to the ingredients of life.

– Philipp Heck

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I find this extremely exciting, despite having worked on the Murchison meteorite and presolar grains for almost 20 years, I still am fascinated that we can study the history of our galaxy with a rock.

– Philipp Heck

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

This meteorite had an abundance of carbon in it. And as it slowly cooled down, the iron and carbon came together and formed this mineral.

– Stuart Mills

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Ive been looking at the matrix of primitive meteorites, the material that holds the structure together, the meteorite in question dates to roughly 4.6 billion years ago, when the Sun was born and our Solar System formed. The matrix of these meteorites is therefore thought to be the starting material from which all the planets formed.

– Epifanio Vaccaro

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

These are the ashes of different kinds of stars that have faded or are on their way to fading out of the universe, moreover, because we find them preserved inside of meteorites and because we can age date meteorites using radioisotopes, we know they must be older than the meteorite itself.

– Tom Zega

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Folks have hypothesized that being small and having the ability to potentially hide underground when a big meteorite comes along would have preadapted these guys to survival.

– Jaelyn Eberle

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Every year, we provide hundreds of meteorite specimens to scientists all over the world to for study, this is a first for us: sending one of our samples back home for the benefit of science.

– Caroline Smith

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

It made such a loud noise like a meteorite crashing down.

– Amir Khan

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

A meteorite fell within the college premises.

– Jayalalithaa Jayaram

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

This sort of spectral matching is a way to identify an unknown, good spectral matches suggest possible identifications, while bad matches eliminate them. Most of the spectra are dominated by minerals that are consistent with the identification of this meteorite as a carbonaceous chondrite.

– Scott Sandford

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

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