💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🌙🪨 A lunar #meteorite called Northwest #Africa 12593 preserves evidence of three impacts, including one 3.5 billion years ago that melted #lunar rock.

University of #Colorado #Boulder researchers linked the blast to similar impacts on #Earth and #asteroid #Vesta when #life was first appearing here.

👉 https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/a-piece-of-the-moon-found-in-africa-records-a-giant-lunar-impact-from-the-dawn-of-life-on-earth/

#moon #space #geology #science #northwestafrica #earthscience #solarsystem #minerals

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🌙🪨 A lunar #meteorite called Northwest #Africa 12593 preserves evidence of three impacts, including one 3.5 billion years ago that melted #lunar rock.

University of #Colorado #Boulder researchers linked the blast to similar impacts on #Earth and #asteroid #Vesta when #life was first appearing here.

👉 https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/a-piece-of-the-moon-found-in-africa-records-a-giant-lunar-impact-from-the-dawn-of-life-on-earth/

#moon #space #geology #science #northwestafrica #earthscience #solarsystem #minerals

RE: https://academiccloud.social/@mpsgoettingen/116770508901379640

New press release today about the search for life on Mars with the future Rosalind Franklin rover, with significant contributions to the paper by IMPRS alumn Manuel Reinhardt. Manuel has been pursuing similar questions since his IMPRS PhD thesis at the University of Göttingen in 2019, where he had been assessing the formation and preservation of organic signatures in extreme environments using analog environments on Earth.

@mpsgoettingen @unigoettingen @thegoecampus

This time Leseigneur et al. are looking at organics in meteorites:

#Mars #MOMA #RosalindFranklin #Rover #Murchison #Meteorite #LifeOnMars #ESA

📢 I am starting a new Mastodon collection for meteorite-related accounts. ☄️

👉 This collection is open to all scientists, collectors, dealers, and hunters who specialize in space rocks.

👉 This is an opt-in collection. If you want to be included, please reply to this thread.

👉 Please boost for reach.

🔗 Link : https://mastodon.social/collections/116766604030212361

#meteorite #meteorites #PlanetaryScience #meteoritics #meteoriten #meteorito #geology #PlanetaryGeology #science #collection #MeteoriteCollection

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: ☄️🏠 On May 30, 2026, a #meteor screaming at nearly 68,000 km/h over #CapeCod released #energy equal to 300 tons of #TNT when it broke apart.

It was one of several recent fireballs tracked by #satellites, doorbell #cameras, and dashcams – our accidental planetary #defense network. University of #Maine planetarium director Shawn Laatsch explains how friction, shock waves, and #sonicbooms work, and why your odds of being hit by a #meteorite are near zero.

👉 https://theconversation.com/sonic-booms-from-meteors-can-release-the-energy-of-hundreds-of-tons-of-tnt-heres-how-they-work-284923

#astronomy #physics #science #massachusetts #asteroids #atmosphere #nasa #solarsystem

Take that, Massachussetts!

#GeologyHub #Massachussetts #MeteoriteDetonation #Meteorite

https://youtu.be/wEz5DhiVzD4

#SystèmeSolaire #ProtoPlanète #météorite

Une météorite rarissime retrouvée dans le désert pourrait provenir d'une protoplanète inconnue, détruite aux débuts du système solaire. Son analyse suggère l'existence passée d'un monde bien plus massif que ce que les scientifiques imaginaient jusqu'ici.

https://www.slate.fr/sciences/decouverte-fragment-meteorite-planete-disparue-desert-sahara-espace-systeme-solaire-univers-creation

Strong Evidence for a Previously Unknown Destroyed Planet in the Solar System - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UahG5W1YLqY

#Astronomy #Cosmology #SolarSystem #Planets #Meteorite