This Huge Asteroid Was Spotted Only One Day Before It Whizzed By Earth
It was the closest miss in recorded history. Continue reading This Huge Asteroid Was Spotted Only One Day Before It Whizzed By Earth
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A Meteorite Gift Box
[Justin Cole] was looking for the perfect birthday gift from his wife. After some pondering, the answer fell from the sky in the form of a meteorite. The problem was how to present it. They don’t exactly make meteorite gift boxes, so [Justin] decided to build one of his own design. The box has a Russian space age theme reflecting the meteorite’s country of origin. The theme also made it a perfect entry for Hackaday’s Sci-Fi contest.
The gift box started life as an old steel film reel box. Some of us may still have boxes like this in our …read more
Fripon is French for Meteorite Hunting
Just a few weeks ago, we reported on a US NASA project to track the path and estimate the size of meteoroids in the sky using a distributed network of a handful of cameras. It turns out that there’s a similar French effort, and it’s even cooler: the Fireball Recovery and InterPlanetary Observation Network (FRIPON). (The name is cute, if the acronym is contrived: a “fripon” is a trickster in French.)
What’s cool about FRIPON is that they’re not just observing the meteorites and fireballs, but they’re actually sending people out to recover them when they’re big enough that they …read more
This Bizarre Meteorite May Be the First to Come From the Outer Solar System
Is this strange meteorite a fragment of a mysterious fifth gas giant? Continue reading This Bizarre Meteorite May Be the First to Come From the Outer Solar System