Tag: Meteorites
Treasure from space: Researchers: Meteorites near Berlin are a rare find
Treasure from space Researchers: Meteorites near Berlin are a rare find The tiny asteroid 2024 BX1 burned up near Berlin on the night of January 21st. photo © Christoph Seidler/DER…
Why asteroids and meteorites throw pebbles around
In space, large boulders such as asteroids or comets sometimes lose fragments the size of small pebbles. These pebbles later often sink back to the surface of the chunks or,…
Asteroids: The blind spot of the search programs
As of 2:27 p.m | Reading time: 3 minutes Illustration of an asteroid on a collision course with Earth Source: Getty Images You can listen to our WELT podcasts here…
DNA bases discovered in meteorites – cytosine and thymine complete detection of all five genome letters in meteorites
“Heavenly” building blocks of life: Researchers have now also detected the last two missing DNA letters in meteorites – the DNA bases cytosine and thymine. This now proves that all…
Evolution: DNA building blocks detected in meteorites – Knowledge
Simple, single-celled life is believed to have existed on Earth as early as 3.9 billion years ago – almost immediately, when the Earth was cool enough for liquid water to…
Asteroids & Meteorites: Spectacular Event – This is how you can see Comet “C / 2021 A1 Leonard” in the sky
12/11/2021 7:04 PM Spectacular event: This is how you can see comet “C / 2021 A1 Leonard” in the sky A comet and hundreds of meteors burning up in the…