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Campo del Cielo, in the far north, has an usual concentration of meteorites. But little by little they’re being pilfered, and often smuggled out of the country.
SPOTLIGHT: REAL LIFE ARMAGEDDON? The stuff of disaster films, an asteroid could strike Earth causing death and destruction in the next 200 years. Asteroid 101955 Bennu is currently barreling through space at 63,000 mph and is expected to slip through the moon and Earth in 2135. But a “return trip” later that century could see […]
RIA Novosti, RT (Russia), BBC (UK) Worldcrunch CHELYABINSK – A large meteorite shower has injured at least 550 people and wreaked havoc across three Russian regions and Kazakhstan. “The Russian Urals region has been stricken by a sudden cosmic attack. Unidentified flying objects exploded over several major cities, including Chelyabinsk, where the blast waves blew […]
Look up (with binoculars) for a glance of 2012 DA14, size of half a football field.
ITAR-TASS (Russia), CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR Worldcrunch MOSCOW – The Kremlin has authorized scientists to finally reveal what they say are “trillions of carats” of diamonds located in a field in eastern Siberia that could forever change the market of the precious gem. The Russians have know since the 1970s of this 35-million-year-old and 62-mile wide […]