A metallic object that punched a hole in the roof of a central New Jersey home this week, smashing into a hardwood floor and bouncing around a bedroom, was a meteorite, experts announced Thursday.

Unusual shape: iron-nickel meteorites are rarely rounded. Instead, they have an irregular shape with unusual pits like finger prints in their surface called “regmaglypts.” Fusion crust: stony ...

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The fiery ball that streaked across the South Carolina sky Thursday was a meteor, according to NASA.So what is a meteorite?

Police wonder if the roughly 4-pound metallic object might have come from a meteor shower made up of debris from Halley's Comet. Homeowners want an astrophysicist to take a closer look at the object.

A metallic object that punched a hole in the roof of a central New Jersey home this week, smashing into a hardwood floor and bouncing around a bedroom, was a meteorite.

The iron-nickel space rock, nicknamed 'Cacao,' is about 1 foot (0.3 meters) wide. NASA's Curiosity rover has found another meteorite on Mars. The space rock is about 1 foot (0.3 meters) wide and ...

The Maine Mineral and Gem Museum is offering $25,000 to the lucky person who finds the fallen meteor from space, ... “A metallic meteorite is easier to identify in the field, ...

A metallic object believed to be a meteorite crashed through the roof a home on Old Washington Crossing Pennington Road in Hopewell Township on Monday, May 8, 2023. Hopewell Township Police. By .

Three days ago, scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration teamed up with NASA in the hopes of finding leftover chunks of a meteorite … ...