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  • Thumbnail for Meteor Crater
    Meteor Crater, or Barringer Crater, is an impact crater about 37 mi (60 km) east of Flagstaff and 18 mi (29 km) west of Winslow in the desert of northern...
    41 KB (4,327 words) - 14:53, 21 September 2024
  • CNEOS 2014-01-08, also known as Interstellar meteor 1 (IM1), was a 0.45 m (1.5 ft) meteor that impacted Earth on 8 January 2014 near the northeast coast...
    21 KB (1,998 words) - 23:06, 21 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for German survey ship Meteor
    maiden survey expedition between 20 January and 17 February 1925 with the main purpose to check the equipment. On 16 April 1925 Meteor started the German...
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    during mission STS-108. The Expedition Three crew of the International Space Station enjoyed a unique view of the 2001 Leonid meteor storm. "It looked like...
    11 KB (621 words) - 05:48, 14 September 2024
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    Tunguska event (redirect from Tongu meteor)
    three people may have died. The explosion is generally attributed to a meteor air burst, the atmospheric explosion of a stony asteroid about 50–60 metres...
    75 KB (8,882 words) - 16:42, 12 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Interstellar object
    interstellar meteor. In 2023, The Galileo Project completed an expedition to retrieve small fragments of the apparently peculiar meteor. Claims about...
    51 KB (5,193 words) - 14:38, 16 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for History of research ships
    The German ship Meteor was the first to use the echo sounder for scientific purposes in the 1920s on the German Meteor expedition. For the first time...
    28 KB (3,891 words) - 23:27, 24 January 2024
  • (5 August 2022). "An Ocean Expedition by the Galileo Project to Retrieve Fragments of the First Large Interstellar Meteor CNEOS 2014-01-08". arXiv:2208...
    40 KB (3,755 words) - 06:20, 18 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ford Expedition
    The Ford Expedition is a full-size three-row SUV, manufactured and marketed by Ford over four generations since model year 1997, deriving directly from...
    135 KB (15,157 words) - 22:00, 5 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Expedition 53
    Expedition 53 (September – December 2017) was the 53rd expedition to the International Space Station, which began upon the departure of Soyuz MS-04 on...
    26 KB (1,833 words) - 22:37, 27 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ernst Öpik
    headed the Arizona meteor expedition, which detected approximately 22,000 meteors. He also invented a rocking camera for the study of meteors. In 1951 he published...
    11 KB (1,124 words) - 18:06, 29 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Peter Jenniskens
    and a senior research scientist at the Carl Sagan Center of the SETI Institute and at NASA Ames Research Center. He is an expert on meteor showers, and...
    21 KB (1,782 words) - 16:48, 27 July 2024
  • publication of the “Scientific Results of the German Atlantic Expedition of the Research Vessel „Meteor“” 1925-27. His pioneering analysis of the large-scale...
    30 KB (3,808 words) - 16:21, 23 July 2024
  • EROS GOES GOMOS GRACE Hydros ICESat IKONOS Jason-1 Landsat MERIS MetOp Meteor Meteosat MLS MIPAS MISR MODIS MOPITT MTSAT NMP NOAA-N' NPOESS OMI OCO PARASOL...
    4 KB (260 words) - 21:25, 1 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mikhail Tyurin
    long-duration mission, the Expedition 3 crew enjoyed a unique view of the 2001 Leonid meteor storm. At the end of the stay Expedition 3 crewmembers, NASA astronaut...
    15 KB (1,649 words) - 12:23, 19 July 2024
  • the reported event was an air burst, various researchers have estimated the initial mass of the meteor at between 1,000 and 25,000 tons. Estimates for...
    6 KB (711 words) - 01:48, 12 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Vladimir Dezhurov
    long-duration mission the Expedition 3 crew enjoyed a unique view of the 2001 Leonid meteor storm. At the end of the stay Expedition 3 crewmembers, Dezhurov...
    11 KB (1,252 words) - 05:13, 19 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Alfred Wegener
    Reflecting on Alfred Wegener's Contributions to Tornado Research in Europe". Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc. 100 (4): 567–578. Bibcode:2019BAMS..100..567A. doi:10...
    43 KB (4,776 words) - 14:59, 11 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Grove Karl Gilbert
    1891, Gilbert examined the origins of a crater in Arizona, now known as Meteor Crater but then as Coon Butte. For several reasons, and against his intuition...
    11 KB (1,151 words) - 08:59, 13 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Meteorite
    atmospheric gases cause it to heat up and radiate energy. It then becomes a meteor and forms a fireball, also known as a shooting star; astronomers call the...
    77 KB (8,574 words) - 21:36, 8 October 2024
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