There's a new rush on in California's gold rush country. This time, they're prospecting for meteorites. A minivan-sized meteor blew up over northern California on Sunday morning, and now everyone from NASA scientists to schoolkids is looking for fragments of the fireball – called meteorites once they hit the ground – in the Sierra Nevada towns of Coloma [...]
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More than 500 people have been injured after a meteor strike in central Russia, the country’s interior ministry said.Fragments of at least one meteorite were seen falling from the morning sky in the Chelyabinsk region at around 9am ... Read Post
Hundreds of people from all over the country this week took to California’s 30-square-mile “Gold Country” region to search for fragments of a meteorite that fell to earth last week, rattling windows and causing a sonic boom as it en... Read Post
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A meteor that exploded over Russia's Ural mountains and sent fireballs blazing to earth has set off a rush to find fragments of the space rock which hunters hope could fetch thousands of dollars a piece. Friday's ... Read Post