Sentences with phrase «by the meteorite in»

Map revealing burn mark left by the meteorite in various locations, framed.

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Islam is the religion of the Arab Empire Every other people conquered by the Arabs are forced to pray to the Arab god and face to the direction of the sacred meteorite in Mecca while they pray.

June 4, 2013 — Scientists may not know for certain whether life exists in outer space, but new research from a team of scientists led by a University of South Florida astrobiologist now shows that one key element that produced life on Earth was carried here on meteorites.

It is just in the latter case that worrying about meeting a dogmatic Anglican is akin to worrying about being hit by a meteorite.

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[241] The attractions and major tourist destinations of Ghana include a warm, tropical climate year - round; diverse wildlife; exotic waterfalls such as Kintampo Waterfalls and the largest waterfall in west Africa, Wli Waterfalls; Ghana's coastal palm - lined sandy beaches; caves; mountains, rivers; meteorite impact crater and reservoirs and lakes such as Lake Bosumtwi or Bosumtwi meteorite crater and the largest man - made lake in the world by surface area, Lake Volta; dozens of castles and forts; UNESCO World Heritage Sites; nature reserves and national parks.

If two or more turn out to be habitable, then they could share life among them, either by tossing meteorites back and forth or — in the case of spacefaring civilizations — by deliberate space travel.

The meteorite is made of volcanic rock, and the presence of water in it suggests that crustal rocks on Mars interacted with surface water that was delivered by volcanic activity, near - surface reservoirs or by impacting comets, Agee says.

That is not a surprise, given the map of hydrogen (a stand - in for water) generated by an instrument on the Mars Odyssey orbiting spacecraft and the presence of small amounts of water in younger Martian meteorites, notes Harry McSween at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.

But, if organisms could somehow survive exposure to those conditions, it might mean that life on Earth could have come from elsewhere in the solar system, perhaps ferried by a meteorite.

The meteorite, dubbed Northwest Africa (NWA) 7034, contains a concentration of water by weight about ten times higher than in any of the other 100 or so known Martian meteorites — those rare rocks that get ejected from the Martian surface into space when an asteroid hits the planet, and eventually find their way to Earth.

Analysis of the Almahata Sitta meteorite reveals that it is an achondrite, a rare type of space rock that comes from celestial bodies that are large enough to generate internal heat early in their history so as to produce metallic cores surrounded by rock.

The team speculate that a meteorite impact, moonquake, or pressure created by gravitational tugs from the Earth could have triggered a minor ceiling collapse in the tube.

This led Schmitz and colleagues to announce in June that Öst 65 may be the first known «extinct» meteorite, meaning others like it no longer float in space, having been totally obliterated by collisions.

Wood deduced how much gold ought to be present in Earth's crust by comparing the crust's composition to that of meteorites similar to the planetesimals.

Of the 731 rock samples the Apollo 16 astronauts brought home in April 1972, nearly all were breccia, composites formed of fragments fused together — probably by the heat and pressure of meteorite impacts.

There is also, not surprisingly, suspicion that Montagnier has been misled by contamination — a problem that has so far stymied the hunt for Jurassic DNA and for traces of life in Martian meteorites.

The stone's noble gas content supports an extraterrestrial origin, while the presence of tiny diamonds — larger than nanodiamonds found in a common kind of meteorite called chondrites, but similar in size to diamond aggregates known to be formed by impacts — supports a cometary origin.

By comparison, Arizona State University, Tempe, which has the largest university - owned collection in the world, has about 2000, says Meenakshi Wadhwa, the director of Arizona State's Center for Meteorite Studies, who recently traded with Piatek for a 20 - gram cut of Black Beauty.

Was this weak spot caused by a gigantic meteorite that effectively smashed a hole in the Earth's lithosphere?

For the new study, the researchers used an extremely precise laser - based method to measure oxygen isotopes in a range of Earth rocks, meteorites and three lunar samples gathered by the Apollo astronauts.

By studying the magnetic orientations in pristine samples of ancient meteorites that formed 4.563 billion years ago, the team determined that the solar nebula lasted around 3 to 4 million years.

Silver Award: Robbie McEwan Radio National, Australian Broadcasting Corporation «Chasing Meteors» Dec. 5, 2016 Deep in the Outback of southern Australia, Robbie McEwan recounted the hurried chase by planetary geologist Phil Bland and colleagues to find a meteorite that had been sighted by a cook taking a break on the veranda of a pub in a dusty desert town.

Researchers found the link by submerging phosphorus - bearing meteorites in pure water.

The glass itself, one large polished piece of which has a prominent place in a necklace that belonged to Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamen, has been dated to 28.5 million years and has long been thought to be the result of a meteorite impact or an airburst caused by a comet breaking up in Earth's atmosphere.

Current thinking is that these tiny diamonds can form in three ways: enormous pressure shockwaves from high - energy collisions between the meteorite «parent body» and other space objects; deposition by chemical vapor; or, finally, the «normal» static pressure inside the parent body, like most diamonds on Earth.

New work from a team of Carnegie cosmochemists published by Science Advances reports analyses of carbon - rich dust grains extracted from meteorites that show that these grains formed in the outflows from one or more type II supernovae more than two years after the progenitor stars exploded.

Unperturbed by her near miss, and in the true spirit of American free enterprise, she sold the $ 100 second - hand car, and the meteorite, to consortium led by Marlin Cilz of the Montana Meteorite Lameteorite, to consortium led by Marlin Cilz of the Montana Meteorite LaMeteorite Laboratory.

Two monks have been struck by meteorites: one in Cremona in 1511 and the other in Milan in 1650.

The same NASA researchers who made headlines in 1996 by announcing they had found what looked like fossil bacteria in a 4 - billion - year - old Martian meteorite have now discovered more evidence to back their controversial claim.

And some Berbers in the Atlas Mountains will continue earning their living by meteorite hunting, discovering space rocks that would otherwise never be found.

«We find that the end - Cretaceous mass extinction was caused by a combination of the volcanism and meteorite impact, delivering a theoretical «one - two punch,»» said Petersen, first author of a paper scheduled for online publication July 5 in the journal Nature Communications.

By far the most rigorously researched of the Tintin stories, it features nuclear fission, the effects of gravitation in space and why meteorites make lunar craters, as well as side references in Professor Calculus's log book to the «constant of solar radiation» and the «limits of the solar spectrum in the ultraviolet».

Meteorites were being shipped from Morocco to the Tucson gem show in 55 - gallon drums to be picked through by traders like Garcia and Cucchiara.

Only in 1927 did an expedition led by Leonid Kulik, a meteorite specialist from the Russian Academy of Sciences, reach the Tunguska site.

«This research therefore outlines a plausible mechanism by which molecules present in interstellar space, brought to earth by meteorite strikes, could potentially be converted into 2 - deoxy - D - ribose, a molecule vital for all living systems.»

By comparing the results to the isotopic composition of the trapped gas, the researchers revealed how dense the Martian atmosphere was at the time when the gas became trapped in the meteorite.

The evidence for life in the Martian meteorite has since been dismissed by many experts, and even if there are signs of life somewhere on Mars, the chances of a craft like the Polar Lander finding it are slim.

Most scientists who study meteorites believe that this sample came from Mars because the gases trapped in it have the exact same composition as the Mars atmosphere — a very distinctive composition that was determined by the Viking spacecraft in 1976.

In a first - of - its - kind collision chamber at Argonne National Laboratory, physicist Yogendra Gupta of Washington State University and his colleagues mimicked a meteorite impact by firing a lithium fluoride bullet at a graphite disk at 5.1 kilometers per second.

Discovered in 1984 in Allan Hills, Antarctica, researchers believe that meteorite ALH84001 struck Earth some 3.5 to four billion years ago after being kicked up from the Martian surface and into space by the impact of another meteorite.

And Vesta's overall spectral color, as returned by NASA's orbiting Dawn spacecraft, matches that of these Vesta meteorites, Dawn team members reported today at a planetary science meeting in Nantes, France.

Tiny carbon nuggets in meteorites from Mars were formed by cooling magma, not left by ancient alien microbes.

Martins found the answer by extracting two molecules from the meteorite: uracil, a nucleobase found in RNA, and xanthine, an intermediate in the synthesis of DNA and RNA.

Last year, researchers found that in conditions mimicking those sparked by a comet or meteorite impact, intense heat and pressure converted formamide (which forms when hydrogen cyanide reacts with water) and other simple substances into the four information - bearing nucleobases in RNA, a likely genetic precursor to DNA.

Many of the theories and concepts about these waves are similar to those that are applicable to other types of surface waves, in particular, tsunamis, and waves generated by the fall of a meteorite.

«We're in a mass extinction right now, not one caused by volcanoes or meteorites, but by humans,» explains Rieppel.

I've been really bothered by coverage of the supposed meteorite in southeastern Peru and of villagers getting sick.

Though the fist - sized rock is relatively dry by earthly standards, it contains between 10 and 30 times the average concentration of water found in other known martian meteorites — and it is the first to closely match certain aspects of the martian crust.

It was found by a nomadic meteorite hunter in Morocco (hence «NWA,» for Northwest Africa) who sold it to a local dealer, who sold it to a major collector named Jay Piatek, who finally donated it to the institute.