Rare daytime fireball spotted in skies over Alabama 4 other states 26JUN2025 House Hit Meteorites Found!

Rare daytime fireball spotted in skies over Alabama 4 other states 26JUN2025 

House Hit Meteorites Found!

Rare daytime fireball spotted in skies over Alabama, 4 other states

Patrick Darrington, AlCom, June 26, 2025

https://www.al.com/news/2025/06/rare-daytime-fireball-spotted-in-skies-over-alabama-4-other-states.html

Yours,

Paul H.

A Mysterious Meteorite Fell to Earth From a Planet That Doesn't Exist

NWA 15915- A Mysterious Meteorite Fell to Earth From a Planet That Doesn't Exist

A Mysterious Meteorite Fell to Earth From a Planet That Doesn't Exist

Scientists think it came from a planet similar to Mercury, but not Mercury.

by Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, March 21, 2025

https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/solar-system/a64233228/mercury-meteorite/

Northwest Africa 15915  Meteorological Bulletin

https://www.lpi.usra.edu/meteor/metbull.php?code=79980

Weird meteorite may be relic of lost planet that no longer exists

by Alex Wilkins, New Scientist, March 18, 2025

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2472541-weird-meteorite-may-be-relic-of-lost-planet-that-no-longer-exists/

Yours,

Paul H.

Real VS Fake Libyan Desert Glass and Moldavite

 Real VS Fake Libyan Desert Glass and Moldavite

Real VS Fake Libyan Desert Glass

Earth Science Fun

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DG6cC3GHhvg

Real VS Fake Moldavite and How to Tell the Difference

Earth Science Fun

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPtvAIo9NF8

Moldavites: Natural Or Fake? Jaroslav Hyršl, GIA

https://www.gia.edu/gems-gemology/spring-2015-gemnews-moldavites-natural-fake

Fake moldavites

Moldavite Museum

https://www.vltaviny.cz/en/moldavites/fake-moldavites

Yours,

Paul H.

Officials confirm meteorites up to 2 pounds fell to Earth in Maine 07MAR2025

 Officials confirm meteorites up to 2 pounds fell to Earth in Maine

NASA: A meteorite fell in Down East, Maine

Eyewitnesses reported hearing a "sonic boom" when a meteorite fell in Washington County in l

ate February, according to NASA.

News Center Maine, March 6, 2025

https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/tech/science/aerospace/nasa-meteorite-washington-county-maine-codyville/97-5d6cf3f3-1020-4f75-b201-d2878c7758a0

Officials confirm meteorites up to 2 pounds fell to Earth in Maine

This is less than 2 years after the first radar-

observed meteorite fall ever seen in Maine

WMTW, Maine, March 6, 2025

https://www.wmtw.com/article/officials-confirm-meteorites-maine-washington-county/64067741

Radar detects meteorites landed in northern Washington County

by Meteorologist Ryan Munn, WGME, March 6th

https://wgme.com/news/local/radar-detects-meteorites-landing-in-northern-washington-county-maine-space-rocks

Yours,

Paul H.

Earth’s oldest impact structure was just found in Australia

 Earth’s oldest impact structure was just found in Australia

Earth’s oldest impact crater was just found in Australia

– exactly where geologists hoped it would be

Tim Johnson, The Conversation, March 6, 2025

https://theconversation.com/earths-oldest-impact-crater-was-just-found-in-australia-exactly-where-geologists-hoped-it-would-be-250921

the open access paper is;

Kirkland, C.L., Johnson, T.E., Kaempf, J. et al. A

Paleoarchaean impact crater in the Pilbara Craton,

Western Australia. Nat Commun 16, 2224 (2025).

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-57558-3

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-57558-3

Yours,

Paul H.

What if Asteroid Bennu hit Earth? 09FEB2025

What if Asteroid Bennu hit Earth? 

What if Asteroid Bennu hit Earth?

Kelley, Kizer Whitt, EarthSky, February 7, 2025

https://earthsky.org/space/what-if-bennu-hit-earth-simulations/

"Asteroid Bennu is a 1,640-foot-wide (500-meter-wide)

space rock that has a 1-in-2,700 chance of hitting Earth

in September 2182.”

More about asteroid 2024 YR4

Odds of an asteroid impact in 2032 just went up.

Here's why experts say you shouldn't worry

"We are still at 97.7% chance of a miss from this asteroid."

Robert Lea, SpaceCom, https://www.space.com/asteroid-2024yr4-odds-increase-no-concern

Why the Odds of an Asteroid Striking Earth in 2032 Keep Going Up (and Down).

NASA and European scientists explain how they calculate the probability of the

space rock 2024 YR4 impacting our planet, and why it’s not yet time to worry.

New York Times, Robin George Andrews, February 8, 2025, paywalled

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/science/asteroid-yr4-2024-impact-odds.html

Yours,

Paul H.

Impact origin of Grand canyons on the Moon. 07FEB2025

 Impact origin of Grand canyons on the Moon.

Bullet-fast moon rocks carved 2 lunar gorges deeper than the Grand Canyon

Charles Q. Choi, SpaceCom, February 4, 2025

https://www.space.com/the-universe/moon/bullet-fast-moon-rocks-carved-2-lunar-gorges-deeper-than-the-grand-canyon

The open access paper is:

Kring, D.A., Kallenborn, D.P. & Collins, G.S. Grand canyons on the Moon.

Nat Commun 16, 1146 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-55675-z

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-55675-z

Yours,

Paul H.

Astronomers are tracking an asteroid PHA 2024 YR4 that could hit Earth in 2032 02FEB2025

 Astronomers are tracking an asteroid PHA 2024YR4 that could hit Earth in 2032

-Potentially Hazardous Asteroid, PHA 2024 YR4

Astronomers are tracking an asteroid that could hit Earth in 2032

Scott Neuman, Nationalk Public radio, February 2, 2025

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/02/nx-s1-5282071/asteroid-meteor-2024-nasa-earth

Active IAWN Notification, International Asteroid Warning Network

https://iawn.net/index.shtml

Potential for Impact of Near-Earth Asteroid 2024 YR4 on 22 December 2032

https://iawn.net/documents/NOTIFICATIONS/IAWN_Potential_Impact_Notification_2024_YR4.pdf

Yours,

Paul H.

Doorbell camera catches rare footage of meteorite striking home’s front walkway 25JAN2025

 Doorbell camera catches rare footage of meteorite striking home’s front walkway

By Jackie Wattles, CNN, January 22, 2025

https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/22/science/meteorite-strike-doorbell-camera/index.html

See – And Hear – Meteorite Crash To Earth

Weather Channel, January 21, 2025

https://weather.com/science/space/video/see-and-hear-meteorite-crash-to-earth-on-sidewalk

Shocking thing:' Watch first-of-its-kind video of meteorite crashing outside a home

Amaris Encinas, USA Today, January 23, 2025

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2025/01/23/meteorite-strikes-earth-charlottetown-canada-video/77910791007/

Yours,

Paul H.

Fossil Ivory Smuggler Facing Prison in Russia 18JAN2025

Fossil Ivory Smuggler Facing Prison in Russia

Smuggling fossil ivory doesn’t pay in Russia.

‘Ice ivory’ smuggler foiled in Russia – officials (PHOTO)

https://www.rt.com/russia/610015-mammoth-tusk-smuggling-russia/

One more article is:

The climate crisis has sparked a Siberian mammoth tusk gold rush

Sabrina Weiss, Wired, November 8, 2019

https://www.wired.com/story/mammoth-tusk-hunters-russia-china/

Yours,

Paul H.

Preprints often make news. Many people don’t know what they are 08JAN2025

 Preprints often make news. Many people don’t know what they are

The public needs context about unreviewed manuscripts, survey suggests

Jeffrey Brainard, Science Advisor, SAA, January 6, 2025

https://www.science.org/content/article/preprints-often-make-news-many-people-don-t-know-what-they-are

The open access paper is:

Fleerackers, A., Ratcliff, C.L., Wicke, R., King, A.J. and Jensen, J.D., 2024.

Public understanding of preprints: How audiences make sense of unreviewed

research in the news. Public Understanding of Science, p.09636625241268881.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09636625241268881

Yours,

Paul H.

Man Keeps a Rock For Years Hoping It's Gold. It Turns Out to Be Meteorite (Australia)

Man Keeps a Rock For Years Hoping It's Gold. It Turns Out to Be Meteorite (Australia)

Man Keeps a Rock For Years Hoping It's Gold.

It Turns Out to Be Far More Valuable.

By Jacinta Bowler, ScienceAlert, November 29, 2024

https://www.sciencealert.com/man-keeps-a-rock-for-years-hoping-its-gold-it-turns-out-to-be-far-more-valuable

Yours,

Paul H.

Recent Discussion of Younger Dryas impact Hypothesis 20NOV2024

 Recent Discussion of Younger Dryas impact Hypothesis

Hi,

Unsurprisingly, Sweatman, Powell, and West have replied to Holliday et

al. (2023)’s refutation of the YDIH with Sweatman et al. (2024). In response,

Holliday and associates replied with Holliday et al. (2024) and an open access

supplementary material, YDIH Skeptics (2024).

The publications are:

Holliday, V.T., Daulton, T.L., Bartlein, P.J., Boslough, M.B., Breslawski, R.P.,

Fisher, A.E., Jorgeson, I.A., Scott, A.C., Koeberl, C., Marlon, J.R. and

Severinghaus, J., 2023. Comprehensive refutation of the Younger Dryas

Impact Hypothesis (YDIH). Earth-Science Reviews, 247, p.104502.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012825223001915

Sweatman, M.B., Powell, J.L. and West, A., 2024. Rejection of Holliday

et al.'s alleged refutation of the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis.

Earth-Science Reviews, 258, p.104960.

paywalled at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0012825224002897

Holliday, V.T., Daulton, T.L., Bartlein, P.J., Boslough, M.B., Breslawski, R.P.,

Fisher, A.E., Jorgeson, I.A., Scott, A.C., Koeberl, C., Marlon, J.R. and

Severinghaus, J., 2024. Rebuttal of Sweatman, Powell, and West's “Rejection

of Holliday et al.'s alleged refutation of the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis”.

Earth-Science Reviews, 258, p.104961.

paywalled at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0012825224002897

YDIH Skeptics. 2024. Additional material related to our rebuttal of Sweatman,

Powell, and West's comment on Holliday, et al. (2023) Comprehensive refutation

of the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis (YDIH), Earth-Science

Reviews vol. 247 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2023.104502. Zenodo.

open access at https://zenodo.org/records/13924289

I wonder how much time and money has been spent researching, debating, writing,

and publishing on this topic.

Yours,

Paul

Meteorite found in a drawer in 1929 contains ancient evidence of liquid water on Mars 18NOV2024

 Meteorite found in a drawer in 1929 contains ancient evidence of liquid water on Mars

Meteorite found in a drawer in 1929 contains ancient evidence of liquid water on Mars

The 742-million-year-old rock was ejected into space by an asteroid impact.

Andrew Paul, Popular Science, November 14, 2024

https://www.popsci.com/science/mars-meteorite-found-in-drawer/

Tremblay, M.M., Mark, D.F., Barfod, D.N., Cohen, B.E., Ickert, R.B., Lee, M.R., 

Tomkinson, T. and Smith, C.L., 2024. Dating recent aqueous activity on Mars. 

Geochemical Perspectives Letters. open access

https://www.geochemicalperspectivesletters.org/article2443/

https://www.geochemicalperspectivesletters.org/documents/GPL2443_SIonly.pdf

Yours,

Paul H.

Haasttse-baad Tessera Ring Complex: A Valhalla-Type Impact Structure on Venus? 05NOV2024

Haasttse-baad Tessera Ring Complex: A Valhalla-Type Impact Structure on Venus?

A Hidden Breed of Impact Craters Has Been Lurking on Venus Undetected

Michelle Starr, Science Alert, November 5, 2024

https://www.sciencealert.com/a-hidden-breed-of-impact-craters-has-been-lurking-on-venus-undetected

Study of Venus's Haasttse-baad Tessera suggests formation by two large impacts

PhysOrg, November 5, 2024

https://phys.org/news/2024-11-venus-haasttse-baad-tessera-formation.html

López, I., Bjonnes, E. and Hansen, V.L., 2024. Haasttse‐baad Tessera Ring

Complex: A Valhalla‐Type Impact Structure on Venus?. Journal of Geophysical

Research: Planets, 129(10), no .e2023JE008256. open access

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2023JE008256

Yours,

Paul H.

Ancient rocks may be dark matter detector 03NOV2024

Ancient rocks may be dark matter detector

Ancient rocks may bring dark matter to light

With new imaging capabilities, the first successful

dark-matter detector might be some old rock.

Virgina Tech, Kelly Izlar, October 30, 2024

https://news.vt.edu/articles/2024/10/science-ancient-rocks-dark-matter.html

Science has found its first candidate for a dark-matter detector

It’s a really old rock.  Dark matter is a mysterious, invisible

substance makes up more than 80 percent of all matter in the universe.

Julia Musto, The Guardian, November 1, 2024

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/dark-matter-detecting-space-rock-b2639726.html

Yours,

Paul H.

Mysterious unidentified fireball lights up sky from California to Texas - September 24, 2024 31OCT2024

 Mysterious unidentified fireball lights up sky from California to Texas - September 24, 2024

Very bright fireball seen from Oregon, Washington,

Nevada, and California, over 200 reports filed

Rishav Kothari, The Watchers, September 25, 2024

https://watchers.news/2024/09/25/very-bright-fireball-seen-from-oregon-washington-nevada-and-california-over-200-reports-filed/

Mysterious unidentified fireball lights up sky from California to Texas

Patrick Reilly, MSN, September 25, 2024

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/mysterious-unidentified-fireball-lights-up-sky-from-california-to-texas/ar-BB1qVfuf

Asteroid Enters As Fireball Over California Skies Right After Its Discovery; Video Surfaces

It's the third asteroid this year whose impact was predicted.

By Harsh Vardhan, Mashable, October 25, 2024

https://in.mashable.com/science/84341/asteroid-enters-as-fireball-over-california-skies-right-after-its-discovery-video-surfaces

Yours,

Paul H.

What happened when a meteorite the size of four Mount Everests hit Earth? 22OCT2024

What happened when a meteorite the size of four Mount Everests hit Earth?

What happened when a meteorite the size of four Mount Everests hit Earth?

Anne J, Manning, The Haravrd Gazette, October 21, 2024

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2024/10/what-happened-when-a-meteorite-the-size-of-four-mount-everests-hit-earth/

The open access paper is:

Drabon, N., Knoll, A.H., Lowe, D.R., and Mucciarone, D.A.

2024, Effect of a giant meteorite impact on Paleoarchean surface environments and life. Proceedings of the National

Academy of Sciences. 121 (44) e2408721121 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2408721121

https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2408721121

Yours,

Paul H.

The cataclysmic origins of most of Earth’s meteorites 16OCT2024

 The cataclysmic origins of most of Earth’s meteorites

The cataclysmic origins of most of Earth’s meteorites have been found

Seventy percent of meteorites can be linked to a just a handful of asteroid

belt collisions, By Robin George Andrews, ScienceNews, October 16, 2024

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/origins-earths-meteorites-found

New research shows most space rocks crashing into Earth come from

a single source, Trevor Ireland, The Conversation, October 16, 2024

https://theconversation.com/new-research-shows-most-space-rocks-crashing-into-earth-come-from-a-single-source-241455

The open access preprints are:

Brož, M., Vernazza, P., Marsset, M., DeMeo, F.E., Binzel, R.P., Vokrouhlický,

D. and Nesvorný, D., 2024. Young asteroid families as the primary source

of meteorites. arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.08552.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.08552

Marsset, M., Vernazza, P., Brož, M., Thomas, C.A., DeMeo, F.E., Burt, B.,

Binzel, R.P., Reddy, V., McGraw, A., Avdellidou, C. and Carry, B., 2024.

The Massalia asteroid family as the origin of ordinary L chondrites. arXiv

preprint arXiv:2403.08548.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.08548

Yours,

Paul H.