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.