Alien World Chemistry Found Inside Meteorite That Struck New Jersey Home

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• xnx 1 hour ago
  Source paper: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aea2105
• ButlerianJihad 2 hours ago
  The real jackpot here is how this large chunk happened to impact a home belonging to an astute and prepared individual:

    He then immediately preserved and documented the entire scene using disposable gloves and aluminum foil to place the meteorite fragments in glass jars.
  

  I can think of many diverse reactions to a meteor strike, but even NASA is singing the praises of this guy and his quick thinking.
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  • alex1138 1 hour ago
    "OW! STUPID METEORITE." flings it back into the air in hopes it'll reach space
• fractallyte 49 minutes ago
  "Our cameras in Northford, Connecticut, and Douglassville, Pennsylvania, as well as a doorbell camera in Wayne, New Jersey, captured the meteor, and from that we measured its trajectory... The path traced back to low in the asteroid belt."

  I don't doubt it, but that's an astounding trajectory estimation...

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  • defrost 40 minutes ago
    Desert Fireball Network, and less public precursor projects have been doing this for a while now:

    * https://dfn.gfo.rocks/

    * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert_Fireball_Network

    * https://pawsey.org.au/researchers/desert-fireball-network-te...
• andrewstuart 1 hour ago
  Scene one of a Steven Spielberg movie.
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  • fractallyte 45 minutes ago
    Color Out of Space (2019) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5073642/)

    Evolution (2001) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0251075/)

    Both fun movies, in completely different ways!