Rocks From Space
One night in april 2019 the skies above la palmera a village in northern costa rica started to glow as a motorcycle sized meteorite broke apart and scattered chunks of hot space rock over the.
Rocks from space. Opal on mars proves water on mars. Stone meteorite with fusion crust. The rocks in space are sometimes called small bodies.
Take iron meteorites for example. Whatever they may be called they have much to tell us about our solar system. Rocks from space that land on earth s surface are called meteorites.
Rocks from space meteorites and meteorite hunters by o. This book is a keeper. But that is just one way we have touched space.
Out of the many hundreds of suspected space rocks sent to us for testing far less than one percent turn out to be genuine visitors from outer space. Amid a flurry of asteroidal activity as we enter the final few months of 2020 nasa s asteroid hunters have flagged five more space rocks en route ranging in size from 5 5m all the way up to a whopping 45m. They are created from iron alloys and nickel which makes them perfect to become either gemstones by being cut and polished or set into the metal pieces of jewellery.
They may also be known as neos near earth objects. This popular nontechnical introduction to meteorites asteroids comets and impact craters is now even better. I highly recommend it.
Some of them are larger and are called minor planets or planetoids. It is written in such a way that the lay person can understand it because it is not written in technical language that can only be understood by a scientist. Rocks from space is the most comprehensive book i have read on the subject of meteorites.