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Home»Posts tagged with»meteor

Meteor-Alutiiq Word of the Week-January 10th

By Amy Steffian | Alutiiq Museum on Jan 10, 2021   Alutiiq Word of the Week & Museum News  

Meteor-Alutiiq Word of the Week-January 10th

PAMYULEK – METEOR AKGUA’AQ PAMYULEGMEK TANGELLRIANGA. – THE OTHER NIGHT I SAW A METEOR. A meteor is a piece of space rock that burns as it falls through the Earth’s atmosphere, creating a bright streak in the night sky. The Alutiiq term for meteor—pamyulek—comes from the word pamyuq for tail or handle; something that extends […]

Site of Asteroid Impact Changed the History of Life

By Kunio Kaiho/Naga Oshima | Tohoku University on Nov 10, 2017   Featured, Science/Education  

Site of Asteroid Impact Changed the History of Life

An asteroid, also known as the Chicxulub Impactor, hit Earth some 66 million years ago, causing a crater 180 km wide. The impact of the asteroid heated organic matter in rocks and ejected it into the atmosphere, forming soot in the stratosphere. Soot is a strong, light-absorbing aerosol that caused global climate changes that triggered […]

Phoenicid Meteor Shower from Dead Comet Arises again after 58 Years

By NAO J on Aug 28, 2017   Featured, Science/Education  

Phoenicid Meteor Shower from Dead Comet Arises again after 58 Years

Japanese astronomers observed the elusive “Phoenicid meteor shower” and have determined that it was spawned by the now vanished Comet Blanpain. They also found that Comet Blanpain was active, though only weakly, in the early 20th Century. This is the first time that researchers could determine the activity of a comet by observing its associated […]

Asteroid Impacts Create Habitats for Life, Study Suggests

By LJ Evans | Geophysical Institute on Nov 28, 2016   Featured, Science/Education  

Asteroid Impacts Create Habitats for Life, Study Suggests

Around 65 million years ago, a massive asteroid crashed into the Gulf of Mexico. The impact and subsequent effects wiped out about 75 percent of all life on Earth, including most of the dinosaurs. Scientists studying the resulting Chicxulub crater are learning how large asteroid impacts deform rocks in a way that may produce habitat […]

Rocks from Space in Alaska Backcountry

By Ned Rozell | Geophysical Institute on Jun 10, 2015   The Arctic and Alaska Science  

Rocks from Space in Alaska Backcountry

On February 26 at 1:06 p.m., someone in northern Alaska may have seen a torch of light in the cold daytime sky. On that afternoon, satellites detected a meteoric fireball headed toward Earth. An asteroid six feet in diameter penetrated the atmosphere at 13 miles per second, piercing the protective shell of gases at a […]



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