Home Gets Hit With Suspected Meteorite
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BLOOMINGTON, Ill. - When Dee Riddle heard breaking glass inside her central Illinois home on Monday morning, she first thought a bathroom mirror had shattered.
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While meteorites are often associated with the extinction of dinosaurs, new evidence suggests the impacts may actually engender new life. Commentary by Carl Zimmer.
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A large explosion heard over Jakarta is believed to have been caused by a suspected meteor that was seen streaking across the sky over the Indonesian capital.
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Hundreds of people called emergency services to report a sonic boom Tuesday that scientists said was probably caused by a small meteor.
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Police continuing to examine a house where suspicious devices and home-made explosive powder were found.
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On Sept. 1st, a flurry of bright and oddly-colored meteors could spill across the skies of western North America--or not.  Forecasters are divided about what will happen next month when Earth runs into an ancient stream of debris from Comet Kiess.
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Police investigate whether a woman who died after being attacked at her house was followed home.
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Hollow spheres found in a primordial meteorite could yield clues to the origin of life on Earth.
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Astronomers in Indonesia say a large meteor was the most likely explanation for a loud explosion which was heard in Jakarta on Sunday.
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Tumbling through space like a fumbled football, a peanut-shaped asteroid named 4179 Toutatis is expected to pass within a million miles (1.6 million kilometers) of Earth on Wednesday.
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WASHINGTON -- A meteor shower that had some startled motorists calling police is expected to continue over the next few days. Saturday night&#39;s light show was part of the Geminids meteor shower, News4 reported.
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A meteorite that struck a remote part of Peru made a crater that is emitting noxious odours and making villagers ill, according to local press reports.
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There's a 1-in-300 chance that a recently discovered asteroid, believed to be about 1,300 feet long, could hit Earth in 2029, a NASA scientist said Thursday, but he added that the perceived risk probably will be eliminated once astronomers get more detail about its orbit.
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Humankind got spied on by a huge space invader on Wednesday. An asteroid named for a Celtic god of war was to come closer to Earth this week than it has since 1353.
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In late June of 1908, a fireball exploded above the remote Russian forests of Tunguska,  Siberia, flattening more than 800 square miles of trees. Researchers think a meteor was responsible for the devastation, but neither its fragments nor any impact craters have been discovered.
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Investigators try to find the cause of a house explosion that left a girl, aged nine, dead and four people injured.
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A collision 160 million years ago of  two asteroids orbiting between Mars and Jupiter sent many big  rock chunks hurtling toward Earth, including the one that  zapped the dinosaurs, scientists said on Wednesday.