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License = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cosmic_Fireball_Falling_Over_ALMA.jpg
Title = A meteoroid is a small rocky or metallic body in outer space.
URL = https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/95/Cosmic_Fireball_Falling_Over_ALMA.jpg
02_Fragments/License = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:323213main_Petersmeteorites_946-710.jpg
02_Fragments/Title = 2008 TC3 meteorite fragments found on February 28, 2009, in the Nubian Desert, Sudan
02_Fragments/URL = https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/38/323213main_Petersmeteorites_946-710.jpg
03_PerseideAnimation/License = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:P10220XX.01.49.MESZ.14.08.2019.Berlin.Perseiden.x1.0.gif
03_PerseideAnimation/Title = A meteoroid of the Perseids with a size of about ten millimetres entering the earth's atmosphere in real time. The meteorid is at the bright head of the trail, and the ionisation of the mesosphere is still visible in the tail.
03_PerseideAnimation/URL = https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4e/P10220XX.01.49.MESZ.14.08.2019.Berlin.Perseiden.x1.0.gif
04_Leonid/License = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Leonid_Meteor.jpg
04_Leonid/Title = A meteor of the Leonid meteor shower0x003B the photograph shows the meteor, afterglow, and wake as distinct components
04_Leonid/URL = https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a7/Leonid_Meteor.jpg
05_Chelyabinsk/License = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:2013_Chelyabinsk_meteor_trace.jpg
05_Chelyabinsk/Title = The Chelyabinsk meteor was an extremely bright, exploding fireball, known as superbolide, measuring about 17 to 20 m across, with an estimated initial mass of 11,000 tonnes, as the relatively small asteroid entered Earth's atmosphere. It was the largest known natural object to have entered Earth's atmosphere since the Tunguska event in 1908.
05_Chelyabinsk/URL = https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d4/2013_Chelyabinsk_meteor_trace.jpg
06_ISS/License = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Looking_Down_on_a_Shooting_Star.JPG
06_ISS/Title = This astronaut photograph, taken from the International Space Station provides the unusual perspective of looking down on a meteor as it passes through the atmosphere. Green and yellow airglow appears in thin layers above the limb of the Earth, extending from image left to the upper right. Atoms and molecules above 50 kilometers in the atmosphere are excited by sunlight during the day, and then release this energy at night, producing primarily green light that is observable from orbit.
06_ISS/URL = https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b7/Looking_Down_on_a_Shooting_Star.JPG
07_Murnpeowie/License = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Murnpeowie_meteorite.jpg
07_Murnpeowie/Title = Murnpeowie Meteorite - this spectacular, 2520 pound iron meteorite was found in the South Australian Outback in 1909. The mass has a well-preserved, dark-colored, outer surface with nice regmaglypts (surface cavities). Iron meteorites exposed at Earth's surface oxidize & rust relatively quickly. Given the fresh nature of Murnpeowie, it's been estimated that it fell to Earth within five years of it being found.
07_Murnpeowie/URL = https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/79/Murnpeowie_meteorite.jpg
08_Willamette/License = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Willamette_Meteorite_AMNH.jpg
08_Willamette/Title = The Willamette Meteorite, officially named Willamette and originally known as Tomanowos by the Clackamas Chinook Native American tribe is an iron-nickel meteorite found in the U.S. state of Oregon. It is the largest meteorite found in North America and the sixth largest in the world. There was no impact crater at the discovery site0x003B researchers believe the meteorite landed in what is now Canada or Montana, and was transported as a glacial erratic to the Willamette Valley during the Missoula Floods at the end of the last Ice Age (~13,000 years ago).
08_Willamette/URL = https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Willamette_Meteorite_AMNH.jpg
09_Hoba/License = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hoba_meteorite_(15682150765).jpg
09_Hoba/Title = The Hoba meteorite, short for Hoba West, is a meteorite that lies on the farm of the same name, not far from Grootfontein, in the Otjozondjupa Region of Namibia. It has been uncovered but, because of its large mass, has never been moved from where it fell. The main mass is estimated at more than 60 tonnes. It is the largest known intact meteorite (as a single piece). In 1920 the owner of the land, Jacobus Hermanus Brits, encountered the object while ploughing one of his fields with an ox. During this task, he heard a loud metallic scratching sound and the plough came to an abrupt halt.
09_Hoba/URL = https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a7/Hoba_meteorite_(15682150765).jpg
10_CapeYork/License = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Agpalilik_fragment_of_Cape_York_meteorite.jpg
10_CapeYork/Title = The Cape York meteorite, also known as the Innaanganeq meteorite, is one of the largest known iron meteorites, classified as a medium octahedrite in chemical group IIIAB. In addition to many small fragments, at least eight large fragments with a total mass of 58 tons have been recovered. The date of the meteorite fall is debated, but was probably within the last few thousand years. It was known to local Inuit for centuries, who used it as a source of meteoritic iron for tools.
10_CapeYork/URL = https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a4/Agpalilik_fragment_of_Cape_York_meteorite.jpg
11_Bendego/License = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Museu_Nacional,_UFRJ_-_Quinta_da_Boa_Vista_3.jpg
11_Bendego/Title = The Bendeg0x00F3 Meteorite (also known as Pedra do Bendeg0x00F3 or simply Bendeng0x00F3) is a meteorite found in the interior of the state of Bahia, Brazil. It weights 5,360 kilograms. The Bendeg0x00F3 meteorite was found in 1784 by the boy Domingos da Motta Botelho, who grazed cattle on a farm near the present town of Monte Santo, Bahia. News of the finding quickly spread. In 1785, governor D. Rodrigues Menezes arranged for it to be transported to Salvador, however, the meteorite's excessive weight made transportation difficult. The cart it was on ran out of control down a hill and the meteorite fell into a dry stream bed, 180 meters away from the spot where it was originally found. It remained there until 1888, when it was recovered and brought to the National Museum.
11_Bendego/URL = https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/41/Museu_Nacional,_UFRJ_-_Quinta_da_Boa_Vista_3.jpg
12_Esquel/License = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pallasite-Esquel-RoyalOntarioMuseum-Jan18-09.jpg
12_Esquel/Title = Esquel is a meteorite found near Esquel, a Patagonian town in the northwest part of the province of Chubut in Argentina. It is a pallasite, a type of stony0x2013iron meteorite that when cut and polished shows yellowish olivine (peridot) crystals. In 1951 a farmer uncovered a meteorite in an unknown location near Esquel while digging a hole for a water tank. The meteorite was purchased from the finders and taken to the United States in 1992 by meteorite expert Robert Haag. The Esquel pallasite is known worldwide among collectors and the meteoritical scientific community. Esquel is regarded as one of the most beautiful meteorites ever found and is also one of the most desirable pallasites among meteorite collectors. It is a main group pallasite (MGP).
12_Esquel/URL = https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ad/Pallasite-Esquel-RoyalOntarioMuseum-Jan18-09.jpg
12_Esquel_02_Polished/License = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Esquel.jpg
12_Esquel_02_Polished/Title = The slice shows the crystals' transparency.
12_Esquel_02_Polished/URL = https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/00/Esquel.jpg

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