HARRISONBURG, Va. (WHSV) - On the ground floor of the Festival Conference and Student Center on James Madison University’s campus lies a treasure trove of minerals from around our planet - and off our ...

John Ventre holds up a slice of a partially translucent meteorite from his collection at the Cincinnati Observatory. Space is dirty. Filthy. It's littered with asteroids, and rocks, and dust. Some of ...

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The Los Angeles Meteorite has an interesting history. Most meteorites have more specific information about the location they were found, but not this one. Bob Verish found two stones in the Mojave ...

A University of Arizona scientist and a collector have teamed up to open a center that will preserve meteorites as well as further research and public education. Dante Lauretta of the UA Lunar and ...

Clarke, F. W. 1886. "The meteorite collection in the U. S. National Museum; a catalogue of meteorites represented November 1, 1886." In Report of the United States National Museum for the year ending ...