Meteors streak through the air giving us a display that can be not only beautiful but awe-inspiring as well. This isn’t all they give us as they carry to us a wealth of information from the solar system. So what is flying through the atmosphere giving us a such a show? As you might imagine [...]
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How impact craters are formed
This sounds a bit like a no-brainer really; the asteroid or comet crosses the path of Earth and hits the Earth’s surface causing an impact crater. That’s it isn’t it? No, nothing in life is quite as simple as that and the way impactors (asteroids, comets, space stations or astronauts) hit the Earth is quite [...]
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Is The Earth Safe From Rocky Demons Above?
Have you ever looked up into the sky and wondered what was going to drop onto your head? When you look up what do you see? Well if I was to do it now I would see a load of black clouds as I live in the rainy UK which tends to give me a [...]
