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  1. Bolide Light Curve Systematics from 75 Recovered Meteorites: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10 -> New study reveals how space rocks become #meteorites: seti.org/news/how-space-rocks- - analysis of the atmospheric passage of 75 meteorite falls identifies seven distinct processes as space rocks melt, fragment and slow before they fall as meteorites.

  2. The Meteorites, by Helen Gordon

    A longer version of this review will be published in the Ancillary Review of Books sometime later in 2026, but here's the short version. I liked The Meteorites so much. Helen Gordon’s narrative (subtitled 'Encounters with Outer Space and Deep Time' just so you're warned) begins with a meteoroid’s birth, somewhere between Mars and Jupiter in the asteroid belt, and its approach to a blue planet inconveniently in the way of its orbital path. A meteoroid is the rock in flight, called a […]

    katemacdonald.net/2026/07/28/t

  3. Sugars are essential #biomolecules, serving as metabolic fuels, nucleic acid backbone components and structural or energy-storage polymers.

    A central question in origin-of-life research is how monosaccharides formed on the primitive Earth, as laboratory experiments under #prebiotic conditions yield insufficient concentrations.

    The detection of #ribose, #glucose and other monosaccharides in #asteroids and #meteorites suggests an exogenous origin, possibly in the interstellar medium (ISM) before meteoritic parent-body formation.

    However, no #sugar has been observed in the ISM so far.

    Now astronomers report the discovery of #erythrulose, a chiral four-carbon ketose, in the ISM.

    Erythrulose appears to be at least eight times more abundant than analogous three-carbon sugars, which remain undetected in our ultrasensitive observations.

    Quantum chemical and astrochemical models indicate that erythrulose forms efficiently on interstellar dust grains from simpler two-carbon aldehydes and alcohols.

    As ketoses readily isomerize into aldoses in aqueous conditions, interstellar erythrulose could have contributed to the sugar inventory available for early metabolic and replication processes.

    #astrobiology #astronomy
    nature.com/articles/s41550-026

  4. Scientists find ‘smoking gun’ evidence of world’s oldest meteorite strike in Western Australia | Geology | The Guardian
    theguardian.com/environment/20

    #Geology #Meteorites

  5. Organics in #meteorites: In preparation for ESA’s search for life on #Mars with #RosalindFranklin, researchers from #mpsgoettingen, @unigoettingen and the University Côte d'Azur have investigated the chirality of pristane and phytane in the Murchison meteorite.
    Read more here: mps.mpg.de/mars-mission-a-stre
    Or here: doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2026.12

  6. Organics in #meteorites: In preparation for ESA’s search for life on #Mars with #RosalindFranklin, researchers from MPS, @[email protected], @[email protected] investigated the chirality of pristane and phytane in the Murchison meteorite. www.mps.mpg.de/mars-mission... @[email protected]

  7. The Chicxulub impact was a quick and catastrophic event with lasting consequences. Not talking about the thing with the dinosaurs - it drove significant hydrothermal activity for 8 million years across the entire region.

    Link: nature.com/articles/s43247-026

    #Impact #Meteorites #Chicxulub

  8. 🎙️ This week! O'Shawn (@thathaunter) and Shelby (@itsahaunterslifeforme) are back with @barrettgruber and discuss so much! From #Musk and #AI to #Meteorites!
    🎧 Listen wherever you get #podcasts or 📺 Watch on YouTube!
    🔗 linktr.ee/theallaboutnothingpo
    🔗 bit.ly/AANEp309

  9. There are many types of meteorites, but a bunch of them might have had a common origin in a region just past Jupiter, where planetesimals formed 2–4 million years after solar system formation began.

    Link: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.

    #Space #Meteorites #SolarFormation

  10. 22-May-2026
    Different #meteorites, same birthplace
    The parent bodies of different meteorites may have formed in the same region of the #solarSystem as indicated by new computer simulations

    eurekalert.org/news-releases/1

    #science #astrobiology #planets

  11. 💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🌍🌋 The #Earth's crust accounts for only a tiny fraction of its total volume, leaving the vast majority of our planet largely unseen.

    Researchers are studying seismic waves and ancient #meteorites to better understand the continent-sized mystery blobs and unique #minerals located deep beneath our feet.

    👉 Learn more: seethis.tv/post/earths-layers-

    #1960s #earthquake #elements #geography #heat #history #iron #magnesium #mountains #ocean #science #seismology #underground #volcanoes #tksst #video

  12. 🌍🌋 The #Earth's crust accounts for only a tiny fraction of its total volume, leaving the vast majority of our planet largely unseen.

    Researchers are studying seismic waves and ancient #meteorites to better understand the continent-sized mystery blobs and unique #minerals located deep beneath our feet.

    👉 Learn more: seethis.tv/post/earths-layers-

    #1960s #earthquake #elements #geography #heat #history #iron #magnesium #mountains #ocean #science #seismology #underground #volcanoes #tksst #video