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7034 BCE
1 Bil BC
A meteorite, dubbed NWA 7034, blasted to Earth from Mars about this time and landed in the Sahara Desert. Analysis in 2012 revealed that it contained water. -
2500 BCE
2500 BC
A meteor shower hit Argentina about this time in "Campo del Cielo" (Field of Heaven) on the border between Chaco and Santiago del Estero. In 2016 scientists uncovered a 30-ton meteorite in the area they called Gancedo. -
500 BCE
500Mil BC
A 30-mile size crater, a mile underneath the bed of Lake Huron, just north of Port Huron, Michigan, marks the impact of a meteor. It was discovered in 1990 by scientists from the Geological Survey of Canada. -
150 BCE
150Mil BC
In 1999 Norwegian scientists discovered an undersea meteor crater in the Arctic Ocean 125 miles north of Norway that dated to this time. It measured 25 miles wide. The meteor was estimated at 1 1/4 mile wide traveling at 18,600 mph -
1492
1492 November 7th
A meteorite landed in Ensisheim, Germany. Emperor Maximilian visited Ensisheim 15 days after the fall and ordered that the stone be preserved in the local church -
Tunguska 1908
What happened on 30 June 1908 over the Tunguska River in central Siberia is a century-old mystery. 200 square kilometres of trees were flattened, and the indigenous Evenki people who reported that their animals were thrown into the air by a shockwave. So the prevailing theory is that a massive space rock caused the blast. Yet we haven’t found convincing evidence of the meteorite. Neither is there an obvious crater – unless you accept the problematic theory that nearby Lake Cheko is it. -
1969 Feb 8
A meteor shower hit Mexico creating a luminance in the night sky as bright as day. A meteorite weighing over 1 ton fell in Chihuahua, Mexico. -
1998 Nov 17
The Leonid meteor storm was expected to peak and damage was feared to the nearly 500 satellites in orbit. The storm was the result of the Earth’s intersection with the debris field of the comet Tempel-Tuttle, last seen 33 years ago. -
2007 Feb 8
An object fell from the sky and killed 3 nomads in northern India’s Rajasthan state. The impact left a crater and the object was believed to have been a meteor. -
2007 Sep 15
A meteorite made a fiery crash to Earth in southern Peru and villagers were soon struck by a mysterious illness. -
2011 July
A meteor shower dropped rocks from Mars on the ground in Morocco. 15 pounds of the rocks were found in December -
2013 Mar 17
A boulder slammed into the Moon, creating the biggest explosion scientists have seen there since they started monitoring it. -
2016 September 10
Scientists in Argentina uncovered a meteorite they called Gancedo in "Campo del Cielo" (Field of Heaven) on the border between Chaco and Santiago del Estero. It was thought to have hit the region about 4,500 years ago. -
2017 November 16
A fireball lit up the skies of Arctic Finland with a glow of 100 full moons. Experts scrambled to find where the meteorite landed. -
2018 Perth Meteorite
"It was like the sky was falling". Social media was inundated with reports from people in the Avon Valley region who said they thought they felt the meteor hit the earth. Rosena Cox lives in Caljie, 125 kilometres east of Perth, and was in the shower when she heard a sound that she thought was a plane crashing.