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Meteorite vs. Dinosaur Poop — Who Wins?
On the auction block at Bonham's last week were two strange items: a 4.5 billion-year-old meteorite from the dawn of the universe (left), and two chunks of fossilized dinosaur poop (right). Which do you think sold for the most money? More » -
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Witness The Evidence For Life On Mars
This Martian meteorite, which goes on display today at the Natural History Museum in London, crashed in Egypt nearly a hundred years ago. It was part of the great Martian rockfall of 1911, which started with the appearance of a cloud and some detonations. Local residents were terrified when they were hit with a rain of 40 Martian rock fragments, weighing around 22 pounds. Scientists cracked open a piece of the Nakhla fragment last year and found a carbon-rich substance, evidence that microbes may have lived there. [Image by Cate Gillon/Getty Images]
