Mars, Earth and meteorite
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Space.com on MSNChina's Tianwen 2 asteroid-sampling probe snaps gorgeous shots of Earth and the moon (video, photos)China's Tianwen 2 mission captured stunning views of Earth and the moon from deep space just days after launch.
The space rock came as close as within 4.15 million miles from our planet, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Christian Varady was watching the sky outside his Cantonment home when he saw a color-changing fireball fall into the neighborhood.
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Space.com on MSNThe largest Mars meteorite on Earth has sold for $5.3 millionIt sold for more than the maximum estimated price of $4 million. On Wednesday (July 16), the largest Mars meteorite on Earth was auctioned off at Sotheby's in New York City for $4.3 million. (Extra fees bring the lot price to about $5.3 million).
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The flash in the Georgia sky in June, described by witnesses as a fireball, traveled hundreds of millions of miles through space before entering the Earth’s atmosphere, eventually crashing into a home. “This one went through a house in McDonough, an the whole mass, we estimate, was probably like the size of a large cherry tomato,” Harris said.