Ars Technica

A giant meteorite has been lost in the desert since 1916—here’s how we might find it

In 1916, a French consular official reported finding a giant “iron hill” deep in the Sahara desert, roughly 45 kilometers (28 miles) from Chinguetti, Mauritania—purportedly a meteorite (technically a ...
The Conversation

Australian ‘bush glass’ bears the fingerprints of a cosmic collision with an iron meteorite

Aaron J. Cavosie has received funding from Australian Research Council and the Space Science and Technology Centre at Curtin University. How Earth and the other planets of the solar system formed and ...
IFLScience

Rare Yellow Desert Glass Was Created By A Meteorite Impact

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New Scientist

The century-long hunt for the gigantic meteorite that vanished

A soldier returned from the Sahara desert in 1916 with a wild story about a meteorite that dwarfed all others. Over 100 years ...
The Washington Post

On the hunt for meteorites in the far reaches of the Sahara

BIR MOGHREIN, Mauritania — You may have seen a meteorite before, even if you didn’t know it. Nearly 100,000 pounds of meteoritic matter enters Earth’s atmosphere every day, scientists estimate. The ...