Meteorite

Geologist Ioannis Baziotis of the Agricultural School will be the first Greek to part in NASA’s mission to the Antarctica for the search of meteorites. Dr. Baziotis is an assistant professor of Mineralogy and Petrology at the University of Athens Department of Natural Resources and Agricultural Engineering. Mr.

The Tunguska event was a large explosion that occurred near the Stony Tunguska River, in Yeniseysk Governorate in Russia. On June 30, 1908, a fireball was seen streaking across the daytime sky and within moments something exploded in the atmosphere.

NASA’s curiosity Rover has discovered a space rock on planet Mars. The rock has a totally different look from the Mars environment due to the fact that it is composed of different materials. NASA investigated further into the space rock and used the Rover’s ChemCam laser providing experts with more data on the rock’s chemical make up profile.

Syrian refugees in Turkey have joined the search for meteorite fragments in the eastern province of Bingöl.

In Sar?çiçek, a village 5 km (3 miles) east of the provincial capital, Bingöl, showers of extra-terrestrial rocks fell early September.

After discussions both on traditional and social media, including a Twitter poll by the country's finance minister and an official investigation, it has been decided villagers in the eastern province of Bingöl who found and sold meteorite pieces at inflated prices did not need to pay taxes for this sort of income.

The Finance Ministry has dispatched officials to conduct tax inspections after villagers in the eastern Turkish province of Bingöl sold a number of meteorites they found, though the villagers fiercely object to the move and say the meteorites were "sent by God."

Villagers from the eastern Anatolian province of Bingöl sold meteorites worth some $200,000 last week, as meteorite collectors from Russia and Germany flocked to Sarıçiçek village