On Oct. 9, 1992, a rock the size of a bowling ball fell out of space and crash landed on someone's Chevy Malibu in Peekskill, New York. Discover space history 👉 https://trib.al/MHzNIt4 Thousands of people along the U.S. East Coast witnessed the Peekskill meteorite blazing through the skies over Kentucky, West Virginia and Pennsylvania before it hit the parked car. Eighteen-year-old Michelle Knapp was sitting at home when she thought she heard a car crash outside. When she went to look, she foun

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This celestial resource was the massive Cape York meteorite, composed of ~92% iron and ~8% nickel. The Inuit, particularly the Thule culture ancestors, arrived in the region centuries ago and called these meteoritic fragments 'Saviksue' or 'Great Irons.' Their technique was unique: cold forging, using heavy basalt hammers to shape the metal without fire, a process possible due to the iron's specific crystalline structure. The settlement of Savissivik, whose name means 'Place of Meteoric Iron,' b

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