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Karachi meteor shower
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  • Mar 17, 2025
Karachi gets “fire balls” despite smoky, autumn skies

While “fire balls” like this Karachi meteor shower are practically harmless, larger particles can pose a significant threat upon impact.

Every day, about 48.5 tonnes of space rock hurtle towards Earth. Meteorites that fall into the ocean are never recovered. But the ones that crash on land can spark debates about legal ownership.
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  • Jan 22, 2025
Earth is bombarded with space rocks, but who gets to keep these antiques?

Globally, meteorite hunting has become a lucrative business, with chunks of alien rock traded online and shipped between countries.

Apart from the Sun, its planets and their moons, our Solar System has vast amounts of space rocks – fragments left over from the formation of the inner planets.
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  • Web Desk
  • Jul 16, 2024
6 things learnt about Earth from meteorites and comets

They have allowed us to estimate the age of our planet, and changed the course of evolution more than once.

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PPP, PML-N candidates elected unopposed as G-B Assembly speaker, deputy speaker
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PPP, PML-N candidates elected unopposed as G-B Assembly speaker, deputy speaker
ATC sentences prominent Baloch activist Mahrang Baloch to life imprisonment
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ATC sentences prominent Baloch activist Mahrang Baloch to life imprisonment
Govt announces two-day public holiday for Ashura
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Govt announces two-day public holiday for Ashura
Vance says Iran agrees to allow IAEA inspectors back to country
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Vance says Iran agrees to allow IAEA inspectors back to country
National Security Committee
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NA approves Interior Division budget grants worth Rs 74.35b
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