Meteor/Meteorite News- 12NOV09

Sighting In Kecksburg Remains A Mystery

KDKA
The military reportedly forced onlookers away and the event was described as a meteor flying across the sky. NASA repeatedly denied anything manmade landed ...

Catholic Church Searching for Aliens

WPEC
... to bridge the gap between religion and science. It's scientist-clerics have produced research on the topic and even have a world class meteorite collection.

The Post-Standard - Syracuse.com

Vatican Astronomer Guy Consolmagno: "We are not split into a world of Spocks ...

The Post-Standard - Syracuse.com
An astronomer at the Vatican Observatory, Brother Guy serves as curator for the Vatican Meteorite collection in Rome. He spoke from his office. ...



Turn your eyes to the skies

GoErie.com
By LINDSEY POISSON Next week, the annual Leonid meteor shower will light up the constellation Leo with a few dozen "shooting stars" in the early morning ...

The Birmingham News - al.com

Meteor storm muse behind 'Stars Fell on Alabama'

The Birmingham News - al.com
Astronomers estimate that a meteor storm on Nov. 12-13, 1833, bombarded Earth's atmosphere with more than 30000 meteors an hour blazing over Alabama and ...

California Meteor/Meteorite News- San Francisco Sunset Fireball 7NOV09 12NOV09

SUNSET FIREBALL
Spaceweather News-
If only photographers had faster reflexes.... On Saturday, Nov. 7th, around 5 p.m. Pacific time, a brilliant fireball raced across the sky of California's San Francisco ...

http://www.spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=10&month=11&year=2009

Kazakhstan Meteor/Meteorite News- Kazakhstan Meteor over Atomic Power Station 11NOV09

Фото РИА Новости Виталий Аньков

В небе над томской АЭС сгорел метеорит

Vesti.kz - Almaty,Kazakhstan
В небе над Томском недалеко от действующей атомной электростанции сгорел каменный метеорит, сообщает Life News. След падения небесного тела на камеру... [more]

Russian-English machine translation:
In the sky above the Tomsk atomic power station the meteorite has burned down
Vesti.kz - Almaty,Kazakhstan
The trace of falling of a heavenly body on the chamber of a cellular telephone was fixed in the evening on the last Tuesday, on November, 10th, by the 20-years native of village Tahtamyshevo.
On a photo the vertical trace breaking at height about ten kilometers is clearly visible. Director of the Tomsk regional centre of science of a biolocation and ecology of "Biobosoms" Victor Fefelov has noted, that the trace fixed by the chamber is " definitely not инверсионный a trace from the plane. It is an obvious trace from falling a stone meteorite, the size about one - two meters. The meteorite has completely burned down and was sprayed in an atmosphere at height ten - fifteen kilometers ".
Besides the expert was surprised to that fact, that nobody has noticed coming nearer to a surface of the Earth a heavenly body in spite of the fact that falling has occured absolutely near to the operating atomic power station. " It is very sad, that anybody from those to whom it is necessary, nothing has traced ", - has told Фефелов. " To all of us has carried, that the meteorite was stone, instead of iron, and has completely burned down in an atmosphere. Scales of accident at falling a two-meter iron meteorite on the atomic power station to not difficultly itself to present ", - it has emphasized.
On October, 25th in mass-media there was an information on falling a meteorite near the city of Mazsalatsa in area Valmierskom of Latvia. On a place of incident the crater in width of 20 meters and was formed by depth of 10 meters. Later experts have established day, that falling of a meteorite has been dramatized director on marketing and sales of the Latvian operator of mobile communication Tele2 Янисом Спрогисом. Tele2 has agreed to pay the penalty at a rate of 27 thousand dollars for a performance of falling of a heavenly body.

Meteor/Meteorite News- 11NOV09

The Associated Press

Vatican looks to heavens for signs of alien life

The Associated Press
Its scientist-clerics have generated top-notch research and its meteorite collection is considered one of the world's best. The observatory, founded by Pope ...


The lights in the night sky reappear

9NEWS.com
They didn't belong to a meteorite, a UFO, or anything else - it was only members of the Mile-Hi Skydiving Center. Monday evening, thousands of people saw ...

The 2009 Leonid Meteor Shower

RedOrbit
This year's Leonid meteor shower peaks on Tuesday, Nov. 17th. If forecasters are correct, the shower should produce a mild but pretty sprinkling of meteors ...

Meteor impacts may have cooked up life on Earth

Newspost Online
A new research by scientists has confirmed that the organic matter needed for the origin of life could have been delivered to Earth through meteoritic ...

Thinking dark thoughts

Albany Times Union
Next Tuesday, the Leonid meteor shower will be putting on a show. According to this article, the peak performance is expected to be between 3:30 and 5:30 am ...

Meteor/Meteorite News- Asteroid 2009 VA Whizzes By The Earth 6NOV09 10NOV09

Small Asteroid 2009 VA Whizzes By The Earth
Don Yeomans, Paul Chodas, Steve Chesley
NASA/JPL Near-Earth Object Program Office
November 9, 2009


Trajectory of Asteroid 2009 VA Past Earth on November 6, 2009

A newly discovered asteroid designated 2009 VA, which is only about 7
meters in size, passed about 2 Earth radii (14,000 km) from the Earth's
surface Nov. 6 at around 16:30 EST. This is the third-closest known
(non-impacting) Earth approach on record for a cataloged asteroid. The
two closer approaches include the 1-meter sized asteroid 2008 TS26,
which passed within 6,150 km of the Earth's surface on October 9, 2008,
and the 7-meter sized asteroid 2004 FU162 that passed within 6,535 km on
March 31, 2004. On average, objects the size of 2009 VA pass this close
about twice per year and impact Earth about once every 5 years.

Asteroid 2009 VA was discovered by the Catalina Sky Survey about 15
hours before the close approach, and was quickly identified by the Minor
Planet Center in Cambridge MA as an object that would soon pass very
close to the Earth. JPL's Near-Earth Object Program Office also computed
an orbit solution for this object, and determined that it was not headed
for an impact. Only thirteen months ago, the somewhat smaller object
2008 TC3 was discovered under similar circumstances, but that one was
found to be on a trajectory headed for the Earth, with impact only about
11 hours away.
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news166.html