16 September 2009

Meteor/Meteorite News- 16SEP09

Can Microbes Survive a Million-Year Space Journey? Experts Say “Yes”

Zikkir World
The researchers looked at previous studies of Martian meteorites that provided information about the kinds of forces needed to eject rocks from a large ...

EERC materials return from space

UND The Dakota Student
So we looked at it for use as a meteorite protection material for NASA." The ceramic material flew 18 months ago on the Space Shuttle Endeavour as a part of ...

Long-awaited launch of SA satellite delayed to Wednesday

Creamer Media's Engineering News
SumbandilaSat is one of six microsatellites that are to be launched on the Soyuz-2 rocket, along with the primary payload of a Russian Meteor M weather ...

Reality Show Being Filmed at Ector County Meteor Crater 9/15/09

KOSA
Odessa, Texas - A production company has chosen the Ector County meteor crater as their site to film a segment for a new reality show to be aired on the ...

Zee News
Russia to launch weather satellite on Tuesday

Zee News
The Meteor-M unit will restore Russia's membership in the small club of countries with meteorological satellites of their own in orbit. "Besides Meteor-M ...




Meteor Crater takes center stage

Odessa American
BY GEOFF FOLSOM When “Meteorite Men,” a one-time special for Discovery's Science Channel, was green-lighted for a six-episode season, the hosts knew where ...

Moon rocks lost in space? No, lost on Earth

MSNBC

More than 130 countries received gifts of lunar rubble from Apollo missions ...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32840132/ns/technology_and_science-space/

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