24 August 2012

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 24AUG2012

Meteor Activity Outlook for August 18-24, 2012 | American Meteor ...
This weekend the waxing crescent moon will set during the early evening hours and will not interfere with meteor observing during the more productive morning ...
www.amsmeteors.org/.../meteor-activity-outlook-for-august-1...

Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News: Breaking News -NY NJ ...
By Lunar Meteorite * Hunter
Breaking News- NY NJ CT MA Bright Fireball ~05:52 23AUG2012 If you saw this meteor event please file a sighting report; thank you! (Meteor Report Form- click here to report a meteor / fireball) 23AUG2012 Mark Sipes Freeville, NY, ...
Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News

Italian museum makes Mars meteorite find amid NASA mission
Gazzetta del Sud english
(ANSA) - Florence, August 23 - The Planetary Science Museum of Prato, near Florence, announced the discovery of a new meteorite from Mars on Thursday, as NASA's Curiosity Rover explores the Red Planet in a mission that could demonstrate the Red ...

Orionid meteors will light up the darkness
Astronomy Magazine
It's best to view meteor showers without optical aid because binoculars or a telescope restrict the field of view. If you must observe before midnight, face eastward and look about halfway up. From midnight to 2 a.m. local time, looking overhead will ...

Star Cluster Creates Coat Hanger in Night Sky This Week
Space.com
During the Perseid meteor shower this month I did some reminiscing on how, as a teenager, I used to watch this famous meteor display from my Aunt Irma and Uncle Ron's house in then-rural Mahopac, New York, about 50 miles north of New York City.

Meteor sighting over Oregon, California and Nevada -- Fire in the ...
Reports of a large meteor had many people buzzing Wednesday morning. Viewers called the KCRA 3 newsroom and the sheriff's departments in several parts ...
www.sott.net/.../250097-Meteor-sighting-over-Oregon-Califor...

2012 THE Year of Meteors!

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