12 October 2013

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 12OCT2013

Comet C/ISON Details Emerge as it Races Toward the Sun
Planetary Science Institute -Oct. 9, 2013
Tucson, Ariz. -- Scientists are unraveling more information on Comet C/2012
S1 (ISON) as it continues on its journey toward the Sun. Comet C/ISON
will skim 730,000 miles above the Sun's surface on Nov. 28 and has the
potential to be readily visible from Earth starting in early December.

Watery Asteroid Discovered in Dying Star Points to Habitable Exoplanets
W. M. Keck Observatory -October 10, 2013
Kamuela, HI -- Astronomers have found the shattered remains of an asteroid
that contained huge amounts of water orbiting an exhausted star, or white
dwarf. This suggests that the star GD 61 and its planetary system - located
about 150 light years away and at the end of its life - had the potential
to contain Earth-like exoplanets. ...

Insight into space collisions from Chelyabinsk fireball
PhysOrg - 54 minutes
Scientists from the Czech Republic, Finland, and the Russian Federation are presenting today new findings on meteorites recovered after the ...

Extremely bright meteor explodes over Central Bosnia -- Fire in the ...
Translated by SOTT.net reader This morning at 05:51 hours an extremely brilliant meteor exploded over central Bosnia, authorities announced from the ...Signs of the Times

Comet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet
A comet is an icy small Solar System body that, when passing close to the Sun, heats up and begins to outgas, displaying a visible atmosphere ...

Russian meteorite fragments on exhibit in Edmonton - Edmonton ...
www.cbc.ca/.../russian-meteorite-fragments-on-exhibit-in...
Parts of a massive meteor that crashed into Russia in February will be on display for the first time in Canada this week, at an exhibit in ...

Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News: New Research On ...lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.com/2013/10/new-research...
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Meteorite chosen as symbol of Bruderheim | Fort Saskatchewan ...www.fortsaskatchewanrecord.com/2013/10/10/meteorite...
The Town of Bruderheim has announce its new identity symbol, the Bruderheim Meteorite. The meteorite, which detonated upon entering the ...

Willamette Meteorite subject of next Heritage Series
portlandtribune.com/...meteorite-subject-of-next-heritage...
West Linn’s oldest and most famous former inhabitant now resides in New York City and traveled billions of miles through space, then on an ...

Rock and Roil: Meteorites Hitting Early Earth's Oceans May ...
www.scientificamerican.com/...id=rock-and-roil-meteorites
Did heat, pressure and carbon from meteorite impacts create biological precursors?

Meteor Activity Outlook for October 12-18, 2013 | American Meteor ...
During this period the moon reaches its full phase on Friday October 18th. At this time the moon lies opposite of the sun and will be above the horizon most of the ...
www.amsmeteors.org/.../meteor-activity-outlook-for-october-...

American Meteor Society - Member Area - AMS Event
AMS received 7 reports about a fireball seen over FL, GA and SC on October 10th 2013 around 00:21 (UTC)
Brevard Times
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida -- October 2013 promises a spectacular display of meteor showers thanks in part to the setting time of the Moon around the 2013 ...

Full Article - Wiley Online Library
Nonlinear coupling between quasi 2 day wave and tides based on meteor radar observations at Maui. Kai Ming Huang1,3,4,; Alan Z. Liu2,; Xian Lu2,; Zhenhua ...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jgrd.50872/full

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