15 February 2014

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 15FEB2014

Potentially Hazardous Asteroid 2000 EM26 Zipping by Earth on Close Approach on February 17
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Potentially hazardous asteroid 2000 EM26 zipping by Earth on close approach on February 17
PhysOrg - 9 hours
On February 17th a near-Earth asteroid (NEA), 2000 EM26, with an estimated diameter of three football fields (270 meters) and traveling at ...

The Huffington Post UK - 7 hours Massive 'Potentially Hazardous' Asteroid To Fly Over Earth (And You Can Watch Live On The Internet)An asteroid three times the size of a football pitch travelling at 27,000 miles power is about to pass close to Earth. And you can watch live ...

Responding to Potential Asteroid Redirect Mission Targets
One year ago, on Feb. 15, 2013, the world was witness to the dangers presented by near-Earth Objects (NEOs) when a relatively small asteroid entered Earth's atmosphere, exploding over Chelyabinsk, Russia, and releasing more energy than a large atomic bomb. ...

Russian Meteor Blast Thrust Asteroid Danger into Spotlight 1 Year Ago Today - Yahoo News UK
yahoo.com
One year later, the impact of the surprise Russian meteor explosion is still being felt all over the world. On Feb. 15, 2013, a 65-foot-wide (20 meters) ...

Search for Chelyabinsk Meteor Fragments to Be Over by Spring 2014 - Astro Watch
astrowatch.net
The search party looking for heavy fragments of the Chelyabinsk meteor, which still remain in Lake Chebarkul in Russia's Chelyabinsk region, is to be ...

Meteorite gift too spacey for Olympics, rules IOC
Reuters via Yahoo! Singapore Sports - 10 hours
By Karolos Grohmann SOCHI, Russia (Reuters) - The International Olympic Committee have shot down plans to give Saturday's medal-winning ...

NASA scientist arrives to scan Apollo 14 Moon rock
Natural History Museum
The NASA Apollo sample curator Ryan Zeigler has made a whistle-stop visit to the Museum to scan a four-billion-year-old meteorite from the Apollo 14 ...

Meteor Showers - Fall of a Thousand Suns
fallofathousandsuns.com
Dozens of meteor showers are listed in chronological order on this site...

2014 The Year of "CERTAIN Uncertainty" ™; Meteors, Asteroids, Comets, and MORE!!

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