22 April 2014

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 22APR2014

Meteor lights up night sky in northern Russia - Astronaut.com
Astronaut.com ⋅ Astronaut
(Reuters) – Russians with smartphones and dashboard cameras captured footage of a meteor that flashed across the night sky near the Arctic Circle ...

NEW Russian Meteor Explosion 20 04 2014 - YouTube
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Russian Meteor Explosion 20 04 2014 HQ ☆··· Massive "Meteor-Like" Explosion Lights Up North Russian Night Sky Meteoreinschlag in Russland ...

Dashcam Captures Meteor Over Russia
NBCNews.com
NBC News Dashcam video captures the bright explosion of a meteor as it streaks across the sky over Murmansk, Russia. Published April 21st 2014, ...

Meteor Illuminates Night Sky Over Murmansk Region (Video)
The Moscow Times
A Russian astronomer has said that a shimmering fireball that illuminated the night sky over the northern Murmansk region last week was "a very ...

Lyrid Meteor Shower | WANE.com Blogs
wane.com
Tonight is a perfect night for viewing the Lyrid Meteor Shower. Here's what NASA has to say about it: “Lyrids are pieces of debris from the periodic ...

Telescope Reviews: May Meteor Storm?
cloudynights.com
I await this with bated breath. It seems that the astronomy prognosticators, those of the magazines, have deemed what they say may be a "storm".

Meteor Illuminates Night Sky Over Murmansk Region (Video)
The Moscow Times
Because the object's flight "ended in combustion" and not in a collision with the Earth, it must be classified as a meteor, not a meteorite, Smirnov said, ...

Ancient plant fragments preserved by meteorite impact glass
UPI - 5 hours
Brooks Hays PROVIDENCE, R.I., April 21 (UPI) -- Researchers have located fragments of leaves and organic compounds preserved inside the ...

Burn Bright: Meteorite Lights Up Russian Sky
NBC NEWS - 11 hours
Some spectacular video was captured on a dashcam in Russia, in the city of Murmansk. Officials say no emergency calls or damage were reported.

Car Dashcams Capture Possible Meteorite Above Russia
ABC News Blogs via Yahoo! News - 12 hours
Whatever it is, it looked quite spectacular. Several car dashcams captured video showing a bright blue and red flashing object streaming ...

Meteor lights up night sky in northern Russia
Reuters via Yahoo! News - 9 hours
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russians with smartphones and dashboard cameras captured footage of a meteor that flashed across the night sky near the ...

'Cosmos' Recap: What Lead Poisoning and Earth's Age Have in Common
SPACE.com via Yahoo! News - 3 hours
The scientist who discovered the age of the Earth also helped end the use of lead in gasoline and other products in the United States. Sunday ...

Meteorites yield clues to Red Planet's early atmosphere
Astronomy Magazine
Cross-polarized transmitted light microscopy image of augite crystals in the 1.3 billion-year-old martian meteorite MIL 03346. The main crystal shows ...

Fireball lights up Russian sky
The Christian Science Monitor - 59 minutes
A blazing fireball appeared over the northern Murmansk region of Russia last week. Recorded with dashboard cameras, the explosion evokes the ...

Forensic Ballistics: How Apollo 12 Helped Solve the Skydiver Meteorite Mystery
The Planetary Society (blog)
The news went viral a couple of weeks ago. A team in Norway announced that a skydiver was almost struck by a meteorite in flight over the ØstreÆra ...

Lyrids meteor shower peaks early Tuesday
Delhi Daily News
Though this would be an excellent week to watch the Lyrids annual meteor shower, the presence of more than half a moon in the sky will dampen the ...

Meteorite Caught on Dash Cam - YouTube
youtube.com ⋅ 01:01
A Meteorite lights up the night sky in Murmansk Russia Apr 19th 2014. Sorry for the thumbnail but the actual was too dark.

New Meteor Explosion Over Murmansk Russia 2014 - YouTube
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Meteorite Falling in Murmansk, Russia VIDEO - Apr 19, 2014 A Meteor breaks up in the lower atmosphere before exploding prior to making c...

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

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