27 March 2015

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 27MAR2015

HOLMBERG: Meteorite in the James River? Finder is wishing upon a star.
CBS 6 Richmond - 19 hours
"It kept shining back up at me," Arthur Capuano of Petersburg said. "I knew what it was . . . I felt I knew what it was."

Second natural quasicrystal found in ancient meteorite
SpaceDaily - 21 hours
The top panel shows the symmetry of the first natural quasicrystal, icosahedrite. The lower panel shows the symmetry of the recently ...

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 26MAR2015
Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News - Blogger
Meteor over Halifax March 24, 2015. Captured by our webcam on the Westin Nova Scotian Hotel in Halifax, Nova Scotia Video can be licensed via .

Bright Flash lit up sky over Prince Edward Island
PerfScience
But according to astronomer David Lane, director of the observatory at Saint Mary's University in Halifax, it was likely a bright meteor called a fireball.

Meteor over Halifax Nova Scotia
TheBigWobble
Meteor over Halifax Nova Scotia. A streaking ball of white flame resulting from a meteorite fall over Canada's East Coast Tuesday night lit up the sky ...

NASA's Curiosity Rover Finds Biologically Useful Nitrogen On Mars
The Aero-News Network - 15 hours
First Detectable Nitric Oxide Released From Heating Sediments A team using the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument suite aboard NASA's ...

Curiosity rover finds nitrogen on Marsgizmag - 16 hours
In another hopeful sign that Mars was once habitable, NASA's Curiosity rover has detected nitrogen in the soil of the Red Planet for the ...
Skywatching Webcasts: Total Lunar Eclipse of April 4 by Slooh
Space.com
The next major stargazing webcast will be on April 4, 2015 during the first of two total lunar eclipses. Viewing information will be posted here once it ...

Meteor Activity Outlook for March 28-April 3, 2015
American Meteor Society
Meteor activity picks up a bit during April as the Lyrids become active during the month. They are active from the 18th through the 25th, with a ...

Fireball lights up PEI sky
The Guardian Charlottetown
“Did you see a fireball in the sky at about 9 p.m.? The Gamma Normid meteor shower is underway,” tweeted Day, chief meteorologist for CTV Atlantic.

Bright meteor lights up western Nova Scotia skies
Truro Daily News
HALIFAX - A bright meteor that flared across the night sky Tuesday, lit up webcams and social media across the province, too.

Central Australia home to world's biggest asteroid impact zone
The Australian
The meteor thought to have caused South Australia's Acraman crater 580 million years ago had been blamed for a mass extinction of primitive life ...

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 25MAR2015
Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News
The meteor was spotted by at least one Newfoundlander around 9:20 last night. He told VOCM News he noticed a bright light in the sky over Goobies .

Deep Impact
Brian Koberlein
There's new evidence that a large meteor impact occurred in Australia about 350 million years ago, but the findings are not without controversy.

Fireball not meteorite, could be rocket debris: Scientists
onmanorama
International scientists who conducted studies on the remains of thefireball said that they could not find anything similar to particles of meteorite in the ...

Fireball lights up PEI sky
The Guardian Charlottetown
“Did you see a fireball in the sky at about 9 p.m.? The Gamma Normid meteor shower is underway,” tweeted Day, chief meteorologist for CTV Atlantic.

Meteor spotted in the sky in Nova Scotia
Newsflare
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The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 24MAR2015
Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News - Blogger
The new discovery in Australia dwarfs Meteor Crater in Arizona, one of the best preserved meteorite craters in the world. The crater in Australia is .

Perseids, Lyrids, Geminids, Leonids, Draconids, Orionids, Aquarids, Taurids
The CELESTIAL Convergence
2015 is looking set to be a good year for meteor showing watching — with good peak-rates and nice dark skies being likely for most of the major ...

HOLMBERG: Meteorite in the James River?
WTVR.com
RICHMOND, Va. — Arthur Capuano of Petersburg still believes it's a 220-pound meteorite that he pulled out of the James River in downtown ... Sorry a developing case of "IT ONLY A ROCK FEVER"

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