8FEB2010

Meteorite trail leads to Donegal, say astronomers

Irish Independent
By Anita Guidera CO Donegal has emerged as the most likely landing area for the meteorite that crashed to earth last Wednesday evening. ...

Space Weather News for Feb. 8, 2010
http://spaceweather.com

BIG SUNSPOT: The sudden emergence of big sunspot 1045 over the weekend has caused a sharp uptick in solar activity. The active region has produced three M-class and almost a dozen C-class solar flares since it appeared on Saturday. The strongest blast, an M6-class eruption on Feb. 7th, may have hurled a coronal mass ejection toward Earth. High-latitude sky watchers should be alert for auroras in the nights ahead as a result of this activity. Also, ham radio operators are picking up strong solar radio bursts using shortwave receivers. Sample sounds and images may be found at http://spaceweather.com

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University houses one of world's largest meteorite collections

Web Devil
ASU's Center for Meteorite Studies, home of the largest university collection of meteorite samples in the world, is making cutting-edge research in ...

Doctors and lawyers fight over ownership of meteorite from asteroid belt

Times Online
Late last month Marc Gallini got out of his chair in his medical examination room when a chunk of meteorite smashed through the roof and hit the spot where ...

Doctors and lawyers fight over ownership of meteorite from asteroid belt
MalaysiaNews.net Sun, 07 Feb 2010 15:25 PM PST
END: Module - M24 Article Headline with landscape image (d) --> BEGIN: Module - Main Article --> Late last month Marc Gallini got out of his chair in his medical examination room when ...

Space rock worth thousands raises debate of ownership The Durango Herald Sat, 06 Feb 2010 23:38 PM PST WASHINGTON - An out-of-this world rock has become the center of a down-to-earth dispute about who its rightful owner should be. The tennis ball-sized meteorite plummeted through the roof of a Virginia medical office just after dusk Jan. 18, the same time people reported seeing a fireball in the sky...

Geologists stumble upon meteorite-hit site in Rajasthan
Press Trust of India Sat, 06 Feb 2010 19:22 PM PST
New Delhi, Feb 7 (PTI) Geologists appear to have stumbled upon a meteorite-hit site in western Rajasthan after they discovered quartz-like mineral that is similar to the one found near the famous Lonar crater lake in Maharashtra. ...

Space rock worth thousands raises debate of ownership The Durango Herald by Brett Zongker AP Writer A meteorite the size of a tennis ball is shown in Washington. The meteorite that plummeted through the roof of a Virginia ...

Could it happen again? Odds are against it Pueblo Chieftain In 1954, an Alabama woman was sleeping on her living-room couch when an 8.5-pound meteorite crashed through the roof and smacked her in the hip, ...

4FEB2010

Space rock proves an atmospheric fireball Irish Times Apparently it was a meteorite that lit up sections of the sky last evening. Astronomy Ireland said it was inundated with reports of a fireball in the sky ... With video: Fireball across Ireland as meteorite crashes to earth Irish Central Wed, 03 Feb 2010 12:41 PM PST A meteorite traveling with the force of a small nuclear weapon blazed across the sky in Ireland Wednesday and crashed inland. Astronomy Ireland says the fireball was spotted at about 6 p.m. Meteorites: Who owns what now? Discovery News By Robert Lamb | Wed Feb 3, 2010 04:53 PM ET Behold the mighty Lorton meteorite! (AP Photo/Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History, ...

Giant Meteorites Slammed Earth Around AD 500? National Geographic ... University in Sydney not involved with the rock-art work, recently demonstrated that Aboriginal stories can be used to locate meteorite craters. ...

Lanlord, tenant battle over meteorite KGO-TV A Virginia doctor and the landlord of his office building are fighting over who owns a meteorite that landed in the doctor's office last month. ... The 'X' marks the meteor in the sky The Inquisitr An unusual comet called P/2010 A2 by astronomers has got the star-gazing community all a buzz. As you can see from the photographs taken by Hubble the ... Doctors act to keep hold of meteor The Press Association The tennis ball-sized meteorite came through the roof of a medical office in Virginia just after dusk on January 18, the same time people reported seeing a ... Science Channel Rockets Out of the Gate for January with Metorite Men, How ... TVbytheNumbers Shows fueling that growth are new series Meteorite Men, How It's Made, Mantracker, Factory Made Science registered slight-to-double digit gains in Prime ... Meteorite yields carbon crystals harder than diamond PhysOrg.com (PhysOrg.com) -- Two new types of ultra-hard carbon crystals have been found by researchers investigating the ureilite class Haverö meteorite that crashed ...