05 August 2009

Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 5AUG09

Caesar Creek Meteor Shower Campout set for August 8

La Prensa
Beginning at 7:00 PM, Caesar Creek will host a meteor shower program at the main state park beach. The Miami Valley Astronomical Society will provide an ...

SPACE PHOTOS THIS WEEK: Shuttle Sparks, Mars Rock, More
National Geographic Tue, 04 Aug 2009 15:10 PM PDT
See a possible meteorite on Mars, a space shuttle on an electric morning, an astronaut's-eye view of dusk on Earth, and more in the week's best space pictures.


Meteorite collection rocks up at auction house in Capital
The Scotsman Tue, 04 Aug 2009 02:26 AM PDT
THE largest collection of meteorites in Britain is to go to the highest bidder at the Capital's Lyon and Turnbull auction house this month.

Rover Opportunity findet bislang größten Meteoriten auf dem Mars

grenzwissenschaft-aktuell.de - Germany
Pasadena/ USA - Auf dem Roten Planeten ist der NASA-Rover "Opportunity" auf den bislang größten Meteoriten gestoßen, der je auf dem Mars entdeckt wurde. ...

A Meteorite on Mars

Discovery News
NASA's robotic Mars geologist may have stumbled on pay dirt -- a two-foot diameter rock that scientists suspect is meteorite. Scientists first spotted the ...

Expanding Spot on Venus Puzzles Astronomers

PhysOrg.com
(PhysOrg.com) -- The expanding spot discovered on Venus last month may not have garnered as much attention as the meteor impact with Jupiter, but its cause ...

Amateur astronomer discovers meteor impact on Jupiter

Neowin
A backyard astronomer has discovered that Jupiter was recently impacted by an asteroid or a commet leaving a large mark on the surface of the planet. ...

¿Meteorito en Marte?

InfoBAE.com - Buenos Aires,Buenos Aires,Argentina
El llano está plagado de pequeñas rocas que se creen procedentes del impacto del meteorito que originó el cráter Victoria, de unos 800 metros de diámetro. ...

2009: a space oddity in mystery Mars rock

Sydney Morning Herald
A METEORITE, according to the Australian Oxford Dictionary, is ''a rock or metal fragment formed from a meteor of sufficient size to reach the Earth's ...

NASA analisa maior meteorito de Marte

Info Online - São Paulo,SP,Brazil
Batizado de Block Island, o meteorito é o maior já encontrado em Marte, com 60 centímetros de largura e 30 centímetros de altura. ...

Library To Have Viewing Of Annual Meteor Shower

Hartford Courant
WINDSOR LOCKS — - The Windsor Locks Public Library will be holding a viewing on the front lawn of the annual Perseids meteor shower at 7 pm on Saturday. ...

Meteorite collection rocks up at auction house in Capital

Edinburgh Evening News
THE largest collection of meteorites in Britain is to go to the highest bidder at the Capital's Lyon and Turnbull auction house this month. ...

Un meteorito en Marte del tamaño de un balón de playa

elmundo.es - Madrid,Madrid,Spain
El Vehículo de exploración Opportunity ha descubierto el mayor meteorito hallado en la superficie de Marte hasta el momento. Es un fragmento de hierro, ...

Opportunity rover finds possible meteorite on Mars

Scientific American
The 0.6-meter rock, dubbed Block Island [detail below], would not be the first meteorite discovered on Mars by the rover, but would be notable for its size. ...

STAR TRAK

Indiana University
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Summer's silent fireworks will light up the sky when the annual Perseid meteor shower peaks before dawn on Aug. 12 and 13. ...

Opportunity - Two-for-Two, Discovers Second Martian Meteorite

Examiner.com
Another thing that Opportunity appears to be really good at finding is meteorites - she recently found her second one. Opportunity found her first meteorite ...

Rock creations

Taylor Daily Press
Wendland once found a meteorite weighing three pounds in the dirt of one of his fields, and sent off a sample to be tested upon learning that one could get ...

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