22 August 2009

Meteor/Meteorite News- 22AUG09

'Meteorite' shatters man's conservatory

gethampshire.co.uk
What he saw convinced him it was an Enstatite chondrite meteorite. He contacted the Natural History Museum, who told him meteorites hitting falling to earth ...

Aluminium helps date solar system

Chemistry World
Some of the oldest particles clumped together to form chondrites - primitive meteorites - and these grain-like building blocks are known as ...

Meteor strikes for life, worms with flash bombs, newt ribs

Examiner.com
Early in the history of the Solar System, there was a 20-million-year-long shower of asteroids and comets onto the inner planets. ...

Boy goes looking for eggs, finds meteor

Metro
Josh was egg-collecting in his pyjamas last Friday - the day after a Perseid meteor shower - when he found the rock by his house near Barnstaple, Devon. ...


Boy finds meteorite while egg-collecting
redOrbit Fri, 21 Aug 2009 05:42 AM PDT
A 6-year-old boy in Barnstable, England, says he found a small meteorite while collecting eggs from his family's hens.The Daily Mail said Thursday that Josh Chapple noticed a shiny black item in his family's garden last week and with help from his mother Sarah and the Internet, he soon determined the item was a rare meteorite.I saw it on the ground near our back door -- there were burn marks all ...


Six-year-old boy finds meteorite in his garden

Telegraph.co.uk
A six-year-old boy got an extraterrestrial surprise when he went to collect eggs from his flock of hens and found a meteorite in his garden. ...

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