Meteor/Meteorite News- 3OCT09

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NASA Opportunity Finds Another Meteorite NASA nasa's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has found a rock that apparently is another meteorite, less than three weeks after driving away from a larger ... Eye on October skies Broomfield Enterprise On the morning of Oct. 21, the Orionid Meteor Shower will peak. With no moon to interfere with viewing these meteors, one can expect to see 30 meteors per ... Space Rocks Emporia Gazette When a meteorite crashes to the earth it will generally break up in the atmosphere, spreading its pieces over a certain area in what is known as a strewn ... STAR TRAK Indiana University The Orionid meteor shower will peak before the first light of dawn on Oct. 21. Moonlight will not interfere, so observers with a dark sky may see up to 30 ... Dinosaur-Killer was Soft on Algae Astrobiology Magazine As for the cause, geologic evidence incriminates a meteorite that landed off of the Yucatan peninsula – although some debate continues over just how lethal ...