06 November 2009

Meteor/Meteorite News- 6NOV09

Meteor explodes over Indonesia

Examiner.com
Estimates of the meteor's size range from 5 to 10 meters. Had it survived to hit the ground, it could have done considerable damage to the area around its ...

Leonid meteor shower coming in mid-November

Examiner.com
The Leonid meteor shower is expected to peak just before dawn on November 18, 2009. Starting in the evening on November 17 and continuing to approximately ...

Begin watching for Taurid fireballs tonight

ScienceDude (blog)
Map courtesy of Spaceweather.com Most people have heard of the annual Perseid meteor shower, which reaches its peak during a night-long period every August. ...

Media: Hit or Miss - Latvian mobile phone firm's staged meteorite crash blows ...

PRWeek UK
Fake crater - A mobile phone company in Latvia was slammed for staging a 'meteorite crash'. Tele2 said the stunt was designed to give people something ...
Ice chunks from sky batter a North Side house

Chicago Tribune
"Was it a meteorite?" asked Michele Halleran of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University as she looked at a picture, the question reflecting the complications ...
Unusual meteorite found by time-lapse camera observatory

Natural History Museum
An unusual meteorite with an interesting orbit has been tracked to the ground using a photographic observatory that records time-lapse images of fireballs ...

Unusual meteorite found by time-lapse camera observatory
PhysOrg Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:52 PM PST
(PhysOrg.com) -- An unusual meteorite with an interesting orbit has been tracked to the ground using a photographic observatory that records time-lapse images of fireballs traveling across the sky.

Leonids meteor shower set to spark November skies

TheJambar.com (subscription)
The Leonids meteor shower is expected to produce upwards of 500 meteors per hour on Nov. 17. While Youngstown is not the best area to see the better part of ...

Spectacular meteor shower forecast on Nov. 17

Inquirer.net
17 and you may view a spectacular meteor shower, possibly even a meteor storm, meteorologists said. Radiating from the constellation Leo, the Leonids meteor ...


Leonid meteor shower is coming

Global Times
Leonid, which means meteor shower of Leo, will reach its climax in the predawn hours of November 18. The period of 4 pm November 17 to 8 am November 18, ...

November nights bring easy viewing, meteor shower

Seattle Times
Western Washington residents should look for a nice view of Jupiter and its moons in November, and the spectacular Leonids meteor shower midmonth. ...
Spacecraft's data upset theories about origins, evolution of Mercury

Baltimore Sun
Its interior is surprisingly smooth and free of subsequent meteor impact craters, suggesting there were lava flows into the center as recently as a billion ...
Observing the Taurid meteor shower

Examiner.com
The peak of this year's Taurid meteor shower begins tonight and lasts throughout the coming week. There are actually two related groups of meteors falling ...

John Deere Planetarium Presents Holiday Show

Quad-Cities Online
... browse the Getz-Rogers Gallery, which includes full-color images from the Hubble Space Telescope and a quarter-ton piece of the Canyon Diablo meteorite. ...

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