23DEC09 Meteor/Meteorite News

Scientists search for a giant meteorite in China
Brahmand Defence and Aerospace News
"If this meteorite can be recovered, it can become one of the biggest discoveries in Beijing," said Li Xin, a researcher with the Beijing Planetarium, ...



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Looking Up: Bright moon lights the end of 2009
Easton Journal
A few nights afterward is the peak of one of the best meteor showers. January 2010 arrives with a brief but intense meteor shower visible the night of Jan. ...


Meteor hunt in Beijing continues
People's Daily Tue, 22 Dec 2009 00:24 AM PST
The search continues for a full moon-bright meteoroid likely to have landed in west suburban Beijing on Wednesday in what astronomers said could lead to one of the biggest discoveries in Beijing this year. Witnesses in Beijing and nearby Tianjin recorded a clearly visible fireball-like meteorite descending near the west horizon of Beijing at 10:23 pm on Dec 16. The surveillance camera from the ...

Sute de chinezi cauta bucati de meteorit in jurul capitalei ...
Ziua
Insa, imediat ce Observatorul din Beijing a publicat un video de doua secunde a 'extraterestrului' si a confirmat ca este vorba de un meteorit, ..

OpenGeoData » Meteor Mapping By Steve C Metero Crater is the well-named meteor crater in Arizona created by a “nickel-iron meteorite about 50 meters (54 yards) across, which impacted the plain at a speed of several kilometers per second. The speed of the impact has been a ...

Meteor Sighting 12/22 5:15 UTC - Bad Astronomy and Universe Today ... By Anthrage  Sighted from 73° 35' W, 45° 30' N (Montreal, Canada) - bright blue-white, heading SW...not sure on origin (that part of sky somewhat clouded), no. ...

Dec 18/19/20/21/22 Meteors « The Transient Sky – Comets, Asteroids ... By Carl Hergenrother  The “big” meteor story for this week is the peak of the Ursids. Scheduled for last night the Ursids are not considered a major shower but can often produce rates as high as 10-15 per hour. On occasion they can do much better. ...