5FEB2010

Video images of meteor being sought

Irish Times
VIDEO IMAGES of a meteor which may have fallen to earth somewhere over the north of the State are being sought by Astronomy Ireland. ...

SiliconRepubliccom Astronomers using web find valuable meteor R&D

The search is on in Ireland for a meteor that crashed from the heavens last night and that could be worth a small fortune. An astronomy group is hoping to ...

Obama Budget Scraps NASA Moon Plan for '21st Century Space Program'

U.S. President Barack Obama's proposed 2011 NASA budget scraps the agency's moon mission effort to make way for a 21st century space program. ...

Virginia Meteorite Sparks Ownership Debate
CBS News Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:00 PM PST
After Space Rock Hits Medical Office, Doctors Send it to Smithsonian; But Landlords Might Stake Claim

Did an asteroid strike in Australia plunge Anglo-Saxon England into a mini ice-age? Daily Mail: World News Thu, 04 Feb 2010 09:05 AM PST A giant meteorite that broke in two as it crashed off Australia, could have been responsible for a mini-ice age that engulfed Britain in 535AD.

'Fireball' lights up Irish sky BBC News Thu, 04 Feb 2010 01:12 AM PST A fireball, thought to be a meteorite, was spotted in the night sky by people from all over the island of Ireland on Wednesday.

Meteorite stirs ownership debate CNews Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:15 PM PST WASHINGTON - An out-of-this world rock has become the centre of a down-to-earth dispute over who its rightful owner should be.

Owner of space rock is up in the air The Nashua Telegraph Wed, 03 Feb 2010 19:44 PM PST In this Jan. 21, 2010 photo released by the Smithsonian Institutionâs National Museum of Natural History, a meteorite the a size of a tennis ball is seen in a lab, in Washington.

Space rock worth thousands stirs ownership debate Manila Bulletin Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:58 PM PST The meteorite that plummeted through the roof of a Virginia doctor's office is drawing meteor hunters from across the country to Washington's Virginia suburbs. (AP Photo/Smithsonian Institutionâs National Museum of Natural History, Chip Clark) WASHINGTON (AP) â An out-of-this world rock has become the center of a down-to-earth dispute over who its rightful owner should be. The tennis ball-sized ...

Valuable space rock stirs ownership debate
The Daily Record Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:27 PM PST
An out-of-this world rock has become the center of a down-to-earth dispute over who its rightful owner should be. The tennis ball-sized meteorite plummeted through the roof of a Virginia medical office just after dusk on Jan. 18, the same time as people reported seeing a fireball in the sky. It plunged through the ceiling [...]