Irish Independent
By Anita Guidera CO Donegal has emerged as the most likely landing area for the meteorite that crashed to earth last Wednesday evening. ...
Space Weather News for Feb. 8, 2010
http://spaceweather.com
BIG SUNSPOT: The sudden emergence of big sunspot 1045 over the weekend has caused a sharp uptick in solar activity. The active region has produced three M-class and almost a dozen C-class solar flares since it appeared on Saturday. The strongest blast, an M6-class eruption on Feb. 7th, may have hurled a coronal mass ejection toward Earth. High-latitude sky watchers should be alert for auroras in the nights ahead as a result of this activity. Also, ham radio operators are picking up strong solar radio bursts using shortwave receivers. Sample sounds and images may be found at http://spaceweather.com
University houses one of world's largest meteorite collections
Web Devil
ASU's Center for Meteorite Studies, home of the largest university collection of meteorite samples in the world, is making cutting-edge research in ...
Doctors and lawyers fight over ownership of meteorite from asteroid belt
Times Online
Late last month Marc Gallini got out of his chair in his medical examination room when a chunk of meteorite smashed through the roof and hit the spot where ...
Doctors and lawyers fight over ownership of meteorite from asteroid belt
MalaysiaNews.net Sun, 07 Feb 2010 15:25 PM PST
END: Module - M24 Article Headline with landscape image (d) --> BEGIN: Module - Main Article --> Late last month Marc Gallini got out of his chair in his medical examination room when ...
| Space rock worth thousands raises debate of ownership The Durango Herald Sat, 06 Feb 2010 23:38 PM PST WASHINGTON - An out-of-this world rock has become the center of a down-to-earth dispute about who its rightful owner should be. The tennis ball-sized meteorite plummeted through the roof of a Virginia medical office just after dusk Jan. 18, the same time people reported seeing a fireball in the sky... |
Geologists stumble upon meteorite-hit site in Rajasthan
Press Trust of India Sat, 06 Feb 2010 19:22 PM PST
New Delhi, Feb 7 (PTI) Geologists appear to have stumbled upon a meteorite-hit site in western Rajasthan after they discovered quartz-like mineral that is similar to the one found near the famous Lonar crater lake in Maharashtra. ...
| Space rock worth thousands raises debate of ownership The Durango Herald by Brett Zongker AP Writer A meteorite the size of a tennis ball is shown in Washington. The meteorite that plummeted through the roof of a Virginia ... |
| Could it happen again? Odds are against it Pueblo Chieftain In 1954, an Alabama woman was sleeping on her living-room couch when an 8.5-pound meteorite crashed through the roof and smacked her in the hip, ... |
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