Meteor/Meteorite News 5MAY2010

Bright light puzzles residents

KRQE
A lot of people also thought they saw a meteor just after 5 o'clock Monday morning, and they were right. Video from Sandia National Laboratories and a ...

Arizonans Find Largest Meteorite Fragment From Spectacular Midwestern Fall

UA News (press release)
UA meteorite curator Marvin Killgore has a 300-gram piece of the object that exploded over Wisconsin in April. By Jeff Harrison, University Communications ...

Ancient impact may have blasted Antarctica

USA Today
Antarctica may have suffered a massive asteroid blast some 480000 years ago, researchers suggest, based on analysis of microscopic meteorite fragments. ...

Search for Martian life heats back up
Charleston Daily Mail Tue, 04 May 2010 16:08 PM PDT
LEAGUE CITY, Texas - NASAs Mars Meteorite Research Team reopened a 14-year-old controversy on extraterrestrial life last week, reaffirming and offering support for its widely challenged assertion that a 4-billion-year-old meteorite that landed thousands of...

April meteor sparks interest in one that hit Kilbourn barn
Wisconsin Dells Events Tue, 04 May 2010 14:28 PM PDT
This is my grandfatherâs picture of the Kilbourn Meteorite, which stimulated my search for information on it. The meteorite weighed 775 grams, which is about 1.71 pounds. ...

April meteor sparks interest in one that hit Kilbourn barn

Sauk Prairie Eagle
This is my grandfather's picture of the Kilbourn Meteorite, which stimulated my search for information on it. The meteorite weighed 775 grams, ...

Pictures of the Day

Wall Street Journal (blog)
(Petros Giannakouris/Associated Press) METEOR DAMAGE: A worker cleaned up debris Tuesday after a meteor hit a home in Jakarta, Indonesia, Monday, ...

Unusual feature lies under Ames

NewsOK.com
Something from space, in this case, said Richard Donofrio, a meteor 1000 feet across, slammed into this spot at 70000 mph, scarring the Earth's crust. ...

NASA team cites new evidence that meteorites from Mars contain ancient fossils

Washington Post
NASA's Mars Meteorite Research Team reopened a 14-year-old controversy on extraterrestrial life last week, reaffirming and offering support for its widely ...

STAR TRAK

Indiana University
This month, Earth will encounter a stream of dust left behind in space by Comet Halley, causing the Eta Aquarid meteor shower that will peak before dawn on ...

Meteorite hunters find fragments

Dubuque Telegraph Herald
Livingston Village President Tom Brown found a small piece of a meteorite earlier this week, according to a local businessman. "I offered him a buck for it ...

UW scientists excited by meteorite in backyard
The Sauk Prairie Eagle Fri, 30 Apr 2010 06:15 AM PDT
The meteor that lit up the sky in southwestern Wisconsin on April 14 has spawned its share of wacko science stories: everything from aliens to zombies. ...