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“We can learn a lot from someone taking a cellphone video of a meteor as it burns up in the atmosphere,” said Bill Cooke of NASA's Meteoroid Environment ...
Scientists peer inside Hayabusa asteroid capsule
BY STEPHEN CLARK -SPACEFLIGHT NOW June 25, 2010
Scientists inside a spotless clean room near Tokyo are carefully opening
the drum-shaped capsule from the Hayabusa mission, beginning months of
tedious evaluations to determine whether the $200 million mission
returned dust grains from an asteroid. ...
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n1006/25hayabusa/
Largest Meteorite in Nevada Found
Las Vegas Review-Journal ©
Count Guido Deiro found the largest meteorite in Nevada this year. ... [video]
http://www.lvrj.com/multimedia/Largest-Meteorite-in-Nevada-Found-96821184.html
Major meteor find- Stone considered largest ever found in Silver State By MAGGIE LILLIS - VIEW STAFF WRITER
Count Guido Roberto Deiro figures he probably tripped over several meteorites in his day and never even knew it. But when the 72-year-old Las Vegan really started looking, he hit the ... [story]
http://www.viewnews.com/2010/VIEW-Jun-22-Tue-2010/CentennialHills/36498045.html
Plenty of Planets to see in the sky
WHYY
102 years ago today, over a remote region of Russia there was an air burst, caused by a meteor or a comet, just 3-5 miles above the earth. ...
It`s all in how you see things
Estes Park Trail-Gazette
His photographic enjoyment seeps over into landscapes, panoramas and astrophotography, especially meteor showers. He has a Flickr account, which is like ...
Swing by Asteroid Lutetia With JPL
Jet Propulsion Laboratory June 25, 2010
The Rosetta Orbiter, a European Space Agency spacecraft heading for a
2014 encounter with a comet, will be flying close to asteroid Lutetia on
Saturday, July 10. Classes and clubs are invited to NASA's Jet
Propulsion Laboratory from 2 to 4 p.m. that day to see first-ever,
close-up images of Lutetia, talk to a NASA/JPL Rosetta project manager
and participate in educational activities. ...
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/education/index.cfm?page=168
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