25 August 2010

Meteor/Meteorite News 25AUG2010

Beer microbes live 553 days outside ISS

... Bacteria taken from cliffs at Beer on the South Coast have shown themselves to be hardy space travellers. The bugs were put on the exterior of the space station to see how they would cope in the hostile conditions that exist above the Earth's atmosphere. ... [more and Video]

International Symposium on Asteroid Mitigation-- September 20, 2010
Texas A&M University-College Station, Texas
The International Symposium on Asteroid Mitigation, to be held September 20th, 2010 in College Station, Texas, will bring together an international community of researchers and practitioners to discuss new research results, mitigation strategies, international collaboration,
and public awareness. In additional to presentations from attendees, around table will be held to discuss future international cooperation ...

Toms River NJ man wants to know what almost hit him -- a meteor?

Dailyrecord.com - ‎20 時間前‎
The rock sat in the D'Addarios' garage until the family's curiosity was piqued by television shows such as the Science Channel's "Meteorite Men." "I don't ...

My Jakarta: Noval, Kris Maker

Jakarta Globe
Nickel, titanium and sometimes from meteorites. A meteorite is very difficult to get hold of and raw titanium is very expensive. Sometimes, I use ornamental ...

Solar System up to two million years older than previously thought

Arizona State University
Bouvier and fellow ASU researcher Meenakshi Wadhwa analyzed meteorite Northwest Africa (NWA) 2364 and found that the age of the Solar System predates ...


Oldest Material in Solar System Found

National Geographic
Pea-size minerals inside a meteorite are the oldest known material in the solar system, a new study says. At 4568.2 million years old, the minerals push ...

Meteorite nugget pushes back age of the solar system by nearly 2 million years

Scientific American (blog)
By John Matson A new analysis of a meteorite shows that an inclusion within the carbonaceous stone is older than any known material in the solar system. ...

Solar System is older than previously thought
New Kerala Mon, 23 Aug 2010 03:56 AM PDT
Analyses of the meteorite indicate that the Solar system is at least 0.3-1.9 million years older than some previous studies projected - making it 4.568 billion years old.


Solar system is older than previously thought

The Hindu
Analyses of the meteorite discovered in the Saharan desert indicate that the solar system is 4.568 billion years old. A meteor discovered in the Saharan ...

Flash of light caught by amateur astronomer in Jupiter most likely meteorite

National Turk English
Past flashes of light which were seen on the surface of Jupiter had left craters indicating that the suspected meteorite which caused the flash were large ...

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