16 October 2010

Meteor/Meteorite News 16OCT2010

Moonlight Meteor Shower Spawned By Halley's Comet
Space.com
By Joe Rao A junior version of the famous Perseid meteor shower thought to have originated from the remains of Halley's Comet will hit its peak over the ...

US: Meteor Over East County Monday Night? -- Signs of the Times News
Jamul - An East County Magazine reader asks, "I want to know who else saw the blue and whitish-orange meteor I saw from my house in Deerhorn Valley in Jamul ...

Training New Explorers for the Surfaces of the Moon, Mars, and Beyond

Space Ref (press release)
Tomorrow, a NASA-sponsored Field Training and Research Program begins at Meteor Crater, Arizona. The field training will be led by Dr. David Kring, ...








Is Earth prepared for a close encounter?

89.3 KPCC
A meteor from the Geminids meteor shower enters the Earth's atmosphere past the stars Castor and Pollux above Southold, New York. Did you know that there is ...

Take a look at Jupiter this month
Cincinnati.com
Last year an amateur astronomer first observed a dark scar on Jupiter where a meteor exploded inside the atmosphere. This year the same man was at his ...

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