The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 23APR2011

Meteor Shower Tonight: 2011 Lyrids To Peak April 22, 23 (PHOTOS)
Huffington Post
According to EarthSky, April's annual meteor shower brings bright streaks trailing across the sky at around 10-20 meteors per minute when at its peak. They also report that the Lyrids are particularly known for rare outbursts that spontaneously surge ...


Identified flying objects
Wethersfield Post
By Ron Robillard Paul J. and Minnie Cassarino were sleeping in their house on Middletown Avenue early on the morning of April 8 when an uninvited guest from outer space crashed through their roof - a meteorite about three inches across. ...


Meteor shower approaching peak
UPI.com
LONDON, April 22 (UPI) -- Skywatchers hoping for an impressive astronomical display say the Lyridmeteor shower should reach its peak over the next two days, experts in Britain said. Astronomers said the Lyrid shower can be fickle but under ideal ...


Night Sky News: April Auroras and Meteor Showers
NatGeo News Watch (blog)
Adding to the weekend show will be a minor but pretty annual meteor shower called the Lyrids. You can consider it the poorer cousin of the more famous August Perseids, because the hourly fall rates are much more modest. But the “April shower” is known...


BBC News Skywatchers set for meteor show
Skywatchers are hoping for an impressive sky show over the next two days, when the Lyrid meteorshower reaches its peak.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13161054


NASA - NASA WORKSHOP: METEOR VIDEO OBSERVATIONS AND ANALYSIS
The advent of low cost, low light level video cameras has resulted in the rapid spread of meteor video systems, from narrow field to all-sky. ...
www.nasa.gov/offices/.../spotlight_MeteorVideoWorkshop.ht...


Lackluster Lyrid Meteor Shower Peaks Tonight Yahoo News
An annual April meteor shower will peak tonight (April 22), but skywatchers shouldn't expect a spectacular show, experts say.
news.yahoo.com/s/.../lacklusterlyridmeteorshowerpeakstonight


Meteor Season is Starting - St. Louis astronomy | Examiner.com
The Lyrids, one of the most ancient of the known meteor showers, are about to start off the season for meteor observing. The Lyrids will peak on the night ...
www.examiner.com/astronomy-in.../meteor-season-is-starting-...


Lyrid meteors give Earth an April shower | Astro Bob
By astrobob
The Lyrid meteor shower will appear to radiate from near the bright star Vega in the constellation Lyra the Harp. This map shows the sky facing east around midnight tonight and Friday night. Created with Stellarium ...
Astro Bob - http://astrobob.areavoices.com/

The Fickle Lyrid Meteors Sky & Telescope The mornings around April 22nd and 23rd bring the annual, and highly variable, Lyridmeteor shower. Outbursts of Lyrids have been seen since at least 687 BC (when Chinese records say "stars dropped down like rain"), but in most years meteorwatchers ... 隕石黑市買賣生意興隆 紐時周報精選 語言學習 udn校園博覽會 近年發現了更多隕石人們對它的興趣隨之大為提高非法買賣也激增這種現象使有意研究隕石的人以及與將它視為國家財產的各國政府深感驚愕 ... mag.udn.com/mag/campus/storypage.jsp?f...ID... Now's The Time To See The Space Station, And Here's How To Do ItNPR (blog) "You wouldn't mistake it for a meteor, because a meteor is just a momentary flash; you wouldn't mistake it for a plane, because they have blinking lights. Right now, it's a slam dunk to spot the Space Station." OK, so how can you spot it? ... Authorities find remains of meteor that falls in El-Khewi Locality in North ... Sudan News Agency Al-Obeid, April 20 (SUNA) - A joint team of the Ministry of Minerals and security organs in North Kordofan State Tuesday found the remains of the meteor that fell in the night of April 4 in the locality of El-KhewiIn a statement to SUNA, ... April 20, 1958: 'Ball of Fire'Patch.com An astronomer at Agnes Scott College called the ball a “giant meteor.” According to reports, themeteor was a bright red sphere that left a short tail of red and white flames. Most of the congregation at the First Baptist Church of Winder saw the ... SLU Identifies Rock Found by Griesheimer as Meteorite The Missourian Thu, 21 Apr 2011 07:52 AM PDT Professors at St. Louis University recently informed Franklin County Presiding Commissioner John Griesheimer that this rock he found in his yard more than a year ago is a meteorite. Professors believe the rock came from an asteroid. ...