The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News

Meteor shower expected this year
Hindustan Times
Come October 8 and sky gazers will be treated with the biggest meteor shower of a lifetime - the Draconid shower is expected to produce 1000 meteors per hour this year. Normally, the Draconids (so-named because its meteors appear to radiate from the ...


Man-Size Meteor From Comet Lights Up Georgia Sky
Space.com
A brilliant meteor blazed through the sky above Georgia recently, and two NASA fireball-monitoring cameras caught the dramatic display on video. The meteor was caused by a human-size chunk of an unknown comet. It was the brightest meteor yet recorded ...


Flying object spotted in Northeast El Paso were mylar balloons, officials say
El Paso Times
Then, close to 10 pm, we heard a loud sound and wondered if the object had crashed or if it was ameteor or some kind of UFO. Teresa Souza, spokeswoman for El Paso Electric Co., said the utility received several calls around 10:15 pm Tuesday about the ...


Meteor Activity Outlook for May 28-June 3, 2011 « The Transient ...
The following is a slightly edited version of Bob Lunsford's excellent weekly summary of meteoractivity. The original version can be found at the American ...
transientsky.wordpress.com/.../meteor-activity-outlook-for-ma...


YouTube Fireball Over Central Georgia2011.0521
Residents of Atlanta, Georgia, and surrounding areas were startled on Friday night, May 20th around 10:47 EDT, when an object brighter than a full Moon ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGUrik54EGA


Study looks to count meteorite craters
The Columbus Dispatch Sun, 29 May 2011 05:52 AM PDT
One of the most interesting parts of my job is identifying geological items brought in by the general public - rocks, minerals, fossils and bones.


Bright synchrotron X-rays image life's hidden building blocks
DigitalJournal.com
An international team of scientists say they may revolutionize the way scientists chemically analyze rare materials, as diverse as fossils and meteor samples, with the synchrotron X-ray technique they developed. A paper detailing their work appears in ...


Explosion and huge fire rock Hudson plant
Charlotte Observer
JEFF WILLHELM - jwillhelm@charlotteobserver.com Eyewitness Sherry Thompson made this picture at 4 pm Saturday of a fireball rising from the Chemical Coatings Co. plant in Hudson. The picture was taken from the hill behind her nearby home. ...


Huge Meteor Rockets Overhead and Hits | KREM.com Spokane
The Meteor Cam on the roof of the College of the Rockies tracked this huge fireball last Saturday at 2:17am. From 75 km high the fireball rocketed overhead ...
www.krem.com/your-news/122309944.html


Police resume probe into theft of meteorite pieces
Times of India
CHENNAI: The city police have decided to empty a century-old well behind the Chennai Museum in Egmore as part of their search for five meteorites stolen from there. Police suspect that themeteorite pieces were dumped in the well by the flustered ...


meteorobs : Message: (meteorobs) Fwd: Amateur (meteor) spectroscopy
meteorobs: Amateur meteor astronomy. ... There is very little popular literature published on meteor>>>> spectroscopy. I suggest you do a search with ...
groups.yahoo.com/group/meteorobs/message/39876


Area man finds possible meteorite
Newport Independent
McCartney Melville Taylor, a meteorite enthusiast, offered a reward of 5-thousand dollars to anyone that locates a chunk of the Newport meteorite in an article published in the Independent during November of 2009. Brand plans to contact Taylor to find ...


News in Brief: Life
Science News
By Science News Staff Tiny photosynthetic organisms may have survived decades of darkness following the meteor crash that killed the dinosaurs by resting, Dutch and Portuguese researchers report online May 17 in Nature Communications. ...


Meteorites land in science class
St. Thomas Times-Journal
By PATRICK BRENNAN TIMES-JOURNAL Would any one of us recognize a meteorite if we found it on the ground? Grade 6 science students at Mitch Hepburn Public School might have the edge in St. Thomas in that field, after taking a few lessons from the ...


Halley Comet Chunk Ignites Fireball | Space.com
A meter wide fragment of a comet that may come from a Halley Type comet – or Halley itself – slammed into Earth's atmosphere at 86000 mph, ...
www.space.com/11759-halley-comet-chunk-ignites-fireball.html


Fireball comet strikes Earth
Baltimore Sun (blog)
A NASA fireball camera in Georgia has captured a fragment of a comet as it entered Earth's atmosphere last Friday at 10:47 pm It has been identified as a member of the Halley's Comet family of objects. It was about six feet wide when it hit the ...


Montana, Washington, Idaho, Alberta, British Columbia Meteor ...
Spokane, Washington arrived from bing.com on "Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News: Australia Bright Green Fireball Meteor Event? Space Trash? ...
www.portaltotheuniverse.org/blogs/posts/view/114130/


Meteorite fell near Wynndel
Cranbrook Daily Townsman
Last weekend's meteor over Cranbrook would have fallen north of Wynndel, experts have calculated. A Finnish astronomer, Esko Lyytinen, analyzed footage from meteor cameras in Cranbrook, Saskatchewan, Penticton and Calgary to determine the possible ...


ニュース 科学＆宇宙 太陽系初期の新種鉱物隕石から発見 ナショナル ...
ニュース - 科学＆宇宙 - 太陽系初期の新種鉱物、隕石から発見 - ナショナルジオグラフィック 公式日本語サイト.
www.nationalgeographic.co.jp/news/news_article.php?file_id...


Touching the Cosmos
Deseret News (blog)
While many of the meteorites were not impressive looking, they were fascinating to those present at the Salt Lake Astronomical Society meeting, held May 17 in the University of Utah's Engineering/Mines Classroom Building. The pebbles from space were ...


World's oldest stone tools in our her itage
New Straits Times
After checking with a fellow professor, a meteor theory was reached. On checking the area, the theory was right. He tells us a meteor struck the area, which used to be part of Raban Lake, near Kuala Kangsar, about that time. “Lenggong Valley was all ...


Pierce Teacher Gives Students Fun Experience with Science
Patch.com
From having students design their own experiments to test meteor impact to teaching chemistry in rotating stations, Romeo consciously works to give his students an interactive experience. “He is the consummate professional and outstanding teacher,” ...


Big Virginia Boom Likely a Meteor | Meteors & Asteroids & Sonic ...
A loud sonic boom that rattled windows in Virginia Beach was most likely caused by a supersonicmeteor.
www.lifeslittlemysteries.com/virginia-beach-meteor-boom-1675/


New Jersey Mystery Crater Baffles Experts
Huffington Post
A meteor? Explosives? Experts can't say. The hole is 18 inches deep and the size of a coffee table, according to Bernards Township Police Capt. Edward Byrnes. "To me it looked like something blew out of the ground because the grass was folded back, ...


Three Alabama witnesses watch fireballs at tree line level
Examiner.com
An Alabama high school student driving home from a band concert reports being "extremely terrified" after watching one dozen "silent fireballs" low flying at the tree line and one that "actually touched the ground," according to May 18, 2011, ...


Scientists: Sonic boom created from meteor in Tidewater regions of ...
On Tuesday residents in Norfolk and Suffolk, Virginia dialed 911 to report a large explosion. Thursday a NASA Scientist released a statement explaining that ...
www.examiner.com/.../sonic-boom-created-from-meteor-tide...

Meteor Photographed Over Cranbrook and Mysterious ... 2 min Yet another "meteor" photographed by a meteorcam. This one over Cranbook in Canada. Another perfect orbital intersection ... youtube.com