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Meteorite may have landed along Kootenay Lake Nelson Star Wed, 18 May 2011 08:42 AM PDT A meteorite that flew over the Kootenays on Saturday morning was seen in Nelson and caught on video by a camera on the roof of the College of the Rockies in Cranbrook. Huge meteorite crosses Cranbrook sky Cranbrook Daily Townsman A meteor that looked as big as the moon swooped over Cranbrook early on Saturday morning. This photo shows the view through the College of the Rockies meteor camera. The image is taken through a fish-eye lens with the horizon shown as a rim around the ... Meteorites fell between Creston and Yahk Cranbrook Daily Townsman Meteor hunters, take note: we have learnt more about the possible location of meteor fragments. A massive meteor flew over Cranbrook early on Saturday morning, briefly turning night to day and making houses shudder in Cranbrook. ... COTR camera catches meteor passing over Cranbrook Kimberley Daily Bulletin The fireball forms a tail as it passes over Cranbrook. The dark night sky of Cranbrook was lit up like daylight early Saturday morning, May 14, at 2:17 am when a huge meteor rocketed overhead. Appearing as a dim dot at first, likely 100 km high to the ... Meteor that lit up Kootenay sky may have landed east of Nelson The Nelson Daily by Contributor on 17 May 2011 A meteor that has caused a stir in the Kootenay region and into the US could have landed in the area of Kootenay Lake, east of Nelson. The Cranbrook Daily Townsman reported the meteor was caught Saturday morning caught by ... Forget meteorite hunting, head to the Ice rally Cranbrook Daily Townsman Even so, those of us who witnessed the great meteor streaking across the sky Friday night could be forgiven for crying out "What does it mean?" Meteors, of course, are not comets - those famous harbingers of impending happenings of great import. ... ------------------------------------ Mysterious hole appears in ground in Bernards The Star-Ledger - NJ.com "When you see meteor showers in the upper atmosphere, they're traveling 50 miles a second," he said. "Even if it's slowing down through the atmosphere, you're still going to have a sonic boom. And it would have left something behind, it wouldn't have ... NJ town puzzled over mystery hole in ground Albany Times Union For now, it appears the small crater that splayed debris across a 100-foot area wasn't caused by a meteorite. Beyond that, it's a mystery. "It's just really, really weird," said Jerry Vinski, director of nearby Raritan Valley Community College's ... Hole in ground leads to speculation in northern NJ town The Republic There's speculation it was caused by a meteorite. Bernards Township Police Capt. Edward Byrnes says whatever hit the front yard in the Basking Ridge section left a small crater about 18 inches deep and roughly the size of a coffee table. ... Was it a meteorite that hit Basking Ridge property? The Bernardsville News Thu, 12 May 2011 17:06 PM PDT BERNARDS TWP.  Was property damage at a Basking Ridge home last Friday, May 6, actually caused by a meteorite? UFO Or Meteor Crash New Jersey 2011 2 min Are they here? It's a question asked in jest now that some people are wondering whether a strange visitor from another planet ... youtube.com ----------------------------------------------------- Close encounter: NASA say earth shattering boom prompting hundreds of 911 calls was just a meteorite Daily Mail Fri, 13 May 2011 17:50 PM PDT According to NASA scientists, the earth shattering explosion was nothing more than a meteorite exploding as it entered the earth's atmosphere. Meteor over Virginia?, page 1 Today, a NASA scientist explained that it might have been a meteor. The area is home to several military bases, so residents are accustomed to loud sounds. ... www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread703576/pg1 Mysterious explosion heard in Virginia probably caused by meteor, says NASA allvoices However, a scientist from NASA elucidated that it might have been a meteor. It is noteworthy that the region provides home to military bases and people living in the surrounding are familiar to loud noises. However, the explosion heard on Tuesday was ... Bizarre News -- Police Car Ad Space ABC12.com And a NASA scientist says it could have been a meteor. People in the Virginia Beach and Norfolk, Virginia, areas report hearing a loud boom the other night. Pam Trotter of Virginia Beach tells WAVY-TV it almost felt like an earthquake. ... Mystery Boom in Virginia Likely a Meteor Yahoo News Tuesday evening, residents across Virginia Beach, Norfolk and Suffolk, Va., dialed 911 to report what sounded what a large explosion. news.yahoo.com/s/.../sc.../mysteryboominvirginialikelyameteo... NASA scientist: Va. mystery boom may be meteor NASA scientist Joe Zawodny tells WAVY-TV that the boom is most consistent with a meteorentering the Earth's atmosphere. He says the boom could be associated with a meteor shower that peaked last week. Zawodny says an object as small as ... Strange | WISH TV - http://www.wishtv.com/subindex/news/strange -------------------------------- Space "Egg," Meteorite Yield All-New Minerals National Geographic The new mineral krotite was found in a tiny part of a meteorite resembling a cracked egg (pictured). Two new minerals that formed during the birth of our solar system have been found inside meteorites, new research shows. The new discoveries—krotite ... The Spacerock Saga PhysicsCentral.com (blog) [The Meteor Crater, as seen from about 35000 feet.] You are a meteor, made of nickel and iron. Once you were a part of the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, but a collision half a billion years ago set you free, ejecting you into the solar system... Somewhere in the Bald Hills is a meteor waiting to be found Record-Searchlight (blog) In 1876 a giant meteor fell in the Bald Hills at the head of Roaring River in Duncan Basin. It fell with a thud so loud it was heard all the way to Shasta, Bass, Stillwater, and Woodman's. Not only did people hear it, many people also claimed to have ... .. Welsh beach could reveal why dinosaur mass extinction happened 200m years ago Daily Mail Scientists believe it is most likely that a meteor strike hit the earth killing off many dinosaurs before volcanic ash finished them off. Professor Paul Olsen, a paleontologist from Columbia University, New York, told The Times: 'We've come here ... Stunning Video: Comet Collides With the Sun Fox News The video, captured by NASA's Solar & Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), appears to show a fireball jet out following the collision. That's not quite what happened, NASA explained. Instead, a coronal mass ejection coincidentally blasted out to the right ... Rich Russians Buy Bunkers on Apocalypse Angst Bloomberg The Vivos Group, a California-based bunker builder with a website that features a meteor striking Earth, said requests for a shelter in one of its facilities jumped by 10 times since the disaster, which left about 25000 people dead or missing. ... Gardener nearly hit by meteor from Halley's Comet tail Daily Mirror Fri, 13 May 2011 16:23 PM PDT A GARDENER was almost hit by a meteorite that is thought to have come from Halleyâs Cometâs tail.