07 July 2011

Meteor/Meteorite News 7JUL2011

Rare meteor specimens on display at the ROM
Toronto Star
Katherine Dunnell, a technician in the Earth Sciences department at the ROM, inspects a slice ofmeteorite that likely came from the asteroid Vesta. It has taken four years for a NASA probe to reach one of our solar system's largest asteroids, ...



Royal Ontario Museum Displays World's Most Comprehensive Collection of Vesta ...
Art Daily
In celebration of the arrival of NASA's Dawn mission to the asteroid Vesta, the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) presents the world's most comprehensive collection of meteorites thought to be from that asteroid. On temporary exhibition in the Vale Gallery of ...



Miniballs, Meteorites and More...
Monroe News Star
He's done a little bit of everything --- from dirt-track racing to designing motion decoys to discovering a 70-pound meteorite --- and has taken it all in stride. He's the kind of fellow who can walk into a Sunday morning Bible class with a football ...