Meteor/Meteorite News 13JUL2011

Triceratops Was Last Dinosaur Standing
Discovery News
The 65 million-year-old find suggests a meteor may have wiped out the dinosaurs in a sudden catastrophic event. By Jennifer Viegas The world's last known surviving non-avian dinosaur was a Triceratops from Montana's Hell Creek Formation. ...

Tough turtles survive cretaceous meteorite impact PhysOrg Tue, 12 Jul 2011 13:07 PM PDT (PhysOrg.com) -- New fossil localities from North Dakota and Montana have produced the remains of a turtle that survived the 65 million-year-oldmeteorite impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. The resulting study, published in the latest issue of the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, suggests that Boremys, a turtle that belongs to a group known as the baenids (bay-een-ids) survived the ...

February meteor outburst: new shower #427

We detected a new shower in our CAMS video data of 
February 4, caused by Earth crossing the dust trail
of a long-period comet. It was added to the IAU Working List
as shower #427, the February eta Draconids. 
According to Esko Lyytinen's calculations, the shower 
may return in 2016 or 2023. More information is posted here: 
http://cams.seti.org
-Peter Jenniskens

Cosmic Collisions: Meteorite…Extraterrestrial rocks hold valuable clues to the history of the solar system.bing.com

2011 The Year of Meteors!