11 August 2011

Meteor/Meteorite News 11AUG2011

CNNcojp生命の源は宇宙に 隕石からDNAの成分発見 NASA
CNN 米航空宇宙局NASAは生命の設計図といわれるDNAの基となる物質が隕石から見つかったと発表した宇宙からの隕石や彗星が地球上の生命の形成を促す役割を ...
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DNA in Space? Biological Building Blocks Found in Meteorites
TIME
11, 2011 Scientists have been finding evidence of life inside meteorites for well over 100 years — that, or the building blocks of life. The claims of life have been debunked every time, most recently just this past March. It always turns out to be a ...




Perseid Meteor Shower to Compete With Full Moon on Friday
Fox News
This week marks the annual return of the Perseid meteor shower, the most reliablemeteor shower of the year, though the full moon may interfere with this year's display. The Perseid meteor shower peaks this week in the overnight hours of Friday and ...


Weekend Meteor Shower: How Space Junk Becomes Natural Fireworks
Patch.com
Early Saturday morning marks the peak of the annual Perseid meteor shower. Few things give even a casual star gazer as much heart-jumping excitement as spotting a meteor. Meteors, sometimes called shootingor falling stars, are actually not stars at all ...




Riddle of the late night rumblings that caused a sonic boom in Norfolk
Norwich Evening News
Meteorites are fragments of rock and metal which have fallen from space. Asteroids are different shaped rocks which orbit the sun. When two asteroids collide a meteoriteis formed and breaks away from the original rock. Once separated, the meteorite is ...



P'Well's 1813 meteorite goes for auction
Limerick Post
A call was put out at the time by Astronomy Ireland for people to search lands for the object, believed to have been a meteor - which depending on size, can make you a millionaire. Mr Elliott encouraged others with a taste for science or maybe those ...


Field Training and Research Program at Meteor Crater | NASA Lunar ...
The NASA Lunar Science Institute headquartered at NASA Ames Research Center.
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Planets, asteroids light August skies
Montreal Gazette
And August is proving to be a banner stargazing time filled with stellar views of asteroids, meteorshowers and planets galore. First up is the most famous astronomical event of the year - a favourite of summer vacationers - the Perseid meteor shower. ...



Did life on Earth begin with alien material?
ABC Online (blog)
meteorite that fell to Earth forty odd years ago has led to a major discovery about humans and the origin of our DNA. Stuart Gary from ABC's Star Stuff explains.. You can follow this conversation by subscribing to the comment feed for this post. ...



Spaceships, Meteors, and Moonlight
Space Daily
A nugget of space debris disintegrates in a sparkling fireball. A huge spaceship glides silently overhead. By itself, any one of these events might be enough to get you out of bed. This weekend, all three are going to happen at the same time. ...



When the moon goes splat
Irish Times
SMALL PRINT: IF YOU ARE A space fan, the last week or so has offered plenty to keep your brain cells tingling, including meteor showers and possible liquid on Mars. But did you hear the one about the moon going splat? Earth may have once had two moons ...




The DNA from outer space
The Week via Yahoo! News Wed, 10 Aug 2011 04:13 AM PDT
Did life on Earth begin with a meteorite carrying the building blocks of DNA? NASA scientists think it's possible

Aussie meteorite shows we may be aliens
News.com.au Tue, 09 Aug 2011 23:45 PM PDT
By Claire Connelly WRITERS and filmmakers have wondered about aliens "out there" for years. But truth may be close to home...


Meteorites contain chemicals linked to life
Science News
By Alexandra Witze HINTS OF LIFEChemists have found that this meteorite, found in Antarctica and dubbed Lonewolf Nunataks 94102, contains nucleobases, the building blocks of DNA. The nucleobases probably originated in space, the scientists say. ...



Geauga Park District holding annual Perseid meteor shower camp-out ...
The annual Perseid meteor shower is coming and the Geauga and Lake County ... “ We've donemeteor shower events several times before, but last year we did ...
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'Meteorites helped create life on Earth'
Times of India
PTI | Aug 10, 2011, 05.55AM IST WASHINGTON: Scientists have found components of DNA, the building blocks of life on Earth, in meteorites, a discovery they say confirms the theory that at least some of the materials needed to make early life forms came ...



Look to the Sky
Cecil Whig
AP A Perseid meteor streaks towards clouds on the horizon in this 30-second time exposure photograph taken in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. in 2002. The annual Perseid meteor shower will light up the skies over Cecil County this week, but stargazers will ...



Photography competition reveals amazing space pics
CBBC Newsround
It's part of the Perseid meteor shower, which happens once a year, and was snapped above Glastonbury Tor. This is the Orion Nebula, which is formed when a star explodes. The pink clouds...