Visordown.com
by Visordown News A MAN who found a meteorite in his back garden has swapped it for a Harley-Davidson. Jim Griffey, 63 from Cabot, Arkansas, was using a hole-boring tool in preparation to plant trees in his back garden when he hit a rock. ...
| Perseid meteor shower as seen from space: Nasa astronaut shares photo on Twitter Daily Mail He took this stunning photograph of a Perseid meteor bursting into the earth's atmosphere through a window of the International Space Station on Sunday during the annual Perseid meteor shower. The astronaut posted his snap to Twitter with the message: ... |
msnbc.com (blog)
It was harder than usual this weekend to take in the full effect of the annual Perseid meteor shower, due to the glare from a full moon, but NASA astronaut Ron Garan didn't have that problem when he went meteor-watching from the International Space ...
| Perseid Pictures: Meteor Shower Seen From Space, Earth National Geographic In an unusual picture taken Saturday from aboard the International Space Station, ameteor streaks toward Earth below. Astronaut Ronald Garan, Jr., was among the sky-watchers who snapped a "shooting star" during the peak of this year's Perseid meteor... |
As we picked it up, we saw a very large fireball looking like a large firework, aprox 1/3 the size of the (almost full-moon at that time). ...elpasoallsky.blogspot.com/.../large-green-florida-meteor-fireb...
Perseids: Looking Up, Looking Down
Sky & Telescope
A full Moon flooded the ground and sky with its light on August 13, 2011, wiping out the usually dependable Perseid meteor shower. A solitary streak appears over the observatory of S&T senior editor Dennis di Cicco. I stepped outside late on Friday ...
This Week in History
The New York Irish Emgirant
1783 A huge fireball meteor is seen across the United Kingdom as it passes over the east coast. 1909 Yukio Ozaki, mayor of Tokyo, presents Washington, DC with 2000 cherry trees. 1920 Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, ...
Meteorite for a motorcycle
Today's THV
They'll need further tests to clarify for certain -- but they believe it could be a meteorite."I have absolutely no doubt in my mind that it's a real meteorite," Griffey says.In most cases that would be the end of the story -- a nice conversation piece ...
Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News: Meteor/Meteorite News ...
Kuwait News AgencyAl-Jamaan attributed these meteor showers to the presence of grains of dust and rocks and small ice in the form of belt left by comet in ...
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Star gazers revel in rare meteor shower
Sky News Australia
Star gazers have been enjoying the end of the Perseids meteor shower. The shooting stars light up the skies in August every year. Some of the best images this time were captured in the northern hemisphere, including in California, across Europe, ...
What drives a meteorite hunter?
Scotsman
Witnesses are invaluable, especially if they are saying things like, 'Oh, I saw this massive fireballwhich went in such-and-such a place', and then someone else says the same thing. The chances are there will be more meteorites in the area. ...
やはり生命は宇宙から隕石からＤＮＡ成分発見 科学 YOMIURI ONLINE読売新聞
【ワシントン＝山田哲朗】米航空宇宙局（ＮＡＳＡ）などの研究チームが、生命の設計図であるＤＮＡ（デオキシリボ核酸）の成分のアデニンとグアニンを隕石(いんせき) ...
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Meteor shower may have been 'caused by Earth-threatening comet'
RIA Novosti
A meteor shower detected in February was likely caused by an undiscovered comet that could pose a threat to the Earth, a US astronomer said on Monday. The debris may have been shed by a long-period comet, said Peter Jenniskens, of the Search for ...
| Astronaut Snaps Spectacular Meteor Photo From Space Space.com by Denise Chow, SPACE.com Staff Writer The annual Perseid meteor shower peaked this weekend, and one astronaut living aboard the International Space Station captured a stunning view of the light show from space. NASA astronaut Ron Garan photographed a ... |
