The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 20SEP2011

Space Satellite UARS Might Hit Earth Friday ABC News Some are visible, such as the meteor spotted over California last week, but most of the debris is so small it's never found. What makes UARS so remarkable is its size and the advance warning from NASA officials that it's coming. ...

Bus-sized satellite to re-enter Earth's atmosphere this week

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UARS, a NASA satellite the size of a small bus, will re-enter Earth's atmosphere later this week producing a brilliant fireball somewhere over our planet.  Best estimates place the re-entry time during the late hours of Sept. 23rd...


Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News: Roatan, Honduras Green ...
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Giant asteroids blamed for killing dinosaurs is innocent, says NASA
Herald Sun
While scientists still believe a large meteor crashed into Earth approximately 65 million years ago, leading to the extinction of the dinosaurs, the widely-held Baptistina theory now appears to have been all but ruled out. Since 2007 it has been widely ...

Study: Ancient impact killed off birds too UPI Mon, 19 Sep 2011 16:47 PM PDT NEW HAVEN, Conn., Sept. 19 (UPI) -- Prehistoric birds went extinct the same way dinosaurs did, U.S. researchers say, victims of the same meteorite impact 65 million years ago. Fossils show meteorite crash wiped out ancient bird species with the dinosaurs Daily Mirror Mon, 19 Sep 2011 16:23 PM PDT ANCIENT birds were wiped out with the ­dinosaurs when a meteorite hit the Earth 65 million years ago, new evidence reveals. Primitive birds shared dinosaurs' fate Science Daily Mon, 19 Sep 2011 13:16 PM PDT A new study puts an end to the longstanding debate about how archaic birds went extinct, suggesting they were virtually wiped out by the same meteorite impact that put an end to dinosaurs 65 million years ago.