Sky & Telescope
Mention the meteorite Allan Hills 84001 in a room full of planetary scientists, and they'll know exactly what you're taking about. David McKay (lower left) and his colleagues at their August 1996 press conference announcing possible signs of ancient ...
| Dazzling Orionid meteor shower due Saturday msnbc.com By Natalie Wolchover, Life's Little Mysteries Staff Writer Early bird skywatchers set your alarms: The annual October meteor shower will peak before sunrise on Saturday as the Earth passes through a stream of leftover dust from the famous Halley's ... |
| CSI-style investigation of meteorite hits on Earth Space Daily by Staff Writers Volcanologists from the Universities of Leicester and Durham have forensically reconstructed the impact of a meteorite on Earth and how debris was hurled from the crater to devastate the surrounding region. New research by Mike Branney ... |
How John Brown turned his death into a triumph
Charlotte Observer
(Herman Melville's 1859 poem "The Portent" described Brown as "the meteor of the war.") After the raid, Brown and his co-conspirators were hauled before a court consisting mostly of slaveholders. By the time he was executed six weeks after his capture, ...
