4, the annual Quadrantid meteor shower is peaking, promising up to 100 meteors an hour in the most optimum viewing conditions. The best time to see the meteor shower is at 2:30 am EST on Jan. 4. To see the Quadrantids, look to the northeastern sky at...
December Video Captures for OKC uploaded
December's Oklahoma City Sandia All-sky events are on video. Good collection of Leonids and a few neat surprises... Sorry I couldn't get to putting in times for them all. ...James Beauchamp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3e5BqKG1iM
Did you see the 'fireball' over Huntsville this morning?al.com (blog)
By Lee Roop, The Huntsville Times View full sizeThis color image taken at Huntsville's Marshall Space Flight Center shows the fireball that passed over the city Tuesday morning. (NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center) HUNTSVILLE, Alabama -- A rare meteor ...
World's Only Known Natural Quasicrystal Traced to Ancient Meteorite
Scientific American Tue, 03 Jan 2012 13:22 PM PSTTheoretical physicist Paul Steinhardt did not expect to spend last summer travelling across spongy tundra to a remote gold-mining region in north-eastern Russia. But that is where he spent three weeks tracing the origins of the worldâs only known natural example of a quasicrystal--an exotic type of structure discovered in 1982 in a synthetic material by Dan Shechtman, a materials scientist at ...
RCAF aircraft likely responsible for 'fireball in the sky'Squamish Chief
29DEC2011) as looking “like a giant dripping triangle,” while another described one of the lights as “a flamingfireball in the sky.” Lt. Trevor Reid, public affairs officer with the 19th Wing Division based at CFB Comox, on Tuesday (Jan. ...
NASA - Quadrantids Will Create Brief, Beautiful Show on Jan. 3-4
For northern hemisphere viewers, the 2012 Quadrantid meteor shower will provide a beautiful but brief sky show in the wee morning hours of Jan. 4.
www.nasa.gov/topics/solarsystem/.../quadrantids_2012.html
Strong Quadrantid Meteor Shower, One of 2012's Best, Peaks ...
From Yahoo! News: If you enjoy the sight of "shooting stars" then make plans to be out looking skyward during the predawn hours on Wednesday (Jan. 4) when ...
news.yahoo.com/strong-quadrantid-meteor-shower-one-2012s...
Strange Crystals Reveal Rock to be Ancient Meteorite
Space.com
by Nola Taylor Redd, SPACE.com Contributor A rock made of a type of crystal never before seen outside a laboratory is most likely a meteorite from the early days of the solar system, geologists say. Two years after identifying the Russian rock's ...
Over 100 Falling Stars to Populate Tonight's Sky [AUDIO]
WJON News
That's when a meteor shower, known by astronomers as the “Quads,” is supposed to start. College of St. Benedict and St. John's University physics professor Jim Crumley says you'll have a chance to see up to 100 falling stars every hour. ...
The quasicrystal from outer space
Nature.com
The only known natural example of the material that won last year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry comes from an ancient meteorite. Theoretical physicist Paul Steinhardt did not expect to spend last summer travelling across spongy tundra to a remote ...
First Meteor Shower of 2012 to Peak Wednesday
National Geographic
The new year is kicking off with some cosmic fireworks: The 2012 Quadrantid meteorshower will peak in the predawn hours this Wednesday. The Quadrantids are mostly visible from the Northern Hemisphere, where the sky show happens in the dead of winter. ...
Light not so strange
The Press
A strange light in the sky over Christchurch in the first few minutes of 2012 may have been a paper lantern, space junk or a meteor. Christchurch resident Julian Idle saw an orange light moving slowly across the sky from east to west at 12.08am on ...
A rock fragment containing a previously unidentified natural quasicrystal may ...
LiveScience.com
Various features of the quasicrystal suggest a meteorite origin, including the shapes of the grains and its chemical composition of metallic copper and aluminum that resemble those found in so-called carbonaceous chondrites; these are primitive ...
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