15 January 2012

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 15JAN2012

Oregon meteorites: the big, the small, the questionable
Mail Tribune
Museum visitors touch the Willamette meteorite during the opening of the Rose Center for Earth and Space on Feb. 19, 2000, at New York's American Museum of Natural History. Beth A. Keiser / The Associated PressBETH A. KEISER/THE ASSOCIATED PR By Paul ...

Just rocks, or visitors from space?
Mail Tribune
In less time than the mutts could leave their mark, the meteor flashed past. It was visible for maybe a second. Tops. Save for the light of a rising moon on the east, the sky immediately returned to its twinkling old self. Yet, like the thousands I've ...

Your Mayan Doomsday Calendar Could Be Off By A Few Days
HULIQ
Although Chak Ek' has been translated as the planet Venus, Aldana believes it is actually a meteor. As Aldana explained, although Venus is an astronomical entity which can be calculated with great precision, a meteor's appearance would be an altogether ...

Starstruck enterprise Valley couple are on a stargazing mission to share ...
Arizona Republic
"It was the night of the Geminid meteor shower," Tony says. "When we came back from the party, it was after midnight, prime time to look at the meteor shower. Carole must have seen 20 of them, and if I saw two, I was lucky." "He was into something that ...

Video of Widely-Reported 'Friday the 13th' Fireball Over Canada ...
Filmed from New Aiyansh, B.C. "Looking Northwest, about 15km south of New Aiyansh, on ...
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