20 January 2012

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 20JAN2012

The chemistry of exploding stars
PhysOrg.com
Scientists from Germany, Japan and the US now provided evidence to substantiate the theory with the help of isotope analyses of stardust from meteorites. The team around the Mainz Max Planck researcher Peter Hoppe initially isolated thousands of about ...

Visitor from Mars
Bangkok Post
It is not often that someone finds a meteorite from the planet Mars. It is even rarer for someone to see a Mars meteorite falling from the sky. The Martian meteorite''Tissint'' at the Institute of Meteoritics, University of New Mexico, in Albuquerque, ...

Today's Interesting Facts
Gather.com
(1799) The first recorded meteor shower Occured in North America. The shower was recorded by an American astronomer, Andrew Elliot Douglass, who reported that the "whole heaven appeared as if illuminated with sky rockets." Astronomers now know he was ...

Meteorite Possibly Found in Callisburg, TX
KXII-TV
CALLISBURG, TX-- A panel of international scientists has confirmed that about 15 pounds ofmeteorites that fell in Morocco last summer came from Mars. NASA scientists were included in the group that performed extensive tests on the space rocks. ...

Now, savour 4.5 billion yrs old 'meteorite' flavoured extra-terrestrial wine
New Kerala Thu, 19 Jan 2012 05:45 AM PST
Washington, Jan 18 : An Englishman now working in Chile has created world's first wine aged with a meteorite that fell to Earth from space.

Middle East Online
Middle East Online Thu, 19 Jan 2012 01:01 AM PST
Rare and expensive fragments of a Mars meteorite fell from the sky in July over Morocco, a team of international scientists confirmed on Wednesday.

Morocco: Meteorite Fell From Mars - Scientists
AllAfrica.com Wed, 18 Jan 2012 23:48 PM PST
RNW Africa (Hilversum)-Rare and expensive fragments of a Marsmeteorite fell from the sky in July over Morocco, a team of international scientists confirmed on Wednesday.

AP etc: The big meteor fall in Morocco last year now confirmed to be ...
AP etc: The big meteor fall in Morocco last year now confirmed to be rocks from Mars. We'll round up some more tomorrow, but the morning cannot pass without ...
ksjtracker.mit.edu/.../ap-etc-the-big-meteor-fall-in-morocco-la...

Meteor confirmed to be a piece of Mars - UPI | e! Science News
RABAT, Morocco, Jan. 17 (UPI) -- A meteor that broke into fragments before falling to Earth in Morocco was a rare chunk of the planet Mars, scientist say.
esciencenews.com/sources/.../meteor.confirmed.be.a.piece.mar...


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meteorite maps - YouTube
8 min
i know of three different meteorite spots here in alaska one area you can see from the road one ...  (Goofy ideas about impact craters!!!; Appears to be a scam)
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