27 January 2012

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 27JAN2012

Bus-sized asteroid to give Earth close shave Friday
Fox News
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In photos: Wolfe Creek Meteor Crater
Today's photos will hopefully give you a glimpse of what is out here, in the middle of Australia's incredible outback next to an ancient 800 metre wide meteor ...
www.findingtheuniverse.com/.../in-photos-wolfe-creek-meteor...

Telescope Reviews: another question about meteor detection
In theory, you should be able to receive meteor forward scatter using the new digital TV system; however, there is a obstacle in the way to practically accomplish ...
www.cloudynights.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php/.../5034844

Brown University camera catch fireball in the sky
WPRI.com
Brown University camera catch fireball in the sky.

Rare fireball meteor caught on camera
Providence Eyewitness News
Fireball meteors are very bright. Less common than their dimmer cousins, there are thousands of these bright fireball meteors every day, we just don't see them. Brown Physics Professor, Savvas Koushiappas, says, "given that half of the world is under ...

Apocalyptic boom over Elmbridge not end of the world, RAF say
Kingston Guardian Thu, 26 Jan 2012 01:52 AM PST
Concorde was not flying again, a meteorite had not collided with Earth and there was no jumbo jet nose-diving toward the ground, despite what you may have heard.

Martian meteorite in ASU collection
Arizona State University
KNAU Arizona Public Radio/NPR in Flagstaff recently interviewed Professor Meenakshi Wadhwa, director of the Center for Meteorite Studies at Arizona State University, about the rare martian meteorite ASU acquired. Arizona Public Radio's Gillian Ferris...

Bad science a good show
Pueblo Chieftain
With a little exploration, he said the myths and legends about everything from meteorites and comets hitting Earth to why eggs stand on end during the spring equinox can be debunked. "There is bad science all around us but we hold our destiny in our ...

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Rare Fireball Meteor caught on camera | WPRI.com
Last week, scientists at Brown University's Ladd Observatory noticed something very unusual ...
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