16 February 2012

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Meteor Caught On WYFF Staffer's Security Camera - Video - WYFF ...
When WYFF Account Executive Bill Gangloff reviewed his security camera footage, he found out it captured the meteor that woke up a lot of people across the ...
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Comments from our readers: On a likely meteor in the Texas sky, On ...
Excerpts from online reader comments about recent stories that appeared on statesman.com On what was likely a meteor that streaked across the sky ...
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Meteorite causes water woes for Iowa town
Chicago Tribune
MANSON, Iowa— A huge meteorite that slammed into Earth 74 million years ago is causing big headaches for the northwest Iowa town of Manson as it struggles to sink a new water well. When the 1.5-mile-wide, 10 billion-ton meteorite hit the region, ...

US: New Video Shows Upstate Meteor -- Fire in the Sky -- Sott.net
Spartanburg, S.C. -- Officials in Spartanburg County said a large boom heard by many people in the Upstate Monday morning may be a meteor. Law enforcement officials saw a large ball of fire that popped in the air around 1:45 a.m. Monday.
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Rare Martian meteorite on show at National Space Centre
BBC News
Several rocks which have fallen to Earth from space, including the Tissint Martianmeteorite, have gone on display at Leicester's National Space Centre. The centre monitors the Solar System and advises the government on any risk from "near-Earth ...

NEOShield: a Preemptive Strike Against Asteroids
Universe Today
The Barringer Crater in Arizona, often referred to as Meteor Crater, is a 1200 metre crater (about 3950 feet or 0.7 miles) that scientists hypothesize was caused by a 50 metre (164 feet) meteor. The bad news is that there are thousands of known NEOs ...

Experience The Night Sky Like Never Before
National Geographic
At :53 and 2:17 seconds into the video you see a meteor with a persistent train. Which is ionizing gases, which lasted over a half hour in the camera's frame. Phil Plait wrote an article about the phenomena here. There is a second meteor with a much ...

74 million years later, meteorite causing headaches for Iowa town
DesMoinesRegister.com
It was a bad day for many plants and animals when the meteorite that formed the Manson Crater plowed into what is now Iowa. The Iowa Department of Natural Resources reported that the impact had the force of 10 trillion tons of TNT.