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Breaking News - MBIQ (Meteor Bot Internet Query) Bot Triggers on Large Bolide Meteor Over Alberta, Saskatchewan, British Columbia Seconds ago! ~20:40 MST/ ~21:40 CST 21FEB2012 Several hundreds of MBIQ Bot Strikes! Updates to ...
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Fireball lights up night sky
Global Regina
A fireball lights up the night sky on Tuesday. Sightings have been reported both in our city and in Saskatchewan. An incredible sight lighting up the night sky on Tuesday. A bright "fireball" could be seen in the north-end around 8:30 pm And not only ...
Biggest meteorite ever to fall in Britain was frozen during the Ice Age and ...
Daily Mail
Now experts believe they have discovered the origin of the 200lb meteorite, which is thought to be the largest ever to fall on British soil. Not only do researchers believe they know where the space rock came from, they think they know why it survived ...
Shooting star spotted in Canadian skies
Vancouver Sun
CALGARY - Social media was abuzz about what appeared to be a meteor shooting over the city Tuesday night, with sightings also reported from Edmonton and parts of Saskatchewan. One reader told the Herald she saw the bright green fireball northeast of ...
Chronicle of a Chondrule's Travels
-- Isotopic measurements of a chondrule in a Comet Wild 2 grain tell the story of outward migration of solar nebula solids, helping to set the formation age of Jupiter.
FULL ARTICLE at:
http://www.psrd.hawaii.edu/Feb12/chondrule-Wild2.html
What's the Best Movie About Space Objects Destroying the Earth?
Wall Street Journal (blog)
“When Worlds Collide” (1951) helped to define the genre; “Meteor” (1979) with Sean Connery and Natalie Wood continued the tradition; and the near-simultaneous releases of “Armageddon” (1998) and “Deep Impact” (1998) helped to fully exploit it.
Rolling skies and shooting stars captured in stunning time-lapse photography ...
Daily Mail
Using time-lapse photography, he painstakingly documented colourful sunsets, floating clouds, and a meteor shooting across the sky. As Discover Magazine notes, the wavy, psychedelic clouds of cerise pink at the beginning of the video are called ...
Epic Skies: time-lapse of the American southwest
CBS News
Pretty freaky, right? That is a lenticular, or lens-shaped, cloud. They typically form near mountains, where air rises up the cliff face and condenses to form these distinctive shapes. Then there is the awesome meteor at the end of the video.
Moon's scarred crust hints at recent activity, scientists say
Fox News
This suggests they formed recently — otherwise, they would be marred more often by craters frommeteor impacts over time. "We think they're less than 50 million years old, but they could be 10 million years old, could be 1 million years old, ...
International Meteor Conference 2012 September 20-23, 2012
La Palma Island, Canary, Spain
http://www.imo.net/imc2012/
Every year, the International Meteor Organization (IMO) organizes the
International Meteor Conference (IMC). This conference deals with all
aspects of meteor observation as well as the underlying physics and is
aimed at both amateurs and professionals. The International Meteor Organization (IMO) will hold the 31st annual International Meteor Conference (IMC) on La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain, from 20 till 23 September, 2012. The conference will be organized by the Astro Travels agency in collaboration with the Cabildo of La Palma island authority which will sponsor this event.
