30 October 2012

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 30OCT2012

Space Pictures This Week: Meteor Smoke, Mars Canyon, More
National Geographic
Space Pictures This Week: Meteor Smoke, Mars Canyon, More. Picture of Valles Marineris canyon. Grandest Canyon. Image courtesy G. Neukum, F.U. Berlin/DLR/ESA. Grand Canyon, meet your match—and then some. Mars's Valles Marineris (shown in a ...

Halloween Fireballs: How to See the Taurid Meteors
Space.com
The Taurid meteors, sometimes called the "Halloween fireballs," show up each year between mid-October and mid-November, but Nov. 5 to 12 will likely be the best time to look for them this year, based on their peak of activity and the effect of ...

Meteorite Found! Fragment of California Fireball Hit ...
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Meteorite Found! Fragment of California Fireball Hit House http://www.space.com /18156 ...
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4.5 Billion-Year-Old Meteorite Was Used as ...
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A meteorite, dating back 4.5 billion years was inadvertently used as a doorstop. Eastern ...
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Meteor . . . Wrong?
Novato Advance
On the NASA Cameras for Allsky Meteor Surveillance project, cameras in Sunnyvale and at San Mateo College captured two views of the fireball. Scientists were able to calculate a trajectory and project a fall area in the North Bay, from east of San ...

Orionid Meteor photos create Internet sensation
Examiner.com
Last weekend saw the peak of the annual Orionid Meteor Shower, which typically produces around 20 meteors per hour. In terms of magnitude, while the Orionids are not one of three major showers (August's Perseids, November's Leonids, and December's...

Meteor streaks across sky over Bay Area | Video ...
Latest track, computer models, satellite and more for Hurricane Sandy | WATCH LIVE ...
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Zeppelin takes North Bay tour, research trip
Petaluma Argus Courier
Meteor astronomer Peter Jenniskens, with the SETI Institute in Mountain View, said in a blog post that the group spotted no clear signs of meteorite impact. The group took measurements from the air to further map where meteorites may have fallen and ...

2012 THE Year of Meteors!

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