21 August 2013

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 21AUG2013


Earliest iron artefacts came from met...
Mon, 19 Aug, 2013 03:27 PM PDT
The earliest iron artefacts ever found -- funeral beads strung around bodies in a 5,000-year-old Egy...Continue reading

Dazzling Meteor Streaks Over Canary Islands (Photo)
Space.com
A meteor soars across a Milky Way-filled night sky over the Canary Islands in this beautiful photo. Veteran astrophotographer Tamas Ladanyi of The World at ...

Meteor Pieces Hammered Into Iron Jewelry In Egypt 5000 Years Ago
International Business Times
Researchers have found that ancient Egyptian beads are made from iron, derived from meteorites. University College London. The earliest known iron artifacts ...

Tracking Meteor Dust in the Stratosphere
WKRG-TV
On February 15, of 2013 an extremely large and well-photographed meteor lit up the skies over Chelyabinsk, Russia. It created a tremendous explosion and ...

Meteorites Fetch $18,000 as Collector Funds New Hunt
Tue, 20 Aug, 2013 07:49 AM PDT
Shards of rock from outer space fetched 11,460 pounds ($18,000) at an auction as a British meteorite collector raised money for his next hunt.Continue reading

Earliest iron artefacts came from meteorite
Mon, 19 Aug, 2013 07:49 PM PDT
PARIS - The earliest iron artefacts ever found - funeral beads strung around bodies in a 5,000-year-old Egyptian cemetery - were made from ameteorite, archaeologists said on Monday. Hi-tech scanning of the beads, discovered by British archaeologists in the Lower Egypt village of el-Gerzeh in 1911, sho...Continue reading

Russian meteor explosion's dust cloud lingered in atmosphere for ...
Science Recorder
When a meteor weighing 11,000 metric tons exploded about 15 miles over Chelyabinsk, Russia, on Feb. 15, 2013, city native Nick Gorkavyi, an atmospheric ...

Chelyabinsk meteorite sent plume around the world
Globalnews.ca
A frame grab of the meteor that streaked through the sky over Chelyabinsk, ...The shockwave that the meteor caused as it pushed the air ahead of it shook the ...

Council contender says Meteor too valuable to sell
Waikato Times
Meteoric: Hamilton accountant Rob Pascoe says The Meteor theatre needs to be kept a going concern – a message he and members of the One Victoria Street ...

Earliest iron artefacts came from meteor
Sky News Australia
Earliest iron artefacts came from meteor. Updated: 10:37, Tuesday August 20, 2013. The earliest iron artefacts ever found - funeral beads strung around bodies ...

Russian meteor left tons of material in atmosphere
kplr11.com
(KPLR) – The meteor that exploded over Russia last February left behind more than just debris on land. A new study found that the meteor also left behind a ...
The Age
This animated video shows how the meteor explosion over Chelyabinsk, Russia in February left a cloud of meteor dust in the atmosphere. 19/08/13. Volcano in ...

Perseid Meteor Shower 2013 at the Mount Lemmon ...
2 min
Visitors at the Mount Lemmon SkyCenter enjoy the Perseid Meteor Shower on the night (and ...
vimeo.com

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