18 October 2013

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 18OCT2013

Massive Asteroid Could Hit Earth In 2032, Say Ukrainian Scientists
The Huffington Post UK - 27 minutes
Astronomers in Ukraine say a deadly asteroid is likely to collide with the Earth in 2032. According to a Russian news service, researchers at ...

410-meter asteroid "may collide" with Earth in 2032
rt.com- October 17, 2013
A potentially catastrophic asteroid has been discovered by astronomers,
who say there's a slim chance that the 410-meter-wide minor planet will
crash into Earth in 2032, creating a blast 50 times greater than the biggest
nuclear bomb....
Russia: huge chunk of Chelyabinsk meteor recovered from lake 
Russia: huge chunk of Chelyabinsk meteor recovered from lake
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Divers Pull Giant Meteorite From Russian Lake
Posted on YouTube by AssociatedPress 3,283 views

  Russian scientists recover part of Chelyanik ...
Divers have brought to shore a 570-kilogram (1256 pounds) chunk of ameteorite which had ...
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Meteorite pulled from Russian lake - YouTube
2 min
CNN's Isha Sesay reports scientists have pulled a huge meteorite from the bottom of a Russian ...
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Huge meteorite chunk pulled from Russian lake | Natural ...www.nhm.ac.uk/.../news/2013/october/huge-meteorite-chunk...
Museum meteorite expert Dr Caroline ... of hot gas scour the outside of the meteor during its fireball ... indicates that it hails from the ...

ISON's Journey to the Sun: Are There Any Meteor Showers in Store ...
Comet ISON will be flying by on its way from the Oort Cloud to the Sun and back for the next couple months. Will the meteoroids it leaves behind produce ...
astrobites.org/.../isons-journey-to-the-sun-are-there-any-meteo...

Russian Meteor: How Many Tiny Asteroids Buzz Earth? - Space.com ...
The meteor that exploded over Russia in February was a violent reminder that our planet exists in a cosmic shooting gallery. Now, astronomers are trying to ...
esciencenews.com/.../russian.meteor.how.many.tiny.asteroids.b...

Comet ISON Appears Intact
Hubble Space Telescope- October 17, 2013
A new image of the sunward plunging Comet ISON suggests that the comet
is intact despite some predictions that the fragile icy nucleus might
disintegrate as the Sun warms it. The comet will pass closest to the Sun
on November 28. ...

Russian Meteor: How Many Tiny Asteroids Buzz Earth?
Discovery News
The meteor that exploded over the Urals region of Russia in February was a violent reminder that our planet exists in a cosmic shooting gallery. Now ...

Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News: California and BC ...
If you witnessed a meteor event PLEASE file a meteor sighting report to help us confirm and improve our detection; thank you!
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Moonlight will dim Orionid meteor shower: October 20-21, 2013
The Orionid meteor shower will peak in 2013 on October 20-21. However, you may have some trouble seeing them this year because of the Moon. The Orioni...
www.itwire.com/.../61939-moonlight-will-dim-orionid-meteor...

Meteorite pulled from lake in Russia
UPI - 8 hours
Veronica Linares (UPI) -- Russian divers have recovered part of the meteorite that fell into a Russian lake earlier this year.

Russians pull huge meteorite from lake, break it
Fox News - 16 hours
Oct. 16, 2013: People look at what scientists believe to be a chunk of the Chelyabinsk meteor, recovered from Chebarkul Lake near ...

Russian divers find huge suspected meteorite chunk in ...
www.cnn.com/2013/...russia-chelyabinsk-meteorite/index.html
A suspected meteorite fragment weighing more than 1,200 pounds is hauled from a lake; Divers raised the chunk of rock from the lake bottom in ...

Russians pull huge meteorite from lake -- and promptly break ...
www.foxnews.com/.../17/russians-pull-huge-meteorite-from...
Eight months after a meteorite screamed out of the skies over Russia and injured 1,200, Russian divers pulled a hefty chunk of the space rock ...

Meteorite Russia: Space rock from exploding meteorite pulled ...
www.examiner.com/article/meteorite-russia-space-rock...
A meteorite in Russia is making news around the world as one of the top 10 biggest meteorites ever to be found. The meteorite was pulled from ...

Chelyabinsk meteorite - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelyabinsk_meteorite
The Chelyabinsk meteorite is the fragmented remains of the large Chelyabinsk meteor of 15 February 2013 which reached the ground after the ...

NASA Rover Confirms Mars Origin of Some Meteorites
PASADENA, Calif. -- Examination of the Martian atmosphere by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover confirms that some meteorites that have dropped to Earth really are from the Red Planet.
A key new measurement of the inert gas argon in Mars' atmosphere by Curiosity's laboratory provides the most definitive evidence yet of the origin of Mars meteorites while at the same time providing a way to rule out Martian origin of other meteorites. ...

Meteoroid - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteoroid
A meteoroid is a small rocky or metallic body travelling through space. Meteoroids are significantly smaller than asteroids, and range in ...

Russian Meteor: How Many Tiny Asteroids Buzz Earth ...article.wn.com/...Meteor_How_Many_Tiny_Asteroids_Buzz_Earth
This video screenshot shows the fireball from a meteor that exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia, on Feb. 15, 2013, creating a shockwave that ...

Atmospheric stones and other circumstances - 200 years of the Limerick Meteorite. 
Kieron Heard, October 2013. -PDF
Limerick meteorite fall of 1813. There are detailed
contemporary accounts given and a well researched roundup of available
information on the fall....

2013 THE Year of Meteors, Asteroids, Comets, and MORE!!

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