The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 01FEB2018

Discovering Michigan's 5-mile crater, different meteor targets
Kaplan Herald
Matt Licke, planetarium manager at the Natural History Museum at the University of Michigan, explains the importance of discovering a meteor and what it tells us about the solar system. Wochit. Screen grab of YouTube video courtesy of Mike Austin shows suspected meteor.(Photo: Mike Austin).

How Rock Produced by Meteor Impact or Nuclear Explosion Is Formed
Science and Technology Research News
The presence of this rock at a site indicates either that material has pushed up through Earth's crust from the mantle (a silicate rocky shell between the crust and the core with depths ranging from 30 km to almost 3,000 km below the crust) or that a celestial body (a comet, meteor or meteorite) fell there.

Video: Massive meteor explosion seen in seven states - KMOV.com
KMOV.com
(AP) – Scientists at Chicago's Field Museum are now studying a piece of the meteor that broke apart earlier this month over Michigan. The peach-pit sized meteorite arrived Wednesday and scientists with the museum have started studying it. NASA scientists say the originally 6-foot-wide meteor broke ...

'Special' Meteor Piece Being Studied At Field Museum in Chicago
103.3 WKFR
Remember the meteor that exploded over Michigan in January. One very special piece of it is being studied deep in the bowels of Chicago's Field Museum.

Michigan Meteor finds a home - and gets re-named
100.7 WITL
WHAT?! Who let the Michigan Meteor out of the state? And how did we lose the naming rights? Meteorhunter Robert Ward (the guy with the cowboy hat) swooped in, grabbed fragments of the meteor that exploded over Michigan, took some selfies with the meteor and sent it off to Chicago. Via FedEx.

Scientists Studying Hamburg Meteorite
WHMI
NASA scientists say the 6-foot-wide meteor broke apart about 20 miles over Earth on January 16th, creating a bright light and what sounded like thunder in the sky. Meteorite hunter Robert Ward found the meteorite on a snow-covered lake in Hamburg Township and donated it to the Field Museum.

Field Museum scientists in Chicago studying Michigan meteor
ABC News
Scientists at Chicago's Field Museum are studying a piece of the meteor that broke apart earlier this month over Michigan. The meteorite, the size of a peach pit, arrived Wednesday. NASA scientists say the 6-foot-wide meteor broke apart about 20 miles over Earth on Jan. 16. It created a bright light and ...

Michigan meteorite 'lands' in Chicago museum
WNDU 16
CHICAGO, Ill. (WNDU) - A meteorite the size of a peach pit arrived at Chicago's Field Museum on Wednesday for the museum's scientists to study. NASA scientists say the 6-foot-wide meteor broke apart about 20 miles over earth on Jan. 16. It created a bright light and what sounded like thunder in the ...

Michigan meteorite studied in Chicago
WNEM Saginaw
Scientists at Chicago's Field Museum are studying a piece of a meteor that broke apart earlier this month over Michigan. "This is a map of the magnesium concentration and a slice of the meteorite. So, there is a hole in that meteorite,” said Jennika Greer, a University of Chicago graduate student.

WATCH: Meteor spotted in Ohio, Michigan, Canada
WPXI Pittsburgh
The dashboard cam video was shared by Mike Austin as he was driving north on I-75 near Bloomfield Hills, north of Detroit, Michigan. >> On WHIO.com: 2017 fireball caught on WHIO-TV weather camera. The fireball also was seen from northwest Ohio and southwest Ontario, Canada. >> Read more ...

Scientists Investigate Meteor Seen in 7 States
MSN.com
Scientists at Chicago's Field Museum are studying a piece of the meteor that broke apart earlier this month over Michigan. The 6-foot-wide meteor crumbled about 20 miles over Earth on January 16th, creating a bright light and a thunderous sound. (Jan. 31) Video provided by AP.

What can a meteor tell us about space?
Detroit Free Press
Matt Licke, planetarium manager at the Natural History Museum at the University of Michigan, explains the importance of discovering a meteor and what it tells us about the solar system.

Mystery as three giant metal spheres fall from the sky over Peru after massivefireball was spotted ...
Daily Mail
Peruvians were left terrified after villagers found three mysterious objects that fell from the sky engulfed in flames. Residents in the Larancahuani community, in the Andean region of Puno, Peru, feared a meteorite impact after the spheres crashed to the ground on January 27. Earlier in the day, social ...

Mysterious fireballs fall from South American skies leaving authorities baffled
International Business Times UK
Pictures from the scene show how impact from the objects, which appear to be man-made, caused small craters to form in the neigbouring countryside. Earlier, images posted to social media showed a massive fireball as it flashed in front of thousands of stunned onlookers across the Andes region, from ...

Giant balls of metal fall from the sky in towns across the globe leaving locals baffled… so what on ...
The Sun
GIANT balls of metal spotted falling from the sky in different parts of the world have left dozens trying to establish what they are completely baffled. Brits, Russians and now Peruvians have spotted fireballs plummeting into their local towns within weeks of each other - so where did they come from?

Satellite Parts Blazed in a Fireball Across the Peruvian Sky
Livinginperu.com
On January 27 a huge fireball was see blazing across the sky in South America before crashing in southeastern Peru.

Tracing Michigan's Meteoric Past
WDET
Allen found out about a giant crater in southwest Michigan that was formed after a prehistoric meteor struck Michigan 450 millions years ago. “If it hit today it would actually kill millions of people,” says Allen. Allen also found out that former Michigan Governor George Romney saw a meteor about the ...

Finding Michigan's 5-mile crater, other meteor targets
Detroit Free Press
Hidden far below corn fields, a scattering of homes and an RV campground, there's a 5-mile-wide meteor crater in rural, southwest Michigan. A space rock longer than three football fields smashed into what today is Calvin Township (pop. 2,037), about 30 miles northeast of South Bend, Ind. It hit about ...

Meteor Activity Outlook for February 3-9, 2018
American Meteor Society
February offers the meteor observer in the northern hemisphere a couple of weak showers plus falling sporadic rates. This may not seem too exiting but you never know when surprises are in store. An errant earthgrazer from the Centaurid complex may shoot northward. Better yet, a bright fireball may ...

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