The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 26FEB2021

Race for space rocks: Meteorite hunters have good chance for success in Alberta, researcher says
CBC.ca
Meteorites let scientists study how to receive deliveries from outer space. CBC News · Posted: Feb 24, 2021 11:12 AM MT

La caméra de surveillance de sa maison filme une MÉTÉORITE dans le ciel canadien (vidéo)
RTL info
On y voit une météorite illuminer le ciel. "Les gens disent que c'était une météorite ? J'aurais aimé la voir de mes propres yeux mais la caméra de ...

Watch: Bright Meteor Spotted Over Alberta, Canada
News On 6
A bright meteor passed over the Canadian province of Alberta on Monday (February 22). "The brighter the fireball, the more rare is the event.

VIDÉO : Météorite foudroyante éclaire le ciel canadien
Science et Vie
Plus de vidéos de la météorite canadienne : La société américaine des météorites (American Meteor Society, AMS), a reçu plus de 400 signalements et ..

Meteor lights up sky in Canada
KYMA
(KYMA, KECY) - A bright meteor passed over the Canadian province of Alberta this week. The American meteor society (AMS) commented on its ...

Two meteors to fly by earth, one named after the God of Chaos, Apophis
ABC 4
The meteor exploded with an estimated 26 to 33 times the force of the atomic bomb at Hiroshima. Over 100 years ago, another explosion in Russia, the ...

Life on Mars: Scientists grow rock-eating organisms on Martian meteorite
Daily Express
Life on Mars: Scientists grow rock-eating organisms on Martian meteorite. MICROBES have been grown on an ancient piece of Martian rock by scientists ...

Woman with city link is paving our way to Mars with space rocks
Times of India
Martian meteorites, Wadhwa says, provide “insights into the planet's origin ... A keen trekker and explorer, Wadhwa has been on meteorite collecting ...

How a drug addict tradesman almost got away with owning a stolen 11 kilo meteorite - and the ...
Daily Mail
A drugged up pool builder who hid a stolen five billion-year-old meteorite as a rock ornament in his garden has been jailed for drug-related charges.

Hot stone: Man brought 'down to earth' over stolen meteorite
The Cairns Post
Sisters Cecilia Boissevain and Ghis Gallo were shocked to hear that Cairns police had recovered a large meteorite that was stolen from their family ...

Scientists share images of gorgeous meteoroid explosion on the surface of Jupiter
International Business Times UK
Scientists using powerful telescopes from NASA's Juno spacecraft saw a bright meteoroid explosion in the atmosphere of the gas giant. The researchers ...

Fireball spotted in Mallorca skies on Tuesday
Majorca Daily Bulletin
The Research Network of Fireballs & Meteorites recorded the fireball in several parts of the country on February 23: Andalusia, Aragon, Castilla-La ...

Institute maps ice on Mars to fuel future missions
erienewsnow.com
One way to confirm the presence of ice is by examining the craters left by recent meteor strikes, but such “ice-exposing impacts,” are rare, Morgan said.

A method for computing luminous efficiencies from meteor data
NASA Technical Reports Server
required to vaporize chunks of froth in the meteor wake. ... meteoroids for meteors previously thought to have been produced by fragile low-density ...

La météorite d'automne a été trouvée!
NetCost & Security
En décembre 2020, les géologues Andreas Forsberg et Anders Zetterqvist ont trouvé le plus gros fragment de la météorite tombée sur le centre de la ...

Meteorite hunters find Sweden's first ever new-fallen iron meteorite
The Local Sweden
Two Swedish meteorite hunters have discovered the iron remains of the giant fireball meteor which which lit up the night sky in November. Andreas ...

Ådalen, Sweden: 14 kg iron meteorite found
Probably the main fragment of the 7 Nov fall.
https://www.thelocal.se/20210223/meteorite-hunters-find-swedens-first-ever-new-fallen-iron-metoerite
I think this is the world's first iron meteorite with known oribital
elements.
And the sound of the meteorite, the "projectile sound" (falling pitch)
sometimes reported can be heard here, recorded only a few km away:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwY1Wib5d5U
--Steinar

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