The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 24JUL2013

 CHINA EXPLORATION 中国探索 The Antarctic dream ...
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CHINA EXPLORATION 中国探索 07 16 2013 The Antarctic dream ...
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Recent Near-Earth Misses Reinforce Dr. William Colom's Love for Astronomy
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Dr. William Colom was amazed, as we all were, when headlines broke about the meteor blast that occurred over Russia in February 15, 2013. "It was fantastic to see the video of the fireball and all the debris caused by the blast," says Dr. William Colom.

UA Astronomer Talks Russian Meteor Strike ...
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Space is a busy place when it comes to asteroids and near-Earth objects. In this video, Eric ...
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Daily Orbit - Meteor Crater Found in Iowa - YouTube
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7-12-13: On this episode of the Daily Orbit, a giant impact crater is discovered beneath a town in ...
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NOVA ~ Meteor Strike ~ Russia - YouTube
Russian Meteor Strike. PBS. NOVA crews joined impact scientists in Russia as they hunted for ...
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ESA wants to help artist return meteorite sculpture to space in 2014
Tue, 23 Jul, 2013 10:25 AM PDT
Artist Katie Paterson is on her way to securing a spot aboard an unmanned spacecraft for her meteorite artwork, so it can be returned to whence it came. The European Space Agency is currently assessing her request to see if it constitutes appropriate cargo, but has provisionally given it the ok a...
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Meteorite Art Might Be Sent Back to Space | Space.com
A piece of a 4.5-billion-year-old meteorite used in an art installation might be sent back into ...
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Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News: MBIQ Detects WY SD ID ...
MBIQ Detections WY SD ID Meteor 09JUL2013 v.2 C 2013 ... If you witnessed a meteor event please file a meteor sighting report on this site; thank you.
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Meteor/Meteorite News 16DEC2010

Geminid meteor shower gets rave reviews as best of 2010 Christian Science Monitor Skywatchers around the globe sang praises to the Geminid meteor shower, the annual mid-December rain of meteors passing through the earth's atmosphere. ... Antarctic science wrap-up: ANSMET hunting for meteorites again ExplorersWeb (By Correne Coetzer) This Antarctic season ANSMET has two field teams with separate goals hunting for meteorites; a smaller, more mobile team dedicated to ...

ANSMET: “The various possible targets of the ANSMET recon team for 2010-2011. A pre-season flight along the path shown, established the priority for visits to each ice field.”
courtesy ANSMET 2010-11 (live over Contact 5), http://www.humanedgetech.com/expedition/ansmet1011 and ExplorersWeb

elp allsky: Meteor News...Awesome Geminids Video From North Texas ...
By elp allsky
This video is compiled from individual captures during the overnight peak of the Geminid Meteor Shower Dec. 13th and 14th, 2010. The camera has an approximate field of view of 40 degrees and points North toward Oklahoma City, ...


Meteor report plus a Hubble bauble | Portal to the Universe
By Astro Bob
These were the words uttered by meteor watchers in the Duluth area last night. Despite a great forecast for Geminid watching, the sky turned mostly cloudy after 9 p.m. I was grateful for about 45 minutes of partly cloudy sky between 11 ...


Cosmic Log: It's a hot night for cool meteors
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A Geminid meteor streaks across the night sky, with circular star trails whirling the background, in a time-exposure photo made by astronomer Jimmy Westlake ...

Life`s buildings blocks in "impossible" place, plus a whalloping meteorite tale EarthSky Wed, 15 Dec 2010 16:10 PM PST Amino acids  critical to life, the building blocks of proteins â are present in an amazing meteorite from space that apparently suffered a violent collision with another asteroid in space, before crashing to Earth in 2008. Fragments of the meteorite  called 2008 TC3  are collectively called Almahata Sitta or Station Six after the [...] Life's Building Blocks Found on Surprising Meteorite SPACE.com via Yahoo! News Wed, 15 Dec 2010 15:15 PM PST Scientists have discovered amino acids, the building blocks of life in a meteorite where none were expected. Meteorite just one piece of an unknown celestial body Science Daily Wed, 15 Dec 2010 13:21 PM PST Scientists from all over the world are taking a second, more expansive, look at the car-sized asteroid that exploded over Sudan's Nubian Desert in 2008, with major implications for the meteorite's origin. In the first round of research, scientists examined one fragment of the asteroid and determined that it fell into a very rare category called ureilites. Now they have expanded the scope of the ... Meteorite just one piece of an unknown celestial body EurekAlert (press release) Initial research was focused on classifying the meteorite fragments that were collected two to five months after they were strewn across the desert and ... Meteorite streaks through sky in Knoxville WATE 6 Knoxville Wed, 15 Dec 2010 08:34 AM PST Thanks to a meteor cycle, Knoxville residents and even a 6 News crew saw a likely meteorite streak through the sky Wednesday morning.

Chinese Antarctica Study Returns Meteorites and Ice Cores 11APR2010

'Snow Dragon' number portability ice core and meteorites Triumph
by XINMIN.CN

2010-04-11 04:26 来源：文汇报 作者：任荃 赵菊玲 共 0 条评论 关 键字：雪龙,冰芯,陨石
for story in Chinese: http://news.xinmin.cn/rollnews/2010/04/11/4378820.html

Chinese to English translation by ImTranslator 3.3.3-P and Google Translator

China's 26th Antarctic expedition team through 182 days test ride yesterday, "Snow Dragon" was exploration ship, the safe return of China's polar expedition in Shanghai, China at a pier. Land and Resources Minister Xu Shaoshi, State Oceanic Administration, Sun Zhihui, deputy director of Mr Chen, Shanghai Vice Mayor Shen Jun attended the welcoming ceremony. The 26th Antarctic expedition team from the 249-member, a total of 59 scientific exploration tasks, Logistics Support 21. The study of more than 32,000 nautical miles, navigation safety, and again to refresh the "Xuelong" was sailing record. Way, research ships have six times through the westerly wind belt, the "Snow Dragon" was the most westerly over the years through the first. In "Xue Long" was brought back to the precious samples, ice cores and the most eye-catching meteorites. In the Antarctic, "the summit ice" --- 4093 meters above sea level of the Dome A area, interior inspection team drilled an ice core over 130 meters long and created Dome A shallow ice core drilling of a new regional record . Meanwhile, the expedition team is also near the Kunlun station built an 8-meter-deep "big cellar" --- deep ice core drilling sites for future drilling more than 3000 meters in the deep ice cores, to carry out millions of years of global climate change research . Another study in the Grove Mountains area teams collected 1,618 meteorites, weighing 17 kg. So far, China has a number of Antarctic meteorites totaled 11,452, ranking third in the world, the "extraterrestrial" will be a sample of global change research. Yesterday, with the "Snow Dragon" was triumphant, but also set sail on October 11 last year, the Shanghai Municipal Government presented to the expedition of the current World Expo mascot "Hai Bao." According to reports, China's polar expedition of the relevant results will be participating in this Expo, the specific exhibits are under negotiation. It is reported that during the Expo (June 5 to 12), "Snow Dragon" was the week will be the public free of charge.

Japan Meteorite News: 32nd Symposium on Antarctic Meteorites 31MAY09

32nd Symposium on Antarctic Meteorites to be Held
Tokyo, Japan
The 32nd Symposium on Antarctic Meteorites will be held at National Institute of Polar Research, Tachikawa City, Tokyo, Japan, on June 3 and 4, 2009.

http://www.metsoc2008.jp:80/nipr/symposium/2009/symposium3rd.html

The program and abstracts are downloadable from
http://www.metsoc2008.jp/nipr/symposium/2009/Program2009.pdf