Meteor/Meteorite News 9JAN2011

Lichens call this space rock home

by Astro Bob
Like you, I’m a member of various online discussion groups. One of my favorites is the Meteorite-list , a group of individuals more than 950 strong strung across the planet, who are fascinated by space rocks. The “metlist” includes scientists as well as hobbyists and is THE place to get a question answered about meteorites. ...

January Issue of Meteorite Times Now Up

http://www.meteorite-times.com/monthly-issues/

HIDDEN HISTORY: Watch out for meteorites!
The Daily News Online (blog)
Instead, authorities determined it was a meteorite, a chunk of rocky space debris that had passed through the earth's atmosphere. ...

Asteroida pędzi ku Ziemi. Czy grozi nam Armageddon?

Gazeta Współczesna - ‎2011年1月6日‎

Ok. 40-metrowy meteoryt wybuchł tuż nad rosyjską tajgą. Spowodował gigantyczny pożar ok. 2 tys. km kwadratowych lasu. Naukowcy są powściągliwi w ... (asteroid 99942, (2004 MN4) Apophis)




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Jan 8 2011, 7:24 AM

Guest729 (guest):Never seen this in my life! Over Leuven,Belgium, lasted over a minute before it disappeared!

Jan 8 2011, 10:35 AM

ELPALLSKY (guest):Congrats on 100K !!Keep up the great work.

Jan 8 2011, 12:16 PM

drtanuki: Belgium please explain what you saw, time, date and place... thank you.

Jan 8 2011, 12:18 PM

Guest820 (guest): I saw a large fireball with blue, green, red and white tail moving east to west in Florida while I was driving down I95 December 23 about midnight near Daytona. Did anyone else see it. I've never seen anything like it.Beautiful! I have no idea what it would be called. Comet,meteor?

Jan 8 2011, 12:18 PM

Guest820 (guest):Thanks,

Jan 8 2011, 6:01 PM

Guest125 (guest):Just spotted what looked like 2 asteroids. at 8.30am , 01/08/11 here in limerick, mid west ireland. Its partially cloudy. they were moving downward at a very slow pace.they had a red/orange tail that eventualy faded and shrinked into small lines

Jan 9 2011, 2:07 PM

Guest840 (guest):Anyone here,,about 1 1/2 hours ago hear,,a sonice boom over WA.State usa?  it was 3short loud boom's

Meteor/Meteorite News 26DEC2010

Quadrantid Meteors: Fire over Ice Sky & Telescope And lying still for an hour or more to count meteors means you generate your minimum body heat. Welcome to viewing conditions for the Quadrantid meteor ... Sparkling silence at last Nashua Telegraph Early on during the first month of 2011, we kick off the new year with a regularly pleasing meteor shower. The Quadrantids typically produce around 40 ... Halley's Comet steps in for the Star of Bethlehem | Astro Bob By astrobob I suppose you could argue that it also resembles a meteor, but it's unlikely that's what Giotto had in mind. A meteor, however bright, flashes by in a second or two and is gone. Assuming the artist wanted to stick to the Biblical ... Astro Bob - http://astrobob.areavoices.com/

elp allsky: Merry Christmas Meteors...DEC25, 2010... By elp allsky Meteor News...Geminids Image Updated 12/19/10 at 01:48 MST (08:48 UTC)... The desert skies of El Paso, Texas in the Southwestern U.S. offered some of the best views of this year's Geminid Meteor Shower. Upwards of . ... elp allsky - http://elpasoallsky.blogspot.com/ Cosmic Collisions: Meteorite Treasure : Video ... 3 min Fragments of extraterrestrial rock are valuable, much sought after clues to the history and composition of the Solar System. dsc.discovery.com ニュース 科学＆宇宙 超高温の隕石からアミノ酸を発見 ナショナルジオ ... ニュース - 科学＆宇宙 - 超高温の隕石からアミノ酸を発見 - ナショナルジオグラフィック 公式日本語サイト. www.nationalgeographic.co.jp/news/news_article.php?file_id... Indian rocket fails moments after liftoff Spaceflight Now BY STEPHEN CLARK India's largest rocket lost control and erupted in a fireball Saturday, dealing another blow to the country's space program after ...

Meteor/Meteorite News 7OCT2010

El Paso TX All Sky Meteor Detection Camera Blog Site: Bright SE ...
By ElPasoAllSky
Marshall Space Flight Center PAO Steve Roy was out jogging early Friday morning with his dogs, Lilly and Scout, when he couldn't help but notice this bright meteor low in the eastern sky. Posted by ElPasoAllSky at 10/07/2010 02:28:00 AM ...
Toms River man learns mysterious rock that landed in his yard is not a meteorite
Asbury Park Press
Linda Welzenbach, a Smithsonian Institution geologist and meteorite scientist, estimated that one meteorite that hit a Lorton, Va., doctor's office in ...


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Idaho State University
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Astro Bob blog: Jupiter cheers up the Lonely Star
Duluth News Tribune
The Mars Opportunity Rover took this recent photo of the iron-nickel meteorite Oileán Ruaidh. The meteorite was discovered en route to Endeavour Crater, ...

A Deluge of Draconids? Sky & Telescope Everyone enjoys a great meteor shower, those special times each year when a profusion of shooting stars zip across the sky. So here's a head's up: all of ...

A Deluge of Draconids? Sky & Telescope Everyone enjoys a great meteor shower, those special times each year when a profusion of shooting stars zip across the sky. So here's a head's up: all of ...