Alien Contact Danger 25APR2010

Stephen Hawking warns over making contact with aliens

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4 hours ago Aliens almost certainly exist but humans should make every attempt to avoid them, Stephen Hawking has warned. In a series for the Discovery Channel the ...

Dont talk to aliens, warns Stephen Hawking

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Meteor/Meteorite News- 5NOV09

The Taurid Meteor Shower

San Diego Reader
By Jerry Schad | Posted November 4, 2009, 9:47 am The Taurid Meteor Shower, featuring about 10-15 visible events per hour -- as seen under clear, ...

BBC News

Messenger spies iron at Mercury

BBC News
... measurements of Mercury's "atmosphere", the extremely tenuous cloud of atoms which is lifted off the surface by solar activity and micro-meteorite impacts. ...


The end of the world

Dickinson Press
A large soaring meteor with a tail that reaches from here to the moon could hit us tomorrow. Or the Yellowstone National It could happen any day. ...

Meteorite News- Meteorite Mineral Wadsleyite Produced in Lab 12AUG09

Meteorite mineral made in the lab

By Victoria Gill Science reporter, BBC News

The team use large projectile launchers to create shock waves

By slamming materials together, scientists have made a mineral that is found naturally only in meteorites and the deep layers of Earth's mantle.

Their successful "shock" experiment reveals new clues about the formation of our early Solar System.

The team report the production of the mineral wadsleyite in the journal PNAS.

Its creation in the lab shows that objects that collided to form the planets may have been far smaller than previously thought. ...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8194292.stm

UK Meteorite News- "Cheese Meteorite" 31JUL09

Earth landing for 'space cheese'

BBC News/ UK- Page last updated at 16:54 GMT, Wednesday, 29 July 2009 17:54 UK

One giant leap for cheese

A block of cheese launched into the upper atmosphere on Tuesday has been found undamaged in Buckinghamshire.

The "interstellar cheddar" landed in Cressex - some 74 miles away - and was taken to High Wycombe police station on Wednesday night, the launch team said. ...

Japan RESEARCH NEWS- Valuable Research Available 7JUL09

Most complete Earth map published

The most complete terrain map of the Earth's surface has been published.

The data, comprising 1.3 million images, come from a collaboration between the US space agency Nasa and the Japanese trade ministry.

The images were taken by Japan's Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (Aster) aboard the Terra satellite.

The resulting Global Digital Elevation Map covers 99% of the Earth's surface, and will be free to download and use. ...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8126197.stm

England Latest Meteor News-Meteors cause flare alert calls 16JUN09

Meteors cause flare alert calls

BBC-16JUN09

Calls were made to coastguards across England's south coast, including Cornwall, Devon and Hampshire, reporting white and green flares. Reports were also made to coastguards in Jersey and France for about 30 minutes from about 2130 BST on Monday. ... (more)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/8102331.stm

North Eire-Security cameras clue to fireball 6APR09

Security cameras clue to fireball
Northern Ireland
BBC NEWS
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/7985093.stm
The light in the sky is thought to have been a shooting star
Security cameras in Northern Ireland may shed some light on the cause of a massive fireball in the sky on Sunday.
The shooting star was reported at about 1230 BST by people living as far apart as Donegal and Cork.
David Moore chairman of Astronomy Ireland said they were fairly certain it was a rock from space which could have landed somewhere in Ireland.
He said they were very keen to hear from anyone who has footage of what is suspected to be a meteor falling.
"We're fairly certain that it was a rock from space, a meteor which may have dropped a meteorite," he said.
"We are asking people to send in their reports, so we can triangulate on the path and figure out did it land on Ireland?"
The last time a meteorite was seen over Ireland was in 1999 over Carlow and there was a similar event over the skies of Northern Ireland 30 years earlier.
Mr Moore said that no pictures had yet come to light of the incident, as it only lasted a few seconds.
But, he said, security cameras often captured such explosions in the sky.
"What can happen is security cameras that are filming in car parks or outdoors can catch these shooting stars, these fireballs, accidentally. So if anybody has any footage of that, we would be delighted to see it.
"We think...it came from the west across the centre of Ireland, which means everybody would have seen it. We have reports from Cork and even from up as far as Donegal."
He said security cameras in Northern Ireland facing towards the south probably would have picked it up.
Anyone who saw it is asked to contact the Astronomy Ireland website on www.astronomy.ie.
"We will publish a report there in a few days," said Mr Moore.
"We will also predict where any meteorite might have fallen, as we did with Carlow in 1999. A lady found the meteorite in a small country lane.
"They will look like melted rocks, probably not very large. We are looking for objects that would fit, in that particular case, in a mug. But they could be larger."

Security cameras clue to fireball
BBC News
Security cameras in Northern Ireland may shed some light on the cause of a massive fireball in the sky on Sunday. The shooting star was reported at about ...