Meteor/Meteorite News 4NOV2010

Did Earth Encounter Pieces Of An Alien Visitor Last Night
Space Daily
NASA meteor experts had predicted it was a long shot, but the evenings of November 2nd and 3rd might display a meteor shower from dust which puffed off this ...

Hartley 2 Spawns Meteor Shower | Universe Today
The comet of the year for 2010 seems to be Hartley 2. Although this comet is receding from Earth now (its closest approach was in the latter half of ...

Arctic lake offers up climate record
UPI.com
Cored through sediment layers at the bottom of a lake in northeastern Siberia, the record shows what happened when a meteorite smashed into the planet 3.6 ...

A Clear Voice for Science
Berthoud Recorder
The radiant points for two November meteor showers – the South Taurids and North Taurids – both reside in front of the constellation Taurus the Bull. ...
 [1010.5733] Meteor showers of comet C/1917 F1 Mellish
Abstract: December Monocerotids and November Orionids are weak but established annual meteor showers active throughout November and December. ...

 NASA Mission in Final Day Before Comet Meetup

Jet Propulsion Laboratory  -- November 03, 2010

PASADENA, CALIF. - Mission controllers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., have relayed final instructions to their comet-bound spacecraft today, Nov. 3. The new programming will guide NASA's EPOXI mission through its close approach with comet Hartley 2, scheduled for tomorrow, Nov. 4, at about 7 a.m. PDT (10 a.m. EDT).

Dawn Journal
Dr. Marc Rayman - October 31, 2010
Continuing its journey to collect treats in the main asteroid belt, Dawn is making excellent progress toward its July 2011 rendezvous with protoplanet Vesta. The gentle thrust of its ion propulsion system is gradually changing its trajectory around the sun, smoothly helping the spacecraft move onto a path that will perfectly match Vesta's own motion. This pas de deux ...

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Russia to upgrade Soyuz spaceship
Xinhua
"Upgraded solar batteries will be installed on the Soyuz starting from November 2011, an additional meteor shield from March 2012 and the new Russian ...

 

     
Cometary Poison Gas Geyser Heralds Surprises
NASA Science News
Nov. 2, 2010:  As NASA's Deep Impact (EPOXI) probe approaches Comet Hartley 2 for a close encounter on Nov. 4th, mission scientists are certain ...

Arctic Lake Yields Climate Record
US News & World Report Tue, 02 Nov 2010 11:29 AM PDT
Siberian drilling also penetrates meteorite crater...

Meteor/Meteorite News 20OCT2010

Orionid Meteor Shower peaks tomorrow, get viewing tips now
Examiner.com
The peak of the Orionid Meteor Shower will be tomorrow on the night of October 21/22, 2010. However, despite the fact that peak doesn't occur until tomorrow ...

Orionids Meteor Shower This Weekend – 20 & 21 October 2010 ...
The Orionid meteor shower is due to peak this weekend, 20 & 21 October 2010. To view it properly, it is best to go out into the countryside, where the sky ...

Skywatchers prepare for Comet Hartley, Orionids meteor showers
WKYC-TV
CLEVELAND -- Early morning autumn skies are bringing fantastic celestial displays from the heavens with this year's annual Orionids meteor showers. ...

The Guardian Family Friendly Museum Award
Guardian Unlimited Tue, 19 Oct 2010 03:58 AM PDT
Nominate your favourite museum and get a free Quentin Blake poster! Perhaps it was the notice by the meteorite, saying: "This is the oldest object you will ever touch." Or your toddler being invited to roar at a ruff-collared ducal portrait in the 17th-century gallery to show an early appreciation of art. Or the quiet chat about war-time childhood between a grandparent and child over a 1940s ...  

Spacing Out
KTSM News Channel 9
"I knew it wasn't meteorites when I first saw them. And nothing suspends in air like that anyway if it was a meteorite. Meteorites always leave a ...

More from meteor witness
Bombala Times
IT has been a few weeks since we last had news of the search for the meteorite that landed in the local district in August, but the Bombala Times has now ...
 
 Meteor Shower this Week

 

allvoices
A harvest moon is scheduled for the week which impede some of the meteor spectacular. Meteor showers, called Orionids, due to the fact that they appear to ...

Grimsby meteorite update.
CKTB
Meteorites have been recovered in the Grimsby area. Phil McCausland from Western University says they came from the asteroid belt. ...

The Comet Cometh: Hartley 2 Visible in Night Sky
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Backyard stargazers with a telescope or binoculars and a clear night's sky can now inspect the comet that in a little over two weeks will become only the fifth in history to be imaged close up. Comet Hartley 2 will come within 17.7 million kilometers (11 million miles) of Earth this Wed., Oct. 20 at noon PDT (3 p.m. EDT). NASA's EPOXI mission will come within 700 kilometers (435 miles) of Hartley 2 on Nov. 4. ...





 Trojan Asteroid Found in Neptune's Trailing Gravitational Stability Zone
There are places in space where the gravitational tug between a planet and the Sun balance out, allowing other smaller bodies to remain stable. These places are called Lagrangian points.
So-called Trojan asteroids have been found in some of these stable spots near Jupiter and Neptune. Trojans share their planet's orbit and help astronomers understand how the planets formed and how the solar system evolved. Now Scott Sheppard at the Carnegie ...

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Green Comet 103P/Hartley 2 Approaches
Space Weather News for Oct. 1, 2010
APPROACHING COMET: Green comet 103P/Hartley 2 is approaching Earth for a close encounter on Oct. 20th. At that time, the comet will be only 11 million miles (0.12 AU) from our planet and should be dimly visible to the naked eye ...

Unraveling the Origin of the Lunar Highlands Crust
Announcement from Planetary Science Research Discoveries [PSRD]
--  Lunar meteorites contain clasts that may plausibly be samples of post-magma-ocean plutons that helped build the highlands crust. ...
Possibile meteorite find in Lincolnshire, UK?
Yesterday whilst out in Lincolnshire with Chris Keyworth, aka Pathfinder, I, or more accurately he, spotted something of interest laid in a field - it’s only small but perfectly formed ...

How to party with the stars
DesMoinesRegister.com
But if you want to invite friends to something different, plan a "star party" to coincide with several upcoming meteor showers. ...

PAGASA: Comet, meteor shower visible in October
GMANews.TV
A bright comet, a meteor shower, and various stars and planets will give stargazers a treat this October, state astronomers said. ...