Showing posts with label Comet Hartley 2. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Comet Hartley 2. Show all posts

03 November 2010

Meteor/Meteorite News 3NOV2010

 Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Meteor? ~8:00P.M. Central Time, 1Nov2010
A reader from Canada writes to ask, "Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Around 8:00P.M. Central Time, November 1, 2010, My wife and I saw a bright light travel across the night sky. It was a steady path, very large and gets smaller as it went past the Big Dipper, southwest to northeast and it disappeared; did anyone else see this?."
  Anyone with information please use the comment form at the bottom of this post; thank you.

Arctic Lake Yields Planet's Most Continuous Record of Ancient Climate
Wired News (blog)
At the time the kilometer-wide meteorite hit, temperatures were probably 10 to 14 degrees Celsius warmer than today, Brigham-Grette said. ...

NASA's Comet Mission May Face Multiple Jets Nov. 4
Jet Propulsion Laboratory- November 01, 2010
Two movies derived from images taken by the two cameras aboard NASA's
EPOXI mission spacecraft show comet Hartley 2 is, as expected, quite
active, and it provides information on the nucleus's rotation. The
spacecraft has been imaging Hartley 2 almost daily since Sept. 5, in
preparation for its scheduled Nov. 4 flyby of the comet. ...

PAGASA: Meteor shower treat awaits stargazers this November
GMANews.TV
Barring cyclones and cloudy skies, stargazers will be treated to a meteor shower display this November, the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and ...

Craig Murray - Meteors or Meteorites over Kent
By craig
I have just seen the most beautiful sight. A meteor of the deepest red, a distinct flare with a tail, came over in a great arc, moving very slowly and slightly wobbly, and gradually dwindling away to nothing. Just as...

Memorial Songs for the Meteorite Hunter
5 min video- a bit odd
Ethan Murrow 2010
youtube.com

02 November 2010

Not Canadian Geese- Wipe Off Your Lens 3NOV2010

Canadian Goose is a Swan- Hartley 2
Comet Hartley 2- Droppings from Cygnus the Swan 
(photo source: Wikipedia ca.1825, England)
"BE ALERT FOR 'HARTLEY-ID' METEORS:
  If Comet Hartley 2 is going to produce a meteor shower, tonight is the night.
  According to experts, there is a slim chance that dust from the comet could hit Earth's atmosphere on Nov. 2nd and 3rd, producing a slow flurry of meteors streaming from the constellation Cygnus. If you're out after sunset,
Clear skies
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Michael Boschat
Halifax Center- Royal Astronomical Society of Canada"
web page: http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~aa063

Meteor/Meteorite News 2NOV2010

 Comet Hartley 2 Could Deliver Bonus Meteor Shower Yahoo News
The icy Comet Hartley 2 put on an interesting show during an unusually close pass by Earth last month and is poised to be visited by a NASA space probe on ...

NASA TO HOST LIVE EVENTS FOR NOVEMBER 4 COMET ENCOUNTER
WASHINGTON -- NASA will hold a series of media and educational events
about the EPOXI mission's close encounter with comet Hartley 2 at
approximately 7 a.m. PDT on Thursday, Nov. 4. The spacecraft will
provide the most extensive observations of a comet in history....

SPACEcom Comet Hartley 2 Could DeliverBonus Meteor Shower
The Comet Hartley 2 may give birth to a new meteor shower this week, but it may not. Any meteors from Comet Hartley 2 would likely be best seen from Nov. ...

New address for MetBull Database 
The Meteoritical Bulletin Database has moved to a permanent home at LPI.  For now, you will be redirected there from the old address.  The new address is:
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meteor/metbull.php


Slice of Scifi Special: Geoff Notkin of Meteorite Men (video) 21 min
A special interview with Geoff Notkin of Meteorite Men


Silica on a Mars Volcano Tells of Wet and Cozy Past
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
October 31, 2010
PASADENA, Calif. -- Light-colored mounds of a mineral deposited on a
volcanic cone more than three billion years ago may preserve evidence of
one of the most recent habitable microenvironments on Mars. ...

28 October 2010

Meteor/Meteorite News 28OCT2010

UNT confirms man's meteorite
Denton Record Chronicle
By Rachel Mehlhaff / Staff Writer A man recently found out that a rock he stumbled upon two years ago is actually a meteorite. George Wright holds a ... (Lufkin, TX meteorite)

Meteoriti u Srbiji 
B92 - ‎2010年10月25日‎ 
Meteorit koji se čuva se u Prirodnjačkom muzeju težak je nešto preko 16 kilograma, a ostali primerci krase vitrine mnogih svetskih muzeja. ...
ImTranslator 3.3.4-P  Serbian to English
Meteorites in Serbia
B92 - 2010 年 10 月 25 日
Meteorite kept the Natural History Museum weighs just over 16 pounds, and other sample adorned showcases many world museums. ... 

Twin Fireballs May Have Come From Comet Hartley 2
Space.com
[Photo of the Oct. 16 fireballs] Before the fireballs were observed, NASA scientists were skeptical of any substantial meteor display from Comet Hartley 2. ...

Scientists Watch for a "Hartley-id" Meteor Shower - NASA Science
A pair of unusual fireballs over Canada and the southeastern USA have experts wondering if Comet Hartley 2 might produce a meteor shower in early November. ...

 How Comets Cause Meteor Showers - Yahoo! News
Meteors — popularly referred to as "shooting stars" — are generated when debris ... But astronomers have found that some meteor swarms correspond closely to ...

Giant Impact Crater Found In Australia
Slashdot Wed, 27 Oct 2010 02:19 AM PDT
An anonymous reader writes "One of the largest meteorite impacts in the world has been discovered in the South Australian outback by geothermal researchers. It may explain one of the many extinction events in the past 600 million years, and may contain rare and exotic minerals. The crater is said to have been 'produced by an asteroid six to 12 km across' â which is really big!" Read more of this ...  


Giant crater may have been extinction trigger
Cosmos
SYDNEY: One of the largest meteorite impacts in the world has been discovered in the Australian outback - an impact so powerful it may have been the trigger ...

NASA: Comet may produce a new meteor shower
Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)
Comet Hartley 2 is traveling nearer to the earth than a comet has in centuries, and astronomers are wondering if the close approach might produce a meteor ...