The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 28APR2014

Kiowa County's moon rocks
Hutchinson News
Don Stimpson's face is reflected on an iron meteorite while inside the Kansas MeteoriteMuseum and Nature Center west of Haviland on Thursday.

RTU ASTRONOMY SOCIETY: ETA AQUARID METEOR SHOWER - Blogger
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The Eta Aquarid meteor shower is an underrated shower compared to more popular ones like the recent Lyrids. But it actually has one of the highest ...

EA3MS recives Graves Radar meteor scatter - Random conditions - YouTube
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Receiving meteor scatter reflextions with 2x17el yagi in JN01ME. You can hear several small reflections and some bigger reflections. Further, on some ...

Chelyabinsk meteorite hit the Earth like a warning shot fired from space

The Guardian - 3 hours
The meteorite is providing invaluable information to help protect against larger rocks that might pose a serious threat to Earth Just after ...

Starwatch: The May night sky
The Guardian
A new meteor shower may emanate from our N sky on the 24th, though if the predicted time of its peak at about 08:00 BST is correct it will be too late ...

5 planets appear in May for your viewing pleasure
Honolulu Star-Advertiser
... year; moon conditions are good for one of the lesser-known meteor showers; and we say goodbye to Orion and the other great winter constellations.

Meteor 2014 04 25 23 57 46 - YouTube
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Meteor, Shreveport, LA, 04/25/2014, 23:57:46 PM, captured using ISPY software, PC165DNR Camera, through a VIDEO2PC interface.

Asteroid Impacts - Chelyabinsk Meteor | Mysterious Universe
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The Chelyabinsk meteor, shown in the image above, was a clear exception. It collided with Earth's atmosphere at more than 40,000 miles per hour ...

2014 The Year of "CERTAIN Uncertainty" ™; Meteors, Asteroids, Comets, and MORE!!

Meteor/Meteorite News 19SEP2011

39-pound Meteorite Unearthed in Kansas First Coast News As owner of the Kansas Meteorite Museum, he's searching a six-mile stretch of Kiowa County known for "Brenham Meteorites," named for the little town of Brenham once located here, the site of a huge meteor explosion. "The idea is this all came in at one...

Man makes meteorites his life's work
Arizona Republic
He got out of the truck, walked to the roadside and saw a smooth, black chunk of rock off the pavement - an unmistakable piece of a meteorite. His wife spotted another piece, and a few hours later his son-in-law found a third. ...


'Dinosaur-killing asteroid wiped out ancient birds'
Hindustan Times
PTI The catastrophic meteor strike that killed dinosaurs on Earth some 65 million years ago may also have wiped out ancient birds, scientists say. Paleontologists who examined fossils of ancient birds found that many of the archaic birds died off at ...

Invaders from Vesta! Discover Magazine (blog) In the last paragraph of the Vesta post, I said we have samples of Vesta that fell asmeteorites. As it happens, they had a sample of one of those rocks at the show! Here it is: Other such meteorites have been found on Earth as well, and are generally ...

Greenland rocks unlock golden shower secrets IceNews The researchers from the University of Bristol in the UK say their experiments with material from Isua, southwest Greenland, provide evidence of a meteor bombardment some 3.9 billion years ago which laced the planet's crust with tons of dead-star ...

Man Unearths Brenham Meteorite in SW Kansas 11MAY09

Man Unearths Meteorite in SW Kansas
May 11, 2009 07:52 AM
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Man Unearths Meteorite in SW Kansas
By Alana Rocha
(KIOWA COUNTY, Kan.)
They come from outer space and are embedded in fields across Kansas. Countless meteorites, of all shapes and sizes are uncovered every year here.
Eyewitness News traveled to the southwest part of the state to witness the latest discovery and learn what it says about the area.
To most of us, it's a field with a rock sitting in a hole in the middle of it. To Don Stimpson, "This is just a tremendously unique area in the whole world."
As curator of the Kansas Meteorite Museum in Haviland, Stimpson has no problem explaining why.
"We just have the streamfield of this meteorite, of this type of meteorite in the whole world," he said.
Sunday just east of Greensburg, he was ready to unearth his latest find - a rather odd-shaped piece Stimpson believes is a major chunk of the Brenham Meteorites.
Brenham Meteorite History
It took Stimpson and some friends less than an hour to harness it in, test the hold and hoist it out of the ground.
It's estimated the meteorite has sat in the ground 20,000 years. And this day is the result of about two weeks of digging and a couple of months waiting on good Kansas weather to lift it out.
Stimpson says, "Maybe not everybody is a rock hound, but certainly within that community you can't help but be fascinated by coming out and picking up a piece of rock that came from space."
With the meteorite in place, the Stimpsons make their way into town to see how much it weighs.
"Looks like 1,220 pounds," Stimpson calculates.
He says of his find, "That's another one of the main masses from this field. We've found several of them now. It's filling in the science of how this thing came in and broke up there."
With a metal detector in hand, Stimpson vows to continue scouring the fields in his area to help fill in the gaps.
Stimpson will now spend some time cleaning the meteorite before displaying it in his museum near Haviland.