Meteor/Meteorite News 8OCT2010

New Clue to Whether Phaeton Is Asteroid or Comet
Space Ref (press release)
Asteroid 3200 Phaethon sometimes acts like a comet, lighting up the Earth's night sky with meteor showers. Sometimes it's like an asteroid, a hunk of rock ...
Space Weather News for Oct. 8, 2010
DRACONID METEORS: Every year around Oct. 8th, Earth passes through a minefield of dusty debris from Comet Giacobini-Zinner, source of the annual Draconid meteor shower. This year, forecasters expect Earth to narrowly miss several of the debris streams ...

Toms River man learns mysterious rock that landed in his yard is not a meteorite
Asbury Park Press Wed, 06 Oct 2010 19:12 PM PDT
TOMS RIVER â The mysterious rock that almost conked township resident Salvadore D'Addario on the head a year ago is still that: a mystery. ...

Draconids Meteor Shower Tonight
National Geographic
Against a backdrop of blurred stars, the comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner, source of the Draconids meteor shower, is seen. Photograph courtesy NASA JPL. ...
Opportunity Finishes Studying Oileán Ruaidh
Softpedia
Officials at the American space agency say that the Martian rover Opportunity has just finished studying the sixth meteorite it found on the Red Planet, ...

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 ...


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 ...
Idaho State University receives $220000 NSF grant to research Nevada meteor ...
Idaho State University
Idaho State University researchers are attempting to connect prep students and teachers in Idaho, Nevada and Utah with the Alamo meteor that struck the ...
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 ...