Meteor/Meteorite News 10JUN2010

NASA gets front row seat for fiery “man-made meteor” reentry

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... essentially making it a man-made meteor," said Peter Jenniskens, the observation campaign's principal investigator and a scientist at NASA's Ames ...

NASA Astronomers to Observe Hayabusa Homecoming
MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. -- A group of astronomers from NASA, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and other organizations are flying to the other side of the world for a front row seat and a rare opportunity to study a spacecraft's targeted fiery descent through Earth's atmosphere. ...
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/news/releases/2010/10-48AR.html


Hayabusa on course for Australia landing zone
BY STEPHEN CLARK
SPACEFLIGHT NOW
June 9, 2010
Five days before it will fall into the Australian outback, Japan's
returning Hayabusa asteroid mission finished targeting the landing site
Tuesday in a final ion engine burn. ...
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n1006/09hayabusa/

DC-8 Flying Laboratory Heading To Australia For Hayabusa Re-entry

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During those missions, scientists studied the levels of radiation, light and out-gassing of the descending spacecraft, to better understand meteor and heat ...

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ニュー ス 科学＆宇宙 木星に隕石が衝突昨年から2年連続 ナショナルジオ ...

ニュース - 科学＆宇宙 - 木星に隕石が衝突、昨年から2年連続 - ナショナルジオグラフィック 公式日本語サイト.
www.nationalgeographic.co.jp/news/news_article.php?file_id...

New Comet in the Morning Sky
Space Weather News for June 8, 2010
http://spaceweather.com

NEW COMET McNAUGHT: A fresh comet is swinging through the inner solar system, and it is brightening rapidly as it approaches Earth for a 100 million mile close encounter in mid-June. Comet McNaught (C/2009 R1) has a vivid green head and a long wispy tail that look great through small telescopes. By the end of the month it could be visible to the naked eye perhaps as bright as the stars of the Big Dipper. Because this is the comet's first visit to the inner solar system, predictions of future brightness are necessarily uncertain; amateur astronomers should be alert for the unexpected. Visit http://spaceweather.com

for sky maps, photos and more information. ...


NASA Helps in Upcoming Asteroid Mission Homecoming
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
June 08, 2010
The space and astronomy worlds have June 13 circled on the calendar.
That's when the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) expects the
sample return capsule of the agency's technology demonstrator
spacecraft, Hayabusa, to boomerang back to Earth. The capsule, along
with its mother ship, visited a near-Earth asteroid, Itokawa, five years
ago and has logged about 2 billion kilometers (1.25 billion miles) since
its launch in May 2003. ...
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2010-194

Detailed Martian Scenes in New Images from Mars Orbiter
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
June 09, 2010
Six hundred recent observations of the Mars landscape from an orbiting
telescopic camera include scenes of sinuous gullies, geometrical ridges
and steep cliffs. ...
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2010-193

Finding a 5 kg while prospecting for gold nuggets..

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While prospecting for gold nuggets in central Australia I sometimes come across a meteorite or two.. This is a particularly nice one poking out at ...
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