Showing posts with label Ireland meteor 1SEP2010. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ireland meteor 1SEP2010. Show all posts

17 September 2010

Meteor/Meteorite News 17SEP2010

Meteor blazes a trail on the Northside
(Ireland)

Northside People (blog) - 16 hours ago
A NUMBER of lucky Northsiders were treated to the rare and spectacular sight of a meteor blazing through the night sky recently. One resident who lives on ...

Moon Crater Map Reveals Early Solar System History

Wired News (blog) - Jess McNally - 16 hours ago
The basin formed from a projectile that impacted the moon about 3.8 billion years ago, likely during the massive ejection of asteroids from the meteor belt ...

Back to the moon's future

Science News - Camille M. Carlisle - 16 hours ago
In general, fewer craters mean a younger surface, because fewer meteorites have had time to hit it. Scientists have linked crater density to age for various ...

Meteorite on display in Castle Rock this weekend

Longview Daily News - 8 hours ago
Brenda Blevins McCorkle / The Daily News Ron Graichen, left, helped Don Wasson identify the meteorite that he and his wife found about 10 years ago in ...

Aliens with souls are living among the stars' says Vatican astronomer

Daily Mail - David Derbyshire - 25 minutes ago
Dr Consolmango, 57, the curator of the Pope's meteorite collection, is a trained astronomer and planetary scientist at the Vatican's observatory. ...




10 September 2010

Meteor/Meteorite News 10SEP2010

Scientist: Colombia 'meteorite' is Russian space junk

Colombia Reports - ‎3 時間前‎
Colombian air force helicopters had been commissioned to fly over the area to try to locate the meteorite. Fragments of what may be the remains of the ... (One scientist says Russian space junk; but maybe not! says other researcher with undetermined "specimen".)

Supernova shrapnel slammed into meteorite

NetworkWorld.com - ‎3 時間前‎
Scientists this week said they found microscopic shrapnel in a meteorite of a star they say exploded around the birth of our solar system 4.5 billion years ...

Phoenix Mars Lander finds surprises about red planet's watery past

EurekAlert (press release) - ‎2 時間前‎
The comparisons of isotopes in Mars' atmosphere with those in the meteorites provide confirmation of key findings. For example, one meteorite that ...

Hunt for fallen meteorite hits Galway

Galway Advertiser - ‎12 時間前‎
By Martina Nee The hunt for the meteorite which landed on Irish soil last week has been narrowed down to an area between Portumna and Galway city, according ...

Hunt in Ireland for meteorite worth more than £80000

Belfast Telegraph
The search is on in Northern Ireland and the Republic for a meteorite that could be worth more than its weight in gold. A fireball blazed across the night ...

NASA Is Running Out of Money to Monitor Earth-Destroying Asteroids (Part 2 of 2)

Big Think
We are also amazed at the meteor showers when we are able to see them. The local news usually let's you know when you will be able to catch a glimpse and ...


Search on for Irish meteorite said to be worth nearly $130,000
Irish Central Sun, 05 Sep 2010 05:44 AM PDT
Astronomers in Ireland are on the look out for a meteorite that could be worth about $129,000, after a meteor shower Wednesday night. David Moore , chairman of Astronomy Ireland , the national astronomy club, told the Herald that the discovery of a meteorite would be rare.


Ancient Greeks spotted Halley's comet

New Scientist - ‎3 時間前‎
According to ancient authors, from Aristotle onwards, a meteorite the size of a "wagonload" crashed into northern Greece sometime between 466 and 468 BC ...

Colombia fails to find meteorite crash site

Colombia Reports - ‎2010年9月7日‎
Despite a 1000-strong search team and a police helicopter looking for the remains of a giant fireball seen in the skies of central Colombia, authorities ...

太陽系最古の物質発見

ナショナルジオグラフィック 公式日本語サイト - ‎2010年8月24日‎
研究チームのリーダーでアメリカにあるアリゾナ州立大学隕石研究センター(Center for Meteorite Studies)の研究員オードリー・ブービエ氏は、「原始太 陽の成長が一段落した後から、温度低下で物質の凝縮が始まり、この含有物の形成も始まった」と話す。 ...

Lunar Pencil Lead: Graphite Found in Moon Rock Collected During

Scientific American - ‎8 時間前‎
The researchers surmise that the graphite inclusions stem from a meteorite strike, probably during a period of intense impacts about four billion years ago ...

What to do in the event of nukes

msnbc.com (blog) - ‎3 時間前‎
Meteorite contains shrapnel from a supernova that occurred as our solar system was being born. Discover magazine provides a handy how-to guide for ...

First UK camera to scan clouds at night

BBC News
Since the camera was installed in October 2009 the camera has detected 26 potential fireballs, and a few actual fireballs from the recent Perseid meteor ...


Debate over mini-Ice Age rocks world of geology

Montreal Gazette - ‎1 時間前‎
The study also contends that the "nanodiamonds" documented in previous studies were, in fact, misidentified samples of a carbon-based substance called ...

Il pericolo degli asteroidi fra tecnologia e finzione

Terra - ‎35 分前‎
Il prossimo meteorite è previsto per il 1° ottobre. Questa notte il cielo terrestre è stato attraversato da uno di quei fenomeni silenziosi ma di cui sono ...

Moon Watch Party: anche nel Salento l'evento globale della NASA

Cannibali - ‎8 時間前‎
Al termine si potrà partecipare all'estrazione di una autentica meteorite lunare. Si chiama Moon Watch Party la manifestazione promossa dalla NASA, per la ...

How Microbes Could Help Colonize Mars

Astrobiology Magazine - ‎13 時間前‎
One acid-loving, iron-oxidizing microbe proved capable of perhaps using material from a Murchison meteorite, according to a 2009 study by Gronstal and ...

Ecco l'antenato del velociraptor: più grande, più rapido e più pericoloso

Nuova Società - ‎6 時間前‎
... ma anche da quelli scoperti in Cina, i dinosauri non si sono tutti estinti 65 milioni di anni fa, forse a causa dell'impatto di un meteorite sulla Terra ...