The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 02JAN2021

Some of Hayabusa2's Samples are as Big as a Centimeter
Universe Today
A fireball hurtled across the sky on December 5th – the sample return capsule from the Hayabusa2 asteroid mission by JAXA (Japan Aerospace ...

History of the solar nebula from meteorite paleomagnetism
Science Advances
We discuss the implications of theory, meteorite measurements, and astronomical observations for planetary formation and nebular evolution.

Sept réalisations scientifiques importantes de l'année 2020
Trust My Science
La première protéine d'origine extraterrestre trouvée dans une météorite ... Une façon de découvrir cela nécessite de se tourner vers les météorites.

Quadrantid meteor shower could sizzle or fizzle over the weekend
WGRZ.com
Although winter has just begun for the Northern Hemisphere, the Quadrantids is the season's final meteor shower before there is a long spell where no ...

2021 The EIGHTH Year of "CERTAIN Uncertainty" ™ / Meteors, Asteroids, Comets, and MORE!!

Meteor/Meteorite New 17NOV2010

Reader reports: 

Chincoteague Island, Virginia 17:00 EST 15NOV2010

Guest833 (guest):Saw green fireball above Chincoteague Island, Virginia right at sunset 17:00 EST 15NOV2010

Orange Beach,Alabama on October 8, 2010
Karen Harper: I saw a large brilliant slow moving green fireball move across the horizon in front of my car on a highway while driving from Birmingham to Orange Beach,Alabama on October 8, 2010 not long after dark. It was fantastically brilliant and unlike anything I've ever witnessed. It moved from my right to the left which would seemingly indicate it was moving from west to east. It was low on the horizon.

Baraboo, Wisconsin 6:15 a.m. November 5th, 2010

M. Bildsten writes, "I saw a Fireball on November 5th at 6:15 a.m. while walking my dog.  It was a low Fireball about 4 stories directly over my head and slow moving about 2- 3 seconds I counted while it flew over my head.  I heard it before I saw it that is what made me look up.  It sounded like a loud boomerang.  My friend across town said she saw a rainbow of colors and was much higher.  I'm not sure if she saw the Fireball or the Meteor.  We live in Baraboo, Wisconsin." (contact info)

Gettysburg, PA  a.m. No Date 14NOV2010?

My mother and I were traveling south on Route 15 near Gettysburg, PA just north or the PA MD line this morning and saw the "meteorite" that you saw.  I found your email address in a blog post that you made while I was searching for a possible news article on it. (contact info)


Meteor/Meteorite News Today:
Particles in Hayabusa space probe confirmed to come from asteroid ...

Mainichi Daily News - 14 hours ago

Furthermore, similarities to an LL chondrite meteor believed to have fallen to earth from the asteroid were also seen. These factors led officials to ...

 Particles brought back by Hayabusa identified as from Itokawa

http://www.jaxa.jp/press/2010/11/20101116_hayabusa_e.html

RIA Novosti

Japanische Forscher bestätigen außerirdische Herkunft von Material aus ...

RIA Novosti - ‎7 時間前‎

... Luft- und Weltraumagentur JAXA zu dem Schluss gelangt, dass das gesammelte Material mit dem von auf die Erde gefallenen Meteoriten identisch ist. ...

Japón asegura que las muestras que trajo la sonda 'Hayabusa' son de un asteroide

El País.com (España) - ‎9 時間前‎

... minerales comunes en este planeta, pero su proporción y composición atómica coincide con las de "algún tipo de meteorito primitivo y no corresponden con ...

Hayabusa a bien rapporté des poussières d'astéroïde

Sciences et Avenir - ‎7 時間前‎

Leur composition ne correspond pas à celle de roches terrestres mais se rapprochent de celle d'une météoriteprimitive, selon les informations de la Jaxa. ...

Life on Earth Spawned by Dead Alien Microbes?

Discovery News - ‎2010年11月15日‎

Sure, one could envisage a short hop from planet-to-planet within our own solar system -- remember the stir of Marsmeteorite ALH84001 (pictured top) -- but ...

Witnesses describe seeing a 'giant meteor' 
BBC News
The meteor is reported to have broken into a number of pieces and it left bright streaks of light in the sky at about 0540 GMT. It was spotted in Glasgow, ...

Scottish skies lit up by 'giant meteor'
Herald Scotland
A meteor was seen streaking across the sky over central and northern Scotland early yesterday. People in Glasgow, Kinross and Durness, Sutherland, ...

Early risers tracked dazzling meteor across north skies
Press and Journal
Pest controller Edward Cumming was walking his dog at North Kessock on the Black Isle around 5.45am when he saw the bright object – thought to be a meteor ...

Leonid Meteor Shower Peaks Wednesday | Wired Science | Wiredcom
Wake up early and look up tomorrow: The annual Leonid meteor shower is expected to peak in the hours just before dawn Wednesday and Thursday. The Leonids.

Leonid meteor shower to peak Thursday
Sify
New Delhi, Nov 16 (IANS) Leonid meteor shower will peak Thursday but there can be disappointment for sky gazers as the moon is expected to wash out the ...


The Leonid Meteor Shower Peaks Wednesday Tips for Skywatching ...
This is the week that the famous Leonid meteor shower will be reaching its peak, and the best viewing of these ultra-swift "shooting stars" should come ...


Locations in San Diego to Watch the 2010 Leonid Meteor Shower
Yahoo! News
The November Leonid Meteor Shower is expected to peak on November 17 and 18. Traditionally, it has produced great shows with rates in the thousands per hour ...

Leonids meteor shower 2010 blogTO (blog) The 2010 Leonid meteor shower is just around the corner. Those in Toronto hoping to catch a glimpse of shooting stars will have the best chances of doing so ... Difficult SA viewing for meteor shower News24 Cape Town - There should be some strange lights in the sky on Wednesday as the Leonid meteorshower appears, but viewing conditions won't be fantastic. ... Doha to witness celestial spectacle Gulf Times An increase in the number of meteors at a particular time of the year is called a meteor shower. Comets shed the debris that becomes most meteor showers. ... Ask Al Answers: What was the very bright ball with a tail? Nashua Telegraph Al was queried by Paul N. of Nashua on Nov 3: “Have you heard any report of a meteor in the north/northeast sky last night? I viewed it from Cushing Avenue ... The Leonid Meteor Shower Peaks Wednesday Tips for Skywatching ... This is the week that the famous Leonid meteor shower will be reaching its peak, and the best viewing of these ultra-swift "shooting stars" should come ... news.yahoo.com/.../theleonidmeteorshowerpeakswednesdaytip...

Podcast on Impacts - Geol. Soc. London

Follow the link for a podcast on Impacts. You'll also see links to other interesting meteorite-related topics.  http://www.geolsoc.org.uk/podcast9 
  When German physicist Ernst Florens Chladni published a pamphlet in 1794 arguing that meteorites had their origins in outer space, the idea was received with widespread mockery by the scientific community. Now, meteorites are recognised as an important astronomical process. But it has taken geologists a long time to acknowledge their significance to the history of the Earth - particularly as uniformitarianism overtook catastrophism as the prevailing theory of geologic change. 
  Sarah talks to the Natural History Museum's Kieren Howard about the significance of meteorites to Earth - not only their impact on Earth's surface, but the effect they have on people. And we discuss the most famous meteorite to strike Earth - the Chicxulub impact. Long held responsible for the extinction of the dinosaurs, the Chixculub impact has been the focus of debate amongst scientists almost from the moment of its discovery. Sarah talks to a group of scientists who have been involved in a project to lay the debate to rest, once and for all.

Japan Meteor/Meteorite News 14JUN2010

Hayabusa asteroid-sample capsule recovered in Outback

By Jonathan Amos
Science correspondent, BBC News
The Japanese space capsule which landed in the Australian Outback on Sunday night (local time) has been recovered. The Hayabusa pod was picked up by a helicopter team and transferred to a control centre on the Woomera Prohibited Area. The canister, which is believed to hold the first samples ever grabbed from the surface of an asteroid, will now be shipped to Tokyo. ... [more]
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science_and_environment/10307048.stm

Raw Video: Probe Returns After Going to Asteroid

Posted on YouTube by AssociatedPress — [259 views] 2010年06月14日
— A Japanese capsule returned to Earth overnight after a seven-year, 4 billion-mile journey, burning apart on re-entry in a spectacular fireball. This is the first time a spacecraft successfully landed on an asteroid and returned to Earth. (June 14) ...

Asteroid mission returns to Earth (13/6/2010)

Posted on YouTube by UFOReportLive — [77 views] 2010年06月14日
— A capsule thought to contain the first samples grabbed from the surface of an asteroid has returned to Earth. The Japanese Hayabusa container hit the top of the atmosphere just after 1350 GMT, producing a bright fireball over southern Australia. It had a shield to cope with the heat of re-entry and a parachute for the final drop to the ground.
A recovery team later reported they had identified the landing zone in the Woomera Prohibited Range. BBC Science Correspondent Jonathan Amos describes the capsule's dramatic re-entry. Japanese space probe returns to Earth (14/6/2010)- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQAbFv...

Meteor/Meteorite News 10JUN2010

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

NetworkWorld.com
... 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

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

Meteor/Meteorite News 9JUN2010

Hayabusa on Track for June 13 Return Home

Softpedia - ‎5 時間前‎

Once around the planet, it will eject a canister that JAXA experts hope contains some pebbles and meteorite dust. However, this is uncertain, given that the ...

Als der Mars noch lebensfreundlich war

derStandard.at - ‎2010年6月6日‎

Diese Zusammensetzung findet sich auch in den Carbonatkügelchen, die in dem Mars-Meteoriten ALH 84001 entdeckt wurden. Der Allan-Hills-Meteorit sorgte Ende ...

山村晴朗天氣天上掉三大塊冰塊 墜落時帶響(圖)

中國經濟網 - ‎10 時間前‎

6月6日上午，記者趕到了波東村，正巧遇到聞訊趕來的北京天文臺研究隕石的專家張寶林和北京 電視臺科技頻道的記者，記者和專家走訪了20多位村民，大家都說當時確實沒有聽到和看到飛機經過，當時也確實是晴天。豐寧滿族自治縣氣象局局長吳曉軍證 實，6月5日上午8時至9時，衛星 ...
Village sunny weather, the three large ice cubes fall out the sky when the band sound (Figure) China Economic Net - 10 hours ago on June 6 morning, reporters rushed to the wave of East Village, jumped at the Beijing Observatory, who heard of meteorites Experts Baolin and Beijing TV channel technology journalists, reporters and experts visited more than 20 villagers, everyone says that when the aircraft did not hear and see through, was indeed a sunny day. Wu Xiaojun Fengning County Meteorological Bureau confirmed that, at eight o'clock on the June 5 to 9, the satellite ...

２０１０年宇宙の旅：小惑星の岩石採取、新設装置で分析へ

毎日新聞 - ‎16 時間前‎

地球に落下する隕 石（いんせき）は、小惑星からもたらされる物質の代表格だ。だが隕石は大気圏を通過する途中で高温になり、落下後は地球環境にさら されて変質している。はやぶさが持ち帰る物質は、このような熱変化や地球環境による汚染の影響がない。 ...
2010 A Space Odyssey: an asteroid rock samples, to analyze
毎日新聞 - 16 hours ago
Meteorites fall to Earth (Inseki) is the representative of the material come from the asteroid. But along the way became a hot meteorite through the atmosphere after the fall has been exposed to environmental deterioration. Material brought back by the spacecraft is not affected by pollution and global environmental changes such heat. ...

Selene Makes Impact on Moon 12JUN09

A smashing end for Japanese lunar orbiter mission
BY STEPHEN CLARK
SPACEFLIGHT NOW
Posted: June 10, 2009
An Australian telescope observed the controlled crash of Japan's Kaguya lunar probe into the moon Wednesday, an important warm-up act before a NASA impactor attempts a similar feat in October with much higher stakes. ...(more)

http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n0906/10kaguya/

Japanese Spacecraft Set to Impact the Moon 10JUN09

Image by JAXA 2009 Projected Selene Impact Site

Japan's Kaguya (Selene) will crash into the Moon on Wednesday, June 10th, around 1830 UT. The timing favors observers in Asia and Australia, who might be able to see a flash of light or a plume of debris rising from the Moon's southeastern limb. The spacecraft masses 2,600 kg and it will slam into the lunar surface at 6,000 km/hr. No one knows, however, how bright the flash might be or whether it will be visible even through large telescopes. Images of the crash, if any are captured, will be posted on http://spaceweather.com

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency(JAXA) launched "KAGUYA (SELENE)" using the H-IIA Launch Vehicle at 10:31:01 a.m. on September 14, 2007 (JST) from Tanegashima Space Center.
The major objectives of the "KAGUYA" mission were to obtain scientific data of the lunar origin and evolution and to develop the technology for the future lunar exploration.
"KAGUYA" consisted of a main orbiting satellite at about 100km altitude and two small satellites (Relay Satellite and VRAD Satellite) in polar orbit. The orbiters carried instruments for scientific investigation of the Moon, on the Moon, and from the Moon.
http://www.kaguya.jaxa.jp/index_e.htm