Meteor/Meteorite News 29DEC2010

Largest single fragment of stony meteorite ever found
People's Daily Online
In 1976, a rare large meteorite shower covering 500 square kilometers appeared in Jilin City. The largest meteorite, weighing 1770 kilograms, ...


Berwyn Mountains “UFO” mystery deepens
Daily Post North Wales
One suggested there was a combination of events, a meteor shower combined with an earthquake – the epicentre of which was at Bala Lake – and misperception ...

Meteorite Hunting Secrets Revealed by 'Meteorite Men' Star ContributorNetwork via Yahoo! News Tue, 28 Dec 2010 11:04 AM PST This is the third article based on my exclusive interview with Steve Arnold, one of the two co-stars of the Science Channel TV show "Meteorite Men." Read the first, "Meteorite Men Star Clears Up Misconceptions about Meteors", here. The second, "Meteorite Men Star Builds Career from Space Rocks," is here. ... Boom, flash mystifies Troy on Christmas The Western News Steve Sigler, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Missoula, said it is possible Troy witnessed its own personal Christmas meteor. ... 39th Annual Flagg Gem and Mineral Show EVLiving This is also the first year that ASU's Center for Meteorite Studies will participate with a “meteorite dig” activity in which visitors can collect fragments ...

Meteor/Meteorite News 29OCT2010

Close Earth Flyby of Asteroid 2003 UV11 
ASTEROID FLYBY:  Asteroid 2003 UV11 will fly past Earth
on Oct. 29th and 30th at a distance of only 1.2 million
miles. ...


The Leonids are coming: Meteors arrive Nov. 17
 Mountain Xpress (blog)
Meteors result from particles of dust causing the atmosphere to glow as the particles enter the upper atmosphere of the Earth. ...

Romania Meteor 28OCT2010
A reader writes, "I saw a meteor in Constanta, Romania , today 28.10.2010, at approx. 16:30 local time."  Anon. (no secondary confirmation)

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NASA Spacecraft Preps for Comet Flyby
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
October 27, 2010
In one of its final mission trajectory correction maneuvers, the EPOXI
mission spacecraft has refined its orbit, preparing it for the flyby of
comet Hartley 2 on Nov. 4. The time of closest approach to the comet on
that day is expected to be about 7:02 a.m. PDT (10:02 a.m. EDT). ...

Green comet expected to bring meteor shower to UK
New York Post
A green comet that is passing close to Earth this month could produce an impressive meteor shower over Britain and Ireland next week, astronomers predicted. ...
Meteorite Men Prepare for Season Two Premiere
Tucson Citizen
Steve and Geoff on location filming "Meteorite Men," June 2010. Photo by Suzanne Morrison. For Season Two we were given just five months to produce eight ...