Meteor/Meteorite News- 18NOV09

Mini Ice Age Took Hold of Europe in Months

Detailed studies of ancient climate have revealed that the onset of Europe's "Big Freeze", 13,000 years ago, was anything but glacial . (New Scientist) more...

Frigid Antarctica Loaded with Viruses

Antarctica's icy lakes are home to a surprisingly diverse community of viruses, including some that were previously unidentified, a new study finds. (Live Science) more...

The Associated Press Meteor showers in Asia disappoint The Associated Press NEW DELHI — Thousands of stargazers across Asia stayed awake overnight to catch a glimpse of what was advertised as an intense Leonid meteor shower, ... Туман скрыл метеорит Леонид от Азии Газета.Ru - Москва,Russia Люди,собравшиеся посмотреть на метеорит над территорией Азии, так и не смогли его увидеть, сообщает Associated Press. Зрелищу помешал опустившийся туман. ... Cloud cover blocks meteor showers in India, Nepal The Associated Press NEW DELHI — Thousands of stargazers stayed awake overnight for what was forecast as an intense Leonid meteor shower over Asia this year, ... See video of Leonid Meteor Shower November 2009 Examiner.com The Leonid Meteor Shower can be viewed around the world from November 13-20, 2009. Astronomers estimated the peak to be early Tuesday morning (the 17), ...

Leonid Meteor Shower to Perform Late Tonight Media Newswire (press release) The annual Leonid meteor shower should be reaching its climax late tonight in the US, from about 1 am your local time to dawn Tuesday morning November 17th. ...

Meteor shower obscured by cloud (+pic) New Zealand Herald Photo / AP A meteor shower which passed over the country this morning was marred by cloudy weather. From 1am, cloud covered the North Island and most of the ...

2012: Beginning of the End or Why the World Won't End?
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/view.php?id=41280&src=eoa-nnews

Stargazers gather at Sariska for Leonid marvel

Times of India
NEW DELHI: Amateur astronomers and stargazers braced themselves for the experience of a lifetime as spectacular fireworks in the night skies meteor showers ...

Kan. father, son suspect meteorite landed at home

The Associated Press
They are convinced it's a meteorite. Chandler Harp, 10, was playing in the backyard of his Liberal home when he heard what sounded like an explosion about ...

Google Image Swirl launches in Labs

VatorNews
Clicking on the black-and-white picture in the upper-right hand corner opens up a whole new cluster of other (mostly) black-and-white photos of meteor ...

Cosmic debris: Where to watch the Leonid meteor shower

Los Angeles Times
Fret not, because you still have tonight to catch the most active moments of the annual Leonid meteor shower. It may look like the work of a big-budget ...

Upcomming meteor shower will be big Carolinian (subscription) Meteor showers occur throughout the year in various places and times. They are caused by the Earth intersecting small debris, like dust and rocks, ...

Leonid Meteor Shower starts tonight,early tommorrow morning Oneonta Daily Star The Leonid Meteor Shower will be visible tonight starting at 11pm and will end November 18th at 4am. Although Asia is in the best position to see the shower ...

Meteor/Meteorite News- 17NOV09

Indian Skies To Be Lit Up With Annual Meteor Shower With A Slight Difference AHN New Delhi, India (AHN) - Stargazers in India are in for a treat on Tuesday and Wednesday when the Leonid Meteor Showers will lit up the night sky from ... Leonid meteor shower will be tough to see in Atlanta tonight Atlanta Journal Constitution By Kristi E. Swartz Clouds rolling into metro Atlanta will likely make it difficult to view the Leonid meteor shower, a local astronomer said. ... Leonid meteor shower… Yawn, is it time yet? Christian Science Monitor By Jimmy Orr | November 17, 2009 edition If you've got a feeling of Deja Vu all over again (HT Yogi Berra), it's because we had the Perseids meteor shower ... Moments in Time The Lincoln Tribune 30, 1954, the first known modern instance of a meteorite striking a human being occurs at Sylacauga, Ala., when a meteorite weighing 8.5 pounds crashes ... Running wild through the new Fort Worth Museum of Science and History Pegasus News On the way out, I ogled the extremely rare 400-pound pallasite meteorite from the Brenham meteorite field in Kansas (not a good place to put a car lot, ... Asia, North America to enjoy big meteor shower early Tuesday USA Today Sky watchers in North America will get a chance to witness, weather permitting, the annual Leonid meteor shower early Tuesday, but the best spot for viewing ... Meteor Shower November 2009 番禺网 According to NASA, the best time to view the Leonid meteor shower is after 1:30 am EST on 17th November however, you can also view the free show after the ...

Leonid Meteor Shower 2009: Peak Time Only Kent (blog) For those of you who want to see the 2009 Leonid meteor shower at its best, tomorrow is said to be the best time to witness that. According to reports from ... Nearly 1 Million Facebook Users Watching The Lenoid Meteor Showers AllFacebook (blog) Tonight millions of people around the world will stare up at the sky to watch meteors crash into our atmosphere resulting in beautiful explosions (as long ... Leonid Meteor Shower Set For Early Tuesday Morning MyFox Chicago The Leonid meteor shower will peak between 1 am and dawn wherever you live, and the best view will be where there are no city lights. ... Photos: Giant Jellyfish, Idaho Boy Kills Bear & Leonid Meteor Shower Post Chronicle by Staff Monday Mix: Giant jellyfish are swarming Japan, an 11-year-old Idaho Boy kills bear who was an unwanted guest and the Leonid meteor shower peaks ...

Meteor Shower Early Tomorrow Morning Go Blue Ridge (blog) A very strong meteor shower will be visible to all of us living on the east coast of North America early tomorrow morning. According to MSNBC, the Lenoid ... Meteor shower to peak in Asia (8:30 am) Sun.Star THE Leonids meteor shower will have its major peak in Asia. It will also appear in some parts of the United States. In Metro Manila, the outburst of Leonids ... The Gawker Guide to Watching Tonight's Leonid Meteor Shower Gawker When they're not killing dinosaurs or being blown up by Bruce Willis meteors sure are nice-looking. Tonight, the annual Leonid meteor shower reaches its ... Leonid may put on a show for Alaskans tonight Anchorage Daily News The annual Leonid meteor shower is expected to peak Tuesday, and the first displays will be visible beginning about midnight local time, according to NASA. ... God's fireworks Ahmedabad Mirror Apart from organising special programmes on meteorites, Science City has made arrangements for Amdavadis to experience this celestial occurrence at Dehgam ... Leonid meteor shower visibility might be hindered by clouds in Grand Rapids ... MLive.com By The Grand Rapids Press staff Matt kirkwoodgrand RAPIDS -- The November 2009 Leonid meteor shower may be visible tonight, despite obviously overcast skies ... Leonid meteor shower 2009 to peak early Tuesday morning Los Angeles Times Sky-watchers in North America can expect to see up to 30 meteors hourly tonight as the annual Leonid meteor shower peaks in the wee hours of Tuesday, Nov. ... Meteor shower is returning Augusta Chronicle By Tom Corwin | Staff Writer Debris from centuries ago will create a light show 60 miles overhead early Tuesday as the Leonids meteor shower makes its ... Forecast: Clear, with a chance of meteor showers La Crosse Tribune Astronomers are predicting that this year's Leonid meteor showers will be particularly strong, with shooting stars appearing every couple of minutes over ... The Leonid meteor shower peaks overnight -- wee hours Tuesday provide best ... Pegasus News John McClelland on Restaurant review: Metzler's Bar-BQ in Denton: I'll have to try it. I drive by the University location all the time and never think to do ...

Meteor/Meteorite News: LEONID METEOR SHOWER by SpaceWeather.com 16NOV09

LEONID METEOR SHOWER
by Space Weather News, Nov. 16, 2009
http://spaceweather.com

The Leonid meteor shower peaks on Tuesday, Nov. 17th, with a new Moon providing ideally-dark viewing conditions. Forecasters expect a relatively mild display (20 to 30 meteors per hour) over North America followed by a much stronger outburst (100 to 300 per hour) over Asia.
No matter where you live, the best time to look is during the dark hours before sunrise on Tuesday morning.

Visit http://spaceweather.com

for full coverage of the Leonids, including live audio from a meteor radar, a live chat with a NASA meteor scientist, sky maps, photos and more.

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The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News- 16NOV09

Strong Leonid Meteor Shower Peaks Early Tuesday Morning Space.com By Robert Roy Britt One of the best annual meteor showers will peak in the pre-dawn hours Tuesday, and for some skywatchers the show could be quite ... 'Nearly ideal' viewing conditions for Leonid meteor shower Ottawa Citizen By Tom Spears, The Ottawa citizennovember 16, 2009 12:02 AM OTTAWA-Tonight may be the best opportunity in years to see the annual Leonid meteor shower, ... Leonid meteor shower to peak Tuesday CNN NASA says that this year's Leonid meteor shower will be light over the United States and heavier over Asia. (CNN) -- This year's Leonid meteor shower will ... Leonid meteor shower visable early Tuesday morning Examiner.com Head outdoors early Tuesday morning if you want to catch the Leonid meteor shower. Astronomers say that 20-30 showers should be visible in North America ... Leonid meteor to light up sky on Tuesday The Money Times The Leonid meteor get their name from the location of their constellation Leo, and are associated with the comet Tempel-Tuttle. They occur every year when ...

The Sky Will Be Falling NBC Washington By JIM IOVINO Back in the day (like 1833), the Leonids were the bee's knees of meteor showers. Sky and Telescope said the meteors fell "like snowflakes in a ...

Leonid meteor showers to light up night sky on Monday

Times of India
CHANDIGARH: The night sky would light up for the next couple of days with Leonid meteor shower expected to peak on Tuesday. Experts say skywatchers would be ...

SHOOTING STARS TO LIGHT UP THE NIGHT SKY

Star of Mysore
Some of these visitors from space are large enough to survive their trip through the atmosphere and impact the ground as meteorites. ...

Meteor shower hits peak tonight

Red and Black
Shooting stars and meteors will spray across the sky 500 times an hour tonight during the once-in-a-lifetime Leonid Meteor Shower. Leonid meteors are debris ...

Best spots in Utah to watch the Leonids Meteor Shower, peaking on November 17th

Examiner.com
The Leonids Meteor Shower happens like clockwork every November. Leonid Meteor Showers occur when the earth passes through clouds of dusty debris left in ...

Leonid Meteor Shower to Light Up Ithaca Sky

WVBR
Meteors wills streak across the night sky early Tuesday morning in the annual Leonid meteor shower. Experts estimate that several hundred meteors per hour ...

Giant Steps Are What You Take Walking On The Moon - With Frozen Water! Voxy In recent decades, scientists have seized upon a theory that a meteorite collision during the early stages of the Earth's formation created a large amount ...

Spirit's roving chances bleak, team cheered by discoveries Spaceflight Now Those periods would have been the time before a meteorite punched into the spot and churned up the sulfate soil, and again when the material that made up ...

Leonid meteor showers to light up night sky on Monday

Times of India
CHANDIGARH: The night sky would light up for the next couple of days with Leonid meteor shower expected to peak on Tuesday. Experts say skywatchers would be ...

Meteor showers to streak across sky Tuesday

Desert Dispatch
The Leonid meteor shower reaches its annual peak around 1 am Tuesday morning, and late viewers may be able to see a second peak Tuesday night, ...

1833 meteor shower's effects are seen to this day in religion

Press-Enterprise
By DAVID OLSON The Leonid meteor shower makes its annual appearance tonight, and it's expected to be mediocre at best. You'll probably see a few sporadic ...

Look Up: What's in the Sky This Week?

DCist.com
This meteor shower often gives one of the best shows of the year, on rare occasions being so spectacular that it surpasses being just a shower and becomes a ...

Zarzuty za atak na rzeźbę papieża

TVN24 - Warsawa,Poland
Były europoseł Witold Tomczak usłyszy prokuratorskie zarzuty za zniszczenie w 2000 r. rzeźby papieża Jana Pawła II przygniecionego meteorytem w galerii ...

Leonid Meteor Shower to Light Up Ithaca Sky

WVBR
Meteors wills streak across the night sky early Tuesday morning in the annual Leonid meteor shower. Experts estimate that several hundred meteors per hour ...

UGA Observatory to host open house tonight Online Athens Now is the height of the annual Leonid Meteor Shower, and astronomers think the celestial display could be especially impressive this year - so uga's ... See all stories on this topic

Pagasa: 'Leonids' to light up skies for 2 days Philippine Star By Dennis Carcamo (philstar.com) Updated November 16, 2009 04:45 PM MANILA, Philippines – A "prolific" meteor shower is expected to light up the skies of ...

Leonid meteor shower to peak early Tuesday morning

Denver Post
By The Denver Post The annual Leonid meteor shower peaks early Tuesday across North America, although experts say there should be good viewing in the hours ...

Clouds are likely to obscure Leonid meteor shower

Indianapolis Star
With a new moon offering little light to compete, the annual Leonid meteor shower was expected to be especially visible -- unless you're in Indiana. ...

Best viewing of Leonid meteor showers should be during Tueday's predawn hours

Kingsport Times News
By Staff Report Weather permitting, sky watchers will get a treat tonight with the peak of the Leonid meteor shower. It's peak viewing time in this region ...

NASA speaks out as 2012 film sparks fears of end of world

Coventry Telegraph There is no risk of a massive solar flare set to destroy the planet in 2012 and monitoring systems do not predict any meteorite impact in that year. ...

Usunął meteoryt, a teraz nie stawił się w prokuraturze

Kurier Szczecinski - Szszecin,Poland
... prac była „La Nona Ora” (Dziewiąta godzina), instalacja włoskiego artysty Maurizio Cattelana przedstawiająca Jana Pawła II przygniecionego meteorytem. ...

Meteor/Meteorite News- 6NOV09

Meteor explodes over Indonesia

Examiner.com
Estimates of the meteor's size range from 5 to 10 meters. Had it survived to hit the ground, it could have done considerable damage to the area around its ...

Leonid meteor shower coming in mid-November

Examiner.com
The Leonid meteor shower is expected to peak just before dawn on November 18, 2009. Starting in the evening on November 17 and continuing to approximately ...

Begin watching for Taurid fireballs tonight

ScienceDude (blog)
Map courtesy of Spaceweather.com Most people have heard of the annual Perseid meteor shower, which reaches its peak during a night-long period every August. ...

Media: Hit or Miss - Latvian mobile phone firm's staged meteorite crash blows ... PRWeek UK Fake crater - A mobile phone company in Latvia was slammed for staging a 'meteorite crash'. Tele2 said the stunt was designed to give people something ...

Ice chunks from sky batter a North Side house Chicago Tribune "Was it a meteorite?" asked Michele Halleran of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University as she looked at a picture, the question reflecting the complications ...

Unusual meteorite found by time-lapse camera observatory

Natural History Museum
An unusual meteorite with an interesting orbit has been tracked to the ground using a photographic observatory that records time-lapse images of fireballs ...

Unusual meteorite found by time-lapse camera observatory
PhysOrg Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:52 PM PST
(PhysOrg.com) -- An unusual meteorite with an interesting orbit has been tracked to the ground using a photographic observatory that records time-lapse images of fireballs traveling across the sky.

Leonids meteor shower set to spark November skies

TheJambar.com (subscription)
The Leonids meteor shower is expected to produce upwards of 500 meteors per hour on Nov. 17. While Youngstown is not the best area to see the better part of ...

Spectacular meteor shower forecast on Nov. 17

Inquirer.net
17 and you may view a spectacular meteor shower, possibly even a meteor storm, meteorologists said. Radiating from the constellation Leo, the Leonids meteor ...

Leonid meteor shower is coming

Global Times
Leonid, which means meteor shower of Leo, will reach its climax in the predawn hours of November 18. The period of 4 pm November 17 to 8 am November 18, ...

November nights bring easy viewing, meteor shower Seattle Times Western Washington residents should look for a nice view of Jupiter and its moons in November, and the spectacular Leonids meteor shower midmonth. ...

Spacecraft's data upset theories about origins, evolution of Mercury Baltimore Sun Its interior is surprisingly smooth and free of subsequent meteor impact craters, suggesting there were lava flows into the center as recently as a billion ...

Observing the Taurid meteor shower

Examiner.com
The peak of this year's Taurid meteor shower begins tonight and lasts throughout the coming week. There are actually two related groups of meteors falling ...

John Deere Planetarium Presents Holiday Show

Quad-Cities Online
... browse the Getz-Rogers Gallery, which includes full-color images from the Hubble Space Telescope and a quarter-ton piece of the Canyon Diablo meteorite. ...