Meteor/Meteorite News 4AUG2011

Flagler, Florida Mystery Light/UFO Solved? Georgia Fireball ...
"They called me and notified they saw a large flash from the sky. About 25 people have told one of the officers," Flagler Beach Police Chief Dan Cody said. ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEzd6ejk6FA


Rare crystals found in meteorite
UPI.com
3 (UPI) -- Japanese researchers say they found opal-like crystals in a meteor that fell in Canada in 2000, the first extraterrestrial discovery of such unusual crystals. Reporting the find in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, ...

Rare crystals found in meteorite UPI Wed, 03 Aug 2011 16:57 PM PDT TOHOKU, Japan, Aug. 3 (UPI) -- Japanese researchers say they found opal-like crystals in a meteor that fell in Canada in 2000, the first extraterrestrial discovery of such unusual crystals.

First Opal-Like Crystals Discovered In Meteorite
redOrbit Wed, 03 Aug 2011 14:19 PM PDT
Scientists have found opal-like crystals in the Tagish Lake meteorite, which fell to Earth in Canada in 2000. This is the first extraterrestrial discovery of these unusual crystals, which may have formed in the primordial cloud of dust that produced the sun and planets of our solar system 4.6 billion years ago, according to a report in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. Katsuo ...

W&M Law students study "space law" The Virginia Gazette Tue, 02 Aug 2011 23:36 PM PDT WILLIAMSBURG - William & Mary Law School students Brittany Law and Lillian McManus are now experienced in âspace lawâ after a rare property case involving the Lorton Meteorite fell out of the sky and into an examining room of Doctors Marc Gallini and Frank Ciampiâs Williamsburg Square Family Practice in Jan. 2010. ...

Potential meteor menace said overstated
CBS News
A giant impact from an asteroid or comet can ruin your whole day. Or year. Or, if you're a dinosaur, your existence. So astronomers do what they can to understand this menace from space. We look for rocks on orbits that intersect ours, we think about ...


First opal-like crystals discovered in meteorite
ScienceBlog.com (blog)
Scientists have found opal-like crystals in the Tagish Lake meteorite, which fell to Earth in Canada in 2000. This is the first extraterrestrial discovery of these unusual crystals, which may have formed in the primordial cloud of dust that produced ...

2011 Year of Meteors!

21JAN2010 Lorton, VA Meteorite Fall USA

More on radar images of Lorton, VA fall on MLK
Thursday, January 21, 2010 10:21 PM
http://virga.sfsu.edu/pub/jetstream/ (address needs correction)

Link to NCDC radar archive Lorton, VA fall
You can download the archive radar data from Lorton, VA fall NCDC: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/nexradinv/
But you will need an imager (e.g. NOAA's Weather and ClimateToolkit) to decompress and load the V03.gz data. Also, I'vebeen having trouble for the last hour or so getting additionaldata out of NCDC. Site has been very slow all night, and seemsto be experiencing technical difficulties.--Rob Matson

Meteor mystery 'a load of hot air'
Londonderry Today
Both men were convinced it was a meteorite although an expert at the Armagh observatory was unconvinced. Professor Mark Bailey MBE from Armagh Observatory ...

SUNGRAZING COMET: NASA's STEREO-A spacecraft has discovered another bright sungrazing comet. The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) has a good view of the comet's death plunge, which is happening today. Check http://spaceweather.com for movies and updates.