Meteor/Meteorite News 16JUN2010

June meteors will streak through the sky

Astronomy Magazine
The Boötid meteor shower could put on a nice show June 23, although the meteors must contend with moonlight. Astronomy: Roen Kelly [View Larger Image] ...

Farm fire not caused by meteorite
CBC.ca Tue, 15 Jun 2010 10:24 AM PDT
A meteorite expert says a strange ball of fire that landed in a Prince Edward Island farmer's field last Saturday was not from a meteor. ..

Meteor nears Earth in 2029 8 hours ago - The asteroid now called the Apophis was tracked by Russia and expected to come very close to being an Earth meteor on April 13th, 2029 and again in 2036. www.examiner.com/x-30093-Toronto-Science-News-Examiner~y2010m1d2-Meteor-nears-Earth-in-2029 NEW CU-BOULDER STUDY INDICATES AN ANCIENT OCEAN MAY HAVE COVERED ONE-THIRD OF MARS A vast ocean likely covered one-third of the surface of Mars some 3.5 billion years ago, according to a new study conducted by University of Colorado at Boulder scientists. ...

Moon may have more water than believed

msnbc.com
For this new study, the researchers were able to compare their calculations to analyses of samples of Apollo moon rocks and a lunar meteorite from Africa. ...

Meteorite exhibition opens at the Museum of Technology in Warsaw, Poland
The exhibition is open from 1 June for three months.
http://www.woreczko.pl/meteorites/exhibitions/Warsaw2010/indeks.htm

Astro Bob blog: Florida man uncovers possible Earth-related meteorite

Duluth News Tribune
A meteorite hunter has brought to light a meteorite that may once have come from Earth. Meteorite enthusiast Greg Hupe holds a small meteorite he found from ...

Meteor/Meteorite News- Moon Water Map Image 26SEP09

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Water Detected at High Latitudes on the Moon

NASA's Moon Mineralogy Mapper, an instrument on the Indian Space Research Organization's Chandrayaan-1 mission, took this image of Earth's moon. It is a three-color composite of reflected near-infrared radiation from the sun, and illustrates the extent to which different materials are mapped across the side of the moon that faces Earth.

Small amounts of water were detected on the surface of the moon at various locations. This image illustrates their distribution at high latitudes toward the poles.

Blue shows the signature of water, green shows the brightness of the surface as measured by reflected infrared radiation from the sun and red shows an iron-bearing mineral called pyroxene.

- Photo and Text by NASA

India Meteor/Meteorite News- India Finds Lunar Water 25SEP09

India hails Moon mission 'find'

India's Chandrayaan-1 probe carried US equipment to the Moon

India's inaugural Moon mission has been hailed as a "grand success" by the head of India's space agency, after helping find evidence of water on the Moon.

Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) chief G Madhavan Nair said a spacecraft probe found more water on the Moon "than was expected."...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8274159.stm