Showing posts with label Meteorites in Serbia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Meteorites in Serbia. Show all posts

28 October 2010

Meteor/Meteorite News 28OCT2010

UNT confirms man's meteorite
Denton Record Chronicle
By Rachel Mehlhaff / Staff Writer A man recently found out that a rock he stumbled upon two years ago is actually a meteorite. George Wright holds a ... (Lufkin, TX meteorite)

Meteoriti u Srbiji 
B92 - ‎2010年10月25日‎ 
Meteorit koji se čuva se u Prirodnjačkom muzeju težak je nešto preko 16 kilograma, a ostali primerci krase vitrine mnogih svetskih muzeja. ...
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Meteorites in Serbia
B92 - 2010 年 10 月 25 日
Meteorite kept the Natural History Museum weighs just over 16 pounds, and other sample adorned showcases many world museums. ... 

Twin Fireballs May Have Come From Comet Hartley 2
Space.com
[Photo of the Oct. 16 fireballs] Before the fireballs were observed, NASA scientists were skeptical of any substantial meteor display from Comet Hartley 2. ...

Scientists Watch for a "Hartley-id" Meteor Shower - NASA Science
A pair of unusual fireballs over Canada and the southeastern USA have experts wondering if Comet Hartley 2 might produce a meteor shower in early November. ...

 How Comets Cause Meteor Showers - Yahoo! News
Meteors — popularly referred to as "shooting stars" — are generated when debris ... But astronomers have found that some meteor swarms correspond closely to ...

Giant Impact Crater Found In Australia
Slashdot Wed, 27 Oct 2010 02:19 AM PDT
An anonymous reader writes "One of the largest meteorite impacts in the world has been discovered in the South Australian outback by geothermal researchers. It may explain one of the many extinction events in the past 600 million years, and may contain rare and exotic minerals. The crater is said to have been 'produced by an asteroid six to 12 km across' â which is really big!" Read more of this ...  


Giant crater may have been extinction trigger
Cosmos
SYDNEY: One of the largest meteorite impacts in the world has been discovered in the Australian outback - an impact so powerful it may have been the trigger ...

NASA: Comet may produce a new meteor shower
Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)
Comet Hartley 2 is traveling nearer to the earth than a comet has in centuries, and astronomers are wondering if the close approach might produce a meteor ...