Meteor/Meteorite News 15MAR2011

Berkeley Researchers Use Part of Meteorite to Gain Insight Into Nature of Universe The Daily Californian Sun, 13 Mar 2011 23:56 PM PDT A four billion year-old pea-sized chunk of meteorite has given researchers new insight into the nature of the universe 20 million years before the formation of the earth.... 美宇航局科学家宣称陨石中发现地外生命痕迹科技人民网 这是地球上一种巨型细菌Titanospirillum velox的照片胡佛博士宣称他在扫描隧道电子显微镜下看到一块陨石上存在某种与之大小和结构都非常类似的特征 ... scitech.people.com.cn/GB/14084918.html elp allsky: Large BC Canada Meteor Fireball Reported to ELPALLSKY ... By elp allsky Large BC Canada Meteor Fireball Reported to ELPALLSKY 12MAR2011... Email From Jacquieb In BC Canada...a white flash lit up the sky near comox b.c.canada for several seconds and caused static on radio march 12 12 30 am pacific time ... NASA Builds Network of Meteorite Cameras NBC Bay Area The only way to reliably spot a meteorite is to just stare up at the sky all night every night, so NASA has set out a bunch of networked cameras with ultra-super-mega wide-angle lenses that can watch the entire night sky all at once. ... NASA to Scan Skies 24/7 for Near-Earth-Object Fireballs Nasa is installing a network of surveillance cameras called the All-Sky Fireball Network to track meteorites as they enter the Earth's atmosphere. www.portaltotheuniverse.org/rview/101042/ The Original Rocket Dungeon: NASA All-Sky Fireball Network By Dick Clark Lindsey found this article about NASA's All-sky Fireball Network: NASA Building Network of Smart Cameras Across the US - Singularity Hub. The cameras are specialized black and white video cameras with lenses that image the entire ... The Original Rocket Dungeon - http://rocketdungeon.blogspot.com/ NASA's Network of Automated Cameras Will Never Leave the Sky Unwatched [Space] Gizmodo Fri, 11 Mar 2011 15:02 PM PST NASA is currently working on a project called the All-sky Fireball Network, its primary objective to monitor the entire night sky above the US for meteorite activity. Although limited to three fully automated cameras right now, a network of smart cameras that can record, analyze, and make publicly accessible all the events happening overhead could change our relationship with space ... NASA's All-Sky Fireball Network Will Use Smart Cameras to Track Meteors Popular Science By Rebecca Boyle Posted 03.11.2011 at 4:25 pm 0 Comments A new network of surveillance cameras will track meteorites as they enter Earth's atmosphere, helpingmeteor-hunters track where the rocks land and where they came from. ... Nasa's Fireball Network to scour the sky for meteors Wired.co.uk The aim is to help scientists recover space rock and help inform spacecraft designers striving to design meteor-proof shuttles. It is a fully automated system, which detects meteors and then sends the data to the head of Nasa's Meteoroid Environment ... 小惑星の微粒子 隕石と特徴一致 NHKニュース 日本の探査機「はやぶさ」が、小惑星「イトカワ」から持ち帰った微粒子の詳しい分析結果が初めてまとまり、地球で見つかった隕石（いんせき）の一部と特徴が一致しま ... www.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20110311/t10014588071000.html NASA trains teacher Times Record News Linda Stewart/Special to the Times Record News An asteroid case holds six different samples ofmeteorites found in various locations. The asteroids are part of a display on loan to science teacher Stephen Caldwell from NASA. ... Meteorite Men Gets The Green Light For Season Three Tucson Citizen On February 8, right in the middle of the Tucson gem and mineral shows, Variety magazine announced that my TV series Meteorite Men, which I co-host with Steve Arnold, had been renewed for a third season. It was a big day for us. ...

Wisconsin Fireball NPR Radio Broadcast

'Fireball' Lights Up Midwest Sky

All Things Considered

Radio Broadcast by National Public Radio April 15, 2010

Wednesday night, a bright light shot across the Midwestern sky. Reports of a fireball were called into police departments in several states. The incident coincided with a meteor shower, but it could have also been a comet or space junk. To find out what it was, Robert Siegel talks with Bill Cooke, head of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office. ... [story and broadcast]

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