Showing posts with label Novato meteorite. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Novato meteorite. Show all posts

16 August 2014

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 16AUG2014

Origin Of Meteorite That Crashed Into Novato Home Traced Back 4 Billion Years To Formation Of ...
CBS Local
A meteorite found in Novato is believed to be a piece of the flaming fireball that streaked across northern California on Oct 17, 2012. (CBS) ...

Study reveals California meteorite's rough and tumble journey
Phys.Org
(Phys.org) —A meteorite that fell onto the roof of a house in Novato, California, on Oct. 17, 2012, has revealed a detailed picture of its origin and ...

UT Research Uncovers Forces that Hold Gravity-Defying Near-Earth Asteroid Together
University of Tennessee (UT) - August 13, 2014
Researchers at UT have made a novel discovery that may potentially protect
the world from future collisions with asteroids.  The team studied near-Earth asteroid 1950 DA and discovered that the body, ...

IT HAPPENED IN WINDHAM: Catching falling stars
KeepMEcurrent.com
Jonathan Loveitt, who recorded the Leonid meteor shower in 1833 as well as some other natural phenomena, lived in this house on Webb Road.

2014 The Year of "CERTAIN Uncertainty" ™; Meteors, Asteroids, Comets, and MORE!!

26 October 2012

California Two Meteorites Found from 17OCT 2012 Fall!

Breaking News - California Two Meteorites Found from 17OCT 2012 Fall!

Two meteorites have been recovered from the California meteorite fall of 17OCT2012.  The story which first broke on this website.  Early press reporting that the meteorite was not a meteorite have proven to be incorrect. Brien Cook has found Novato 001 while the ROCK that hit the roof of a house equaled Meteorwrong will take Novato 002.

65.9  gram  Stone Ordinary Chondrite from Novato, California Meteorite Fall found by Brien Cook
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65.9 gram Stone Ordinary Chondrite from Novato, California Meteorite Fall found by Brien Cook
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Slice of  the Stone 65.9 gram  Ordinary Chondrite from Novato, California Meteorite Fall found by Brien Cook
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Contrary to the News Media reports that the rock that hit Lisa Webber's roof was a rock and NOT a meteorite, it WAS a meteorite.
The other stone chondrite that hit the roof of Lisa Webber's house-
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Novato Meteorite Fall Area
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2012 THE Year of Meteors!