Showing posts with label Panama meteor 7OCT2010. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Panama meteor 7OCT2010. Show all posts

11 October 2010

Meteor/Meteorite News 11OCT2010

New find points toward habitable environments deep in Martian crust
Oneindia
A deposit of carbonate rocks that once existed 6 km (about 4 miles) below the surface of Mars was uplifted and exposed by an ancient meteor impact, ...

Impact begins nickel drilling program at Australian Yarrabubba project
Energy Business Review
The Yarrabubba Project covers a large (>50 km) diameter meteorite impact structure that has similar geological features to those at the large Sudbury mining ...

Space dust helps reveal origins of Milky Way
ABC Online
And this has been a debate that has been passed down through meteoritics because we see the same sort of structures in meteorites. ...

Meteor????
I am on Tobago Island, Oct. 7 2010 which is a small island off of Panama City, Panama and last night I saw a HUGE meteor with a tail and all in the North ...

Astro Bob blog: This house is full of wonder
Duluth News Tribune
They're composed of minerals like olivine (peridot) and pyroxene, which are very common in certain types of meteorites. This chondrule, measuring 5.5mm ...