Showing posts with label Smithsonian Museum of Natural History meteorite. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Smithsonian Museum of Natural History meteorite. Show all posts

22 July 2010

Meteor/Meteorite News 22JUL10

Boffins achieve greater precision in determining meteorites' age
Sify
Scientists have aged dated a group of meteorites with far greater precision than previously possible - by using a different type of radioactive dating on a ...

52 Kg Springwater Meteorite on CBC News - Video
3 min Video on YouTube.com
52 Kg Springwater at Royal Ontario Museum. Discovered by Michael Farmer, Shauna Russell, Jim Strope, and Robert Ward Spring ...

Fox Park Observatory - Summer Viewing Schedule
WILX-TV
August 11, 11:00PM, Persied Meteor Shower, Peak of the Persied Meteor Shower. Observatory will not be open but everyone is invited to bring a lawn chair and ...

Meteorites -Video
4 min Video on Youtube
What is a meteorite? Scientist from the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History explain. ...

CBC News - Technology & Science - Rare meteorite ... -Video
Mineralogists at Toronto's Royal Ontario Museum have taken their first look inside a rare chunk of meteorite found in ... cbc.ca

Meteorite offers clues about earth
Toronto Sun By IAN ROBERTSON, Toronto Sun
And at the Royal Ontario Museum, scientists are hoping close inspection of a rare 4.5-billion-year-old meteorite will yield ...

Slice of meteorite could hold Earth's secrets
CTV.ca(Adrian Wyld / THE CANADIAN PRESS) TORONTO —
Researchers are hoping a fresh slice of a rare 4.5-billion-year-old meteorite will yield new information about ...

Late summer viewing of the night sky
Cincinnati.com
Topics to be covered are: observing the moon; the Perseids Meteor shower in August; and what planet to look for in the sky during July and August. ...

Rare meteorite sliced open
CBC.ca
Mineralogists at the Royal Ontario Museum had their first look Wednesday inside a rare, 53-kilogram meteorite chunk found in Saskatchewan in 2009. ...