Meteor/Meteorite News 25AUG2010

Beer microbes live 553 days outside ISS
By Jonathan Amos Science correspondent, BBC News
... Bacteria taken from cliffs at Beer on the South Coast have shown themselves to be hardy space travellers. The bugs were put on the exterior of the space station to see how they would cope in the hostile conditions that exist above the Earth's atmosphere. ... [more and Video]

International Symposium on Asteroid Mitigation-- September 20, 2010
Texas A&M University-College Station, Texas
The International Symposium on Asteroid Mitigation, to be held September 20th, 2010 in College Station, Texas, will bring together an international community of researchers and practitioners to discuss new research results, mitigation strategies, international collaboration,
and public awareness. In additional to presentations from attendees, around table will be held to discuss future international cooperation ...

Toms River NJ man wants to know what almost hit him -- a meteor?

Dailyrecord.com - ‎20 時間前‎

The rock sat in the D'Addarios' garage until the family's curiosity was piqued by television shows such as the Science Channel's "Meteorite Men." "I don't ...

My Jakarta: Noval, Kris Maker

Jakarta Globe

Nickel, titanium and sometimes from meteorites. A meteorite is very difficult to get hold of and raw titanium is very expensive. Sometimes, I use ornamental ...

Solar System up to two million years older than previously thought

Arizona State University
Bouvier and fellow ASU researcher Meenakshi Wadhwa analyzed meteorite Northwest Africa (NWA) 2364 and found that the age of the Solar System predates ...

Oldest Material in Solar System Found

National Geographic
Pea-size minerals inside a meteorite are the oldest known material in the solar system, a new study says. At 4568.2 million years old, the minerals push ...

Meteorite nugget pushes back age of the solar system by nearly 2 million years

Scientific American (blog)
By John Matson A new analysis of a meteorite shows that an inclusion within the carbonaceous stone is older than any known material in the solar system. ...

Solar System is older than previously thought
New Kerala Mon, 23 Aug 2010 03:56 AM PDT
Analyses of the meteorite indicate that the Solar system is at least 0.3-1.9 million years older than some previous studies projected - making it 4.568 billion years old.

Solar system is older than previously thought

The Hindu
Analyses of the meteorite discovered in the Saharan desert indicate that the solar system is 4.568 billion years old. A meteor discovered in the Saharan ...

Flash of light caught by amateur astronomer in Jupiter most likely meteorite

National Turk English
Past flashes of light which were seen on the surface of Jupiter had left craters indicating that the suspected meteorite which caused the flash were large ...

Meteor/Meteorite News 24AUG2010

Solar System Older Than Once Thought

Discovery News
A newly studied meteorite reveals that the solar system is nearly 2 million years older than once thought. The meteorite contained some of the oldest ...

Jupiter PELTED By Rogue Meteor (VIDEO)

Huffington Post (blog)
... Observatory of Japan, told Kyodo News. Since the object left no visible trace on the planet's surface, the meteor may have been less than 1 km wide. ...

Reports of UFOs over BC skies hover into The Sun

Vancouver Sun
Nolan from Victoria wrote in on Monday about : "Myself and two friends were on the beach at Texada Island, watching the meteor shower on Friday Aug 13 ...

Black helicopters circle 'Welsh Roswell'

Register
The MoD subsequently concluded that the spacecraft was in fact a meteor, widely seen across the UK that night, and that the "almighty bang" was an unrelated ...

Flash of light as another meteor hits Jupiter

TG Daily
A Japanese amateur astronomer has captured what appears to be the second meteor strike on Jupiter in three months. Masayuki Tachikawa captured video of a ...

Our Solar System: Now With 2 Million Years More Maturity

Wired News
The currently accepted age of the solar system — about 4.56 billion years — was calculated by measuring parts of meteorites called calcium-aluminum-rich ...

Age of the Solar System Recalculated

Softpedia
The new investigation, conducted on a piece of meteor rock, established that the object was no less than 4.5682 billion years old, an age 1.9 million years ...

Solar system 'two million years older than first thought'

Telegraph.co.uk
Photo: NASA/ JPL Researchers revised the age after analysing a mineral "relic" buried deep within the meteorite, known as an inclusion, found in the Sahara ...

Amateur Astronomer Witnesses Jupiter Getting Smacked Around By Another Meteor

Gizmodo Australia
By Jack Loftus on August 23, 2010 at 10:20 AM Jupiter, our colourfully spotted gas giant neighbour was hit, again, by a meteor on Friday. ...

Another news flash from Jupiter

msnbc.com (blog)
A Japanese amateur astronomer witnessed a flash on Jupiter over the weekend - less than three months after similar blip, apparently caused by a meteor fall, ...

Solar System could be nearly two million years older than thought
TVNZ Sun, 22 Aug 2010 16:40 PM PDT
The Solar System could be nearly two million years older than thought after a study produced evidencefrom a meteorite found in the Moroccan desert that contains a "relict" mineral ...

Scientists age solar system by 2m years News.com.au Sun, 22 Aug 2010 16:33 PM PDT THE solar system could be up to 2m years older than previously thought, according to researchers who what is thought to be the oldest meteorite to have struck the Earth.

Solar System older than thought Straits Times Sun, 22 Aug 2010 16:23 PM PDT PARIS - THE Solar System could be nearly two million years older than thought, according to a study published on Sunday by the journal Nature Geoscience. The evidence comes from a 1.49 kg meteorite, found in the Moroccan desert in 2004, that contains a 'relict' mineral, which is one of the oldest solid materials formed after the birth of the Sun....

Solar System older than previously thought Nature Sun, 22 Aug 2010 10:27 AM PDT Meteorite dating resets solar clock....

Solar system slips back in time
New Scientist Sun, 22 Aug 2010 10:14 AM PDT
New meteorite evidence has just pushed the age of the solar system back by hundreds of thousands of years ...

Solar System May Be 2 Million Years Older Than Thought

Space.com
Researchers studying bits of a meteorite discovered that the space rock was 4.5682 billion years old, predating previous estimates of the solar system's age ...