Showing posts with label Utah desert. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Utah desert. Show all posts

21 November 2009

Utah Meteorite News- Dugway Increases Security after Meteor

Dugway beefs up security after meteor
Fox 13 Now- Salt Lake City
DUGWAY PROVING GROUND - Security at this military testing facility has been increased after a meteor was spotted over Utah, and believed to have crashed ...
http://www.fox13now.com/news/kstu-dugway-meteor-problems,0,3733479.story

Other News:
Space.com
Cosmic Triple-Play: Asteroid Flyby, Fireball over Utah, Meteor Shower
A Fireball over Utah, an energetic asteroid whizzing past Earth and a dazzling meteor shower...
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Spectacular Meteor Lights Up The Utah Skies
Gizmodo Australia
Clark Planetarium Director Seth Jarvis said the stony meteorite was probably travelling 80000 miles [129000km] an hour when it hit our atmosphere. ...

Meteor showers in Asia disappoint
Auburn Citizen
Thousands of stargazers across Asia stayed awake overnight to catch a glimpse of what was advertised as an intense Leonid meteor shower, but the show ...

Space 101 - What is a meteor shower?
Examiner.com
A meteor shower is when small bits of space rock produce tiny pinpoints of light that streak through the sky. These small fragments enter the Earth's ...

Friday TV Colombia World News Update
Colombia News
... Tournament in Dubai while Colombia's Camilo Villegas is second. Plus, a surveillance camera at a Utah university captures a meteorite flash across the sky.

Leonids a cosmic time to watch "ET"
Denver Post
( Universal Studios/ Amblin Entertainment ) Sitting under the Eastern Plains stars the other night, and the occasional Leonid meteorite, my oldest daughter ...

20 November 2009

Utah Meteor/Meteorite News Past- 2004 Genesis Crash 20NOV09


Source: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/genesis/multimedia/genesisrecov090804-2.html

The sample return capsule crashed into the Utah desert floor Sept 8, 2004, breaking open the capsule. The capsule is about 1.5 m (4.9 ft) in diameter and has a mass of 275 kg (600 lb) ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genesis_(spacecraft)

Excellent video of final flight and crash, post crash.
"Impact video
" (QuickTime movie). http://anon.nasa-global.speedera.net/anon.nasa-global/genesis/genesis.mov
. Retrieved 2006-04-20.