The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 23APR2016

Group of Moroccans Found the Association for Meteorite Professionals in Erfoud, Morocco
Saturday 23 April 2016 - 06:54- Morocco World News
Agadir – On April 16th about 120 people got to together in the southern city of Erfoud. The city is considered to be the center of the mineral Meteorite and fossil trade in Morocco....

Car-Sized Meteor Breaks Up Over Bay Area Skies
CBS San Francisco - CBS Local
Car-Sized Meteor Breaks Up Over Bay Area Skies. Car-Sized Meteor Breaks Up Over Bay Area Skies. Categories: Worldnow Archive. Share ...]

Watch moment 'bright fireball' shoots across night sky in Surrey and Hampshire
Get Surrey
A huge fireball that lit up the sky was captured by stargazers in Church Crookham and Ash Vale on Wednesday. Members of the UK Meteor ...

2016こと座流星群中継 from 富山／Lyra MeteorShower 2016 Live from Toyama, Japan
YouTube
日本時間20時〜23時にかけて、4月22日15時頃に極大を迎えること座流星群の様子を富山県・立山から生中継。

Watch The Lyrid Meteor Shower Peak On Earth Day
Portal to the Universe
Celebrate Earth Day by watching the first major meteor shower of the year. The Lyrids are expected to peak on Earth Day providing skywatchers with ...

Lyrid Meteor Shower Set to Put on a Dazzling Display for Stargazers
Democratic Underground
... Groups » Main » Video & Multimedia (Forum) » Lyrid Meteor Shower Set t. ... Lyrid Meteor Shower Set to Put on a Dazzling Display for Stargazers ...

Seeds saved bird ancestors from extinction
Business Standard
Researchers suggest that abrupt ecological changes following a meteor impact may have been more detrimental to carnivorous bird-like dinosaurs, ...

Man with 22 wives makes millions of dollars from selling fake meteor fragments
VnExpress International
Just by selling strange looking rocks and using the art of deception to make victims believe in the power of his 'fake meteor', Le Van Huy pocketed ...

Mystery Fireball Turns Sky Blood Red Over El Salvador, Sparks Panic And Fears Of The ...
The Inquisitr
Many who realized that the transformation was likely caused by a meteor panicked out of fear that a huge space rock was about to hit and incinerate ... NON-SENSE!

Lyrids 2016: Meteor shower peaks Friday morning
MSN.com
Each spring, the Lyrid meteor shower arrives just as it starts to get almost warm enough to lie outside watching the stars. The Lyrids peak Friday ..

Look Up! Lyrid Meteor Shower Peaks Tonight, with Slooh Webcast
Space.com
The Lyrid meteor shower will peak overnight tonight (April 22), and you can watch and learn about this annual event during a free webcast from the ...

The Lyrid Meteor shower due to light up Bedfordshire skies early tomorrow morning
Bedfordshire News
Stargazers could be in for a treat if conditions allow as the annual Lyrid meteor shower is currently visible in the skies until April 25. This year, the ...

'Pink Moon' vs. Lyrids Meteor Shower: Peak Dates
Patch.com
Two cool events will soon be filling the sky -- April's famous “Pink Moon" and the Lyrids Meteor Shower. Unfortunately, astronomers say they'll kind of ...

Meteor Activity Outlook for April 23-29, 2016
American Meteor Society
This is the worst time of the month to try and view meteor activity as the bright moonlight will obscure all but the brightest meteors. The estimated total ..

Bright Random Meteor Under Nearly Full Moon
Spaceweather.com Realtime Image Gallery
Photography was challenging under the nearly full Moon trying for Lyrids. The Moon almost produced a halo which would have been great with the ...
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April 23 at 6:04pm
A giant hollow Australite cut in half on display at Museum Victoria


2016 The THIRD Year of "CERTAIN Uncertainty" ™ / Meteors, Asteroids, Comets, and MORE!!

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 01AUG2012

Vietnam's murky meteorite market
GlobalPost Tue, 31 Jul 2012 05:01 AM PDT
A meteor streaks across the sky against a field of stars during ameteorite shower early August 13, 2010 in Spain. (Jorge Guerrero/AFP/Getty Images) How do you sell a tiny lump of tar for $32 million?

Vietnam police busts gang selling fake meteorite chunks
Thanh Nien Daily Mon, 30 Jul 2012 21:09 PM PDT
Ho Chi Minh City police are investigating a gang who conned people into buying fake meteorites in an elaborate scheme.

How Much Water is Inside Mars?
-- The interior of Mars appears to be as wet as the interior of Earth.
FULL ARTICLE at:
http://www.psrd.hawaii.edu/July12/water-inside-Mars.html

Stargazers in for a treat with Perseids meteor shower this August –PAGASA
GMA News
Weather conditions permitting, the famous Perseids meteor shower and various constellations will be among the treats awaiting stargazers this August, the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) said.

Meteor shower!
Utica Observer Dispatch (blog)
Unfortunately, there are clouds and showers about! So, I'll tell you about it, but I doubt even a savvy spotter will see anything :(. It's called the Delta Aquarids, averages about 10 per hour (one every 6 minutes), and eminates out of the southern sky ...

“During the Latter Half of the Year, We are on the Trailing Side of Earth ...
French Tribune
For all those meteor enthusiasts and summer campers who literally wait for the annual Perseid Meteor Shower day that every year comes in mid-August, it's the time to pack their bags and get set ready for the same. In Northern Hemisphere, the latter ...

Did K-T extinction event meteor puncture a hole in crust at Chicxulub?
Did K-T extinction event meteor puncture a hole in crust at Chicxulub? Earth discussion.
www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=622333

Watch for big meteor show Tuesday morning - Video ...
Video on NBCNews.com: Aug. 11: Turn to the pre-dawn skies to witness the light show of the ...
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Perseid Meteor Shower Peak on Aug 12 - and should be decent for ...
I just looked into summer meteor showers and discovered that the peak of the Perseid meteorshower is on Aug 12. It has a broad peak in terms of timing, so it ...
www.chesmontastro.org/node/8561

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 19JUL2012
Australia Reported Meteor Over Ocean NOT! - Aircraft Contrail (w/photo sequence) 30JUN2012 This event gathered much attention in the Australian press and .
lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.com/.../the-latest-worldwide-m...

Fraser Valley residents welcomed to camp out under meteor shower skies
The Province
Overnight camping will be permitted next week to celebrate the night sky at a remote Metro Vancouver park in the Fraser Valley. “This is about getting back to old-fashioned entertainment and watching the stars,” said regional park coordinator Jill ...

2012 THE Year of Meteors!

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 19MAR2012

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GOOD NEWS: NEOs
Odessa American
NEOs (Near Earth Objects) are the subject of a special events display at the Meteor Crater Museum. The display was prompted by an Odessa American article from Nov. 6, 2011, reporting an NEO passing near the earth, 'Near' being closer to than the moon.

UW's Tony Irving is the go-to man in the red-hot world of meteorites
The Seattle Times
A chance meeting between a pair of treasure-hunting brothers and a geology professor affiliated with University of Washington has led to the discovery of some the most extraordinary and valuablemeteorites in history. By Craig Welch Tony Irving, ...

Weekly SkyWatcher's Forecast – March 19-25, 2012
Universe Today
The planets continue to dazzle as we not only celebrate the Vernal Equinox, but the March Geminid meteor shower as well! If that doesn't get your pulsar racing – nothing will. It's time to get out your binoculars and telescopes and meet me in the ...

Fireball in night sky doesn't fade in one man's memory (he thinks)
The Republic
10, 1965, story read, "Many Here Saw Fireball, But Where Did It Go?" Some of the eyewitnesses thought it ended up in Bath Township, but we now know it ended up in Kecksburg, Pa., flaming its way into UFO lore. To believers in alien spaceships, ...

Cradle of Humankind rocks
Independent Online
By Wren Mast-Ingle Standing on the restaurant balcony at Maropeng it is difficult to imagine that the magnificent rolling hills were formed by the impact of the Vredefortmeteor two billion years ago when a piece of rock the size of Table Mountain ...

Meteorite fall in southern Norway 01.03.2012 - YouTube
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Hunt is on for meteor 'treasure'
Belfast Telegraph
By Lewis Smith The sight of a meteor shooting across the night sky sparked fears that a passenger jet was about to crash – then triggered a treasure hunt. Astronomers are desperate to track down the remnants of the meteor, which was witnessed from the ...

Ethnic man arrested for $2,300 meteorite scam in central Vietnam
Thanh Nien Daily Sun, 18 Mar 2012 03:22 AM PDT
Police in Vietnamâs Central Highlands arrested an ethnic minority Tuesday for cheating a woman, who believed she was purchasing part of a meteorite, out of more than US$2,300.

UW professor is go-to guy in world of meteorites
Wisconsin Rapids Tribune
The trio grew into an unorthodox team, becoming central players in a thriving international subculture — an obscure band of treasure hunters who scour the planet collecting, buying, selling and studyingmeteorites. In this Byzantine world, ...

Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News: The Latest Worldwide ...
By Lunar Meteorite * Hunter
NEOs (Near Earth Objects) are the subject of a special events display at the Meteor Crater Museum. The display was prompted by an Odessa American article from Nov. 6, 2011, reporting an NEO passing near the earth, 'Near' being closer to ...
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The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 26DEC2011

Heart of Louisiana Meteor Crater New Orleans News ... 4 min Heart of Louisiana Meteor Crater New Orleans News, Breaking News, FOX 8. youtube.com

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 20DEC2011
The only explanation Heinrich could come up with was a meteor crater. It likely happened within the last 10000 to 12000 years, which was a time when primitive ...
lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.com/.../latest-worldwide-meteo...


Nine second long meteor over New Mex Dec 25 2011Nine second long meteor over New Mexico.  
Dec 25, 2011  1148:52 UT (4:48:52 am MST )
http://www.heliotown.com/FBs20111225_114852ut_Ashcraft.mp4
Thomas Ashcraft


Streak of light across sky mystifies Germans
CBC.ca
A mysterious bolt of light in the night sky baffled many Germans on Christmas Eve, with speculation running wild as to whether it was a meteor, a comet or space junk. Videos captured in central-western Germany show the blaze of light passing across the ...


Mysterious fireball was part of Soyuz
News24
Was R269.95 Now R215.96 Berlin - The mysterious fireball observed above Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and France on Christmas Eve was the re-entry of the third stage of a Soyuz rocket that transported three astronauts to space, ...


Epic Fireball streaks across Europe's Sky tonight; 1 hour ago! (Christmas Eve ...
YouTube
See link for eye witness reports-http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.com/ Keep looking up guys; our redemption draws nigh! God Bless, Jason....


meteor in germany 24 Dec 2011
YouTube
a Meteor was spotted in the skys of Germany on the Christmas Eve 24 Dec 2011.


A Soyuz debris behind a luminous trail in European airspace
San Francisco Luxury News
Star of the Nativity, or meteorite. It was actually the remains of a Russian Soyuz rocket, said e Sunday the Royal Observatory of Belgium. “The ball that was observed on December 24 to 17 h 30 over Belgium, the Netherlands, France and Germany, ...


Meteor Showers in 2012
Sky & Telescope
However, several times each year Earth encounters a stream of debris left by a passing comet, and the result is a meteor shower. You'll notice the difference if you watch the sky for a half hour or so: not only do the number of meteors you'll see go up ...


Man seized for selling fake meteorite for $95000
Tuoitrenews
Police in District 12, Ho Chi Minh City have detained a man who cheated a woman by selling her a false meteorite for VND2 billion (US$95000) three months ago. Vo Quang Truc, 45, of District 6, was arrested last Friday in Kien Giang Province, ...


Port Orford Meteorite: Is it a hoax? Is it still out there? Who knows?
Mail Tribune
"The Port Orford Meteorite Hoax," The Oregon Encyclopedia, www.oregonencyclopedia.com; Hult, Ruby. Lost Mines and Treasures of the Pacific Northwest. Portland: Binford, 1957 Nobody knows for sure which of these two things the Port Orford Meteorite is. ...


Not Santa? Curious Christmas Eve 'meteor' deemed part of rocket
Deutsche Welle
A bright object streaking across the sky caught the eye of many Germans on Christmas Eve. The Belgian Royal Observatory says it was a piece of the Soyuz rocket that took three astronauts to space on Wednesday. The mysterious trail of bright light ...

Meteorite over Bonn, Germany Heiligabend ... 40 sec When we went on a walk this christmas evening we suddenly seen a huge meteorit in the sky. It ... youtube.com

XMAS UFO - METEOR OR THIRD STAGE OF A ...
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Alleged meteor on 12/24/2011, recorded in Bergisch Gladbach. Update: Here is a report ...
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