The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 09JUN2020

Paranoid asteroid: FIVE more space rocks headed towards Earth, highlighting need for planetary defense initiatives
RT  https://www.rt.com/news/491189-another-five-asteroids-inbound-earth/

Brilliant fireball lights up skies over Tennessee (video)
Space.com
A meteor lit up the night sky over Tennessee and neighboring states late Sunday (June 7), sparking 120 fireball sightings across 12 different states ...

WATCH: Mysterious FIREBALL lights up skies in eastern US, burns so bright it was seen from ...
RT
Stunning video shows an incredibly bright fireball lighting up the skies above Tennessee, but the as-yet-unexplained phenomenon was so bright that it ...

Asteroid news: Huge fireball shoots across US 'It was massive'
Express.co.uk
On June 7, the east coast of America was lit up when a fireball shot across the skies. The bright light was seen by hundreds of people as a meteor ...

Objet volant dans le ciel de Ballan : une météorite grosse comme la Tour Eiffel ?
Centre Presse
Le phénomène lumineux observé samedi 6 juin à 23 h 56 en Touraine, livre son secret. L'objet qui a traversé le ciel était en fait une météorite de la taille ...

Researchers build better rock models
Phys.Org
The meteorite example highlights the value of the technique as a way to make rare specimens more accessible for research, Goldfarb said.

La naissance de la vie sur Terre grâce à un impact cosmique? Une nouvelle étude fait la lumière
RIA Novosti
La Terre et Mars ayant souvent été touchées par des météorites et des astéroïdes au début de leur formation, cette version de génération d'acides ...

What a Buried Crater in Mexico Says About the Asteroid That Doomed the Dinosaurs
Atlas Obscura
A popular tourist destination that was once a mining site and training ground for astronauts, the Barringer Meteorite Crater, as it's known to scientists, ...

Asteroids: Brian May to partner with ESA in investigating the origins of known asteroids
EconoTimes
Ozan Unsalan from the country's Meteorite Tracking Project said that the fireball was an ordinary meteorite and has likely crashed onto Georgia or Sochi.

Is it a sign? 'Meteor' seen as New Zealand enters level 1
New Zealand Herald
Sightings from across the South Island and Wellington were reported on Weatherwatch.co.nz, with users describing a "very low fireball or meteor" in ...

Mysterious light spurs Dunedin rescue callout
Otago Daily Times
The search was called off after there was mention that it could have been a meteor, she said. ''It's very possible, but that hasn't been confirmed.

Gendrey (Jura) : mais où s'est écrasée la météorite ?
Franceinfo
Gendrey (Jura) : mais où s'est écrasée la météorite ? Le bolide ...

Asteroid news: Ancient meteors could have helped deliver life on Earth AND Mars
Express.co.uk
READ MORE: NASA on alert after dramatic footage captures unexpected meteor crash. close approach. What is a close approach?...

Asteroids: Brian May to partner with ESA in investigating the origins of known asteroids
EconoTimes
Ozan Unsalan from the country's Meteorite Tracking Project said that the fireball was an ordinary meteorite and has likely crashed onto Georgia or ...

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Ancient asteroid impacts created the ingredients of life on Earth and Mars
EurekAlert (press release)
The presence of amino acids and other biomolecules in meteorites points to the former. Researchers from (Japan) Tohoku University, National Institute for ...

Ancient asteroids created the ingredients for life on Earth – and potentially Mars, scientists say
The Independent
By firing different materials together using a propellant gun, they found that amino acids could form when meteorites crash into the water. That in turn ...

What's Up for June 7-13
WRAL.com
The daytime Arietid meteor shower peaks today. Though a very weak shower which does not produce many meteors, it is the brightest of daytime ...

A Meteor Has An Initial Speed Of 14.41 Km/s When I...
Chegg
If A Tiny Meteor Encounters A Force Of Resistance With A Magnitude Of 0.013 N, So That After It Travels 435 Km Parallel To Earths Surface The ...

Look Up and Spot the Great Diamond in the Sky This Week! Here's How
Science Times
Its name is in honor of the Egyptian queen named Berenice II, who sacrificed her hair as an offering to the gods. Read Also: Boom! Suspected Meteor ...

2020 The SEVENTH Year of "CERTAIN Uncertainty" ™ / Meteors, Asteroids, Comets, and MORE!!

Amino Acids Found in ÇANAKKALE, Turkey L6 CHONDRITE of 1964 Meteorite Fall

19 different types of amino acids found in contaminated ÇANAKKALE L6 CHONDRITE of 1964 fall in Turkey, including five carbon amino acid isomers that are not found in either the soil or procedural blank samples.
http://www.dailysabah.com/nation/2016/05/06/signs-of-life-uncovered-inside-meteorite-found-in-western-turkey

A part of the meteorite on display at Istanbul University's Geology Museum. (AA Photo) courtesy www.dailysabah.com/


SEARCHING FOR EXTRATERRESTRIAL AMINO ACIDS IN A CONTAMINATED METEORITE: AMINO ACID ANALYSES OF THE ÇANAKKALE L6 CHONDRITE
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20160002360.pdf

Table 2. Compound specific stable isotope measurements for amino acids in the Çanakkale meteorite and soil sample. Source:http://ntrs.nasa.gov/

Meteor/Meteorite New 22DEC2010

Lunar Eclipse - December 21st, 2010

Photos by Mike`s Astro Photos click link for more Mike Hankey (c) 2010

Life Ingredients Found in Superhot Meteorites—A First
National Geographic
The acids—precursors of proteins—have been unexpectedly found inside fragments of previously superheated meteorites that landed in northern Sudan in 2008, ...

Alaska winter offers stellar skygazing
Anchorage Daily News
This week will reveal more celestial phenomenon as the December Ursid Meteor Shower peaks Wednesday and Thursday. A meteor shower results as Earth crosses a ...

Parachute Fails, Man Lands in Living Room
Jakarta Globe
It's a meteor! No, it's a flying policeman! Residents of a housing estate for prosecutors in South Tangerang were surprised to see something falling from ...

Ursid meteor shower peaks tonight
Examiner.com (blog)
The Ursid meteor shower will be at its brightest tonight and tomorrow night. However, with the full moon, no one has made much mention of the Ursids this ...

Meteorite Holds Amino Acid Surprise
Discovery News
Amino acids have been discovered in a meteorite whose parent asteroid should have destroyed the compounds. Because the concentrations of the amino acids are ...

NASA finds extra-terrestrial amino-acids in Sudan meteorites
DigitalJournal.com
During expeditions in the Sudanese desert, scientists later recovered nearly 600 meteorite fragments from the meteor shower. Just a few weeks ago, ...

Meteorite Holds Amino Acid Surprise Discovery News Tue, 21 Dec 2010 11:48 AM PST Amino acids, the building blocks of life, are forming in environments never thought possible.  ... Space Rock Surprise US News & World Report Tue, 21 Dec 2010 11:38 AM PST Amino acids in meteorite may have unexpected origin. ... Meteorite Men Star Builds Career from Space Rocks ContributorNetwork via Yahoo! News Tue, 21 Dec 2010 10:16 AM PST This is the second installment of my interview with Steve Arnold,meteorite hunter extraordinaire and star of the Science Channel's hit television show 'Meteorite Men.' The first article, in which Arnold clears up popular misconceptions about meteors and meteorites is here. ...

Meteor/Meteorite News- Amino Acids from Comets 24AUG09

NASA/JPL

Fetched from a faraway comet, distinctive amino acids

Philadelphia Inquirer
Amino acids have also turned up in meteorites - and reportedly lent a distinctive smell to pieces of the famous Murchison meteorite, which fell on Australia ...

Meteorite News 6APR09

Great ball of fire! Shooting star spotted over Ireland sparks ...
Daily Mail
By Daily Mail Reporter
Security cameras in Ireland may help scientists to find a meteorite that streaked to Earth on Sunday night. ...

Hunt is on to catch a fallen meteorite
Irish Independent - Dublin,Ireland
EXCITED astronomers are hot on the trail of a meteorite they believe may have struck Ireland on Saturday night. For a few seconds around midnight on ...

How Life Shatters Chemistry's Mirror
Astrobiology Magazine - USA
"We're still in the dark how it happened," says Sandra Pizzarello from Arizona State University, who has analyzed many of the meteorite samples. ...
http://www.astrobio.net/news/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3092

Astronomers make unprecedented asteroid impact observations
Gizmag - Victoria, Australia
The measurements taken by the Herschel Telescope in La Palma were now compared with the direct analysis of the meteorite shards. The two were found to be in ...
http://www.gizmag.com/astronomers-asteroid-hit-the-earth/11395/

What's in a name? Lake Drummond, Great Dismal Swamp
The Virginian-Pilot - Norfolk,VA,USA
Theories abound about its origin, a meteorite, an intense peat fire, a tectonic shift. There is even a Native American legend that a great " fire bird" ...
http://hamptonroads.com/2009/04/whats-name-lake-drummond-great-dismal-swamp

Why ET's genetic code could be just like ours
MIT Technology Review - Cambridge, MA,USA
Curiously, analyses of meteorite samples have found exactly these same 10 amino acids. Various researchers have noted this link but none have explained it. ...
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/23309/

Clues To A Secret Of Life Discovered By NASA Scientists 19MAR09

Clues To A Secret Of Life Discovered By NASA Scientists
Medical News Today
Thu, 19 Mar 2009 03:23 AM PDT
NASA scientists analyzing the dust of meteorites have discovered new clues to a long-standing mystery about how life works on its most basic, molecular level. "We found more support for the idea that biological molecules, like amino acids, created in space and brought to Earth by meteorite impacts help explain why life is left-handed," said Dr.

Meteorite News 16MAR-17MAR09

Meteor dust: Clues to secrets of life
Moldova.org Tue, 17 Mar 2009 11:09 AM PDT
U.S. space agency scientists say they've discovered meteor dust contains clues to a long-standing mystery: how life works at its most basic, molecular level.We found more support for the idea that biological molecules, like amino acids, created in space and brought to Earth by meteorite impacts help explain why life is left-handed, said Daniel Glavin of the National Aeronautics and Space ...

Molecules From Space May Have Affected Life On Earth
Universe Today Tue, 17 Mar 2009 11:00 AM PDT
A decade ago researchers analyzed amino acids from space, brought to Earth in meteorite which landed in Australia, finding a prevalence of âleft-handedâ amino acids over their âright-handedâ form. Now, a new study of dust from meteorites supports this finding, and offers new clues to a long-standing mystery about how life works on its [...]

Unidentified object from sky hits vehicle in Cottonwood
Anderson Valley Post Tue, 17 Mar 2009 09:56 AM PDT
A meteorite may have been what smashed into the windshield of a Cottonwood couple's sport utility vehicle late last month, destroying much of the dashboard and melting some of the glass.

Meteorite hunter: Find near Aquilla nets $10,000
Waco Tribune-Herald Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:32 PM PDTBy Ken Sury