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05 March 2014

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 05MAR2014


 98-foot asteroid flashes between moon and Earth within 24 hours
RT.com

March 4, 2014
The asteroid, named 2014 DX110, is expected to make its closest approach at 21:07 GMT on Wednesday at a blistering speed of 14.85 km/s (32,076 mph). Although the space rock poses no threat to earth, it highlights the earth’s susceptibility to near-Earth asteroids. ...


The Virtual Telescope Project 2.0- Next LIVE event:
 “Near-Earth Asteroid 2014 DX 110” 
– 5 Mar. 2014, 20:30 UT

Video that will want to watch about this asteroid!

Enormous Asteroid to Zip Between Earth and Moon on March 5
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Slooh Live Broadcast Tracking of 2014 DX110 -- TODAY 05MAR2014
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Watch live as Asteroid 2014 DX110 passed between the Earth and Moon today.
Details on their site for viewing time...

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'Tunnels' and 'spheres' in meteorite revive debate over life on Mars
Fox News
The discovery of tiny carbon-rich balls and tunnels inside a Martian meteorite has once again raised the possibility that the Red Planet was teeming ...

Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News: Lunar Meteorite Quiz - How big an object with velocity to ...
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Earth to Receive the Greater Meteorite Shower of Last Years
Prensa Latina
A meteorite, popularly known as shooting star, is the trail of brilliant steam remaining on the path followed by a meteoroid, which is a small fragment of ...

East Coast Meteor Strike As 'Bright As A Burning Plane' Reported - But Did It Actually Happen?
Huffington Post UK
The American Meteor Association logged calls from hundreds of people last week claiming to have seen the fireball streaking across the sky. meteor ...

Martian meteorite suggests water once existed on the Red Planet
UPI - 6 hours
Brooks Hays WASHINGTON, March 3 (UPI) -- Scientists have found more evidence to support theories that water and microbial life once existed ...

Signs of life from Mars?
Fox News - 6 hours
This scanning electron microscope image shows spheroidal features in a layer of iddingsite, a mineral formed by action of water, in the ...

NEOWISE spies its first comet
PhysOrg - 12 hours
(Phys.org) —NASA's Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) spacecraft has spotted a never-before-seen comet—its first ...


Japan Fireball Meteor 03MAR2014 - Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News - Blogger
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Japan Long Path Fireball Meteor 19'19 JST 03MAR2014 - 2014年3月3日 19時19分37秒 長経路星. Kagawa, Japan Allsky Camera Image credit- ...

Meteorite crashes into moon in 'largest lunar impact on record'
Independent - 4 hours
Astronomers say they have observed a meteorite weighing almost half a tonne crashing into the Moon in September, creating a record-breaking ...

Scientist Says Russian Meteorite Being Stored Incorrectly
Russian Information Agency Novosti - 7 hours
The largest surviving fragment of a meteor that entered Earth’s atmosphere in a fiery blaze over Russia last year will quickly deteriorate ...

Hail of Meteorite Fragments Hits Russia
Russian Information Agency Novosti - 7 hours

Will we die a fiery death? Ask a NASA expert Wednesday
USA TODAY
SAN FRANCISCO -- Will we all die a fiery death when a giant meteor ... The person to ask is Bill Cooke, NASA's meteor and fireball expert.

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2014 The Year of "CERTAIN Uncertainty" ™; Meteors, Asteroids, Comets, and MORE!!