The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 01DEC2020

Meteor over Japan compared to brightness of a full moon
UPI.com
Nov. 30 (UPI) -- A meteor that streaked across the night sky in Japan ended with a flash of light that witnesses compared to the brightness of a full ...

Meteor shines bright like a fireball while shooting over Japan
MSN UK
Surveillance cams record a meteor burning bright like fireball while shooting through the sky in Japan.

'Fireball' meteor seen in skies above Japan
RTE.ie
Local media said the fireball was believed to be a bolide, an extremely bright meteor that explodes in the atmosphere. "We believe the last burst of light ...

Meteor Seen Plunging From The Sky Over Japan.
Kfm Radio
People across the country reported seeing it descending through the Earth's atmosphere yesterday. Some experts say small fragments of the meteorite ...

Meteor lights up the sky in Japan
Yahoo News
The meteor fell at around 01:35am (1635GMT) on Sunday morning according to The Mainichi newspaper, and could be seen across western and ...

The meteorite was “bright as a full moon” caught on camera in Japan
The Press Stories
A bright burning Meteor It sank from the sky over vast areas of Japan and attracted attention on television and social media. The meteorite glowed ...

Brightly burning meteor seen across wide areas of Japan
Waco Tribune-Herald
The meteor glowed strongly as it rapidly descended through the Earth's atmosphere on Sunday. Many people in western Japan reported on social ...

Une météorite surprend les Japonais en se désintégrant au-dessus de leur tête
sortiraparis
Des images peu communes... Une météorite s'est embrasée dans le ciel nippon dans la nuit du samedi 28 au dimanche 29 novembre 2020, sous le ...

Une météorite embrase le ciel au-dessus du Japon
Le Nouvelliste
Les trois météorites sont nommées d'après le lieu de leur découverte, soit Mont Sujet, dans le Jura bernois, Mürtschenstock (GL) et Chasseron (VD). Les ...

Une météorite dans le ciel du Japon
La Presse
Une météorite a fait une entrée remarquée au cours de la nuit de samedi à dimanche en émettant une intense lumière dans le ciel japonais. Publié le ...

Brightly burning meteor seen across wide areas of Japan
ABC News
Some experts said small fragments of the meteorite might have reached the ground.

Giappone. Una palla di fuoco illumina il cielo: le immagini mozzafiato della caduta del meteorite
Rai News
Domenica la spettacolare scia luminosa di un meteorite in caduta sulla Terra è stata visibile nel cielo di una vasta area del Giappone sud-occidentale.

Asteroid news: Hayabusa2 samples of Ryugu arriving at Earth in two weeks
EconoTimes
... the skies that signaled a meteor or asteroid's entrance into the atmosphere. ... pass reported their sightings to the International Meteor Organization.

Asteroid 2020 SO to come close to Earth tonight but scientists still don't know what it is
Daily Express
Earth's last mini-moon came earlier this year when a small meteor called 2020 CD3, which was about the size of a car, was captured by the planet's ...

11/30/1954: The First Documented Person to be Struck By A METEORITE (Photos)
AM 950 KOEL
Her nap was soon interrupted by an 8.5 pound meteorite slamming into her home. It punched a hole through the roof of the house, bounced off a radio, ...

Zircons Hint at the Internal Structure and Geodynamics of Mars
Planetary News
The NWA 7533 zircon-rich meteorite containing fragments of the ancient crust of Mars. Credit: University of Copenhagen. The uranium-bearing mineral ...

Building a Shock Classification Scheme for Meteorites from Asteroid Vesta
Planetary News
Credit: Figure 2 of Kanemaru et al., 2020. Evidence for impact events can be found in the mineralogy and appearance of lunar samples and meteorites ...

November 30, 1954 - Only human in history hit by a meteorite
Yahoo News Canada
But on the other hand, according to Hodges' landlord Birdie, it landed through her ceiling. Ceiling meteorite. Credit Jay Leviton/Time & Life Pictures/Getty ...

December Stargazing: The Meaning of Meteorites
Sierra Magazine
Meteoroids become meteors when they burn up on entering Earth's atmosphere. A meteor, in essence, is the flash of light, the “shooting star” that we see ...

Comet study suggests life on Earth may have alien origins
Daily Express
COMET analysis indicates many elements needed for life to thrive on Earth really could have arrived via a meteor strike. By Tom Fish. 20:13, Mon, Nov ...

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

Send Your Loved One a Valentine From Mars! via NASA

Send Your Loved One a Valentine Card From Mars! via NASA - Be My Valentine!
送你心愛的人一個情人節賀卡來自火星！由NASA
火星からあなたの愛する人のバレンタインカードを送ってください！ NASAによります
Enviar seu amado um cartão Valentine From Mars! pela NASA
Envoyer votre bien-aimé une carte Valentine De Mars! par la NASA
Senden Sie Ihre Liebsten einen Valentinskarten From Mars! von der NASA
Enviar Su Uno de una tarjeta de San Valentín Amado de Marte! por la NASA
Отправить любимому человеку Валентинка с Марса! НАСА
Αποστολή αγαπημένο σας πρόσωπο μια κάρτα του Αγίου Βαλεντίνου από τον Άρη! από τη NASA

Write your own message in a photocard that you choose from NASA-FREE and FUN!
http://mars.nasa.gov/free-holiday-ecard/love-valentine/#Send-A-Card

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

Send Your Name to Mars! - Mars NASA InSight Mission

Mars NASA InSight - Send Your Name to Mars!

  Be one of the first to send your name to Mars on the InSight Mars lander scheduled for launch March 2016! . Deadline for joining is 08SEP2015.
-LunarMeteoriteHunter, Tokyo

Send Your Name to Mars on NASA InSight Lander Mission-
http://mars.nasa.gov/participate/send-your-name/insight/

Mars enthusiasts around the world can participate in NASA's journey to Mars by adding their names to a silicon microchip headed to the Red Planet aboard NASA's InSight Mars lander, scheduled to launch next year.

"Our next step in the journey to Mars is another fantastic mission to the surface," said Jim Green, director of planetary science at NASA Headquarters in Washington. "By participating in this opportunity to send your name aboard InSight to the Red Planet, you're showing that you're part of that journey and the future of space exploration."

Submissions will be accepted until Sept. 8. To send your name to Mars aboard InSight, go to:

http://go.usa.gov/3Aj3G

The fly-your-name opportunity comes with "frequent-flier" points to reflect an individual's personal participation in NASA's journey to Mars, which will span multiple missions and multiple decades. The InSight mission offers the second such opportunity for space exploration fans to collect points by flying their names aboard a NASA mission, with more opportunities to follow.

Last December, the names of 1.38 million people flew on a chip aboard the first flight of NASA's Orion spacecraft, which will carry astronauts to deep space destinations including Mars and an asteroid. After InSight, the next opportunity to earn frequent flier points will be NASA's Exploration Mission-1, the first planned test flight bringing together the Space Launch System rocket and Orion capsule in preparation for human missions to Mars and beyond.

InSight will launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, in March 2016 and land on Mars Sept. 28, 2016. The mission is the first dedicated to the investigation of the deep interior of the planet. It will place the first seismometer directly on the surface of Mars to measure Martian quakes and use seismic waves to learn about the planet's interior. It also will deploy a self-hammering heat probe that will burrow deeper into the ground than any previous device on the Red Planet. These and other InSight investigations will improve our understanding about the formation and evolution of all rocky planets, including Earth.

For additional information about the InSight mission, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/insight/main/index.html

You can follow the mission on Facebook and Twitter at:

https://www.facebook.com/NASAInSight

and

https://twitter.com/nasainsight

Press Release by NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, jplnewsroom@jpl.nasa.gov, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory | 4800 Oak Grove Dr | Pasadena, CA 91109 - 18AUG2015

2015 The SECOND Year of "CERTAIN Uncertainty" ™ / Meteors, Asteroids, Comets, and MORE!!

Comet Close Call:Boon for Science, But Worry for Craft Orbiting Mars

Comet Close Call:Boon for Science, But Worry  for Craft Orbiting Mars

Comet close call: boon for science, but worry
for craft orbiting Mars,

 by Pete Spotts,
Christian Science Monitor, March 28, 2014
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2014/0328/Comet-close-call-boon-for-science-but-worry-for-craft-orbiting-Mars-video

Mars-Bound Comet: Photos of Comet C/2013 A1
Siding Spring (Gallery)

 Space.com, March 27, 2014‎
http://www.space.com/25257-mars-comet-siding-spring-photos-c2013-a1.html

Yours,

Paul H.

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http://theepistlesofpaul.blogspot.com/

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

Curious? Curiosity Has Landed on MARS! 05/06AUG2012

NASA Lands Car-Size Rover Beside Martian Mountain

Curiosity sends a VERY clear image from its Martian surroundings!
(CLICK on image to enlarge)
Source: NASA, JPL,CalTech

Curiosity`s First Photo From Mars
Source: NASA/JPL/CalTech

The full version of this story with accompanying images is at:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/news/msl20120805c.html


PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA's most advanced Mars rover Curiosity has landed on the Red Planet. The one-ton rover, hanging by ropes from a rocket backpack, touched down onto Mars Sunday to end a 36-week flight and begin a two-year investigation.

The Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) spacecraft that carried Curiosity succeeded in every step of the most complex landing ever attempted on Mars, including the final severing of the bridle cords and flyaway maneuver of the rocket backpack.

"Today, the wheels of Curiosity have begun to blaze the trail for human footprints on Mars. Curiosity, the most sophisticated rover ever built, is now on the surface of the Red Planet, where it will seek to answer age-old questions about whether life ever existed on Mars -- or if the planet can sustain life in the future," said NASA Administrator Charles Bolden. "This is an amazing achievement, made possible by a team of scientists and engineers from around the world and led by the extraordinary men and women of NASA and our Jet Propulsion Laboratory. President Obama has laid out a bold vision for sending humans to Mars in the mid-2030's, and today's landing marks a significant step toward achieving this goal."

Curiosity landed at 10:32 p.m. Aug. 5, PDT, (1:32 a.m. EDT Aug. 6) near the foot of a mountain three miles tall and 96 miles in diameter inside Gale Crater. During a nearly two-year prime mission, the rover will investigate whether the region ever offered conditions favorable for microbial life.

"The Seven Minutes of Terror has turned into the Seven Minutes of Triumph," said NASA Associate Administrator for Science John Grunsfeld. "My immense joy in the success of this mission is matched only by overwhelming pride I feel for the women and men of the mission's team."

Curiosity returned its first view of Mars, a wide-angle scene of rocky ground near the front of the rover. More images are anticipated in the next several days as the mission blends observations of the landing site with activities to configure the rover for work and check the performance of its instruments and mechanisms.

"Our Curiosity is talking to us from the surface of Mars," said MSL Project Manager Peter Theisinger of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. "The landing takes us past the most hazardous moments for this project, and begins a new and exciting mission to pursue its scientific objectives."

Confirmation of Curiosity's successful landing came in communications relayed by NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter and received by the Canberra, Australia, antenna station of NASA's Deep Space Network.

Curiosity carries 10 science instruments with a total mass 15 times as large as the science payloads on the Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity. Some of the tools are the first of their kind on Mars, such as a laser-firing instrument for checking elemental composition of rocks from a distance. The rover will use a drill and scoop at the end of its robotic arm to gather soil and powdered samples of rock interiors, then sieve and parcel out these samples into analytical laboratory instruments inside the rover.

To handle this science toolkit, Curiosity is twice as long and five times as heavy as Spirit or Opportunity. The Gale Crater landing site places the rover within driving distance of layers of the crater's interior mountain. Observations from orbit have identified clay and sulfate minerals in the lower layers, indicating a wet history.

The mission is managed by JPL for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. The rover was designed, developed and assembled at JPL. JPL is a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.

For more information on the mission, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/mars andhttp://marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov/msl .

Follow the mission on Facebook and Twitter at: http://www.facebook.com/marscuriosity And http://www.twitter.com/marscuriosity .

2012 THE Year of Meteors!

From Campos to Mars - students preparing for the landing of Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity

From Campos to Mars - students preparing for the landing of Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity

Posted on YouTube by  UmPasseiopeloCeu 2012/07/31 55 views
From Campos to Mars; young people will watch the landing of Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity on the red planet.
De Campos para Marte; jovens vão assistir sonda descer no planeta vermelho
Reportagem produzida pela INTERTV - Report produced by INTERTV

Brazilian students come fall of the U.S. probe on Mars
They expect the probe to explore a crater named after the city where they live: Campos dos Goytacazes.

Estudantes brasileiros acompanham dos EUA descida de sonda em Marte
Eles esperam que essa sonda explore uma cratera que leva o nome da cidade onde moram: Campos dos Goytacazes.

Three Brazilian students to the United States will follow the descent of a spacecraft on Mars. They are the Federal Fluminense Instituto de Campos, in the northern state of Rio and will attend a conference. ...

Três estudantes brasileiros vão para os Estados Unidos acompanhar a descida de uma sonda espacial em Marte. Eles são do Instituto Federal Fluminense de Campos, no norte do estado do Rio e vão participar de uma conferência. ...

http://g1.globo.com/globo-news/noticia/2012/08/estudantes-brasileiros-acompanham-dos-eua-descida-de-sonda-em-marte.html

2012 THE Year of Meteors!

The Wonder Of Meteorites- video

The Wonder Of Meteorites

posted on YouTube by meteoritesaustralia (196 views) — 2010年04月24日
The Wonder Of Meteorites