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10 March 2012

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 10MAR2012

Fireball Spotted Over North Georgia -- Fire in the Sky -- Sott.net
Cartersville - Scientists at the Tellus Science Museum said they observed a fireball in the sky over north Georgia Wednesday evening. The NASA Meteoroid ...
www.sott.net/.../242727-Fireball-Spotted-Over-North-Georgia

Rocks' origin still unclear
The Union Leader
By JASON SCHREIBER EXETER – An Exeter man who believes he recovered rocks from ameteorite last week still doesn't know what he found after geology professors at the University of New Hampshire were unable to determine their origin.

Nuclear safety upgrade planned
News & Observer
... Progress Energy's chief nuclear officer announced this week that every US nuclear plant will add an extra layer of emergency equipment this year to deal with unforeseen natural disasters - such as earthquakes, tornadoes and even meteor strikes.

BBC News - Meteor sightings across Britain
Reports of a "bright light" and an "orange glow" were received by police across Scotland and the north of England.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17249086

Meteor Shower Dazzles Victorians Lucky Enough to See It -- Fire in ...
The meteor was seen across Victoria at about 10.45pm, including at Anglesea, Frankston, Berwick, Cairnlea, Tullamarine, Dandenong. The fireball even cau...
www.sott.net/.../242515-Meteor-Shower-Dazzles-Victorians-L...

Time-Lapse and Meteor Photography
Have you ever wondered how they catch still photos of extremely fast meteorites falling down from the sky? Well, I have. I always thought about the ca...
www.instructables.com/.../Time-Lapse-and-Meteor-Photograp...

'Meteor shower' dazzles the Victorian sky, page 1
Hot on the tails (pun intended) of the British meteor of last night www. abovetopsecret.com... some lucky Victorians got to catch a glimpse of a meteor over our ...
www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread815972/pg1

Fireball Bright Over North Georgia
Patch.com
The meteor was first recorded southeast of Tunnel Hill at an altitude of 51.5 miles, and was moving slightly south of west at approximately 33500 mph. It was last seen 16.9 miles above State Route 95 southeast of Rock Springs. Scientist are working to ...

Meteorites reveal another way to make life's components
R & D Magazine
In the study, scientists with the Astrobiology Analytical Laboratory at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., analyzed samples from fourteen carbon-richmeteorites with minerals that indicated they had experienced high temperatures—in ...

CARTERSVILLE | Fireball spotted over north Georgia
WXIA-TV
A fireball seen over parts of Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee Wed. evening, as seen from the Tellus Science Museum in Cartersville A fireball seen over parts of Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee Wed. evening, as seen from the NASA Marshall Space Flight...

Meteorites reveal another way to make life's components
PhysOrg.com
A meteorite is analyzed in the study at its collection site in Antarctica. Credit: Antarctic Search for Meteorites program, Case Western Reserve University (PhysOrg.com) -- Creating some of life's building blocks in space may be a bit like making a ...

Exeter Man May Have Found Meteorite
Patch.com
"I thought it was a spaceship," Ulery told Boston-based Channel 7 News. Ulery went back the next morning and found small chunks of rocks that he believes are meteorite pieces. He said he wants to get them tested at Harvard University.

Meteor: Space Rock Search In Devon After ...
A hunt is under way for the remains of a suspected meteor that was seen shooting across ...
news.sky.com





07 April 2011

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 7APR2011 with Mustard

Souvenirs from space
Sydney Morning Herald
The ads are for chunks of meteorites, bits of asteroids that have fallen from the sky and are as prized by scientists as they are by collectors. As more meteorites have been discovered in recent years, interest in them has flourished and an illegal ...



4.5-Billion-Year-Old Antarctic Meteorite Yields New Mineral
LiveScience.com
by Jeanna Bryner, LiveScience Managing Editor A meteorite discovered in Antarctica in 1969 has just divulged a modern secret: a new mineral, now called Wassonite. The amount of the new mineral found in the 4.5-billion-year-old meteorite was tiny ...



NASA Researchers Find Brand New Mineral in Old Meteorite
Universe Today
Researchers taking a new look at an old meteorite with a high-tech electron microscope have found a new mineral, now called Wassonite, in a space rock found in Anarctica back in 1969, the Yamato 691 enstatite chondrite. The meteorite likely originated ...



How Safe Is Safe Enough? To Engineers, It Depends
NPR
What if a meteorite falls on the plant? The facilities at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant were designed to withstand strong earthquakes and tsunamis, but not to the strength and size experienced on March 11. Corradini says nuclear power ...



David Richards — A close look at Vesta, the largest asteroid
Canton Repository
The Lyrid Meteor Shower peaks late Friday, May 22. Unfortunately, the light of the waning gibbous Moon will blot out all but the brightest of the usual 10 to 20 meteors an hour. Go to www.heavens-above.com to see what celestial sights are coming up ...