The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 28JUL2012

Star-gazers treated to meteor showers
WRAL.com (blog)
As Earth makes its way around the sun, it encounters a number of comets each year, passing through debris in the comet tails. Those sand-sized particles enter the Earth's atmosphere, creating a fiery trail over 50 miles up, creating a meteor shower.

Astroblog: Southern Delta Aquarid Meteor Shower, 28-29 July, 2012
By Ian Musgrave
Location of the radiant of the Southern Delta meteor shower. Left; location of radiant at 10:00 pm ACST on 28 July. Right; location of radiant at 3:00 am ACST 29 July (it is almost due north at this time), similar views will be seen a similar local ...
Astroblog

Delta Aquarid meteor shower fires up for the weekend | Astro Bob
Meteors from southern Delta Aquarid meteor shower radiate from near the star Delta Aquarii (hence the name) not far from the bright star Fomalhaut in the ...
astrobob.areavoices.com/.../delta-aquarid-meteor-shower-fires-...

This Week: Two Meteor Showers | Farmers' Almanac
Sunday night will see peak activity for not just one, but two meteor showers.
www.farmersalmanac.com/.../this-week-two-meteor-showers/

Carancas Meteorite/ Crater 2007 - Radio Show Coast-to-Coast AM

Peru Meteorite & Cat Mutilations Discussed ...
76 min
Peru Meteorite & Cat Mutilations Discussed !! (coast to coast am ...
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Peru Meteorite & Cat Mutilations Discussed !! (coast to coast am)
Mike Farmer Carancas, Peru Impact Crater photo.
Meteorite Zombies--Take this with a grain of salt!!!

Village meteorite at Tate Britain
BBC Oxford Fri, 27 Jul 2012 07:17 AM PDT
A meteorite that fell to earth in an Oxfordshire village in 1830 is being displayed at Tate Britain.

Summer Streakers How to Catch the Upcoming Meteor Showers | Spacecom
The late summer will feature a number of notable meteor showers to delight skywatchers. Here's how to view them.
www.space.com/16805-summer-meteor-showers-viewing-tips....

Watch out for meteor showers this weekend
Philippine Star
MANILA, Philippines - Residents of Mindanao can watch out for meteor showers this weekend, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) said yesterday. “The Southern Delta Aquarids meteor shower will be ...

Launton meteorite at Tate Britain
BBC News
A meteorite that fell to earth in an Oxfordshire village in 1830 is being displayed at Tate Britain. The cricket-ball sized rock is part of an exhibition by the Oxford-based artist and filmmaker Patrick Keiller. His installation called The Robinson ...

2012 THE Year of Meteors!

Mike Farmer Captures Kenya Meteorite -Photos 24AUG2011

Photo of Beautiful Oriented Kenya Stone Meteorite
(c) 2011 Mike Farmer
(click on photo to enlarge)

Mike Farmer and Finder of One of the Kenya Meteorites
(c) 2011 Mike Farmer

Two Wisconsin Elementary School Students Find Meteorites! 23APR2010

Wisconsin Meteorite:

A Very well written article in the Wisconsin State Journal Paper

Friday, April 23, 2010 4:17 AM

by Brian Cox-Chicago, Illinois, USA
posted by drtanuki 4:29am in Tokyo, JAPAN

This is an excellent article that was written in the Wisconsin paper that honestly make me very happy and puts Meteorite Collectors in a very positive and bright light. This writer got to the heart of the story by writing about the children and their families and their farms and how Michael Farmer and Terry Boudreaux went to the local combined school for Grant-Iowa counties on the border of the two counties and spoke at the Iowa/Grant Elementary-Middle School and gave a talk and discussion and interaction with the children on the new Wisconsin meteorite fall. Congratulations to our Meteorite Hunting friends and the school and farmers and the cook and his wife where one of the first meteorites were found on their farm. I salute you all for great work in the field and your humanitarian work.

http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/environment/article_13248f4e-4d85-11df-8940-001cc4c002e0.html

Wisconsin !st Grade Student Finds Meteorite!

MyFox Chicago

First Grader Finds Pieces of Meteor on Playground

MyFox Chicago
Chicago - Terry Boudreaux found the first pieces of the meteor that lit up the Midwestern sky last week, an event that had meteor hunters scouring Wisconsin ...



NBC CH15 Video about 1st Grader Finding Meteorite: http://tinyurl.com/27urhqj

Background Story about TWO Student`s Meteorite Finds
by Mike Farmer, Meteorite Hunter
After Terry Boudreaux and I gave a two hour presentation to more than 500 kids at the Grant-Iowa County school yesterday, we asked all the kids who was going to hunt for meteorites during recess. Of course all the children screamed and raised their hands. Minutes later, while news crews were shooting footage and doing interviews with us in the schoolyard, a 6 year old boy screamed he found a meteorite, which was a beautiful and perfect 100% crusted ~40 gram stone.

The school went crazy and another stone was found by a young girl a little while later. It was amazing to speak to the school, and every child there saw or heard the meteorite go overhead. I think that all these kids will be searching for meteorites now. The 8th-grade science teacher at the school told me he dropped his teaching plans for the next week and has moved his classes into researching meteorites on the net and doing reports on meteorites and meteorite falls. He was so happy at all of this and said that the children are so excited to come to class since the fall last week and did not want to talk about anything but the meteorite anyway so he went with it. I was mobbed by kids wanting to talk about my trips to Africa and how to find meteorites, so I think a few old falls may turn up on the farms from all this.

To bridge the gap between meteorite dealers and scientific institutions, I presented one of the stones I found as a gift to the Field Museum for the meteorite collection.

Michael Farmer

Wisconsin - METEORITE HUNTER MICHAEL FARMER IS A "METEORITE MAN"

METEORITE HUNTER, MICHAEL FARMER, FINDS FOUR OR MORE FROM THE APRIL 14, 2010 FIREBALL!




























Michael Farmer finds his fourth meteorite from the fireball of April 14, 2010. 17 grams. Found April 20, 2010. (c) Mike Farmer 2010
posted by Michael Johnson of rocksfromspace.org
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Wisconsin- Mike Farmer, "Meteorite Hunter" Scores again !!!

Mike Farmer Finds Yet More of the Meteorites from the 14APR10 Fall in Wisconsin















Michael Farmer finds another meteorite from the fireball of April 14, 2010. 36 grams.
(c) Mike Farmer 2010 meteoriteguy.com

posted by Michael Johnson of rocksfromspace.org
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Mike Farmer "Meteorite Hunter" Scores Big Find in Wisconsin 17APR10

Mike Farmer finds his first meteorite from the Wisconsin meteorite fall of April 14, 2010!

(c) 2010 Michael Farmer meteoriteguy.com
posted by ROCKS FROM OUTER SPACE

Mike Farmer, the "Meteorite Hunter", finds his first, a 131gr meteorite stone, from the 14APR2010 fireball over Wisconsin and Iowa.

(c) 2010 Michael Farmer meteoriteguy.com
posted by ROCKS FROM OUTER SPACE
Close up of the latest rock from space.

Minutes ago, in a telephone interview, Mike Farmer said that several tens of meteorites were found today with a total of perhaps 700-800 grams.
It is not possible to confirm just how much was found today given the number of people searching for the meteorite, large area and the lack of sharing information

Arizona Meteor/Meteorite News- AZ Meteorite Found by Mike Farmer 27AUG09

This meteorite fell on June 23, 2009 at ~11 pm in southern Arizona. A large fireball was seen from the Mexican border to central Arizona. A friend of mine found pieces less than 48 hours after the fall, so I rushed home from Germany to search. After two weeks, I finally found one of the best stones, a 130 gram flight-oriented specimen covered in flow lines. To date we have found a total of 16 stones weighing a total of 2.5 kilograms.

Mike Farmer`s Team Finds Three More Today 19FEB09

West, Texas Meteorite found by (c) Michael Farmer 2009

I just spoke with Mike Farmer on the telephone and they have found three more meteorites today. He said that the area is mostly farm and pasture land making it not the most idea for hunting conditions.