Meteor/Meteorite News 17DEC2010

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In the Territory, even the light showers are heavy
The Age
Stargazers know it as the annual Geminid meteor shower. "Cascading lights were going off in the outback sky in every direction, it was incredible to see," ...

Geminids Meteor Shower 2010: Best Viewing Times
Gather.com
The Geminids Meteor Shower will offer the best show in the sky this year over the next few nights. In fact, the best night for viewing the light show will ...

Pictures: Brilliant Geminid Meteors Dazzle Sky-Watchers
National Geographic
Shooting stars from the annual Geminid meteor shower zip across the night sky above the Zagros Mountains in Iran early Tuesday. The Geminids peaked earlier ...

Stargazing Live
BBC News
At around midnight the organisers will put aside the telescopes in order to observe the QuadrantidMeteor Shower. It all takes place at Newlands Corner, ...

Life's building blocks discovered on surprising meteorite Sify Scientists have identified amino acids, a fundamental building block of life, in a meteorite where none were expected. "This meteorite formed when two ...

NASA Discovers Asteroid Delivered Assortment of Meteorites PR Newswire (press release) Chemists at Stanford University found that different meteorite types share the same distinct fingerprint of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). ... Building blocks of life created in 'Impossible' place PhysOrg Thu, 16 Dec 2010 13:27 PM PST (PhysOrg.com) -- NASA-funded scientists have discovered amino acids, a fundamental building block of life, in a meteorite where none were expected. Life's building blocks discovered on surprising meteorite New Kerala Wed, 15 Dec 2010 22:53 PM PST Washington, Dec 16 : Scientists has identified amino acids, a fundamental building block of life, in a meteorite where none were expected. Meteorite Is Piece Of Unknown Celestial Body redOrbit Wed, 15 Dec 2010 22:15 PM PST Scientists from all over the world are taking a second, more expansive, look at the car-sized asteroid that exploded over Sudan's Nubian Desert in 2008. Initial research was focused on classifying the meteoritefragments that were collected two to five months after they were strewn across the desert and tracked by NASA's Near Earth Object astronomical network. Now in a series of 20 papers for a ... Meteorite just one piece of an unknown celestial body SpaceRef Wed, 15 Dec 2010 18:36 PM PST Scientists from all over the world are taking a second, more expansive, look at the car-sized asteroid that exploded over Sudan's Nubian Desert in 2008. Reports from Readers of Meteor/Meteorite News: Dec 16 2010, 2:11 AM Guest799 (guest):Last night (12/14)around 10pm, I saw what looked like a shooting star in the northern sky of Brighton, MI.However, I don't think it was a shooting star since it seemed round and also seemed to "burst"after a few seconds of falling. Dec 16 2010, 9:50 PM Dennise Becker:There is a large white ball of light in the sky right now directly above my home in Concord, California 12/15/10 4:50a Dec 16 2010, 11:40 PM  Guest811 (guest): I am in Wales, U.K.and saw a huge fireball on Sat.11th at app: 10pm-coming from east to west at a very shallow angle,yellow,bits of orange and sparks and HUGE. Before I could finish telling others in the car, it had disappeared. Not a firework, shooting star - far too big.Also VERY low in the sky...I was looking across at it from the motorway (which is on an incline). Uncanny,exciting and a bit frightening as it was so low. Jean Phillips,Bryncethin, Wales UK