13DEC09 Meteor/Meteorite News

The Geminid Meteor Shower is coming! Experts forecast up to 140 meteors per hour!
Examiner.com
The Geminid meteor shower is coming! The Geminids, the last major meteor shower of the year, will peak in intensity on Sunday night/Monday morning. ...

Bright flashes light up night sky Friday
Grand Forks Herald
He said officials suspect the cause of all the excitement was a meteor because this week marks the peak of the Geminid meteor shower. A Becker County (Minn. ...

Winter meteors are real Gems
Scientific American
A spectacular lightshow is beginning in the night sky as the Earth runs into a vast stream of meteor dust. More than 100 shooting stars an hour could be ...

Things that Go Bump in the Night (or Day)!
Albany Times Union (blog)
However, Isachesen believed the circular feature was the result of an impact crater buried under the ground and that a meteor or comet struck the Earth. ...

explorersweb Week in Review
K2climb.net
Antarctic meteorite hunters ready for their field season The upcoming Antarctic Search for Meteorites (ANSMET) field season will be the meteorite hunters' ...

Geminid meteors expected to offer display of shooting stars Sunday
Austin American-Statesman
If the predicted cloudy skies don't make an appearance, meteors should be visible away from city lights. By Joshunda Sanders If you can spare a few moments ...

Observing podcast: Geminid meteor shower, California Nebula, and Baby Nebula
Astronomy Magazine
December 11-18, 2009: The 2009 Geminid meteor shower makes a great target for beginning observers, while the California Nebula (NGC 1499) and the Baby ...

SkyandTelescope.com - Homepage Observing - A Great Year for ... Dec 8, 2009 ... The Geminid meteors, which peak on December 13-14, ... The Geminid meteor shower is extremely unusual in that its parent object isn't a ...

Intense Geminid Meteor Shower Peaks Sunday Dec 11, 2009 ... With good viewing conditions expected, sky-watchers are in for an early holiday treat. The Geminid meteor shower—the year's most prolific—is ...

The Geminid Meteor Shower peaks on Dec. 13-14
KOLD-TV
TUCSON, AZ - The forecast for the Geminid meteor shower this year is excellent due to the lack of moonlight. Often considered by many astronomers to be the ...

Join the World in Looking for Geminids This Weekend with #MeteorWatch
Universe Today
Amateur astronomers around the world will be watching for what is predicted to be one of the year's best meteor showers, the Geminids. ...

12DEC09 Meteor/Meteorite News

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読売新聞 - Japan
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Geminid meteor shower peaks Sunday night
Examiner.com
The Geminid meteor shower peaks on Sunday night and Monday morning. The meteors will appear to radiate from a point in the constellation of Gemini. ..

Mysterious night sky prompts questions of light's origins
In-Forum
Officials suspect the phenomena was a meteor, as this week marks the peak of the Geminid meteor shower, Barrett said. A Becker County Sheriff's Department ...

Mysterious lights were likely meteors
DL-Online
Gordon said that the cold temperatures and clear sky made for the perfect conditions to see meteors entering the atmosphere. He said that the sheriff's ...

Intense meteor shower to peak this weekend
CBC.ca
Canadians willing to brave the cold and lucky enough to get a break in the clouds could be treated to a spectacular meteor shower Sunday. ...

Meteor shower could be seen in Augusta area
Augusta Chronicle
One of the larger meteor showers this year is set to occur Sunday night into Monday morning, and there just might be decent viewing in the Augusta area. ...

Interested in big Sunday Meteor Shower? Ask Bill Cooke of Marshall Space ...
al.com (blog)
By Shelby G. Spires Interested in seeing the largest meteor shower this year cascading across the night sky Sunday? Then Web chat with Marshall Space Flight ...



Cold, clear night may offer glimpse of early Geminids
Baltimore Sun (blog)
The annual Geminid meteor shower - arguably the best of the year if it weren't so darn cold - is also on tap for Sunday night into Monday morning, ...

Earth's atmosphere came from outer space
Telegraph.co.uk
The Earth's atmosphere and oceans which gave rise to life came from outer space probably on the back of meteorites or comets, scientists now believe. ...

YouTube - universe,milky way,stars,galaxy,Space,phj,nasa,cosmology ...
【高画質】直径400kmの巨大隕石が衝突したとき、地球で何が起こるのか. 258586 views ... もしも巨大隕石がベルリンに落下したら meteor strike. 58741 views ...

Meteorites land in Botswana
Botswana Press Agency
GABORONE - Some meteorites might have fallen from the sky in the area around the confluence of the Shashe and Limpopo rivers. In an interview, the principal ...

Russian scientists with Extraterrestrial insights reveal oversights about the Moon
The Canadian National Newspaper Exopolitics News (blog)
Naturally, the hull of such a spaceship must be super-tough in order to stand up to the blows of meteorites and sharp fluctuations between extreme heat and ...

Colored 'fireballs' light up evening sky
Lihue Garden Island
“I've seen meteorites all my life,” he said. But added that what he saw was much different. “It was either a gigantic asteroid or one of the biggest ..

11DEC09 Meteor/Meteorite News

Gem' of a meteor shower underway
msnbc.com
By Joe Rao If you missed out on last month's Leonid Meteor Shower, don't fret. What potentially will be the best meteor display of the year is just around ...

Earth's atmosphere came from outer space, find scientists
EurekAlert (press release)
"We found a clear meteorite signature in volcanic gases," said Dr Greg Holland the project's lead scientist. "From that we now know that the volcanic gases ...

Norway Spiral Video: Mysterious Norway Spiral Baffles Scientists, Possible ...
Gaea Times (blog)
There was initial speculation that it might be a bright meteor but that dismissed because the Norway Spiral lasted for too long to be a meteor. ...

Geminid Meteor Shower; Hubble Finds New Galaxies
AccuWeather.com (blog)
Today, as promised, I'll be going into more detail about the upcoming Geminid Meteor Shower, and there's some exciting news about Hubble's latest ...

Russian missile failure sparks UFO frenzy in Norway
Telegraph.co.uk
Rather than signalling the arrival of alien lifeforms or a meteorite in the Norwegian city of Tromso, the spectacular plume of light was produced in the ...

Inwood Celebrates the International Year of Astronomy with Geminid Meteor ...
DNAinfo
The Geminids, debris from an extinct comet, are considered the most spectacular of the annual meteor showers, though they are often overshadowed by the ...

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Best (Meteor) Shower of 2009 - No Towel Required
(PhysOrg.com) -- Bundle up and get ready to watch a fiery lightshow stirred up by dead comets in Earth's upper atmosphere during the cold of winter in the ...

Meteor-killed-mammoths theory doesn't add up, new study says
Ottawa Citizen
By Randy Boswell, Canwest News ServiceDecember 10, 2009 3:06 AM A team of researchers is casting doubt on the theory that a huge meteorite strike around ...

Sky Spy : Stay up late to view good meteor shower
Arizona Daily Star
By Tim Hunter Meteors, also known as shooting stars or falling stars, always catch us by surprise. They truly look like stars falling from the sky. ...

10DEC09 Meteor/Meteorite News

Stunning Spiral Light Show over Norway

Space Weather News for Dec. 9, 2009
http://spaceweather.com

This morning in arctic Norway, onlookers were stunned when a gigantic luminous spiral formed in the northern sky. Veteran observers accustomed to the appearance of Northern Lights say they have never seen anything like it. It was neither a meteor nor any known form of atmospheric optics. Rumors that the spiral was caused by the botched launch of a Russian rocket have not yet been confirmed. Visit http://spaceweather.com

for images and eyewitness reports of this mysterious apparition.


Spiral UFO puts Norway in a spin
The Sun
Nick Pope, former UFO analyst for the Ministry of Defence, said: "My first thought was this was a meteor, a fireball, or debris from an old satellite ...

Video:
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/video/article300101.ece?vxSiteId=6247211d-66e0-4454-b73a-3f1610efa39a&vxChannel=Sun%20Exclusive&vxClipId=1347_SUN40801&vxBitrate=300

Study casts doubt on theory Hudson Bay meteorite triggered ice age
National Post
The theory that a meteorite strike "may have been the instigator for this cooling period was appealing because of several alleged impact markers, ...

Mars methane 'not from meteors'
BBC News
Scientists at Imperial College London say they have now ruled out the possibility that the methane is being constantly deposited by meteorites landing on ...

Geminid Meteor Shower Peaks Sunday, Dec. 13
University of Texas at Austin News
AUSTIN, Texas — The Geminid meteor shower will be at its best on the evening of Dec. 13, according to the editors of StarDate magazine. ...

Evidence of water in sand Mars rover's stuck in
San Francisco Chronicle
... but Spirit has been traveling across a basalt plain of lava flows from ancient volcanoes that is pocked by repeated meteorite impacts, Arvidson said. ...

9DEC09 Meteor/Meteorite News

Bluish-green fireball sighted over northern Germany
The Local
Several eyewitnesses reported seeing a bluish-green fireball over northern Germany on Monday night – possibly a large meteor burning up in the Earth's ...

Botswana hunts for falling star in Bobirwa, Tswapong Mmegi Online "The meteorite burns in the sky, producing a glowing light before reaching the ground and they (meteriotes) range from marble-ball size to soccer-ball size ... Mars-Methan stammt nicht von Meteoriten - Biologische Herkunft ... grenzwissenschaft-aktuell.de - Germany London/ England - Forscher des "Imperial College London" schließen anhand einer aktuellen Studie aus, dass Meteoriten Methan auf den Mars gebracht haben ... Smithsonian expert on rocks from moon Washington Post Dr. Mason led the collection of meteor fragments that fell near the Mexican village of Pueblito de Allende in 1969. The meteorites contained grains of the ...

Убивший динозавров метеорит "поджарил" Землю
Lenta.ru - Москва,Russia
Ученым удалось установить, что падение метеорита 65 миллионов лет назад, приведшее к появлению кратера Чикшулуб, "поджарило", а не "сожгло" Землю. Статья ...

Absence of Evidence for a Meteorite Impact Event 13000 Years Ago
Science Daily (press release)
ScienceDaily (Dec. 7, 2009) — An international team of scientists led by researchers at the University of Hawaii at Manoa has found no evidence supporting ...

Številni manjši meteoridi na Jesenicah
zurnal24 - Ljubljana,Slovenia
Če najdete te kamne, ki ustrezajo opisu, obvestite muzej na naslov meteorit@mrc.pms-lj.si ali na številko 01/241 09 40. Fotografirajte jih pred dotikanjem. ...

No Evidence For Meteorite Impact Event 13,000 Years Ago
redOrbit Tue, 08 Dec 2009 09:53 AM PST
Image Caption: The woolly mammoth was one of the large mammals that became extinct in North America at the onset of the Younger Dryas approx. 13,000 years ago. Credit: Image of Woolly Mammoth at the Royal BC Museum, Victoria, British Columbia courtesy Wikipedia Commons

Absence of evidence for a meteorite impact event 13,000 years ago PhysOrg Tue, 08 Dec 2009 07:24 AM PST An international team of scientists led by researchers at the University of Hawaii at Manoa have found no evidence supporting an extraterrestrial impact event at the onset of the Younger Dryas ~13000 years ago. COPS: When charged with assault, man tries meteorite defense Torrington Register Citizen Apparently Chase said he wanted to show the woman who lived at the residence a meteorite he had with him. He wanted to talk to the residents in the house ...

Comets, meteorites and asteroids
Bangkok Post - Thailand's English news Mon, 07 Dec 2009 19:42 PM PST
Last month, there was a meteorite shower that was a spectacle to behold in the night skies of Thailand.

Get Ready For The 2009 Geminid Meteor Shower
RedOrbit
The best meteor shower of 2009 is about to fall over North America on a long, cold December night. "It's the Geminid meteor shower," says Bill Cooke of ...

Clear skies should help viewers of weekend meteor shower
Houma Courier
By Nikki Buskey HOUMA — One of the brightest meteor showers of the year will paint the skies above Houma and Thibodaux this weekend. ...

Mars study boosts hopes of finding life Telegraph.co.uk They have ruled out any possibility of meteorites delivering the high levels of the gas detected in the Martian atmosphere. ... Life on Mars theory boosted by new methane study Insciences Organisation Scientists have ruled out the possibility that methane is delivered to Mars by meteorites, raising fresh hopes that the gas might be generated by life on ... Origin of species: Did life begin right here? SooToday.com The scientists, William Cannon and John Slack from the US Geological Survey, say they've found rock fragments from the Sudbury meteorite strike scattered ...

8DEC09 Meteor/Meteorite News

Absence of evidence for a meteorite impact event 13000 years ago
UH System Current News
An international team of scientists led by researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa have found no evidence supporting an extraterrestrial impact ...

Peter Jenniskens at the TC3 2008 Workshop
SETI Institute
Talks were given by, amongst others, Dr. Muawia Shaddad, who led the meteorite recovery effort and is head of the local organizing committee, ...

Though protected, backyard meteorites belong to homeowners
Edson Leader
From there things get a little complicated, especially if you want to sell some of the meteorite pieces to another country. ...

2009 Geminid meteor shower viewing guide
Astronomy Magazine
The Geminid meteor shower peaks before dawn December 14. With the Moon out of the way, observers with dark skies may see 100 meteors per hour or more. ...

Geminids Meteor Shower: Nature's 'Holiday Light Show'
Space Daily
by Staff Writers The Geminids are one of the best meteor showers of the year and never seem to disappoint observers! Join Bill Cooke of the Meteoroid ...

ASTOUNDING 'GEMINID' METEOR SHOWERS TO LIGHT NIGHT SKY
Star of Mysore
A 'Shooting star' or a 'meteor' is caused by a tiny particle of dust entering the Earth's atmosphere. As it plunges downward, it experiences collision with ...

Life began with a bang in Sudbury, 1.8 billion years ago: scientists
Vancouver Sun
By Randy Boswell, Canwest News servicedecember 4, 2009 SUDBURY, Ont. - The mountain-sized meteorite that struck Sudbury nearly two billion years ago ...

Stargazing: Geminid Meteor Shower
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
By Dan Malerbo, Buhl Planetarium and Observatory One of the year's best displays of "shooting stars," the Geminid meteor shower, will peak Sunday night into ...

7DEC09 Meteor/Meteorite News

Look Up: What's in the Sky This Week?
DCist.com
The most visible 'shooting stars' should appear almost all night, from 10 pm to dawn, with the peak around 2 am The Geminids are the most reliable meteor ...

Man is fueling holocaust of many other species
Deseret News
The fifth extinction took place 65 million years ago when a meteor smashed into the Earth, killing off the dinosaurs and many other species and opening the ...

Meteor shower set to light up
7DAYS
Stargazers are in for a treat as a meteor shower is set to light up the Dubai sky. Geminid meteor shower is expected to be seen on Sun-day, December 13, ...

In books and film, fascination with the apocalypse continues.
Boston Globe
“When Worlds Collide'' (1951) imagined humanity's desperate efforts to get off Earth before a meteor hit: A stark metaphor for nuclear threat. ...

When Worlds Collide (1951) movie - 6DEC09

When Worlds Collide 1951

First published in 1932, Philip Wylie and Edwin Balmer's speculative novel When Worlds Collide was immediately purchased by Paramount as a possible project ... [click link above to watch the movie]

Canada Meteorite News- Sudbury Impact Makes Waves 5DEC09

Life began with a bang in Sudbury, 1.8 billion years ago: scientists
The Gazette (Montreal)
By Randy Boswell, Canwest News Service December 4, 2009 4:03 PM Locator map showing the site of a meteorite hit near Sudbury about 1.85 billion years ago ...

Did life begin in Sudbury?
Canada.com Fri, 04 Dec 2009 13:27 PM PST
The mountain-sized meteorite that struck Sudbury nearly two billion years ago already known to have made the northern Ontario city a global mining mecca may have also triggered changes in Earth's ocean chemistry that allowed complex life to begin evolving on the planet, two U.S. government scientists have theorized. ...

5DEC09 Meteor/Meteorite News

Learn more about the meteorite Northwest Africa 869
Astronomy Magazine
This month I will focus on a stone meteorite that is readily available — even though we are seeing less and less of it and the prices are steadily ...

Clear skies expected for next weekend's meteor shower
Daily Comet
One of the brightest and best meteor showers of the year will paint the skies above Houma and Thibodaux next weekend. The Geminid meteor shower is expected ...

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新托福听力十大主题词汇分享：天文词汇- 自学分享- 龙巢教育论坛- Bbs ... 陨石. Some people believe that dinosaurs were destroyed because of the effects of a gigantic meteorite. 20 revolution. 旋转, 转数 ...

Geminid meteor shower to peak on 14th December 2009 PhysOrg.com (PhysOrg.com) -- The annual Geminid meteor shower is predicted to peak at 0510 GMT on 14th December. Meteors (or 'shooting stars') are the result of small ...

The Joy of a Meteor Shower Telegraph-Journal Meteor showers arise when earth passes through a trail of ice and dust particles that were shed from a comet. The meteors appear to come from one spot, ... 2009 Geminid Meteor Shower to reappear December 7 PRLog.Org (press release) On December 7th through the 17th, be ready for the appearance of the annual Geminid Meteor Shower! This year, the peak of the shower is predicted to occur ...

Spectacular meteor shower
Sarnia Observer
The most spectacular meteor shower of 2009 will occur on the evening of Dec. 13 and into the early hours of the 14th. No moon will be out to interfere with ...

Sample Of Martian Colony At London Museum
Oneindia
A meteorite from Mars, with a sample of Martian colony, has been put on display at Natural History Museum, London. According to the NASA scientists, ...

Australia Meteor past- Perth, Western Australia 3DEC05

Meteor fireball seen near Perth, Western Australia, 3DEC2005.


Video on YouTube

Channel 6 TV news story:
http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=news/bizarre&id=3693396

4DEC09 Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News

火星の隕石やはり生命痕ＮＡＳＡが新証拠 ニュース 宇宙 YOMIURI ...
ワシントン山田哲朗１３年前火星に生命が存在したかどうかの論争に火をつけた 隕石 いんせき にはやはり生命の痕跡があるとする新証拠を米航空宇宙局ＮＡＳＡが３０日 ...

Stolen Meterorite Returned
WCBI Columbus Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:57 PM PST
TUPELO -- The 1,100-pound meteorite stolen last year from Leake & Goodlett has been returned to the business on Main Street. The stone was taken off its pedestal by thieves on Nov. 19, 2008 and was delivered by truck to the store today. No one has taken responsibility for the theft. (Fake Stolen Meteorite Returned)

Scientist Smackdown: Are There Signs of Life in a Meteorite From Mars?
Discover Magazine
ALH 84001, the meteorite of Martian origin that NASA scientists claimed in 1996 contained evidence of life on Mars, has returned to the scene. ...

Mars Had Liquid Water in Recent Past, Rover Finds
National Geographic
The area is filled with cooled lava flows pitted by meteorite impacts. While on a routine drive, Spirit broke through a thin crust of hard soil that capped ...

Goldpreis weiter auf Rekordjagd: 1.226,10 pro Feinunze
DiePresse.com - Wien,Austria
Es gibt heute eine billige Technologie Meteoriten gezielt z. ... Dabei wird mit einem Spiegel Sonnenlicht auf eine Stelle des Meteoriten gelenkt wodurch ...

Museum Puts 'Martian Colony' on Display
Newser
NASA scientists who recently examined the Natural History Museum's fragment of the Nakhla meteorite believe bumps on its surface are fossilized Martian ...

Almahata Sitta metorite- "Naked Science: Countdown to Impact" 3DEC09

Richard Kowalski holding a specimen of the Almahata Sitta meteorite. Photo courtesy of http://fullmoonphotography.net

Naked Science: Countdown to Impact
The National Geographic Channel will air "Naked Science: Countdown to Impact" on Thursday December 3 at 10 pm Eastern Time. The program will include footage about the discovery of an Earth-bound asteroid impactor, 2008 TC3, by astronomer Richard Kowalski and the finding of the resulting Almahata Sitta meteorite fall in Sudan.
National Geographic Channel:
http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/series/naked-science/4652/Overview

Rocks from Space Picture of the Day- Photo story by Sara Cole:
http://www.rocksfromspace.org/December_3_2009.html

Fullmoon Photography Site:
http://fullmoonphotography.net

3DEC2009 Meteor/Meteorite News

Discovery may be out of this world
TheChronicleHerald.ca
The scientists believe that oil they found inside meteorites comes from the breakdown of living organisms, just as on Earth. These hydrocarbons may exist ...

Meteorite count rises!
CKTB
Astronomers from The University of Western Ontario suspected a meteorite touched down somewhere in the Grimsby area. Another clue that something from outer ...

Meteor shower and much more in December sky
Seattle Times
The Geminids meteor shower may display more than 100 meteors per hour for Western Washington viewers the night of Dec. 13-14. By Rodney Ash The December ...

Is Denver ready for a close encounter?
Los Angeles Times
"It didn't fizzle out like a meteorite. I just stood there awe-struck," he said. "The next morning, I read someone had seen a green ball of light over ...

Moon talk includes humorous phase
Dubuque Telegraph Herald
Before he left the class, Weis pulled two clear plastic disks from his pockets that contained lunar samples and meteorite samples for the students to ...

Fresh Evidence of Ancient Life on Mars?
MIT Technology Review (blog)
A new study says it's the best explanation for materials found in a meteorite, but not everyone agrees. By Brittany Sauser In 1996, NASA researchers ...

Nasa vindt 'overtuigend bewijs' van leven op Mars
Het Laatste Nieuws - Belgium
De Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie heeft een meteoriet die 13.000 jaar ... In 1996 stelden Mackay en anderen al dat microfossielen in de meteoriet het ...

More meteor pictures requested
Independent Online
The Johannesburg Planetarium is asking members of the public for footage of a meteor that sped over Gauteng, Mpumalanga, Limpopo and Botswana last month. ...

Gauteng meteor bolide

lights up sky in South Africa (21st 2009)

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Meteor lights up sky in South Africa (21st 2009) CCTV: footage of a meteor spotted over the skies of Gauteng, South Africa on the 21st of November ...
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Martians in Britain
The Sun
The microscopic aliens are on a slice of a meteorite in London's Natural History Museum. The scientists, who used a scanning electron microscope to take ...

Utah Meteor/Meteorite News- Utah 18NOV09 Meteor Update 2DEC09

Utah Meteor Update:
Calculations estimate meteor lit up 500000 miles

KSL-TV
They now estimate the meteor lit up 500000 square miles bright as day, and they've learned a lot more by studying some spectacular images. ...
KSL-TV comments page: http://www.ksl.com/index.php?nid=148&sid=8858815&comments=true

Explosion, Utah 18NOV09

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Meteor over Utah seen from Colorado

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This is a video from a Colorado police car of the Meterite that landed in Utah. The cop was cruising the streets of Grand Junction Colorado when ...
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Australia Meteor/Meteorite News- 1DEC09 Earthquake, sonic boom, meteorite? 2DEC09

Earthquake, sonic boom, meteorite? It was us says RAAF
Newcastle Herald
A WILLIAMTOWN RAAF base spokesman has suggested that "supersonic activity" by aircraft taking part in a major defence exercise off the coast was responsible ...
comments on newspaper: Newest first

2.6 earthquake off Dana Point

December 1st, 2009, 6:11 pm by Gary Robbins, science writer-editor
Orange County got a gentle reminder this afternoon that there are active faults offshore. A magnitude 2.6 earthquake occurred at 2:14 p.m. roughly 11 miles southwest of Dana Point ...http://sciencedude.freedomblogging.com/2009/12/01/26-earthquake-off-dana-point/69633/

Meteorite Falls of December- 1DEC09

December Meteorite Falls:
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date, year, meteorite name, location, country, classification
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Dec 1:
1889 Jelica, Serbia, Serbia and Montenegro- LL6
1932 Witsand Farm, Karasburg, Namibia- LL4
1977 Xingyang, Henan, China- H6

Dec 2:
1852 Bustee, Gorakhpur, Basti District, Basti Division, Uttar Pradesh, India- Aubrite
1880 Andhara, Bihar, India- Stone-uncl

Dec 3:
1917 Strathmore, Scotland, UK- L6
1980 Kaidun, Hadhramaut, Yemen- CR2

Dec 4:
1934 Farmville, Pike County, North Carolina- H4
1952 Zavetnoe, Rostovskaya oblast', Russia- L6

Dec 5:
1868 Frankfort, Franklin Co., Alabama, USA- Howardite

Dec 6:
1866 Cangas de Onis, Asturias, Spain- H5

Dec 7:
1863 Tourinnes-la-Grosse, Nivelles, Belgium- L6

Dec 9:
1858 Ausson, Midi-Pyrenees, France- L5
1880 Wittekrantz, Western Cape, South Africa- L5

Dec 10:
1662 Novy-Ergi, Novgorodskaya oblast', Russia- Stone-uncl
1871 Bandong, Jawa Barat, Indonesia- LL6
1926 Ojuelos Altos, Andalucia, Spain- L6
1950 St. Louis, Missouri, USA- H4
1957 Al Rais, Al Madinah, Saudi Arabia- CR2
1984 Claxton, Georgia, United States- L6
1992 Mihonoseki, Chugoku, Japan- L6

Dec 13:
1795 Wold Cottage, England, UK- L6
1803 Mässing, Bayern, Germany- Howardite
1813 Luotolax, Kymi, Finland- Howardite
1997 Vissannapeta, Andhra Pradesh, India- Eucrite-cm

Dec 14:
1807 Weston, Connecticut, USA- H4
1999 Dunbogan, New South Wales, Australia- L6

Dec 15:
1906 Vishnupur, West Bengal, India- LL4-6
1908 Sete Lagoas, Minas Gerais, Brazil- H4
1940 Ramnagar, Uttar Pradesh, India- L6
1978 Nuevo Mercurio, Zacatecas, Mexico- H5

Dec 16:
1938 Ivuna, Mbeya, Tanzania- CI1

Dec 18:
1963 Zaisan, Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan- H5

Dec 19:
1798 Benares (a), Uttar Pradesh, India- LL4

Dec 20:
1960 Woolgorong, Western Australia, Australia- L6

Dec 21:
1876 Rochester, Indiana, USA- H6
1923 Nakhon Pathom, Nakhon Pathom, Thailand- L6

Dec 22:
1863 Manbhoom, West Bengal, India- LL6
1868 Moti-ka-nagla, Rajasthan, India- H6

Dec 23:
1920 Atarra, Uttar Pradesh, India-L4

Dec 24:
1858 Molina, Murcia, Spain- H5
1939 Nyaung, Magwe, Burma- IIIAB iron
1965 Barwell, England, UK- L5

Dec 25:
1704 Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain- OC
1846 Schönenberg, Germany- L6
1926 Ulmiz, Fribourg (Freiburg), Switzerland- L
1959 St.-Chinian, Languedoc-Roussillon, France- L6

Dec 26:
1933 Pervomaisky, Vladimirskaya oblast', Russia- L6
1934 Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA- H4
1974 Enshi, Bajiao, Hubei, China- H5

Dec 27:
1848 Ski, Akershus, Norway- L6
1857 Quenggouk, Bassein, Irrawaddy, Burma- H4
1966 Umm Ruaba, Kurdufan, Sudan- L5
1972 Ipiranga, Paraná, Brazil- H6

Dec 28:
1947 Reliegos, Castilla y Leon, Spain- L5
1998 Ourique, Beja District, Portugal- H4

Dec 29:
1817 Hachi-oji, Kanto, Japan- H?
1937 Rangala, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India- L6
1989 Bawku, Upper East, Ghana- LL4

Dec 30:
1927 Oesede, Niedersachsen, Germany- H5
1996 Guangmingshan, Liaoning Province, China- H5

Dec 31:
1921 Beyrout, Beirut, Lebanon- LL3

*List may be incomplete- compiled 1DEC09

Reference:

Meteoritical Bulletin Database

Last update: 29 Nov 2009 http://tin.er.usgs.gov/meteor/metbull.php Catalogue of Meteorites edited by Monica Grady, 5th Edition, 2000

Meteor/Meteorite News- 1DEC09

Nasa: compelling evidence of life on Mars
Telegraph.co.uk
Nasa has found what it calls “strong evidence” that life once existed on Mars after re-examining a meteorite. By Jonathan Liew Close-up of the meteorite. ...

YouTube Meteor lights up sky in South Africa21st 2009
Meteor lights up sky in South Africa (21st 2009)CCTV: footage of a meteor spotted over the skies of Gauteng, South Africa on the 21st of November 2009Local ...

Astronomy minor a possibility for non-science majors
TCU Daily Skiff
Rhiannon Mayne, the curator of the Oscar E. Monnig Meteorite Collection and assistant professor of meteoritics and planetary science, said that along with ...

Signs of ancient life on Mars found
The Bay Area Citizen Tue, 01 Dec 2009 10:18 AM PST
Using more advanced analytical instruments now available, a Johnson Space Center research team has reexamined the 1996 finding that a meteorite contains strong evidence that life may have existed on ancient Mars. ...

Ancient Life Signs In Mars Meteorite redOrbit Tue, 01 Dec 2009 06:12 AM PST Image Caption: This image features several layers of crack filling exposed when a chip of Nakhla was examined with the scanning electron microscope (SEM). One layer has a very bumpy surface, and these bumps resemble a fossilized colony of microbacteria. Some of the rounded bumps are preserved at the top of the surface and resemble individual spherical and ovoid-shaped microbes. Others are ...

Meteorite hunters find 13 space rocks in Grimsby St. Catharines Standard Tue, 01 Dec 2009 02:26 AM PST Meteorite hunters now have a baker's dozen of space rocks that rained down on Grimsby two months ago. But the scientist leading the University of Western Ontario's search believes there are still plenty of out-of-this-world stones that have yet to be recovered.[...]

Remembering a first
The Daily Home Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:42 PM PST
Fifty-five years ago, on Nov. 30, 1954, the first and only meteorite to strike a human hit Ann Hodges while she was taking a nap on her couch in her home in Oak Grove, just outside Sylacauga. ...

Le Moyne visiting professor to talk astrobiology with Stephen Colbert tonight
The Post-Standard - Syracuse.com
Consolmagno is curator for the Vatican meteorite collection in Rome. He is also author and editor of “The Heavens Proclaim: Astronomy and the Vatican,” ...



Czy meteoryt z Marsa zawiera ślady dawnego życia?
studentnews.pl - Poland
W Stanach Zjednoczonych z nową siłą rozgorzały ostatnio dyskusje na temat tego, czy meteoryt Allen Hills, który przyleciał z Marsa, zawiera ślady ...



Geminids meteors to impress under moonless skies
Scotsman
It was disappointing for Europe, but the Leonids meteor shower produced rates in excess of 100 meteors an hour over parts of Asia for just a few minutes ...

Meteorite hunters find 13 space rocks in Grimsby
St. Catharines Standard Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:20 PM PST
Meteorite hunters now have a baker's dozen of space rocks that rained down on Grimsby two months ago. But the scientist leading the University of Western Ontario's search believes there are still plenty of out-of-this-world stones that have yet to be recovered.[...]

New evidence for early life on Mars: NASA CBC.ca Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:12 AM PST A new NASA study of a Martian meteorite that made headlines 13 years ago strengthens the original claim that the rock contains evidence of life on ancient Mars.

Meteorite study revives life-on-Mars debate MSNBC Mon, 30 Nov 2009 09:33 AM PST New analysis of a 13,000-year-old Mars meteorite, retrieved from Antarctica, has rekindled the debate about whether the ancient rock holds signs of past microbial Martian life.

New Study Adds to FInding of Ancient Life Signs In Mars Meteorite SpaceRef Mon, 30 Nov 2009 09:32 AM PST Using more advanced analytical instruments now available, a Johnson Space Center research team has reexamined the 1996 finding that a meteorite contains strong evidence that life may have existed on ancient Mars.

Mars Meteorite Reexamined for Signs of Life Using New Analysis Environmental News Network Mon, 30 Nov 2009 08:22 AM PST A controversial Mars meteorite is once again in the spotlight as scientists use a new kind of analysis on the rock. The study is reminiscent of initial research, published in 1996, suggesting that tiny iron sulfide and iron oxide grains in the meteorite had biological origins, and that tiny, worm-shaped objects in the rock could be the fossilized remains of Martian microbes.

Signs of Life in Mars Meteorite? Discovery Channel Mon, 30 Nov 2009 06:45 AM PST New analysis of a 13,000-year-old Mars meteorite has rekindled debate about whether the rock holds signs of Martian life.

Custody battle brews over meteorite MalaysiaNews.net Sun, 29 Nov 2009 21:51 PM PST Tom King, 53, was caretaker at Rywanda Plainview, about 70km south of Cunnamulla, when he discovered the 25kg stony meteorite while riding his motorbike.Seven months later he decided to fetch the rock...

Queenslanders battle over meteorite
Northern Star Sun, 29 Nov 2009 20:57 PM PST
A BITTER ownership battle has broken out over the discovery of Queensland's second-biggest stony meteorite.

ONU to hold public viewing of meteor shower
Ada Herald
Ohio Northern University's Astronomy Club will host a public viewing of the Geminid meteor shower in celebration of the International Year of Astronomy ...

The case for life on Mars keeps growing
Examiner.com
Recently, a controversial meteorite seems to both have vindicated itself - and those who believe that it proves that at least sometime in its past - Mars ...

Guy Consolmagno, SJ on Colbert
America Magazine (subscription)
One of the guests on "The Colbert Report" tonight will be Jesuit Brother Guy Consolmagno, SJ, Ph.D., a planetary scientist and expert on meteorites (and ...

Bakterie prosto z Marsa
Rzeczpospolita - Warszawa,Mazowsze,Poland
Pierwsze badania meteorytu, przeprowadzone w 1993 roku, wykazały jedynie – co ... Trzy lata po znalezieniu meteorytu, w 1996 roku, badacze związani z NASA ...

SOUTH AFRICAN METEOR
Weekly World News (satire)
Luckily, the meteor disappeared without striking any heavily populated areas. Scientists are still trying to find where it landed. ...

Battle over meteorite ownership
Gladstone Observer
Gladstone Tondoon Botanical Gardens curator Brent Braddick at the site believed to be where the Gladstone meteorite landed. GLADSTONE could have been the ...