2008 Worlwide Meteor/Meteorites News 2008 -YAHOO 17APR09

Meteorite Mis-identification In the News
Jan. 06, 2008 -US- Experts doubt find is meteorite. Jan. 03, 2008 -India- Mystery crater draws crowds to Gianyar ... 03, 2007 -India- Meteorite baffles Sangrur ...
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Did a Cooked Meteorite Seed Life on Earth? Universe Today
Earth, four billion years ago, was a lifeless, hot and violent place. ... Meteorite Injures 20 in India ... April 7th, 2008 at 9:00 am ...universetoday.com/2008/.../did-a-cooked-meteorite-seed-life-on-earth

"Giant Fireball" Impact in Peru Upends Meteorite Theory
March 11, 2008. A meteorite that smacked into the Peruvian highlands last September may have ... Cockfighters Flout Ban in India. More Videos in the News ...news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/03/080311-peru-meteor.html - Cached

Mich.-shaped meteorite sells for $20K at auction
Mich.-shaped meteorite sells for $20K at auction, There was more interest in a three-quarter-ton nickel-iron meteorite that resembles the Indian subcontinent. It ...azcentral.com/offbeat/.../06/09/20080609michigan-meteorite0609-ON.html - 60k - Cached

PLANETARY SOCIETY, INDIA: Pieces of Space rock (Meteorites) Recovered ...
... of the Almahata Sitta meteorite: The meteorites from 2008 TC3, now called " ... Space Camp India Astronaut Training (1) space rock recovered asteroid tc3 2008 (1) ...planetarysocietyindia.blogspot.com/2009/03/... - 121k - Cached

Meteorite that killed dinosaurs was six km wide: study
Washington April 13, 2008 12:45:12 PM IST ...news.webindia123.com/news/articles/Science/20080413/931602.html - 57k - Cached

Suspected Meteorite Kills Two Nomads in India
Suspected meteorite kills two nomads.
The Hindu (India) February 8, 2007 ... Contact Us ©2002-2008 meteorite-identification.com ...meteorite-identification.com/mwnews/02082007.html - Cached


Slashdot Meteorite Strikes Indian Village
Meteorite Strikes Indian Village -- article related to Space. ... The Rest © 1997-2008 SourceForge, Inc. home. awards. contribute story. older articles ...slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/.../1923245&mode=thread&tid=134&tid=160 - 120k - Cached

THE 2008/2009 IMPACT THREAT
Multi-source date applicable to a major meteorite impact in 2008 and 2009. ... that these few small meteorite impacts in India (including one making a crater ...www.barry.warmkessel.com/barry/2008impact.html - Cached

Meteorite Articles Magazine: Meteorites, Tektites, Meteorite News
Meteorite pieces found in Saskatchewan - Nov 28, 2008 ... NEW YORK (AP) - An American Indian group is upset by the planned auction of a 30 ...www.meteorite-times.com/meteorite-news.htm - 133k - Cached

4.6-billion-year old meteorite suggests much dustier origin for Earth ...
The analysis of a 4.6 billion-year-old meteorite that fell in India in 1940 has revealed higher than expected levels of sodium, suggesting that the dust cloudsfreshnews.in/46-billion-year-old-meteorite-suggests-much-dustier-or... - Cached

Chemical Clues Point To Dusty Origin For Earth-like Planets
... called "chondrules" from the Semarkona meteorite, which fell in India in 1940. ... Meteorite Impact Found In UK -- Britain's Largest (Mar. 31, 2008) — Evidence ...www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080619142124.htm - 51k - Cached

Meteorite injuries in India? Bad Astronomy Discover Magazine
Did a meteorite hit in eastern India, injuring people? ... Open Lab 2008 is a collection of the best blog posts of the year, all in one place. ...blogs.discovermagazine.com/.../2006/03/29/meteorite-injuries-in-india - 62k - Cached

Fireballs and Meteorites - SOTT.NET: February 2008
Korean Polar Explorers Find Massive Meteorite. Chosun. Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:16 EST ... at the Madras Observatory in India (far enough south to allow a ...fireballs-meteorites.blogspot.com/2008/02/february-2008.html - 581k - Cached

Interesting meteorite falls
... Malwate, man killed, woman injured in [14, 17] India meteorite fall 1827 02 ... path for the small minor planet 2008 TC3, discovered 20 hours prior to impact ...www.cfa.harvard.edu/icq/meteorites.html - Cached

NDTV.com: Meteorite experiment deals blow to 'bugs from space' theory
All Ndtv news on India:Meteorite experiment deals blow to 'bugs from space' theory - The old theory said life on Earth was due to bacteria.www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/story.aspx?id=NEWEN20080066592 - 89k - Cached

Mich.-shaped meteorite sells for $20K at auction -- Page 1 -- Times ...
Last updated: 2:12 p.m., Monday, June 9, 2008 ... a three-quarter-ton nickel-iron meteorite that resembles the Indian subcontinent. ...timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=694748&.../9/2008 - Cached

4th Meteorite Coin - PULTUSK 5$ Cook Island 2008 PROOF - eBay (item ...
eBay: Find 4th Meteorite Coin - PULTUSK 5$ Cook Island 2008 PROOF in the Collectibles , Rocks, Fossils Minerals , Meteorites Tektites category on eBay.cgi.ebay.com/4th-Meteorite-Coin-PULTUSK-5-Cook-Island-2008-PROOF_W0... - 97k - Cached

Meteorite Times Magazine Articles - Meteorites & Tektites, Meteorite ...
October 2008. The Meteorite Display in the Hastings Museum of Natural and Cultural History in ... Kendrapara, India:A Tale of Modern Day Folklore. November 2005 ...www.meteorite-times.com/index_of_articles/Accretion_Desk_Index.htm - Cached

Did volcanic fumes from India put an end to the dinosaurs? - Technology ...
... eruptions in India killed the beasts, and not a giant meteorite, Technology ... Shine: Jobs in India. ADVERTISEMENT. Posted: Wed, Dec 17 2008. 1:15 AM IST ...www.livemint.com/2008/12/16204911/Did-volcanic-fumes-from-India.html - 88k - Cached

Mich.-shaped meteorite sells for $20K at auction (phillyBurbs.com ...
... a three-quarter-ton nickel-iron meteorite that resembles the Indian subcontinent. ... ©2008 Copyright Calkins Media Incorporated. All rights reserved. ...www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/84-06092008-1546451.html - Cached

Mich.-shaped meteorite sells for $20K at auction
6/9/2008 2:10:00 PM. Mich.-shaped meteorite sells for $20K at auction ... a three-quarter-ton nickel-iron meteorite that resembles the Indian subcontinent. ...www.readingeagle.com/article.aspx?id=94875 - 62k - Cached

Mysterious Meteorites Stymie Scientists
"Giant Fireball" Impact in Peru Upends Meteorite Theory (March 11, 2008) ... Cockfighters Flout Ban in India. Dolphin "Talk" Made Visible? More Videos in the News ...news.nationalgeographic.co.uk/news/2008/03/080312-meteorites.html - Cached

Meteorites Carried Building Blocks of Terrestrial Life: Scientists ...
... Series Naruto to be Aired on Cartoon Network India from April 7th ... WWE SmackDown vs. RAW 2008 coming to Wii, PS3, Xbox 360, PS2, PSP and Wireless Devices ...techshout.com/science/2008/08/meteorites-carried-building-blocks-of...

Fiery meteorite wows Western Canada TopNews United States
Fiery meteorite wows Western Canada. Submitted by topnews on Fri, 11/21/2008 - 14:30 ... India. Arab Emirates. New Zealand. TopNews.org. Stock News. Singapore ...topnews.us/content/2151-fiery-meteorite-wows-western-canada - 63k - Cached

JULY 2008 TO JANUARY 2008 EVENTS
Meteorite/meteor/fireball activity February 2007 through June 2008. ... district, prompting a Geological Survey of India team to visit the site and examine it. ...www.barry.warmkessel.com/barry/Feb08toJun08events.html - Cached

Mich. Shaped Meteorite Sells For $20k At Auction - wcbstv.com
Jun 9, 2008 2:26 pm US/Eastern. Mich. Shaped Meteorite Sells For $20k. DETROIT (AP) ... ton nickel-iron meteorite that resembles the Indian subcontinent. ...wcbstv.com/watercooler/michigan.meteorite.auction.2.743964.html - Cached

Meteorite Way
Saturday, April 26, 2008. Stony Iron Meteorite - Pallasite (for Sale) click image to see more ! ... in deep sea sediment in the Atlantic and Indian oceans. ...www.meteoriteway.com - 129k - Cached

Mich. Shaped Meteorite Sells For $20k At Auction - kdka.com
Jun 9, 2008 2:26 pm US/Eastern. Mich. Shaped Meteorite Sells For $20k. DETROIT (AP) ... ton nickel-iron meteorite that resembles the Indian subcontinent. ...kdka.com/watercooler/michigan.meteorite.auction.2.743964.html - Cached

Meteorite Hunter Offers $10,000 Reward for Canadian Meteorite ...
... 18 on December 3rd, 2008. Even the stony meteorites have ... at 14:10 on November 23rd, 2008 ... 4 killed, 20 injured in blast in Guwahati: India. by Amitjha ...nowpublic.com/world/meteorite-hunter-offers-10-000-reward-canadian-meteorite... - 94k - Cached

4.6-billion-year old meteorite suggests much dustier origin for Earth
Washington, June 20 : The analysis of a 4.6 billion-year-old meteorite that fell in India in 1940 has revealed higher than expected levels of sodium, suggesting that ...story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/.../id/373007/cs/1 - Cached

The Hindu : Front Page : Meteorite' lands near petrol pump in Hoshiarpur
Online edition of India's National Newspaper. Wednesday, May 28, 2008 ... Meteorite' lands near petrol pump in Hoshiarpur. EC serves notice on Chief Minister ...www.hindu.com/2008/05/28/stories/2008052850270100.htm - Cached

RIA Novosti - Science & Technology
01-11-2008 12:49 NEW DELHI, November 1 (RIA Novosti) - India has received the ... NASA tracks meteorite before entering atmosphere for first time ...en.rian.ru/science/20081105 - Cached

The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Nation
Meanwhile, India found nothing wrong in Pelosi expressing her views on Tibet ... meteorites with specific reference to the meteorite that fell in Gujarat on July ...www.tribuneindia.com/2008/20080322/nation.htm - 50k - Cached

Rock and Roil: Meteorites Hitting Early Earth's Oceans May H
Meteorite destroys NZ warehouse in fire, witnesses say ... The Times of India ... Highs&Lows WHAT WE'LL REMEMBER FROM 2008 The year county fair music actually ...article.wn.com/view/2008/12/07/Rock_and_Roil_Meteorites_Hitting_Ear... - 138k - Cached

Epoch Times - 'Meteorite Man' Wants Chunk of Canada Meteorite
'Meteorite Man' Wants Chunk of Canada Meteorite. By Joan Delaney. Epoch Times Staff Dec 2, 2008 ... The last one was in India. Got a question? Ask on Yedda! ...en.epochtimes.com/n2/world/meteorite-man-canada-bob-haag-8020.html - Cached

Video of a Meteorite Crashing over Western Saskatchewan :
The Daily ...
Posted on: November 25, 2008 5:21 PM, by Alex Palazzo ... Tara C. Smith 12.31.2008. 5An Open Letter... Isis the Scientist 04.07.2009 ...scienceblogs.com/transcript/2008/11/video_of_a_meteorite_crashing.php - Cached

Surprise Recovery Of Meteorites Following Asteroid Impact
... 2008 TC3 there was no corresponding meteorite class, no rocks we could look at in the lab. ... India Set To Launch Imaging Satellite With Israeli Support ...spacedaily.com/reports/Surprise_Recovery_Of_Meteorites_Following_As... - Cached

Meterorite ALH84001
Martian Meteorite Image: Meterorite ALH84001 ... Views of the Solar System Copyright © 1995-2008 by Calvin J. Hamilton. All rights reserved. ...www.solarviews.com/cap/mars/s032549.htm - Cached

Tag: Astronomy - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
India celebrates successful moon launch. October 22, 2008 18:33:00 ... NT meteorite mystery remains unsolved. October 18, 2008 15:19:00 ...www.abc.net.au/news/tag/astronomy/default_3.htm - Cached

Meteorite shaped like Michigan sells for $20,000 at auction
Meteorite shaped like Michigan sells for $20,000 at auction. June 9, 2008 - 3:57PM. DETROIT (AP) - India trumps Michigan - at least in the world of extraterrestrial ...www.wwmt.com/common/printer/view.php?db=wwmt&id=1350192 - Cached

Ogle Earth: Links: India river changes course, AGU meet deadline ...
A blog about Google Earth. ... Thursday, September 04, 2008 (19:59 UTC) ... Is not necessarily a meteorite crater. ...www.ogleearth.com/2008/09/links_india_riv.html - Cached

Ancient meteorite goes unsold as dung sells Oddly Enough Reuters
Ancient meteorite goes unsold as dung sells. Thu May 1, 2008 9:03pm IST. Email Print ... Tendulkar credits coach Kirsten for India's success. Slideshow: Artsy eggs ...in.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idINN0154364720080501 - 65k - Cached

American Museum of Natural History
Science at the American Museum of Natural History ... October 2008 ... Analysis of Meteorite found in India in 1940 Provides Clues to our Solar Systems ...www.amnh.org/science/papers - Cached

The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Punjab
The suspected meteorite fell in a field on the Jawandha Road at 3 am today, 3 km ... Earlier a suspected meteorite, found by farmer Pargat Singh of Hotipur village ...www.tribuneindia.com/2008/20080424/punjab1.htm - 69k - Cached

Oddly Enough " Blog Archive " Sold! To the dude with the juicy liver ...
May 22nd, 2008. 4:14 pm GMT. Heh, heh heh, nice blogging. ... Marvin is a curator at the University of Arizona's Southwest Meteorite Center. ...blogs.reuters.com/oddly-enough/2008/05/21/... - 66k - Cached

Get a piece of the rock - Opinion and Column - Jackson Citizen Patriot ...
Election 2008 (RSS) Global Warming (RSS) Guest Column (RSS) Gun Control (RSS) ... Meanwhile, a meteorite that apparently looks like India sold for $90,000. ...blog.mlive.com/citpat_opinion/2008/06/get_a_piece_of_the_rock.html - Cached

The Hindu : National : Tunguska event still a mystery
Online edition of India's National Newspaper. Sunday, Jun 29, 2008. ePaper Mobile/PDA Version ... On February 12, 1947, a meteorite fell in the Sikhote-Alin ...www.hindu.com/2008/06/29/stories/2008062955861000.htm - Cached

Laura Knight Jadczyk :: April :: 2008
... April 17, 2008 4:53 am ... Reports of meteorite falls, often with consequent damage, ... killed on shipboard by a meteorite fall in the Indian Ocean. ...lauraknightjadczyk.blogsome.com/2008/04 - 216k - Cached

meteorite News
meteorite ... India Pakistan war 2008. Mayawati. Anil Kumble. Missingmoney.com. Meta. Register. Log in ... a 4.6 billion-year-old meteorite that fell in India ...www.thaindian.com/newsportal/tag/meteorite - Cached

ATHENA MINERAL: Mineral Data; Pierre Perroud
Athena systematic mineral databases ... 34 (2008) Type Locality: Shergotty Mars meteorite, Bihar, India. Zagami meteorite, Nigeria ...un2sg4.unige.ch/athena/cgi-bin/minfich?s=Seifertite - Cached

Giant meteorite found in Sweden - UPI.com
Giant meteorite found in Sweden. Published: June 13, 2008 at 6:32 PM. Order reprints Feedback ... Indian woman eats 51 ghost chilis in two minutes. Says that ...upi.com/Top_News/2008/06/13/Giant_meteorite_found_in_Sweden/... - 68k

Geologists Discover New Way Of Estimating Size And Frequency Of ...
ScienceDaily (Apr. 12, 2008) — Scientists have developed a new way of ... The meteorite was the trigger, scientists believe, for the mass extinction of ...www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080411160239.htm - Cached

Artificial meteorite shows Martian impactors may carry traces of life ...
Posted by ANI on Sep 25th, 2008 and filed under Health. ... Femina Miss India 2009. Aishwarya Rai sizzles at Pink Panther 2 premiere ...freshnews.in/artificial-meteorite-shows-martian-impactors-may-carry... - Cached

Death by meteorite Bad Astronomy Discover Magazine
92 Responses to "Death by meteorite" Wayne Says: October 13th, 2008 at 9:30 pm. Good points. ... has also been installed in the eastern Indian Ocean to alert ...blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/10/13/death-by-meteorite - 136k - Cached

March 2008
Morien Institute terrestrial archæology & solar system history news headlines archive for March 2008 featuring new discoveries about ancient civilisation under ...www.morien-institute.org/hl_march2008.html - 238k - Cached

NEWSTRACK India
Peru Meteorite could have survived descent if it lacked internal cracks and irregularities ... Tue, 01 Jan 2008: ... is that the meteorite was one of many ...www.newstrackindia.com/printnews/4989 - Cached

Streamlined meteorite hit Peru fast and hard: study Science Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A meteorite that struck Peru in ... Streamlined meteorite hit Peru fast and hard: study. Tue Mar 11, 2008 5:59pm EDT. Email Print ...www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSN1160726520080311 - 63k - Cached

http://www.towleroad.com/2008/12/dont-ask-dont-t.html
12/03/2008. News: Tina Turner, Meteorite, Empire State Building, Arizona. India identifies terrorist siege mastermind. Tina Turner returns to the stage. ...www.towleroad.com/2008/12/dont-ask-dont-t.html - 222k - Cached

Hughes 026 - HGH3.5 - Southwest Meteorite Laboratory - eStore
India. Libya. Mexico. Morocco. Namibia. Niger. Nigeria ... Northwest Africa 2714. NWA2714-26. Copyright © 2008 Southwest Meteorite Laboratory. Contact Us ...www.meteorite-lab.com/estore/?findid=69&c=m - Cached

Lonar Crater, India : Image of the Day
Lonar Crater, India. Posted April 13, 2008. Submit (10 votes remaining today) ... is understood to result from a meteorite impact that occurred between 35,000 and ...earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=17994 - Cached

Ancient meteorite goes unsold as dung sells Reuters
Ancient meteorite goes unsold as dung sells. Thu May 1, 2008 9:03pm IST. Email Print ... Tendulkar credits coach Kirsten for India's success. Slideshow: Artsy eggs ...in.reuters.com/article/idINN0154364720080501 - 62k - Cached
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Lunar and Planetary Science XXXIX (2008) 1499.pdf
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GEOCHEMICAL EVIDENCE FOR THE METEORITE IMPACT ORIGIN OF RAMGARH STRUCTURE, INDIA. ... high ratios are suggestive of a meteorite component, ...www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2008/pdf/1499.pdf

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Paleomagnetism of Lonar impact crater, India
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... Science Letters 275 (2008) 308. –319. ⁎ Corresponding author. ... Structural effects of meteorite impact on basalt: evidence from Lonar. Crater, India. ...lep694.gsfc.nasa.gov/gunther/gunther/Lauzadaetal2008EPSL.pdf

Valsad meteorite causes stir -Ahmedabad-Cities-The Times of India
When the 1.7-kg, darkhued meteorite hit the village, its residents believed it ... Copyright © 2008 Bennett Coleman & Co. Ltd. All rights reserved. ...timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/940544.cms - Cached

Streamlined meteorite hit Peru fast and hard: study U.S. Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A meteorite that struck Peru in ... Streamlined meteorite hit Peru fast and hard: study. Tue Mar 11, 2008 5:59pm EDT. Email Print ...www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN1160726520080311 - 63k - Cached

DNA: India: Tremors in B'lore were due to meteorite impact
... Get latest Mumbai news, India news, World news, breaking news ... Thursday, October 23, 2008 8:01 IST. Dr Amrita DEY. Popular " Viewed. Emailed. India " ...www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1189979 - Cached

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DHALA - A NEW, COMPLEX, PALEOPROTEROZOIC IMPACT STRUCTURE IN CENTRAL ...
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India (Central Region) has drilled three boreholes after ... ment of India for funding the study. Large Meteorite Impacts and Planetary Evolution IV (2008) ...www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lmi2008/pdf/3041.pdf

Videos : The fall of the meteorite captured for the first time Shareordie
Recent Photos of India. Every breath you take gives me a Heart-Attack ... man: syed Says: August 31st, 2008 at 2:03 AM i hope...shareordie.in/videos-the-fall-of-the-meteorite-captured-for-the-fir... - 70k - Cached

Tunguska meteorite theory strengthened by acid rain evidence Newspost ...
Jul 18 2008. Tunguska meteorite theory strengthened by acid rain evidence ... India sees opportunities in Obama's climate change agenda ...newspostonline.com/sci-tech/tunguska-meteorite-theory-strengthened-by-acid-rain-evidence-2008... - Cached

Meteorite hunters head to Alberta-Sask. border for 'Rockstock'
... the RCMP's use of stun guns in 2008, the force is still zapping some suspects ... B.C. court tells Ottawa to amend Indian Act ...www.cbc.ca/canada/calgary/story/2008/11/24/meteor-hunt.html

Meteorites from inner solar system may have deposited platinum in the ...
... theory is that HSE were added by meteorite impacts as a veneer of material over ... Copyright © Yahoo India Pvt. Ltd. All rights reserved. Questions or Comments ...in.news.yahoo.com/.../tsc-meteorites-from-inner-solar-system-m.html - Cached

The Pride of Arizona mr-meteorite.com
... a hero-god in a mythology of a American Indian tribes of Southwest United States, ... Copyright © 2008 · All Rights Reserved · Revolution Church theme by Brian ...www.mr-meteorite.com/the-pride-of-arizona - 51k - Cached

10 Greatest Major-Impact Craters on Earth
Dinosaur Feces- 1, 4.5 Billion Year Old Meteorite-0 ... July 18th, 2008 at 9:24 pm. Lonar Crater in India is also a good one. How come it is missed ...environmentalgraffiti.com/sciencetech/.../1403 - 69k - Cached

India's first moon mission to take off on October 22 - Topix
Oct 7, 2008. India's first moon mission to take off on October 22. By Matthias Williams ... NASA Team Finds Riches In Meteorite Treasure Hu...topix.net/tech/.../indias-first-moon-mission-to-take-off-on-october-22 - 50k - Cached

Science and Society
Listed below are links to weblogs that reference A Meteorite With Our Name on It: ... The history of the American Indian might have been very different had they met ...blogs.abcnews.com/scienceandsociety/2006/06/a_meteorite_wit.html - Cached

Go Meteorite Hunting Article - Science Article
... you might find an Indian relic, or some other ... Look Forward to Space Travel by 2008. Learning About Snake Facts And Behaviors. Biodiesel and You ...www.redsofts.com/articles/read/4/969/Go_Meteorite_Hunting.html - Cached

Pictures from the NHM, London
Early in September 2008, members of BIMS were given the opportunity to visit the ... A large fragment of the famous Barwell 'Christmas' meteorite. ...meteorites.cc/nhm2.html - Cached

Michael Blood - Current Meteorite Catalog
... and I have shown that the Burnwell meteorite is the first to have all the ... In contrast, meteorite ... DHURMSALA: (LL6) (brecciated) Fell 7-14-1860, India. ...www.michaelbloodmeteorites.com/catalog.htm - 319k - Cached

NEWSTRACK India
Artificial meteorite shows Martian impactors may carry traces of life ... Tue, 01 Jan 2008: ... results also suggest that meteorite hunters should widen the ...www.newstrackindia.com/printnews/18790 - Cached

Disasters from January & February 2008
... 29, 2008 - A THOUGHT ... INDIA - Contrary to forecasts, the weather ... 5.5 SOUTHERN SUMATRA, INDONESIA 2008. TSUNAMI / FREAK WAVES / ABNORMAL ...home.att.net/~thehessians/january2008.html - 825k - Cached

Discovery Channel :: News - Space :: Meteorite Crashes Into Bathroom
... information technology companies, are from India and have lived in Freehold Township since 2003. ... Copyright © 2008 Discovery Communications, LLC. ...dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/01/11/meteorite_spa.html?... - Cached

Rock Science: First Meteorites Recovered on Earth from an Asteroid ...
But the asteroid, dubbed 2008 TC3, was nonetheless a momentous ... The Tata Nano: world's most affordable car set to hit the street in India 9 hours ago ...www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=asteroid-meteorite-sudan-fireball - 68k - Cached

Geological Survey of India catalogue
Kolkata, Geological Survey of India, 2008, x, 116 p., tables, 31 figs., 16 col. ... Bangalore, Geological Society of India, 2008, viii, 316 p., 179 col. figs. ...www.vedamsbooks.com/gsicat.htm - 182k - Cached

Meteorite Studies: tektites
... in some specimens likely reflects contamination by the impactor (Howard, 2008) ... the Indian Ocean, which have been dated to 4.6–12.1 m.y. ago (D. Kelly and L. ...www.meteoritestudies.com/protected_TEKTITES.HTM - Cached

Discovery Channel :: News - Space :: Kansas Soil Yields Massive Meteorite
... have since traced pieces of the shower as far away as Indian mounds in Ohio, ... Copyright © 2008 Discovery Communications, LLC. ...dsc.discovery.com/news/2006/10/17/meteorite_tec_02.html?... - Cached

World's Most Famous Meteorites Go Under The Hammer - Born Rich
... bathroom blogger Bluetooth Cars CES 2008 Chair christmas cool geek diamond ... HDTV Home Furnishing Home Theater India interview iPhone ipod japan kitchen lcd ...bornrich.org/entry/worlds-most-famous-meteorites-go-under-the-hammer - Cached

Meteorite Gives Clues To Origin Of Earth-Like Planets - Space News ...
Posted on: Thursday, 19 June 2008, 14:35 CDT ... called "chondrules" from the Semarkona meteorite, which fell in India in 1940. ...redorbit.com/news/space/1441381/.../index.html - Cached

LODRAN PHOTO
This rare meteorite fell at 2:00 P.M. about 12 miles east of Lodhran, Pakistan. ... mass in the Museum of Geology in Calcutta, India has been missing for some years. ...www.meteoritestudies.com/protected_LODRAN.HTM - Cached

Slideshows : Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
WHOI volcanologist Adam Soule explored a crater in India formed by a meteorite. Around WHOI ... 2008 Summer Picnic. The 2008 WHOI Summer Picnic was charmed by ...www.whoi.edu/page.do?pid=11458 - Cached

Canadian scientists begin examination of hundreds of meteorites - Science
by Rich Bowden - Dec 23 2008, 00:07 ... Brown and McCausland are both experts in meteorite recovery. ... India's richest candidate worth 103 million dollars ...thetechherald.com/article.php/200852/2667/... - Cached

Make Offer to Owner/Buy Now from Owner
American Indian Art. Art Photography. Fine Art. Decorative Art. Illustration Art ... STONE METEORITE SPHERE FROM THE SAHARA DESERT - INTERNAL STRUCTURE OF A STONE ...historical.ha.com/common/auction/pricesrealized.php?hdnSearch=true&... - 155k - Cached

Meteorite hunters hit pay dirt in Canadian prairie
Bomb Blast In India Kills 2, Wounds 30 On Train thumb. 104 diggs. Remove ... axelgrease, on 12/02/2008, -1/+0Old but interesting none the less ...digg.com/space/Meteorite_hunters_hit_pay_dirt_in_Canadian_prairie - Cached

Fireball and Meteor Reports - Shadow Research, Inc. -
Fireball and unusual meteor reports. ... Man Spots Fireball Debate Over Whether It Was a Shooting Star or Meteorite ... Maharashtra, India. January 11, 2005 ...www.shadowresearch.com/Fireballs/fireballmenu.htm - Cached

New chemical clues to Earth-like planet formation - Physics Update
... chondrules from the Semarkona meteorite that fell in India in 1940 and found ... July 2008 (11) June 2008 (2) Subscribe to this blog's feed. SERVICES ...blogs.physicstoday.org/update/2008/07/new-chemical-clues-to-earthli... - Cached

Tribe Alarmed by Auction of a Meteorite Fragment - City Room Blog ...
The meteorite sustained at least two subsequent shocks during collisions with ... the meteorite's history and importance as an American Indian religious object, ...cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/09/14/native-american-tribe-alarmed-by-auction-of-a-meteorite... - 114k - Cached

October 2008 Space News
India Launches First Unmanned Mission to Moon VOA 22 Oct 2008 -- Mission a major ... meteorite before entering atmosphere for first time RIA Novosti 7 Oct 2008 ...www.globalsecurity.org/space/library/news/2008/index_10.htm - Cached

India Abroad
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Astronomers capture rare video of meteor falling to Earth- Hindustan Times
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Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 1APR09

Meteorite connection is unlikely, expert says

AIKEN --- Reports of a boom and fireball over Virginia on Sunday night about a week after a similar incident in Augusta have raised questions about whether there is a connection.The Augusta Chronicle

Green fireball sightings reported
CALGARY (Apr 1, 2009) -- People in Alberta and Saskatchewan spotted a brilliant green fireball streak across the sky early yesterday. University of Calgary geologist Alan Hildebrand says about a dozen witnesses reported the sight to the Canadian Fireball Reporting Centre. He says the meteorite, weighing between 10 and 100 kilograms, broke into pieces southeast of Calgary about 6:30 a.m. local ...Kitchener - Waterloo Record

Recovered pieces of asteroid hold clues to early history
Scientists who for the first time tracked an asteroid on a collision course with Earth, and watched as it exploded in the atmosphere, have now retrieved some of the remnants on the ground.
San Jose Mercury News

Meteorite spotted over Alta.
When Roland Dechesne pulled away from his Alberta home early Tuesday morning, a bright, blue-white object racing in the sky captured his eye.
Canada.com

Team Finds Riches in Meteorite Treasure Hunt
(PhysOrg.com) -- Just before dawn on Oct. 7, 2008, an SUV-sized asteroid entered Earth's atmosphere and exploded harmlessly over the Nubian Desert of northern Sudan. Scientists expected the asteroid, called 2008 TC3, had blown to dust in the resulting high-altitude fireball.
PhysOrg

Fireball streaks over Alberta, Saskatchewan
Roland Dechesne had just left his acreage home south of Calgary on Tuesday morning, when he spotted something unusual in the sky.
Daily Herald

Fireball leaves 'great glow' in Alberta sky
Some early risers in Alberta got a glimpse of a fireball streaking across the sky Tuesday morning.
CBC via Yahoo! Canada News

Residents in Alberta and Saskatchewan spot brilliant fireball in morning sky
CALGARY - People in Alberta and Saskatchewan spotted a brilliant green fireball streak across the sky early Tuesday morning.
The Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada News

Albertans claim to have seen 'great glow' in the sky
Some early risers in Alberta have called CBC News, claiming they saw a spectacular flash in the sky that could have been a meteor.
CBC via Yahoo! Canada News

Virginia reports fireball, 'boom' similar to Augusta's on March 20
AIKEN - Reports of another boom and fireball over the skies of Virginia Sunday night a week after a similar incident in Augusta have some asking if there is a connection.
The Augusta Chronicle

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Meteorite News 31MAR09

Team Finds Riches in Meteorite Treasure Hunt
(PhysOrg.com) -- Just before dawn on Oct. 7, 2008, an SUV-sized asteroid entered Earth's atmosphere and exploded harmlessly over the Nubian Desert of northern Sudan. Scientists expected the asteroid, called 2008 TC3, had blown to dust in the resulting high-altitude fireball.PhysOrg - 2 hours, 59 minutes ago

Fireball streaks over Alberta, Saskatchewan
Roland Dechesne had just left his acreage home south of Calgary on Tuesday morning, when he spotted something unusual in the sky.Daily Herald - Mar 31 2:42 PM

Fireball leaves 'great glow' in Alberta sky
Some early risers in Alberta got a glimpse of a fireball streaking across the sky Tuesday morning.CBC via Yahoo! Canada News - Mar 31 12:46 PM

Residents in Alberta and Saskatchewan spot brilliant fireball in morning sky
CALGARY - People in Alberta and Saskatchewan spotted a brilliant green fireball streak across the sky early Tuesday morning.The Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada News - Mar 31 11:32 AM

Fireball over Alberta 31MAR09

31MAR09 Meteor/Meteorite News
Albertans claim to have seen 'great glow' in the sky
Some early risers in Alberta have called CBC News, claiming they saw a spectacular flash in the sky that could have been a meteor.CBC Saskatchewan - 34 minutes ago

Southern Albertans claim to have seen 'great glow' in the sky
Several early morning risers in southern Alberta are calling CBC News, claiming they saw a spectacular flash in the sky that could have been a meteor.CBC via Yahoo! Canada News - 2 hours, 2 minutes ago

Unknown object lights up Calgary's sky 31MAR09

Unknown object lights up Calgary's sky
Calgary Herald
March 31, 2009 9:35 AMComments (16)

Calgarians up in the early morning hours Tuesday say they saw an unknown, bright object fly across the city's sky.
The object appeared at around 6:30 a.m., according to witnesses reports. One account said the object was travelling roughly in a north-to-south direction east of the downtown core.
It is unclear at this point what the object was.
A Calgary police duty inspector said at about 7:44 a.m. that his department has not received any calls on the object.
One witness, Donna Thompson, described what she saw as "a meteor breaking up" in an e-mail sent to the Herald.
Thompson, who said she was driving on Highway 2 southbound between Olds and Calgary, said she saw the object at about 6:33 a.m. east of the highway. The flash lasted for about two seconds, Thompson said in her e-mail, before dispersing "like fireworks going off."

Did you see the mysterious object? Send us your pics or comments!
hottips@theherald.canwest.com
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http://www.calgaryherald.com/Unknown+object+lights+Calgary/1447767/story.html

Fireball streaks across the morning sky

Fireball streaks across the morning sky
660NEWS Radio Calgary, Alberta
Dominic Terry & Alicia Hope-Ross Tuesday, March 31st, 2009 8:30 am
A fireball cruised over our city this morning, surprising early-morning commuters.
Our 660News line has been inundated with callers saying they saw a fireball streak across the sky.
Callers tell us the bright green, yellow and blue streak beamed across the heavens, and then broke apart into six or seven pieces, before disappearing.

The fireball apparently streaked from east to west across, and lit up the sky for about ten seconds.

The last time a meteorite lit up the sky was in November, when a massive space rock came through our atmosphere. Researchers later found fragments of the debris in northwestern Saskatchewan.
http://www.660news.com/more.jsp?content=20090331_102033_5444

East Coast Event--USAF: 'Bright light' not man-made object 31MAR09

USAF: 'Bright light' not man-made object
March 31, 2009 - 4:50am
Kristi King, wtop.com

WASHINGTON - The flashing lights and booming sounds that were attributed to a piece of orbiting space junk (29MAR) were not the result of a man-made object, according to the United States Air Force. ...
More: http://wtop.com/?nid=600&sid=1636442

East Coast Event NOT A ROCKET 31MAR09

NOT A ROCKET
by Dr. Tony Phillips
SpaceWeather.com 31MAR09

News reports that a Russian rocket fell over the US mid-Atlantic coast on Sunday evening, March 29th, are probably incorrect. A spent Russian rocket booster did reenter Earth's atmosphere on March 29th, but apparently not over the USA. According to data published by US Strategic Command, the reentry occurred near Taiwan (24° N, 125° E) at 11:57 p.m. EDT. So what were those lights in the sky over Maryland and Virginia two hours earlier? Eyewitness accounts of the Atlantic Coast fireball are consistent with a meteoritic bolide--a random asteroid hitting Earth's atmosphere and exploding in flight.
http://www.spaceweather.com/

East Coast Event May have been Space Junk 30MAR09

Soyuz-FG rocket booster AP/NASA photo, Bill Ingalls

Blame 'space junk' for those flashes and booms
March 30, 2009 - 11:45am
WASHINGTON - The flashing lights and booming sounds that astounded people up and down the East Coast Sunday night...
(read more)...http://wtop.com/?nid=25&sid=1636442

WAVY TV Newsroom-Emails about The Mystery in the Sky 30MAR09

Emails about The Mystery in the Sky
Updated: Monday, 30 Mar 2009, 8:49 AM EDT Published : Monday, 30 Mar 2009, 7:32 AM EDT
HAMPTON ROADS, Va.

- Emails received by the WAVY TV Newsroom:
9:51 p.m. - Jamie in Virginia Beach: boom heard at 9:42 pm; shook the house
9:55 p.m. - ...(Read More):
http://www.wavy.com/dpp/news/local_wavy_emails_about_the_mystery_in_the_sky_20090330

Mysterious light in sky, loud explosion rattles nerves in Hampton Roads 30MAR09

Mysterious light in sky, loud explosion rattles nerves in Hampton Roads
07:38 AM EDT on Monday, March 30, 2009
13 TVNEWS
(VIRGINIA BEACH) - Emergency crews fanned out across the city looking for whatever caused a loud explosion Sunday night.
At around 9:45 (29MAR09) 911 dispatchers started receiving calls... (Read More and Video)http://www.wvec.com/news/topstories/stories/wvec_local_32909_strange_light.838d22a9.html

Night sky phenomenon remains unexplained 30MAR09

Night sky phenomenon remains unexplained (29MAR09)
Richmond Times Dispatch
By Bill Mckelway
Published: March 30, 2009

No one's sure what caused last evening's flashes in the sky. The National Weather Service said today it has seen no evidence of any naturally occurring phenomenon to explain reports of a bright flash of light in eastern Virginia, Maryland and North Carolina.... (More)http://www.timesdispatch.com/rtd/news/local/article/BOOM30_20090329-234409/244022/

Streaking lights, explosions reported Dorchester County, Md., to the Virginia/North Carolina border 29MAR09

By Patrick Wilson
The Virginian-Pilot© March 30, 2009

Were they meteors? A comet? UFOs?
People from Maryland to Hampton Roads heard loud explosions and saw brilliant, streaking lights in the sky Sunday night.
There was no immediate explanation, the National Weather Service office in Wakefield said. The Virginia Beach 911 center had numerous calls waiting just before 10 p.m., a supervisor said.
The Weather Service said reports were made from Dorchester County, Md., to the Virginia/North Carolina border. People said they saw a streak in the sky and heard an explosion.
“It was orange, like a fireball,” said Steve Wagner, who lives in the Great Bridge area of Chesapeake and said what he saw was too close to be a shooting star. Wagner was outside cooking with family when he saw the streak. He said he went inside when his daughter called, then heard an explosion that sounded like thunder.
Chris Wamsley, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service’s Wakefield office, said there could be various causes of the explosions and lights. A team of people is looking into what happened, he said.
Lindsey Hosek of the Great Neck area of Virginia Beach was jogging along the water with her dog when the sky lit up, she said.
“The bright light at first terrified me because I thought somebody was shining a light on me, and then I saw it, and I was in complete awe because it was so beautiful,” she said.
Then she saw something that looked like a comet moving low toward the ground; it was blue in front followed by orange and appeared to be the shape and size of a refrigerator.
“It was just so low. It was like where a bird should be,” she said. “It was definitely heading downward.”
She was on the phone with a friend a minute later when she heard an explosion.
Kenneth Martin of Chesapeake’s South Norfolk neighborhood said he saw what appeared to be lightning, then the sky turned blue.
Then, he said, a white ball of fire shot close to the ground and appeared to burn out. He said he’s sure it was a meteor.
“It was so vivid in the sky, blinking,” he said. “It was the strangest thing I’ve ever seen.”
No damage was reported, the Weather Service said.

Patrick Wilson, (757) 446-2957, patrick.wilson@pilotonline.com

"Stars of Asia" Workshop of Asian Star Legends 30MAR09

An upcoming workshop on Asian myths/legends about stars will be held from 11 to 13 May, 2009 in Mitaka, Tokyo.
http://www-irc.mtk.nao.ac.jp/~webadm/StarsofAsia_E/index.php?workshop
The "Stars of Asia" workshop aims to bring, report and recognize good myths/legends related to the stars and universe from Asian countries/regions. This is an important milestone of the IYA 2009 Asian collaborative project "Stars of Asia".
Our final target is to publish attractive books of Myths and Legends about Stars and the Universe of Asia for children, people, and teachers in Asia and the world. For this purpose, we will nominate one member of the Editorial Board from each country/region during the WS. The first Editorial Board meeting will be held in the afternoon of May 13 (Wed).

The WS will be held in the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) headquarters campus, Large Seminer Room: 2-21-1, Osawa, Mitaka, Tokyo, Japan 181-8588.
Location: West boundary of Tokyo city, takes about 1 hour from Tokyo Station by train and bus, or 2 hours from Narita International Airport by limousine or trains. You can see the access route here.

Registration 　
Please access the following web page and fill the form.
http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?key=pOH0AtAkr9Egd4acSW1OlGA&t=3552819128023078789

After you fill the registration form, please click the last button of the form to send your registration. You are supposed to get an acceptance
e-mail from the workshop secretary within a couple days.

If you don't receive the e-mail, please e-mail to irc@nao.ac.jp.
If you send several registration forms at the same time by mistake, only the latest one will be accepted.
If you have any questions, please send e-mail to irc@nao.ac.jp
Fumi YOSHIDA: Workshop secretary, NAOJ.

Hopper the Meteorite Dog-A Hillsboro collector adds a tale of a meteorite-hunting hound to his stock 29MAR09

A Hillsboro collector adds a tale of a meteorite-hunting hound to his stock
Sunday, March 29, 2009
The Oregonian

On Feb. 15 in Austin, Texas, runners struggled through the streets, midmarathon. A news cameraman covering the race happened to catch a fireball streaking through the sky.
The first news reports said a plane had crashed. A helicopter was dispatched to the site.
But there was no plane.
In Hillsboro, Rob Wesel thought he knew exactly what had happened: A meteoroid had streaked to Earth, scattering fragments -- or meteorites -- over Texas farmland.
(continued): http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/margie_boule/index.ssf?/base/living/1238027117161870.xml&coll=7

Time to Solidify an Ocean of Magma -Lunar Study 29MAR09

Time to Solidify an Ocean of Magma
25MAR09
--- A small mineral grain places limits on how long it took the lunar magma ocean to solidify.

Written by G. Jeffrey Taylor
Hawai‘i Institute of Geophysics and Planetology
Cosmochemists are reasonably sure that a global ocean of magma surrounded the Moon when it formed. This was a monumentally important event in lunar history, forming the primary feldspar-rich crust of the lunar highlands and setting the stage for subsequent melting inside the Moon to make additional crustal rocks. Numerous questions remain about the complex array of processes that could have operated in such a huge amount of magma, and about how long it took to solidify the magma ocean. Alex Nemchin and colleagues at Curtin University of Technology (Australia), Westfäilische Wilhelms-Universität (Münster, Germany), and the Johnson Space Center (Houston, Texas, USA) dated a half-millimeter grain of the mineral zircon (ZrSiO4) in an impact melt breccia from the Apollo 17 landing site. They used an ion microprobe to measure the concentrations of lead and uranium isotopes in the crystal, finding that one portion of the grain recorded an age of 4.417 ± 0.006 billion years. Because zircon does not crystallize until more than 95% of the magma ocean has crystallized, this age effectively marks the end of magma ocean crystallization. Magma ocean cooling and crystallization began soon after the Moon-forming giant impact. Other isotopic studies show that this monumental event occurred 4.517 billion years ago. Thus, the difference between the two ages means that the magma ocean took 100 million years to solidify.

Reference:

Nemchin, A., Timms, N., Pidgeon, R., Geisler, T., Reddy, S., and Meyer, C. (2009) Timing of Crystallization of the Lunar Magma Ocean Constrained by the Oldest Zircon. Nature Geoscience, 25 January 2009: doi: 10.1038/NGEO417.

MORE with photos: http://www.psrd.hawaii.edu/Mar09/magmaOceanSolidification.html

Meteorite News 27MAR09

Meteorite hunters in town, seek both witnesses and fallen objects
The Augusta Chronicle Fri, 27 Mar 2009 10:32 AM PDT
An Atlanta meteorite hunter was in Augusta on Friday searching for remnants of a meteorite believed to have caused an early morning sonic boom and fireball sighting on March 20.

Meteorite Hunters Closing In On Georgia Fireball, Reward Upped To $20,000
WJBF-TV Augusta Fri, 27 Mar 2009 09:00 AM PDT
According to an e-mail from meteorite hunter David Pitt, meteorite hunters are in the CSRA looking for the supposed meteorite that cause last Friday morningâs loud boom. They believe the meteorite came to rest in the Augusta area.

California Bolide 26MAR09

Bolide over California 26MAR09
Photo by Larry Stange- YCSentinel

Moments ago... as I was observing the Orion Nebula through my SN8/LXD (8") Shmidt-Neutonian, I saw a white flash that lit up the aperature of the scope. Upon looking up toward Orion I saw a persistant trail lasting about 2 seconds and quite long (~7 degrees.). I summoned wife to watch telescope while checking the Sentinel camera to see if it got it too. It did! A SLOW and nice Bolide with a double explosion and apparent fragmentation products clearly evident however small they are. The Fireball was heading toward the Nebula but did not quite reach it from my location 35 miles North of Sacramento.

Event Date & Time: 20090326_2108:54 PDT
Duration: 3 seconds.
Double detonation with an eye visible train a full 3 seconds after
Start Azimuth: 213 Deg., End Azimuth: 233 Deg. True North.
Start Elevation: 47 Deg., End Elevation: 32 Deg.
Second image(scaled) shows where telescope was pointed on M42.
It was only a couple of degrees elevation from the 2nd detonation point. With an 8" F4 telescope at 65X, no eye damage would have occured but only one eye would have been useful for night vision the rest of the night. :-)

Click "fit to screen" or "Double size" when Q-Time movie is playing for better detail.


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click latest event & scroll to bottom.

Larry Stange- YCSentinel

2008 TC3, Almahata Sitta meteorite came from F-class asteroid 26MAR09

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=asteroid-meteorite-sudan-fireball

Rock Science: First Meteorites Recovered on Earth from an Asteroid Tracked in Space Fragments in the Sudanese desert make up an "asteroid trifecta":
discovery, prediction and recovery By John Matson Scientific American March 25, 2009

Last October, asteroid monitors at the Catalina Sky Survey at the University of Arizona in Tucson picked up a small object on an immediate collision course with Earth. The asteroid was too small to present a real threat - just a few meters across, it stood little chance of penetrating the atmosphere intact. Indeed, it exploded in astratospheric fireball over northern Sudan less than 24 hours later - anevent witnessed by people on the ground as well as the pilots of a KLM airliner- conforming well to astronomer's predictions for its trajectory. But the asteroid, dubbed 2008 TC3, was nonetheless a momentous discovery: Among the countless small objects that strike Earth's atmosphere every year, none had ever been detected and tracked before it impacted. Now the Sudan bolide has yielded yet another first:

Researchers report in Nature today
<http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v458/n7237/full/nature07920.html>that they have recovered 47 meteorites from the object in the Nubian Desert. And lead author Peter Jenniskens, a meteor astronomer at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, Calif., says that another search completed earlier this month, after the paper was submitted, has upped the meteorite count to about 280.
Astronomer Donald Yeomans, manager of NASA's Near-Earth Object Programoffice <http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/> at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory inPasadena, Calif., calls 2008 TC3 "a perfect asteroid trifecta,"referring to "pre-impact discovery, successful impact prediction, and successful sample return." (Yeomans did not contribute to the recovery research, but his office played a leading role in tracking the asteroid's entry <http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/mpec/K08/K08T50.html>.)

The find allows astronomers to connect the chemical composition of the meteorite to its orbit and reflectance in the sky during tracking. "The holy grail of asteroid science is to uniquely link a specific meteorite and its detailed composition to a specific asteroid type," Yeomans says."And that has now been done without an expensive sample-return mission. "This object, which the study's authors call Almahata Sitta (Arabic for Station Six, a train station in the desert where eyewitnesses saw the fireball and that served as the researchers' base camp), appears to belong to a rare class of bodies called F-class asteroids, which constitute just 1.3 percent of all asteroids. Chemically speaking, Almahata Sitta is a meteorite whose specific composition is unique among meteorite collections. It is a fragile, porous ureilite (a relatively rare kind of olivine- and pyroxene-bearing meteorite)containing graphite and nanodiamonds, among other materials. Its fragility, Jenniskens says, helps explain why it broke apart so high in the atmosphere. With the benefit of the object's rarity as an F-class body and its orbit, tracked backward through time, the researchers established a possible link to a larger F-class asteroid, the 1.6-mile-(2.6-kilometer-) diameter 1998 KU2, which may have originated from the same parent body as Almahata Sitta."The orbit of the asteroid, by just tracking it for 20 hours, is 10,000times better than anything you can get from just observing a fireball Jenniskens says. "What's neat about this is that the big asteroid allows you to extend back in time the evolutionary history." He notes that scientists might be able to pinpoint the specific region of the asteroid belt that 2008 TC3 came from with more F-class asteroids from the same parent body. Even the brief amount of time 2008 TC3 was tracked provided an excellent lead on where to look- and the desert surface provided an ideal surface for turning up the dark fragments. "The entry trajectory was very precisely known," Jenniskens says. The first samples were found in early December by a 45-person search team from the University of Khartoum. (Three scientists from that university and one from the University of Juba in Sudan are among the co-authors of the study.) "We had many eyes and hands," Jenniskens says, trying "to find these."

“Sirente crater”, Italy impact origin disputed 26MAR09

An article in journal of Geophysical Research disputes the origin of the what has been called the “Sirente crater”.The paper discussing this theory is:
Speranza, F., I. Nicolosi, N. Ricchetti, G. Etiope, P. Rochette, L. Sagnotti, R. De Ritis, and M. Chiappini (2009), The “Sirente crater field,” Italy, revisited. Journal of Geophysical Research. vol. 114, B03103, doi:10.1029/2008JB005759
http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2009/2008JB005759.shtml

They concluded:
“Our data show that the Sirente crater and the minor depressions are simply the results of human activity and karstic processes, respectively.”
An article that discusses this paper is:
Bondre, N., 2009, Geomorphology: Crater or not? Nature Geoscience. vol 2, no. 3, p. 166.

TOC at
http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/v2/n3/index.html

PDF file at
http://www.tulane.edu/~kmstraub/Publications/Abrams_09/News_and_Views_09.pdf

Source: Paul H.

2008 TC3 classified as a Ureilite 26MAR09

Carnegie Institution of WashingtonWashington, D.C.
Contact:Douglas Rumble, 202-478-8990
March 25, 2009

Asteroid Impact Helps Trace Meteorite Origins

The car-sized asteroid that exploded above the Nubian Desert last October was small compared to the dinosaur-killing, civilization-ending objects that still orbit the sun. But that didn't stop it from having a huge impact among scientists. This was the first instance of an asteroid spotted in space before falling to Earth. Researchers rushed to collect the resulting meteorite debris, and a new paper in Nature reports on this first-ever opportunity to calibrate telescopic observations of a known asteroid with laboratory analyses of its fragments."Any number of meteorites have been observed as fireballs and smoking meteor trails as they come through the atmosphere," says Douglas Rumble of the Carnegie Institution's Geophysical Laboratory, a co-author of the paper."It's been happening for years. But to actually see this object before it gets to the Earth's atmosphere and then to follow it in -- that's the unique thing."The chemical compositions of asteroids can be studied from Earth by analyzing the spectra of sunlight reflected from their surfaces. This provides enough information to divide asteroids into broad categories, butdoes not yield detailed information on their compositions. On the otherhand, meteorites recovered on Earth can be analyzed directly for chemical composition, but researchers generally have no direct information on what type of asteroid they came from.The asteroid, known as 2008 TC3, was first sighted October 6, 2008, by telescopes of the automated Catalina Sky Survey near Tucson Arizona. Numerous observatories followed its trajectory and took spectrographic measurements before it disappeared into the Earth's shadow the following day. A recovery team led by Peter Jenniskens of the SETI Institute in California and Muawia Shaddad of the University of Khartoum then searched for meteorites along the projected approach path in northern Sudan. They recovered 47 fragments, one of which was selected for preliminary analysisby laboratories, including the Carnegie Institution's Geophysical Laboratory."This asteroid was made of a particularly fragile material that caused it to explode at a high 37 kilometer altitude, before it was significantly slowed down, so that the few surviving fragments scattered over a large area,"explains Jenniskens, the lead author of the Nature paper. "The recovered meteorites were unlike anything in our meteorite collections up to that point."Carnegie's Andrew Steele studied the meteorite's carbon content, which showed signs that at some point in its past the meteorite had been subjected to very high temperatures. "Without a doubt, of all the meteorites that we've ever studied, the carbon in this one has been cooked to the greatest extent," says Steele. "Very cooked, graphite-like carbon is the main constituent of the carbon in this meteorite." Another form of carbon Steele found in the meteorite, nanodiamonds, may give clues as to whether the heating was caused by impacts on the parent asteroid, or by some other process. Oxygen isotopes in the meteorite give other information about its parent body. Each source of meteorites in the solar system, including planets such as Mars, has a distinctive signature of the three isotopes 16O, 17O, and18O. This signature can be recognized even when other variables, such as chemical composition or rock type, differ. "Oxygen isotopes represent the single most decisive measurement in determining the parental or family groupings of meteorites," says Rumble who performed the analysis. According to Rumble's analysis, 2008 TC3 falls into a category of very rare meteorites called ureilites, all of which may have originally come from the same parent body. "Where that is, we don't know," says Rumble. But because astronomers took spectral measurements of 2008 TC3 before it hit the Earth,and can compare those measurements with the laboratory analyses, scientists will be better able to recognize ureilite asteroids in space. One known asteroid with a similar spectrum, the 2.6 kilometer-sized asteroid 1998 KU2, has already been identified by researchers as a possible source for 2008 TC3. Rumble's work was funded by NASA Cosmochemistry grant NNX07AI48G. Steele was supported by NASA's Sample Return Laboratory Instruments and Data Analysis Program (SRLIDAP) , NASA's Astrobiology Science and Technology for Exploring Planets (ASTEP) program , and the NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI).

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This fragment of Asteroid 2008 TC3 provided scientists with the first-ever opportunity to calibrate telescopic observations of a known asteroid with laboratory analyses.

2008 TC3 Asteroid monitored from outer space to ground 26MAR09

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 25, 2009

We saw it coming:

Asteroid monitored from outer space to ground impact

Sandians Mark Boslough and Dick Spalding watch it in real time

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Reports by scientists of meteorites striking Earth in the past have resembled police reports of so many muggings -- the offenders came out of nowhere and then disappeared into the crowd, making it difficultto get more than very basic facts.Now an international research team has been able to identify an asteroid inspace before it entered Earth's atmosphere, enabling computers to determineits area of origin in the solar system as well as predict the arrival timeand location on Earth of its shattered surviving parts."I would say that this work demonstrates, for the first time, the ability ofastronomers to discover and predict the impact of a space object," saysSandia National Laboratories researcher Mark Boslough, a member of theresearch team.Perhaps more importantly, the event tested the ability of society to respond very quickly to a predicted impact, says Boslough. "In this case, it was never a threat, so the response was scientific. Had it been deemed a threat-- a larger asteroid that would explode over a populated area -- an alert could have been issued in time that could potentially save lives by evacuating the danger zone or instructing people to take cover. "The profusion of information in this case also helps meteoriticists learn the orbits of parent bodies that yield various types of meteorites.Such knowledge could help future space missions explore or even mine the asteroids in Earth-crossing orbits, Boslough says.The four-meter-diameter asteroid, called 2008 TC3, was initially sighted by the automated Catalina Sky Survey telescope at Mount Lemmon, Ariz., on Oct.6. Numerous observatories, alerted to the invader, then imaged the object. Computations correctly predicted impact would occur 19 hours after discovery in the Nubian Desert of northern Sudan. According to NASA's Near Earth Object program, "A spectacular fireball litup the predawn sky above Northern Sudan on October 7, 2008."A wide variety of analyses were performed while the asteroid was en route and after its surviving pieces were located by meteorite hunters in an intense search.

Researchers, listed in the paper describing this work in the March 26 issueof the journal Nature, range from the SETI Institute, the University of Khartoum, Juba University (Sudan), Sandia, Caltech, NASA Johnson Space Center and NASA Ames, to other universities in the U.S., Canada, Ireland,England, Czech Republic and the Netherlands. Sandia researcher Dick Spalding interpreted recorded data about the atmospheric fireball, and Boslough estimated the aerodynamic pressure and strength of the asteroid based on the estimated burst altitude of 36 kilometers. Searchers have recovered 47 meteorites so far -- offshoots from the disintegrating asteroid, mostly immolated by its encounter with atmospheric friction -- with a total mass of 3.95 kilograms.The analyzed material showed carbon-rich materials not yet represented in meteorite collections, indicating that fragile materials still unknown may account for some asteroid classes. Such meteorites are less likely to survive due to destruction upon entry and weathering once they land on Earth's surface."Chunks of iron and hard rock last longer and are easier to find than clumps of soft carbonaceous materials," says Boslough."We knew that locating an incoming object while still in space could be done, but it had never actually been demonstrated until now," says Boslough."In this post-rational age where scientific explanations and computer models are often derided as 'only theories,' it is nice to have a demonstration like this."Sandia is a multiprogram laboratory operated by Sandia Corporation, a Lockheed Martin company, for the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration. With main facilities in Albuquerque, N.M.,and Livermore, Calif., Sandia has major R&D responsibilities in national security, energy and environmental technologies, and economic competitiveness.

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Don't look back -- it may be gaining on you: Sandia's Mark Boslough discusses aspects of asteroids (Photo by Randy Montoya)

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