U.S. Meteorite Hunters Go Bicoastal

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Space Weather News for July 15, 2009
http://spaceweather.com

NOCTILUCENT CLOUDS GO WILD: An intense display of noctilucent clouds (NLCs) lit up the skies of Europe and North America last night. Bright electric-blue tendrils were visible through fireworks during Bastille Day celebrations in France, while the clouds descended as far south as Nebraska in the USA. Sky watchers should be alert for a repeat performance tonight. Observing tips and photos of the July 14th-15th display may be found at these URLs:

Europe: http://spaceweather.com/nlcs/gallery2009_page12.htm

USA: http://spaceweather.com/nlcs/gallery2009_page13.htm

Please visit http://spaceweather.com

for updates.

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For any of you who missed the TV show "Meteorite Men," or for those of you
who would like to watch it again, it is airing four more times over the next
three days on the Science Channel.

Wed. July 15, 8:00 pm Eastern Time
Wed. July 15, 11:00 pm Eastern Time
Thurs. July 16, 3:00 pm Eastern Time
Fri. July 17, 3:00 am Eastern Time

You can also check the listings here:

http://science.discovery.com/tv-schedules/series.html?paid=48.15725.126184.3

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More info about the show can be found at: www.MeteoriteMen.com

Steve Arnold
of "Meteorite Men"

‎9 hours ago‎

Retired science teacher in search of 1st meteorite found in NH

Nashua Telegraph - Dave Brooks - ‎9 hours ago‎

"There are (meteorites) here," he said. "The problem is that we have so many other rocks in the Granite State that you don't find them. ...

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Search Narrows For Meteor Shower
Scientists say they are getting closer to finding the exact landing spot of a meteor shower that was spotted in the sky near the Mason Dixon line.
ABC 2 Baltimore - Jul 14 8:05 AM

For more of the story and a video click on the title link.

‎4 hours ago‎

Space rock being auctioned for £90000 found on a country walk

Mail on Sunday - James Tozer - ‎4 hours ago‎

The Yorkshire rock - dubbed the Hambleton Meteorite after the hills near which it was found - is classed as a pallasite, made from a mix of olivine and ...

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Apollo Moon Landing 40th Anniversary Celebration

Saturday, 18 Jul 2009
2:00 pm — 8:00 pm
Location: Kuiper Space Sciences Building, Room 308, 312, 330, atrium

Come help us celebrate the 40th Anniversary of Apollo 11 landing on the Moon!

This event is FREE and open to the public. As more information becomes available, we will update this page, so check back often!

Activities from 2:00 to 5:00p.m. include displays (including lunar meteorites), children’s activities, telescopes, solar viewing, 3D Apollo images, lectures, a NASA documentary of the flight of Apollo 15, and more. ... (for full details):
http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/calendar/calendar.php?ID=254

Meteorites and Lunar Meteorites on Display by:
Aerolite Meteorites
The Hupe Collection
Jack Schrader
Mike Farmer Meteorites
Shauna Russell
Robert Ward

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Meteorite Hunter - First Day on the job Part 1 of 3

01:42 - 3 days ago youtube.com

from Mike talking about his first day on the job as a meteorite hunter. Part 1 of 2. ... meteor meteorite "mason dixon meteor" "baltimore meteor" "pennslyvania meteor" "PA ...

youtube.com

Baltimore Meteor Interview with Mike Hankey on WJZ Chanel 13 July 07 2009

02:57 - 5 days ago

youtube.com

is an interview with Mike Hankey regarding his photograph of a the Baltimore meteor / PA Fireball. ... meteor telescope astronomy "baltimore meteor" "PA fireball" "astro ...

youtube.com

Mr Meteorite

00:39 - Today youtube.com

... Meteorite2 ...

youtube.co

‎4 hours ago‎

The price is meteorite

Northern Echo - Andy Walker - ‎4 hours ago‎

The Hambleton Meteorite was found near the white horse of Kilburn, near Thirsk, North Yorkshire, in August 2005. Rob Elliott, who discovered the item with ...

‎10 hours ago‎

No meteorites in York County?

York Daily Record - Teresa Ann Boeckel - ‎10 hours ago‎

"My best estimate at the moment is that meteorites should be found somewhere in the region bounded by Pequea, Colemanville, Martic Forge, Marticville, ...

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Meteor Lights Colorado and New Mexico Night Sky
Cloudbait- Chris L. Peterson
A slow, bright fireball occurred at 2:28 AM MDT July 13, 2009 over central Colorado. I have not received any witness reports.

Data has been recovered from the following cameras:

Cloudbait (details, video)
Tom Ashcraft's camera in New Mexico.

The image at left is from the Cloudbait camera ...

(more) (excellent website with photos and more information; thank you Chris Peterson and Tom Ashcraft, New Mexico!!!)

http://www.cloudbait.com/science/fireball20090713.html

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U.S. Meteorite Hunters Go Bicoastal

Meteors, even bright ones, happen all the time. But every now and then a truly bright fireball is witnessed by so many people that the event makes the news. And, thanks to the speed and ubiquity of the Internet, such news travels fast.

http://www.skyandtelescope.com/news/50678607.html

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Meteorite search focuses on Lancaster County

Baltimore Sun - ‎

Odds are strongly in favor of notified locals finding pieces of the meteorite over the chances even professional meteorite hunters would have. ...

Meteor hunt isn't over yet Baltimore Sun

all 2 news articles »

Meteorite hunters seek help from locals

York Daily Record - Katharine Harmon - ‎

Two Hagerstown, Md. best friends and professional meteorite hunters refuse to give up in the search for the meteorite that was seen falling from the sky ...

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Multimillion-dollar meteorite heads for Portland State

OregonLive.com - Taylor Dungjen - ‎

Fredrick D. Joe/The Oregonian
Edwin Thompson has found a buyer for his meteorite, which will find a home at Portland State. ...

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Meteorite Man asks blog posters' help

Baltimore Sun - ‎

"Meteorite Man" Steve Arnold is still looking for those key eyewitness reports that could point him toward any remnants of the July 6 Mason-Dixon Meteor ...

‎12 hours ago‎

MD/PA Meteor Brings Hunters to Our Area

ABC2 News - Joce Sterman - ‎12 hours ago‎

Now so-called meteorite hunters have flocked to our area. Some have used Hankey's picture to plot the meteor's course, hoping to find the remnants of a ...

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Meteorite Hunters Look for Remnants of Meteorite Spotted in York County
Steve Arnold, a professional meteorite hunter, who has his own television show, is in York County looking for clues to a reported meteorite. It was spotted around 1 a.m. on July 6th, near the Pennsylvania/Maryland border. In the Baltimore area, there were reports of a sonic boom being felt, and reports of a fireball flying across the sky.
FOX 43 Harrisburg - Jul 10 7:08 PM

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Treasure hunters search for meteorite
YORK, Pa., July 11 (UPI) -- Treasure hunters are searching Maryland and Pennsylvania for something they say might fetch a higher price than gold -- pieces of a meteorite.
UPI - Jul 10 10:37 PM

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Mission Meteor: In search of falling objects that buzzed York
Steve Arnold, a renowned meteorite hunter, came to York County on Wednesday in search of the meteorite that is believed to have flashed across the sky early Monday.
York Daily Record - 24 minutes ago

‎1 hour ago‎

Meteor's fall triggers cosmic treasure hunt

Baltimore Sun - Frank D. Roylance - ‎1 hour ago‎

Professional meteorite hunters and collectors are scrambling to track down, grab (or buy if they must) any pieces of the Mason-Dixon meteor that might have ... (more)

‎3 hours ago‎

Looking for more video of meteor

York Daily Record - ‎3 hours ago‎

Meteorite hunters are still looking for more video of a fireball that crossed the sky shortly after 1 am Monday (July 6, 2009). They need more data to figure out where the meteorite fell ...

Here's how the meteorite hunters can be contacted:

Ruben Garcia: (602) 323-7004

Steve Arnold: He can be contacted through www.meteoritemen.com.

Michael and David Antonelli: (412) 877-6964

Also, contact the Daily Record/Sunday News at news@ydr.com if you have video showing the fireball. ... (whole story):

h ttp://ydr.inyork.com/ci_12806156

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Elizabeth twins embark on wild meteor chase

By Craig Smith
TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Friday, July 10, 2009

Meteorite hunter Mike Antonelli didn't think the lights a Fayette County man saw would lead him to chase the ninth meteorite suspected of landing in Pennsylvania.

"He saw a light with a long tail — gold on the nose and green on the tail," said Antonelli, 41, of Elizabeth. "He saw the lights in the east and said ... (more)
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/pittsburgh/s_633008.html

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Fiery, Fast-Moving Object Seen In Sky
Greenville, Tennessee
Pauline Petsel, of Birds Bridge Road, photographed this fiery object in the night sky on Monday from her home on Birds Bridge Road. She and her husband, Carl, say they don't know what the object was. Published: 11:27 AM, 07/09/2009
http://greenevillesun.com/story/304595

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Meteorit spadl do Ostravy, zničil stůl na pingpong. KDY DALŠÍ?

09.07. 18:30 | Aktualizováno 18:45 | tn.cz / sn s přispěním Jiřího Veselého

V Ostravě spadl meteorit. Tajemná vesmírná tělesa hrozí i jinde.

Vědci si teď lámou hlavu s kamenem, který přilétl z nebe. Na zahradě Jiřího Římana v Ostravě udělal díru do pingpongového stolu. Majitel přísahá, že si nic nevymyslel a rozhodně si díru sám nevyvrtal. Nálezce kamenu nakonec poprosil o pomoc odborníky.

Jiří Říman se vrátil z chalupy a našel rozbitý pingpongový stůl. A škůdce byl poblíž. Údajný meteorit se válel přímo pod stolem. Odborníci teď jen kroutí hlavou a nedokáží se shodnout, zda jde vůbec o meteorit a odkud se tu vzal. ... (more story and video)

http://tn.nova.cz/zpravy/regionalni/meteorit-v-ostrave-znicil-pingpongovy-stul-co-nas-ceka-dal.html

English Translation:

Meteorite fell to Ostrava, destroyed in the Ping-Pong table.
WHERE NEXT?
Scientists now puzzled about the stone, which přilétl from heaven. The garden George Romans in Ostrava pingpongového a hole in the table. The owner swears that it was not anything, and certainly the hole itself nevyvrtal. Finder stone finally asked the assistance of experts. Říman George returned from the cottage and found a broken ping-pong table. A pest is near. The alleged meteorite is wallowing directly under the table. Experts now just shake their heads and unable to agree whether any of the meteorite and from there took. ... (more story with video)
http://tn.nova.cz/zpravy/regionalni/meteorit-v-ostrave-znicil-pingpongovy-stul-co-nas-ceka-dal.html

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Scientists find Prairie space rock

KATHERINE O'NEILL

NEAR MARSDEN, Sask. — The Canadian Press Last updated on Tuesday, Mar. 31, 2009 09:20PM EDT Posted to the Internet 19JULY2009

Fragments of a 10-tonne asteroid found along the Alberta/Saskatchewan border have already been dubbed the Marsden Meteorite by excited locals.

University of Calgary researchers Alan Hildebrand and graduate student Ellen Millet discovered several pieces of the space rock late Thursday near Marsden, a farming village of 275 people about 270 kilometres southeast of Edmonton.

The search for the space rock began on Nov. 20 after the asteroid was spotted hurtling toward Earth by thousands of people in both Alberta and Saskatchewan. People in the Marsden area not only saw the fireball, which was as bright as a billion-watt light bulb, but they also heard and smelled it.

“It made a rumbling sound and it left a weird smell. This will sound funny, but it smelled like burning rock,” said Glenda Hankins, who owns the Marsden Hotel.

Besides sonic booms, witnesses also reported hearing hissing or crackling noises like frying bacon.

Dr. Hildebrand, a co-ordinator of the Canadian Fireball Reporting Centre with the Canadian Space Agency, said fireballs can act as radio transmitters, causing odd sounds.

He expects that thousands of meteorite fragments were strewn over an estimated 20-square-kilometres near the Battle River.

Grant Jones, a farmer who owns land in the area where many more of the fragments are expected to be found, is already warning interested space rock collectors to ask for permission from property owners before setting out on their hunt. ... (more)

With a report from Canadian Press

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/science/scientists-find-prairie-space-rock/article725366/

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Astronomer and Slovenian Museum Clash over Meteorite Find

Ljubljana, 8 July (STA) - German Thomas Grau reported on Tuesday that he had found a rare 2.35 kilo meteorite in a forest near Jesenice (NW) in May. The Slovenian Museum of Natural History confirmed on Wednesday that the meteorite had indeed enlighten the sky over Slovenia on 9 April, but noted that two Slovenians had found the object from outer space.

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Since the Pennsylvania meteor of July 6, 2009 I have been interested in learning more about audible meteor sounds and what we can learn from them. Here are some interesting readings:

Meteor Sounds

Meteoritics ... The best explanation for many of these simultaneous meteor sounds is offered by Colin Keay. ... Abnormal sounds produced by meteors is an ...
www.pibburns.com/catastro/metsound.htm - Cached
SPACE.com -- Scary Sounds of Meteors

Scientists puzzled by loud noises heard before large meteors are seen. ... apparent meteor before he saw it, since sound travels much ... Mystery meteor sound ...
space.com/scienceastronomy/generalscience/iridium_sound_000328.html - Cached
Meteor Sounds, Alaska Science Forum

Article about sounds associated with meteors impacting earth. ... If a person hears sounds while observing a meteor's descent, these can be used ...
www.gi.alaska.edu/ScienceForum/ASF2/273.html - Cached

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Channel-4 True Stories - Close Encounters In Siberia_1.avi

08:25 - Yesterday

youtube.com

that shook Tunguska, Siberia in 1908 which has been variously attributed to a meteorite and a crashed UFO. Here's some blurb I found [amongst others] on the Channel 4 ...

youtube.com

Channel-4 True Stories - Close Encounters In Siberia_2.avi

08:25 - Yesterday

Channel-4 True Stories - Close Encounters In Siberia_3.avi

08:25 - Yesterday

Channel-4 True Stories - Close Encounters In Siberia_4.avi

08:25 - Yesterday

Channel-4 True Stories - Close Encounters In Siberia_5.avi

08:25 - Yesterday

Channel-4 True Stories - Close Encounters In Siberia_6.avi

08:25 - Yesterday

Channel-4 True Stories - Close Encounters In Siberia_7.avi

08:25 - Yesterday youtube.com

Channel-4 True Stories - Close Encounters In Siberia_8.avi

08:25 - Yesterday youtube.com

Channel-4 True Stories - Close Encounters In Siberia_9.avi

08:23 - Yesterday youtube.com

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Meteorite hunters looking for treasure in York County

First they have to figure out where the strewn field might be.

By TERESA ANN BOECKEL
Daily Record/Sunday News

Updated: 07/08/2009 11:54:30 PM EDT
Meteorite hunters -- including Steve Arnold of the Science Channel show "Meteorite Men" -- visited York County on Wednesday, searching for clues as to where remnants of a fireball might have landed.

A security camera at the York Water Company's pumping station in Spring Garden Township ... (more story and video) :

http://ydr.inyork.com/ci_12790056

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Mason-Dixon meteor turns up on security cam

The big fireball meteor that startled residents in Central Maryland and southern Pennsylvania early Monday morning was captured on a security camera video in York Pa. It's about 18 seconds into the 70-second video. Meteorite hunters hope this will be a first clue to guide them to the spot where surviving bits of the meteor - if there are any - may have landed. ... (more with Video)
http://weblogs.marylandweather.com/2009/07/masondixon_meteor_turns_up_on.html

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Residents invited to dig a little deeper
Local residents will have a chance to dig a little deeper and become a part of history. Professor Christopher Herd of the University of Alberta and his team will be making a visit to Whitecourt to conduct further research on a meteorite crater impact site. ... (more)
Whitecourt Star - Jul 08 10:08 AM
http://www.whitecourtstar.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1646965

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Mason-Dixon Fireball On Radar?

July 7, 2009

UPDATE: One of my blog readers asked if the meteor was caught by the U.S. Government's NEXRAD radars. The short answer is: Probably not. I've saved off the radar loops here if you want to download* them. They seemed to be centered in York County, Pennsylvania and Baltimore County, Maryland, near the Maryland border. ... (more) with NEXRAD images

http://www.accuweather.com/mt-news-blogs.asp?partner=accuweather&blog=Weathermatrix&pgurl=/mtweb/content/Weathermatrix/archives/2009/07/masondixon_email.asp

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Police Investigate Reports Of A Meteor In Md.

02:48 - Yesterday video.aol.com

It's not known exactly what happened. Kai Jackson reports.

video.aol.com

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Meteorite hunter says: Check security camera tapes

Maryland Weather-

Professional meteor hunter Steve Arnold is asking home and business owners in central Maryland and southern Pennsylvania to check their security tapes from early Monday morning for evidence of the meteor that scores of residents across the region have been reporting.

Most reader reports to this Blog put the time between 1:00 a.m. EDT and 1:15 a.m., July 6, with many focused on 1:08 - 1:10 a.m. ...

http://weblogs.marylandweather.com/2009/07/check_security_tapes_for_meteo.html

July 7, 2009

Meteor lights up Mid-Atlantic area's skies

Startled observers report brilliant flash, 'thunderous' sonic booms

By Frank D. Roylance Baltimore Sun reporter

July 7, 2009

Scores of people in Maryland and Pennsylvania who lingered outdoors into the early morning hours Monday were startled by the brilliant flash of a meteor that soared over the Mid-Atlantic states. ...

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/bal-md.meteor07jul07,0,2101919.story

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Meteor creates sonic boom
People reported the noise after 1 a.m. Monday.
By TERESA ANN BOECKEL
Daily Record/Sunday News
Updated: 07/07/2009 07:02:42 AM EDT

Andy DeMoss and some friends were hanging around a campfire in New Park early Monday morning when the trees suddenly lit up and turned white.

They looked up and saw what at appeared to be a shooting star, said DeMoss,18, of East Hopewell Township.

But then they realized ...
http://ydr.inyork.com/ci_12764772

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Meteor explodes in sky over Baltimore

July 6, 11:13 AM
Baltimore Counties, and southern PA began
around 1am this morning. A flash of light and an explosion was heard in the sky. MEMA (Maryland's emergency Management Agency), NORAD and The National Weather Service was contacted, and can not confirm what was seen and heard. The best explanation was that a meteor exploded in the sky. ...
http://www.examiner.com/x-11224-Baltimore-Weather-Examiner~y2009m7d6-Meteor-explodes-in-sky-over-Baltimore

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Police Investigate Reports Of A Meteor In Md.

HARFORD COUNTY, Md. (WJZ) ―July 6, 2009

Click to enlarge It wasn't a bird. It wasn't a plane. So what shot across the sky in Harford and Cecil counties, causing a rumble that felt more like an explosion?...
http://wjz.com/seenon/meteor.2.1074217.html: photo by Mike`s AstroPhotos Blog:; http://www.mikesastrophotos.com/comets/meteor-over-baltimore/#comments

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'Fireball' May Have Been Caught On Security Camera

Large Boom, Flash Of Light Seen In Night Sky Likely A 'Fireball'

POSTED: 12:17 pm EDT July 6, 2009
UPDATED: 7:05 pm EDT July 7, 2009

WGAL TV- http://www.wgal.com/news/19966650/detail.html

YORK, Pa. -- A fireball that reportedly barreled across southern Pennsylvania skies early Monday morning may have been caught on tape.

VIDEO: 'Fireball' See What The Surveillance Camera Caught

IMAGES: Frame-By-Frame 'Fireball' Surveillance Images

Comments left read those reports here.

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Deutscher findet Meteorit in Slowenien

Bild.de
Ein seltener Meteoritenfund ist einem Deutschen nach eigenen Angaben in Slowenien gelungen. Thomas Grau aus Bernau (Brandenburg) entdeckte in der Grenzregion zu Österreich einen 2,35 Kilogramm schweren Gesteinsbrocken aus dem All. Der Meteorit war am 9. April im Karawanken-Gebirge niedergegangen und zerbrochen. Er hatte seinen Fund aus dem Mai kürzlich auf einem Treffen des deutschen Feuerkugel-Netzwerks vorgestellt. Grau hatte bereits den Meteoriten entdeckt, der im Januar für eine spektakuläre Feuerkugel am Himmel über dem Ostseeraum gesorgt hatte. Er fand das Stück im März auf der dänischen Insel Lolland.
http://www.bild.de/BILD/news/telegramm/news-ticker,rendertext=8946900.html

English Translation:
A German according to own information in Slovenia has managed a rare meteorite finding. Thomas Grau from Bernau (Brandenburg) discovered in the border region to Austria a 2.35 kilogram rock lump from a Fall. The meteorite had come down on the 9th April in the Karawanken mountains and had broken. He had introduced his finding from May recently on a meeting of the German fire ball-network.
Grau had already discovered the meteorite which had provided in January for a spectacular fire ball in the sky about the Baltic Sea area. He found the piece in March on the Danish island Lolland.

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Better Know A Meteorite Collection: Natural History Museum in London, United Kingdom

Written by Linda M. V. Martel
Hawai‘i Institute of Geophysics and Planetology
The Natural History Museum in London, with its combined collections of over 70 million specimens of minerals, fossils, plants and animals and its brilliant public galleries, is also home to first-class scientific research departments. The Mineralogy Department's meteorite collection is one of the world's finest and a focus for scientific discoveries by researchers based at the museum and around the globe. The collection has about 5000 individually registered specimens, collected from every continent, representing just under 2000 distinct meteorites. In the jargon of meteoritics, there are falls and finds. Falls are meteorites that are recovered after eye witness accounts of fireballs and thunderous noises lead to their collection. Finds are meteorites that are found later. The U. K. collection has a significantly large number of meteorite falls, about 600, perhaps the most of any collection. ...
http://www.psrd.hawaii.edu/July09/Meteorites.London.Museum.html

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Large Boom, Flash Of Light Seen In Night Sky Likely A 'Fireball'

WGAL Channel 8

POSTED: 12:17 pm EDT July 6, 2009
UPDATED: 6:20 pm EDT July 6, 2009

SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY, Pa. -- A number of viewers throughout the Susquehanna Valley have contacted News 8 about a bright light they saw in the night sky, and an explosion they heard and felt early Monday morning (01:05~01:10EDT).

States with reports include: Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, and Maryland.

VIDEO: VIDEO: Witness Describes Light In Sky As 'Phosphorous Green Fireball'

Whole Story: http://www.wgal.com/news/19966650/detail.html

Other Reports:

A Mason-Dixon meteor?

The Baltimore Sun
http://weblogs.marylandweather.com/2009/07/a_masondixon_meteor.html Comments (47)

The York Dispatch: In York County, Pa., police officers from Penn Township, Southwestern Regional and Newberry Township reported seeing a flash and hearing a boom around 1:15 a.m. Monday, July 6, according to local 911 centers. Officials in Harford County, Md. also reported seeing a flash and hearing a boom near the Mason-Dixon Line. Read comments

http://yorkdispatch.inyork.com/ci_12758435

Capital Gazette: An Annapolis city police officer reported that she and her partner both saw what she described as a "bright blue light in the sky" just after midnight. It was followed by "a light with a tail, falling from the sky," according to our informant. Annapolis police reported hearing a similar report on Baltimore County police radio.

Gary Moon, reporting to The Sun's News Tips: "I heard and felt a deep earth blast similar to an earthquake, which shook my home in Glen Rock, Pa., early Monday morning. I thought I would hear MUCH more about this one ... nothing."

Deborah Markow, Havre de Grace: "Last night, couldn't sleep, went out on back deck, laid on lounge, eyes closed and then it was like someone pointed a flash light in my eyes it was so bright. I saw another one streak through the sky ... It was one of the most thrilling sights to behold a ball of fire flying through the sky."

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Nicaragua (NI)	1
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Iraq (IQ)	1
Benin (BJ)	1
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Most complete Earth map published

The most complete terrain map of the Earth's surface has been published.

The data, comprising 1.3 million images, come from a collaboration between the US space agency Nasa and the Japanese trade ministry.

The images were taken by Japan's Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (Aster) aboard the Terra satellite.

The resulting Global Digital Elevation Map covers 99% of the Earth's surface, and will be free to download and use. ...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8126197.stm

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New photos of meteorite from the 23JUN09 Southern Arizona fall near Sierra Vista, AZ.
http://www.rocksfromspace.org/New-Arizona-Meteorite-fall-2009.html

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Jack Schrader, Sierra Vista, AZ writes,
"I have a very important announcement to make and one I am sure everyone will
be very excited about. Most of you have already heard the news about the
fireball which was sighted over Southern Arizona at 9:22 pm on the evening
of Tuesday June 23. I would like to announce that I have recovered
material from this fall. I recovered a 155.6 gram stone at 6:20 pm on
Thursday, June 25, which is 44 hours and 58 minutes after the fireball was
sighted. Fortunately the material recovered was recovered in an absolutely
pristine state as the area had no monsoon season rainfall previous to my
discovery. I was able to very quickly zero in on the area with the help of
numerous phone calls and eyewitness reports which were all thoroughly
investigated with follow up visits. With GPS, compass and notepad in hand,
I put well over 300 miles on my vehicle in less than two days. The area
people were extremely excited about this event and more than willing
to offer whatever information they had about the sighting. I was born and
raised in this part of Arizona and my intimate knowledge of the country, the
terrain, the trails and back roads has proved invaluable in my search."

Photo of the meteorite: http://www.rocksfromspace.org/July_4_2009.html

Photos of search area: http://www.rocksfromspace.org/July_5_2009.html

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Meteorit talált el egy iskolába tartó diákot

[origo] oktatás

2009.07.03 14:33:53

... Egy kavics méretű meteorit landolt, és vájt apróbb krátert az utca betonjában – éppen a tizennégy évesk Gerritt Blank előtt, aki az iskolába igyekezett. „Először egy nagy fehér fénygömböt láttam, majd megfájdult a kezem, és a fény az utca betonjába csapódott” – mesélt az ifjú áldozat tapasztalatairól a Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitungnak. „Miután megláttam a fehér fényt, éreztem valamit a karomon.”...
http://oktatas.origo.hu/20090703/meteorit_talalt_el_egy_iskolaba_tarto_diakot

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Der Eisen-Meteorit von Steinheim

Augsburger Allgemeine - Augsburg,Bayern,Germany
Nördlingen/Steinheim (RN) - Er sei überzeugt, dass „die bisherige Geschichte über die Entstehung des Steinheimer Beckens in wesentlichen Teilen ...

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Military Seeks Common Ground with Scientists on Fireball Data Flap
By Leonard David
SPACE.com's Space Insider Columnist
posted: 03 July 2009
03:10 pm ET
... In an exclusive SPACE.com interview June 30, Rego he made it clear that there has been no change to the data-sharing policy. Air Force Space Command has recently reiterated its existing, published guidance on bolide data classification to ensure "consistent" public release of information across a specific suite of government agencies, he said. ... (more)
http://www.space.com/news/090703-military-fireballs-data.html

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How Earth Got its Oxygen

LiveScience.com - Michael Schirber -

... and comparing it to other carbonaceous-mineral associations known to be of non-biological origin, including minerals found in a Martian meteorite. ...

SPACE.com -- Uranium Found on the Moon

Uranium exists on the moon, according to new data from a Japanese spacecraft. ... moon, or even that Earth's satellite could serve as a mining source for uranium ...

Clues to origin of life revealed in Tagish Lake meteorite

CBC.ca - ‎

New research into a meteorite that crashed into northern British Columbia nine years ago is revealing startling clues that could help unravel the origins of ...

Man on the Moon: 40 years of myth and legend

Scene - ‎

We now know that the Moon is made of rocky material that has been variously melted, erupted through volcanoes, and crushed by meteorite impacts. ...

Comets Probably Seeded Earth's Nitrogen Atmosphere

Slashdot - ‎

One favored theory is that our water is the leftovers from a bombardment of comets early in Earth's history. But the ratio of hydrogen and deuterium in the ...

Study: Tunguska explosion caused by comet

Times of the Internet - ‎

But Cornell University researchers say findings from their study indicated the explosion was nearly certainly caused by a comet entering the Earth's ...

‎16 minutes ago‎

ツングースカ事件の原因は彗星爆発？

ナショナルジオグラフィック公式日本語サイト - ‎16 minutes ago‎

この大爆発の謎の解明に、現代のスペースシャトルがひと役買うかもしれない。ツングースカ事件と呼ばれるこの爆発の際には、シベリア辺境の森林が2000平方キロメートルにわたってなぎ倒された。当時は目撃者がほんの一握りしかおらず、隕石孔や天体の破片も残ってい ...

隕石中の花コウ岩の形成年代、約45億3000年前であることが判明

マイコミジャーナル - ‎Jun 19, 2009‎

広島大学大学院理学研究科の寺田健太郎准教授が、1949年にモンゴルに落下した普通隕石の中に含まれていた花コウ岩の形成年代が、約45億3000年前であることを突き止めたことを発表した。花コウ岩は、地球の大陸地殻を形成する岩石の1つで、古くから城の石垣や墓石にも使用 ...

上海植物園にある隕石は本物？

エクスプロア中国 - ‎Jun 22, 2009‎

上海植物園にある「隕石」。この隕石が本物の隕石であるかどうかが、最近話題になっている。植物園の資料によると、この隕石は1997年にある市民から寄贈されたもので、新疆エリアのものだ、といわれているが、その事実関係は明らかになっていない。

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Some atmospheric and magnetospheric effects possibly related to the Vitim bolide impact
E.A. Kasatkina and O.I. Shumilov
Institute of North Industrial Ecology Problems, Kola Science Centre RAS, 184209 Apatity,
Russia

Sensors aboard US Department of Defence satellites detected the impact of a bolide
on 24 September 2002 at 16:49 UT. The bolide had disappeared at an altitude of
30 km above the Vitim river, Siberia (58.21N, 113.46E). The total radiated energy
was 8.6x10ˆ11 Joules. An unusual infrasonic event with a 30-minute duration has
been detected by the Apatity infrasonic array at Kola Peninsula (67.3N, 33.3E) on
September 24, 2002 at 22:20 UT. The infrasonic signal had been detected by three
spatially separated microbarographs operating in the passband from 0.0001 to 1 Hertz
at a distance of 4000 km from the source. Estimates of the local infrasound velocity
and the direction of the signal arrival seem to be in agreement with the acoustic travel
velocity and the source azimuth. We cannot exclude that the Vitim bolide (or minicomet)
effects were as well appeared at some other atmospheric and magnetospheric
phenomena, e.g. in magnetic disturbances at high latitude stations, cosmic radionoise
absorption, variations of air conductivity. These effects are compared with some other
similar effects related to different bolides like Tunguska and Brasilian ones. A possible
nature of the effects is discussed.
The work was partially supported by Russian Foundation for Basic Research (grant N
05-06-97528) and also by RAS program "Electric processes and radiophysical methods
of investigations". http://www.cosis.net/abstracts/EGU05/00257/EGU05-J-00257.pdf

Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 7, 00257, 2005
SRef-ID: 1607-7962/gra/EGU05-A-00257
© European Geosciences Union 2005

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Soviet Academy of Science 1927 expedition led by Leonid Kulik
Tunguska 101th anniversary 30JUN09
Tomorrow, Tuesday June 30, 2009 marks the one-hundred-first anniversary of the Tunguska impact event in Russia of June 30, 1908. Wikipedia has a very good report on Tunguska:
... At around 7:17 a.m. local time, Tungus natives and Russian settlers in the hills northwest of Lake Baikal observed a column of bluish light, nearly as bright as the Sun, moving across the sky. About 10 minutes later, there was a flash and a sound similar to artillery fire. Eyewitnesses closer to the explosion reported the sound source moving east to north. The sounds were accompanied by a shock wave that knocked people off their feet and broke windows hundreds of miles away. The majority of eyewitnesses reported only the sounds and the tremors, and not the sighting of the explosion. Eyewitness accounts differ as to the sequence of events and their overall duration. ... (more)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event

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Vida y fosilización en el desierto antártico
Revista Abril de 2005

Vida y fosilización en el desierto antártico.

Carmen Ascaso, Centro de Ciencias Medioambientales, CSIC, y Jacek Wierzchos, Universitat de Lleida. Artículo publicado en la revista El Ecologista nº 43, primavera 2005

Los estudios llevadas a cabo por los autores en la Antártida están sirviendo para sentar las bases sobre las técnicas que permitan detectar formas y restos de vida en Marte o en los meteoritos. ...(more)

http://www.ecologistasenaccion.org/spip.php?article14728

Cập nhật lúc 09h36' ngày 28/06/2009

Tìm hiểu nguồn gốc trái đất qua nghiên cứu thiên thạch

Cập nhật lúc 09h36' ngày 28/06/2009

Một phần vật liệu cấu tạo nên trái đất là thiên thạch có nguồn gốc trong vũ trụ. Theo học giả Phipipp Heck đến từ Đại học Chicago và các đồng sự của mình, những thiên thạch đó trẻ hơn so với các dự đoán của các lý thuyết hiện hành. ...(more)
http://www.khoahoc.com.vn/khampha/kham-pha/24173_Tim_hieu_nguon_goc_trai_dat_qua_nghien_cuu_thien_thach.aspx

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SIKHOTE-ALIN

A shower of fireballs rained down on the forest of Sikhote-Alin Mountains on February 12, 1947 at around 10:30 am. Pieces were blasted in every direction. Some were even found embedded in trees.
MORE: www.sikhote-alin.org WWW.SPACEROCKSINC.COM

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Spider Crater, Western Australia

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Over the Kimberley Region of northern Western Australia, satellite sensors and airplane passengers alike can see a giant arachnid sprawling over the arid landscape. This spider’s not just big, it’s old. This prehistoric monster crawls out of the past as if to remind us of the destructive power of the cosmos.

The Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) on NASA’s Terra satellite captured this image of Spider Crater and its surroundings on August 11, 2000. In this false-color image, the arid landscape appears in varying shades of crimson. Water appears blue-black, namely in the meandering river near the bottom edge of the image. Vegetation appears in shades of red. While vegetation looks sparse throughout the area, the intense red dots along the river indicate fairly lush—if intermittent—vegetation lining the riverbanks.

Near the center of the image is the Spider, sunlight giving an oddly ghostlike appearance to the steep ridges that form its legs. Geologists long puzzled over what this structure was, but found an important clue in the 1970s. They found shatter cones—cone-shaped, grooved rocks known only to appear in craters left by meteor or asteroid impacts. Other clues to the structure’s origin appeared in the form of strongly deformed layers of sedimentary rock that showed evidence of extraterrestrial trauma.

Spider Crater rests in a depression some 13 by 11 kilometers (8 by 7 miles) across. Meteorite craters often have central areas of uplift, and Spider Crater fits this pattern, with a central dome roughly 500 meters (1,640 feet) in diameter. Radiating from this central dome are features unusual in impact craters in general, but important in giving this crater its nickname. Overlapping beds of tough sandstone that have weathered the elements far better than the surrounding rocks form the spider’s “legs.” So while Spider Crater sits in a depression and has a central uplift area characteristic of impact craters, it shows extreme differences in erosion, giving it a unique appearance.

The age of Spider Crater is uncertain, but its formation has been estimated to fall between 900 and 600 million years ago. If this age estimate is correct, the crater formed from an impact that occurred during the Neoproterozoic, a period of geologic history when, some geologists hypothesize, Earth underwent a series of global ice ages nicknamed “Snowball Earth.”

References
McHone, J.F., Roddy, D.J., Shoemaker, C.S., Williams, K.K., Klemaszewski, J.E. (2002). Spider impact structure, Western Australia imaged with Space Shuttle radar. Thirty-third Lunar and Planetary Science Conference.
Wikipedia. (2007, September 29). Spider Crater. Accessed March 27, 2008.

NASA image created by Jesse Allen, using data provided courtesy of NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team. Caption by Michon Scott.

Source: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=8607

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Brockton area libraries expect surge of patrons this summer during bad economy

... West Bridgewater, Massachusetts: Display of lunar rock and meteorite samples from NASA beginning July 13 in Library ...
http://www.enterprisenews.com/news/x1836449549/Brockton-area-libraries-expect-surge-of-patrons-this-summer-during-bad-economy

16 July 2009

15 July 2009

14 July 2009

U.S. Meteorite Hunters Go Bicoastal

12 July 2009

11 July 2009

10 July 2009

Elizabeth twins embark on wild meteor chase

Meteorit spadl do Ostravy, zničil stůl na pingpong. KDY DALŠÍ?

Astronomer and Slovenian Museum Clash over Meteorite Find

09 July 2009

Meteorite hunters looking for treasure in York County

Mason-Dixon meteor turns up on security cam

08 July 2009

Meteorite hunter says: Check security camera tapes

Meteor lights up Mid-Atlantic area's skies

Startled observers report brilliant flash, 'thunderous' sonic booms

Meteor explodes in sky over Baltimore

Police Investigate Reports Of A Meteor In Md.

'Fireball' May Have Been Caught On Security Camera

Large Boom, Flash Of Light Seen In Night Sky Likely A 'Fireball'

Deutscher findet Meteorit in Slowenien

07 July 2009

Better Know A Meteorite Collection: Natural History Museum in London, United Kingdom

Large Boom, Flash Of Light Seen In Night Sky Likely A 'Fireball'

A Mason-Dixon meteor?

06 July 2009

Most complete Earth map published

04 July 2009

Meteorit talált el egy iskolába tartó diákot

03 July 2009

02 July 2009

29 June 2009

28 June 2009

27 June 2009

Brockton area libraries expect surge of patrons this summer during bad economy