Meteor/Meteorite News- 5OCT09

Earth and Space school reaches community with meteorite dig

Web Devil
ASU's School of Earth and Space Exploration participated in the event by putting together a meteorite dig that used pieces of meteorite billions of years ...

Зонд Opportunity обнаружил на Марсе метеорит

Aviation EXplorer - Москва,Russia
5 октября 2009 г., Aviation Explorer – Американский марсоход Opportunity обнаружил на Марсе еще один крупный метеорит, сообщает Lenta.ru. ...

A dinoszaurusz pusztító meteor alig érintette az algákat?

Híradó - Budapest,Hungary
A korábbi vizsgálatok azt mutatták, hogy a mély óceánban az élet a meteorit becsapódás után évmilliókig nem tért magához. „A dán Fish Clayből származó ...

Opportunity обнаружил на Марсе метеорит

СЕГОДНЯ - Киев,Ukraine
Предположительный размер метеорита составляет около 47 сантиметров. Находка была сделана на 2022 день миссии Opportunity на Марсе. Новый метеорит получил ...

Star Gazer: Orange Mars ushers in month devoted to pumpkins NRToday.com The Orionids meteor shower will peak on the morning of Oct. 21. This year the moon won't interfere, and experts are forecasting a robust shower with perhaps ... See all stories on this topic

The mighty Planet King visible this month The Coloradoan Orionid meteor shower: It will peak the morning of Oct. 21. As their name suggests, the Orionid meteors appear to radiate from Orion's starry club at the ...

обнаружил на Марсе метеорит

Lenta.ru - Москва,Russia
Американский марсоход Opportunity обнаружил на Марсе еще один крупный метеорит. Об этом сообщается на официальном сайте миссии. Фотография находки в высоком ...

Opportunity Finds Another Big Meteorite

Universe Today
The Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has found a rock that apparently is another meteorite. Less than three weeks ago, Opportunity drove away from a ...

Jelle Zeilinga de Boer reflects on "how geology influenced ...

Connecticut Plus
And how Connecticut has a long history of welcoming unexpected guests from outer space-that is, meteorites that have crashed into homes, onto farmland and ...

Jak kamień w błoto

Gazeta.pl - Poland
XIX wieku doniesienia o obserwowanych upadkach meteorytów sąsiadowały z pisanymi ... Specjaliści zaliczają meteoryt białostocki do rodziny achondrytów ...

Ziemia bezbronna wobec groźnych asteroidów-hiszpański naukowiec

Gazeta Wyborcza - Warszawa,Poland
Są to komety, asteroidy i meteoryty, przed którymi Ziemia nie ma dziś żadnej ... W zeszłym roku na pustyni w Sudanie spadł meteoryt, ale na szczęście był ...

オポチュニティ、また隕石を発見、今年2回目

sorae.jp
アメリカ航空宇宙局（NASA）は10月2日、火星で探査活動を続けているマーズ・エクスプロレーション・ローバー（MER）のオポチュニティが、また新しい隕石を発見したと ...



Chris de Freitas: The high cost of being unprepared

New Zealand Herald
Australian geographer, Ted Bryant, reminds us of the role of meteorite impact with the ocean, when, on February 22, 1491, a meteorite strike caused tsunami ...

The 'War' the world heard

Kenosha News.com
... flaming object, believed to be a meteorite, fell on a farm in the neighborhood of Grovers Mill, New Jersey, 22 miles from Trenton. ...

SKY WATCH 3-Planet Monte, Meteors and the Mall

Washington Post
Thanks to a new moon, we get a dark sky and good viewing conditions for catching Orionid meteors that appear to emanate from the Orion constellation. ...

Opportunity Finds Another Big Meteorite
Universe Today Fri, 02 Oct 2009 20:48 PM PDT
It's amazing what a rover can find laying by the side of the road. The Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has found a rock that apparently is another meteorite. Less than three weeks ago, Opportunity drove away from a larger meteorite called "Block Island" that the rover examined for six weeks. Now, this new [...]

Meteor/Meteorite News- Moon Festival 4OCT09

Mochi Pounding - photo by Dirk Ross, Tokyo (c)2009

月兔- Moon rabbit

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_rabbit

The Moon rabbit, also called the Jade Rabbit, is a rabbit that lives on the moon in East Asian folklore. The legends about the moon rabbit are based on the traditional pareidolia that identifies the markings of the moon as a rabbit pounding in a mortar. In Chinese folklore, it is often portrayed as a companion of the moon goddess Chang'e, constantly pounding the elixir of life for her; but in Japanese and Korean versions it is just pounding mochi.

Folklore

In the Buddhist story "Śaśajâtaka", a monkey, an otter, a jackal, and a rabbit resolved to practice charity on the Uposatha, believing a demonstration of great virtue would earn a great reward.

When an old man begged for food, the monkey gathered fruits from the trees and the otter collected dead fish from the river bank, while the jackal wrongfully pilfered a lizard and a pot of milk-curd. The rabbit, who knew only how to gather grass, instead offered its own body, throwing itself into a fire the man had built. The rabbit, however, was not burnt. The old man revealed himself to be Śakra, and touched by the rabbit's virtue, drew the likeness of the rabbit on the moon for all to see. It is said the lunar image is still draped in the smoke that rose when the rabbit cast itself into the fire.

A version of this story can be found in the Japanese anthology Konjaku Monogatarishū, where the rabbit's companions are a fox and a monkey.

Interestingly, similar legends occur in Mexican folklore, where people also identified the markings on the moon as a rabbit. According to an Aztec legend, when the god Quetzalcoatl lived in Earth as a man, he started a journey. After walking for a long time, he became hungry and tired. With no food or water around, he thought he would die. Then, a rabbit grazing nearby offered himself as food to save his life. Quetzalcoatl, moved by the rabbit's noble offering, elevated the rabbit to the moon, then lowered him back to Earth, and told him, "You may be just a rabbit, but everyone will remember you; there is your image in light, for all men and for all times."

Another Mesoamerican legend tells of the brave and noble sacrifice of Nanahuatzin during the creation of the fifth sun. Humble Nanahuatzin sacrificed himself in fire to become the new sun, but the wealthy god Tecciztecatl hesitated four times before he finally set himself alight to become the moon. Due to Tecciztecatl's cowardice, the gods felt that the moon should not be as bright as the sun, so one of the gods threw a rabbit at his face to diminish his light. It is also said that Tecciztecatl was in the form of a rabbit when he sacrificed himself to become the moon, casting the shadow of a rabbit. ... (more)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_rabbit

Meteor/Meteorite News- 3OCT09

Another Mars meteorite, and more msnbc.com PLEASE READ: All comments must be approved before appearing in the thread; time and space constraints prevent all comments from appearing. ...

NASA Opportunity Finds Another Meteorite NASA nasa's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has found a rock that apparently is another meteorite, less than three weeks after driving away from a larger ... Eye on October skies Broomfield Enterprise On the morning of Oct. 21, the Orionid Meteor Shower will peak. With no moon to interfere with viewing these meteors, one can expect to see 30 meteors per ... Space Rocks Emporia Gazette When a meteorite crashes to the earth it will generally break up in the atmosphere, spreading its pieces over a certain area in what is known as a strewn ... STAR TRAK Indiana University The Orionid meteor shower will peak before the first light of dawn on Oct. 21. Moonlight will not interfere, so observers with a dark sky may see up to 30 ... Dinosaur-Killer was Soft on Algae Astrobiology Magazine As for the cause, geologic evidence incriminates a meteorite that landed off of the Yucatan peninsula – although some debate continues over just how lethal ...

Pacific Ocean Meteor 28SEP09 Update- 2OCT09

Images by YC Sentinel (c) 2009
Pacific Ocean "Bright as the Sun Meteor" -- Update
first reported by YC Sentinel on 28SEP09.

Calculations have been made by YCS on the estimated detonation over the Pacific Ocean of the small asteroid recorded on video on Sept. 28.

Video of the event: http://www.geocities.com/stange34@sbcglobal.net/v20090928_0226.mov
(let the video loop several times to see the whole flash)

Yuba City Sentinel--
"This event was at 0226:56 PDT in the Morning hours of Sept. 28th, 2009.

Fireball origin was about 6 degrees above horizon, and descended to about 2
degrees above my horizon. (Roughly estimated).

Initial azimuth was 311 degrees. Detonation occured at 314 degrees.
Follow-up burn out took 0.6 seconds and appeared to go to my horizon limits.

Peak light intensity exceeded Sandia Sentinels 30,000 pixel scaling limit."

"Using the rough elevation & azimuth data(West & 45 deg.) of the Oregon
observers Sept. 28th posting on AMS, and my accurate azimuth only,
disregarding my visual horizon estimate....it appears that the detonation
point is ~250 miles off
of the coast of lower Oregon and ~425 miles from Yuba City on a bearing of
314 degrees True North.

I believe the Oregon observer is likely near Medford(from my past memory),
and I have done a rough pictorial triangulation.

Given the great distance and the brightness from the two observation
points....Is it likely that this event is not a meteor, but rather a
small asteroid which detonated?

"Tungustita" of sorts....????

YCSentinel reported on MeteorObsList

http://www.geocities.com/stange34@sbcglobal.net/0928_Bolide

Meteor/Meteorite News- 2OCT09

Коллекционер подарил музею в Днепропетровскую коллекцию метеоритов

proUA.com - ‎2009年9月29

Один из немногих украинских коллекционеров метеоритов Александр Ковалев передал часть своей коллекции метеоритов геолого-минералогическому музею Национального горного университета в Днепропетровске. Свой подарок коллекционер приурочил к 110-летию университета и Году астрономии, передает Радио ...

The collector has presented a museum in the Dnepropetrovsk collection of meteorites
proUA.com -
One of few Ukrainian collectors of meteorites Alexander Kovalev has transferred a part of the collection of meteorites to a геолого-mineralogical museum of National mountain university in Dnepropetrovsk. The collector has dated the gift for the 110 anniversary of university and Year of astronomy, transfers Radio...
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What's in the skies?

Lake County News Chronicle
The Orionid meteor shower peaks at approximately 5 am on the 21st, with up to 30 meteors per hour visible from dark sites. Among the faster meteors, ...

Meteor/Meteorite News- 1OCT09

Controversy Erupts Over Supposed Meteorite That Fell in Argentina

Latin American Herald Tribune
However, astronomer Beatriz Garcia denied that it was space trash and said that it was a meteorite due to the “bluish-white color that it left in sight. ...
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Popular Science

Meet the Asteroid Hunters

Popular Science
Back in Sudan, the pebble-like meteorites formed by the explosion in the atmosphere had scattered miles over the desert, lost on the rocky plain. ...

Latest news and analysis from Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral

Florida Today
18; the peak of the Leonids meteor shower on Nov. 17; the peak of the Geminids around Dec. 13 or Dec. 14; and the Russian launch of new crewmates to the ...

Scientific American

Meteorite impacts turn up nearly pure water ice in Mars's mid ...

Scientific American
By John Matson Now a team of researchers has let meteorite impacts do the digging for them—a paper in this week's Science presents observations of fresh ...

Meteors, traffic jeopardize Atlantis launch

The News-Press
9:49 AM — CAPE CANAVERAL -- Two planned rocket launches, short shuttle launch windows, traffic congestion at the International Space Station and two meteor ...

The meteorological freak week of 1926

York County Coast Star
Professor Charles Hutchins of the physics department at Bowdoin College confirmed to the press that a meteor had exploded over the crook in the Androscoggin ...

Argentina Meteor/Meteorite News- Mendoza Meteor 27SEP09 29SEP09

Sitios especializados recogen la caída del meteorito en Mendoza
Mundo

29 de Septiembre de 2009 07:43

por Medios

Se trata de los sitios Airlines y Lunarmeteoritehunters, donde en idioma inglés levantaron la novedad que hoy sorprendió al país luego de que cayera sobre el cielo de Mendoza y La Pampa un meteorito que se desintegró antes de tocar tierra. Medios internacionales también recogieron la noticia. Aquí los detalles. ... [more]
http://www.mdzol.com/mdz/nota/162744-Sitios-especializados-recogen-la-ca%C3%ADda-del-meteorito-en-Mendoza/

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Por Medios	"El fenómeno fue visto por un piloto (de la Fuerza Aérea de La Pampa) y dio aviso. La información que nos dieron es que se trata de eso", confiaron fuentes policiales de esa provincia. Mirá las fotos. ...

Un meteorito cayó en General Alvear
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Confirmado: el fenómeno de Alvear fue un meteorito y se desintegró en el cielo Por Rodrigo Nuñez La astrónoma del Observatorio Pierre Auger, Beatriz García, confirmó a MDZ que se trató de un objeto bastante particular porque fue visto por muchas personas en varios lugares y además tuvo una impactante imagen visual. ...

Siguen las repercusiones por la caída de un meteorito cerca de General Alvear

Primer video del meteorito que se vio en el cielo del sur de la provincia
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Confirmado: el fenómeno de Alvear fue un meteorito y se desintegró en el cielo

Argentina Meteor/Meteorite News- Videos of 27SEP09 Meteor Smoke Trail 30SEP09

Meteor/Meteorite News- 30SEP09

Shock and surprise as space object falls

Momento 24-Argentina Fireball
Yesterday afternoon, near 19, the inhabitants of Mendoza, La Pampa, San Luis, and Cordoba saw a meteorite coming down the sky. It finally desintegrated with ...
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Astronomers say bright light in sky likely a meteor

St. Catharines Standard-Ontario Fireball
Wing and her daughter weren't the only ones to see what astronomers are saying was likely a meteor streaming through the air. The unexpected celestial event ...

Suspected meteor lit up the night

Niagara Falls Review-Ontario Fireball
Then I realized it was a meteor, and quickly corrected myself, telling my daughter, 'No - it's actually a shooting star.' She was most impressed with the ...

Your October's Sky — By Ear and Eye!

Sky & Telescope
To get a personally guided tour of these sights and others, like this year's better-than-average showing of the orionid meteor shower, download this month's ...


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Water Ice: Not Just for Earthlings Any More

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In fact, it seems that every time a meteorite strikes the surface of Mars, a layer of water ice forms on the surface. This discovery came about when ...

India Meteorite News- Orissa Revisited 29SEP09

Meteorite strikes Indian village

CNN http://edition.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/asiapcf/south/09/28/india.meteorite/

Sunday, September 28, 2003 Posted: 1108 GMT ( 7:08 PM HKT)

BHUBANESWAR, India -- Two people have been injured and several homes badly damaged by a suspected meteorite crashing into a village in eastern India, reports said Sunday.

The fiery object crashed to earth shortly after sunset Saturday in the coastal state of Orissa, the Press Trust of India reported.

Witnesses reported a bright fireball briefly lighting up the night sky and causing panic among local residents, the PTI report said.

Reports from several districts described an ear spitting noise that shattered several windows as the object sped overhead.

At least one part of the fireball came down in a village in Mayurbhanj district, setting several homes alight and lightly injuring at least two people.

The report said other parts of the suspected meteorite may have crashed into another village, also setting at least one thatched house ablaze.

Officials in the area have been asked to collect any remaining samples of the object for scientific analysis.

The PTI quoted local meteorological and space experts as saying the object was most likely a meteor.

Hundreds of small objects strike the Earth's atmosphere every day, creating what are commonly known as shooting stars or, more properly, meteors.

However, all but a few burn up or explode well before they hit the ground as a result of the friction caused by entering the Earth's atmosphere at speeds in excess of 10,000 kilometers an hour.

Those few rocks that do survive the fiery journey are known as meteorites.

Last Updated: Sunday, 28 September, 2003, 17:39 GMT 18:39 UK



BBC
Meteorite wrecks houses in India



At least 20 people are reported to have been injured after a meteorite crashed to Earth in eastern India.

Reports say hundreds of people in the state of Orissa panicked when the fireball streamed across the sky.

Burning fragments were said to have fallen over a wide area, destroying several houses.

An official in Orissa said the authorities were assessing the damage and trying to recover what was left of the meteor.

Reports from Kendrapara district in Orissa, where the meteor came to Earth, said windows rattled as it passed overhead.

"It was all there for just a few seconds but it was like daylight everywhere," one resident said.

Rarity

Experts estimate about 100 tons of extraterrestrial dust grains fall to earth each day.

Occasionally, a dark pebble or fist-size object will rain down, with boulder-sized objects or bigger being a historical rarity.

The only recorded fatality from a meteor was an Egyptian dog that had the bad luck to be in the wrong place at the wrong time in 1911.

Seven decades later, scientists recognised the dog had been struck by a meteorite from Mars.

Kendrapara, formerly also known as Orissa.

An H4-5.

Bolide News- Fireball as "Bright as the Sun" Seen 29SEP09

"Pacific" Fireball as "Bright as the Sun" Seen
Distant event on horizon occured at 0226 hrs., the morning of Sept. 28,
2009.

Will marshal the Sentinel facts & measures and post composite with movie.
Could be over the Pacific Ocean off the North Coast of California at the
maximum range of this station.
(No evidence that this Bolide had spin or rotation too....)

Update pending.
Source and report: YCSentinel

Meteor/Meteorite News- 29SEP09

New York Times

The Red Planet May Be Better Known as the Wet One

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... looked like buckshot and powder burns on the surface of the planet, the scars left by a meteorite that struck sometime in the first half of last year. ...

Astronomer to Pope speaks tonight in Nashville

The Tennessean
An author as well as scholar and researcher, he is the curator of the Vatican meteorite collection. He studies the nature and evolution of small bodies in ...

From the International Herald Tribune

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Realizing that it was a fireball, the pilot, Archie Anderson, swerved the plane just in time to avoid a collision as a meteor plunged to earth in a trail of ...

Creen que cayó un meteorito en Mendoza

La Gaceta Tucumán - Tucumán,Argentina
Las autoridades de Mendoza y de La Pampa aún no brindaron información oficial, pero se especula con el ingreso a la atmósfera de un meteorito o de "basura ...

Large ball of white falls from sky, seen in Ottawa and Toronto areas

Sault Star
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He says he saw meteor land Toronto Sun By DON PEAT, SUN MEDIA While he can't find any sign of it now, Whitby resident Allen Plourde is convinced he saw Friday night's meteor hit near a high ... See all stories on this topic

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Student Life

In pursuit of life, Mars rovers continue search for water

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Students learn about NASA's training in Arizona

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十大天降异物：3.6公斤陨石袭击美国女子

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Argentina Meteor/Meteorite News- Large Meteor Witnessed; Meteorites? 27SEP09 28SEP09

Argentina meteor 27SEP09 photo by Pablo Cagnaso

Creen que cayó un meteorito en General Alvear

Creen que cayó un meteorito en General Alvear

Los Andes (Argentina) - Mendoza,Argentina
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Siguen las repercusiones por la caída de un meteorito

MDZol - Mendoza,Argentina
Una singular marca en el cielo, producto supuestamente de la caída de un meteorito, pudo verse durante el atardecer de ayer -apenas pasadas las 19 - dentro ...

Un meteorito cayó en General Alvear

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Cayó un meteorito en General Alvear y provocó preocupación

JornadaOnline - Mendoza,Argentina
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Cayó un meteorito en Mendoza

Diario Panorama - Santiago del Estero,Argentina
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Yesterday, 19:22hs local time a fireball with explosion and Earth shake
was seen and felt betweeen Mendoza and La Pampa provinces in Argentina.

Please remember the Argentine law about meteorite falls. NO EXPORT IS
ALLOWED. If anywone want to came and search for it is OK but you can't
take the meteorites out of Argentina.

Some news (in spanish sorry):
http://www.mdzol.com/mdz/nota/162536-Un-meteorito-cay%C3%B3-en-General-

Alvear/

http://radio1alvear.com/

http://www.diariotextual.com/index.php

?
option=com_content&view=article&id=2779

http://www.mediamza.com/nota/index/id/8850

http://www.laarena.com.ar/la_ciudad-%C2%BFmeteorito_o_basura_espacial_-

39284-115.html

Eduardo

P.S. 25 years without falls in Argentina and just after the new law 3
falls in less than two years. That's not fair :-(
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Canada Meteor/Meteorite News- Brilliant Ontario Meteor 26SEP09 27SEP09

CTV.ca

Space visitor descends over southern Ontario

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"...“I saw something shoot across the sky. It was the size of a baseball,” said Armenti. It exploded in about six or seven pieces, but I didn’t hear any noise. It blew apart and then it just disappeared.”..."

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"..."It was far, far brighter than a full moon, and then disintegrated
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Meteor/Meteorite News- 27SEP09

Antarctic meteorites offer insights into history of early solar system

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Celestial landscape changes as winter hexagon rises

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Esta semana la NASA reveló que en Marte y la Luna existe agua 99% pura

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Video shows Earthâs place in galaxy
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Christian Life Academy students on Friday sat in a portable planetarium where they watched images depicting a meteorite crashing into the ground and destroying dinosaurs 65 million years ago.

Sudbury: a geological wonder

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美发现陨石撞击火星露出表层水冰(图)

新浪网 - Beijing,China
HiRISE相机在2008年11月1日拍到的这张照片显示的是一个新的直径8米的陨坑，它形成的时间在2008年1月26日前后，这次撞击让火星表面下的水冰露了出来。 ...

Meteor/Meteorite News- Moon Water Map Image 26SEP09

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Water Detected at High Latitudes on the Moon

NASA's Moon Mineralogy Mapper, an instrument on the Indian Space Research Organization's Chandrayaan-1 mission, took this image of Earth's moon. It is a three-color composite of reflected near-infrared radiation from the sun, and illustrates the extent to which different materials are mapped across the side of the moon that faces Earth.

Small amounts of water were detected on the surface of the moon at various locations. This image illustrates their distribution at high latitudes toward the poles.

Blue shows the signature of water, green shows the brightness of the surface as measured by reflected infrared radiation from the sun and red shows an iron-bearing mineral called pyroxene.

- Photo and Text by NASA

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http://tn.nova.cz/zpravy/regionalni/narodni-muzeum-stehovalo-obri-unikat-tunovy-meteorit.html

Tonne Muonionalusta meteorite (Video link and English translation below)

Národní muzeum stěhovalo obří meteorit

Národní muzeum stěhovalo obří unikát. TUNOVÝ METEORIT

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India Meteor/Meteorite News- India Finds Lunar Water 25SEP09

India hails Moon mission 'find'

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India's inaugural Moon mission has been hailed as a "grand success" by the head of India's space agency, after helping find evidence of water on the Moon.

Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) chief G Madhavan Nair said a spacecraft probe found more water on the Moon "than was expected."...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8274159.stm

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