23 November 2009

India ल्का-पिंड Meteor/Meteorite News- Week++ of 23NOV09

उल्काओं की होगी आतिशबाजी

प्रभात खबर - ‎2009年11月15日‎
पूर्णप्रज्ञा कॉलेज के एमेच्योर एस्टोनामर क्लब (पीएएसी) के संयोजक डॉ एपी भट्ट ने बताया कि यूं तो उल्का पिंड कभी भी और कहीं भी आसमान में दिखायी दे जाते हैं, लेकिन इस प्रकार की उल्का वृष्टि साल में एक निश्चित समय और निश्चित जगह पर ही दिखायी देती है. लियोनिड मिटियर के बारे में उन्होंने कहा कि यह नजारा हर साल 17 नवंबर को दिखायी देता है. डॉ भट्ट ने इस घटना का कारण बताते हुए कहा कि धूमकेतु टैंपल टट्टल द्वारा पीछे छोड़े गये मलबे के ...
Good news will be the meteor fireworks - 2009年11月15日
Stonamr पूर्णप्रज्ञा College Amateur Club (Piasi) convener said Dr. AP Bhatt
While anytime and anywhere meteorite nodules can see is sky, but this Type in a certain time of year, meteor showers and certainly does look the same place. He said the sight of Mitiar Lionid About appear every year on November 17. Dr. Bhatt said the incident points out the reason that comets Debris left behind by Tanpl Tttl ...

पृथ्वी पर जीवन को कोई खतरा नहीं

याहू! भारत - ‎2009年11月13日‎
नासा ने कहा है कि उल्कापिंड 'प्लैनेट एक्स' के दिसंबर 2012 में पृथ्वी से टकराने की कोई संभावना नहीं है। नासा ने इसकी तुलना करीब एक दशक पहले खूब चर्चा में रही 'वाई2के' [वर्ष 2000] से जुड़ी आशंकाओं से की है। तब कहा जा रहा था कि वर्ष 2000 में दुनिया खत्म हो जाएगी। नासा के एक वरिष्ठ वैज्ञानिक डान एओमान्स ने कहा, 'हाल के दिनों में कैलेंडर वर्ष 2012 की समाप्ति के बाद खगोलीय पिंडो, उनकी स्थिति और दिशा के बारे में जानने में लोगों में काफी रुचि ...
No threat to life on Earth
Yahoo! India - 2009年11月13日Ulkapind
NASA has said that "Planet X" December is no chance of hitting Earth by 2012. Compare this to NASA about a decade ago was much discussion "of Y 2 '[year 2000] is associated with concerns. Then being told that the world will fall in 2000. A NASA scientist Dan Vrish Aomans said, "In recent days after the end of calendar year 2012 Pindo astronomical, About their position and direction of people interested in knowing ...

चांद पर स्थायी बेस के और करीब

नवभारत टाइम्स - ‎2009年11月14日‎
दूसरी थिअरी के मुताबिक, मुमकिन है कि जब कोई धूमकेतु या उल्कापिंड चांद से टकराया होगा तो उससे भाप पैदा हुई होगी। अब तक नहीं थी जानकारी : वैज्ञानिक लंबे समय से मानते रहे हैं कि चांद पर पानी है पर इसे साबित करने का उनके पास कोई जरिया नहीं था। चांद के आसपास घूमने वाले स्पेसक्राफ्ट को चांद की सतह पर हाइड्रोजन के सबूत तो मिले थे पर वे काफी कम थे। सितंबर महीने में इसरो के मिशन चंदयान-1 के तहत पहली बार ऐलान किया गया कि चांद पर पानी ...
Permanent Moon base and nearly
Navbharat Times - 2009年11月14日Thiari
It is possible that when a comet collides with the moon or Ulkapind then steam it must have been born. Was not yet information: Scientists have long believed that water on the moon to prove it, but he was not a source. Revolving around the moon with the moon on the surface of hydrogen Speskraft met on evidence enough Were low. ISRO's mission under Chandayan month -1 in September for the first time declared that the water on the moon ...

कोलकाता में 17-18 को उल्का पिंडों की बौछार!

हिन्दुस्तान दैनिक - ‎2009年11月12日‎
कोलकाता के आसमान में 17 नवंबर और इसके बाद की रात में आसमान रोशनी से चमचमाता हुआ दिखेगा जब लीयोनिड उल्का पिंड की प्रकाशीय बौछार होगी। एमपी बिड़ला तारामंडल के निदेशक देवीप्रसाद द्वारी ने बताया कि समय समय पर घटित होने वाली लीयोनिड उल्का पिंड की बौछार 17 नवंबर की रात और 18 नवंबर की सुबह लगभग तीन बजे चरम पर होगी। उन्होंने कहा कि हर साल 16 और 17 नवंबर के आसपास धरती पी-55 टेंपल टटल धमूकेतु के मलबे से होकर गुजरती है, इसलिए कोई भी उल्का ...
The meteor shower of objects in the 17-18 Calcutta!

India Daily - 2009年11月12日
Calcutta skies later in the night sky to 17 November and it was lights Cmcmata of mass optical meteor shower will be when Liyonid. MP Birla Planetarium director said that periodically occur Deviprasad Dwari the mass of the meteor shower Liyonid night of November 17 about three o'clock in the morning and 18 November will be at the peak. He said that every year around November 16 and 17 Earth Temple Ttl P -55 Passes through the debris Dmuketu, so no meteor ...

सृष्टि यज्ञ से पृथ्वी पर आए थे डायनासोर!

दैनिक भास्कर - ‎2009年11月20日‎
हालांकि वैज्ञानिक इनके खात्मे को आकाश में उल्का पिंड से मानते हैँ लेकिन पौराणिक कथाओं और वेदों में इनका अंत शिव के अग्निबाण से बताया गया है। अब एक ओर यदि हम रामायण, महाभारत और श्रीमदभागवतगीता को मान सकते हैं तो पुराणों को भी झुठला नहीं सकते। इस लिहाज से धरा पर विशालकाय जीव-जंतुओं का आगाज सृष्टि यज्ञ से ही हुआ है। प्राचीन पांडुलिपियों व भारतीय पुराणों पर आधारित शोध से कौलांतक पीठ ने खुलासा किया है कि हिमाचल में भी ...
Dinosaurs on earth came the creation of sacrifice!
Dainik Bhaskar - 2009年11月20日
Though scientists believe their end of the sky objects in the meteorite, but mythology and हैँ Vedas Shiva in the end they have been told by tornado. On one hand, if we now Ramayana, Mahabharata and the Puranas also Srimdbagwatgeeta can accept can not deny. In this sense the giant creatures on earth - from sacrificial animals is the creation of the debut. Ancient Indian mythology, based on manuscripts and research has revealed that Kaulantk P in Himachal ...

आज रात दिखेगी उल्का पिंडों की बौछार

खास खबर - ‎2009年11月8日‎
नई दिल्ली। सोमवार की रात आसमान में वृषभ (टारिड्स) उल्का पिंडों की बौछार दिखाई देगी। सांइस पापुलराइजेशन एसोसिएशन आफ कप्युनिकेटर्स एंड एजुकेटर्स (स्पेस) के अध्यक्ष चंद्रभूषण देवनगन ने बताया, "अंतरिक्ष प्रेमी भालानुमा टारिड्स को सोमवार की रात उसे समय देख सकेंगे जब उल्का पिंडो की बौछार चरम पर होगी जो एंके धूमकेतु से संबंधित है। उन्होंने कहा, "टारिड्स हर साल होने वाली उल्का पिंड बौछार है। ये आसमान में 27 किलोमीटर प्रति घंटे ...
Objects appear tonight meteor shower special report
- 2009年11月8日
New Delhi. Taurus in the sky Monday night (Tarids) meteor shower of objects will appear. Educators Association and Kpyuniketrs Papulraijeshn Sanis off (Space) Chandrabhusn Devngn president said, "Monday night at Space Tarids Balanuma lover will see her time at the peak will be when the meteor shower Pindo Anke related to comets. He said," Tarids Every year Meteor shower is going to mass. This 27 kilometers per hour in the sky ...

इंडोनेशिया के ऊपर फटा धूमकेतु

Pressnote.in - ‎2009年10月29日‎
अंतरिक्ष से गिरे इस विशाल उल्का पिंड के कारण पृथ्वी की सुरक्षा खतरे में पड़ने से बाल-बाल बच गई। नासा की एक हालिया रिपोर्ट में बताय ¤ गया है कि इस माह के आरंभ में पांच से 10 मीटर व्यास वाला एक धूमकेतु इंडोनेशिया के दक्षिण सुलावेसी के ऊपर वायुमंडल में फटा और उसने करीब 50 हजार टन टीएनटी की ऊर्जा छोड़ी। यह विस्फोट हीरोशिमा पर गिराए गए अमेरिकी परमाणु बम की तुलना में तिगुना शक्तिशाली था। नासा ने कहा कि यह अब तक के देखे गए धूमकेतु ...
Indonesia comet exploded above
Pressnote.in - 2009年10月29日
Fell from space objects because of the large meteorite in Earth's security risk from falling hair - hair was saved. A recent NASA report that this month ¤ Btay five to 10 meters in diameter at the start of Indonesia's South Sulawesi on a comet exploded in the atmosphere and energy he left nearly 50 thousand tonnes of TNT. The U.S. atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima blast than threefold was powerful. NASA Said it still viewed the comet ...

विज्ञान की 10 असाधारण सफलताएं

हिन्दुस्तान दैनिक - ‎2009年11月1日‎
1974 में भौतिकविद् अर्नस्ट क्लाडनी ने वाइब्रेशन और अकॉस्टिक पर अपनी एक किताब का प्रकाशन किया जिसमें ये कहा गया था कि उल्का पिंड बाहरी स्पेस से आते हैं। क्लाडिनी की किताब 'ऑन द ओरिजिन ऑफ पलास आयरन एंड अदर्स सिमिलर टू इट, एंड ऑन सम एसोसिएटड नेचुरल फिनोमिना' का उस दौरान उपहास उड़ाया गया। 1803 में उनकी बात न्यायोचित ठहरी, जब जीन बेपीसाइट ने फ्रांस के लांस एंजिल्स में कुछ गिरते हुए पत्थरों का विश्लेषण किया और कहा कि यह आकाश से ...
10 extraordinary success of science daily
Hindustan - 2009年11月1日
1974 by the physicist Ernst Cladni publication of a book on Acostik Waibreshn and in which it was stated that the meteorite objects come from the external space. Cladini's book 'On the Origin of Iron and Plas Adrs Similler Tu It, and even on Sosiattd Natural Finomina "During that's been ridiculed. Fair to him staying in 1803, when the gene Bepisait Lance in France analyzed Angeles and said some stones falling from the sky that ...

Chinese Meteor/Meteorite News- Prior 23NOV09

太空探索/美國猶他州隕石墜落 黑夜變白晝

NOWnews - ‎2009年11月18日‎
這兩天壯觀的獅子座流星雨登場,在美國猶他州就有一顆巨大的隕石從天而降,瞬間把黑夜變成了白晝。 這顆隕石掉落的時間,約是當地時間19日凌晨剛過午夜,從監視畫面上可以看到,猶他州的夜空一瞬間亮得宛如白晝。 天文學家表示,這顆隕石的大小像是一個烤箱,它在160公里 ...
Space Exploration / night change Utah meteorite fall day
NOWnews - 2009 Nian 11 Yue 18 date by two days of spectacular Leonid meteor shower the stage, in the United States, Utah, there is a huge meteorite fell from the sky, and instantly the night into day. Meteorite fall time is about midnight local time on the 19th just after midnight, from the monitor screen can see the sky, Utah, the moment was like a bright day. Astronomers said that like a meteorite the size of the oven, it is 160 km ...

美國下月將發射太空望遠鏡 觀測更遙遠的天體

中國經濟網 - ‎2009年11月18日‎
據新加坡《聯合早報》19日報道,美國這臺稱為“廣域紅外線觀測探險家”(WISE)的望遠鏡,料將揭露太陽系中此前未知的數以萬計的“近地天體”——晦暗隕石和彗星以及遙遠天空的無數星辰和星系。 將由德爾塔2型火箭運送到環球軌道的這臺望遠鏡,訂星期五拖往加州范登堡空軍基地的 ...
United States Space Telescope will be launched next month, more distant objects Christian Science Monitor - November 18, 2009,

According to Singapore's "Lianhe Zaobao," 19 NOV reported that the United States that Taiwan is called "Wide-area infrared observations explorer" (WISE ) telescope, the solar system is expected to reveal previously unknown tens of thousands of "near-Earth objects" - dark and gloomy sky, meteorites and comets, as well as the countless distant stars and galaxies. Delta 2 rocket will be transported to the global orbit telescope set hauled Friday from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California ...

俄首位非共黨籍太空人逝世 享年83歲

雅虎香港 - ‎2 時間前‎
俄羅斯聯邦太空總署表示,那一次的任務讓費奧蒂斯托夫成為「第一位可以在實際情況下測試作品的太空船設計師」。 他一直擔任太空船設計師到1990年為止,參與過的計畫包括「聯合號」(Soyuz)火箭及「和平號」(Mir)太空站。 俄羅斯聯邦太空總署指出,月球上有一個隕石坑以 ...
Russian astronauts on the first non-communist party who died at the age of 83
Yahoo Hong Kong - 2 hours ago The Russian Federal Space Agency said that it was a task so that Feiao Di Kostov become "the first one can be tested under actual conditions of works spacecraft designers. " He has served as spacecraft designers to 1990, participated in the plan include the "United" (Soyuz) rockets and the "Mir" (Mir) space station. The Russian Federal Space Agency said there is a crater on the moon in order to ...

鑽冰採隕_研究百萬年氣候變遷

中時電子報 - ‎2009年11月21日‎
大陸極地考察船「雪龍」號目前在南極進行第廿六次考察任務,這次行動除執行既定的科研項目,還將首次在南極內陸海拔最高的冰穹A地區鑽探冰芯,並在南極內陸格羅夫山區採集隕石,這兩項行動將為中國對重建地球的歷史演化、預測全球氣候和環境變化,以及對中國深空探測計畫 ...
Yun-_ ice drilling mining research for millions of years of climate change
International Herald Tribune - November 21, 2009
Continental polar research ship "Snow Dragon", is currently in the Antarctic for the first Nianliu second tour of duty, this action except to the established research project, will be the first time, the highest elevation in the Antarctic inland ice Dome A ice core drilling in the region and the Grove Mountains in Antarctica collecting meteorites inland, these two actions will provide China the reconstruction of the history of the Earth's evolution, predicting global climate and environmental change, as well as China's deep space exploration program ...

火星奇幻地貌:塵暴肆虐形成交錯紋理(組圖)(6)

臺灣新浪網 - ‎2009年11月19日‎
位於『里奇』(Ritchey)大隕石坑底部的一個小隕石坑,小隕石坑被噴射物所包圍,裡面滿是沙子。 塔爾西斯山群(Tharsis Montes)附近看上去很模糊的地貌。乍看上去,你或許以為此圖的某些部分焦點沒對准。但是,正如我們看到的像隕石坑那樣更加清晰的地形,圖像模糊不是 ...
Mars fantasy landscape: the formation of dust storms raging interlaced texture (Photos) (6)
Sydney Morning Herald - November 19, 2009 at
Ritchie (Ritchey) large crater at the bottom of a small craters, small craters have been surrounded by ejecta, which is full of sand. Tarsis Hills (Tharsis Montes) looks very fuzzy around the landscape. At first glance, you might to focus on certain parts of this plan did not align. But, as we have seen more clearly as the image of crater topography, the image blurring is not ...

美國太空總署撞擊月球 發現大量的水

eTaiwan News - ‎2009年11月19日‎
「月球隕石坑觀察與感衛星」太空總署的「月球隕石坑觀察與感測衛星」(LCROSS),上個月撞入月球南極附近一個永久陰暗的隕石坑,探測下面是否埋藏了冰。 The mission actually involved two moon shots. First, an empty rocket hull slammed into the Cabeus crater. ...
NASA found a large quantity of water hit the moon
eTaiwan News - 2009 Nian 11 Yue 19 day
"Lunar crater observation and a sense of satellites," NASA's "lunar crater observation and sensing satellite" (LCROSS), the last near the lunar south pole on crashed into a permanent dark crater, detecting whether or buried below the ice. The mission actually involved two moon shots. First, an empty rocket hull slammed into the Cabeus crater. ...

四川現冰川遺跡是謊言?

商業電台 - ‎2009年11月18日‎
【商台互動中國組】拉脫維亞隕石坑是偽造,是宣傳噱頭;四川冰川遺跡也是假的,是發現者的猜想,是部份地方官員受利益驅使捏造的? 早前曾報導《四川發現百萬年前冰川遺跡》一事,「地貌罕見」、「國內首次發現」等字眼振奮人心。然而四川地質及冰川專家發布宣言,表示 ...
Are glacial relics in Sichuan is a lie?

Commercial Radio - November 18, 2009
China Commercial Radio Interactive
Latvia crater was forged, is publicity gimmick; Sichuan glacial relics are false, the discoverer of the conjecture is that some local officials motivated by profit and fabrication it? Had earlier reported that the "Sichuan glacial relics found in millions of years ago," had "a rare landscape," "the first time found that" the words inspiring. However, geological and glacial experts in Sichuan Province issued a declaration that ...

兩岸科學家聯手挺進南極 郭富雯台灣第一人

NOWnews - ‎2009年11月20日‎
到南極探勘20多次的中國考察團「雪龍號」,今年將組成最龐大的科學隊伍,挺進南極鑽冰芯、採隕石,而船上也首度加入來自台灣的神秘嘉賓郭富雯。 今年4月,雪龍號首度造訪高雄港,從此開啟了兩岸南極合作契機。來自屏東海生館的研究員郭富雯,成為挺進南極的第一位台灣人, ...
Antarctic scientists advance the two sides together
GUO Fu-wen, Taiwan's first people NOWnews - 2009 Nian 11 Yue 20
Antarctic exploration mission in China 20 times, "Snow Dragon" and this will form the largest scientific community, advance the Antarctic ice core drilling, mining meteorites, while the ship is also the first time to join the mystery guests from Taiwan, GUO Fu-wen. In April of this year, Snow Dragon's first visit to Kaohsiung, from opening an opportunity to cross-strait cooperation in Antarctica. NMMBA from GUO Fu-wen, a researcher, becoming the first South Pole advance Taiwanese, ...

Japanese Meteor/Meteorite News- Week Prior+ 23NOV09

9年ぶり隕石採集へ=南極地域観測隊

時事通信 - ‎2009年11月21日‎
南極大陸で9年ぶりに隕石(いんせき)採集を行う小島秀康国立極地研究所教授と前回調査時に採集した火星からの隕石。小島教授は「隕石保有数の世界一を取り戻したい」と意気込む(19日、東京都立川市の同研究所) 【時事通信社】
9 years to collect meteorites in Antarctica expedition
Newsletter
2009 - November 21
Iin Antarctica 9 years meteorite (meteorite) were collected during the previous survey and Professor, Institute of Polar Research to collect Kozima Hideyasu meteorite from Mars. Professor Kojima is "regain possession of the world of meteorites," he said (July 19, Tachikawa City, Tokyo institute) [Jiji]

東京ミネラルショー「ペア招待券+アンモナイトの化石」を3人に

日刊ゲンダイ - ‎2009年11月18日‎
鉱物・化石・隕石・宝石が集う日本最大の展示即売会「東京ミネラルショー~地球の芸術たち。~」が12月11~14日に池袋サンシャインシティ文化会館で開催。目玉は、モロッコで発掘された世界最大級の変形アンモナイトの群集化石4点の特別展示。 ...
Tokyo mineral shows "pair + invitation ammonite fossil," the Nikkan Gendai three people - 2009 November 18
Gem mineral fossil meteorite exhibition and sale of Japan's largest gathering of "Art of the Earth - Tokyo Mineral Show us. ~ "held on December 11 to 14 days at Ikebukuro Sunshine City Bunka Kaikan. Highlights the deformed ammonite fossil assemblage of the world's largest exhibition presents four points unearthed in Morocco. ...

南極で9年ぶり隕石採集へ=「保有数、再び世界一を」-水星、金星ものに期待

時事通信 - ‎2009年11月20日‎
24日に成田空港から出発する第51次南極地域観測隊では、国立極地研究所の小島秀康教授(58)ら7人が9年ぶりに隕石(いんせき)採集を行う。日本は約1万6200個の隕石を保有し、かつては世界一を誇ったが、米国が約1万7300個に達し、抜かれてしまった。 ...
Nine years to collect meteorites in Antarctica = "Number of holdings, the world again" - Mercury, Venus are expected Newsletter - November 20, 2009
24 days of departure from Narita Airport Station Antarctica 51 Next The Corps, a professor of the Institute of Polar Research Kozima Hideyasu (58) were seven to nine years meteorite (meteorite) to collect. Japan owns about 16.2 thousand pieces meteorite once boasted the world about the United States reached 17.3 thousand pieces, but was overtaken. ...

[どうして南極で観測をするの?]

秋田魁新報 - ‎2009年11月21日‎
オーロラなど宇宙に関すること、気象や空気、水に関すること、宇宙から落ちてきた隕石や地質など地球に関すること、植物や動物など生物に関することです。日本には南極に昭和、みずほ、あすか、ドームふじの四つの基地があります。今は主に昭和、ドームふじで活動してい ...
[The observations in the Antarctic to why? ]
Akita Sakigake Shimpo - 2009 November 21, about the universe that Sun and the Aurora, weather and air, that of water, such as that on Earth meteorite fell from space and geology, and biology is that for plants and animals. Antarctic Showa in Japan, Mizuho, Asuka, there are four of the Dome Fuji Station. Showa now mainly active in the Dome Fuji they ...

Meteor/Meteorite News- 23NOV09

Meteorite lights up Gauteng sky

Times LIVE
Amazed Johannesburg and Pretoria residents could hardly believe their eyes when a "five-second lightning flash", thought to be a meteorite, lit up the night ...

Encounters with the Unexpected

Jamaica Observer
I spent an afternoon hiking around the Lonar Crater where a meteorite weighing two million tonnes and travelling at 90000 kilometres per hour crashed into ...

22 November 2009

Meteor/Meteorite News- Gauteng, South Africa 21NOV09 Meteor 22NOV09

Meteor lights up Gauteng

Times LIVE
It was a meteor which lit up the skies over Johannesburg and Pretoria on Saturday night, an astronomer has confirmed. The Leonid meteor shower in Thailand ...


Meteor believed to be spotted in Gauteng

Primedia Broadcasting - Eyewitness News
Johannesburg and Pretoria residents have come forward, claiming they spotted a meteor in the skies on Saturday night. People in Gauteng saw the bright light ...

Meteor "Shower" Sighting: 21 November at 11h00 SAST

... S.A. Weather and Disaster Information Service.(SAWDIS) ... amateur radio operators and private citizens around the country that volunteered the use of their weather and radio stations, weather and disaster photographs...

Great balls of fire! Camera records exploding meteor

Examiner.com
On the Wednesday morning, a meteor was caught on camera streaking through the sky, exploding, and then undoubtedly crashing to Earth. The meteor in question ...

Other Meteor/Meteorite News:

Utah: Meteorit verglüht – Video des Feuerball – Eiswolken am Himmel

Lilu24 - Rosenfeld,Germany
Die Rede ist von einem Meteorit. Laut den Berichten auf "Astronomie heute" soll der Meteor 2 Meter breit gewesen sein und wenn man sich aber das Video ...

Benedict Woos Artists, Urging 'Quest for Beauty'

New York Times
In 1999, the Italian conceptual artist Maurizio Cattelan produced “The Ninth Hour,” a wax sculpture of Pope John Paul II struck down by a meteorite. ...
Latvians not laughing after meteorite hoax

Linex Legal (registration)
Source: Lawyers Weekly - A Swedish mobile phone company has apologised after staging a PR stunt in which it created a 10-metre wide meteorite crater in the ...

Utah Meteor/Meteorite News- Utah Bolide Impact 18NOV09 21NOV09

Calculation of the 18NOV09 Utah Meteor impact site


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21 November 2009

Utah Meteorite News- Dugway Increases Security after Meteor

Dugway beefs up security after meteor
Fox 13 Now- Salt Lake City
DUGWAY PROVING GROUND - Security at this military testing facility has been increased after a meteor was spotted over Utah, and believed to have crashed ...
http://www.fox13now.com/news/kstu-dugway-meteor-problems,0,3733479.story

Other News:
Space.com
Cosmic Triple-Play: Asteroid Flyby, Fireball over Utah, Meteor Shower
A Fireball over Utah, an energetic asteroid whizzing past Earth and a dazzling meteor shower...
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Spectacular Meteor Lights Up The Utah Skies
Gizmodo Australia
Clark Planetarium Director Seth Jarvis said the stony meteorite was probably travelling 80000 miles [129000km] an hour when it hit our atmosphere. ...

Meteor showers in Asia disappoint
Auburn Citizen
Thousands of stargazers across Asia stayed awake overnight to catch a glimpse of what was advertised as an intense Leonid meteor shower, but the show ...

Space 101 - What is a meteor shower?
Examiner.com
A meteor shower is when small bits of space rock produce tiny pinpoints of light that streak through the sky. These small fragments enter the Earth's ...

Friday TV Colombia World News Update
Colombia News
... Tournament in Dubai while Colombia's Camilo Villegas is second. Plus, a surveillance camera at a Utah university captures a meteorite flash across the sky.

Leonids a cosmic time to watch "ET"
Denver Post
( Universal Studios/ Amblin Entertainment ) Sitting under the Eastern Plains stars the other night, and the occasional Leonid meteorite, my oldest daughter ...

Meteor/Meteorite News: Meteor Activity Outlook for November 21-27, 2009 20NOV09

Meteor Activity Outlook for November 21-27, 2009
by
American Meteor Society
http://www.amsmeteors.org/showers.html#X2009


As seen from the northern hemisphere, meteor rates continue to be strong in November. While no major showers are active this month,
the two Taurid radiants plus the Leonids keep the skies active. The addition of strong sporadic rates make November one of the
better months to view meteor activity from north of the equator. ... *For a detailed explanation on the different classes of meteor showers and other astronomical terms, please visit: http://www.amsmeteors.org/showers.html#X2009


Clear Skies!
Robert Lunsford
American Meteor Society

20 November 2009

Meteor/Meteorite News- YD Mammoth Demise 20NOV09

from Google News:

Dung dating illuminates mammoth mystery

Nature.com (subscription) - ‎12 分前‎
The disappearance of the huge herbivores that once roamed North America triggered a massive change in the environment with new trees and more fires. ...

Scientists zero in on reason for mammoths' demise

Los Angeles Times - ‎2 時間前‎
The sediment beneath an Indiana lake is providing clues. One thing is clear: A meteor didn't kill off the mammoths, mastodons and other large plant-eaters, ...

Mammoths not killed by human spears

ABC Online - ‎5 時間前‎
By Madeleine Genner for The World Today They were some of the biggest mammals to walk the earth but it seems woolly mammoths were not killed off by humans ...

New Data Shed Light on Large-Animal Extinction

New York Times - ‎17 時間前‎
By NICHOLAS WADE Whenever modern humans reached a new continent in the expansion from their African homeland 50000 years ago, whether Australia, ...

Dung helps reveal why mammoths died out

BBC News - ‎17 時間前‎
By Victoria Gill Mammoth dung has proved to be a source of prehistoric information, helping scientists unravel the mystery of what caused the great mammals ...

Extinction of giant mammals altered landscape

msnbc.com - ‎17 時間前‎
By Jeanna Bryner The last breaths of mammoths and mastodons some 13000 years ago have garnered plenty of research and just as much debate. ...

Dung Fungus Provides New Evidence in Mammoth Extinction

Wired News - ‎18 時間前‎
By Betsy Mason The latest evidence in the disappearance of the mammoths, and nine other North American species weighing over a ton, comes from fossilized ...

After Mastodons and Mammoths, a Transformed Landscape

Science Daily (press release) - ‎19 時間前‎
ScienceDaily (Nov. 20, 2009) — Roughly 15000 years ago, at the end of the last ice age, North America's vast assemblage of large animals -- including such ...

Sophisticated hunters not to blame for driving mammoths to extinction

guardian.co.uk - ‎20 時間前‎
Giant animals such as the woolly mammoth were already facing extinction by the time humans had developed more lethal weapons. Photograph: Corbis/Royal BC ...

Spores in Mastodon Dung Suggest Humans Didn't Kill Off Ancient Mammals

Discover Magazine - ‎2 時間前‎
A fungus found within ancient mammoth dung is providing scientists with clues about how the large ancient mammals collectively known as megafauna went ...

Mammoths weren't killed off by meteor

TG Daily - ‎5 時間前‎
By Emma Woollacott Friday, 20 November 2009 04:55 A new study into the North American landscape 15000 years ago has debunked several theories about why ...

Study Provides Insight into Extinction Of Large Animals

The Money Times - ‎8 時間前‎
At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Scientists have advanced towards solving the mystery of extinction of mammoths, mastodons, and other large animal ...

Poop evidence exonerates humans in mammoth mystery

World Science - ‎13 時間前‎
The question of how huge animals like the mammoth, mastodon, and ground sloth went extinct—and how their disappearance from North America affected ...

Blame the Mammoths

Journal Watch - ‎18 時間前‎
With the help of a dung fungus, scientists have figured out that the disappearance of mammoths, mastodons, and other large animals likely caused dramatic ...

UW scientists creep closer to solving mystery of mammoths' extinction

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - ‎19 時間前‎
By Mark Johnson of the Journal Sentinel Scientists at the University of Wisconsin have taken an important step toward solving the mystery of what wiped out ...

Was there a Stone Age apocalypse or not?

New Scientist - ‎19 時間前‎
Was there a Stone Age apocalypse or not? One narrative has it that about 13000 years ago a comet blasted North America , wiping out the continent's ...

Utah Meteor/Meteorite News Past- 2004 Genesis Crash 20NOV09


Source: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/genesis/multimedia/genesisrecov090804-2.html

The sample return capsule crashed into the Utah desert floor Sept 8, 2004, breaking open the capsule. The capsule is about 1.5 m (4.9 ft) in diameter and has a mass of 275 kg (600 lb) ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genesis_(spacecraft)

Excellent video of final flight and crash, post crash.
"Impact video
" (QuickTime movie). http://anon.nasa-global.speedera.net/anon.nasa-global/genesis/genesis.mov
. Retrieved 2006-04-20.

Australia Meteor/Meteorite News- Brisbane Green Fireball 19NOV09 20NOV09

Green object that lit up sky a chip off an old meteor

Rodney Chester

November 20, 2009 09:10am

EXPERTS say a fire ball that streaked across the sky above south-east Queensland last night was a "chip off the old block of some asteroid".

The meteor was spotted by people from the Sunshine Coast, the Gold Coast and across Brisbane around 9.45pm.

Witnesses said the meteor was a green glow travelling from south-east to north-west, leaving a visible trail for 10 to 15 minutes ... [more]
http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,20797,26375522-3102,00.html?from=public_rss

Meteor/Meteortite News- 20NOV09

Idaho Mountain Express and Guide
Meteor turns night into day

Idaho Mountain Express and Guide
By EXPRESS STAFF A meteor that burned up in a brilliant flash before remnants struck the ground in northern Nevada early Wednesday morning lit up Western ...


WNCT
METEOR: Caught on tape (Alternate View)

WNCT
Experts say the Bolide (bow-lide) meteor was probably a straggler from Tuesday's (11/17) Leonid meteor shower. There were reports of the meteor being seen ...

Meteorites bring in big money to those willing to hunt for them

KSL-TV
The fascination with meteorites is as old as the human race. Utah State professor Chris Cokinos, who has written a well-regarded book on meteors, ...

Midnight meteor wakes up county

Tooele Transcript-Bulletin
by Jamie Belnap A meteor made a surprise appearance over the dark skies of Tooele County just after midnight Wednesday, sending a bright light cascading ...
Space Station Viewing

KFYR-TV
"Yes, we`re just into a so called meteor shower called Leonid meteor shower, named after the constellation they seemed to originate from," Pearce says. ...
The earth's crust demystified

Varsity
“This meteorite [rain shower], which we termed the late veneer, happened about 100 million years ago and brought back a lot of the minerals which were ...


Meteor lights night sky from Utah to Yavapai County

Sun Shopper
People from Utah to Yavapai County saw a green-hued meteor streaming toward Earth early Wednesday. The meteor came into the atmosphere at 12:07 am Wednesday ...


United States: meteorite impacts on Earth

Momento 24
From the University of Utah a meteor impacting on the Earth could be filmed and witnessed . The speed of movement in which the meteorite hit the atmosphere ...
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ABC News
Fireball Lights Up Western US Sky

ABC News
Early Wednesday morning during the Leonid meteor shower, something exploded in the atmosphere above the Western United States. According to Spaceweather.com ...

Leonid Meteor Shower video: Fireball lights up the sky over Utah

Examiner.com
The peak of this year's Leonid Meteor Shower has just past, but it left behind a memorable experience for some out in the western United States. ...

Did you see last night's meteor? Share your observations and stories with ...

Logan Herald Journal
I saw the meteor out the window. A bright flash of light drew my attention and I the meteor flashing bright orange for less than a second before it went ...

Prize offered for meteorite

Newport Independent
The mystery of the Newport meteorite still lurks like a ghost in the early morning mist. Not quite sure where it has been or where it is going. ...


Did meteor land in Utah?

Deseret News
Patrick Wiggins, NASA Ambassador to Utah, said a seismologist has contacted him and also believes the meteor did indeed impact Utah's west desert. ...

19 November 2009

Meteor/Meteorite News- Summary 19NOV09

Great ball of fire flashes in Utah sky

NECN
NASA officials quickly explained the phenomenon, calling it a meteor known as a bolide. It broke through the Earth's atmosphere and created the blinding ...


Meteor Explosion Lights Up Sky Over Utah

Space.com
The meteor exploded with the equivalent of 0.5 to 1 kilotons of TNT, according to spaceweather.com. Then, about six hours later, a "twisting iridescent-blue ...

Scientist confirms meteorite lands in Liberal

NTV
(AP) - A biophysicist has confirmed that a black rock that fell into a backyard in Liberal during the weekend was a meteorite. 10-year-old Chandler Harp ...

Meteor shower still visible until Saturday

Times and Transcript
The annual Leonid meteor shower reached its peak activity for star gazers in southeastern New Brunswick in the pre-dawn hours of Tuesday morning. ...

Overnight meteor streak stuns Utahns

StandardNet
By Standard-Examiner staff OGDEN — A bright light that made midnight seem bright as daylight early Wednesday was likely a meteor. Katie Weaver of Layton saw ...

Op-Ed: Earthly phenomena could bring communities closer together

The Maine Campus
By Anya Rose Every November, when Earth is hurled through a section of space that has an especially high volume of debris, the Leonid meteor shower occurs. ...

Biophysicist confirms Liberal boy's meteorite discovery

Hutchinson News
"There's no question in my mind whatsoever that what they have is a meteorite," said Don Stimpson of Haviland, a biophysicist who owns the Kansas Meteorite ...

Huge flash in the night may have been meteor

Deseret News
... likely a bolide meteor, one that becomes a fireball and breaks up. People in Los Angeles, Nevada, Utah, Idaho and Wyoming reported seeing the meteor. ...

Midnight meteor streaks across Western skies

Newsday
SALT LAKE CITY - SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A streaking meteor the size of an oven briefly illuminated parts of the Utah sky to daylight-level conditions early ...
Meteors disappoint

Yale Daily News
By Carol Hsin When about 40 Yale meteor enthusiasts drove to a soccer field for the Leonid meteor shower Tuesday, they did not expect the skies to flare ...

Space Weather News for Nov. 18, 2009
http://spaceweather.com

FIREBALLS AND METEORS: As forecasters predicted, the Leonid meteor shower peaked during the late hours of Nov. 17th, favoring sky watchers in Asia with an outburst of 100+ meteors per hour. Just as the outburst was dying down, an even bigger event took place over the western USA. Something hit Earth's atmosphere and exploded ...

Utah Bolide Meteor 18NOV09- Fireball News Summary 19NOV09

Google News Search- "Utah Meteor Bolide" as of 19NOV09 12:00 (Tokyo Time)

Flash of light interrupts meteor shower above Reno
Reno Gazette-Journal
It appeared the object was comet fragments and part of the Leonids meteor shower during the past few days, said Dan Ruby, associate planetarium director. ...
Meteor Hits Idaho
KIVI-TV
It was actually a meteor and our very own chief meteorologist Scott Dorval also witnessed it. "I saw a big flaming ball it was bright red and yellow then it ...
Meteor the size of oven lights up the night sky, alarms Utahns
KSL-TV - Alex Cabrero - ‎52 minutes ago‎
Patrick Wiggins, NASA Solar Ambassador At exactly 12:07, people from all over the western United States watched as the bolide meteor crashed into Earth's ...

Meteor Lights Up Western Sky

KOLO - Ed Pearce - ‎1 hour ago‎
A surveillance camera at the University of Utah observatory south of Salt Lake City captured the meteor as is streaked to Earth. It shows pretty much what ...

Midnight meteor fascinates Utahns

Salt Lake Tribune - Sheena Mcfarland - ‎1 hour ago‎
The couple were driving home from a concert just after midnight when they saw the meteor, called a fireball or bolide because of its intense light output. ...

Meteor Caught On Video in Utah

KKTV 11 News - ‎2 hours ago‎
The University of Utah's new Willard L. Eccles Observatory cameras caught the meteor as it flew by and exploded. The university says the Bolide Meteor was ...

WNCT - ‎4 hours ago‎
Experts say the Bolide (bow-lide) meteor was probably a straggler from Tuesday's (11/17) Leonid meteor shower. There were reports of the meteor being seen ...

Midnight Meteor Streaks Across Western Skies

cbs4denver.com - ‎4 hours ago‎
Read more in our Privacy Policy SALT LAKE CITY (AP) ― A streaking meteor the size of an oven briefly illuminated parts of the Utah sky to daylight-level ...

Fireball Lights Up the Night Sky in Parts of the West

Nick.com - ‎4 hours ago‎
One expert told KTVX the fireball that was seen early Wednesday over the western United States was a bolide. That's a very bright meteor that sometimes ...

Midnight meteor delights, alarms Utahns

istockAnalyst.com (press release) - ‎5 hours ago‎
But a bright light in the sky just after midnight Wednesday morning certainly got the attention of skywatchers in northern Utah. The event also kept police ...

Midnight meteor streaks across Western skies

Arizona Daily Sun - ‎5 hours ago‎
The fireball roughly coincided with the annual Leonid meteor shower. Surveillance cameras, including some operated by the University of Utah, captured the ...

Ghostly Spokes; Retro Exoplanet

AccuWeather.com - ‎6 hours ago‎
So good in fact that one of the meteors lit up the sky as bright as day when it exploded high in the atmosphere. This bolide explosion was so great that it ...

Meteor lights up Idaho night sky

Northwest Cable News - Edgar Linares - ‎7 hours ago‎
A meteor streaked across the night Idaho sky Tuesday, lighting it up as if it were daytime. The phone was ringing off the hook at Ada County dispatch and ...

Meteor Streak Lights Up the Night Across Utah

Fox 13 Now - Salt Lake City - ‎7 hours ago‎
NASA Solar System Ambassador Patrick Wiggins, said the light was caused by a Bolide meteor. "The movie 2012 is out there, but don't worry it's not a ...

Overnight meteor streak stuns Utahns

StandardNet - ‎8 hours ago‎
... News the incident was likely a bolide meteor, which causes a short, intense bright light as it explodes while passing through the Earth's atmosphere.

Meteor Explosion Lights Up Sky Over Utah

Space.com - ‎8 hours ago‎
Then, about six hours later, a "twisting iridescent-blue cloud" lit up the dawn sky for residents in Utah and Colorado. Meteors are fallen debris from a ...

Probably meteor explodes over Utah, lights up midnight sky

Deseret News - Lynn Arave - ‎9 hours ago‎
According to Patrick Wiggins, a NASA ambassador living in Tooele County, the intense light was most likely a bolide meteor, one that becomes a fireball and ...

Witnesses describe watching massive meteor flash

ABC 4 - Brian Carlson - ‎11 hours ago‎
SALT LAKE CITY (ABC 4 News) – A massive meteor lit up the sky overnight across Utah, and people who saw it are sharing their experience. “I saw the meteor. ...

A flash of light in the sky over Utah

ABC 4 - Marti Skold - ‎13 hours ago‎
We called Utah's NASA and Solar System Ambassador Patrick Wiggins who tells ABC4 that it was a meteor also known as a bolide. From his observatory near ...

Flash Brightens Sky

KIDK - Brian Bitzer - ‎13 hours ago‎
Idaho Falls - A meteor lit up the night skies over most of Idaho, Utah and Wyoming early Wednesday morning. Eyewitness News spoke to police ...

Meteor Lights Up Night Sky

LocalNews8.com - Michael Coats - ‎15 hours ago‎
Wiggins told KTVX that it was a meteor also known as a bolide. From his observatory near Stansbury Park, Utah, he said the break up of the meteor occurred ...

What was the bright light in Utah skies?

St. George Daily Spectrum - ‎18 hours ago‎
The article says a meteor is the likely cause of the bright light that lit up Utah skies. The earth is currently passing through the Leonids, a spectacular ...

Bright flash turns night into day

KSL-TV - Alex Cabrero - ‎18 hours ago‎
Patrick Wiggins, who is a NASA ambassador living in Tooele County, says the bright light is most likely a bolide meteor. The Earth is passing the Leonids ...

Meteor Streak Lights Up the Night Across the State

Fox 13 Now - Salt Lake City - Aaron Vaughn - ‎18 hours ago‎
... alarming residents throughout Northern Utah to Las Vegas. NASA Solar System Ambassador Patrick Wiggins, says the light was caused by a Bolide meteor. ...