02 February 2010

2FEB2010

Discover Magazine (blog)
Terra spots an impact on, um, Terra

Discover Magazine (blog)
The crater is roughly 1.5 km across (about a mile) — about the same size as Meteor Crater in Arizona — meaning the object that created it was something ...





Post Chronicle
Virginia Meteorite 'Ownership' Battle (Video) Doctor, Landlord Face Off

Post Chronicle
by Staff A meteorite that dropped into a Virginia doctors' office is now at the center of an ownership battle between the doctors and their landlords. ...



Island Crisis (blog)
Lorton Virginia Meteorite Real Owner

Island Crisis (blog)
The Lorton Virginia Meteorite is still among a battle to a legitimate owner. For a recap on the 18th of January, a meteorite crashed through the window pane ...



They created a space city & walked away with a meteorite

Times of India
At the end of the competition, 36 children were declared winner for their out-of-box thinking and given a unique trophy a rare meteorite found in Argentina ...

Who is the real owner of the Virginia meteorite?

Thaindian.com
Virginia, Feb 1 (THAINDIAN NEWS) The meteorite that landed in a Lorton doctor's office on the 18th of January, is now in the midst of a legal battle over ...

01 February 2010

1FEB2010

Thaindian.com
Virginia Meteorite Sparks Ownership Battle

Thaindian.com
By Gina Gomez Virginia, Feb 1, (THAINDIAN NEWS) The meteorite that smashed through the roof of a doctor's clinic in Virginia last month has landed itself in ...




posted on YouTube

Black History Month Calendar

Tallahassee Democrat
Florida A&M University's College of Education will host a special exhibit of lunar and meteorite samples from NASA beginning Feb. 9th ...


ROM's meteorite collection is heavens on earth

Varsity
The Tagish Lake meteorite (pictured) is called the “jewel in the crown” of the ROM's meteorite collection. Fragments of this space rock were found frozen ...

Speaking of Stuff Falling From the Sky
DCist Sun, 31 Jan 2010 07:41 AM PST
So in one of those freak occurrences involving a meteorite striking a doctor's office in Lorton, Virginia, a meteorite struck a doctor's office in Lorton -- and then things got weird. Cool and collected doctors Marc Gallini and Frank Ciampi, having nearly been struck by bits of space rock falling from the universe, decided to donate this chunk of ancient sky to the Smithsonian National Museum of ...


31 January 2010

31JAN2010

Ownership of Meteorite in Question

MyFox Washington DC
Who's really the owner of a meteorite that crashed into a doctor's office in Lorton, Va.? The doctor's, not surprisingly, said they are and they handed it ...

Meteorites, pandas and pants

Point of Law
Or rather, pet meteorite. Today's Washington Post reports on the dispute over ownership of the "spunky bit of chondrite" that plunged through the roof of a ...

The threat from above
Herald Review
Last year, a meteor about the size of a small car hit the earth in Africa. It landed in a remote area and caused no damage or causalities. ...

Peru 4.5 billion years old
01:19Dec. 20 - A meteorite that crashed into rural Peru four months ago is estimated to be 4.5 billion years old.
reuters.com

If a meteorite lands in office, who can sell it?
Tampabay.com
When a meteorite crashed into the office of Dr. Marc Gallini and Dr. Frank Ciampi in Lorton, Va., on Jan. 18, it did a lot of damage and created a lot of ...

From Outer Space, But a Down-to-Earth Dispute
NBC Washington By TOM SHERWOOD
The Lorton meteorite is estimated to be 4.5 billion years old, but let's hope it doesn't take that long to determine the rightful owner of ...

Arizona Meteorite Exhibition
UA News (press release)
The Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, or LPL, is kicking off its 50th anniversary with this celebration of Arizona meteorite finders, classifiers, ...

30 January 2010

30JAN2010

UPI NewsTrack Quirks in the News
UPI.com29 (UPI) -- A meteorite that dropped into a Virginia doctors' office is now at the center of an ownership battle between the doctors and their landlords. ...

Meteor at the Natural History Museum Comes at a Fortuitous Time ...
By Erica R. Hendry What the geologists weren't expecting when the shipment of 1010 meteorites arrived last week was that a meteorite would crash down practically in their own backyard. ...

Who's Your Donor, Lorton Metorite
NBC Washington Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:11 PM PSTTwo parties dispute the ownership of a meteorite that crashed into a Lorton doctors office.

Landlords want office-crashing meteorite
UPI Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:14 PM PSTLORTON, Va., Jan. 29 (UPI) --
A meteorite that dropped into a Virginia doctors' office is now at the center of an ownership battle between the doctors and their landlords.

Ownership of Meteorite in Question
FOX 5 Washington D.C. Fri, 29 Jan 2010 08:51 AM PST
Who is the real owner of the meteorite that crashed into a doctor's office in Lorton, Va.?

Ownership Dispute Looms Over Fallen Meteorite
WUSA 9 Washington, D.C. Fri, 29 Jan 2010 07:19 AM PST
Doctor Marc Galini, who was almost hit on the head by the space rock, was renting that office. Now the actual owners of the building are getting involved.

Ownership battle brews over Virginia meteorite
Washington Post Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:00 PM PST
Today's episode of Everybody's Favorite Meteorite brings the nation disturbing news: That spunky bit of chondrite that plummeted into a Lorton doctors' office on Jan. 18, delighting an international audience with news of its fireball entrance, may not go on to a spot of glory in the Smithsonian,...

Lorton meteorite falls into ownership fight
Baltimore Sun (blog)You knew this had to happen: The Lorton, Va. doctors whose office was drilled by the meteorite that fell from the sky Jan. 18 are now in a battle with their ...

Landlords have dibs on meteorites
We Love DC By Don, 2:33 pm January 29th, 2010
Consider yourself warned: just because a meteor screams through your office and narrowly misses giving you a new brain ...

Largest moon of 2010 and brightest Mars in years on display tonight
Ski Channel
We've reported on comets, meteor showers and the like...and now we'll tell you to hike up your favorite mountain tonight to get a great, clear view of the ...

Defending Planet Earth From Asteroid And Comet Strikes
Gather.com
I used to live 50 miles from Meteor Crater, Arizona. This was a relatively recent (in geologic terms) strike by a meteor that was estimated to only be about ...

隕石meteorite
By Sharon Hahn Darlin Simplified, 陨石. There are about 27000 meteorites in collections around the world, according Welzenbach, the Smithsonian collections manager. The Smithsonian has about half, 14738. About 85 percent of all meteorites found on Earth are ...
隕石meteorite

29 January 2010

29JAN2010

Smashes Through Roof of Doctor's Office (video)
www.universetoday.com A meteorite came through the roof of a doctor's office in Lorton, Virginia, USA. No one was hurt, but a hole was punched ...

Possible fireball sighted in night sky
The Bozeman Daily Chronicle
But while no fiery jetliner ever touched down at Gallatin Field airport, a white fireball, a type of meteor, was reported over Torrance, Calif., ...

Ownership battle brews over Virginia meteorite
Washington Post By Neely Tucker
Today's episode of Everybody's Favorite Meteorite brings the nation disturbing news: That spunky bit of chondrite that plummeted into a ...

Putting the moon in the state's orbit
Los Angeles Times
... and meteorite impacts; a laser-reflection device to make precise distance measurements between Earth and the moon; a US flag and commemorative plaque. ...

Searching for Cadmium in the Ocean: Marine Scientists Investigate Micro ...
Science Daily (press release)
Martin Frank from the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences in Kiel, Germany, the German research vessel METEOR will embark for one of the first expeditions ...

Biggest Full Moon of the Year
FULL MOON AND MARS: Friday night's full Moon is the biggest and brightest full Moon of the year. It's a "perigee Moon," as much as 14% wider and 30% brighter than other full Moons you'll see later in 2010. But that's not all. Mars is having a close encounter with Earth, and on Friday night, Jan. 29th, it will join the Moon for an all-night-long conjunction. Don't miss it! Sky maps and images may be found at http://spaceweather.com/ ...


Fireball Triangulaiton Network newly established in Northern California.
A formal multi-station Fireball Tracking & Triangulating Network with graphics has been newly established by Prof. Dave Kenyon of Sierra College, Rocklin, Calif.Professor Kenyon's website will offer unusual graphic details of recent events which may be of interest to the Professional Community. Typical graphics are shown.Prof. Kenyons website is:
http://astronomy.sierracollege.edu/Department/MeteorCamera/MeteorCamera.htm
YCSentinel

See meteors, Moon and more at annual open house
Arizona State University9 am –
Center for Meteorite Studies, located in Bateman Physical Sciences Center C wing, room 139. Touch a meteorite, and see ASU's renowned collection. ...

January 28th: A Series of Spectacular Events
By kortney.hogan Description: Colm Ryan talks about some key moments during the last 10 years: a spectacular auroral display, an intense meteor storm and strange moving lights in the sky, that convey to him the wonder and delight of amateur astronomy. ...
365 Days of Astronomy - http://365daysofastronomy.org/

27 January 2010

27JAN2010

The Deep Impacts of Unfunded Science
Huffington Post (blog)
The meteorite that formed Meteor Crater in Arizona is estimated to have been about 40 meters in diameter. The object which flattened 2000 square kilometers ...

Meteorite Lands in Doctor´s Office
ShortNews.com
On Monday at around 5:30PM a small meteorite struck the roof of a Virginia doctor's office, some twenty miles outside Washington. ...

Life, but not as we know it
The Guardian
In 1969 a meteorite crashed into the Australian backwater of Murchison. In 2008, Zita Martins at Imperial College showed that it harboured an essential ...

A Kansas Town's Tourism Plan: Throw Money in a Hole
Wall Street Journal
Eager to reinvigorate the town's biggest tourist attraction (there's also a 1000-pound meteorite, discovered at a local farm), voters in 2006 approved a ...

What caused the extinction of the dinosaurs?
ScienceBlog.com (blog)
Among the “culprits” we have the giant meteorite impact theory, a virus, ice age, evolution and so on. But first let's go over the facts. ...

Virginia doctor has close encounter with meteorite
Seattle Times Mon, 25 Jan 2010 23:07 PM PST
The space rock crashed through the roof and landed 10 feet from a Virginia physician. ...

朝日新聞社南極観測隊見つけた隕石635個予想上回る数 ...
Asahi News (asahi.com)
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805, 中国科学院贵阳地球化学研究所吉林陨石雨物质成分研究组
MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY OF THE KIRIN METEORITE AND ITS FORMATION AND EVOLUTION
Optical identification and X-ray powder study, coupled with monomineral microchemical and electron microprobe analyses have revealed 39 species of mineral in the Kirin Meteorite. On the basis of mineral assemblages characteristic of the meteorite, thermometric data on fluid inclusion and theoretical analysis, seven formation stages have been proposed for the minerals present in the Kirin Meteorite. The calculations of normative minerals and chemical parameters have been conducted in terms of the chemical analyses, and the chemical-petrological characteristics of the Kirin Meteorite specifies it to Type H_5. The present paper deals with the texture-structure of the Kirin Meteorite, and the meteoritic chondrules are divided into 17 categories of texture-structure, and three possible mechanisms regarding their origin are discussed. It is evident that the Kirin parent body once experienced marked thermal metamorphism and moderate-shock metamorphism and the major features concerned are herein described and analyzed. On the grounds of the above studies, four stages, including 12 processes, have been suggested with respect to the formation and evolution, of the Kirin Meteorite: (ⅰ) fractionation and condensation of the solar nebula, (ⅱ) accretion of the parent body and its thermal metamorphism, (ⅲ) shock-metamorphism and breaking-up of the parent body, and (ⅳ) falling process. Additionally,a preliminary theoretical analysis and discussion are made on the physico-chemical environments for each of the evolutional stages. ...
1978 Vol. 21 (06 ): 805-805
http://tech.scichina.com:8082/sciEe/%E5%8E%9F%E6%96%87%E4%BB%B6/CN/volumn_2952_abs.shtml

26 January 2010

26JAN2010

Popular Science-US Scientists Call for the Creation of an International Asteroid Defense Agency
Popular Science
But yeah we need a space based meteor hunter for no other reason than to quantify the threat and begin tracking them which it's a game of cosmic billiards ...

Meteor! - Bad Astronomy and Universe Today Forum
By skyline5k
Just saw one shoot through the Shanghai night sky. This thing must've lost about 3 layers or so. Pretty impressive! I was out having a smoke on my ...

Christian Science Monitor-Protecting Earth from asteroids
Christian Science Monitor
This is an artist's depiction of a huge meteorite striking Earth 65 million years ago, which, scientists says, sent the dinosaurs and many other life forms ...

Death from the skies? Ho-hum.
The Space Review
By Wednesday, scientists with the Smithsonian Institution's Museum of Natural History confirmed that the rocks were meteorites that had plunged to Earth ...

Only nukes can stop planetsmash asteroids, say US boffins
Register By Lewis Page • Get more from this author Top American boffins have warned that the US government's efforts to prevent global apocalypse caused by meteor ...

More funding needed to meet asteroid detection mandate
BY STEPHEN CLARK
SPACEFLIGHT NOW January 22, 2010
NASA is not doing enough to complete a mandated search forEarth-threatening asteroids and comets because the space agency is notreceiving enough money for the problem, according to a National ResearchCouncil report.In a report released Friday, scientists said Congress and theadministration have not requested or appropriated funding to complete asurvey mandated in the NASA Authorization Act of 2005.Called the George E. Brown, Jr., Near-Earth Object Survey, the detectionprogram was tasked with discovering 90 percent of Near-Earth Objects, orNEOs, larger than 140 meters, or 459 feet, by 2020. NEOs of that sizewould have regional or continental affects if they struck Earth. ...

http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n1001/22neo/index.html

25 January 2010

24JAN2010 Lorton, Virgina Meteorite Strikes Roof 22JAN2010

Video: Sky Surprise: Drops Into Clinic
A family practice in Lorton, Virginia is patching up the roof after a meteorite crashes through the ceiling and into an exam room.
See video: (Jan. 22)
http://vodpod.com/watch/2911822-video-sky-surprise-meteorite-drops-into-clinic

Video: blasts through Va. roof (Video)
Jan. 22: A meteorite estimated to be more than four billion years old smashes through a Virginia roof traveling about 220 mph. Msnbc.com's ...
msnbc.msn.com

Sky Surprise: Drops Into Clinic (Video)
A family practice in Lorton, Virginia is patching up the roof after a meteorite crashes through the ceiling and into an exam room.
(Jan. 22)1cast.com

So This Meteor Crashes Into A Doctor's Office...
NPR Weekend Edition Saturday, January 23, 2010
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122893897

25JAN2010

Why did Mammals Survive the K/T Extinction?
Gant DailyYet these great beasts were no match for a six-mile wide meteor that struck near modern-day Mexico 65 million years ago, incinerating everything in its path ...

Earth's Asteroid Defenses Leave Much to Be Desired
Softpedia... January 22 by the US National Academy of Sciences (NAS), our planet is still poorly defended in the case of an impending asteroid or meteorite impact. ...

So This Meteor Crashes Into A Doctor's Office…
Herald de ParisWell, last Monday around 5:30 pm, a half-pound meteor traveling about 220 miles an hour crashed through the office of Dr. Frank Ciampi. ...

Small Meteorite Crashes Through Doctor's Office
RedOrbitReports of a "mango-sized" meteorite crashing into a doctor's office at more than 200 mph in Virginia surfaced this week. The space rock smashed through the ...

Video: Sky Surprise: Drops Into Clinic
A family practice in Lorton, Virginia is patching up the roof after a meteorite crashes through the ceiling and into an exam room. (Jan. 22)vodpod.com

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Meteorite hits Virginia doctorâs office
Texarkana Gazette Sat, 23 Jan 2010 06:04 AM PST
LORTON, Va.âDoctors at a small practice in Virginia got a big surprise when a tennis ball-sized meteorite punched a hole through their roof. No one was injured.

Meteorite hunters converge on area after fall in Va.
Baltimore Sun Sat, 23 Jan 2010 05:00 AM PST
Fist-size space rock crashed through roof of Lorton doctors' office Meteorite hunters are descending on Washington's Virginia suburbs this week, drawn by news of a space rock that lit up the night sky on Monday and drilled through the roof of a Lorton doctors' office.

Meteorites reported around Delmarva
The Daily Times Sat, 23 Jan 2010 01:47 AM PST
OCEAN CITY -- On the same day a Worcester County woman reported seeing a fiery object in the sky, doctors at a small practice in Virginia got a big surprise when a tennis ball-sized meteorite punched a hole through their roof.

24 January 2010

24JAN2010

Treasures make pilgrimage for Hajj exhibition
Independent
Yes, it is a meteorite. This whole thing is meteorite worship. Complete oversimplification about one small fact that has almost nothing to do with this ...

Readers ask about elections, articles
York News-Times
Q: Does anyone have any information about the Beaver Crossing meteorite in 1948? A: A reader contacted the Wonderline after a version of this question ran ...

So This Meteor Crashes Into A Doctor's Office NPR
You hear about these things happening and wonder if they ever really do. Well, last Monday around 5:30 pm, a half-pound meteor traveling about 220 miles an ...

blasts through Va. roof
Lorton, Virginia meteorite Video
msnbc.msn.com

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Chinese Antartica meteorite expedition news report video.
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23JAN2010

So This Meteor Crashes Into A Doctor's Office…
NPR
Audio for this story from Weekend Edition Saturday will be available at approx. 12:00 pm ET.

Earth Not Properly Protected from Asteroids
Space.com
Recent meteor bursts over the United States have also highlighted the potential danger of even smaller asteroids, so NASA should also try to find as many of ...

Asteroids Pale After Close Encounters
Sky & TelescopeFurthermore, this intriguing result helps resolve a decades-long meteorite mystery. The news follows from a study published this week in the journal Nature, ...

Smashes Through Roof of Doctor s Office Video
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Meteorites reported around Delmarva
Delmarva Daily Times
Television station WUSA took it to the Smithsonian Institution's Museum of Natural History, and experts confirmed it was a meteorite. They estimated it was ...

The Money TimesMeteor hits roof of doctor's clinic in Virginia
The Money Times by Ishita Sood - January 23, 2010 - 0 comments
Lorton, VA., January 23 -- A small meteorite hit the roof of Dr. Frank Ciampi's clinic in Virginia on Monday. ...

Meteorite hunters converge on area after fall in Va.
Baltimore Sun By Frank D. Roylance
Meteorite hunters are descending on Washington's Virginia suburbs this week, drawn by news of a space rock that lit up the night sky on ...

Meteorite hunters descend on Va. town
UPI.com22 (UPI) -- A meteorite that plummeted through the roof of a doctor's office is drawing meteor hunters from across the country to Washington's Virginia ...

Post Chronicle Flaming Meteor Hits Doctor's Office (Photo)
Post Chronicle by Jack Ryan
A small Meteorite crashed through a doctors office in Virginia. The meteor crashed through the roof of the docs office and hit an internal wall ...

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アメリカのバージニア州ロートンで1月18日、小さな隕石が病院に...

Meteorite Crashes into Virginia Doctors' Office
HealthLeaders Media
As it happens, the explosion was caused by a grapefruit-sized meteorite that punched through the shingled dormer roof, insulation, and ceiling tiles on the ...

Rover Gives an 'Opportunity' to View Interior of Mars
SpaceRef Fri, 22 Jan 2010 13:33 PM PST
"Marquette Island is different in composition and character from any known rock on Mars or meteorite from Mars," said Steve Squyres of Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y. ...

Small Meteorite Crashes Through Doctorâs Office
redOrbit Fri, 22 Jan 2010 12:07 PM PST
Reports of a "mango-sized" meteorite crashing into a doctor's office at more than 200 mph in Virginia surfaced this week. The space rock smashed through the roof, an internal wall and an upper floor before shattering into several pieces on a concrete slab. ...

Meteorite strikes doctor's office in Virginia
KLTV 7 Tyler Fri, 22 Jan 2010 11:42 AM PST
Doctors at a small practice in Virginia got a big surprise when a tennis ball-sized meteorite punched a hole through their roof. No one was injured. ...

Meteorite hunters converge on area after fall this week in Va.
Baltimore Sun Fri, 22 Jan 2010 09:12 AM PSTFist-size space rock crashed through roof of Lorton doctors' office Meteorite hunters are descending on Washington's Virginia suburbs this week, drawn by news of a space rock that lit up the night sky on Monday and drilled through the roof of a Lorton doctors' office. ...

Meteorite hunters in a frenzy
Times Herald Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:14 AM

Crusty fireball space mango wrecks US doctor's officeThe Register Fri, 22 Jan 2010 06:38 AM PST'Fresh, pretty' meteorite blasts startled medics A "mango-sized" meteorite crashed into a doctor's office in Virginia this week at more than 200 mph, according to reports. The space rock smashed through the roof, an internal wall and an upper floor before shattering into several pieces on a concrete slab. ...

Meteorite Crashes Through Virginia Doctor's Office
Fox News Fri, 22 Jan 2010 06:33 AM PST
The small meteorite that fell from the sky into a doctor's office in Virgina Jan. 18, 2010. ...

IMAGES: Virginia Meteorite Seen In Sky Here On Monday
WGAL 8 Susquehanna Valley Fri, 22 Jan 2010 05:34 AM PSTOn Monday, News 8 received calls and e-mails asking about a bright fireball in the sky. ...

Space rock is fridgy didge
The Courier Mail Fri, 22 Jan 2010 05:27 AM PST
CUNNAMULLA police have admitted they conducted their own fridge magnet test on a bizarre-looking rock to determine whether it was a meteorite. ...

Falling stars: A preview of the 2010 Tucson Gem and Mineral Show
Astronomy Magazine (blog)
Assortment of meteorites! This case display gives you an idea of the many fascinating meteorites you can see and consider for purchase. ...

Meteorite Crashes Into Virginia Doctor's OfficeFirst Coast NewsThe Smithsonian Institution's Museum of Natural History confirmed that it was indeed a meteorite. "The first thing we look at is what's called the fusion ...

Meteorite hunters converge on area after fall in Va.
Baltimore Sun By Frank D. Roylance Baltimore Sun reporter
Meteorite hunters are descending on Washington's Virginia suburbs this week, drawn by news of a space rock that ...

Вирджиния: в кабинет врача попал метеорит
Новости Америки Врач из Вирджинии был очень удивлен, когда метеорит размером с теннисный мяч пробил дыру в крыше. К счастью, никто не пострадал. Доктор Фрэнк Чиампи (Frank ...

В США метеорит пробил крышу домаВеликая ЭпохаЭксклюзивные новости из Китая.: www.epochtimes.ru Пробивший крышу дома метеорит. Фото Linda Welzenbach/Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History Крышу ...


Almost-close encounter: Meteorite hits Lorton doctor's office
Washington Post
A family practice in Lorton is patching up the roof after a meteorite crashes through the ceiling and into an exam room. By Paul Duggan Much later, ...

Austin American-Statesman UT museum gives kids a free look at nature past and present
Austin American-Statesman
It showcases all kinds of natural marvels from shells to meteorites to a mammoth's long incisor. As you enter the spacious Great Hall, a Texas pterosaur ...

Doctor's Close Encounter With (Lorton Meteorite video)
01:51 A physician's office in Virginia is the scene of a meteorite crash.
abcnews.go.com

Meteorite hits doctor's office
Washington PostGeologists and meteorite scientists Linda Welzenbach and Cari Corrigan of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History will be online Friday, Jan. ...

Richmonders report seeing fiery meteor
Culpeper Star Exponent
BY REX SPRINGSTON Media General News Service
A space rock that hit a Northern Virginia office Monday evening may have produced the fiery meteor that ...

Crusty fireball space mango wrecks US doctor's office
Register
Nobody was hurt in the meteor strike, and the pieces of interplanetary debris were subsequently identified as being extraterrestrial by a geologist, ...

Richmonders report seeing fiery meteor GoDanRiver
Sometimes the sky really is falling. A space rock that hit a Northern Virginia office Monday evening may have produced the fiery meteor that Richmonders ...

Meteor brightens Montana sky WHAS11 Louisville, Kentucky and ...
A meteor lit up the skies of eastern Montana earlier this week. ...

Meteorite Crashes Through Virginia Doctor's Office
FOXNewsBy Tariq Malik
A meteorite fell from the sky and crashed through the roof of a doctor's office in Virginia. The small meteorite that fell from the sky into ...

22 January 2010

22JAN2010

Meteorite Strikes Doctor's Office
Popular Fidelity (blog)
In a million-to-one event, a half-pound meteorite tore through his office, crash-landing just outside Examination Room #2, only 10 feet from where Ciampi ...

Sceptical police test Cunnamulla space rock with fridge magnet
Courier Mail
CUNNAMULLA police have admitted they conducted their own fridge magnet test on a bizarre-looking rock to determine whether it was a meteorite. ...

Meteorite Crashes Through Virginia Doctor's Office
Discovery News
Many accounts of meteorite strikes are hoaxes whereas others can be blamed on the Russian military dropping bags of cement from planes (really). ...

Крышу на доме американского врача пробил метеорит
Lenta.ru
Крышу частного дома в США пробил небольшой метеорит, сообщает SPACE.com. Космическое тело массой около половины фунта (примерно 230 граммов) упало на дом ...

Smithsonian official brings six Putnam items to the forefront
Quad City Times
... of 58 Japanese friendship dolls sent to the United States in 1927 and a 24-pound piece of a meteorite that struck Arizona an estimated 30000 years ago. ...

Meteoriet slaat in dokterspraktijk
Scientias.nl
Een meteoriet met een grootte van een tennisbal heeft een gat in het dak van een dokterspraktijk in Lorton, Virginia veroorzaakt. Niemand raakte gewond. ...

Meteorit csapódott egy orvosi rendelőbe Virginiában
OrigoTeniszlabda nagyságú meteorit zuhant egy Virginia állambeli orvosi rendelőre. A meteorit átütötte a tetőt, de a rendelőben senki nem sérült meg. ...

Meteorit csapódott be egy amerikai orvos rendelőjébe
hvg.hu
Frank Ciampi, a Washingtontól 32 kilométernyire délnyugatra lévő Lorton orvosa szerint a hívatlan vendég hétfő délután, félhat táján csapódott be a ...

Meteorit csapódott be egy amerikai orvos rendelőjébe
Index
Teniszlabda nagyságú meteorit ütötte át egy Virginia állambeli orvos rendelőjének tetejét, az "égi" incidens során azonban senki sem sérült meg. ...

Meteorit zasiahol ordináciu vo Virgínii
Bleskovky
LORTON - Lekári v malej ambulancii v americkom štáte Virginia zostali pekne prekvapení, keď im cez strechu preletel meteorit. Bol veľký ako tenisová ...

Richmonders may have seen meteor before Fairfax strike
Richmond Times Dispatch By Rex Springston
A space rock that hit a Northern Virginia office Monday evening may have produced the fiery meteor that Richmond-area residents saw. ...

Meteorite punches hole in doctor's office
Daily Press
Lynch most likely saw a meteorite that moments later crashed into a two-story doctor's office in the Northern Virginia community of Lorton. ...

Ball-sized meteorite strikes doc's office
CNews Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:00 PM PST
Doctors at a small U.S. medical practice got a big surprise when a tennis ball-sized meteorite punched a hole through their roof. No one was injured. Dr. Frank Ciampi says the rock struck the two-story building around 5:30 p.m. Monday in Lorton, Virginia, a town not far from Washington, D.C.

Meteorite smashes through surgery roof
The Scotsman Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:00 PM PST
A METEORITE the size of a tennis ball punched a hole in the roof of a medical practice in Lorton, Virginia.

Lorton Meteorite
NBC Washington Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:56 PM PST
A fist sized meteorite came crashing through the ceiling of a doctor's office. It was examined at the Smithsonian.

Meteorite lands on doctorâs office in Fairfax
Richmond Times-Dispatch Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:32 PM PST
A meteorite that landed on a doctorâs office in Fairfax County on Monday may have been the source of the bright light Richmonders saw in the evening sky. The fireball spotted locally may have looked close, but thatâs an optical illusion, said Geoff Chester, an astronomer and public relations officer with the U.S. Naval Observatory in Washington.

Meteorite hits doctor's office in US
The New Zealand Herald Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:20 PM PST
Doctors at a small medical practice in the United States got a big surprise when a tennis ball-sized meteorite punched a hole through their roof. Dr Frank Ciampi says the rock struck the two-story building around 5.30 pm Monday...

Meteorite Crashes Through Virginia Doctor's Office
SPACE.com via Yahoo! News Thu, 21 Jan 2010 14:31 PM PST
A small meteorite fell from the sky and crashed through the roof of a doctor's office in Virginia, but luckily no one was hit, experts say.

Va. Doctor's Office Hit by Meteorite
WCAV Charlottesville Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:33 PM PST
A meteorite crashed through a doctor's office in Lorton Monday. A planetary scientist said it was likely traveling about 220 mph when it struck the building. No one was injured.

Meteorite strikes doctor's office in Virginia
Independent Online Thu, 21 Jan 2010 12:41 PM PST
Doctors at a small practice in Virginia got a big surprise when a tennis ball-sized meteorite punched a hole through their roof. [VIDEO]

Tennis ball-sized meteorite punches hole through roof in Virginia doctor's office; no injuries
Sun-Sentinel Thu, 21 Jan 2010 11:35 AM PST
Doctors at a small practice in Virginia got a big surprise when a tennis ball-sized meteorite punched a hole through their roof. No one was injured.

Meteorite lands on doctor's office in Fairfax
Richmond Times Dispatch By Staff Reports
A meteorite that landed on a doctor's office in Fairfax County on Monday may have been the source of the bright light Richmonders saw in ...

Meteorite hits doctor's office
UPI.com21 (UPI) -- A Virginia doctor said a meteorite crashed through the roof of his office building and trashed a room only 10 feet from where he was filling out ...

Adjusting the Solar System's Absolute Clock
Science Magazine (blog)
Meteorites and their components provide the only means to study the circumstances and processes that gave rise to our solar system. ...

Rover Gives NASA An "Opportunity" To View Interior Of Mars
OfficialWire (press release)
"Marquette Island is different in composition and character from any known rock on Mars or meteorite from Mars," said Steve Squyres of Cornell University in ...

Ball-sized meteorite strikes doc's office
CANOE By AP
Doctors at a small US medical practice got a big surprise when a tennis ball-sized meteorite punched a hole through their roof. No one was injured. ...

Meteoriet slaat in op dokterskabinet in Virginia
Het Laatste Nieuws
Artsen in een kleine dokterspraktijk in Lorton, Virginia, wisten niet waar ze het hadden toen maandag een meteoriet insloeg op hun kabinet. ...

Na ordinaci ve Virginii dopadl malý meteorit
České noviny
Lorton (USA) - Lékaři v malé ordinaci v americkém státě Virginie se nestačili divit, když jim střechou proletěl meteorit o velikosti tenisového míčku. ...

Meteoriet slaat in bij huisartsenpraktijk
Nieuws.nl
Een van de artsen vertelde dat hij een luide knal hoorde en dat de meteoriet een gat in het dak had geslagen. De steen van ruim een half pond viel daarna in ...

Meteoriet slaat in bij huisartsenpraktijk
Volkskrant AP op 21 januari '10, 19:08, bijgewerkt 21 januari 2010 19:12
LURTON - Een meteoriet ter grootte van een tennisbal is in een kleine huisartsenpraktijk in ...

Lekárov v americkom meste prekvapil meteorit
DNES.sk
Povedal, že začuli hlasný buchot a našli na podlahe meteorit, na ktorým sa z diery v strope a streche sypali kúsky dreva, omietky a izolácie. ...

Doctor's office hit by meteorite
WTOP(AP) - A Virginia doctor's office is cleaning up after being hit by a meteorite, but no one was hurt. Frank Ciampi said the space rock struck the two-story ...

Asteroids: Stripped on passing by Earth
Nature.com (subscription)
The outcome of this encounter is a body with meteorite-like colours. We once thought that small asteroids were solid 'chips off the old block'. ...

Near-Earth Encounters Can 'Shake' Asteroids
RedOrbit
Although it is believed that meteorites come from asteroids, astronomers and meteorite scientists have struggled for 30 years to figure out why asteroids ...

21JAN2010

Learn about the science of Meteorites
with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series. A meteorite is a mass of stone or metal which has reached the ...mindbites.com
http://mindbites.com/lesson/7020-meteorites

Almost-close encounter: Meteorite hits Lorton doctor's office
Washington Post
What are the chances, as he goes about his routine, that he'll get hit by a meteorite? "I was in my office doing charts," Ciampi recalled. ...

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Monday's meteor fell on Lorton, Va. dental office
Baltimore Sun (blog)
A Washington DC television station is reporting an apparent meteorite fall in Lorton, Va. The space rock, which has been taken to the Smithsonian ...

Mason Dixon Update – New Rob Matson Trajectory - Mike's Astro Photos
By Mike Hankey I spent 6 weeks back in September and October regathering and re-calibrating all of the recorded evidence from the meteor fall. From the beginning Rob had told me the model he created was only as good as the input data used, ...
Mike's Astro Photos - http://www.mikesastrophotos.com/

Tourists held in Sudan for acquiring space rocks
The New Straits Times Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:54 PM PST
KHARTOUM: Three European tourists have been detained in Sudan for acquiring the remnants of a rare meteorite that hit a remote region in 2008, their lawyer said yesterday. ...

Space rocks land tourists in Sudanese jail
Australian Broadcasting Corporation Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:08 PM PST
Three European tourists have been detained in Sudan for acquiring the remnants of a rare meteorite that hit a remote region in 2008, their lawyer said. ...

Discover the Maxwell Museum, Museum of Geology & the Meteorite Museum
UNM Daily Lobo
We'll have lunch, and then continue the tour with the Museum of Geology and the Meteorite Museum on the main campus. This tour includes time for the ...

Sky Bar, Meteorite Men Premiere Party Tonight, and Oscar Monnig's Cufflinks
Tucson Citizen
Many years ago, when I started recovering and researching meteorites, and chronicling my adventures for various scientific publications, I never imagined ...

21JAN2010 Lorton, VA Meteorite Fall USA

More on radar images of Lorton, VA fall on MLK
Thursday, January 21, 2010 10:21 PM
http://virga.sfsu.edu/pub/jetstream/ (address needs correction)

Link to NCDC radar archive Lorton, VA fall
You can download the archive radar data from Lorton, VA fall NCDC: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/nexradinv/
But you will need an imager (e.g. NOAA's Weather and ClimateToolkit) to decompress and load the V03.gz data. Also, I'vebeen having trouble for the last hour or so getting additionaldata out of NCDC. Site has been very slow all night, and seemsto be experiencing technical difficulties.--Rob Matson

Meteor mystery 'a load of hot air'
Londonderry Today
Both men were convinced it was a meteorite although an expert at the Armagh observatory was unconvinced. Professor Mark Bailey MBE from Armagh Observatory ...

SUNGRAZING COMET: NASA's STEREO-A spacecraft has discovered another bright sungrazing comet. The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) has a good view of the comet's death plunge, which is happening today. Check http://spaceweather.com for movies and updates.

21 January 2010

20JAN2010

Tourists held over space rocks
Straits Times Tue, 19 Jan 2010 15:57 PM PST
KHARTOUM - Three European tourists have been detained in Sudan for acquiring the remnants of a rare meteorite that hit a remote region in 2008, their lawyer said on Tuesday. 'They were arrested two weeks ago in Abu Hamad (500km north of Khartoum) and were transferred on Sunday to the Bahri prison' on the outskirts of the capital, Adil Yacoub Ahmed told AFP.

Space rocks land foreigners in the dock
Independent Online Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:57 PM PST
Three European tourists have been detained in Sudan for being in possession of the remnants of a rare meteorite that struck a remote region of the country two years ago.

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Monday Night Meteor (story with video)
KULR-TV By Jared Bray BILLINGS -
People from Billings to Helena said they saw a meteor light up the evening sky Monday night. Most of the witnesses say they saw the ...

Richmonders report seeing meteors
Richmond Times Dispatch By Staff Reports
Meteors are bits of space rock or gravel that burn and create light when they hit the atmosphere. Some people call them shooting stars. ...

Meteors, fireball seen in region's skies
Richmond Times Dispatch
"I've seen a lot of meteors, and I'm sure that's what it was," said Kraft, 85, a retired teacher. "This was very bright, very bright. ...

How to Find a Meteoriote (video)
What type of metal detector is best for meteorite hunting? Fisher Gold Bug 2 or Whites Gold Master 2) Do I need to build a big metal detector ...youtube.com

Burning Ball in Jersey Sky Revealed
NBC Philadelphia
“What it appears to be is a meteor,” said Dr. Joseph Sowers, adjunct professor of astronomy at Richard Stockton College in Galloway Township, after seeing ...

On TV Wednesday, Jan. 20
Tampabay.com
SERIES PREMIERE Meteorite Men, 9 pm, Science A couple of guys scour the Earth for really old rocks that hit the ground from outer space. ...

Curium erschüttert Altersbestimmung unseres Sonnensystems
derStandard.at
Neue Analysen der Uran-Isotopenverteilung in Meteoriten deuten darauf hin, dass das Alter des Sonnensystems doch nicht so klar bestimmt ist, ...

20 January 2010

19JAN2010

Twilight meteor reported Monday in Maryland
Baltimore Sun (blog)
The Tuesday morning mail contained the following report from a reader in Reisterstown, Md. He and his wife spotted a bright meteor to their south after ...

Planetary hide and seek
WHYY
Also get ready for some spectacular meteor shows this year including Perseids, Leonids and Geminids. All of these showers should be a great show. ...

Callers report possible meteor
Billings Gazette
Several people reported seeing a meteor fall Monday night west of Billings in an area between Red Lodge and Molt. One caller “said it lit up the sky and ...

Town fights over space rock
The Courier Mail Mon, 18 Jan 2010 05:21 AM PST
RESIDENTS of an Outback town are bickering over the discovery of a 25kg object which could be the state's second-biggest stony meteorite. ...

Meteor Shower A Quiet Centaur and A Carpenter's Square – Meteor ...
A site all about the meteor showers of 2010, meteors and more. ...

Google Earth Images Confirm Mythological Meteor Impact - PopSci ...
Australian Aborigine mythology begins in a period known as the"dream time", before the emergence of humanity. Many stories aboutthe dream time include ...

Turkmenistan ex-leader Niyazov's arch to be removed
BBC News
Cities, airports and even a meteorite were named after him. He introduced increasingly personal laws, and a book he wrote to be a "spiritual guide" for the ...

Seeing differences between stars, planets
Pasadena Star-News By Bill Sones and Rich Sones
Q.Skywatching at night, do you know a star from a planet, a meteor from a satellite? A. Stars twinkle, planets don't, ...

19 January 2010

18JAN2010

With a meteor shower as a decoy for ICBM Attack American ...
By Josh Rivera
With a meteor shower as a decoy for ICBM Attack In the event that a threat to the security of the nation of America is a pre-emptive strike, we want to do is to create a news event of an expected meteor shower in the media or the view, ...

Cunnamulla meteorite ownership divides town
Courier Mail
If the rock turns out to be a meteorite, it could be worth a small fortune. Mr King hopes it will be housed in Cunnamulla's museum in the town centre. ...