14 June 2010

Meteor/Meteorite News 14JUN2010

AFP
Scientists scramble for Japanese asteroid capsule

AFP
The pod, which was ejected from a Japanese space probe as it burned up in a spectacular meteor-like display over Australia, could hold the first piece of ...


「はやぶさ」大気圏突入、60億キロの旅帰還

 【グレンダンボ(オーストラリア南部)=本間雅江】宇宙航空研究開発機構の小惑星探査機「はやぶさ」が13日夜、7年に及ぶ旅を終え、地球に帰還 した。 飛行した距離は、地球―太陽間の40倍にあたる60億キロ・メートルで、満身創痍(そ うい)の奇跡 ...

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/science/news/20100613-OYT1T00818.htm


Capsule plunges to Earth after historic visit to asteroid
BY STEPHEN CLARK, SPACEFLIGHT NOW June 13, 2010
Cutting across the night sky at more than 27,000 mph, a small Japanese
capsule returned to Earth from the surface of an asteroid Sunday and
landed in the remote Australian outback.
The 16-inch-wide capsule plunged into the atmosphere over Australia at
1351 GMT (9:51 a.m. EDT) on the second-fastest re-entry of a manmade
spacecraft ever attempted. ...
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n1006/13hayabusaentry/

NASA Team Captures Hayabusa Spacecraft Reentry- YouTube Video


Posted on YouTube by nasaames [202 views] 2010年06月13日
A group of astronomers from NASA, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and other organizations had a front row seat to observe the Hayabusa spacecraft's fiery plunge into Earth's atmosphere. The team flew aboard NASA's DC-8 airborne laboratory, packed with cameras and other imaging instruments, to capture the high-speed re-entry over an unpopulated area of central Australia on June 13, 2010. The Japanese spacecraft completed its seven-year, 1.25 billion mile journey to return a sample of the asteroid Itokawa. ...

The end of the world as we know it

Independent
Every century or so, a 10-meter meteor slams into the Earth with the force of a small nuclear device. Tunguska was the site of the last, in 1908, ...


Do You Have a Moon Rock?
FoxNews.com
June 13, 2010 - 3:04 PM | by
: Michael Sorrentino
Former NASA Special Investigator and college professor Joseph Gutheinz is on a mission. He set out years ago to recover the missing "Goodwill Moon Rocks" that were given to all 50 states and more than 100 countries by the Nixon ...
http://liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com/2010/06/13/do-you-have-a-moon-rock/

Pasco man says rock collection holds discovery

TheNewsTribune.com
Calvert claims the hole proves the rock had to have been made of compacted comet dust, not a meteor that would be more dense and unlikely to have a hole ...
[hoax]

11 June 2010

Meteor/Meteorite News 11JUN2010

Jupiter Impact: Mystery of the Missing Debris
NASA Science News
June 11, 2010: On June 3rd, 2010, something hit Jupiter. A comet or
asteroid descended from the black of space, struck the planet's
cloudtops, and disintegrated, producing a flash of light so bright it
was visible in backyard telescopes on Earth. ...
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2010/11jun_missingdebris/


Space.com
NASA Sends Aircraft to Watch Asteroid Probe's Fiery Re-entry

Space.com
... sample will be only 6500 feet ahead of the rest of the spacecraft, which will break into numerous pieces, essentially making it a man-made meteor. ...


New Model Is Proposed to Explain Absence of Organic Compounds on Surface of Mars
New Rochelle, June 10, 2010 - The ongoing search for evidence of past or
present life on Mars includes efforts to identify organic compounds such
as proteins in Martian soil, but their absence to date remains a
mystery. A new theory to explain what happens to these carbon-based
molecules is presented in an article published in Astrobiology, a
peer-reviewed journal published by *Mary Ann Liebert, Inc ...
http://cl.exct.net/?qs=97fedff095471e983a892ac0dc3aad36dafafbb1325782a25edc67ddec013666

The article is available free online
http://cl.exct.net/?qs=97fedff095471e98ccccc9761f9002c96987c594a653787d99cfa30a353d28cd



Extreme Life on Earth Could Survive on Mars, Too
space.com
08 June 2010
A new discovery of bacterial life in a Martian-like environment on Earth
suggests our neighboring red planet could also be hospitable to some
form of microbial life.
Researchers found methane-eating bacteria that appear to be thriving in
a unique spring called Lost Hammer on Axel Heiberg Island in the extreme
north of Canada....
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/mars-hospitable-life-earth-100608.html


June Meteorite-Times Now Online

The June issue of Meteorite-Times is now up.
A huge thank you to all the writers for their contribution of talent and time each month.
http://www.meteorite-times.com/meteorite_frame.htm

Enjoy! Paul and Jim

Rec center is rocking place during annual gem show

Delta County Independent
A display of blue petrified wood from Wyoming and a meteor fragment from Delta were among the hundreds of interesting and educational exhibits at the show. ...


NASA flying observatory to track return of Japanese asteroid sampling spacecraft

The Canadian Press
The group will study the meteor-like plunge of the Hyabusa spacecraft, which visited the asteroid Itokawa during a seven-year mission and is carrying a ...

10 June 2010

Meteor/Meteorite News 10JUN2010

NASA gets front row seat for fiery “man-made meteor” reentry

NetworkWorld.com
... essentially making it a man-made meteor," said Peter Jenniskens, the observation campaign's principal investigator and a scientist at NASA's Ames ...

NASA Astronomers to Observe Hayabusa Homecoming
MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. -- A group of astronomers from NASA, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and other organizations are flying to the other side of the world for a front row seat and a rare opportunity to study a spacecraft's targeted fiery descent through Earth's atmosphere. ...
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/news/releases/2010/10-48AR.html


Hayabusa on course for Australia landing zone
BY STEPHEN CLARK
SPACEFLIGHT NOW
June 9, 2010
Five days before it will fall into the Australian outback, Japan's
returning Hayabusa asteroid mission finished targeting the landing site
Tuesday in a final ion engine burn. ...
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n1006/09hayabusa/


DC-8 Flying Laboratory Heading To Australia For Hayabusa Re-entry

RedOrbit
During those missions, scientists studied the levels of radiation, light and out-gassing of the descending spacecraft, to better understand meteor and heat ...


09 June 2010

Meteor/Meteorite News 9JUN2010

ニュー ス 科学&宇宙 木星に隕石が衝突昨年から2年連続 ナショナルジオ ...

ニュース - 科学&宇宙 - 木星に隕石が衝突、昨年から2年連続 - ナショナルジオグラフィック 公式日本語サイト.
www.nationalgeographic.co.jp/news/news_article.php?file_id...

New Comet in the Morning Sky
Space Weather News for June 8, 2010
http://spaceweather.com

NEW COMET McNAUGHT: A fresh comet is swinging through the inner solar system, and it is brightening rapidly as it approaches Earth for a 100 million mile close encounter in mid-June. Comet McNaught (C/2009 R1) has a vivid green head and a long wispy tail that look great through small telescopes. By the end of the month it could be visible to the naked eye perhaps as bright as the stars of the Big Dipper. Because this is the comet's first visit to the inner solar system, predictions of future brightness are necessarily uncertain; amateur astronomers should be alert for the unexpected. Visit http://spaceweather.com
for sky maps, photos and more information. ...


NASA Helps in Upcoming Asteroid Mission Homecoming
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
June 08, 2010
The space and astronomy worlds have June 13 circled on the calendar.
That's when the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) expects the
sample return capsule of the agency's technology demonstrator
spacecraft, Hayabusa, to boomerang back to Earth. The capsule, along
with its mother ship, visited a near-Earth asteroid, Itokawa, five years
ago and has logged about 2 billion kilometers (1.25 billion miles) since
its launch in May 2003. ...
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2010-194



Detailed Martian Scenes in New Images from Mars Orbiter
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
June 09, 2010
Six hundred recent observations of the Mars landscape from an orbiting
telescopic camera include scenes of sinuous gullies, geometrical ridges
and steep cliffs. ...
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2010-193


Finding a 5 kg while prospecting for gold nuggets..

02:07
While prospecting for gold nuggets in central Australia I sometimes come across a meteorite or two.. This is a particularly nice one poking out at ...
youtube.com

08 June 2010

Meteor/Meteorite News 9JUN2010

Hayabusa on Track for June 13 Return Home
Softpedia - ‎5 時間前‎
Once around the planet, it will eject a canister that JAXA experts hope contains some pebbles and meteorite dust. However, this is uncertain, given that the ...

Als der Mars noch lebensfreundlich war
derStandard.at - ‎2010年6月6日‎
Diese Zusammensetzung findet sich auch in den Carbonatkügelchen, die in dem Mars-Meteoriten ALH 84001 entdeckt wurden. Der Allan-Hills-Meteorit sorgte Ende ...

山村晴朗天氣天上掉三大塊冰塊 墜落時帶響(圖)

中國經濟網 - ‎10 時間前‎
6月6日上午,記者趕到了波東村,正巧遇到聞訊趕來的北京天文臺研究隕石的專家張寶林和北京 電視臺科技頻道的記者,記者和專家走訪了20多位村民,大家都說當時確實沒有聽到和看到飛機經過,當時也確實是晴天。豐寧滿族自治縣氣象局局長吳曉軍證 實,6月5日上午8時至9時,衛星 ...
Village sunny weather, the three large ice cubes fall out the sky when the band sound (Figure) China Economic Net - 10 hours ago on June 6 morning, reporters rushed to the wave of East Village, jumped at the Beijing Observatory, who heard of meteorites Experts Baolin and Beijing TV channel technology journalists, reporters and experts visited more than 20 villagers, everyone says that when the aircraft did not hear and see through, was indeed a sunny day. Wu Xiaojun Fengning County Meteorological Bureau confirmed that, at eight o'clock on the June 5 to 9, the satellite ...

2010年宇宙の旅:小惑星の岩石採取、新設装置で分析へ

毎日新聞 - ‎16 時間前‎
地球に落下する隕 石(いんせき)は、小惑星からもたらされる物質の代表格だ。だが隕石は大気圏を通過する途中で高温になり、落下後は地球環境にさら されて変質している。はやぶさが持ち帰る物質は、このような熱変化や地球環境による汚染の影響がない。 ...
2010 A Space Odyssey: an asteroid rock samples, to analyze
毎日新聞 - 16 hours ago
Meteorites fall to Earth (Inseki) is the representative of the material come from the asteroid. But along the way became a hot meteorite through the atmosphere after the fall has been exposed to environmental deterioration. Material brought back by the spacecraft is not affected by pollution and global environmental changes such heat. ...


Meteor/Meteorite News 8JUN2010

NASA wants you ... to help find meteorites

msnbc.com
The blazing meteor lit up the Alabama sky on May 18 and was spotted by all-sky cameras at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville and the Walker ...

Mystery of the Canadian Fireball Procession of 1913

Toronto Star
But what intrigued Olson about the painting was the rarity of the event that it seems to depict: a “meteor procession.” A meteor procession happens when a ...

07 June 2010

Colorado fireball/meteor 6JUN2010

Henry Mendoza wrote:

----- Original Message ----- From: "hxmendoza"
To:
Sent: Sunday, June 06, 2010 1:19 AM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Colorado fireball/meteor 6/6/10


Hi folks!

Was driving home with the family after watching Ironman 2 for my birthday tonite, when I saw a bright fireball/meteor come down. I was heading east. The meteor appeared at the top left corner of my driver side of the windshield and shot down at a sharp 65 to 70 degree angle east to southeast. It was approximately 12:20 AM MST. What I saw of it from inside the car lasted only a second to a second and a half. It was bright but it did not flash or detonate. I was so caught off guard by it that all I could yell out to my wife and kids was "Whoa, whoa, whoa!!" and point. But they all thought I was freaking out about something on the road ahead of the car and therefore no one else got to see it. I had been hoping on seeing a fireball, so I guess I got overly excited that I actually got to see one. I haven't seen a bright fireball since I was a kid in New Jersey about thirty plus years ago.

Shame that it just burned up and diminished. Would have been even more exciting if it had detonated and flashed. Oh well.
Have a nice morning!
Regards,
Henry Mendoza


Chris Peterson replied:

Hi Henry-

Here is an image and video of the fireball from about 120 km south of you. Should have the data off the roof camera at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science tomorrow, and the position can be nailed down.

http://www.cloudbait.com/meteor/data.php?recnum=34030




Chris

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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
http://www.cloudbait.com

06 June 2010

Moderate Northern California Bolide 5JUN2010















Click on image to enlarge (c) Yuba City Sentinel
2010


Terminal detonation on a bearing of 196 degrees True North from Yuba City.

This +2 second Bolide was recorded through cloudy skies at Yuba City at 20100605_022134.29. (Morning of June 5th at 0221:34 PDT).

04 June 2010

Meteor/Meteorite News 5JUN2010

Australians surprised by a bright light
Radio Australia News - ‎2 時間前‎
Astronomer Simon O'Toole says there's no need for alarm and that it was not a UFO. He says the phenomenon was probably caused by a meteor or space junk...

隕石クレーター:きょう飯田でシンポ 発見者ら、わかりやすく解説 /長野
毎日新聞 - ‎50 分前‎
飯田市の南アルプスの御池山(1905メートル)の山頂付近で発見された国内初の隕石(いんせき)の衝 突跡(クレーター)について、専門家がわかりやすく解説するミニシンポジウム「世界から見た御池山隕石クレーター発見の意義」が5日、同市 美術博物館で開かれる。 ...
Meteor Crater: We discovered today Iida Symposium on, easy to understand
explanation / Nagano
Mainichi Shimbun - 50 minutes ago
Iida 御池山 Southern Alps (1905 m), the nation's first meteorite found near the summit (Inseki) opposition 突跡 (crater), by mini-symposium experts clearly explain "the significance of meteorite craters discovered 御池山 from the world" five days, the city Held in museums. ...

NASA's on hunt for bit of meteor

The Huntsville Times - al.com
NASA thinks at least one meteorite hit the ground there last month. "Very rare," Dr. William Cook of Marshall Space Flight Center said Wednesday while ...

Meteorite man

ConnectTriStates.com powered by KHQA
He's a meteorite hunter and collector. He has quite a collection. Some of them he's found, others he bought on E-bay. He even has a piece of the moon that ...


Hobbyist tracks 'cosmic collision,' collects large chunk of meteorite that lit up Midwest sky
Quincy Herald-Whig Fri, 04 Jun 2010 09:35 AM PDT
When Karl Aston saw a fireball in the sky, his first thought was of chasing it. The St. Louis research chemist, whose in-laws live in Quincy, hunts for and collects meteorites in his spare time. ...


Scientists identify meteor event in Walt Whitman poem

Seattle Times
The heavenly display is described in the poem "Year of Meteors (1859-1960)," in which Whitman writes of the tumultuous period leading up to the Civil War. ...

Noctilucent Clouds Sighted over Europe

The 2010 noctilucent cloud season has just begun in the northern hemisphere, with sightings over Russia, Scotland and Denmark. Although noctilucent clouds were once a phenomenon of high latitudes only, in recent years they have been sighted in the United States as far south as Colorado and Utah. Visit http://spaceweather.com
for photos and observing tips. ...

Mars On Earth: Astrobiologists look for places here to practice for missions ...
PhysOrg.com - ‎12 時間前‎
Other analogous sites scheduled for scrutiny are the Popigai meteorite crater in Siberia and Rio Tinto in Spain, which are thought to mimic other parts of ...

Terpecahkan, Misteri Badai Meteor 1859

Inilah.com - ‎3 時間前‎
COM, Jakarta- Lebih dari seabad gambaran Walt Whitmen mengenai badai meteor menjadi misteri yang tidak terungkap. Tapi peneliti kini sudah mendapat ...

Jupiter dostal ďalšiu ranu. Zachytil ju amatér

DNES.sk - ‎20 時間前‎
Neprítomnosť pozorovateľnej stopy po náraze a krátky čas dopadu viedli vedcov k dohadu, že do Jupitera narazil meteor. "Nikdy sme ešte nevideli, ...

Rare rocks identified on Mars

Astronomy Now Online - ‎20 時間前‎
... of astronomy for the year ahead, with a complete 30-page guide to observing the planets, moon, meteor showers, two solar eclipses, and the deep sky in 2010...

Jupiter Kembali Dihantam Benda Asing

Vivanews - ‎11 時間前‎
"Kami belum pernah melihat suatu meteor menghantam Jupiter," kata peneliti dari Badan Antariksa Amerika Serikat (NASA), Glenn Orton. ...

Jupiter Kembali Dihantam Benda Asing

Vivanews - ‎11 時間前‎
"Kami belum pernah melihat suatu meteor menghantam Jupiter," kata peneliti dari Badan Antariksa Amerika Serikat (NASA), Glenn Orton. ...

Un astronom amator a observat cum Jupiter a fost lovita de un meteorit

Ziare.com (Comunicat de Presă) - ‎17 時間前‎
Planeta Jupiter a fost lovita de un corp strain, care sa aprins in atmosfera, iar impactul a fost observat de un astronom amator. ...

Karbonatgestein auf dem Mars nachgewiesen: Warmes und feuchtes Klima war ...

Informationsdienst Wissenschaft (Pressemitteilung) - ‎17 時間前‎
Der Allan-Hills-Meteorit sorgte Ende der 90er Jahre für Aufsehen, nachdem Wissenschaftler bestimmte Strukturen als biologische Signaturen gedeutet hatten. ...

Museum of Natural History Celebrates its Reopening

Canada Views - ‎16 時間前‎
Téo the astronaut and his dog, Laïka, guide “space travelers” as they explore fragments of meteorites that fell in Canada in 1960, 1963 and 1994. There is a ...

Júpiter recibió un impacto que dejó una huella similar al océano Pacífico

Diario de Navarra - ‎12 時間前‎
No es por criticar, pero que coj... importará si cae un meteorito en Jupiter o si los anillos de Saturno han decidido instalar un peaje para los plutonianos ...

Kamienie prosto z nieba

Zycie Warszawy - ‎8 時間前‎
Każdy fragment małego ciała niebieskiego, którego orbita przecina się z orbitą Ziemi, i które przebije się przez naszą atmosferę to meteoryt. ...
The stones from heaven
Zycie Warszawy - 8 时间 前 Each fragment of a small celestial body whose orbit intersects the orbit of the Earth, and which penetrates through our atmosphere is a meteor. ...

कहां से आई थी वो रोशनी?

दैनिक भास्कर - ‎2010年6月1日‎
वहां की प्रेसीडेंशियल पेनल का सुझाव था कि उस समय कोई उल्का पिंड सैटेलाइट से टकराया होगा। उस समय सैटेलाइट ने रिपोर्ट दी थी कि उसने दो बार चमकीली रोशनी देखी है। पहली रोशनी बहुत ज्यादा चमकीली थी। वहीं दूसरी ज्यादा देर तक दिखी थी लेकिन इसकी चमक कम थी। ये दो से तीन किलोटन न्यूक्लियर एक्सप्लोशन के बराबर थी। इसे हिंद महासागर में बोउवेट आईलैंड और प्रिंस एडवर्ड आईलैंड के बीच देखा गया था। ये जानकारी मिलते ही एयरफोर्स के विमान इस ...
Where came the light?
Times of India - 2010 年 6 月 1 日 These events are detected by U.S. satellite had Aaila hotel. The U.S. satellite on September 22, 1979 Two shining lights in the sky saw. According to experts, it was like a light nuclear Ckasploshne. May be the result of this test a nuclear weapon. Yet this fact could not find out until today there is. There Preesideanshiyal panel suggested that the time would be a meteorite hit the satellite. ...

野 狸岛上发现陨石

长寿网 - ‎3 時間前‎
本报讯记者靳碧海报道:“我认为这些石头是陨石。”昨天,对石头颇有研究的市民曾女士,向记者展示了她在野狸岛上发现的两种特别的石头:一种为暗绿 色,外形与普通石头无 ... [not meteorite]

Meteor/Meteorite News 4JUN2010

Jupiter Impact Event Caught on Video
Space Weather News for June 3, 2010
http://spaceweather.com

SOMETHING HAS JUST HIT JUPITER: Veteran amateur astronomers Anthony Wesley of Australia and Christopher Go of the Philippines have independently observed an impact event on Jupiter. The strike occurred at 20:31 UT on June 3rd and produced a bright flash of light in the giant planet's cloudtops. Visit http://spaceweather.com
for images and video.

Jupiter impact - June 03, 2010

The full report is at http://www.iceinspace.com.au/70-592-0-0-1-0.html

with more discussion at:
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/showthread.php?t=61965

(and readers of German can go to for more links on Wesley's role in Jupiter monitoring).
http://skyweek.wordpress.com/2010/06/03/hat-anthony-wesley-einen-einschlagsblitz-auf-dem-jupiter-aufgenommen


A fireball impact has been imaged within the last two hours on Jupiter by Anthony Wesley in Australia.
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=77409


See: http://jupiter.samba.org/
for more images!

PhysOrg.com
Large Meteor Tracked over Northeast Alabama

PhysOrg.com
Composite photo of the meteor as seen from the Marshall Space Flight Center. Image credit: NASA/MSFC On the evening of May 18, NASA all-sky meteor cameras ...

Raw Video: Meteor Caught on tape over Huntsville and Scottsboro

WAFF
This meteor was first picked up at an altitude of 47 miles over northwest Huntsville, moving at a speed of 8 miles per second towards the southeast. ...


Missing moon rock? Ex-governor had it
$5 million specimen was given to Colorado during Nixon administration
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37454964/ns/technology_and_science-space/?GT1=43001

SPACEcom Walt Whitman Meteor Mystery Solved by Astronomer Sleuths

A unique case of forensic astronomy uncovers the historic reality of a celestial event forgotten in time yet referenced in a poem by Walt Whitman.
www.space.com/.../walt-whitman-meteor-mystery-solved-100...



Ancient Meteorite Discovered In Oregon
redOrbit Thu, 03 Jun 2010 05:23 AM PDT
Image 1: A closer view of the Morrow County meteorite, showing the sculpted surface texture caused by passage through the Earthâs atmosphere. The meteorite has a distinctive yellowish color caused by mild weathering on Earth. A portion of the meteorite at bottom right has been removed for study. At the top, another portion is missing, which was removed before Mr. Wesson found the rock, possibly ...

03 June 2010

Meteor/Meteorite News 3JUN2010

Cosmic Log 150yearold meteor mystery solved

Academic sleuths have used fine art and old newspapers to figure out exactly which meteor Walt Whitman was talking about in his poem "Year of Meteors ...

Niningers Museum - Where It All Started
00:58 Video
Niningers Meteorite Museum - Where It All Started by Ruben Garcia
youtube.com



Mr- and The Men - How to Chase

03:10 Video 22 views
Meteor Chasing with Mr-Meteorite (Ruben Garcia ) and The Meteorite Men
youtube.com



Space.com
Ancient 40-pound Meteorite Pulled From Ditch in Oregon

Space.com
It is the fifth meteorite to be found in the northwestern state. The space rock, which sat anonymously on the planet's surface for a few hundred to a ...

Rare Meteorite Discovered on the “Side of a Road”: How Much Is It ...

Busy Buzz Blogging
Rare Meteorite Discovered on the “Side of a Road” - Eleven years ago, Oregon native Don Wesson picked up an odd-looking rusty-colored rock from the side of ...

That big rock sitting in the garden? Meteorite.

Christian Science Monitor
A rock picked up in a ditch along a stretch of road in north central Oregon by a couple in 1999 turns out to be a rare, ancient meteorite. ...

Children welcome unusual visitor

Malvern Gazette
Headteacher Debbie Langston explained: “Children were involved in making their own mini aliens, de-coding cryptic messages, making meteorite and moon rock ...

Nature.com (blog)
Meteor painting dates Walt Whitman poem

Nature.com (blog)
In the July issue of Sky & Telescope magazine, Olson and colleagues reveal that the event was indeed a "meteor progression" – something that occurs when a ...

02 June 2010

Meteor/Meteorite News 2JUN2010

hits house!

01:38
A rock was found in the side of Jerry's house that could very well be a meteorite. This video shows the Q6 News cast of this amazing story and ...
youtube.com

Video footage from KHQ Q6 TV Spokane [My comment--Not a meteorite!]

Walt Whitman meteor mystery solved

Sify
It was an Earth-grazing meteor procession," said Donald Olson, who conducted the study with Russell Doescher, English professor Marilynn S. Olson and ...

Meteor/Meteorite News 1JUN2010

San Marcos Mercury
Texas State astronomers say they've solved Walt Whitman meteor mystery

San Marcos Mercury
In his landmark collection Leaves of Grass, famed poet Walt Whitman wrote of a “strange huge meteor-procession” in such vivid detail that scholars have ...





APOD 2010 June 2 A Twisted Meteor Trail Over Tenerife

A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation. ...

Oregon Man Adds To Rock Collection
Video
The rock is the first meteorite found in the state since 1981, Portland State University researchers said. KPTV FOX 12 Portland, OR May. 31, 2010 ...
clipsyndicate.com

01 June 2010

Meteor/Meteorite News 1JUN2010

El Paso, Texas Meteor Event
- May 26th, 2010 05:21:08hrs

ELP Sentinel Allsky Camera recorded a meteor event in our west-southwest sky. Visual magnitude calculated to be -10.4 (very bright "shadowcaster"). ... [Photo and More]
http://elpallskycamera.us/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=53:jagamblesbcglobalnet&catid=1:latest-news&Itemid=50#addcomments

The Nevada Fireball

UFODigest
by Scott Holloway On April 18, 1962, an unidentified flying object , most commonly referred to by witnesses as a "fireball" or a "meteor", crashed in Nevada ...

ESA Science & Technology: Fireball meteor over Groningen, the ...

A bright, fireball meteor (seen here in a photograph taken by Robert Mikaelyan) was spotted on 17 October 2009 by many in the Netherlands, including Maria ...

Ensisheim 2010 show latest news

Tuesday, June 1, 2010 4:06 AM
Those asking for more news on 2010 Ensisheim meteorite show dates and organization, please look at this site:
http://meteorite.ensisheim.free.fr/site/fr/news/news.php

Click on "2010 flyer.pdf"
More info on how to reach the show, accommodation and other details can be found on the other links on that page.

31 May 2010

Meteor/Meteorite News 31MAY2010

01:30 - cnn.com
A man from Oregon got a big surprise when he took his favorite rock to a scientist. KGW's Wayne Havrelly reports. ... Watch this video on cnn.com

Meteorite found along Ore. road estimated at 4.5 billion years old

kgw.com
by KGW Staff An extremely rare and pristine meteorite was found on the side of the road in Eastern Oregon and experts say it's 4.5 billion years old. ...

Field Training and Research Program at Meteor Crater

Meteor Crater The LPI-JSC Center for Lunar Science and Exploration is excited to announce a new student field camp opportunity coming this fall! ...

How to Bounce Amateur Radio Signals Off Meteors | eHow.com

How to Bounce Amateur Radio Signals Off Meteors. Radio astronomy does not necessarily require huge radio telescopes. Get your amateur radio operators ...

QUESTION OF THE WEEK

The Free Press
One of the first things he discovered was a meteorite. He was hunting bears in the Flathead when he noticed a large crater in a landslide; it was a circle ...

30 May 2010

Canada Meteor/ite News Past

The Kitchener Daylight Fireball of November 4, 1977

by AA Griffin - 1978
THE KITCHENER DAYLIGHT FIREBALL OF NOVEMBER 4, 1977 BY A. A. GRIFFIN AND I. HALLIDAY Herzberg Institute ofAstrophysics, National Research Council of Canada, ...
adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1978JRASC..72..189G

The daylight fireball of January 20, 1988

by GCL Aikman - 1989
For comparison, a sun-rivalling daylight fireball comparable to the present one was seen in Canada a decade ago as the Kitchener fireball of November 4, ...
adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1989JRASC..83..232A

29 May 2010

Meteor/Meteorite News 29MAY2010

Looking Back: Pioneer used meteorite as washstand

Plainview Daily Herald
CROSS SECTION: A slice of the Estacado Meteorite, magnified 40 times, shows the interesting composition of the space rock. By DOUG McDONOUGH Herald Managing ...

Meteorite hunter combs the land for extraterrestrial rubble

Arizona Republic
The Phoenix resident is a meteorite hunter, making his living by finding and selling the rocks from space that litter the Earth. He monitors the Internet ...

Тайна падения Карпатского болида в 2001 году будет разгадана ? (ФОТО)

Ua-Reporter.com - ‎16 時間前‎
Уже состоялось семь экспедиций украинских ученых на Закарпатье в поисках этого метеорита. Ученые обыскали территорию в 85 кв. км, «вооружившись» для более эффективного поиска миноискателями. Но, увы, этот метеорит до сих пор не найдено. Большой интерес к нему проявляют и так называемые «черные» ...

「50年目」の再オープン 明石・天文科学館

神戸新聞 - ‎2010 年5月28日‎
開館前から天文ファンや親子連れら約100人が行列をつくり、地球に落下した隕石(いんせき)や宇宙開発の歴史など、新しい展示を興味深げ に眺めていた。本来休館日の31日と6月7、8日は開館し、時の記念日は入館無料となる。TEL078・919・5000....
"50 years" Akashi Planetarium re-opening
神戸新聞 - ‎2010 年5月28日‎
About 100 people make the matrix space enthusiast and parents and children before they opened, the meteorite fell to Earth (Inseki) and the history of space development, a new exhibit curiously was looking into. Closed June 31 and the original open seven or eight days, when the anniversary of the admission will be free. TEL078 · 919.5000 ...

27 May 2010

Meteor/Meteorite News 27MAY2010

Cops investigate NT UFO invasion

ntnews.com.au
Astronomers and police say that the flares seen across a 360km-long stretch of the Top End coast were probably caused by a meteor shower. ...

A significant event in the night sky

Cranbrook Daily Townsman
By GERRY WARNER Reports are still trickling in about the massive meteor shower seen over the Kootenays May 12. The shower is believed to be part of the ...

Sighting - Orange Ball of Glowing Light Over Livingston West Lothian UK

Before It's News - ‎49 分前‎
We didn't think it was an aeroplane, or a meteorite and could not come up with a rational explanation of what it was? What are all these glowing balls of ...

Sighting - Orange Ball of Glowing Light Over Livingston West Lothian UK

Before It's News - ‎49 分前‎
We didn't think it was an aeroplane, or a meteorite and could not come up with a rational explanation of what it was? What are all these glowing balls of ...

Research station out of this world

Northern News Services (subscription) - ‎18 時間前‎
Lee said 39 million years ago, a meteorite impact created the Haughton Crater which is approximately 1.6 kilometres deep and 20 kilometres wide. On the ...

Den Sternen so nah - Das Night Skies Program im Shenandoah Nationalpark bringt ...

openPR.de (Pressemitteilung) - ‎16 時間前‎
... in die unendlichen Weiten des Universums schauen und erfahren, welche Bedeutung Sterne, Planeten, Monde, Asteroide, Meteoriten und Galaxien haben. ...
To the stars so near - the Night of ski program in Shenandoah national park brings ... open PR.de (press release)-
‎16 時間前‎ ... in the infinite width of the universe look and find out, which meaning stars, planets, moons, Asteroide, meteorites and galaxies have....

Meteoryt z Marsa wyjaśni zagadkę marsjańskiej wody?

Onet.pl - ‎25 分前‎
Brytyjska Agencja Kosmiczna poinformowała, że naukowcy badają fragmenty meteorytu pochodzącego z Marsa w nadziei, że pomoże to ustalić kiedy na Marsie ...
Meteorite from Mars mystery explained Martian water? Onet.pl - 25 分 前
British Space Agency announced that scientists examine the meteorite fragments
derived from Mars in the hope that this will help determine when to Mars ...


高清图:土星探索

红网 - ‎22 時間前‎
2009年11月26日拍摄的卡西尼号飞船捕捉到这张带有著名的奥德修斯陨石坑的土卫三(直径1062公里)在土星最大的卫星土卫六(直径5150公里)后面滑动的图像。 ...
HD Photo: Saturn to explore Red Net - 22 hours ago November 26, 2009 shooting Cassini spacecraft captured this with the famous Odysseus crater of the Tethys (diameter 1062 km) in Saturn's largest moon Titan (diameter 5150 km) behind the slide images. ...

专访中国稀土界泰斗苏锵院士 揭开稀土资源价值面纱

中国武汉 - ‎14 時間前‎
苏院士介绍,稀土元素并不稀有,稀土元素的分布很广,根据获得的陨星、陨石、太阳和太阳系的 光谱分析数据,发现宇宙中存在稀土。地球上稀土资源很丰富,但分布不均, ...
Interview with the Chinese Academy of rare earth industry leading authority Su Qiang veil lifted the value of rare earth resources in Wuhan, China - 14
Time before
Su Yuanshi introduction, rare earth elements are not rare, rare earth elements is widely distributed, according to access to the meteorite, meteorites, the sun and the solar system's spectrum, is found to exist in the universe of rare earth. Rare earth resources are abundant, but unevenly distributed, ...







26 May 2010

Meteor/Meteorite News 26MAY2010

Colorado Fireball of May 16, 2010
The meteor was very slow, and did show some small fragmentation events.
Witnesses reported seeing debris shedding. The later part of the ground path
is over private ranch land in South Park (cattle and buffalo), and is
potentially searchable. The central part of the path, where most of the
fragmentation was observed, is over mountainous area that will make finding
anything very unlikely.
by Chris Peterson Cloudbait Observatory
released May 25, 2010 pm
http://www.cloudbait.com

Navy plane drops buoy on Florida house
MANDARIN, Fla. (AP) - A north Florida man is glad his daughter didn't sleep in on Friday.
http://www.wdtn.com/dpps/military/Navy-plane-drops-buoy-on-Florida-house_3378473

Meteorite? Piece of Icelandic volcano? Rock?
KLTV 7 Tyler
Tue, 25 May 2010 14:23 PM PDT
Imagine sitting in your backyard when all of a sudden, an object comes hurling out of the sky! That's what happened to a Tyler woman Monday afternoon.... [not a meteorite]

Search launched off NT coast

ABC Local
Police are organising a search after a flare was seen off the coast of the Northern Territory last night, but they suspect it was a meteor. ...

Martian meteorite may hold clues to water on the Red Planet
PhysOrg Mon, 24 May 2010 04:03 AM PDT
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists are examining fragments of a Martian meteorite to try to establish when water was freely flowing on the red planet.
...

Atlantis: Damage survey ahead
Straits Times Mon, 24 May 2010 02:02 AM PDT
CAPE CANAVERAL (Florida) - THE Atlantis astronauts have some surveying work ahead of them, now that they're flying free of the International Space Station. The six shuttle astronauts will pull out their newly repaired inspection boom on Monday to check for any micro-meteorite damage that might have occurred during the past week and a half. A snagged cord prevented them from conducting a proper ...

25 May 2010

Meteor/Meteorite News 25MAY2010

International Meteor Organization.pdf

The International Meteor Organization (IMO) was founded in 1988 and has several ...

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