Meteor/Meteorite News 2SEP2010

Midwest Meteor Named Mifflin After Wis. Township

WCCO
CHICAGO (AP) ― A meteorite that fell in Wisconsin earlier this year now has a name: Mifflin. The Field Museum in Chicago said Wednesday that the ...

Meteor-impact may not have killed mammoths, great bears, claim experts

Sify
The theory that a space impact was responsible for extinction of at least 17 groups of large animals including mammoths and great bears, can be discounted, ...

New Deal man shares discovery of meteorite

LubbockOnline.com
The New Deal Meteorite is classified as an H6 ordinary chondrite — one of 3889 approved meteorites with that classification, according to the US Geological ...

Meteorite that hit Wisconsin is named
Wisconsin State Journal Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:05 PM PDT
The meteor that lit up the sky of southern Wisconsin on April 14 and created an international buzz now has a name. The Meteoritical Society has aptly named it the Mifflin Meteorite, named after the town on which many of the pieces were found. The area is about 65 miles west of Madison in Iowa County just south of Montfort. ...

Meteorite that lit night skies this spring is named Chicago Tribune Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:00 PM PDT A meteorite that lit up the night skies over the upper Midwest as it plummeted into southeastern Wisconsin April 14 now has a name: Mifflin, for rural Mifflin Township where it fell. Many tens of thousands of eye witnesses in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa and Illinois saw the meteor as it streaked down to Earth shortly after 10 p.m., setting hundreds of professional and amateur meteorite hunters ...

Meteorite That Fell In Wisconsin Now Has Name WISN 12 Milwaukee Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:40 PM PDT The meteorite that fell in Wisconsin in April is named Mifflin....

Midwest meteor named Mifflin after Wis. township ABC 7 Chicago Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:04 PM PDT A meteorite that lit up the sky in April now has a name: Mifflin....

Midwest meteor named after Wis. township where it fell Minnesota Public Radio Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:54 PM PDT The Field Museum in Chicago said Wednesday that the Meteoritical Society named the meteorite after Mifflin Township, where it fell on April 14....

Midwest Meteorite On Display KWQC-TV 6 Davenport Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:29 PM PDT A meteorite that fell in Wisconsin earlier this year now has a name: Mifflin. The Meteoritical Society named the meteorite after Mifflin Township, where it fell on April 14th. The group also has classified...

Wisconsin meteorite gets a new name
CBS 58 Milwaukee Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:26 PM PDT
The meteor fragment that fell in April will be named after the township where it fell ...

Meteorite that lit night skies this spring is named

Chicago Breaking News - Tribune
Terry Boudreaux, a private Lake Forest meteorite hunter and collector, located some of the first recovered pieces of the meteorite found by farmers in the ...

Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 1SEP2010

Peter Rowell listener spots 'meteor' over Bristol

BBC News
A Bristol man has the local weather-world talking after spotting what looks like a meteor in broad daylight. Gordon Busche got in touch with BBC Radio ... (Hoax-daytime fireball 24? AUG2010)
previously published in 2009 by the Daily Mail as:
"Great ball of fire? No, just a 'sun dog' scampering across the sky":

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1210447/Father-snaps-meteor-camera-phone-speeds-sky.html

Search for meteorite

Bombala Times
THERE has been much talk about the meteor that passed over the local area on Tuesday, August 17, with the significant occurrence even drawing a Research ... (Tombong Australia Meteor Fireball 17AUG2010) more...

International Meteor Conference in Armagh | Portal to the Universe

More than a hundred meteor astronomers will gather in the Market Place Theatre, Armagh, from 17th to 19th September for the 2010 "International Meteor Conference" (IMC) organized by the Armagh Observatory. This is the ...
PTTU All - http://portaltotheuniverse.org/?q=http://www.evilaliv3.org/

Astro Bob blog: Researcher finds new meteor crater without leaving home

Duluth News Tribune
Check out the newly-found meteor crater from your desktop. The newly discovered Gebel Kamil crater in southern Egypt is a little wider than a football field ..

Meteor/Meteorite News 31AUG2010

Dinosaurs Killed by Thousand Year Long Meteor Shower

Gather.com
A meteor shower? Aliens? A new study shows that dinosaurs were likely killed by a meteor shower, but not one that sent a few rocks to earth. ...

Impact hypothesis loses its sparkle

PhysOrg.com
One theory is that either a comet airburst or a meteor impact somewhere in North America set off massive environmental changes that killed animals and ...

Catch A Falling Star

Space Daily
by Morris Jones Every year, the world is treated to several well-known meteor showers. The Leonids, Draconids, Perseids and others usually get mentioned in ...

Meteor/Meteorite News 30AUG2010

Berthoud, CO (05 Oct 04 ~1930 UTC) « Radar Obs of Meteor Events

By mfries01
Radar Obs of Meteor Events. 29 August 2010 / mfries01. Berthoud, CO (05 Oct 04 ~1930 UTC) The Berthoud fall consists of the witnessed fall of a single, monomict eucrite. Several members of a family heard "a whistling noise" and a "thump", and one person saw the meteorite fall ~100 feet from [...]
Radar Obs of Meteor Events - http://radarmeteorites.wordpress.com/

Meteor/Meteorite News 28AUG2010

Science & Environment
BBC Radio 1 Fri, 27 Aug 2010 13:38 PM PDT
The dinosaurs were wiped out 65 million years ago by at least two meteorite impacts, rather than a single strike, a new study suggests. Previously, scientists had identified a huge impact crater in the Gulf of Mexico as the event that spelled doom for the dinosaurs. ...

One of a kind meteorite puts New Deal, Texas on galactic map
NEW DEAL, TX (KCBD) - After a mysterious rock is found in New Deal, a family makes the rare discovery that it is a meteorite. ... [story includes video]

Hallan cráter que impactó en la Antártida

El Universal (México) - ‎8 時間前‎

Pudiera ser que el enorme meteorito halla tenido qué ver con la ruptura del continente Gondwana, creando o acelarando la falla tectónica que entonces empujó ...

Weird Oblong Crater Deepens Mars Mystery
Wired News - Lisa Grossman - 17 hours ago

I learned this at the Meteor Crater in Arizona. They were originally looking for the meteor in the dead center of the crater since they figured that's how ...

Frightening Ride Along I-25 For Arizona Tourist

cbs4denver.com - 12 hours ago
"When it first hit, I though a meteor dropped out of the sky." Steinle called the Colorado State Patrol as she assessed the damage and discovered a wrench ...

Bad Universe Preview: Will an Asteroid Hit Earth?

Discovery News - Ian O'Neill - 3 hours ago 

"The meteorite that created the Meteor Crater in Arizona was probably only about 50 yards across," he continued, "when you think about it, that wasn't all ...

Double strike 'killed dinosaurs'
BBC News Fri, 27 Aug 2010 10:07 AM PDT
The dinosaurs were wiped out by at least two meteorite impacts rather than a single strike, say scientists....

'Double whammy' may have done in dinosaurs

UPI.com 27 (UPI) -- A UK researcher says the theory of a meteor impact killing off dinosaurs needs to be tweaked at bit, suggesting there was not one but many ...

Dedham Police: Argument over meteor shower viewing ends with stabbing
Daily News Transcript
She said the man was supposed to go watch a meteor shower with her but didn't, they argued, she got nervous he was going to get physical, and defended ...

Meteor/Meteorite News 27AUG2010

Huge Sudbury-like meteorite impact structure to be drilled for nickel
Mineweb Thu, 26 Aug 2010 02:46 AM PDT
The Impact Minerals/CITIC jv holding the majority of the Yarabubba Project in Western Australia are ready to start drilling in this Sudbury-like structure for nickel and possible pgms. ...

Meteor puts on light show

Bay Post/Moruya Examiner
She was returning from the beach on August 17 and about to cross the road to her home on George Bass Drive when she saw a meteor entering the Earth's ...

Meteor/Meteorite News 26AUG2010

鉄 でできた「隕石」。（“隕鉄”とは呼ばないと思う） | Flickr - Photo ...

火星展。2010年7月24日（土）〜10月30日（土），東京大学 総合研究博物館。 www.um.u- tokyo.ac.jp/exhibition/2010MARS.html. Photos of the meteorite exhibit at the University of Tokyo until OCT 30, 2010.
www.flickr.com/photos/tokyo_devices/4923720304/

Meteorite evidence favors explosive origins

PhysicsCentral.com (blog)
The ASU researchers acquired a small piece of a meteorite from a private dealer that had gotten the space rock off a local in Morocco after it was found in ...

Solar System may be 2 million years older than we thought, meteorite analysis suggests
Science Daily Wed, 25 Aug 2010 09:15 AM PDT
Timescales of early Solar System processes rely on precise, accurate and consistent ages obtained with radiometric dating. However, recent advances in instrumentation now allow scientists to make more precise measurements, some of which are revealing inconsistencies in the ages of samples. Seeking better constraints on the age of the Solar System, researchers analyzed meteorite Northwest Africa ...

Tombong, Australia Meteor Fireball 17AUG2010 25AUG2010

Meteor explosion wows community

Bombala Times- 25 Aug, 2010 09:21 AM

MANY of us heard the loud rumble, and some were even lucky enough to see something in the sky, but simply everyone is talking about the supposed meteor that exploded over the Tombong area last Tuesday afternoon. ...

...The reports, from Moruya and from the Bermagui River, tell of sightings of a daytime meteor between 1.50pm and 2pm on the Tuesday.... (more)
http://www.bombalatimes.com.au/news/local/news/general/meteor-explosion-wows-community/1922714.aspx?storypage=1
http://www.bombalatimes.com.au/news/local/news/general/meteor-explosion-wows-community/1922714.aspx?storypage=2

report and commets page:

Lights in the Sky page at http://www.sydneyobservatory.com.au/blog/?page_id=342

Meteor/Meteorite News 25AUG2010

Beer microbes live 553 days outside ISS
By Jonathan Amos Science correspondent, BBC News
... Bacteria taken from cliffs at Beer on the South Coast have shown themselves to be hardy space travellers. The bugs were put on the exterior of the space station to see how they would cope in the hostile conditions that exist above the Earth's atmosphere. ... [more and Video]

International Symposium on Asteroid Mitigation-- September 20, 2010
Texas A&M University-College Station, Texas
The International Symposium on Asteroid Mitigation, to be held September 20th, 2010 in College Station, Texas, will bring together an international community of researchers and practitioners to discuss new research results, mitigation strategies, international collaboration,
and public awareness. In additional to presentations from attendees, around table will be held to discuss future international cooperation ...

Toms River NJ man wants to know what almost hit him -- a meteor?

Dailyrecord.com - ‎20 時間前‎

The rock sat in the D'Addarios' garage until the family's curiosity was piqued by television shows such as the Science Channel's "Meteorite Men." "I don't ...

My Jakarta: Noval, Kris Maker

Jakarta Globe

Nickel, titanium and sometimes from meteorites. A meteorite is very difficult to get hold of and raw titanium is very expensive. Sometimes, I use ornamental ...

Solar System up to two million years older than previously thought

Arizona State University
Bouvier and fellow ASU researcher Meenakshi Wadhwa analyzed meteorite Northwest Africa (NWA) 2364 and found that the age of the Solar System predates ...

Oldest Material in Solar System Found

National Geographic
Pea-size minerals inside a meteorite are the oldest known material in the solar system, a new study says. At 4568.2 million years old, the minerals push ...

Meteorite nugget pushes back age of the solar system by nearly 2 million years

Scientific American (blog)
By John Matson A new analysis of a meteorite shows that an inclusion within the carbonaceous stone is older than any known material in the solar system. ...

Solar System is older than previously thought
New Kerala Mon, 23 Aug 2010 03:56 AM PDT
Analyses of the meteorite indicate that the Solar system is at least 0.3-1.9 million years older than some previous studies projected - making it 4.568 billion years old.

Solar system is older than previously thought

The Hindu
Analyses of the meteorite discovered in the Saharan desert indicate that the solar system is 4.568 billion years old. A meteor discovered in the Saharan ...

Flash of light caught by amateur astronomer in Jupiter most likely meteorite

National Turk English
Past flashes of light which were seen on the surface of Jupiter had left craters indicating that the suspected meteorite which caused the flash were large ...

Meteor/Meteorite News 24AUG2010

Solar System Older Than Once Thought

Discovery News
A newly studied meteorite reveals that the solar system is nearly 2 million years older than once thought. The meteorite contained some of the oldest ...

Jupiter PELTED By Rogue Meteor (VIDEO)

Huffington Post (blog)
... Observatory of Japan, told Kyodo News. Since the object left no visible trace on the planet's surface, the meteor may have been less than 1 km wide. ...

Reports of UFOs over BC skies hover into The Sun

Vancouver Sun
Nolan from Victoria wrote in on Monday about : "Myself and two friends were on the beach at Texada Island, watching the meteor shower on Friday Aug 13 ...

Black helicopters circle 'Welsh Roswell'

Register
The MoD subsequently concluded that the spacecraft was in fact a meteor, widely seen across the UK that night, and that the "almighty bang" was an unrelated ...

Flash of light as another meteor hits Jupiter

TG Daily
A Japanese amateur astronomer has captured what appears to be the second meteor strike on Jupiter in three months. Masayuki Tachikawa captured video of a ...

Our Solar System: Now With 2 Million Years More Maturity

Wired News
The currently accepted age of the solar system — about 4.56 billion years — was calculated by measuring parts of meteorites called calcium-aluminum-rich ...

Age of the Solar System Recalculated

Softpedia
The new investigation, conducted on a piece of meteor rock, established that the object was no less than 4.5682 billion years old, an age 1.9 million years ...

Solar system 'two million years older than first thought'

Telegraph.co.uk
Photo: NASA/ JPL Researchers revised the age after analysing a mineral "relic" buried deep within the meteorite, known as an inclusion, found in the Sahara ...

Amateur Astronomer Witnesses Jupiter Getting Smacked Around By Another Meteor

Gizmodo Australia
By Jack Loftus on August 23, 2010 at 10:20 AM Jupiter, our colourfully spotted gas giant neighbour was hit, again, by a meteor on Friday. ...

Another news flash from Jupiter

msnbc.com (blog)
A Japanese amateur astronomer witnessed a flash on Jupiter over the weekend - less than three months after similar blip, apparently caused by a meteor fall, ...

Solar System could be nearly two million years older than thought
TVNZ Sun, 22 Aug 2010 16:40 PM PDT
The Solar System could be nearly two million years older than thought after a study produced evidencefrom a meteorite found in the Moroccan desert that contains a "relict" mineral ...

Scientists age solar system by 2m years News.com.au Sun, 22 Aug 2010 16:33 PM PDT THE solar system could be up to 2m years older than previously thought, according to researchers who what is thought to be the oldest meteorite to have struck the Earth.

Solar System older than thought Straits Times Sun, 22 Aug 2010 16:23 PM PDT PARIS - THE Solar System could be nearly two million years older than thought, according to a study published on Sunday by the journal Nature Geoscience. The evidence comes from a 1.49 kg meteorite, found in the Moroccan desert in 2004, that contains a 'relict' mineral, which is one of the oldest solid materials formed after the birth of the Sun....

Solar System older than previously thought Nature Sun, 22 Aug 2010 10:27 AM PDT Meteorite dating resets solar clock....

Solar system slips back in time
New Scientist Sun, 22 Aug 2010 10:14 AM PDT
New meteorite evidence has just pushed the age of the solar system back by hundreds of thousands of years ...

Solar System May Be 2 Million Years Older Than Thought

Space.com
Researchers studying bits of a meteorite discovered that the space rock was 4.5682 billion years old, predating previous estimates of the solar system's age ...

Jupiter Struck Again by Asteroid 23AUG2010

Asteroid impact on Jupiter
Aug 22, 2010 17:10 Moscow Time
An amateur astronomer in Japan has observed a cosmic impact of
Jupiter. He successfully photographed a flash which lasted almost two
seconds.
The National Observatory believes Mr Masayuki Tatikawa watched the
crash of an asteroid or a comet about a kilometre across.
Original post in Russian News (English):
http://english.ruvr.ru/2010/08/22/16797121.html

Japanese report/ image of event [English]
http://chiron.mtk.nao.ac.jp/watanabe/optical-flash-on-jupiter

Video: http://libra-co.com/Jupiter2010Aug20182212UT.wmv

Clear skies
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Halifax Center - Royal Astronomical Society of Canada
Astronomy page: http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~aa063

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FIREBALL ON JUPITER: An amateur astronomer in Japan has video-recorded a fireball on Jupiter. This marks the third time in only 13 months that amateur astronomers have detected signs of something hitting the giant planet. Will the latest impact leave behind a visible cloud of debris? Great images and full text...

Large Fireball Seen in Iran- Iran Meteor/Meteorite News 22AUG2010

Piece of a comet in / luminous stone image landed in Iran Mehr News- Iran Tehran: 09:21, 05/31/1389

همزمان با اوج بارش شهابی برساوشی تکه ای از بازمانده دنباله دار سوئفت تاتل به صورت آذرگوی درخشان یا سنگ نورانی در آسمان ایران دیده شده و احتمالا در بخشهای شرقی ایران به خاک افتاده است که به باور اخترشناسان این آذرگوی تکه ای از بازمانده سوئیفت تاتل است. With the peak of Perseids surviving piece of comet Swift Zrgvy Tatl as bright or brighter the stone seen in the sky of Iran and possibly in eastern parts of the fallen, which astronomers believe that this piece of Zrgvy Tatl Swift is a survivor.

... This Zrgvy (fireball) magnitude 18 - or 20 - which cities in the sky Mrnjab, Abadeh, Zahedan, Taftan, Yazd and other cities in central Iran has been registered by the observers. این تکه از دنباله دار احتمالا در بخشهای شرقی ایران به خاک افتاده است. This piece of comet parts of eastern Iran probably has fallen. ...

Full Story:
Google Translation Farsi to English: http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mehrnews.com%2Ffa%2Fnewsdetail.aspx%3FNewsID%3D1137683

Link to report in Farsi: http://www.mehrnews.com/fa/newsdetail.aspx?NewsID=1137683

Iran meteor shower heralded by fireball

Press TV
Iranian meteor shower enthusiasts have particularly enjoyed the August show put on by the Perseids, which was heralded by a brilliant fireball, ...

Meteor/Meteorite News 22AUG2010

Santa Fe once destroyed by ancient meteorite

Mother Nature Network
By Katherine ButlerSat, Aug 21 2010 at 11:56 AM EST Comments A large meteorite smashed into what is now Santa Fe, New Mexico, some million or billion years ...

Countdown to Vesta

NASA Science News- August 19, 2010
Let the countdown begin. NASA's Dawn spacecraft is less than one year
away from giant asteroid Vesta.
"There's nothing more exciting than revealing an unexplored, alien
world," says Marc Rayman, Dawn's chief engineer at the Jet Propulsion
Laboratory. "Vesta," he predicts, "is going to amaze us."
Dawn is slated to enter orbit around Vesta in late July 2011. As the
first breathtaking images are beamed back to Earth, researchers will
quickly combine them into a movie, allowing us all to ride along. ... (more)
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2010/19aug_dawn2/

Perseid meteor shower lives up to its promise - Technology ...

Space.com: The 2010 Perseid meteor shower lived up to its promise of a meteor per minute just before dawn Friday, providing an excellent celestial spectacle ...

na11 MeteorScan 020728d 1 40sec, 10 0, 13st, PER
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UFO WAS NO METEOR-FRIGHT

WalesOnline
“I had the meteorite people call here. There's a smell of sulphur with meteors and there was no smell, just night air. “We just saw this huge ball glowing ...

Meteor/Meteorite News 21AUG2010

`Star Gazer' host Jack Horkheimer dies
By ELINOR J. BRECHER crline ebrecher@MiamiHerald.com
Jack Horkheimer, Public Television's ``Star Gazer'', died Friday afternoon of a respiratory ailment, according to a spokesman for the Miami Museum of Science and Space Transit Planetarium.Born June 11, 1938, he was 72. ...
Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/08/20/1785361/star-gazer-host-jack-horkheimer.html#ixzz0xCELKTTs

Researchers find evidence that the moon has been shrinking
Vancouver Sun
Heat from the moon's radioactive core, the impact and subsequent meteor impacts caused the moon to collapse into its circular shape before cooling. ...

Awesome video of meteor shower above Mt. Rainier and aurora from space

KATU (blog)
First of all, take a look at this time lapse video that has been posted of the Perseid Meteor Shower raging above Mt. Rainier last week. ...

Meteor/Meteorite News 20AUG2010

Blue Meteor Falls in Cirebon

, (Indonesia)

Tempo Interaktif
TEMPO Interactive, Cirebon:A meteor allegedly fell [18AUG2010] on an open area in Tersana Baru Sugar Factory in Babakan, Cirebon, (Indonesia) yesterday. The strange object gave off ... [smells like a hoax]

Be wary of meteor reports

BCLocalNews
By Jim McGregor - Langley Times Our little insignificant planet scooted through the annual meteor shower last week, and by all reports we are all still in ...

Meteor shower lights up sky

Basingstoke Gazette
By Emily Roberts » ASTRONOMERS were treated to a spectacular show in the sky last week when a meteor shower was seen above Basingstoke. ...

Meteor/Meteorite News 18AUG2010

10-year-old boy says he discovered a meteorite

KENS 5 TV - TX
"He walked in just pale as a ghost, and said mom something happened outside, I don't know what it was," Said Marianna Gardea, "Finally a meteor just came to ... [likely HOAX!]

10-year-old [TX] boy says he discovered a meteorite

Posted on August 17, 2010 at 10:56 PM A family out of Leon Springs, (TX) had a strange experience Monday night. It's a flash and a find they'll talk about for years to come. ... [ seems to be a HOAX]

Varre-sai Meteorite Brazil - Video Report

UmPasseiopeloCeu | 2010年08月16日175 views

Video produced by Program Domingo Espetacular - TV Record - about the Varre-sai Meteorite.
Vídeo produzido pelo Programa Domingo Espetacular da Tv Record sobre o meteorito de Varre-Sai.

Meteor shower dazzles a crowd

People's World
The crowd was reacting to an especially large, dazzling, meteor flashing across the starry sky above the Olympic Mountains. It was after midnight, ...

Meteor/Meteorite News 17AUG2010

Hegins （ＰＡ） man suspects meteorite struck home

Republican & Herald
By Vicki Terwilliger (Staff writer vicki-t@citizenstandard.com) VICKI TERWILLIGER/staff photos Ralph Lucht believes a meteorite may have caused the damage ...

Talking With Mary Roach, Author of Packing for Mars

The Planetary Society
Emily Lakdawalla reveals her new animations of Enceladus geysers and the Martian north pole, and Bruce Betts gives Mat Kaplan meteor shower viewing tips in ...

Perseid meteor shower August 2010, It was the best time to watch it ...

Khabrein
Saw the Best Meteor Showers of the Year? Ancient sky show plays again The appearance of Perseid meteor shower was a huge hit as thousands turned up to watch ...

4 Great Videos From the Perseid Meteor Shower

Urlesque (blog)
Every year about this time, for the last 2000 years or so, the night sky lights up with ancient debris from the Swift-Tuttle comet. ...

Meteor/Meteorite News 16AUG2010

Sky Map app can make you a star expert

Parkersburg News (blog)
The recent Perseid Meteor Shower provided backyard stargazers a real show. Yeah, I know, star watching is not all that exciting most of the time, however, ...

Perseid meteor shower hype exceeded reality

Coshocton Tribune
I was rewarded with an occasional meteor here and there, usually at the periphery of my vision rather than where I was actually looking. ...

Meteor/Meteorite News 15AUG2010

Perseid meteor shower occurs during the week StarCityNews.com Perseid meteor shower going on there for a week, and the peak occurred on the second night. According to the United States space agency, NASA, the meteor ...

Perseid Meteor Shower August 2010 a Beautiful Natural Display of Fireworks (VIDEO)

Associated Content
Perseid meteor shower August 2010 is underway, as the meteor shower began on July 23 and extends until August 24. The peak of this year's Perseids was ...

Looking toward the heavens

Pittsburg Morning Sun
By ANDREW NASH Josh Cochran, Greenbush observatory director, believes that meteor showers are a show for everyone. “I think the thing that's great about ...

500 show up to American West Heritage Center's meteor event

The Herald Journal
The Friday event coincided with the height of the Perseid meteor shower, which creates a steady stream of shooting stars in late summer. ...

Perseid Meteor Shower Adorns the Sky Again

TopNews United Kingdom (blog)
Meteor shower is back this year. Each year during this time, the Earth passes through the orbit of a comet called Swift-Tuttle, which results in a meteor ...

El Paso skycam records large meteorite Video A skycamera in El Paso, Texas, recorded the basketball-ized meteorite that lit up the early morning sky Tuesday. Video from ...

Meteor/Meteorite News 15AUG2010

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Perseid Meteor Shower: Best Time to Watch Shooting Stars is After ...

The Perseid Meteor Shower tonight will be best seen from about midnight to dawn, in places with few outside lights and clear weather.
abcnews.go.com/Technology/perseid-meteor.../story?id...

Perseid meteor shower nears peak - BostonHerald.com

Instead of staring at the TV late Thursday night, how about staring at the sky? Stargazing is on the agenda for many people this week with the annual ...

Meteor/Meteorite News 14AUG2010

Perseid meteor showers: Ancient sky show plays again tonight

Seattle Times
Stargazers gather to watch the Perseid meteor showers this week. The showers coincide not only with beautiful summer weather and weekend viewing ...

Was it really a meteorite?
The Daily Jeffersonian Fri, 13 Aug 2010 10:24 AM PDT
QUAKER CITY -- A Quaker City man continued his quest Thursday for answers as to the nature and origin of a rock that he believes may be a meteorite. That quest led him to Columbus on Wednesday, ... [same swimming pool rock...hoax]

Meteor Shower Peaks Tonight—How to See Perseids

A moonless night and the chance we're passing through a meteor clump make this year's Perseids extra promising, experts say.
news.nationalgeographic.com/.../100811-science-space-stargaz...

Perseid meteor shower returns on Thursday night

Perseid meteor shower returns on Thursday night, Shower is one of the most reliable of the year. ...

Meteor shower lights up the sky

Reuters
A meteor streaks past stars in the night sky over El Torcal nature park reserve in the southern Spanish town of Antequera, near Malaga, early August 13, ...

Perseid meteor shower lights up the night sky Washington Post The annual Perseid meteor shower brightened up the night sky, creating a spectacle for stargazers all over the globe. ...

Perseid meteor shower probably won't pelt spacewalking astronauts, says NASA

Christian Science Monitor
The Perseid meteor shower poses minimal risk to spacewalking astronauts trying to repair the International Space Station, and might even offer them a ...

Perseid Meteor Shower Lights Skies With Shooting Stars ABC News By NED POTTER If you went outside between midnight and dawn this morning, and the Perseid meteor shower of 2010 was good to you, you could see the sky ...

Images from around the world, including the Perseid meteor shower, the Vintage ... Washington Post A meteor streaks across the starry sky over Stonehenge, in Salisbury Plain, England. The Perseid meteor shower is sparked every August when the Earth passes ...

Star parties this weekend Salt Lake Tribune (blog) In addition to the meteor showers, you can see Venus, Mars and Saturn really well right now. We saw them the other night without a telescope! ... Perseid meteor shower lives up to its promise msnbc.com The 2010 Perseid meteor shower lived up to its promise of a meteor per minute just before dawn Friday, providing an excellent celestial spectacle for people ... Space Photos This Week: Meteor, Epic Iceberg, and More National Geographic While an electric-lighted line of mountain climbers snakes toward it, a meteor streaks over Tanzania's Mount Kilimanjaro in a photograph released Monday. ... How To See The Meteor Shower - Easily! News Fire Anyone who missed this week's Perseid Meteor display due to Britain's cloudy summer skies and city haze can take solace in Explorers' newest astronomy tour, ... Perseid Meteor Shower 2010: Last Chance to View in the Sky Tonight Keen Observers Perseid Meteor Shower August 2010 Tonight – People might wonder during the month of August, when they are on vacation in the country where skies are dark, ... See meteor shower light up skies over Surrey BBC News UK star-gazers have reported seeing dozens of shooting stars as the Perseid meteor shower reached its climax overnight. The Royal Astronomical Society says ... NASA video explains the Perseid meteor shower and viewing opportunities Examiner.com Tonight is the night for a display that only comes once a year – the Perseid meteor shower. With the moon down and out of the way, places with clear skies ... Heads up, Israel! Annual meteor shower promises spectacular show Ha'aretz By Asaf Shtull-Trauring The annual Perseid meteor shower, which is expected to peak late Thursday night, promises to be the one of the best displays of the ... Wish Upon a Meteor Boone Mountain Times by Lauren K. Ohnesorge The Perseid meteor shower is expected to peak Thursday and, according to astronomer and Appalachian State University professor Dan ... Perseid meteor shower tonight may be spoiled by rain, clouds The Star-Ledger - NJ.com Meteors of the Perseid meteor are often seen in these days most. If the sky remains clear the conditions are ideal - the moon does not affect the ...