Meteor/Meteorite News 20DEC2010

Total Lunar Eclipse, Winter Solstice & Meteor Shower
LiveScience.com
And on top of that, the Ursid meteor shower, normally unremarkable, could put on a bit of a show while the eclipse darkens the night sky. ...

Rare astronomical treat in store Tuesday morning
WCBD
And to add even more to the pile, the Ursid meteor shower occurs Wednesday morning. Look near Ursa Major (the Big Dipper) for this display which will ...

Nepal Astronomical Society (NASO): Reports of Geminids Observation ...
By Nepal Astronomical Society NASO
Nepal Astronomical Society (NASO) conducted Geminids Observation and submitted the data to International Meteor Organization (IMO) for the first time. This submission was possible as Mr. Suresh Bhattarai, founder secretary of NASO and ...


Celebrate the Winter Solstice with a Total Lunar Eclipse and Ursid Meteor Shower
Yahoo! News
Keep the kids up late for winter solstice plus a total lunar eclipse and meteor shower. That's right folks, it's a TKO of the sun with a meteor shower to ...

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Meteor/Meteorite News 19DEC2010

Lunar Eclipse December 2010 Shows Ursids Meteor Shower
 City State Times
Last December 13, 2010, star gazers and sky watchers enjoyed the bright Geminid meteor shower. For those who missed watching and witnessing this phenomenon, ...


Rural holiday decorating offers bright Christmas colors
Atlanta Journal Constitution
The Ursid meteor shower is visible most of next week and peaks on Thursday night with about 15meteors per hour. Look to the east from about midnight until ...


The cutting edge of fake diamonds
The National
After dissolving a 50-kg chunk of meteorite material in various acids, Henri Moissan identified tiny crystals of silicon carbide, created in the extreme ...

elp allsky: Large Meteor Seen From West Texas...DEC15,2010 By elp allsky This blog is for the reporting and discussion of primarily West Texas, Southern and Central New Mexico, Eastern Arizona and Northern and Northwestern Mexico meteor/meteorite events. Significant USA, as well as Major Worldwide event news ...

Central Arizona Geology Club: Meteor Crater in Earthly Musings Blog By Central Arizona Geology Club Wayne Ranneys blog Earthly Musings has a account of his trip into Meteor Crater. Good photos of a place most people do not see. Earthly Musings ... APOD: 2010 December 17 - A Meteor Moment  A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation. ... Reports from Readers of Meteor/Meteorite News: Dec 18 2010, 11:41 AM Guest2 (guest): I was heading west in New Bedford, MA and I saw a really bright meteor. It was a lot brighter than a shooting star. If I had a guess I would guess it would have made contact with land around Dartmouth or Westport from my vantage point. Oh I didn't look at the clock but it must have been around 7:40 pm local time. Dec 19 2010, 12:59 AM Guest893 (guest): Last friday morning,around 0630, looked like a comet NE of Detroit skyline...any ideas. Stayed still,long tail, flickered orange faded after about 20 minutes

Meteor/Meteorite News 18DEC2010

NASA Finds Amino Acids on Impossible Meteorite, Improves Chances ET Exists
Fast Company
BY Kit Eaton Today Amino acids have been found in remote space bodies before--including a carbon-rich meteor--and lend support to the idea that life on ...

APOD: 2010 December 11 - Meteor in the Desert Sky
Explanation: Created as planet Earth sweeps through dusty debris from mysterious , asteroid-like, 3200 Phaethon, the annual Geminid Meteor Shower should be ...

Lunar eclipse December 2010 blogTO (blog) And, unlike meteor showers and the northern lights, you don't need to leave the city to see it. So long as the sky is clear, the phenomenon will be widely ...

Meteor/Meteorite News 17DEC2010

Geminids meteor shower 2010 -双子座流星群- timelapse
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vimeo.com movie & piano : mockmoon location : Yashimagahara Marsh Nagano Japan camera & lens : Nikon D3 & AF-S NIKKOR ...
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In the Territory, even the light showers are heavy
The Age
Stargazers know it as the annual Geminid meteor shower. "Cascading lights were going off in the outback sky in every direction, it was incredible to see," ...

Geminids Meteor Shower 2010: Best Viewing Times
Gather.com
The Geminids Meteor Shower will offer the best show in the sky this year over the next few nights. In fact, the best night for viewing the light show will ...

Pictures: Brilliant Geminid Meteors Dazzle Sky-Watchers
National Geographic
Shooting stars from the annual Geminid meteor shower zip across the night sky above the Zagros Mountains in Iran early Tuesday. The Geminids peaked earlier ...

Stargazing Live
BBC News
At around midnight the organisers will put aside the telescopes in order to observe the QuadrantidMeteor Shower. It all takes place at Newlands Corner, ...

Life's building blocks discovered on surprising meteorite Sify Scientists have identified amino acids, a fundamental building block of life, in a meteorite where none were expected. "This meteorite formed when two ...

NASA Discovers Asteroid Delivered Assortment of Meteorites PR Newswire (press release) Chemists at Stanford University found that different meteorite types share the same distinct fingerprint of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). ... Building blocks of life created in 'Impossible' place PhysOrg Thu, 16 Dec 2010 13:27 PM PST (PhysOrg.com) -- NASA-funded scientists have discovered amino acids, a fundamental building block of life, in a meteorite where none were expected. Life's building blocks discovered on surprising meteorite New Kerala Wed, 15 Dec 2010 22:53 PM PST Washington, Dec 16 : Scientists has identified amino acids, a fundamental building block of life, in a meteorite where none were expected. Meteorite Is Piece Of Unknown Celestial Body redOrbit Wed, 15 Dec 2010 22:15 PM PST Scientists from all over the world are taking a second, more expansive, look at the car-sized asteroid that exploded over Sudan's Nubian Desert in 2008. Initial research was focused on classifying the meteoritefragments that were collected two to five months after they were strewn across the desert and tracked by NASA's Near Earth Object astronomical network. Now in a series of 20 papers for a ... Meteorite just one piece of an unknown celestial body SpaceRef Wed, 15 Dec 2010 18:36 PM PST Scientists from all over the world are taking a second, more expansive, look at the car-sized asteroid that exploded over Sudan's Nubian Desert in 2008. Reports from Readers of Meteor/Meteorite News: Dec 16 2010, 2:11 AM Guest799 (guest):Last night (12/14)around 10pm, I saw what looked like a shooting star in the northern sky of Brighton, MI.However, I don't think it was a shooting star since it seemed round and also seemed to "burst"after a few seconds of falling. Dec 16 2010, 9:50 PM Dennise Becker:There is a large white ball of light in the sky right now directly above my home in Concord, California 12/15/10 4:50a Dec 16 2010, 11:40 PM  Guest811 (guest): I am in Wales, U.K.and saw a huge fireball on Sat.11th at app: 10pm-coming from east to west at a very shallow angle,yellow,bits of orange and sparks and HUGE. Before I could finish telling others in the car, it had disappeared. Not a firework, shooting star - far too big.Also VERY low in the sky...I was looking across at it from the motorway (which is on an incline). Uncanny,exciting and a bit frightening as it was so low. Jean Phillips,Bryncethin, Wales UK

Meteor/Meteorite News 16DEC2010

Geminid meteor shower gets rave reviews as best of 2010 Christian Science Monitor Skywatchers around the globe sang praises to the Geminid meteor shower, the annual mid-December rain of meteors passing through the earth's atmosphere. ... Antarctic science wrap-up: ANSMET hunting for meteorites again ExplorersWeb (By Correne Coetzer) This Antarctic season ANSMET has two field teams with separate goals hunting for meteorites; a smaller, more mobile team dedicated to ...

ANSMET: “The various possible targets of the ANSMET recon team for 2010-2011. A pre-season flight along the path shown, established the priority for visits to each ice field.”
courtesy ANSMET 2010-11 (live over Contact 5), http://www.humanedgetech.com/expedition/ansmet1011 and ExplorersWeb

elp allsky: Meteor News...Awesome Geminids Video From North Texas ...
By elp allsky
This video is compiled from individual captures during the overnight peak of the Geminid Meteor Shower Dec. 13th and 14th, 2010. The camera has an approximate field of view of 40 degrees and points North toward Oklahoma City, ...


Meteor report plus a Hubble bauble | Portal to the Universe
By Astro Bob
These were the words uttered by meteor watchers in the Duluth area last night. Despite a great forecast for Geminid watching, the sky turned mostly cloudy after 9 p.m. I was grateful for about 45 minutes of partly cloudy sky between 11 ...


Cosmic Log: It's a hot night for cool meteors
msnbc.com
A Geminid meteor streaks across the night sky, with circular star trails whirling the background, in a time-exposure photo made by astronomer Jimmy Westlake ...

Life`s buildings blocks in "impossible" place, plus a whalloping meteorite tale EarthSky Wed, 15 Dec 2010 16:10 PM PST Amino acids  critical to life, the building blocks of proteins â are present in an amazing meteorite from space that apparently suffered a violent collision with another asteroid in space, before crashing to Earth in 2008. Fragments of the meteorite  called 2008 TC3  are collectively called Almahata Sitta or Station Six after the [...] Life's Building Blocks Found on Surprising Meteorite SPACE.com via Yahoo! News Wed, 15 Dec 2010 15:15 PM PST Scientists have discovered amino acids, the building blocks of life in a meteorite where none were expected. Meteorite just one piece of an unknown celestial body Science Daily Wed, 15 Dec 2010 13:21 PM PST Scientists from all over the world are taking a second, more expansive, look at the car-sized asteroid that exploded over Sudan's Nubian Desert in 2008, with major implications for the meteorite's origin. In the first round of research, scientists examined one fragment of the asteroid and determined that it fell into a very rare category called ureilites. Now they have expanded the scope of the ... Meteorite just one piece of an unknown celestial body EurekAlert (press release) Initial research was focused on classifying the meteorite fragments that were collected two to five months after they were strewn across the desert and ... Meteorite streaks through sky in Knoxville WATE 6 Knoxville Wed, 15 Dec 2010 08:34 AM PST Thanks to a meteor cycle, Knoxville residents and even a 6 News crew saw a likely meteorite streak through the sky Wednesday morning.

Illinois, Ontario, and Arizona Meteors 14DEC2010 15DEC2010

Reports from Readers of Meteor/Meteorite News:
Wadsworth, Illinois 18:15 14DEC2010
Guest459 (guest):Stoyanoff wrote-Metorite sited over Wadsworth Illinois traveling North to South,at 30 degrees above the Western horizon at 18:15. The color was a white ball and tapering tail behind it.

Bradford, Ontario Canada 0530hrs EST 14DEC2010
Guest375 (guest): Craig wrote, 0530hrs EST Bradford, Ontario Canada
While travelling East saw abright meteorite that was visble for about 3 seconds and was coming straight down. The note here is that there was a snow storm and visibility was about 300m. I would assume that it was very large.

Western Arizona 11:40pm 14DEC2010
Guest437 (guest) wrote: I spotted 2 very bright burning objects following a north east path through the sky over Western Arizona at about 11:40pm this evening. Both objects appeared to be burning in the atmosphere and were not falling but more like entering at a very slight angle through the atmosphere and were visible for approx 2 min--very bright yellow and were changing in brightness