Meteor/Meteorite News 28JUL2011

New meteor shower points to a future close encounter Discover Magazine (blog) As I'll point out below, we pass through lots of meteor streams, so there are plenty of other comets that could hit us. I know, I know, that doesn't sound reassuring, but think about it: how often is the Earth hit by a comet? ...

A Volcano on the Moon -- Where None Should Be
TIME
Volcanoes or meteor impacts on the near side could thus cause more copious lava bleeds, which spread out across the surface and formed plains. The far side had a tougher hide, and was thus less easily damaged. That, in any case, is part of the story. ...


The Delta Aquarid Meteor Shower is coming! - Cleveland astronomy ...
Meteors are streaking through the sky thanks to the Delta Aquarid Meteor Shower In two days, the night of July 29/30 will mark the peak of the Delta ...


Trail of Crumbs Discovered from Potentially Hazardous Comet
Space Ref (press release)
Jenniskens heads the Cameras for Allsky Meteor Surveillance (CAMS) project in California. Since last October, the SETI Institute has teamed up with Fremont Peak Observatory and UCO/Lick Observatory in monitoring the night sky with low-light video ...


Ocean Search Ends After Mystery Fireball Reported - Orlando News ...
FLAGLER BEACH, Fla. -- The Coast Guard calls off a search of the Atlantic Ocean near Flagler Beach after two witnesses reported a possible downed aircraft.
www.clickorlando.com/news/28677731/detail.html


Meteor shower to light up night skies until Friday
Vancouver Sun
The annual Delta Aquarid meteor shower is set to begin today and is expected to peak late Friday night, says Raminder Singh Samra, resident astronomer at Vancouver's HR MacMillan Space Centre. "Anyone can enjoy it. You don't have to be a professional ...

China meteorite: world's top 10 largest ever meteorites Daily Telegraph Wed, 27 Jul 2011 13:15 PM PDT The largest meteorite ever discovered was at Hoba in Namibia in 1920,  weighing 66 tons. ...

Evidence Found for Undiscovered Comet That May Threaten Earth Space.com A surprise meteor shower spotted by skywatchers in February was likely caused by cosmic "bread crumbs" left over from an undiscovered comet that could potentially pose a threat to Earth, astronomers announced today (July 27). The tiny meteoroids that ...

Anyone else see the meteor tonight? – Fairly Conservative
By Cindy
About 9:15 or so, I was driving east on Capitol Drive in about Pewaukee and there it was. It lasted long enough for me to tell the other gals in the c.
Fairly Conservative


Perseid Meteor Shower Begins
YouTube
The summer Perseid meteor shower is getting underway as Earth enters the debris stream from comet Swift-Tuttle. Source: NASA read more: http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news-Perseid-Meteor-Shower-Begins-072611.aspx.

China discovers enormous meteorite Telegraph.co.uk One of the largest meteorites ever recorded has been discovered in the remote Altai mountains that separate China from Mongolia. By Malcolm Moore, Shanghai For decades, passing Kazakh herdsmen have carved their names on an oddly shaped rock ...

What Built Mars' Canals?
U.S. News & World Report
So researchers have hypothesized vast permafrost-sealed aquifers in extremely porous, permeable ground that was suddenly breached by meteor impacts, faulting or upwards movements of hot magma in the Martian crust. In order for that scenario to work ...

Meteor/Meteorite News 27JUL2011

Mystery Midnight “Fireball” Serves Up Barroom Speculation, and Vain Search, In ... FlaglerLive.com People thought there was, just before midnight Tuesday, when drinkers at Finn's, the restaurant and bar at the corner of State Road 100 and A1A, whose balcony offers a prime view of the ocean, reported seeing a fireball over the Atlantic. ...

elp allsky: Bright Meteor Fireball Over North Texas, Southern ...
Meteor Fireball Captured By Oklahoma City Sandia Sentinel Fireball Camera ... Fireball Internet Traffic Sources Point To Meteor Fireball Event Over NY, ...
elpasoallsky.blogspot.com/.../bright-meteor-fireball-over-nort..


Giant Meteorite Discovered in China
China Digital Times
“This is a huge iron meteorite,” Zhang [Baolin, of the Beijing Planetarium] said in footage from China Central Television. “It may be the second largest iron meteorite, which can cause a sensation in China and also attract attention from [the] world's ...


Bright Meteor Over UK -- Fire in the Sky -- Sott.net
Caught on a security camera, July 19th, 2011. No location recorded....
www.sott.net/articles/show/232507-Bright-Meteor-Over-UK


Meteor in Kenya : News & World Events
An unknown mass believed to be from outer space on Saturday fell near Kilimambogo and Tala towns. Initially, there were reports of an explosion in ...
www.disclose.tv/forum/meteor-in-kenya-t55368.html

Giant Meteorite Discovered in China SPACE.com via Yahoo! News Tue, 26 Jul 2011 06:29 AM PDT This story was updated at 5:36 p.m. EDT.

W&M Law students study "space law"
The Virginia Gazette Tue, 26 Jul 2011 00:51 AM PDT
WILLIAMSBURG - William & Mary Law School students Brittany Law and Lillian McManus are now experienced in âspace lawâ after a rare property case involving the Lorton Meteorite fell out of the sky and into an examining room of Doctors Marc Gallini and Frank Ciampiâs Williamsburg Square Family Practice in Jan. 2010...

Meteor/Meteorite News 26JUL2011

Cotton boys in Nasa event finals
Times of India
A 500-year-old meteor from Mars is encased in the trophy they won for their efforts. The 12 finalist countries have been divided into groups of three to present a design; the boys have been working with students from Romania, the United States of ...

Discovery - Nakhla meteorite BBC News When it fell to Earth a century ago, eyewitnesses saw an explosion high in the atmosphere, as the meteor split into dozens of fragments which hurtled towards them and were buried up to a meter deep in the ground. Dr Marek Kukula, Public Astronomer at ...

Images of a Meteorite Flying Over France
MarketWatch
A cultural centre for the study of space located in the French city of Rennes published CCTV exclusive images of a meteorite flying above Brittany. Images courtesy of Francois Berthot for these images.

Massive iron meteorite discovered in China msnbc.com Researchers led by Baolin Zhang, a meteorite specialist at the Beijing Planetarium, study a giant meteorite that was found in a mountainous region in northwest China. A massive space rock — one that could rank as one of the largest meteorites ever ...

Giant Meteorite Discovered in China
Space.com
A massive space rock – one that could rank as one of the largest meteorites ever recovered – has been found in a remote and mountainous region in northwest China, according to news reports. The huge and oddly-shaped rock was found in the Altai ...


SURE thing: Students gain experience, conduct research
Indiana State University
Christopher Gagnon and Eboni Duff are analyzing the chemical make-up of meteorites in an effort to learn more about the origins of the solar system. The three Indiana State University seniors are among 39 undergraduate students and 11 faculty members ...

Northwestern USA Fireball July 25, 2011

The American Meteor Society has received reports of a very bright fireball over the Oregon-Washington area occurring near 0314 am PDT on Monday morning July 25th. Of the reports received so far, yellow, orange, and white are the most mentioned color. Brightness estimates varied widely, ranging from a half illuminated moon to that of the sun. The AMS will post any video of this object should it become available.
Summaries of this event may be seen in the AMS fireball table for 2011 at:
http://www.amsmeteors.org/fireball2/public.php?start_date=2011-01-01&end_date=2011-12-31
Refer to event #719.
Clear Skies!, Robert Lunsford

Meteor/Meteorite News 25JUL2011

Hotspot found on Moon's far sideABC Science Online The new discovery, reported in the journal Nature Geoscience is a rare example of volcanism on the lunar surface not associated with asteroid, meteor or comet impact events. Until now the best known examples of volcanism were on the Moon's near side in ...

An Account of an Observation of the Meteor of August 18, 1783 ...
An Account of an Observation of the Meteor of August 18, 1783, Made on Hewit Common Near York. In a Letter from Nathaniel Pigott, Esq. F. R. S. to the ...
www.archive.org/details/philtrans01230224

Lunar meteorite from the peridotite -------نيزك قمرى‏ - YouTube بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم نيزك قمرى تتألف حبيباته من الزبرجد والزمرد الزيتونى والكروميت مع غوتايت البازلتية ولاى استفسار اخوكم ابو محمود العوضى 0020106243662. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCnsyDKwzo4

Meteor/Meteorite News 22-23JUL2011

Northeastern USA Fireball Sunday Morning 7/17/11 | American Meteor ...
In the AMS fireball table, refer to event #684 for 2011. ... saw a flash and turned our heads just in time to see a BRIGHT BIG turquoise colored fireball. ...
www.amsmeteors.org/.../northeastern-usa-fireball-sunday-mor...


Meteor created a stir across wide area of N. Arizona
Arizona Daily Star
PRESCOTT - Winslow, Holbrook and the country adjacent for a radius of over 30 miles were thrown into a state of excitement Saturday evening last that bordered close onto a panic when a meteorpassed over that country and exploded at a height estimated ...

Massive Meteorite Found in China

The current leader in the region Xinjiang - meteorite Armanty in situ ;-)
http://www.woreczko.pl/meteorites/events/2011/Jul17-Armanty_in-situ.jpg
Best wishes,
Woreczko


Bright fireball over Poland -- Fire in the Sky -- Sott.
Visualization of the fireball orbit.
www.sott.net/image/.../Fireball_20110707_2112_orbita.png


What is Gravity? - The Code - Episode 1 - BBC Two
BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/code In episode one of The Code, Marcus du Sautoy uses a fireball and a trebuchet to explain the rules of gravity and shows how analysing a flight using numbers helps us understand this fundamental law.


Massive Meteorite Found in China
Sky & Telescope
As the meteorite specialist for the Beijing Planetarium, Baolin Zhang gets all kinds of unusual reports — like the dramatic (but ultimately specious) tale of a peasant woman who recently found a blue-ice "meteorite" in her yard. ...

Three near-earth objects buzz our planet this weekend WJLA (blog) The good folks over at Lunar Meteorite Hunters posted recently: Projected NEO [Near-Earth Object] debris activity associated with potential Earth meteor encounters. I expect that we will see possible increased bolide /fireball /meteor activity from ...

Snowstorms on Mars may dwarf those on Earth
New Scientist
Lakes may form when meteorite impacts heat ice in the crust or when underground reservoirs of water kept liquid by geothermal heat leak onto the surface. Edwin Kite of the University of California, Berkeley, and colleagues wondered how the planet's ...


Meteor Shower is July 29 - Local News - Little Rock, AR - msnbc.com
There's a big event coming up for people who like to keep an eye on the sky, especially at night. The viewing peak for the Delta Aquarids Meteor Shower is ...
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43814148/.../meteor-shower-july/


Space Rocks: Meteorite hunting fever slams into Russia
Paranormal Old Pueblo
By Cherlyn Gardner Strong In Kenya, a meteorite crashed into the earth this past weekend. The impact created a very loud explosion to announce its arrival to earthlings. The space rock was taken away for study, shortly after impact. ...

Meteorite Holds Clues to Organic Chemistry of the ... 3 min Carbonaceous chondrites are a type of organic-rich meteorite that contain samples of the materials that took part in the creation of ... metacafe.com

Kenya: Scientist Commence Study On Fallen Meteorite AllAfrica.com Thu, 21 Jul 2011 03:25 AM PDT Scientists from the University of Nairobi and experts from the department of mines and geology have begun tracing the route that a space rock followed before landing with a loud bang in Thika