The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 12AUG2011

Can't see the Perseid meteor shower? Listen to it
Los Angeles Times
The 2011 Perseid meteor shower peaks Saturday night. The bummer? It coincides with a full moon, so your chances of getting to see the annual celestial show are rather low. (Darn that beautiful ambient moonlight!) But if you want to know what you're ...


we saw a green fireball, page 1
In the distance (approx 200 yards) we saw a green fireball shoot across the sky. From our vantage point, the object appeared to be about 5-10 meters in ...
www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread739220/pg1


Moonlight and meteors
Record-Searchlight
Record Searchlight file photo A meteor streaks across the sky at Whiskeytown during a previous Perseid meteor shower. The shower will be taking place Saturday night. Greg Barnette/Record Searchlight file photo Members of Sister on the Fly get together ...


Recommended: Make the most of the meteors
msnbc.com
Brian Emfinger photographed this Perseid fireball in 2009. (More photos at RealClearWx.com.) By Alan Boyle August's Perseid meteor shower ranks among the year's most popular sky shows, and provides a great opportunity to drink in a big gulp of ...


Perseid Meteor Shower 2011: Why You Can't See The Celestial Event
Huffington Post
It seems the moon's going to be putting a damper on Thursday's typically stunning meteor shower. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't try to catch it. This year's summer meteor shower happens to coincide with a full moon, so it seems these little ...


U46 planetarium reaches new heights with new digital projector
Chicago Sun-Times
John Konstantaras~For Sun-Times Media ELGIN — The best viewing of the Perseid meteor shower will be Friday night, with the moon at your back, according to Peggy Hernandez, School District U46's planetarium teacher. She modeled what the sky will look ...


2Do: Museums, parks, family events and more for Aug. 12-18, 2011
Plain Dealer (blog)
Full Moon Hike and Meteor Shower. Campfire following the hike. The hike will end at the observation mound to watch the Perseid meteor shower. 9:30 pm Saturday. Summit County Metro Parks. FA Seiberling Nature Realm/Visitors Center, 1828 Smith Road, ...


Spaceships, Meteors, and Moonlight - NASA Science
According to the International Meteor Organization, worldwide observers now are counting more than a dozen Perseids per hour with more to come on August ...
science.nasa.gov/science-news/science.../09aug_perseids2011/


PAGASA: Perseids meteor shower to peak Aug 13 - Nation - GMA News ...
If weather permits, stargazers will get a treat this month with the Perseids meteor shower in the early morning hours of Aug. 13.
www.gmanews.tv/.../pagasa-perseids-meteor-shower-to-peak-a...

Perseid Meteor Shower to Peak This Weekend National Geographic Kicking off what's become an annual ritual for many stargazers, the Perseid meteorshower is set to peak tomorrow night with its dazzling flurry of shooting stars. (See Perseid pictures.) Peaking late Friday through early Saturday, this year's cosmic ...

Montsec seeks to attract tourists with the meteor shower in ...
By B.B
by 350.org Montsec seeks to attract tourists with the meteor shower in October Lleida. (EFE) .- The Montsec Astronomical Park (PAM) has launched a new.
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Perseids peak Friday Aug. 12 | Southgate Amateur Radio News
The Perseid meteor shower peaks on Friday night August 12 and should produce good meteorscatter contacts on the Amateur Radio 50, 70 and 144 MHz bands.
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The Bucklin Corner - Linn County Leader Meteorite
Linn County Leader
By Ed Ktichen Meteorites are rare and hard to find. But if found, can be worth a lot of money. About three weeks ago a black stone caught my eye amongst the plethora of white stones in the Linn County Leader parking lot. A celestial, 'diamond in the ...


Aussie meteorite holds secret to life
Sky News Australia
A meteorite that crashed into outback Australia nearly forty years ago holds evidences that life on Earth began in space. News.com.au reports NASA-funded researchers have evidence that some building blocks of DNA, the molecule that carries the genetic ...

Climate Change Update (11 August 2011) Meteor ... 11 min Earth is entering a stream of debris from Comet Swift-Tuttle, source of the annual Perseid meteor shower. International observers ... youtube.com

Perseid Meteor Shower to peak August 11-13 4 min link: Perseid meteor shower to peak August 12-13 theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com youtube.com

 2011 The Year of Meteors!

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CNNcojp生命の源は宇宙に 隕石からＤＮＡの成分発見 ＮＡＳＡ
ＣＮＮ 米航空宇宙局ＮＡＳＡは生命の設計図といわれるＤＮＡの基となる物質が隕石から見つかったと発表した宇宙からの隕石や彗星が地球上の生命の形成を促す役割を ...
www.cnn.co.jp/fringe/30003666.html


DNA in Space? Biological Building Blocks Found in Meteorites
TIME
11, 2011 Scientists have been finding evidence of life inside meteorites for well over 100 years — that, or the building blocks of life. The claims of life have been debunked every time, most recently just this past March. It always turns out to be a ...

Perseid Meteor Shower to Compete With Full Moon on Friday Fox News This week marks the annual return of the Perseid meteor shower, the most reliablemeteor shower of the year, though the full moon may interfere with this year's display. The Perseid meteor shower peaks this week in the overnight hours of Friday and ...

Weekend Meteor Shower: How Space Junk Becomes Natural Fireworks
Patch.com
Early Saturday morning marks the peak of the annual Perseid meteor shower. Few things give even a casual star gazer as much heart-jumping excitement as spotting a meteor. Meteors, sometimes called shootingor falling stars, are actually not stars at all ...

Riddle of the late night rumblings that caused a sonic boom in Norfolk Norwich Evening News Meteorites are fragments of rock and metal which have fallen from space. Asteroids are different shaped rocks which orbit the sun. When two asteroids collide a meteoriteis formed and breaks away from the original rock. Once separated, the meteorite is ...

P'Well's 1813 meteorite goes for auction Limerick Post A call was put out at the time by Astronomy Ireland for people to search lands for the object, believed to have been a meteor - which depending on size, can make you a millionaire. Mr Elliott encouraged others with a taste for science or maybe those ...

Field Training and Research Program at Meteor Crater | NASA Lunar ...
The NASA Lunar Science Institute headquartered at NASA Ames Research Center.
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Planets, asteroids light August skies
Montreal Gazette
And August is proving to be a banner stargazing time filled with stellar views of asteroids, meteorshowers and planets galore. First up is the most famous astronomical event of the year - a favourite of summer vacationers - the Perseid meteor shower. ...


Did life on Earth begin with alien material?
ABC Online (blog)
A meteorite that fell to Earth forty odd years ago has led to a major discovery about humans and the origin of our DNA. Stuart Gary from ABC's Star Stuff explains.. You can follow this conversation by subscribing to the comment feed for this post. ...


Spaceships, Meteors, and Moonlight
Space Daily
A nugget of space debris disintegrates in a sparkling fireball. A huge spaceship glides silently overhead. By itself, any one of these events might be enough to get you out of bed. This weekend, all three are going to happen at the same time. ...


When the moon goes splat
Irish Times
SMALL PRINT: IF YOU ARE A space fan, the last week or so has offered plenty to keep your brain cells tingling, including meteor showers and possible liquid on Mars. But did you hear the one about the moon going splat? Earth may have once had two moons ...

The DNA from outer space The Week via Yahoo! News Wed, 10 Aug 2011 04:13 AM PDT Did life on Earth begin with a meteorite carrying the building blocks of DNA? NASA scientists think it's possible Aussie meteorite shows we may be aliens News.com.au Tue, 09 Aug 2011 23:45 PM PDT By Claire Connelly WRITERS and filmmakers have wondered about aliens "out there" for years. But truth may be close to home...

Meteorites contain chemicals linked to life
Science News
By Alexandra Witze HINTS OF LIFEChemists have found that this meteorite, found in Antarctica and dubbed Lonewolf Nunataks 94102, contains nucleobases, the building blocks of DNA. The nucleobases probably originated in space, the scientists say. ...


Geauga Park District holding annual Perseid meteor shower camp-out ...
The annual Perseid meteor shower is coming and the Geauga and Lake County ... “ We've donemeteor shower events several times before, but last year we did ...
www.news-herald.com/.../doc4e3807d694ece004159351.txt


'Meteorites helped create life on Earth'
Times of India
PTI | Aug 10, 2011, 05.55AM IST WASHINGTON: Scientists have found components of DNA, the building blocks of life on Earth, in meteorites, a discovery they say confirms the theory that at least some of the materials needed to make early life forms came ...


Look to the Sky
Cecil Whig
AP A Perseid meteor streaks towards clouds on the horizon in this 30-second time exposure photograph taken in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. in 2002. The annual Perseid meteor shower will light up the skies over Cecil County this week, but stargazers will ...


Photography competition reveals amazing space pics
CBBC Newsround
It's part of the Perseid meteor shower, which happens once a year, and was snapped above Glastonbury Tor. This is the Orion Nebula, which is formed when a star explodes. The pink clouds...

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Scoping out the stars, sun and space from Powell
KC Community News
... from looking through telescopes, going on the planet walk and taking a break from the humidity and cooling down inside where a presentation on the history of Powell was given, as well as an astrophotography exhibit and a meteor display. ...

Meteor Showers near earth, peak Friday night - Kuwaiti astronomer Kuwait News AgencyAl-Jamaan attributed these meteor showers to the presence of grains of dust and rocks and small ice in the form of belt left by comet in its orbit when they came closer to the sun. "When comets spin around the sun, these waste to enter the atmosphere...

Meteor shower to light the sky
Alberta Daily Herald TribuneBy AARON HINKS Herald-Tribune staff The Grande Prairie Astronomy Club hopes to see some new faces at the up-and-coming Perseid meteor shower, Friday. The club typically gets together when there's a big event, such as a comet passing or more regularly, ...


Perseid meteor shower illuminates island skies - Hawaii News ...Meteor showers are caused when the Earth wanders into leftover comet debris. As a comet approaches the sun in its orbit, the comet leaves a trail of dust ...www.staradvertiser.com/.../20110731_Perseid_meteor_shower...


Australian meteorite behind 'space DNA' discoveryHerald Sun
By Claire Connelly NASA says researchers have found that some of the building blocks of DNA found on meteorites actually came from space. Picture: NASA Source: Supplied A METEORITE which crashed in Australia more than four decades ago has led to a ...


Meteorites Carried Life's Building Block to Earth
Discovery News
The Geminid meteor shower, as photographed in Dec. 2004 by Jason AC Brock of Roundtimber, Texas. Click to enlarge this image. A new analysis of carbon meteorites suggests that they likely carried some of the building blocks needed for DNA to the Earth, ...


Meteor shower expected on August 13, viewing party hosted at Cormier WoodsNorthbridgeTimes.com
The moon is expected will be joined by a Perseid Meteor Shower on Saturday night, and should be visible in the Northeast around 11 pm For those looking to get a great view of the sky on August 13, a shower viewing is being held at the Cormier Barn, ...


Largest Meteor Shower This Friday, Aug 12, Says NASA; Best Time To ...By News Desk 2 Writers
The largest meteor shower of the year, The Perseids, will peak this Friday, August 12th says NASA. The full moon that will be present will wash out all but the brightest meteors, but we should still be able to see 20-30 per hour, ...The Florida News Journal :|: TFNJ


DNA building blocks can be made in space, NASA evidence suggests
Science Daily Mon, 08 Aug 2011 20:22 PM PDT
NASA-funded researchers have evidence that some building blocks of DNA, the molecule that carries the genetic instructions for life, found inmeteorites were likely created in space. The research gives support to the theory that a "kit" of ready-made parts created in space and delivered to Earth by meteorite...


Into orbit
BCLocalNews
Saturn is low in the southwest after sunset. Jupiter rises around midnight and Mars about 2 am The Moon will be full on the 18th. Look for the Perseid Meteor shower on the night of 12-13 August. E-mail: ken.tapping@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca.


Less than perfect Perseid meteor shower still worth watching ...The best meteor shower of the year will sadly get light-blasted by a full moon. The annual Perseid shower, which can produce 80-100 meteors per hour from a ...
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Teacher workshop: Show your kids the moon Burbank Leader 13, from 10 AM-12 PM, for Lunar and Meteorite Sample Certification at the Columbia Memorial Space Center, 12400 Columbia Way Downey, Calif. NASA makes actual lunar samples from the historic Apollo missions available to lend to teachers. ...

NASA sets up space cameras at NorCal winery abc7.com NASA cameras set up at a California vineyard are tracking meteor showers and comets in the night sky. (KABC Photo) LODI, Calif. (KABC) -- NASA cameras set up at a California vineyard are tracking meteor showers and comets in the night sky. ...

What the Heck Is This? LiveScience.com Is it a meteor shower? No. No more hints. See the full image and a description below… These are star trails created in a long-exposure photograph. The image was made at the Paranal Observatory in Chile. Star trails are created as Earth rotates (once...

Meteor Activity Outlook for August 6-12, 2011 | American Meteor ...It must be remembered that meteor activity is rarely seen at the radiant position. Rather they shoot outwards from the radiant so it is best to center your ...
www.amsmeteors.org/.../meteor-activity-outlook-for-august-6-...


A Perseid Meteor over Mount Hood | KATU.com - Portland News ...A Perseid Meteor over Mount Hood at Trillium Lake. This is a 30 minute exposure. Gary Randall photographer.
www.katu.com/younews/127095588.html

4 Vesta Meteorites 2 min The Science Chanel has Meteorite Men, Griffith Observatory has ASTEROID MAN! Mr. Dave Pinsky talks about his extraordinary ...youtube.com

 2011 The Year of Meteors!