19 December 2020

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 19DEC2020

State trooper's camera captures Geminid meteor over Minnesota
KVRR
It is usually the strongest meteor shower of the year. Astronomers say on a dark night, it's possible to see 50 or more meteors per hour. On an optimum ...

Timelapse Captures Geminid Meteor Shower Over Oklahoma
Yahoo News UK
The Geminid meteor shower happens annually and usually peaks between December 13 and 14. According to NASA, the meteors appear to radiate ...

Key Building Block for Organic Molecules Discovered in Meteorites
NASA
Scientists from Japan and NASA have confirmed the presence in meteorites of a key organic molecule which may have been used to build other ...

NASA Identifies More Than 10 Asteroids That Will Pass Near Earth Before Christmas
Explica
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has a database on asteroids, meteorites and nearby objects approaching Earth.

The Sky This Week: Jupiter and Saturn meet on the winter solstice
Astronomy Magazine
The Ursid meteor shower, whose activity runs from December 17 to 26 this year, peaks early this morning. These meteors, which come from debris left ...

Scientist believe they've detected mysterious radio signal from alien planet
Chron
URSID METEOR SHOWERS HERE: Ursid meteor showers to light up the skies during December. Scientists think they've detected radio emissions ..

'Greenland' director studied the science of comets to prepare for disaster film
Space.com
... study asteroids and comets but he said that he found that their points of view disagreed on how the Earth's ecosystem was affected by the meteor.

Question: A Meteor With Mass 10.85 Kg Andvelocity +13.50 Km/s Collides
Chegg
Answer to A meteor with mass 10.85 kg andvelocity +13.50 km/s collides (head on)with a meteor with mass 5.65 kg andvelocity -11.60...

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18 December 2020

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 18DEC2020

Cameras capture apparent meteor streaking across morning sky
WAOW
DULUTH, MN — People across the Northland witnessed an apparent meteor streaking across the sky early Wednesday morning. Reports from across ...

State Trooper Dashcam Captures Meteor From Geminid Shower
WCCO | CBS Minnesota
The patrol said that an officer caught what appears to be a meteor streaking across the sky while patrolling in Dakota County Wednesday morning. They ...

Dash-cam video catches Geminid meteor shower
RADIO.COM
At about :20 into the video, you can see a bright, flaming meteor flying across the screen. The video was taken on Wednesday morning in Dakota ...

Possible Meteor Caught On Dash Cam In Pine Co.
KWLM (Willmar Radio)
(Pine Co., MN) -- A possible meteor is caught on a sheriff's deputy's dash camera in Pine County. The sheriff's office posted video of the flash of light ...

Meteorite Video via Pine County Sheriff's Office
perfectduluthday.com
This dashcam video from the Pine County Sheriff's Office shows a bright light streaking in the sky at about 6:50 a.m. on Dec. 16 in the vicinity of ...

Mysteries Of The Tunguska Meteorite In Siberia's Thinning Forests
Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty
It's so vast and remote that scientists have spent decades searching and failing to find one of the largest meteorites ever to fall to Earth -- the Tunguska ...

Japan and beyond: Week in Photos - December 12~18
Kyodo News Plus
Photo shows a shooting star of the Geminid meteor shower observed from Nosegawamura in Nara Prefecture, western Japan, on Dec. 13, 2020.

Geminids meteor shower
AAPOD2
Image Description and Details : Composite picture with 40 images.Each shooting stars have been replaced by matching the stars,to get the radiant ...

How To Enjoy January's Quadrantids Meteor Shower
The Discoverer
Think of the Quadrantids as the x-factor of annual meteor showers. Despite having the potential to be the year's most luminous celestial event, it also ...

Ursids (URS#015) another outburst in 2020?
Meteor News
Some historic reports about meteor rains from 1433 in Japan and 1532 in China at the solar longitude of Ursid activity may refer to past outbursts, but ...

Ursids meteor shower 2020: When is the Ursids meteor shower peak?
Daily Express
URSIDS meteor shower aficionados are in for a treat very shortly when a dazzling shooting star show will lit-up the skies. By Tom Fish. 08:37, Fri, Dec ...

Meteors Mingle With Star Trails in Mesmerizing Florida Timelapse
Yahoo News
The Geminid meteor shower added an extra element to the stunning star trails captured on a clear night in Fort Myers, Florida, recently. Local resident ...

So How Much Could You Get Selling A Meteorite That Hits Your Home?
2oceansvibe News
It all started on August 1 at around 5PM when a meteorite, roughly the size of a watermelon, crashed through a tin canopy on the side of Josua ...

How Can You Tell If Moldavite Is Real?
KHTS Radio
The meteorite remains roughly spread across a 40 square mile area, where ... That's because each stone has been shaped according to the meteor ... NOTE- Photo pictured IS NOT Moldavite- LMH

Scientists have found out what happened to the forests after the extinction of the dinosaurs
FREE NEWS
But the exact mechanisms that linked the fall of the meteorite to the extinction remain unclear. Scientists from McGill University conducted a study and ...

144 MHz signal from the Faroe Islands heard 3000kms away in Bulgaria during the Geminid ...
Southgate Amateur Radio Club
During this year's Geminid meteor shower, many radio amateurs worldwide were busy making contacts on the VHF bands by bouncing signals off the ...

ANGEO - Diurnal mesospheric tidal winds observed simultaneously by meteor radars in Costa Rica
ANGEO - Copernicus.org
This paper presents a study of diurnal tidal winds observed simultaneously by two meteor radars located on each side of the Equator in the equatorial ...

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17 December 2020

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 17DEC2020

Cameras capture apparent meteor streaking across morning sky
KBJR 6
DULUTH, MN -- People across the Northland witnessed an apparent meteor streaking across the sky early Wednesday morning. Reports from across ...

Video: Minnesota Police Sheriff Appears to Capture 'Meteor Shower' on Camera
Sputnik International
The video showed dark morning sky illuminated with a bright flash of an apparent meteor falling down and shining for at least four seconds. Users were ...

Meteor Flashes Through Sky Over Eastern Minnesota
Yahoo News
A meteor created a bright flash as it streaked through the sky over east Minnesota and west Wisconsin early on Wednesday, December 16, ...

Streaking meteor's predawn flash stars in an arresting video for Minnesota sheriff's deputy
Star Tribune
A meteor that flashed across the east-central Minnesota horizon and lit up the sky before sunrise Wednesdaywas captured on the squad car dashcam ...

Streaking meteor's predawn flash stars in an arresting video for Minnesota sheriff's deputy
Minneapolis Star Tribune
While it is unlikely "that any of the bolide survived [long enough] to hit the ground to become a meteorite," LaCoursiere added, "anyone along the path ...

WATCH: Meteor Streaking Across Minnesota Sky Caught On Camera
B105
The Pine County Sheriff's office shared video of what is likely a meteor streaking across the sky this morning

Dash cam captures fireball light up the sky in Minnesota
FOX 9
Possible meteor captured on dash camera. A dash camera captured a possible meteor near Denham, Minnesota. Video Courtesy: Pine County Sheriff's ...

Dec. 5 'loud boom' likely a meteor
Main Street Nashville
It's rare to find a meteorite – a meteor that hits the earth – because they are so small and are often indistinguishable from regular rocks, Wellington said.

Are you splitting the prize from 2020? NASA warns that five meteorites are heading this way – RT ...
haveeruonline
NASA has shared a warning about five asteroids that will cross Earth on Wednesday and shoot out later this week, two of which will be closer to our ...

Massive 'Christmas Asteroid' to Zip Past the Earth Longer than Two Full-Length Football Fields
Nature World News
A meteor that survives its descent on Earth and reaches the surface is called a meteorite. Lastly, comets are cosmic bodies that also orbit our Sun. Their ...

Expert says meteors are not uncommon in mid-December
KBJR 6
The American Meteor Society says they fielded 66 reports of this morning's show in the sky. John Cardinale. More Stories ...

'Meteor' just man racing to get home before 11 pm curfew
RTL Today
What appeared to be a meteor shooting through the sky above Luxembourg on Tuesday night turned out to be a driver racing to get home before ...

Searching for stardust: How to find micrometeorites in your gutters
New Scientist
A meteorite is a chunk of debris left over from the early years of the solar system that has survived passage through our atmosphere and crashed to the ...

Video Shows Meteorite Bouncing Off Earth's Atmosphere
UNILAD
'Earthgrazers' are small meteorites that bounce off the Earth's atmosphere. According to the European Space Agency, only a handful are recorded ...

Indonesian coffin maker insists sale of fallen meteorite didn't make him a millionaire
National Post
“Currently there are no meteorites of such value, and of course no collector will pay that price,” said Collins. The grief caused by the meteorite has forced ...

A man watches a meteor during the Geminid meteor shower over Brimham Rocks, a collection of ...
Instagram
1095 Likes, 14 Comments - Sky News (@skynews) on Instagram: “A man watches a meteor during the Geminid meteor shower over Brimham Rocks, ...

'Big glowing thing' was electron rocket
Otago Daily Times
While many wondered if the bright object seen flying over Otago on Tuesday night was a meteor or a plane, Dunedin observatory astronomer Ian ...

The “big glowing thing” was an electronic missile
theinformant.co.nz
St Kilda resident and astrophotographer Andrew Clark thought it was a large meteorite. “It is definitely one of the books. “I've been an astronomer for ...

Mysterious Spiralling Object Seen In The Sky Above Turkish City
LADbible
They went on to say they didn't think it was a meteor because it was spiralling to the ground rather than shooting across the sky. Advert. 10. As yet ...

From Covid-19 dropping from space to plausible 'paradox-free time travel' | Wild space theories in ...
India Today
... landing on Earth on a meteorite. A study published in July this year hypothesized that the virus came from space and had reached Earth on a space ... GOOFY Hypothesis-LMH

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16 December 2020

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 16DEC2020

Meteor Explosion In France Caught On Video [Watch]
International Business Times
Sadly this 2kg baby asteroid burned up completely, so there's no #meteorite. It wasn't a #geminid." A fireball is another term for a bright meteor that is ...

La “Boule de feu” vue aussi en Haute-Marne
le Journal de la Haute-Marne
Les météorites sont composées de métaux tel que le sodium, le nickel et le magnésium, qui produisent respectivement une couleur jaune, vert et bleu .

Astéroïde dans le ciel d'Auvergne : le phénomène expliqué par un astronome
France 3 Régions
Malheureusement il s'est désintégré, il n'était pas assez gros pour qu'il y ait une météorite à la fin », regrette l'astronome. Il ajoute que ce bolide ...

Grosso meteorite attraversa i cieli della Norvegia per oltre 15 secondi
InMeteo
Probabilmente si è trattato di un meteorite di grosse dimensioni che ha impiegato più tempo del solito per disintegrarsi durante il suo ingresso in ...

Scientists Investigate Mystery "Rolling" Sound Heard Around The World
IFLScience
One promising possibility is bolides in the upper atmosphere - meteoroids producing a sonic boom, where the meteor goes unseen and isn't noticed ...

First images of 'black alien dust' collected from asteroid Ryugu 190MILLION miles from Earth
The Irish Sun
... that break off are called meteoroids; Meteor: If a meteoroid enters the Earth's atmosphere, it begins to vapourise and then becomes a meteor.

He Sold a Meteorite That Hit His Home. Then Things Got Weird.
VICE
After a meteorite crashed through his roof and tabloids reported a sale of $1.8 million, a coffin maker from a remote village was briefly the most famous ...

NASA spacecraft spots Babylon 5 villain lookalike in Mars formation
CNET
This view of Mars from 2020 shows where a meteorite hit the surface and blasted the dust off of the landscape, leaving behind dark streaks.

First images of 'black alien dust' collected from asteroid Ryugu 190MILLION miles from Earth
The Irish Sun
... rock is burning up; Meteorite: If a meteoroid doesn't vapourise completely and survives the trip through Earth's atmosphere, it can land on the Earth.

Dark nebulae, meteorites and the origin of life
Grand Canyon News
Dark nebulae, meteorites and the origin of life. By Barry Malpas, Astronomy Columnist. Originally Published: December 15, 2020 1:59 p.m. ...

Astro Bob: Geminids a hit; December's dark days turn to light
Grand Forks Herald
Our next meteor shower, the Quadrantids, peaks in the small hours of Jan. 3. Unfortunately the 84 percent full moon will compromise the view. The ...

An asteroid will “skim earth” today; be closer than the moon
EsquireMe
Of course, when an asteroid hits atmosphere it becomes a meteor. And two days ago the Earth saw one of the biggest and brightest meteor showers ...

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15 December 2020

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 15DEC2020

Black 'Sand-Like' Asteroid Dust Recovered From Japan's Probe Box
Interesting Engineering
... returned its sample capsule, which reentered the atmosphere in a meteor-like streak of light before setting down in the Australian desert. It was then ..

Un « énorme bolide » aperçu dans le ciel de Saône-et-Loire
Le JSL
Ils évoquaient « une énorme météorite », une « étoile filante verte » ou ... chargé d'observer le ciel et de détecter les météorites) de Dijon et Troyes.

Meteor Explosion In France Caught On Video [Watch]
International Business Times
The general rule of thumb is that the brighter the fireball, the rarer it is. Fireballs can also develop two types of trails behind them -- trains and smoke trails ...

Una stella cadente “catturata” dalla telecamera dell'auto
La Fedeltà
Una stella cadente o forse un meteorite che è stato avvistato da diverse persone. E in questo caso anche documentato con un video. Si tratta di una ...

VIDEO: Southwest Idaho Door Cam Catches Reported Meteor Explosion
News Radio 1310 KLIX
It was enormous, and left a fiery trail that appeared to go for miles. The video was described as likely a meteorite that exploded upon entry into the ...

Geminid meteor shower dazzles Oman skies
Oman Observer
Muscat: Every year, the Geminid meteor shower is active between December 4 and 16. The skies of the Sultanate will witness meteor showers for two ...

UAE glows with hundreds of shooting stars
Khaleej Times
The Geminids meteor shower lit up UAE skies in the wee hours of Monday morning. Hundreds of residents and tourists travelled to Ras Al Khaimah's .

KU faculty member snaps picture of a meteor shower
The News International
A meteor shower captured by a faculty member of the Institute of Space Science and Technology University of Karachi Engineer Absar Ahmed Khan.

Why Sunday's meteor showers were extra special for UAE viewers
Gulf News
What is a meteorite? When a meteoroid enters the Earth's atmosphere, survives the journey and ends up on the surface of the Earth, it is called a ...

Une fortune venue du ciel ? Un Schilikois pense avoir trouvé une météorite dans son jardin
DNA - Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace
Une belle pierre un peu étrange, avec une autre pierre en son cœur. Pour lui, c'est certain, il s'agit d'une météorite. Selon les experts, c'est plus ...

Pour ce Schilikois, qui pensait avoir trouvé une météorite dans son jardin, c'est Noël avant l'heure
L'Alsace.fr
Pour lui, c'est certain, il s'agit d'une météorite. Selon les experts, c'est plus compliqué. Par Jean-Frédéric TUEFFERD - 06:00

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14 December 2020

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 14DEC2020

Dijon : un "énorme bolide'' aperçu dans le ciel
Bien Public
Les différents témoignages évoquaient ainsi "une énorme météorite", une ''étoile filante verte'' ou encore "une grosse boule verte''. Contactée quelques ...

China moon probe begins journey back to Earth
The Tribune
Geminid meteor showers till December 17, says NASA. Ad. New York: Widely recognised as the best annual meteor shower a stargazer can see, the ...

First Impact Crater Found in Korea Confirmed
KBS WORLD Radio News
There are some 200 officially recognized meteor craters around the world. The latest find is the second in East Asia following the Xiuyan meteorite crater ...Jeokjung-Chogye Basin

Il lucente Meteorite Fukang pesa 1.003 chilogrammi e ha 4,5 Miliardi di Anni
Vanilla Magazine
Il meteorite Fukang fu ritrovato nelle montagne vicino all'omonima città cinese da un imprenditore locale, nel 2000. L'oggetto è fatto di palassite, ...

This Week in History: December 13-19
RocketSTEM
An ordinary chondrite, the Weston meteorite is the first documented meteorite fall in the U.S.. DECEMBER 14, 2009: NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey ...

The Radar “Three-Body Scatter Spike”: An Operational Large-Hail Signature in
AMS Journals - American Meteorological Society
Meteor. Soc., 1–43. ——, J. Hallett, T. W. Harrold, and D.

Geminid Meteor Shower 2020: 8 stunning photos captured by skygazers
KIRO Seattle
A shooting star can be seen during the Geminid meteor shower in the starry sky above Kochelsee and the summit of Herzogstand on Dec. 14, 2020, in ...

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13 December 2020

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 13DEC2020

China's collection of lunar samples enters Moon-Earth transfer orbit on its way back to the planet
Business Insider India
Geminid meteor shower will be visible over parts of India tonight. PTI. Dec 13, 2020, 12:33 IST.

Chemistry of Life: Key Building Block for Organic Molecules Discovered in Meteorites
SciTechDaily
A fragment of the Murchison meteorite, one of the three carbon-rich meteorites that was sampled in this study. Credit: Daniel P. Glavin. Scientists from ...

Météores : le réseau mondial Fripon rend son rapport
Futura-Sciences
[EN VIDÉO] La plus forte explosion de météorite sur la Lune Le 17 mars 2013, une météorite s'écrasait sur la Lune et laissait un flash lumineux ...

Simulating Meteors With ASMODEUS (All-Sky Meteor Optical Detection Efficiency Simulator)
SciTechDaily
A meteor is a rocky or metallic body that enters the Earth's atmosphere (or the atmosphere of another planet) from space at high speed and burns up; ...

A passing meteor to be viewed in Pakistan tonight
OyeYeah News
The Metroid will be most visible in Karachi's areas of Gharo and Mirpur Sakro. The meteor can be seen passing close to the earth, wherever ever the ...

2020 The SEVENTH Year of "CERTAIN Uncertainty" ™ / Meteors, Asteroids, Comets, and MORE!!

12 December 2020

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 12DEC2020

People across the Valley report loud, mysterious boom
WKBN.com
... a research astronomer and professor at Cleveland State University, said there was a reported meteor event with sound, but that happened Thursday ...

This morning's 'boom' remains a mystery
MahoningMatters.com
One loud and bright blast reported over New York, Virginia and Ontario was chalked up to meteor debris entering the atmosphere, which can ...

Meteorite nero precipita nel giardino di un pensionato: stupore e paura nel quartiere
Scienzenotizie.it
Un 65enne ha udito un forte rumore nel giardino di casa e si è trovato davanti ad un meteorite scintillante ed interamente di colore nero. Potrebbe ...

Do meteor showers create meteorites?
Astronomy Magazine
Meteor vs. meteorite. Space rocks are called different things depending on their environment. When a piece of dust or rocky debris is floating out in ...

Why did some planets become habitable and others did not?
UH System Current News
Some meteorites are pieces of debris from outer space objects such as ... The Allende meteorite is the largest carbonaceous chondrite on Earth and ...

Asteroid alert: 320-foot space rock to pass by Earth this weekend
EconoTimes
Despite the meteor shower peaking at this time, astronomers have also seen the Earth moving through the debris field of a now-extinct comet referred ...

Meteorite : उल्का पिंडों की बौछार देखने के लिए हो जाइए ...
MP Breaking News
टूटते हुए तारे जैसा ही सुंदर दृष्य उल्का पिंडों (Meteorite) के टूटने पर भी दिखाई देता ...

FIREBALL to light up the Australian sky on Sunday morning as Hayabusa2 returns to Earth
Brinkwire
He said: 'The Murchison meteorite opened a window on the origin of ... for possible research, including finding ways to prevent meteorites from hitting ...

Découvrez le documentaire exceptionnel sur le cosmos "Des atomes aux étoiles"
Science et Vie
La cause, la chute d'une météorite il y a 50 000 ans. Les météorites, ces fragments de blocs rocheux qui errent dans le Système solaire, et pénètrent ...

BILL EGGERT | 'UFO' incident near Ligonier still a mystery 55 years later
TribDem.com
The fireball was supposedly seen over five states as it made its trajectory to Kecksburg. The incident gave Kecksburg a bit of notoriety – much like ...

2020 The SEVENTH Year of "CERTAIN Uncertainty" ™ / Meteors, Asteroids, Comets, and MORE!!

11 December 2020

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 11DEC2020

'Loud boom' late Saturday likely a meteor
Hendersonville Standard
It's rare to find a meteorite – a meteor that hits the earth - Wellington added because they are so small and are often indistinguishable from regular rocks.

Scientists look to meteorites for inspiration to achieve critical element-free permanent magnet
Newswise
... developed a low-cost, high performance permanent magnet by drawing inspiration from an out-of-this-world source: iron-nickel alloys in meteorites.

U of A's very own NASA scientist: Chris Herd
The Gateway Online
My father… he just has this excitement with anything to do with space and rocks and meteorites, and we feed off each other when we talk about it.”.

Some of the earliest organic materials ever found have been uncovered in meteorites
The Natural History Museum
It is a carbonaceous chondrite meteorite, which means it is as old as the solar system itself. These types of meteorites are made up of a complex mixture ...

4-Billion-Year-Old Organic Material Found in Martian Meteorite
WKYC.com
The meteorite, found to have nitrogen-containing organic molecules, was ejected from Mars' surface about 15 million years ago and may reveal the ...

Метеорит упал в сад пенсионеров и подарил им приятные сны
Lenta
Meteorite crashes into pensioner's garden in Thailand. Newsflare · Упавший с неба метеорит в одночасье сделал мужчину миллионером. lenta.ru.

Multistatic specular meteor radar network in Peru: System description and initial results
AGU Publications - Wiley
This study presents a recently deployed multi‐static specular meteor radar system, SIMONe Peru, which can be used to observe these scales.

2020 The SEVENTH Year of "CERTAIN Uncertainty" ™ / Meteors, Asteroids, Comets, and MORE!!

10 December 2020

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 10DEC2020

Key Building Block for Organic Molecules Discovered in Meteorites
Laboratory Equipment
Scientists from Japan and the U.S. have confirmed the presence in meteorites of a key organic molecule which may have been used to build other ...

Exitoso regreso de cápsula japonesa con muestras del asteroide Ryugu
Meteored.com.ar
Capsule contains surface samples from a meteorite. pic.twitter.com/L8QJhzjnr5. — NHK WORLD News (@NHKWORLD_News) December 7, 2020.

Watch: Second visible fireball reported above Ontario in a week
lintelligencer
A bright meteor fireball flashed through the sky early on Monday night. Did you see it? We are fast approaching the December 14 peak of the Geminid ...

Un bolide a-t-il traversé le ciel du Maine-et-Loire ?
Ouest-France
Météorite ? Ovni ? Débris spatial ? Passage de la station spatiale ? Sur le site internet de Vigie ciel, les internautes peuvent signaler leurs observations.

Mysterious 'rock on fire' spotted in skies over Morecambe explained by experts
Daily Star
Did anyone else see it around 8.15am?" An expert claimed the sighting was of a meteor (Image: ...

Experts and onlookers baffled over mystery fireball in the sky
Clydebank Post
BUDDING astronomers from Clydebank are still trying to work out if they witnessed a meteor soar across the Clyde last month. The mysterious fireball ...

2020 The SEVENTH Year of "CERTAIN Uncertainty" ™ / Meteors, Asteroids, Comets, and MORE!!

09 December 2020

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 09DEC2020

People in Toronto spot fireball flying through the sky for second time in less than a week
blogTO
People in Toronto who've been keeping an eye on the sky have been fortunate enough to witness two extraordinary fireballs flying high above within ...

Monday night's fireball seen over Ottawa may have landed near Brockville
Ottawa Citizen
There may be very, very small meteorites on the ground, just outside Brockville, ... A meteor becomes a meteorite if it survives its fiery trip though the .

Another meteorite? Further boom was heard, and fireballs were spotted in upstate NY
haveeruonline
Did you hear a boom last night in upstate New York? Did you see the light cut across the night sky? If so, you are not alone. Witnesses from Virginia to ...

Event 20201208-003040
NASA All Sky Fireball Network
The event was detected by meteor cameras belonging to The University of Western Ontario's Southern Ontario Meteor Network (SOMN), and an ...

Βέρνερ Χέρτζογκ: Είμαστε όλοι αστρόσκονη που την έφεραν ως εδώ οι μετεωρίτες
LiFO mobile
Το ντοκιμαντέρ «Πύρινη σφαίρα: Επισκέπτες από άλλους κόσμους» του Βέρνερ Χέρτζογκ είναι ένα συναρπαστικό ταξίδι στα πέρατα του κόσμου, εκεί .

Grosso meteorite illumina il cielo: il video registrato in Spagna
Centro Meteo Italiano
... in Spagna, nell'ambito del progetto SMART, il passaggio di un meteorite che ha sorvolato il Mar Mediterraneo alle 23:40 UTC del 2 dicembre 2020.

Special delivery: Curtin researchers record space capsule arrival in outback
Mirage News
“On this occasion, we were not watching a meteorite fall to Earth, but ... it is thought to be the type of asteroid that carbonaceous meteorites come from.

Scientists Find Precursor of Prebiotic Chemistry in Three Meteorites
Sci-News.com
A fragment of the Tagish Lake meteorite. Image credit: Mike Zolensky, NASA's Johnson Space Center. Presence of organic molecules in extraterrestrial ...

Deep Space Meteorite Entering The Asteroid Belt Might Be Responsible For Life On Earth
Republic World
In fact, it is one of the most studied meteorites. In the scientific community, this meteorite was considered for decades to be the classic example of a ...

Asteroid Dust from Hayabusa2 Could Solve a Mystery of Planet Creation
Scientific American
“The meteorites got hardened, and Earth's atmosphere is a filter that is ... Meteorite scientist Aimee Smith from the University of Manchester and her ...

Key Building Block For Organic Molecules Discovered In Meteorites
Astrobiology News
Scientists from Japan and the USA have confirmed the presence in meteorites of a key organic molecule which may have been used to build other ...

Sols 2965-2966: Meteorite or Meteor-wrong?
NASA Mars Exploration
Sols 2965-2966: Meteorite or Meteor-wrong? Written by Melissa Rice, Planetary Geologist at Western Washington University. Mt. Sharp on Mars. In this ...

Meteorite crashes into pensioner's garden in Thailand
Yahoo News UK
A retired couple from the Thai city of Buri Ram discovered a meteorite in their garden back in November. The celestial body could be worth several ...

Asteroid as big as Salisbury Cathedral set to pass Earth on Christmas Day
Daily Express
DON'T MISS Meteor video: Huge fireball burns in the sky above central US · HUGE fireball seen over US - 'Almost thought it was a plane crashing'

Mysterious 'rock on fire' spotted in skies over Morecambe explained by experts
Accrington Observer
He said the most likely explanation was that it was a meteorite. Professor Ward-Thompson said: "If it only lasted for seconds, then it is a meteor – what is ...

Moissanites: The intriguing gemstones you've never heard of
The South African
The first natural moissanites were discovered in the early 1890s by scientist Henri Moissan in a meteor crater in the US. In its natural form, moissanite, ...

2020 The SEVENTH Year of "CERTAIN Uncertainty" ™ / Meteors, Asteroids, Comets, and MORE!!

08 December 2020

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 08DEC2020

Meteorite hunters say 'no doubt, there's rocks on the ground' in parts of Seneca and Cayuga Counties
whcuradio.com
ITHACA, N.Y. (WHCU) – There was a flash — then a boom heard from the Great Lakes Region into Central New York. Meteorite hunters suspect ...

Meteo Cronaca DIRETTA VIDEO: Stati Uniti, meteorite ESPLODE nei cieli dello stato di New York ...
iL Meteo
Un grosso meteorite è esploso nei cieli dello stato di New York, in USA; numerose segnalazioni sono giunte anche dallo stato canadese di Ontario, ...

Meteorite sorvola il Mediterraneo. Video dalla Spagna
Meteo Giornale
Nel video vediamo un meteorite che ha sorvolato il Mar Mediterraneo alle 23:40 UTC del 2 dicembre 2020. Il video è stato registrato dalla Spagna ...

Returning asteroid sample can help crack secrets about how the solar system formed
TNW
Many “carbonaceous chondrite meteorites” like Ryugu are rich in ... below Ryugu's surface, where the material is protected from meteorite impacts and ...

Collisional Processes in the History of Early Solar System Meteorites
Planetary News
Credit: Lucas et al., 2020. The ordinary chondrite (OC) meteorites originate from at least three different original parent asteroids with slightly different ...

Meteorites Reveal Chaotic Early Solar System Collisions Resembled “Asteroids” Arcade Game
SciTechDaily
One Friday evening in 1992, a meteorite ended a more than 150 million-mile journey by smashing into the trunk of a red Chevrolet Malibu in Peekskill, ...

UND researchers trace origins of meteorites
Duluth News Tribune
About 40% of the meteorites that fall to Earth are made up of materials from the (6) Hebe asteroid. The work isn't new for Gaffey and Fieber-Beyer and ...

Building block of organic molecules found in meteorite, marking major breakthrough in ...
The Independent
We still do not know how non-biological chemical process could turn into biological ones, but molecules on meteorites are one of the central suspects in ...

Key building block for organic molecules discovered in meteorites
EurekAlert
IMAGE: A fragment of the Murchison meteorite, one of the three carbon-rich meteorites that was sampled in this study (Photo: Daniel P. Glavin). view ...

VIDEO grosso Meteorite esplode nei cieli del Giappone. BOATO
Meteo Giornale
Un altro meteorite è entrato in contatto con l'atmosfera terrestre. Stavolta, una palla di fuoco molto luminosa ha attraversato il cielo notturno del ...

Astro Bob: Hey, what's so funny? 55+ dubious astronomy jokes
Brainerd Dispatch
They're a little meteor! What's a nuclear physicist's favorite meal? Fission chips. A seminar on time travel will be held last Tuesday.

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07 December 2020

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Meteorite That Fell to Earth in 1969 Can Shed Light on History of Solar System, Finds Study
News18
In order to learn more about the origin of meteorites and their parent bodies, scientists studied magnetic data collected from the Allende meteorite, which ...

Une météorite tombée sur Terre en 1969 pourrait éclairer l'histoire du système solaire, selon une ...
News 24
La météorite Allende est la plus grande météorite de chondrite carbonée trouvée sur Terre et contient des minéraux considérés comme les premiers ...

WATCH: Meteor break up over ocean captured on camera
ARY NEWS
In a stroke of luck, a crew at a ship captured an extremely bright meteor crossing the sky in front of the vessel and then breaking up over the ocean.

UND researchers trace origins of meteorites
Grand Forks Herald
The meteorites likely arose from a “cosmic crime scene” that took place in the distant past, in which an asteroid called “(6) Hebe” collided catastrophically ...

Reuters on Twitter: "WATCH: Dashcam captures a meteor lighting up the sky in Japan… "
twitter.com
Quick Cut: Meteor lights up the sky - News. 11:15 AM - 5 Dec 2020. 

November 2020 observations from Norway.
Meteor News
NTA: 2, 5 – 2 meteors. LEO: 0 – 1 meteor. NOO: 0 meteors. The one-week weather forecast for the maximum of the Leonids did not look good this year.

Clear Fireball Shot As Japan Probe Re-enters Earth
Republic World
It briefly turned into a fireball as it re-entered the atmosphere 120 kilometers (75 miles) above Earth. At about 10 kilometers (6 miles) aboveground, ...

Six years and 6 billion kilometers later, Japan's Hayabusa2 prepares to bring home a shipment of ...
Prudent Press Agency
... the Japanese spacecraft will drop a capsule on the Australian outback carrying primitive meteor fragments that scientists believe may shed light on ...

Infographic: The best archaeological discoveries made in 2020
Gulf News
The Allende meteorite is the largest carbonaceous chondrite meteorite ... asteroids from which carbonaceous chondrite meteorites broke off arrived in ...

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06 December 2020

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Midday fireball, boom thrill gazers from Ontario to Virginia
Moscow-Pullman Daily News
... hearing the boom or seeing a fireball in the sky shortly after noon on Wednesday, said Robert Lunsford of the American Meteor Society in Geneseo.

Meteorite fell to earth for the second time in a week, shook from New York to Toronto
Nosy Media
The American Meteor Society claimed to have received about 150 reports of meteorites sighting in Maryland, Washington, DC, Virginia, Pennsylvania, ...

Meteor causes fireball and loud boom over NY, several other states
FOX 4 Dallas
NEW YORK - A large bang heard over central New York on Wednesday afternoon was likely caused by the sonic boom from a meteor falling to the ...

Onlookers watch the Hayabusa2 capsule shoot across the sky in Coober Pedy, South Australia
ABC News
The capsule provided a stunning show above the Australian outback, streaking across the sky as a dazzling fireball. Source: ABC News | Duration: ...

Image of the re-entry capsule fireball| TOPICS
JAXA はやぶさ2プロジェクト (Hayabusa2 Project)
It resembles a fireball as it passes through the atmosphere. Capture time: December 6, 2020 at around 02:29 JST. Filming location: Near Coober Pedy, ...

Hayabusa2 mission lands the first subsurface asteroid sample on Earth
CNN
The agency designated this large area to compensate for any uncertainty created by local wind speed when the capsule deploys its parachute....

Japan capsule carrying asteroid samples lands in Australia
ABC News
“The Murchison meteorite opened a window on the origin of organics on ... research including finding ways to prevent meteorites from hitting Earth.

Asteroid soil samples lands in remote area of Australia
RexWeyler
“The Murchison meteorite opened a window on the origin of organics on ... RELATED: Canine sledder by accident captures reported meteor in WNY ...

Japanska kapsula stiže s odgovorima 300 miliona km; Hajabusa2: Sprečiti metorite da udare na ...
B92
... putovanju koje treba da traje 10 godina u jednom pravcu, radi istraživanja, uključujući pronalaženje načina da spreče meteorite da udare na Zemlju.

'Sweeping Gift': Asteroid of Nearly 200m Will Pass Close by Earth on Christmas Day
Sputnik International
... for the sky-gazers, including the upcoming Geminid meteor shower. ... meteor shower which is expected to be visible on the night of 13 December.

Investigaciones con meteoritos de geóloga de la región de Antofagasta destaca a nivel internacional
El Diario de Antofagasta
Bajo el título “Why are these scientists scouring a chilean desert for meteorites?”, el texto de Forbes muestra el aporte de la Dra. Valenzuela ...

Meteorite transita nei cieli di New York ed esplode
Meteo Giornale
Si è trattato di un meteorite, che è entrato in contatto la parte esterna della nostra atmosfera, dove le elevate temperature, e l'attrito lo hanno reso ...

2015 Kerala meteoroid
Wikipedia
The 2015 Kerala fireball was a midair meteor blast that occurred during its descent to Earth over Kerala state in India on 27 February 2015.

New data reveals early origins of solar system, life on Earth
India TV
It is one of the most studied meteorites and was considered for decades to be the classic example of a meteorite from a primitive asteroid parent body.

After a million-year journey, a meteor explodes above Syracuse in 2020
The Peru Gazette
The Peru Gazette - A community news service for Peru, NY.

आसमान से बरसा आग का गोला, लोग बोले- ऐसा लगा पृथ्वी का ...
Asianet News Hindi
उन्हीं में से एक उल्कापिंड (meteorite),जब अंतरिक्ष से कोई चीज धरती की तरफ आती है तो ..

उल्कापिंडों के अध्ययन से सौरमंडल के इतिहास की मिली ...
News18 इंडिया
उल्कापिंड (Meteorites) के अध्ययन से हमारे सौरमंडल (Solar System) के इतिहास के बारे में ...

[Grand format] Le palais Rohan ou le triomphe du goût français
L'Alsace.fr
Ce troisième épisode évoque le palais Rohan de Strasbourg, un météorite venu de Versailles et tombé au pied de la cathédrale. Conçu par Robert de ..

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05 December 2020

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 05DEC2020

Meteor causes fireball and loud boom over NY, several other states
FOX 4 Dallas
The American Meteor Society received nearly 100 reports about a fireball from Maryland, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Pennslyvania, and Virginia as ...

GOES East Captured Meteor Streaking Over New York State
NESDIS - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Some people closer to the event even heard its associated sonic boom. This disturbance was a meteor that burned up in the sky as it streaked overhead.

Syracuse meteor
Wikipedia
... to navigation Jump to search. A meteor exploded over Syracuse, New York on December 2, 2020. No injuries were reported. References[edit].

A meteor exploded over New York this week, and people actually felt the shockwave
BGR
A meteor entered the atmosphere over central New York state this week, causing a boom and shaking windows. The object didn't cause any damage, ...

After a million-year journey, a meteor explodes above Syracuse in 2020
syracuse.com
Those alien meteorites can be valuable, and a cottage industry of meteorite-seekers hunt for them. Lunsford said the pieces would likely be scattered in ...

50 years ago, scientists caught their first glimpse of amino acids from outer space
Science News
Excerpt from the December 5, 1970 issue of Science News. Murchison meteorite fragment. Fifty years ago, scientists discovered protein building blocks ...

Rochester researchers uncover key clues about the solar system's history
University of Rochester
Some meteorites are pieces of debris from outer space objects such as ... The Allende meteorite is the largest carbonaceous chondrite meteorite found ...

Hayabusa2 to drop capsule to Earth with ancient asteroid samples
Kyodo News Plus
Once the planet cooled, water and organics were delivered to Earth by meteorites similar to Ryugu, thus making the planet habitable. "It really shows ...

Missione spazio, sta per tornare sulla terra la sonda giapponese con frammenti di un asteroide
RTL 102.5
A missione compiuta, un anno fa, il veicolo spaziale ha lasciato il meteorite e si è messo in viaggio verso il nostro pianeta, dove dovrebbe atterrare ...

পৃথিবীর বায়ুমণ্ডলে ঢুকেই ভেঙে পড়ল উল্কা, চরম ...
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Chaotic early solar system collisions resembled 'Asteroids' arcade game — ScienceDaily
Up News Info
One Friday evening in 1992, a meteorite ended a more than 150 ... The meteorites studied in the research originated from asteroids and serve as ...

Meteorite fell to earth for the second time in a week, shook from New York to Toronto
Nosy Media
A similar incident occurred in the US on Wednesday, where a meteorite exploded in southern Ontario. On entering the atmosphere, this rock arose ...

Head's up! Here comes the Geminid meteor shower!
USA TODAY
Head's up! Here comes the Geminid meteor shower! · The Geminids are expected to peak on the night of December 13-14. · Shooting stars will start to ...

'Christmas star' will be visible for first time in 800 years this month
NewsRadio 1020 KDKA
The Geminid meteor shower, which will give stargazers the opportunity to see anywhere from 50 to 120 bright shooting stars per hour, will happen ...

The study uncovered key clues about the solar system's history
Tech Explorist
The Allende meteorite is the largest carbonaceous chondrite meteorite found on Earth. It contains minerals—calcium-aluminum inclusions—thought to

Hayabusa2 returns precious asteroid samples to Earth after six-year mission
The Natural History Museum
These meteorites are exciting because they contain large amounts of water and organic molecules and potentially delivered the ingredients for life to ...

THE BRIGHT SPOT: PM makes YouTube's top 2020, meteor flash, diverse Canadian businesses ...
680 News
Out of this world — a meteor flash stretched across the GTA. Physics and astronomy professor at York University, Paul Delaney, said that flash in the sky ...

Northern Taurid as bright as the full Moon
We just set up new cameras in Skibotn, Norway and calibrated them last
night. Today at 14:30 local time this happened:
https://youtu.be/6ZDEO75mR8w
This was a northern Taurid, as bright as the full moon, visible for 7
seconds. Shallow entry angle and it fully disintegrated 60 km above
ground.--Steinar Midtskogen

WATCH: New footage of meteor seen in the sky on Wednesday
CHCH News
This footage was captured by a dashcam on the QEW near Jordan Rd. and sent to us by viewer Brian McGrath. The American Meteor Society says by 4 ...

Fireball seen during day prompts 911 call 'I thought a plane crashed'
Daily Express
Fireballs occur when a meteor or another space rock hits the atmosphere. Air seeps into the pores of the rock, pushing it apart and causing it to ...

Meteor spotted crashing to earth between Yenda and Beelbangera NSW
The Canberra Times
As he was leaving Griffith airport in NSW's Riverina, pilot Steve Burgess spotted something a little unusual out of the corner of his eye.

Asteroid shines 'ten times brighter than moon' in astounding footage
The Independent
A meteor crashed and burned in Earth's atmosphere over the US and Canada, with astonishing footage by a 24-hour streaming camera. Footage ...

VIDEO: Massive fireball lights up the sky in parts of Canada and the US
KelownaNow
The Geminid meteor shower is taking place this month, and promises to be one of the most active meteor showers of the year. Support local journalism ...

People in Michigan See Midday Fireball Across the Sky
witl.com
The noontime show was likely a disintegrating meteor, according to the Associated Press. Nearly 100 witness reports of a fireball had come in to the ...

Mysterious boom heard Thursday morning, multiple Tallapoosa County residents report
The Alexander City Outlook
... Weather Service had no explanation, hypothesizing via Twitter it was the sonic boom of an aircraft or a meteorite in the Leonid meteor shower.

The Hayabusa 2 spacecraft is about to deliver asteroid rocks to Earth
New Scientist
“Because they're so porous, if rocks like that had entered Earth's atmosphere as a meteor it probably would have burned up and we wouldn't have a ...

Mystery solved! Fireball seen in daylight identified as large meteor
The Denver Channel
Which is slow by meteor standards. It then broke into pieces roughly 22 miles in the air, which produced the bright flash of light and loud sonic boom.

A very old meteor explodes over Syracuse, in December, in a pandemic. Twitter sees a joke
syracuse.com
Who wants to come here? But coming to Syracuse, in December, in a pandemic after flying around for a million years? No wonder that meteor blew up.


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