Video of 17JAN09 Scandinavian Fireball:
http://www.spaceweather.com/glossary/images2009/Svensson1.mpg
Reports from Sweden:
Here's some more links to the bolide seen over southern Sweden Saturday night 08.06 PM: http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article4204952.ab
http://www.thelocal.se/16990/20090118/
A witness (according to the Swedish newspaper Sydsvenskan) said it looked like a giant welding flame rapidly travelling from North East towards South West. The obseration was done about 100 km East of Copenhagen.
Strangely, I haven't seen any reports of noise or booms connected to the event. Although living in the southern part of Sweden (about 200> km NNE of Copenhagen), I missed the event :(
Source: Thomas Österberg
Video of Fireball:
http://www.expressen.tv/KVP/1.1435804/se-himlafenomenet-har
Video Credits: Roger Svensson lyckades filma ljusfenomenet. Foto: Läsarbild/Roger Svensson
Original Article: http://www.expressen.se/Nyheter
Expressen.tv/Expressen Newspaper, Sweden 18JAN09
TV: Spektakulärt fenomen lyste upp Sydsverige
Ett spektakulärt himlafenomen över södra Sverige på lördagskvällen fick oroliga människor att ringa ner både polis och SOS Alarm. - Det var ett stort klot som for fram över en grönfärgad himmel, berättar Christopher Tunner.
Ljusfenomenet uppenbarade sig strax efter klockan 20 och varade inte mer än tre-fyra sekunder.- Jag har aldrig sett något liknande, jag blev alldeles kall, säger Christopher som observerade fenomenet från sin bil i Kvarnby utanför Malmö.
"Skrämmande"
Himlafenomenet observerades från Skåne och ända upp till Norrköping.- Jag och min granne stod ute när vi plötsligt fick se ett jättelikt rödblått klot med en flera kilometer lång eldsvans som for fram över himlen, berättar Monica Engström från Landvetter utanför Göteborg.- Det var en skrämmande upplevelse, en känsla av att nu kommer det att hända något förfärligt. Det hördes ingenting och sedan var det plötsligt borta.Lennart Honnér i Bunkeflostrand utanför Malmö beskriver fenomenet på ett annat sätt.- Det var ett intensivt ljust sken som pulserade över himlen mot sydväst under några sekunder. Det lyste upp hela himlavalvet.
"Ganska ovanligt"
SOS Alarm fick in ett stort antal samtal om ljusfenomenet under kvällen.- Vi har fått uppringningar från hela Skåne, säger driftsledaren Ola Nilsson. Observationerna skiljer sig något beroende på varifrån man ringt. En del har sett ett blått ljus, andra har sett något falla ner från himlen.- Vi kontaktade flygräddningen i Göteborg, men där visste man inte heller vad det handlade om.Gunnar Larsson-Leander är professor emeritus i astronomi vid Lunds universitet.- Tyvärr missade jag själv fenomenet, men beskrivningarna tyder på att det var en stor meteor som kom in i atmosfären och brann upp, säger han. Att de är så här ljusstarka är ganska ovanligt.- Det kan också ha varit en del av en satellit som störtat mot jorden, men det är mindre troligt.
"Ytterst sällsynt"
Det kan hända att en meteor är så stor att den inte hinner brinna upp utan faller mot jorden.- Då talar vi om en katastrof, säger Gunnar Larsson-Leander. Men eftersom det inte har kommit några rapporter om någon nedslagsplats så har den med största sannolikhet brunnit upp.Även Peter Linde - ordförande i astronomiska sällskapet Tycho Brahe, som har ett observatorium i Oxie utanför Malmö - lutar åt en meteor.- Det är ytterst sällsynt med så ljusstarka meteorer, så det grämer mig att jag missade fenomenet. Det händer kanske en gång var tionde år på varje given plats.- Men jag måste säga att det här var en bra början på det internationella astronomiåret som inleddes i Globen i onsdags.
Report From Holland:
This appears to be definitely the same fireball as seen from Holland last night indeed. Most reports here are from the north of the country (closest to the fireball), but amazingly Klaas Jobse's all sky camera in Zeeland in the southeast of the Netherlands (so several hundreds of km distant from the likely location of the fireball!) captured it very low above the horizon: http://cyclops.klaasjobse.nl/test/jcms/showpic.php?img=362_20090117_1909UT_web_w600h693.jpg
Dutch reports mention a few seconds duration, greenish colours and fragmentation and a brightness of at least -8 if not more. time: 19:10 UTC = 20:10 CET.
Source: Dr Marco (183294) Langbroek
Dutch Meteor Society (DMS)
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In southern Netherlands, at Oostkapelle the Danish bolide was captured via an allsky station from european network. observation place: 51°33'55''N 3°33'03'' E elevation: +1m
Link to the picture:
http://cyclops.klaasjobse.nl/jcms/showpic.phpimg=362_20090117_1909UT_web_w600h693.jpg
Distance between bolide & station is approx. 550 to 580 Km The same bolide was observed from Belgium (observation place: 50°15' 12'' N 5°45'10 E Altitude: +580 m) , magnitude -5, big explosion in 6 to 7 fragments and next lot of fine fire particles.
Distance to bolide: approx 590 Km.
Source V.J. submitted on 21JAN09
REPORTS FROM GERMANY:
German newsmedia report on the same incident:
Lichtblitz über Norddeutschland war möglicherweise
MeteoritRostock (dpa) - Ein greller Lichtblitz hat am Abend den Himmel über weiten Teilen Norddeutschlands erleuchtet. Zahlreiche Augenzeugen berichteten von einem bläulich-grünen Leuchten. Es habe den Himmel für einige Sekunden taghell erfüllt. Auch der Wetterdienst Meteomedia auf der Insel Hiddensee registrierte das Leuchten. Es sei eindeutig keine Wettererscheinung, sondern etwas Astronomisches gewesen, sagte eine Meteorologin. Womöglich sei es ein Meteorit gewesen, der bei Rostock in die Ostsee gefallen war.
© Die Welterschienen am 18.01.2009 um 12:10 Uhr.
Source: Dr. Svend Buhl
Meteorite Recon
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The fireball was also seen in the northernpart of Germany.
Here is a small report, in german language:
http://nachrichten.t-online.de/c/17/40/62/72/17406272.html
Source: Carsten Giessler in Germany
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FROM POLAND:
It was seen by at least 5 aircraft crews on the way between Hamburg and Berlin. Two visual reports were registered from nothern Poland. Flashes mag. ~ -9.5 recording (CCTVs have seen only sky brightness change) were see near Gdynia (PFN24).
See: http://www.pkim.org/?=pl/node/1095 for details in polish.
Source: Grupa pod wezwaniem
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The Polish Fireball Network also captured the flash of the fireball, but not, as yet, an image of the path. They do have several visual reports. Kamil Zloczewski has kindly provided the above information.
UPDATE FROM GERMANY 18JAN09:
The following report from Germany includes the account of a pressure wave observed from Rostock on the north coast of Germany.
http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/0,1518,601898,00.html
-- David Entwistl, UK
UPDATE FROM GERMANY 19JAN09:
There is an interesting sequence of photos within this article. Also- there is mention of the "bang" which was absent from many other articles.
Mike Groetz--posted on http://www.meteoritecentral.com/
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http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,602026,00.html
Northern Europe Marvels at Mysterious Blue LightFirst there was a bluish glow, then a bang and a shockwave. Residents across northern Europe marvelled at the mysterious phenomenon, which is believed to have been a meteorite crashing into the Baltic Sea off the coast of northern Germany over the weekend.A mysterious bluish-green flash of light followed by a loud bang alarmed residents across northern Germany, Denmark and southern Sweden on Saturday night and prompted dozens of people to call the police. "There was a dull thunder and I felt pressure in my chest," said one eyewitness in the northern German city of Rostock.
PHOTO GALLERY: MYSTERIOUS BLUE LIGHT SEEN IN NORTHERN EUROPE Click on a picture to launch the image gallery (4 Photos)
Authorities made checks and quickly ruled out the possibility the fireball had been a plane crash. A spokesman for the German Aerospace Center said: "It was probably a meteorite. That at least would explain the shockwave and the bang." A meteorologist for the Meteomedia weather service on the Baltic German island of Hiddensee said: "That definitely wasn't a weather phenomenon, it was something astronomical."Experts said the meteorite probably fell into the Baltic Sea not far from the port city of Rostock.
cro -- with wire reports
FROM SWEDEN 19JAN09
here you can view the video :
http://sydsvenskan.se/
regards, oliver
BBC NEWS 19JAN09
It's even been mentioned today on the main page of BBC News, with a video (it still is at 2050 UTC):
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7836656.stm
Best regards,
Yann Kempf, France
UPDATES FROM DENMARK:
Meteor styrtede mod jorden nær Danmark
17-01-09: 22:54 opd. 18-01-09: 17:43 af: Danny Høgsholt
http://vejret.tv2.dk/nyt/article.php/id-19877328.html
Overvågningsbilleder fra Skåne viser meteoren styrte mod jorden.Video: Roger Svensson / Sydsvenskan.se
Kort efter kl. 20 lørdag aften styrtede en meteor mod jorden i nærheden af Danmark. Mere og mere tyder på, at ildkuglen endte i Østersøen.
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Mange danskere havde nok sat sig godt til rette i sofaen lørdag aften for at se de danske håndboldherrer åbne VM mod Brasillien, da de kort før kampstart fik sig noget af en overraskelse ved at kigge ud af vinduet.
Et kraftigt lysglimt oplyste nemlig himlen i et par sekunder omkring kl. 20.10, der godt et minuts tid efter blev fulgt af en lavfrekvent rumlen fra 'det fjerne'. Alt tyder på at der er tale om en meteor.
Endte formentlig i ØstersøenEt overvågningskamera i Skåne fangede meteoren, da den styrtede mod jorden - og meldinger fra Skåne lyder på både et kraftigt lysglimt og et stort brag, meddeler den svenske avis Sydsvenskan.
Som følge af observationerne vuderes det af Tycho Brahe Planetariet, at meteoren bevægede sig henover Blekinge - og sent søndag eftermiddag kunne astrofysiker Michael Linden-Vørnle fortælle, at ildkuglen formentlig endte sit liv over Østersøen syd for Lolland-Falster.
Nåede formentlig ikke at ramme jordenOvervågningsbillederne og diverse observationer indikerer, at meteoren nåede at brænde op inden den ramte jordoverfladen. Det store brag, som blev hørt flere steder i Sydsverige og som i Danmark blev til en rumlen, skyldes formentlig at meteoren brød igennem lydmuren, pga. dens enorme hastighed.
Det er desuden meget sjældent at meteorer på himlen resulterer i deciderede nedslag på jorden. Sidst en meteor blev observeret i Danmark og man samtidig efterfølgende fandt rester af meteoritten på landjorden var i 1951.
Blev observeret flere steder i Danmark.Lysglimtet blev i Danmark observeret flere steder øst for Storebælt - og endda så langt mod vest som til Horsens kunne man kort efter kl. 20 kortvarigt se en oplyst aftenhimmel.
Den tidligere svenske professor i astronomi, Gunnar Larsson-Leander fra Lund Universitet, siger til Sydvenskan, at meteorer er ganske normale, men at det er usædvanligt at de er så lysstærke som tilfældet var lørdag aften.
Ud over i Danmark kunne lysglimtet også ses så langt mod nord som i Göteborg og så langt mod syd som Rostock i Tyskland og i det nordlige Polen. Ifølge Michael Linden-Vørnle begynder meteorer normalt at 'brænde' ca. 100 km over jorden.
MeteoridEt stenobjekt i kredsløb omkring Solen. Er mindre end en asteoride - dvs. typisk mindre end ca. 100 m i diameter.
Meteor (stjerneskud)Meteorid, der trænger ind i Jordens atmosfære, og begynder at 'brænde' under udsendelse af lys.
MeteoritEn meteor, der rammer Jordens overflade.
Populært kaldet stjernskudMeteorer, der populært også kaldes stjerneskud, er klumper af sten af varierende størrelse, der med stor fart trænger ind i Jordens atmosfære. Inden de bremses i Jordens atmosfære kan de opnå en hastighed på ca. 70 kilometer pr. sekund.
Når meteoren trænger ind i atmosfæren bremses den og foran den presses luften sammen med enorm styrke, hvilket opvarmer luften voldsomt. Opvarmingen får meteoren til at fordampe og gløde, hvilket ydermere resulterer i, at den lyser op.
Normalt brænder stenene op i atmosfæren i 'god tid' inden de rammer jorden, men er de store nok kan de nå ned helt ned til jordoverfladen. Når det sker kaldes resterne af meteoren for en 'meteorit'.
Meteorer af den kaliber, som blev observeret lørdag aften, opstår normalt en gang ca. hver femte måned. Men da størstedelen af jorden trods alt er ubeboet, blandt pga. 70% er dækket af vand, og mange meteorer kommer i dagslys, er de ikke ofte stedfæstet.
Har du observeret meteoren?Så du også lysglimtet eller hørte du braget fra meteoren lørdag aften, så kan du hjælpe astronomerne med at kortlægge meteorens bane og potentielle nedslagssted ved at indsende din observation på ildkugle.dk - følg linket i link-boksen til højre.
Meteorbrag skyldes hul i lydmuren
18-01-09: 11:34 af: kris
http://nyhederne.tv2.dk/article.php/id-19882443.html
Mange danskere så og hørte i aftes lyset og det efterfølgende brag fra det, der formentlig er et meteornedslag. Lysglimtet stammer fra meteoren, der brænder op i atmosfæren, mens det store brag, som blev hørt af mange danskere, formentlig skyldes, at meteoren brød igennem lydmuren, pga. dens enorme hastighed.
TV 2 Nyhederne er blevet kontaktet af mange danskere, der troede, at der var tale om et tordenvejr over Danmark.
Når en meteor rammer atmosfæren, sker det med ca. 40-50 km/sekundet.
Meteor slog ned og lyste himlen op
18-01-09: 07:43 opd. 18-01-09: 09:09 af: Danny Høgsholt, kris
http://nyhederne.tv2.dk/article.php/id-19879566.html
Mange danskere havde nok sat sig til rette i sofaen for at se de danske håndboldherrer spille deres første kamp ved VM, da de kort før kampstart fik sig noget en overraskelse ved at kigge ud af vinduet. Et kraftigt lys-glimt oplyste himlen i et par sekunder omkring kl. 20.10, der godt et minuts tid efter blev fulgt af en lavfrekvent rumlen fra 'det fjerne'. Der er med stor sandsynlighed tale om en meteor.
Et overvågningskamera i Skåne fangede meteoren, da den styrtede mod jorden - og meldinger fra Skåne lyder på både et kraftigt lysglimt og et stort brag.
I følge observationerne vuderes det af Tycho Brahe Planetariet, at meteoren bevægede sig henover Blekinge.
Ramte nok ikke jordenOvervågningsbillederne og diverse observationer indikerer dog, at meteoren lige akkurat nåede at 'brænde op' i atmosfæren inden den nåede jorden. Meteorens møde med atmosfæren forårsagede ifølge astrofysiker Michael Linden-Vørnle det brag, som mange danskere hørte efter lysglimtet.
Der er endnu heller ikke fundet noget eventuelt nedslagssted fra meteoren.
Det er da også ganske sjældent at meteorer på himlen resulterer i nedslag på jorden. Sidst en meteor blev observeret i Danmark og man samtidig efterfølgende fandt rester af meteoritten på landjorden var i 1951.
Så du meteoren?
18-01-09: 10:37 opd. 18-01-09: 14:22 af: 1234 Dine Nyheder kommentarer (41) Skriv kommentar
En meteor sendte i aftes et lysglimt hen over den østlige del af Danmark.
Hvordan oplevede du glimtet? Fortæl din beretning eller send dit billede til 1234.
Her er de første reaktioner fra danskerne:
Marianne Cornelius, Idestrup:"Min veninde min søn og jeg sidder og ser håndbold ca.kl. 2015 kommer der et voldsomt lys over det hele vi går ud for at se hvad det var og hører så en underlig rumlen der blev ved et godt stykke tid ! Det var ikke torden det lød nærmest som en bombe."
Morten Skov, Nysted på Lolland:"Vi oplevede det som et blændede lys der oplyste alt udenfor efterfulgt af en høj langtrukken buldrende lyd , nærmest som en flok Harley motorcykler der passerede. Da jeg åbnede et vindue spurgte min hustru om det var torden, hvortil jeg svarede jeg ikke vidste det og ikke kunne lokalisere lyden."
Palle Nielsen, Aabenraa:"Min kæreste og jeg var i går aftes på vej hjem til Åbenrå fra familie fest i Bjerringbro, og vi blev lidt forvirret da vi kom kørende imellem brædstrup og horsens ad hovedvej 52, da vi så et voldsomt blåt lysglimt, der varede ca 2 til 3 sekunder, vi troede umiddelbart at det var udrykningskøretøjer, men det kunne jo ikke passe, da lysglimtet var så kraftig og så kort, og nærmest som en kæmpe eksplotion på himlen, vi ved ikke om der kan være tale om den til morgen omtalte meteor, på TV 2 News, vi så det mellem 20.00 og 20.15 lørdag aften."
Jette Ibsen, Væggerløse"Vi bor på Marielyst på Falster, da vi pludselig så et kraftigt lysglimt, efterfulgt af et stort brag, som kunne høres som en rumlen i ca 30 sek. ude i horisonten."
Annette og Maria Persson, Næstved:"Omkring ved 20.00 tiden lørdag aften sad jeg inde i stuen min datter var på badeværelset. Så et stort lysklimt på himlen/som om det var tordenvejr. Så kom braget. Min datter så det samme fra badeværelset. Undrede mig meget, da den stod på minus 2 grader og så torden. På tv gik jeg over til tv2 news for at afvente nærmere. Der gik cirka 1 1/2 time hvor nyheden om Metoeren i Skåne."
Lotte Bøg, Ørbæk"Vi oplevede et kæmpelysglimt efterfulgt af bulder himlen blev meget oplyst det var så vi lettede os fra sofaen og undrede os over hvad der var sket? jeg tænkte lige først om det var en kæmpe eksplosion, men da da ikke skete mere tænkte jeg ikke over mere."
Henrik Jessen, Polen:"Jeg arbejder i Polen, hvor jeg har ansvaret for Arla Foods produktionsaktiviteter. Jeg er bosiddende i Kolobrzeg,som ligger mellem Gdansk og Stettin. I går aftes kl. ca. 20.08 observerede jeg en meteor. Jeg observerede følgende: Himlen blev oplyst i hvidt lys, derefter så jeg (meget højt på himlen) en meteor i lilla/violet/hvidt lys, i en meget stejl bane. Min observation var i vest, nordvest."
Regitza Schmidt, Ålsgårde:"Vi bor i Ålsgårde, sad i vort TV-rum - der ligger mod syd op mod Hellebækskoven - og så åbningen af det ny koncerthus. Pludselig så vi noget og kiggede på hinanden og udbrød: Hvad var det? Det lignede en mellemting mellem et kæmpelyn og en krysantemum-bombe, der oplyste så skovens træer stod som silhuet."
Simone Thelin Dalsgaard, Frederiksværk:"Jeg er en pige på 12 år. Jeg bor i Frederiksværk. Vi sad i går aftes og jeg ville se håndbold med familien og sad i sofaen som står, så jeg kan kigge ud af vores terrassedør med udsigt til himlen. Jeg siger så til min far at det lyner derude, men jeg syntes godt nok det var et mærkeligt lyn, ikke som lyn plejer at være. Jeg oplevede det som et stort lysglimt som lyste hele himlen op og faldt helt hvidt ned.
Thomas Skovbæk Pedersen, Silkeborg:"Jeg kørte i går aftes, i et skov område ved Kongensbro på vej til silkeborg, ved en lidt over 20 tiden, da jeg kommer kørende blev himlen lige pludslig meget meget oplyst i en blålig farve, som varede ca. 3 sek. og så forsvandt lyset igen."
Lasse Thalund Kristensen, Hodsager:"Jeg var ude og gå med min hund da hele himlen blev blåligt oplyst. Først troede jeg det var et lyn fordi det var helt overskyet, men der kom intet brag selvom hele himlen var oplyst i en 2-3 sekunder."
Anna Marie Sørensen, Hadsund:Vil lige gøre opmærksom på at vi er nogle stykker i Jylland som også så "lyset" fra meteoren i aftes. Vi troede dog at det var en forsinket nytårsraket. Da vi så "lyset" befandt vi os lidt nord for Hadsund."
Anonym, Holbæk:"I går aftes så mig og min ven et flot billede over nattehimlen. Jeg har prøvet at tegne det vi så, så godt som jeg kunne. Det var rigtig smukt og fyldte ca. 1/4 af himlen og det hele var lydløst. Det varede ca. 2 sek. så var det slut."
Bo Birgersted, Bogø:"og så lige nyhederne om meteoren... Bor på Bogø og var meget tydelig herfra...."
Mikael Adelberg, Hundested:"Ved 20 tiden skulle jeg køre min datter, Malene, hjem til hendes veninde, Nanna, da de havde aftalt at sove sammen. Vi bor i Hundested og kører syd på mod Lynæs, da lysglimtet kommer. Det virker som et lyn fra et tordenvejr der nærmer i det fjerne. Det var for kraftigt til, at det kunne være fyrværkeri, for det oplyste det meste af horisonten gennem skyerne mod syd op til en vinkel på ca. 45 grader."
René og Natalie Munch Kjær, Herfølge:Vi kom kørende i Herfølge ned af Tessebøllevej efter et besøg af farbror og lillebror og vi kørte omkring kl. 20.10 og stoppede bilen da himlen oplyste som et kæmpe fyrværkeri med grønt skær, det varede i ca. 5 sekunder og så var det væk. Dette var yderst skræmmende og vi sad og jokede med at det måtte være et kosmisk angreb fra det ydre rum."
Irene og Dan Jensen, Barrit:"Vi så nyhederne her kl. 12, at der var set en meteor i skåne området i går ved 20 tiden. Det giver os svar på hvad det var for et stort blåligt lysglimt vi så på himlen ved 20 tiden, da vi kørte i bil ved Sejet, en lille by få kilometer syd for Horsens. Så her kunne det altså også ses.
Thomas Rath, Slangerup:Jeg bor i Slangerup i Nordsjælland. Ved 20 tiden kiggede jeg tilfældigt ud af vinduet da jeg så nogle kraftige blå blink. Jeg troede det var politiet der kørte gennem gaden, men det var alt for kraftigt til at kunne være udrykningslys. Så da jeg så nyhederne her til morgen blev jeg opmærksom på at det nok har været lyset fra meteoren jeg har set."
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There's a nice news report, in English, from the Copenhagen Post Online mentioning the sonic boom and the number of reports filed.
http://www.cphpost.dk/news/scitech/92-technology/44478-weekend-meteor-very-unusual.html
David Entwistle, UK --Thank you David for the two leads on the Danish reports!
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Re: Swedish fireball 2009 01 17 19:08 UT
Not sure if you've heard this, but there's a recording of the sonic boom here:http://geologi.snm.ku.dk/nyheder_gm/nyhed190109/bovedy.wav
Linked from here:http://geologi.snm.ku.dk/nyheder_gm/nyhed190109/
Best wishes,-- David Entwistle, UK
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Infra Sound Detectors IRF- Indicate Two Large Bolides over Scandinavia and Barents Sea 15JAN09
Apparently, two large bolides have entered the atmosphere over Scandinavia and Barents Sea in a matter of two days in mid January! According to a recent newsletter from the Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF), an even larger event took place January 15, over Barents Sea, in an area between Spitz Bergen and Norway. Rick McGregor at IRF, would like to suggest a connection between the two fireballs and the Delta Cancrid- meteor trail.
See: http://www.irf.se/Topical/Other/?newsid=7&group=P2
Below you can find some information regarding the Swedish-Finnish network of Infra Sound Detectors IRF uses to track incoming meteors and re-entering rockets over Northern Scandinavia. http://www.umea.irf.se/iltserie/
Source: Thomas Österberg reported on 22JAN09
18 January 2009
16 January 2009
Moroc Meteorite Fall
Photo of 2007gr stone from Moroc 21DEC08 Fall
Photo by Anon. Moroccan meteorite hunter via Greg Hupe
NEW FALL in MOROC 20/21DEC08:
Tamdaght (Provisory name)
Ouarzazate Province, Morocco
31° 05' N, 7° 08' W
Fell: 20 December 2008, 22h37
Ordinary chondrite (H4 or H5)Classification & declaration pending
Mass (g): 2649 Pieces: Many
Info: Main mass, Léa & Philippe Thomas.
A type specimen was sent to UPVI which is going to make the classification and the declaration.Of course here, there is no totality of this fall, the last reliable information indicates that two stones were found. The most important in a small crater from which arise all the fragments which we put on sale. The other one smashed against a rock face breaking the stone in one thousand fragments. Both stones add up approximately 35 kg and nothing else was found at the moment.The stone which formed a small crater fell to 12 kilometers of Tamdaght. Photos and new information will come soon.At the moment, it's raining on the region and regrettably if other stones finish by beings found, they will be already well weathered. All the fragments which we sell were found a little time after the fall and are of an extreme freshness. Note: On the web, some dealers of meteorites tell that hundreds even of thousands of kilograms of this meteorite were found, it's absolutely wrong.
Un échantillon type a été envoyé a l’UPVI qui va faire la classification et la déclaration.Bien sûr, ici il n’y a pas la totalité de cette chute, les dernières informations fiables signalent que deux pierres ont été trouvées. La plus importante dans un petit cratère dont sont issus tous les fragments que nous mettons en vente. L’autre s’est fracassée contre une paroi rocheuse brisant la pierre en mille morceaux. Les deux pierres totalisent environ 35 kg et rien d’autre n’a été trouvé pour l’instant.La pierre qui a formé un petit cratère est tombée à 12 kilomètres de Tamdaght. Des photos et de nouvelles informations viendront bientôt.En ce moment, il pleut sur la région et malheureusement si d'autres pierres finissent par êtres trouvées, elles seront déjà bien altérées. Tous les fragments que nous vendons ont été trouvés peu de temps après la chute et sont d'une extrême fraîcheur.Note : Sur Internet, des vendeurs de météorites racontent que des centaines voire des milliers de kilogrammes de cette météorite ont été trouvés, c'est absolument faux.
(28 December 2008)
Traduction française de l'article paru dans le quotidien Al Massae du 28 décembre 2008
Un corps mystérieux a éclairé le ciel de Marrakech puis s’est écrasé dans la montagne en provocant un léger tremblement de terreLes habitants pensent que c’est un corps extraterrestre alors un chercheur en astronomie réfute cette idéeUne boule de feu est apparue dans la nuit éclairant le ciel des alentours de la ville de Marrakech, et se déplaçait selon une trajectoire horizontale. Elle est allée vers la zone d’Ait Ourir et Tahanoute avant de s’écraser sur la montagne dans la région de Loukaimden provoquant une explosion qui a secoué le sol.Cette scène n’était pas extraite d’un film de science fiction, mais la scène qui s’était déroulée la nuit de samedi dernier, provoquant un état de panique au sein de la population qui y avait assisté.Selon des sources concordantes des communes de Ait Ourir et Tahanoute, on raconte qu’aux alentours de 22h37 la nuit de samedi dernier, un flash de lumière blanche a traversé le ciel de la région pour finir sa course sur une montagne qui se situe entre les deux régions de Tahanoute et Loukaimden.Ces mêmes sources ont ajouté qu’au moment de la collision, une déflagration semblable au grondement du tonnerre a été entendue suivie d’une légère secousse sismique.Un témoin de Tahanoute, travaillant comme gardien de nuit dans un des vergers d’Ait Ourir, a décrit le corps étranger comme étant un avion qui brûlait en se référant au bruit provoqué par l’objet lors de son passage au dessus de sa tête. Selon lui, la course de l’objet dans le ciel a duré près de 3 minutes avant que celui-ci ne disparaisse en direction de la commune de Tahanoute.Pour un autre témoin de Tahanoute l’objet mystérieux est décrit comme une boule de feu qui ressemble à «un météore», il a précisé que celle-ci illuminait les toits des maisons et l’oliveraie de la région de Tahanoute ce qui a semé la panique au sein de la population qui craignait que ce phénomène n’aboutisse à une catastrophe surtout après avoir entendu le bruit terrible et senti un léger tremblement de terre au moment de l’impact.Aucun témoin n’a pu donner l’endroit exact de la collision, ni ce que pourrait provoquer une telle chute dans la montagne comme dégâts sur les environs, cependant ces mêmes sources disent ne pas avoir vu de fumée ni d’incendie après le choc.En l’absence de toute source officielle qui pourrait affirmer ou infirmer un tel incident, le président des astronomes amateurs du Maroc Abdelhamid Touma, doute fortement que ce phénomène puisse être lié à la chute d’un objet céleste ou météorite venant de l’espace, il a ensuite précisé lors d’une déclaration à «AL MASSAE» qu’une friction entre la terre et un petit corps céleste pourrait provoquer un tel phénomène.Comme il n’a pas exclu encore que ce corps mystérieux pourrait être un engin volant comme les appareils utilisés pour l’espionnage entre pays, et que les gens aiment à s’imaginer que ce sont des «soucoupes volantes venues d’une autre planète».
Ouarzazate Province, Morocco
31° 05' N, 7° 08' W
Fell: 20 December 2008, 22h37
Ordinary chondrite (H4 or H5)Classification & declaration pending
Mass (g): 2649 Pieces: Many
Info: Main mass, Léa & Philippe Thomas.
A type specimen was sent to UPVI which is going to make the classification and the declaration.Of course here, there is no totality of this fall, the last reliable information indicates that two stones were found. The most important in a small crater from which arise all the fragments which we put on sale. The other one smashed against a rock face breaking the stone in one thousand fragments. Both stones add up approximately 35 kg and nothing else was found at the moment.The stone which formed a small crater fell to 12 kilometers of Tamdaght. Photos and new information will come soon.At the moment, it's raining on the region and regrettably if other stones finish by beings found, they will be already well weathered. All the fragments which we sell were found a little time after the fall and are of an extreme freshness. Note: On the web, some dealers of meteorites tell that hundreds even of thousands of kilograms of this meteorite were found, it's absolutely wrong.
Un échantillon type a été envoyé a l’UPVI qui va faire la classification et la déclaration.Bien sûr, ici il n’y a pas la totalité de cette chute, les dernières informations fiables signalent que deux pierres ont été trouvées. La plus importante dans un petit cratère dont sont issus tous les fragments que nous mettons en vente. L’autre s’est fracassée contre une paroi rocheuse brisant la pierre en mille morceaux. Les deux pierres totalisent environ 35 kg et rien d’autre n’a été trouvé pour l’instant.La pierre qui a formé un petit cratère est tombée à 12 kilomètres de Tamdaght. Des photos et de nouvelles informations viendront bientôt.En ce moment, il pleut sur la région et malheureusement si d'autres pierres finissent par êtres trouvées, elles seront déjà bien altérées. Tous les fragments que nous vendons ont été trouvés peu de temps après la chute et sont d'une extrême fraîcheur.Note : Sur Internet, des vendeurs de météorites racontent que des centaines voire des milliers de kilogrammes de cette météorite ont été trouvés, c'est absolument faux.
(28 December 2008)
Traduction française de l'article paru dans le quotidien Al Massae du 28 décembre 2008
Un corps mystérieux a éclairé le ciel de Marrakech puis s’est écrasé dans la montagne en provocant un léger tremblement de terreLes habitants pensent que c’est un corps extraterrestre alors un chercheur en astronomie réfute cette idéeUne boule de feu est apparue dans la nuit éclairant le ciel des alentours de la ville de Marrakech, et se déplaçait selon une trajectoire horizontale. Elle est allée vers la zone d’Ait Ourir et Tahanoute avant de s’écraser sur la montagne dans la région de Loukaimden provoquant une explosion qui a secoué le sol.Cette scène n’était pas extraite d’un film de science fiction, mais la scène qui s’était déroulée la nuit de samedi dernier, provoquant un état de panique au sein de la population qui y avait assisté.Selon des sources concordantes des communes de Ait Ourir et Tahanoute, on raconte qu’aux alentours de 22h37 la nuit de samedi dernier, un flash de lumière blanche a traversé le ciel de la région pour finir sa course sur une montagne qui se situe entre les deux régions de Tahanoute et Loukaimden.Ces mêmes sources ont ajouté qu’au moment de la collision, une déflagration semblable au grondement du tonnerre a été entendue suivie d’une légère secousse sismique.Un témoin de Tahanoute, travaillant comme gardien de nuit dans un des vergers d’Ait Ourir, a décrit le corps étranger comme étant un avion qui brûlait en se référant au bruit provoqué par l’objet lors de son passage au dessus de sa tête. Selon lui, la course de l’objet dans le ciel a duré près de 3 minutes avant que celui-ci ne disparaisse en direction de la commune de Tahanoute.Pour un autre témoin de Tahanoute l’objet mystérieux est décrit comme une boule de feu qui ressemble à «un météore», il a précisé que celle-ci illuminait les toits des maisons et l’oliveraie de la région de Tahanoute ce qui a semé la panique au sein de la population qui craignait que ce phénomène n’aboutisse à une catastrophe surtout après avoir entendu le bruit terrible et senti un léger tremblement de terre au moment de l’impact.Aucun témoin n’a pu donner l’endroit exact de la collision, ni ce que pourrait provoquer une telle chute dans la montagne comme dégâts sur les environs, cependant ces mêmes sources disent ne pas avoir vu de fumée ni d’incendie après le choc.En l’absence de toute source officielle qui pourrait affirmer ou infirmer un tel incident, le président des astronomes amateurs du Maroc Abdelhamid Touma, doute fortement que ce phénomène puisse être lié à la chute d’un objet céleste ou météorite venant de l’espace, il a ensuite précisé lors d’une déclaration à «AL MASSAE» qu’une friction entre la terre et un petit corps céleste pourrait provoquer un tel phénomène.Comme il n’a pas exclu encore que ce corps mystérieux pourrait être un engin volant comme les appareils utilisés pour l’espionnage entre pays, et que les gens aiment à s’imaginer que ce sont des «soucoupes volantes venues d’une autre planète».
Source: Philippe Thomas, Meteoritica Meteorites, France
Photos from Moroc Fall:
Greg Hupe wrote, "I was asked if I could post a few pictures of the recovery area of the December 21, 2008 fall.1) Moroccan in impact hole, looks disturbed by different people picking out every last fragment (note fragments on paper)":
Another in the hole with found fragments:
2007-gram stone found in the area:
Moroccan holding 2007-gram stone with snowy Atlas in background:
Source: Greg Hupe, USA
The Hupe Collection
NaturesVault (eBay)
More to Come....
14 January 2009
ITALIAN FIREBALL 13JAN09 at 00:02:40 UT.
ITALIAN FIREBALL 13JAN09 at 00:02:40 UT.
A large fireball was observed on January 13th at 00:02:40 UT.
You can see images and animations of the phenomena at the following link: http://lnx.astrofiliveronesi.it/index.php?mact=News,cntnt01,detail,0&cntnt01articleid=1536&cntnt01returnid=55
As the fireball was seen on north-east it could be easly seen from sites north and east from Italy. Any other has recorded this event?
Flavio Castellani, ITALY
Osservatorio del Monte Baldo -Verona - Italy -
http://lnx.osservatoriomontebaldo.it/)
The observatory is public and our association (Circolo Astrofili Veronesi http://lnx.astrofiliveronesi..it/) manages the observatory.
A large fireball was observed on January 13th at 00:02:40 UT.
You can see images and animations of the phenomena at the following link: http://lnx.astrofiliveronesi.it/index.php?mact=News,cntnt01,detail,0&cntnt01articleid=1536&cntnt01returnid=55
As the fireball was seen on north-east it could be easly seen from sites north and east from Italy. Any other has recorded this event?
Flavio Castellani, ITALY
Osservatorio del Monte Baldo -Verona - Italy -
http://lnx.osservatoriomontebaldo.it/)
The observatory is public and our association (Circolo Astrofili Veronesi http://lnx.astrofiliveronesi..it/) manages the observatory.
13 January 2009
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Saturn's monster space doughnut.
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She hypothesized that she might be seeing dust and ice kicked up by a collision with a tiny meteorite - a sign that there was more debris circling around in ...
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Space Daily
by Staff Writers Opportunity has discovered another large (0.5-meter) meteorite. The rover began the approach to this new meteorite, called "Shelter Island ...
Newly Discovered Saturn Ring Dwarfs All Others
Blogcritics.org (blog)
They found that over a span of millions of years, meteorite impacts on Phoebe had indeed kicked up enough dust to paint Iapetus, which orbits Saturn like ...
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Telegraph.co.uk
But most archaeologists, astronomers and Mayans say the only thing likely to hit Earth is a meteor shower of New Age philosophy, pop astronomy, ...
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TOK, ALASKA FIREBALL 1JAN09 3JAN09
Flash, boom, contrails over Tok likely a meteor
WITNESSES: Theories range from military accident to ufo.
By RENA DELBRIDGE
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
Published: January 3rd, 2009 01:00 AM Last Modified: January 3rd, 2009 02:45 AM
FAIRBANKS -- Was it a meteor falling from space?
Officials think that might be what residents saw shooting through the Alaska sky near Tok on Monday afternoon.
A tremendous explosion, like a sonic boom, drew people outside, where they watched irregular contrails scribe paths in a clear sky. ...
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WITNESSES: Theories range from military accident to ufo.
By RENA DELBRIDGE
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
Published: January 3rd, 2009 01:00 AM Last Modified: January 3rd, 2009 02:45 AM
FAIRBANKS -- Was it a meteor falling from space?
Officials think that might be what residents saw shooting through the Alaska sky near Tok on Monday afternoon.
A tremendous explosion, like a sonic boom, drew people outside, where they watched irregular contrails scribe paths in a clear sky. ...
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University of Calgary scientist Alan Hildebrand and graduate student Ellen Milley found several meteor fragments near the Battle River along the rural Alberta-Saskatchewan border, near the city of Lloydminster late Thursday. They said there could be thousands of meteorite pieces strewn over a 7-square-mile area of mostly flat, barren land, with...
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Scientists say they hope to find remnants of a meteor that brilliantly lit up the sky before falling to earth in western Canada.
University of Calgary planetary scientist Alan Hildebrand called it one of the largest meteors visible in the country in the last decade. Widely broadcast video images showed what appeared to be a speeding fireball Thursday night over Saskatoon that became larger and brighter before disappearing as it neared the ground.
Hildebrand said Friday that he...
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Mich.-shaped meteorite sells for $20K at auction
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A meteorite resembling Michigan's Lower Peninsula has been sold at auction, but bidders weren't quite as smitten with the mitten as the seller expected.
The 75-pound nickel-and-iron meteorite sold for $20,000 Sunday at Heritage Auction Galleries in Dallas. It had been expected to sell for $32,500 to $40,000. Michigan native Darryl Pitt, the meteorite's owner, says he is disappointed by the low price. He says he thinks the space rock is worth...
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Date: April 29, 2008 Publication: Associated Press Archive
It may look like a geologic find, but the three-pound red and white fossil heading for auction in New York is actually a pile of dinosaur dung.
Bonhams New York puts the prehistoric deposit up for sale Wednesday along with such items as a 30,000-year-old woolly mammoth tusk, a giant beaver skull and a skeleton of a Russian Cave Bear. The dung looks like a rock on the outside and a colorful mineral inside. It's 130 million years old and is expected to sell for between $350...
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NEW YORK, April 28 (UPI) -- A New York auction house says it will hold an auction of meteorites, fossilized dinosaur droppings and other natural history artifacts.
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KOKOMO, Ind., April 17 (UPI) -- Police in Indiana's Tipton and Howard counties said they have received multiple reports of bright streaks of light in the sky Wednesday night.
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GLASGOW, Scotland, March 29 (UPI) -- Geologists said a seam of stratified rock on the northwest coast of Scotland was formed by a major meteorite strike 1.2 billion years ago.
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Author: SUE MAJOR HOLMES Associated Press Writer
Date: January 29, 2008 Publication: Associated Press Archive
An asteroid that exploded over Siberia a century ago, leaving 800 square miles of scorched or blown down trees, wasn't nearly as large as previously thought, a researcher concludes, suggesting a greater danger for Earth.
According to supercomputer simulations by Sandia National Laboratories physicist Mark Boslough, the asteroid that destroyed the forest at Tunguska in Siberia in June 1908 had a blast force equivalent to one-quarter to one-third of the 10- to 20-megaton range...
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03 February 2007
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Asteroid nears Mars at 8 miles per second
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia, Dec. 22 (UPI) -- An asteroid on a likely collision course with Mars could give scientists a look at what lies beneath the surface of the red planet.
Mars capable of forming organic compounds
WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 (UPI) -- U.S. space scientists have determined Mars, as well as similar planets, are capable of forming organic compounds -- the building blocks of life.
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Meteorite fails to draw high bids
NEW YORK, Oct. 29 (UPI) -- A piece of famous space rock -- a meteorite -- was pulled from a New York auction after it failed to generate high enough bids.
2 big meteorites don't sell at NY auction, but battered mailbox nets nearly $83K
Author: RICHARD PYLE Associated Press Writer
Date: October 29, 2007 Publication: Associated Press Archive
Two of the world's most famous meteorites failed to attract buyers at an auction Sunday, while an ordinary metal mailbox zapped by a falling space rock in 1984 was sold for the unearthly price of nearly $83,000.
A 30-pound chunk of the Willamette Meteorite, which was found in Oregon in 1902 and has been steeped in ownership controversies for more than a century, was offered by Bonhams auction house at an estimated value of $1.3 million but was withdrawn from sale after...
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Pair became successful meteorite hunters
SAN ANTONIO, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- Two men who met at a gem show years ago have parlayed their shared interests to become a successful team of U.S. meteorite hunters.
NASA launches spacecraft on double-encounter mission in asteroid belt
Author: MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer
Date: September 27, 2007 Publication: Associated Press Archive
NASA took aim at the heart of the asteroid belt Thursday, launching a spacecraft on a nearly decade-long journey that will include two never-before-attempted close encounters.
The scientific probe Dawn is on a 3 billion-mile course that will have it meeting up with an asteroid named Vesta in 2011 and a dwarf planet called Ceres in 2015. They are the biggest members of the crowded asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, and scientists hope that by studying them up close, some of the...
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Comet impact might have caused extinctions
BERKELEY, Calif., Sept. 25 (UPI) -- A U.S.-led team of scientists suggests a comet or meteorite exploding near Earth about 12,900 years ago was responsible for prehistoric extinctions.
Correction: Peru Meteorite story
Date: September 21, 2007 Publication: Associated Press Archive
In a Sept. 19 story about a crater in Peru, The Associated Press misidentified an expert who said it was caused by a meteorite. His name is Jose Ishitsuka, not Isisuka. He is an astrophysicist with the Geophysical Institute of Peru, not a geologist with Peru's Geological, Mining and Metallurgical Institute. ...
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Experts now say a rare meteorite likely caused Peru crater
Author: EDISON LOPEZ Associated Press Writer
Date: September 20, 2007 Publication: Associated Press Archive
Peruvian astronomers said Thursday that evidence shows a meteorite crashed near Lake Titicaca over the weekend, leaving an elliptical crater and magnetic rock fragments in an impact powerful enough to register on seismic charts.
As other astronomers learned more details, they too said it appears likely that a legitimate meteorite hit Earth on Saturday -- an rare occurence. The Earth is constantly bombarded with objects from outer space, but most burn up in the atmosphere and never reach...
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Possible Peruvian meteor strike reported
LIMA, Sept. 20 (UPI) -- Officials Thursday were investigating claims as many as 200 people became ill after a possible meteorite strike in a remote region of Peru.
Officials confirm meteorite struck Peru but question whether it sickened people
Author: MONTE HAYES Associated Press Writer
Date: September 19, 2007 Publication: Associated Press Archive
A fiery meteorite crashed into southern Peru over the weekend, experts confirmed on Wednesday. But they were still puzzling over claims that it gave off fumes that sickened 200 people.
Local residents told reporters that a fiery ball fell from the sky and smashed into the desolate Andean plain near the Bolivian border Saturday morning. Jose Mechare, a scientist with Peru's Geological, Mining and Metallurgical Institute, said a geologist had confirmed that it was a...
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Peru investigates reports that meteorite causing illnesses
Date: September 19, 2007 Publication: Associated Press Archive
Officials are investigating unconfirmed reports that a meteorite crashed in southern Peru over the weekend and caused dozens of people to become sick.
Local media have reported eyewitness accounts of a fiery ball falling from the sky and smashing into the desolate Andean plain near the Bolivian border Saturday morning. Officials have said it was a meteorite. Jorge Lopez, director of the health department in the southern state of Puno, told The Associated Press on Tuesday that 200 people...
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Correction: Meteorite story
Date: September 18, 2007 Publication: Associated Press Archive
In a story Sept. 14 about the historic Willamette Meteorite, The Associated Press misspelled the first name of a member of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde. Her name is Siobhan Taylor, not Siobahn. ...
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American Indian group says planned sale of meteorite piece is 'insensitive'
Author: LARRY McSHANE Associated Press Writer
Date: September 14, 2007 Publication: Associated Press Archive
The Willamette Meteorite is a sacred icon to the Oregon-based Clackamas Indians. The tribe has its own name for the massive space rock, Tomanowas, and holds an annual religious ceremony with the meteorite in its home at the American Museum of Natural History.
Now a chunk of the 10,000-year-old meteorite is up for auction, and the tribe is denouncing its sale. But the owner of the fragment, noting the vast majority of the 15.5-ton meteorite remains untouched, said his sympathy for the...
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Debris from meteorite impact 1.85 billion years ago in Canada found in Minnesota
Date: July 15, 2007 Publication: Associated Press Archive
A forest fire has led to a chance discovery of debris from the impact of a meteorite 1.85 billion years ago, more than 450 miles away at Sudbury, Ontario.
Geologists had scheduled a field trip in May along the Gunflint Trail in northeastern Minnesota, but most areas they wanted to explore were closed because of a wildfire that charred more than 118 square miles. Geologist Mark Jirsa of the Minnesota Geological Survey went up the trail to scout new locations and, in a spot he had never...
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Object that fell from sky was a piece of space junk
Author: JANET FRANKSTON LORIN Associated Press Writer
Date: May 11, 2007 Publication: Associated Press Archive
A mysterious metallic object that crashed through the roof of a New Jersey home earlier this year was not a meteorite after all, but probably a piece of space junk, scientists said Friday.
The silvery object was made of a stainless-steel alloy that does not occur in nature and is most likely "orbital debris" -- part of a satellite, rocket or some other spacecraft, said Rutgers University geologist Jeremy Delaney. "There's huge amounts of...
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Meteorite recovered after Kansas tornado
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Chemist: Mystery rock from a meteorite
SEATTLE, April 27 (UPI) -- A University of Washington engineer said a mystery rock -- said to be from an unidentified flying object -- is probably a meteorite fragment.
Mammoth, meteorite or bezoar? Christie's is offering all 3 in unusual auction
Author: MARIE-LAURE COMBES Associated Press Writer
Date: April 16, 2007 Publication: Associated Press Archive
For sale: a 15,000-year-old Siberian mammoth skeleton.
On Monday, Christie's auction house in Paris, which usually sells fine art and furniture, is hosting an unusual auction of paleontological curiosities, including several prehistoric mammals. Skeletons of a 10,000-year-old, 13.5-foot-long rhinoceros and a 7.5-foot-high cave bear are also going under the hammer. The skeletons are currently owned by a private collector, but buyers may include museums or artists, said...
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Flaming objects miss jet in air over New Zealand; experts say they were likely meteors
Author: EDUARDO GALLARDO Associated Press Writer Date: March 28, 2007 Publication: Associated Press Archive
Pilots of a Chilean commercial jetliner spotted flaming objects falling past their plane as it headed for a landing in New Zealand, airline officials said Wednesday.
U.S. experts suggested the objects were likely meteors burning up in the earth's atmosphere and questioned Australian media reports they were probably pieces of a falling Russian spacecraft. LAN Chile airline said in a brief statement that the pilot, who was not identified, "made visual contact with...
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Tyrannosaurus skull, 10-foot mammoth tusk auctioned in New York
Author: MARCUS FRANKLIN Associated Press Writer
Date: March 26, 2007 Publication: Associated Press Archive
The skull of a large carnivorous dinosaur and the tusk of a shaggy-coated mammoth from the Ice Age sold for a combined $372,000 at a natural history auction Sunday, auction officials said.
The auction, which also featured a meteorite and other items, brought in a total of $1.55 million. "This is the highest-grossing collection of natural history sold at auction since such sales figures began in 1995," said I.M. Chait Auctioneers' director of natural...
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ESA student winners identified
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Suspected meteorite crashes through bedroom window of home in Bloomington, Ill., experts say
Date: March 7, 2007 Publication: Associated Press Archive
When Dee Riddle heard the breaking glass, she thought her bathroom mirror must have shattered.
What she found was quite different: A grayish metallic object about the size of a deck of cards had crashed through a bedroom window and into a computer table. Intrigued scientists from nearby Illinois State University said it was likely a meteorite.
"In my 36 years of investigating meteorite calls, this looks like the real thing," said Robert Nelson, a geology...
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Space station moves to avoid debris
MOSCOW, Feb. 5 (UPI) -- U.S. and Russian officials changed the International Space Station's orbit to keep it clear of debris from a satellite destroyed by China, a report says.
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Meteorite goes on exhibit for a day
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J., Jan. 28 (UPI) -- A meteorite said to be "as old as the solar system itself" went on display for the first time since crashing into the roof of a New Jersey home Jan. 2.
It came from outer space; N.J. finds a meteorite in the bathroom
Author: CHRIS NEWMARKER Associated Press Writer
Date: January 10, 2007 Publication: Associated Press Archive
A hole in the roof, a bathroom full of debris and a strange, silvery rock near the toilet -- the Nageswaran family soon realized they needed an astronomer, not a contractor, to fully explain what damaged their house.
Scientists determined it was a meteorite that crashed through the roof of their central New Jersey home more than a week ago. While extraterrestrial rocks fall to the Earth with some regularity, it is rare for them to strike homes.
"The fact that...
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Object from sky ID'd as meteorite
FREEHOLD, N.J., Jan. 6 (UPI) -- The mysterious object that came through the roof of a house in New Jersey, gutting a second-floor bathroom, was a meteorite, experts said Friday.
Scientists say object that fell into home in NJ is a meteorite; landed in homeowner's bathroom
Date: January 5, 2007 Publication: Associated Press Archive
A mysterious rocklike object that crashed through the roof of a home and landed in the bathroom was a meteorite, experts said Friday.
For now, scientists are calling the dense metallic object "Freehold Township" after the place where it fell. It's about the size of a golf ball but weighs about 13 ounces, as much of a can of soup. Magnets held near it are attracted to it. Rutgers University geologists Jeremy Delaney, Gail Ashley and Claire Condie and...
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Mysterious metallic object crashes through roof of house in New Jersey, puzzles police
Author: CHRIS NEWMARKER Associated Press Writer
Date: January 4, 2007 Publication: Associated Press Archive
Authorities were trying to identify a mysterious metallic object that crashed through the roof of a house in eastern New Jersey.
Nobody was injured when the golf-ball sized object, weighing nearly as much as a can of soup, struck the home and embedded itself in a wall Tuesday night. Federal officials sent to the scene said it was not from an aircraft. The rough-surfaced object, with a metallic glint, was displayed Wednesday by police.
"There's some great...
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Unusual rock may be a meteorite
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Asteroid nears Mars at 8 miles per second
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia, Dec. 22 (UPI) -- An asteroid on a likely collision course with Mars could give scientists a look at what lies beneath the surface of the red planet.
Mars capable of forming organic compounds
WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 (UPI) -- U.S. space scientists have determined Mars, as well as similar planets, are capable of forming organic compounds -- the building blocks of life.
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Meteorite fails to draw high bids
NEW YORK, Oct. 29 (UPI) -- A piece of famous space rock -- a meteorite -- was pulled from a New York auction after it failed to generate high enough bids.
2 big meteorites don't sell at NY auction, but battered mailbox nets nearly $83K
Author: RICHARD PYLE Associated Press Writer
Date: October 29, 2007 Publication: Associated Press Archive
Two of the world's most famous meteorites failed to attract buyers at an auction Sunday, while an ordinary metal mailbox zapped by a falling space rock in 1984 was sold for the unearthly price of nearly $83,000.
A 30-pound chunk of the Willamette Meteorite, which was found in Oregon in 1902 and has been steeped in ownership controversies for more than a century, was offered by Bonhams auction house at an estimated value of $1.3 million but was withdrawn from sale after...
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Pair became successful meteorite hunters
SAN ANTONIO, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- Two men who met at a gem show years ago have parlayed their shared interests to become a successful team of U.S. meteorite hunters.
NASA launches spacecraft on double-encounter mission in asteroid belt
Author: MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer
Date: September 27, 2007 Publication: Associated Press Archive
NASA took aim at the heart of the asteroid belt Thursday, launching a spacecraft on a nearly decade-long journey that will include two never-before-attempted close encounters.
The scientific probe Dawn is on a 3 billion-mile course that will have it meeting up with an asteroid named Vesta in 2011 and a dwarf planet called Ceres in 2015. They are the biggest members of the crowded asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, and scientists hope that by studying them up close, some of the...
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Comet impact might have caused extinctions
BERKELEY, Calif., Sept. 25 (UPI) -- A U.S.-led team of scientists suggests a comet or meteorite exploding near Earth about 12,900 years ago was responsible for prehistoric extinctions.
Correction: Peru Meteorite story
Date: September 21, 2007 Publication: Associated Press Archive
In a Sept. 19 story about a crater in Peru, The Associated Press misidentified an expert who said it was caused by a meteorite. His name is Jose Ishitsuka, not Isisuka. He is an astrophysicist with the Geophysical Institute of Peru, not a geologist with Peru's Geological, Mining and Metallurgical Institute. ...
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Experts now say a rare meteorite likely caused Peru crater
Author: EDISON LOPEZ Associated Press Writer
Date: September 20, 2007 Publication: Associated Press Archive
Peruvian astronomers said Thursday that evidence shows a meteorite crashed near Lake Titicaca over the weekend, leaving an elliptical crater and magnetic rock fragments in an impact powerful enough to register on seismic charts.
As other astronomers learned more details, they too said it appears likely that a legitimate meteorite hit Earth on Saturday -- an rare occurence. The Earth is constantly bombarded with objects from outer space, but most burn up in the atmosphere and never reach...
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Possible Peruvian meteor strike reported
LIMA, Sept. 20 (UPI) -- Officials Thursday were investigating claims as many as 200 people became ill after a possible meteorite strike in a remote region of Peru.
Officials confirm meteorite struck Peru but question whether it sickened people
Author: MONTE HAYES Associated Press Writer
Date: September 19, 2007 Publication: Associated Press Archive
A fiery meteorite crashed into southern Peru over the weekend, experts confirmed on Wednesday. But they were still puzzling over claims that it gave off fumes that sickened 200 people.
Local residents told reporters that a fiery ball fell from the sky and smashed into the desolate Andean plain near the Bolivian border Saturday morning. Jose Mechare, a scientist with Peru's Geological, Mining and Metallurgical Institute, said a geologist had confirmed that it was a...
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Peru investigates reports that meteorite causing illnesses
Date: September 19, 2007 Publication: Associated Press Archive
Officials are investigating unconfirmed reports that a meteorite crashed in southern Peru over the weekend and caused dozens of people to become sick.
Local media have reported eyewitness accounts of a fiery ball falling from the sky and smashing into the desolate Andean plain near the Bolivian border Saturday morning. Officials have said it was a meteorite. Jorge Lopez, director of the health department in the southern state of Puno, told The Associated Press on Tuesday that 200 people...
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Correction: Meteorite story
Date: September 18, 2007 Publication: Associated Press Archive
In a story Sept. 14 about the historic Willamette Meteorite, The Associated Press misspelled the first name of a member of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde. Her name is Siobhan Taylor, not Siobahn. ...
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American Indian group says planned sale of meteorite piece is 'insensitive'
Author: LARRY McSHANE Associated Press Writer
Date: September 14, 2007 Publication: Associated Press Archive
The Willamette Meteorite is a sacred icon to the Oregon-based Clackamas Indians. The tribe has its own name for the massive space rock, Tomanowas, and holds an annual religious ceremony with the meteorite in its home at the American Museum of Natural History.
Now a chunk of the 10,000-year-old meteorite is up for auction, and the tribe is denouncing its sale. But the owner of the fragment, noting the vast majority of the 15.5-ton meteorite remains untouched, said his sympathy for the...
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Debris from meteorite impact 1.85 billion years ago in Canada found in Minnesota
Date: July 15, 2007 Publication: Associated Press Archive
A forest fire has led to a chance discovery of debris from the impact of a meteorite 1.85 billion years ago, more than 450 miles away at Sudbury, Ontario.
Geologists had scheduled a field trip in May along the Gunflint Trail in northeastern Minnesota, but most areas they wanted to explore were closed because of a wildfire that charred more than 118 square miles. Geologist Mark Jirsa of the Minnesota Geological Survey went up the trail to scout new locations and, in a spot he had never...
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Object that fell from sky was a piece of space junk
Author: JANET FRANKSTON LORIN Associated Press Writer
Date: May 11, 2007 Publication: Associated Press Archive
A mysterious metallic object that crashed through the roof of a New Jersey home earlier this year was not a meteorite after all, but probably a piece of space junk, scientists said Friday.
The silvery object was made of a stainless-steel alloy that does not occur in nature and is most likely "orbital debris" -- part of a satellite, rocket or some other spacecraft, said Rutgers University geologist Jeremy Delaney. "There's huge amounts of...
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Meteorite recovered after Kansas tornado
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Chemist: Mystery rock from a meteorite
SEATTLE, April 27 (UPI) -- A University of Washington engineer said a mystery rock -- said to be from an unidentified flying object -- is probably a meteorite fragment.
Mammoth, meteorite or bezoar? Christie's is offering all 3 in unusual auction
Author: MARIE-LAURE COMBES Associated Press Writer
Date: April 16, 2007 Publication: Associated Press Archive
For sale: a 15,000-year-old Siberian mammoth skeleton.
On Monday, Christie's auction house in Paris, which usually sells fine art and furniture, is hosting an unusual auction of paleontological curiosities, including several prehistoric mammals. Skeletons of a 10,000-year-old, 13.5-foot-long rhinoceros and a 7.5-foot-high cave bear are also going under the hammer. The skeletons are currently owned by a private collector, but buyers may include museums or artists, said...
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Flaming objects miss jet in air over New Zealand; experts say they were likely meteors
Author: EDUARDO GALLARDO Associated Press Writer Date: March 28, 2007 Publication: Associated Press Archive
Pilots of a Chilean commercial jetliner spotted flaming objects falling past their plane as it headed for a landing in New Zealand, airline officials said Wednesday.
U.S. experts suggested the objects were likely meteors burning up in the earth's atmosphere and questioned Australian media reports they were probably pieces of a falling Russian spacecraft. LAN Chile airline said in a brief statement that the pilot, who was not identified, "made visual contact with...
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Tyrannosaurus skull, 10-foot mammoth tusk auctioned in New York
Author: MARCUS FRANKLIN Associated Press Writer
Date: March 26, 2007 Publication: Associated Press Archive
The skull of a large carnivorous dinosaur and the tusk of a shaggy-coated mammoth from the Ice Age sold for a combined $372,000 at a natural history auction Sunday, auction officials said.
The auction, which also featured a meteorite and other items, brought in a total of $1.55 million. "This is the highest-grossing collection of natural history sold at auction since such sales figures began in 1995," said I.M. Chait Auctioneers' director of natural...
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Suspected meteorite crashes through bedroom window of home in Bloomington, Ill., experts say
Date: March 7, 2007 Publication: Associated Press Archive
When Dee Riddle heard the breaking glass, she thought her bathroom mirror must have shattered.
What she found was quite different: A grayish metallic object about the size of a deck of cards had crashed through a bedroom window and into a computer table. Intrigued scientists from nearby Illinois State University said it was likely a meteorite.
"In my 36 years of investigating meteorite calls, this looks like the real thing," said Robert Nelson, a geology...
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Space station moves to avoid debris
MOSCOW, Feb. 5 (UPI) -- U.S. and Russian officials changed the International Space Station's orbit to keep it clear of debris from a satellite destroyed by China, a report says.
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Report says man causing global warming ... Prosthetic arm feels more real ... Woman dies after mammogram mistake ... Space station moves to avoid debris ... News from United Press International.
Meteorite goes on exhibit for a day
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J., Jan. 28 (UPI) -- A meteorite said to be "as old as the solar system itself" went on display for the first time since crashing into the roof of a New Jersey home Jan. 2.
It came from outer space; N.J. finds a meteorite in the bathroom
Author: CHRIS NEWMARKER Associated Press Writer
Date: January 10, 2007 Publication: Associated Press Archive
A hole in the roof, a bathroom full of debris and a strange, silvery rock near the toilet -- the Nageswaran family soon realized they needed an astronomer, not a contractor, to fully explain what damaged their house.
Scientists determined it was a meteorite that crashed through the roof of their central New Jersey home more than a week ago. While extraterrestrial rocks fall to the Earth with some regularity, it is rare for them to strike homes.
"The fact that...
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Object from sky ID'd as meteorite
FREEHOLD, N.J., Jan. 6 (UPI) -- The mysterious object that came through the roof of a house in New Jersey, gutting a second-floor bathroom, was a meteorite, experts said Friday.
Scientists say object that fell into home in NJ is a meteorite; landed in homeowner's bathroom
Date: January 5, 2007 Publication: Associated Press Archive
A mysterious rocklike object that crashed through the roof of a home and landed in the bathroom was a meteorite, experts said Friday.
For now, scientists are calling the dense metallic object "Freehold Township" after the place where it fell. It's about the size of a golf ball but weighs about 13 ounces, as much of a can of soup. Magnets held near it are attracted to it. Rutgers University geologists Jeremy Delaney, Gail Ashley and Claire Condie and...
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Mysterious metallic object crashes through roof of house in New Jersey, puzzles police
Author: CHRIS NEWMARKER Associated Press Writer
Date: January 4, 2007 Publication: Associated Press Archive
Authorities were trying to identify a mysterious metallic object that crashed through the roof of a house in eastern New Jersey.
Nobody was injured when the golf-ball sized object, weighing nearly as much as a can of soup, struck the home and embedded itself in a wall Tuesday night. Federal officials sent to the scene said it was not from an aircraft. The rough-surfaced object, with a metallic glint, was displayed Wednesday by police.
"There's some great...
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Unusual rock may be a meteorite
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GSI, PRL get only crumbs from meteorite shower
Ahmedabad
9 Aug 2006 ... AHMEDABAD: The Geological Survey of India (GSI) was shocked to find that most of the meteorite fragments it collected from villagers through ...
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Valsad meteorite causes stir
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AHMEDABAD: As the world celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Sylacauga meteorite impact -- when a meteorite hit this little known town in the US and made ...
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...RAJKOT/BHUJ: They are still under the shadow of the devastating earthquake of 2001. And, when the meteorite shower struck on Monday night, ...
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9 Aug 2006 ... AHMEDABAD: The Geological Survey of India (GSI) was shocked to find that most of the meteorite fragments it collected from villagers through ...
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2006 Meteor/Meteorite News UPI/AP newswires
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Turkmen president spread his name, portrait and musings throughout country
Author: The Associated Press
Date: December 21, 2006 Publication: Associated Press Archive
A look at some of the notable initiatives of the late Saparmurat Niyazov, who ruled Turkmenistan for two decades:
-- Named himself Turkmenbashi, or "Father of all Turkmen." -- Also gave the name Turkmenbashi to a major Caspian port, the month of January, Central Asia's largest mosque, an amusement park, the country's highest mountain and a meteorite that landed on Turkmen territory.
-- Banned opera and ballet, and started a...
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Study: Samples of comet dust show a mix of materials from distant reaches of the solar system
Author: ALICIA CHANG AP Science Writer
Date: December 14, 2006 Publication: Associated Press Archive
Detailed observations from the first comet samples returned to Earth are debunking some of science's long-held beliefs on how the icy, celestial bodies form.
Scientists expected the minute grains retrieved from a comet Wild 2 to be made up mostly of interstellar dust -- tiny particles that flow through the solar system thought to be from ancient stars that exploded and died. Instead, they found an unusual mix of primordial material as if the solar system had turned itself...
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Scientists find unusual meteorite in Kansas field using technology that might aid them on Mars
Author: ROXANA HEGEMAN Associated Press Writer
Date: October 17, 2006 Publication: Associated Press Archive
Scientists were excited when they pulled a 154-pound meteorite from deep below a Kansas wheat field, but what got them most electrified was the way they unearthed it.
The team Monday uncovered the find 4 feet under a meteorite-strewn field using new ground-penetrating radar technology that someday might be used on Mars. It was that technology which pinpointed the site and proved for the first time that it could be used to find objects buried deep in the ground and to make an accurate...
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Meteorites used to study solar activity
OULU, Finland, Sept. 26 (UPI) --
Unusual meteorite found in Antarctica
CLEVELAND, Sept. 19 (UPI) --
Meteorite plummets through Norwegian roof
MOSS, Norway, Aug. 9 (UPI) --
Ten years later, few experts believe Mars meteorite contains traces of life
Author: MATT CRENSON AP National Writer
Date: August 5, 2006 Publication: Associated Press Archive
It was a science fiction fantasy come true: Ten years ago this summer, NASA announced the discovery of life on Mars.
At a Washington, D.C., news conference, scientists showed magnified pictures of a four-pound Martian meteorite riddled with wormy blobs that looked like bacterial colonies. The researchers explained how they had pried numerous clues from the rock, all strongly supporting their contention that microscopic creatures once occupied its nooks and crannies. It was arguably the...
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Meteorite dust showers Norway outhouse
OSLO, Norway, July 17 (UPI) --
Discovery astronauts to look for dings in shuttle caused by space junk
Author: SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer
Date: July 13, 2006 Publication: Associated Press Archive
Discovery's crew will check the shuttle's wing for damage from space junk or tiny meteorites in a first-of-its-kind procedure Friday, two days after a spacewalking astronaut accidentally let go of a spatula that now circles Earth with other orbital trash.
NASA said the spatula posed no risk to the crew, but it planned to use a 50-foot extension boom attached to the shuttle's robotic arm to look for damage from micrometeoroids, the dust-sized particles...
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Second meteorite in a month hits Norway
STAVANGER, Norway, July 10 (UPI) --
The Almanac
Norwegian meteorite impact site located
OSLO, Norway, June 12 (UPI) --
Large meteorite hits northern Norway
OSLO, Norway, June 9 (UPI) -- A large meteorite struck in northern Norway this week, landing with an impact an astronomer compared to the atomic bomb used at Hiroshima.
Meteor in Antarctica may have caused mass extinction 250 million years ago
Author: MICHAEL CASEY AP Environmental Writer
Date: June 8, 2006 Publication: Associated Press Archive
A massive crater in Antarctica may have been caused by a meteor that wiped out more than 90 percent of the species on Earth 250 million years ago, a geologist said.
The 300-mile-wide crater lies hidden more than a mile beneath a sheet of ice and was discovered by scientists using satellite data, Ohio State University geologist Ralph von Frese said Wednesday. Von Frese said the satellite data suggests the crater could date back about 250 million years to the time of the Permian-Triassic...
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Australian fossils offer evidence of life from 3.4 billion years ago
Author: SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer Date: June 7, 2006 Publication: Associated Press Archive
The best evidence yet for the oldest life on Earth is found in odd-shaped, rock-like mounds in Australia that are actually fossils created by microbes 3.4 billion years ago, researchers report.
"It's an ancestor of life. If you think that all life arose on this one planet, perhaps this is where it started," said Abigail Allwood, a researcher at the Australian Centre for Astrobiology and lead author of the new study. It appears Thursday in the journal...
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Soaring prices for meteorites as the space rocks penetrate art world
Author: PAT MILTON Associated Press Writer
Date: April 12, 2006 Publication: Associated Press Archive
A meteorite believed to have come from an asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter sold for $93,000 at an auction of rare space sculptures.
The 355-pound chunk of iron, thousands of years old and discovered in the Campo del Cielo crater field in Argentina, was one of 10 meteorites that went for high prices at a Bonhams' New York natural history auction. The pristine meteorite, known as "Valley of the Sky," was purchased Tuesday by a private collector in...
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Lunar rocks suggest meteorite bombardment
CORVALLIS, Ore., April 12 (UPI) -- New studies indicate many of the lunar rocks returned by the Apollo space missions show signs of melting about 3.9 billion years ago.
Rare aesthetic meteorites set for auction block
Author: PAT MILTON Associated Press Writer Date: April 10, 2006 Publication: Associated Press Archive
The art world's interest in meteorites has skyrocketed, with collectors and curators buying up the outer-space rocks for display in museums, galleries or on a cocktail table at home.
Meteorite hunters will get a chance to bid for some of the world's most coveted extraterrestrial rocks when they go on sale Tuesday at Bonhams' New York natural history auction. Among the highlights are a small slice of the 15.5-ton Williamette, the crown jewel of...
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Mars rock study is inconclusive
CORVALLIS, Ore., March 23 (UPI) --
Largest crater discovered in Sahara
BOSTON, March 4 (UPI) -- Boston University researchers have discovered the remnants of the largest crater of the Great Sahara of North Africa.
Bacteria survived Columbia explosion
SAN MARCOS, Texas, Feb. 22 (UPI) --
Jockstrip: The world as we know it
Taking a leak could be less of a crime... Asian with rude-sounding name changes it... Students unmask fake duke... Thief gets sample of moon rock... Rubik's cube record set at 11.13 seconds... The world as we know it from UPI.
Thief gets sample of moon rock
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va., Jan. 16 (UPI) --
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Turkmen president spread his name, portrait and musings throughout country
Author: The Associated Press
Date: December 21, 2006 Publication: Associated Press Archive
A look at some of the notable initiatives of the late Saparmurat Niyazov, who ruled Turkmenistan for two decades:
-- Named himself Turkmenbashi, or "Father of all Turkmen." -- Also gave the name Turkmenbashi to a major Caspian port, the month of January, Central Asia's largest mosque, an amusement park, the country's highest mountain and a meteorite that landed on Turkmen territory.
-- Banned opera and ballet, and started a...
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Study: Samples of comet dust show a mix of materials from distant reaches of the solar system
Author: ALICIA CHANG AP Science Writer
Date: December 14, 2006 Publication: Associated Press Archive
Detailed observations from the first comet samples returned to Earth are debunking some of science's long-held beliefs on how the icy, celestial bodies form.
Scientists expected the minute grains retrieved from a comet Wild 2 to be made up mostly of interstellar dust -- tiny particles that flow through the solar system thought to be from ancient stars that exploded and died. Instead, they found an unusual mix of primordial material as if the solar system had turned itself...
Click here for complete article ($1.50)
Scientists find unusual meteorite in Kansas field using technology that might aid them on Mars
Author: ROXANA HEGEMAN Associated Press Writer
Date: October 17, 2006 Publication: Associated Press Archive
Scientists were excited when they pulled a 154-pound meteorite from deep below a Kansas wheat field, but what got them most electrified was the way they unearthed it.
The team Monday uncovered the find 4 feet under a meteorite-strewn field using new ground-penetrating radar technology that someday might be used on Mars. It was that technology which pinpointed the site and proved for the first time that it could be used to find objects buried deep in the ground and to make an accurate...
Click here for complete article ($1.50)
Meteorites used to study solar activity
OULU, Finland, Sept. 26 (UPI) --
Unusual meteorite found in Antarctica
CLEVELAND, Sept. 19 (UPI) --
Meteorite plummets through Norwegian roof
MOSS, Norway, Aug. 9 (UPI) --
Ten years later, few experts believe Mars meteorite contains traces of life
Author: MATT CRENSON AP National Writer
Date: August 5, 2006 Publication: Associated Press Archive
It was a science fiction fantasy come true: Ten years ago this summer, NASA announced the discovery of life on Mars.
At a Washington, D.C., news conference, scientists showed magnified pictures of a four-pound Martian meteorite riddled with wormy blobs that looked like bacterial colonies. The researchers explained how they had pried numerous clues from the rock, all strongly supporting their contention that microscopic creatures once occupied its nooks and crannies. It was arguably the...
Click here for complete article ($1.50)
Meteorite dust showers Norway outhouse
OSLO, Norway, July 17 (UPI) --
Discovery astronauts to look for dings in shuttle caused by space junk
Author: SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer
Date: July 13, 2006 Publication: Associated Press Archive
Discovery's crew will check the shuttle's wing for damage from space junk or tiny meteorites in a first-of-its-kind procedure Friday, two days after a spacewalking astronaut accidentally let go of a spatula that now circles Earth with other orbital trash.
NASA said the spatula posed no risk to the crew, but it planned to use a 50-foot extension boom attached to the shuttle's robotic arm to look for damage from micrometeoroids, the dust-sized particles...
Click here for complete article ($1.50)
Second meteorite in a month hits Norway
STAVANGER, Norway, July 10 (UPI) --
The Almanac
Norwegian meteorite impact site located
OSLO, Norway, June 12 (UPI) --
Large meteorite hits northern Norway
OSLO, Norway, June 9 (UPI) -- A large meteorite struck in northern Norway this week, landing with an impact an astronomer compared to the atomic bomb used at Hiroshima.
Meteor in Antarctica may have caused mass extinction 250 million years ago
Author: MICHAEL CASEY AP Environmental Writer
Date: June 8, 2006 Publication: Associated Press Archive
A massive crater in Antarctica may have been caused by a meteor that wiped out more than 90 percent of the species on Earth 250 million years ago, a geologist said.
The 300-mile-wide crater lies hidden more than a mile beneath a sheet of ice and was discovered by scientists using satellite data, Ohio State University geologist Ralph von Frese said Wednesday. Von Frese said the satellite data suggests the crater could date back about 250 million years to the time of the Permian-Triassic...
Click here for complete article ($1.50)
Australian fossils offer evidence of life from 3.4 billion years ago
Author: SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer Date: June 7, 2006 Publication: Associated Press Archive
The best evidence yet for the oldest life on Earth is found in odd-shaped, rock-like mounds in Australia that are actually fossils created by microbes 3.4 billion years ago, researchers report.
"It's an ancestor of life. If you think that all life arose on this one planet, perhaps this is where it started," said Abigail Allwood, a researcher at the Australian Centre for Astrobiology and lead author of the new study. It appears Thursday in the journal...
Click here for complete article ($1.50)
Soaring prices for meteorites as the space rocks penetrate art world
Author: PAT MILTON Associated Press Writer
Date: April 12, 2006 Publication: Associated Press Archive
A meteorite believed to have come from an asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter sold for $93,000 at an auction of rare space sculptures.
The 355-pound chunk of iron, thousands of years old and discovered in the Campo del Cielo crater field in Argentina, was one of 10 meteorites that went for high prices at a Bonhams' New York natural history auction. The pristine meteorite, known as "Valley of the Sky," was purchased Tuesday by a private collector in...
Click here for complete article ($1.50)
Lunar rocks suggest meteorite bombardment
CORVALLIS, Ore., April 12 (UPI) -- New studies indicate many of the lunar rocks returned by the Apollo space missions show signs of melting about 3.9 billion years ago.
Rare aesthetic meteorites set for auction block
Author: PAT MILTON Associated Press Writer Date: April 10, 2006 Publication: Associated Press Archive
The art world's interest in meteorites has skyrocketed, with collectors and curators buying up the outer-space rocks for display in museums, galleries or on a cocktail table at home.
Meteorite hunters will get a chance to bid for some of the world's most coveted extraterrestrial rocks when they go on sale Tuesday at Bonhams' New York natural history auction. Among the highlights are a small slice of the 15.5-ton Williamette, the crown jewel of...
Click here for complete article ($1.50)
Mars rock study is inconclusive
CORVALLIS, Ore., March 23 (UPI) --
Largest crater discovered in Sahara
BOSTON, March 4 (UPI) -- Boston University researchers have discovered the remnants of the largest crater of the Great Sahara of North Africa.
Bacteria survived Columbia explosion
SAN MARCOS, Texas, Feb. 22 (UPI) --
Jockstrip: The world as we know it
Taking a leak could be less of a crime... Asian with rude-sounding name changes it... Students unmask fake duke... Thief gets sample of moon rock... Rubik's cube record set at 11.13 seconds... The world as we know it from UPI.
Thief gets sample of moon rock
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va., Jan. 16 (UPI) --
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