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‎2009年9月9日水曜日‎

Trotz aller Erkenntnisse über die Evolution: Der Ursprung des ...

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... Organismen heute noch in der Tiefsee finden, kann aber auch den Grund haben, dass sie dort vor zerstörerischen Eiszeiten und Meteoriten geschützt waren. ...

In spite of all knowledge about the evolution: The origin ...
jetzt.de
... Organisms even today in the deep sea find, however, can have also the reason that they were protected there against destructive ice ages and meteorites....
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Guter Mond, du schmilzt so stille

Wissenschaft-Online - ‎2009年9月9日水曜日‎

Durch Vergleiche der vom Mond auf die Erde geschleuderten Meteoriten und den vor Ort genommenen Proben stellte sich eine starke Ähnlichkeit mit dem Gestein ...

Good moon, you melt so breastfeeds
Wissenschaft-Online - ‎2009年9月9 日水曜日
‎ by comparisons from the moon on the earth flung meteorite and the tests taken on site a strong resemblance to the rock positioned itself...
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Nicht nur für Sternengucker und Nachtschwärmer

Derwesten.de - ‎2009年9月9日水曜日‎

Dank weitgehend wolkenlosem Himmel blieb es nicht nur bei Vorträgen zu vielen astronomischen Themen, einer Meteoriten- und Teleskopausstellung. ...

Not only for Sternengucker and reveler
Derwesten.de - ‎2009年9月9 日水曜日‎
thanks to widely cloudless sky there remained not only with talks to too many astronomical subjects, a meteorite and telescope exhibit....

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Portrait des Preisträger Lukas Kraft der Aktion “Schüler lesen ...

Main-Spitze - ‎2009年9月8日火曜日‎

Woher kommt das Leben im Weltall oder ist das Leben auf der Erde vielleicht durch einen Meteoriten vom Mars entstanden? Das sind Fragen, die ihn brennend ...

Portrait of the prizewinner Lukas Kraft of the action “ pupils read...
Main point - ‎2009年9月8 日火曜日‎
Where from the life comes in the universe or has the life on the earth maybe originated from a meteorite of Mars? These are questions, him burning...

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Ausfall im All: Die Pannen der Raumfahrt

STERN.DE - ‎2009年9月11日金曜日‎

Durch einen Defekt in einem Schaltkreis wurde die Sonde unbrauchbar. Die Sonde prallte gegen einen Meteoriten und zersprang in kleinste Teile. ...

Failure in all: The probe became the breakdowns of the astronautics
STERN.DE - ‎2009年9月11 日金曜日‎
by a defect in a switching circuit useless. The probe banged into a meteorite and shattered in the smallest parts....
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Jupiter Turned Comet Into "Moon" for 12 Years
National Geographic
... comet 147P/Kushida-Muramatsu and held it in orbit until 1961, according to an international team led by Katsuhito Ohtsuka of the Tokyo Meteor Network. ...

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/09/090914-jupiter-moon-comet.html

Scientific Papers:

Ohtsuka, K., T. Ito, M. Yoshikawa, D. J. Asher, H. Arakida,
2009, Quasi-Hilda Comet 147P/Kushida-Muramatsu: Another
long temporary satellite capture by Jupiter. arXiv:0808.2277v1
[astro-ph],

http://arxiv.org/abs/0808.2277

Another article:

Jupiter captures a comet, briefly, Christian Science Monitor
by Pete Spotts

http://features.csmonitor.com/discoveries/2009/09/14/jupiter-captures-a-comet-briefly/

Captured comet becomes moon of Jupiter by Kerensa McElroy, Cosmos Online

http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/news/3003/captured-comet-becomes-moon-jupiter

Scientific references supplied by Paul H., USA

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Bright light in sky was meteor: astronomer

CBC.ca
A meteor was likely the source of a flash of light seen shooting across the sky on BC's South Coast Saturday night, a local astronomer says. ...

A message back from the Mars rover crew

Block Island Times
The team is still using Opportunity's robotic arm to examine the composition of several targets on the metallic meteorite that they have informally named ...

Meteor crater to appear on TV

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Odessa American
based LMNO (Leave My Name Off) Productions is interested in using the Odessa meteor crater to film a segment for a reality-based television show at the ...

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Vancouver Fireball 12SEP09
CKNW Radio reported this morning that a huge fireball was observed
over Vancouver B.C. last night around 8 p.m. PDT. It was going
from East to West.

- Source Ed Majden., Canada

Shooting star? Comet? Meteor!

News1130
VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) - It's now been confirmed the bright light streaking across the sky in Metro Vancouver on Saturday night was actually a meteor. ...
See all stories on this topic

Was Vancouver light show a meteor or space junk?

The Province
Astronomer David Dodge said that the fireball was probably a meteor — basically a rock falling from space. “It probably wasn'ta piece of space junk. ...

Meteor streaks across Lower Mainland sky

Vancouver Sun
Concert-goers at the Summer Sessions at Ambleside concert were treated to a possible meteor streaking across the sky. Was it a bird? Was it a plane? ...

Seen any soaring meteorites lately?
CTV British Columbia Sun, 13 Sep 2009 11:49 AM PDT
At about 8:00 p.m. Saturday night, witnesses reported seeing a meteorite stream across the sky above Metro Vancouver. If you photographed or videotaped the event, CTV News wants to hear from you.

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'Whiteout,' a predictable mystery lacking twists

The Virginian-Pilot
It is an American geologist, there to study meteorite fragments. The cause of death is an ice ax. Try as we may, we can't see the ultra-pretty and ...

"Whiteout" Crime scene photo- pick ax near the "popsicle"

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ASTROBLEMES: THE RATE OF DISCOVERY, SPACE-TIME DISTRIBUTION AND AN EXAMPLE OF THE SIGNIFICANCE FOR ARCHAEOLOGY.
by A.A.Valter,
Institute of Applied Phys. Acad. of Sci. of Ukraine.
Malyshko str., 3, apt.449, Kiev-02192, Ukrain; avalterATiopDOTkiev.ua

About 46 years ago R.Dietz coined a new, somewhat poetical term ‘astrobleme” (star wound). As the conditions on the Earth surface cause the craters to lose soon their original form, this name seems quite appropriate for the Earth impact structures. In accordance with the semantics of the
word it can be applied to every kind of cosmic projectile impact on the Earth surface. ... (more)

http://www.planetology.ru/txt/valter_20090904_03959.pdf

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Opportunity Update: Circling The Meteorite

Space Daily
by Staff Writers Opportunity has commenced circumnavigation and full-circle imaging of the large meteorite "Block Island". On Sol 1997 (Sept. ...

Constellation Urion

Discover Magazine
My first thought when I read this was that it was an orbital maneuver — a rocket firing — or maybe a meteor coincidentally near the same spot in the sky, ...

Coming home to the cosmos

High Country News
My book "about meteorites" also became a meditation on place and home. Greenland's remote northwest coast. A chateau in France. The outback. Antarctica. ...

Impactan diez veces más meteoritos en la atmósfera de lo que se creía

Libertad Digital - Madrid,Madrid,Spain
Durante esos 13 años, los instrumentos detectaron ondas infrasónicas producidas por 13 meteoritos. Estas ondas se generan en gran cantidad debido a que en ...

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Barrage of small meteorite impacts cause the moon to 'hum'
New Kerala Wed, 09 Sep 2009 01:48 AM PDT
London, September 9 : A new research has suggested that a steady barrage of small meteorite impacts cause the moon to 'hum'....

Darwin Centre at the Natural History Museum

Times Online
... species by the thousand, fossils, deep sea creatures, Darwin's original collecting albums, even a meteorite that landed in Egypt 80 years ago from Mars. ...

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PHOTO: Perseid meteor streaks through Richland County sky

Mansfield News Journal
Former News Journal photographer Jeff Sprang shot this photo of a Perseid meteor and wants to share it with our readers. He took it just after 1 am, ...

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阿根廷魔鬼坡发现世界最大陨石坑群

大纪元 - USA
【大纪元9月9日报导】（中央布宜诺斯艾利斯9日法新电）今天发布的一项调查指出，阿根廷（Argentina）拥有全球规模最大的陨石坑群，地点在巴塔哥尼亚高地（Patagonia） ...

Argentina Devil slope found in the world's largest crater group Epoch -
USA By September 9 reported】 (central Buenos Aires 9, AFP) today released a survey, Argentina (Argentina) has a group of the world's largest crater, located at Highland Patagonia (Patagonia) ...
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http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hRa6u8O0ZprE7dF10g8FMNv1ERig

Patagonia site of world's biggest crater field: study

(AFP) – 19 hours ago

BUENOS AIRES — Argentina can lay claim to the world's largest crater field, a
volcanic area in Patagonia known as the "Devil's Slope," according to a study
released Tuesday.

Covering 400 square kilometers (154 square miles), the Bajada del Diablo field
is peppered with at least 100 depressions left by the collisions of meteorites
or comets 130,000 to 780,000 years ago, the study found.

"Each crater measures between 100 and 500 meters (yards) in diameter and is
between 30 and 50 meters deep, which makes it the biggest such field in the
world in terms of the size of the craters," said Rogelio Acevedo of the Southern
Center for Scientific Investigations.

The study, published in the September edition of the journal Geomorphology, was
led by Acevedo and Hugo Corbella, who first identified the field in the 1970s.

Thirty years later, the team obtained financing from the Argentine province of
Chubut and the National Geographic Society to survey the field.

In terms of the number of craters, the field is only the second largest in the
world after the Sikhote-Aalin field in Siberia, which has 159 craters.

"But in Siberia the craters are smaller," Acevedo said.

With just one impact of the size that struck Patagonia, he said, Buenos Aires
"would be pulverized in a matter of seconds."

He said the field's craters, which are visible on Google Earth, are similar to
those found on the Moon, Mercury, Mars and Venus, making them worthy of further
study.

They are well preserved because the remote sheep-raising region in which they
are found is arid and sparsely populated, he said, adding that it will be
necessary to protect it from tourists.

But Acevedo suggested, "this exceptional place could become a natural park."

Argentina has another crater field, called Campo de Cielo, in the northern Chaco
province. There are only nine such fields in the world.

Also:

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6V93-4W2NDK5-1&_user=10&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_searchStrId=1005936461&_rerunOrigin=google&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=6d007a363d66c8808fd411934d4da9d3

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NASA SELECTS TARGET CRATER FOR LUNAR IMPACT OF LCROSS SPACECRAFT

MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. -- NASA has identified the spot where it will
search for water on the moon. Reporters are invited to attend the
announcement of the target location where the Lunar Crater
Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, and its spent Centaur
rocket will hit in October. The briefing will take place at 10 a.m.
PDT, Friday, Sept. 11, in the main auditorium, Building N201, of
NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif. The event will
be broadcast live on NASA Television and the agency's Web site.

The selected crater is an optimal target for evaluating if water ice
exists at the lunar south pole. Briefing participants are Daniel
Andrews, LCROSS project manager, Anthony Colaprete, LCROSS principal
investigator, and Jennifer Heldmann, lead for the LCROSS observation
campaign.

Andrews will provide an update about the health of the spacecraft and
mission activities. Colaprete will announce the target crater and
explain the criteria and selection process. Heldmann will discuss the
LCROSS observation campaign in which an international cadre of
professional and amateur astronomers will view the impacts at 4:30
a.m. on Oct. 9.

To reach Ames, take U.S. Highway 101 to the Moffett Field/NASA Parkway
exit and drive east on Moffett Field Boulevard toward the main gate.
News media will be escorted from the visitor badge office parking lot
to the main auditorium at 9:45 a.m. Journalists seeking telephone
access should contact Jonas Dino at 650-604-5612 or
jonas.dino@nasa.gov.

For NASA TV streaming video, downlink and scheduling information,
visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/ntv

For more information about the LCROSS mission, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/lcross

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Perseid meteor shower put on a good show

Belleville News Democrat
After midnight, in the northeast was the annual Perseid meteor shower, consistently one of the most spectacular celestial shows of the year. ...

Rain of meteorites makes the moon hum
New Scientist Tue, 08 Sep 2009 11:08 AM PDT
The moon is ringing due to a barrage of tiny meteorite impacts â fortunately, the noise won't be loud enough to stymie future missions to peek at the lunar core

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Hundreds report Irish sky blast

BBC News - ‎

Hundreds of people have been contacting an Irish astronomy group following reports of a fireball last week. Astronomy Ireland huge explosion was seen in the ...

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Irish astronomy group investigating after 'explosion in the sky'

DigitalJournal.com - ‎

... that one was a Russian military satellite that exploded over the country, and the other was a rock from space which we predicted would have fallen on ...
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Se necesitan $ 42.000 para estudiar los cráteres en Santiago

El Liberal Digital - ‎

Sobre las excavaciones, puede determinarse el ángulo de impacto y las características morfológicas del meteorito. Luego se realiza el inventariado de las ...

42.000 need $ to study the craters in Santiago

The Liberal Digital one - ‎
On the excavations, one can determine the angle of impact and the morphologic characteristics of the meteorite. Then the inventoried one is realized of...
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Nueve universidades andaluzas abren juntas una 'Ventana a la Ciencia'

Aprendemas.com - ‎

... se abrirá a los meteoritos, “Fragmentos de otros mundos”, organizada por la Universidad de Huelva y que estará abierta hasta el próximo 4 de octubre. ...

Nine Andalusian universities open together a ' Window for the Science '

Aprendemas.com - ‎
... it will be opened for the meteorites, “ Fragments of other worlds ”, organized by the University of Huelva and that will be opened until the next October 4....
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Una sonda de asteroide "colisiona" con la Tierra

El Día (Argentina) - ‎

Por ejemplo -explicó- se cree que fue un cometa o un meteorito de apenas 60 metros de diámetro el que causó el desastre de Tunguska en 1908. ...

A probe of asteroid "clashes" with the Earth

El Dia (Argentina)-
For example - he told - one believes that it was a comet or a meteorite of scarcely 60 meters of diameter the one that caused the disaster of Tunguska in 1908....
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万石博览会开幕月球陨石首次来渝

新浪网 - ‎

据悉，本次展出的陨石共有40多种，来自世界各地，是迄今为止我市最大规模的陨石展。带来这些陨石的北京天文馆高级工程师张宝林介绍，火星陨石和月球陨石都属于比较珍 ...

10000 Stone Fair Opens lunar meteorites for the first time
Laiyu Sina -
It is learned that a total of more than 40 kinds of meteorites on display from around the world, is by far the largest city of the meteorite show. Beijing Planetarium brings these meteorites senior engineer Zhang Baolin introduction, Mars meteorites and lunar meteorites are all relatively ...
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神秘火球飞速滑过爱尔兰上空

京华网 - ‎

爱尔兰天文学家认为，对这一现象最合理的解释是，陨石或人造卫星撞进大气层，坠落地表。当时人们看到天空滑过的火球非常明亮，如明月一般。爱尔兰天文学会负责人戴维 ...

Mystery fireball glide rapidly over
Jinghua Network
Ireland -
before the Irish astronomers believe that this phenomenon the most reasonable explanation is that meteorite or satellite crashed into the atmosphere, falling surface. At that time people see the sky is very bright fireball glide, such as the moon in general. Astronomy Ireland will be responsible for David ...
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美宇航局公开火星图：你绝对想不到的外星世界

中华网 - ‎

新浪科技讯北京时间8月14日消息据物理学家组织网报道，美国宇航局火星勘测轨道飞行器日前发回一张火星维多利亚陨石坑的最新靓照。这张照片是火星勘测轨道飞行器使用高 ...

NASA's Mars Public Figure: You absolutely can not think of the alien world
CDC -
SAN FRANCISCO August 14 news organizations, networks, according to physicists, reported that NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has sent back to 1 Victoria crater on Mars the latest Match Friends. This photo is the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter using high ...

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美探测器拍到阿波罗12号飞船登月痕迹(图)

新浪网 - ‎

次日，他们二人又走向“Head”、“Bench”、“Sharp”等三个陨石坑，采集了岩石样本，沿途还拍了照片。“阿波罗12号”任务总共带回来超过70磅(约合32公斤)的月球样本，科学家利 ...

America probe photographed the Apollo 12 spacecraft to the moon traces (Figure) Sina -
The next day, two of them again moved toward the "Head", "Bench", "Sharp" and so three crater, collecting of the rock samples along the way was also photographed. "Apollo 12" mission brought back a total of more than 70 pounds (about 32 kilograms) of lunar samples, the scientists li ...
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新型飞行器能引开撞地小行星

宁夏网 - ‎

1908年，一颗足球场大小的陨石在西伯利亚通古斯湖上空发生大爆炸，毁灭了周围近2000平方公里森林，而这种事件大约每100年就会发生一次。美国国家航空航天局估计，约有 ...

New type of aircraft able to divert the asteroid collision
Ningxia Network -
in 1908, the size of a football field in the Siberian Tunguska meteorite explosion took place over Lake, destroyed nearly 2,000 square kilometers of the surrounding forest, while such incidents around will occur once every 100 years. United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration estimates that about ...
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鮮知先贏／彗星首次發現甘胺酸

聯合新聞網 - ‎18 時間前‎

過去曾從地球隕石中發現胺基酸，這次再從彗星中發現甘胺酸，證明構成生命的原始物質在太空中並不罕見。地球上的生物，有可能就是來自彗星或隕石。 NASA所發現的那些微量胺基酸是從冰核彗星Wild 2彗尾蒐集而來。故事要從1999年講起。那一年NASA發射星塵號（Stardust）太空 ...

Little known, first win / Comet was first found glycine
CNN -
in the past amino acids found in meteorites from the Earth, this comet was found again from glycine to prove that constitute the raw material of life in space not uncommon. Life on Earth, there may be from a comet or meteorite. NASA found that micro-amino acid is from ice cores collected from the comet Wild 2 comet. Let's talk about a story that starts in 1999. That year, NASA launched Stardust (Stardust) Space ...

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Observatory sets fall viewing nights

Online Athens
18, and this year will hold an open house on a Monday night to view a meteor shower. The observatory features a 24-inch telescope and is located atop the ...

Local News
u.tv Sat, 05 Sep 2009 13:17 PM PDT
Astronomers are on the trail of a meteorite after a massive explosion over Ireland.

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Huge 'sky explosion' investigated

Jupiter is currently the brightest star is in the night sky

An Irish astronomy group is calling for help in tracing the origin of a huge explosion in the skies over the country on Thursday evening.

BBC News-

Astronomy Ireland said it was currently investigating the explosion, which occurred at 2100 BST.

A spokesman said the most likely explanation was a space rock or satellite crashing into the atmosphere.

The group wants anyone who witnessed the event to contact its website at www.astronomy.ie

Astronomy Ireland chairman David Moore said: "So far, reports have been registered by residents in west Cork, Kerry, Cavan and as far north as Donegal, thus suggesting that this spectacular event may have been witnessed by people all over the country.

"In the past two decades there have been two major explosions in the skies over Ireland.

"When we investigated these, we were able to conclude that one was a Russian military satellite that exploded over the country, and the other was a rock from space which we predicted would have fallen on Carlow and this rock was indeed found, becoming the last meteorite fall of the millennium."

Mr Moore said the explosion should not be confused with a hugely-bright star which was positioned just below the full moon on Thursday night.

"This was actually the planet Jupiter and it can be characterised by being by far the brightest star in the entire night sky," he said.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/8239188.stm

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Lluvia de meteoritos

Granada Hoy - Granada,Granada,Spain
La Universidad de Huelva ofrece una exposición sobre su grupo de trabajo en torno a la detección de meteoritos. 2. Ernesto Páramo y José María Madiedo ...

Astronomers in search of meteorite
Press Assoc. via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News Fri, 04 Sep 2009 10:10 AM PDT
Astronomers are on the trail of a meteorite after a massive explosion over Ireland.

The Elegant Way to Save Earth From Asteroid Destruction

Discover Magazine
The one fact in Deep Impact that we can all agree on is that we should not allow the Earth to get hit by a large meteor. Depending on its size, ...

BBC News

Huge 'sky explosion' investigated

BBC News
... was a rock from space which we predicted would have fallen on Carlow and this rock was indeed found, becoming the last meteorite fall of the millennium. ...

Astronomers in search of meteorite

The Press Association
Astronomers are on the trail of a meteorite after a massive explosion over Ireland. The fireball, said to burn as bright as the full moon, was seen flashing ...

Una exposición muestra la evolución del sistema solar a través de ...

Radio Granada - Granada,Andalucía,Spain
Esta exposición, compuesta por más de 200 meteoritos y fragmentos de cráteres ... "Para ver que una roca es un meteorito hay que someterla a distintos ...

Streaking light stuns stargazers: A meteor was reported in the sky ...

Kalamazoo Gazette - MLive.com
"That's a meteor!" he blurted out in his wife's voice mail. A meteor, otherwise known as a falling star, is a bright streak of light caused by a meteoroid ...

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The Westender

Asteroid Strike Coming?

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It's the work of moments to boil out any unwanted information revealed by records of meteor strikes, but with their hundred-billion dollar budget the USAF ...

Martian meteorite may have held life

New Scientist
MORE than a decade after the furore over a Martian meteorite that some claimed contained fossil microbes, a new analysis suggests the rock's environment on ...

Josh receives a heavenly gift from meteorite collector

This is North Devon
A SIX-year-old stargazer from Bratton Fleming who found what he thought was a meteorite in his back garden has been given a generous gift from one of the ...

WOOD-TV

Meteor spotted Tuesday

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(WOOD) - A meteor flashed across the sky at around 9:10 pm Tuesday. It was visible from north to northeast, moving left to right. It also moved from "top to ...

Spaceshuttle Discovery II

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Een kleine botsing met een meteoriet ter grootte van een paasei, heeft me compleet uit de richting en koers geslagen. Ik zit niet op Mars maar op een ...

Science World.cz

Litopanspermie: Může se živor šířit impakty?

Science World.cz - ‎

Ta ovšem není stabilní – na nově vzniklý meteorit působí gravitační vlivy okolních planet, v případě malých kousků také tlak slunečního záření. ...

Rioja2.com | Diario digital : Noticias de actualidad de La Rioja

La Casa de las Ciencias acogerá desde el día 29 la exposición ...

El Correo Digital (Vizcaya) - ‎

«Responderá a muchas preguntas y ofrecerá al público piezas reales, fotografías impactantes e incluso un trozo de meteorito marciano», prometió Fernández. ...

Потемнение достаточно часто происходило в истории Земли

Каталог Минералов - ‎

По словам ученых, неожиданное потемнение достаточно часто происходило в истории Земли. Типичным примером подобных событий могут являться мощные извержения вулканов или падения комет и метеоритов, то есть события, которые приводят к повышению концентрации аэрозолей в верхних слоях атмосферы. ...

Юные экологи осмотрели коллекцию метеоритов

Татар-информ (подписка) - ‎

Смогли своими глазами увидеть коллекцию метеоритов, собранных в 40 странах мира». Дети посетили зал Ледникового периода, где увидели скелеты древних млекопитающих, а также в зал нефти и истории Земли. По словам организатора мероприятия специалиста Управления информационно-аналитической ...

陨石”身份扑朔迷离

网易 - ‎

本报讯（记者罗剑生实习生郭彬玲林婷婷）本报8月26日6版报道了鲤城江南霞洲有两块神秘的石头，当地传说它们是300多年前从天而降的陨石，该报道引起了泉州天文界人士的 ...

“中国的航天事业大有希望”

新浪网 - ‎

由此，他开始关注地球以外的东西———陨石。 “从1960年到1994年，整整35年，我所有的工作都围绕着一个目标———准备。准备中国有能力的时候自己去探月。”欧阳自远说 ...

北方新闻网

详解中国首颗火星使者"萤

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... 拥有山脉、平原、峡谷、火山、干枯的河道等地形地貌，且有明显的南北差异，北方是被熔岩填平的低原，南方则是充满陨石坑的古老高原，两者之间以明显的斜坡分隔；土 ...

西部网

我国首次南极科考队员跳入刺骨冰水打钢钎

西部网 - ‎

在先后25次南极科学考察中，取得了南极磷虾复眼研究、格罗夫山陨石回收等举世瞩目的成果。 “没有首次科考，就没有我国今天的南极科考大国地位。”刘小汉说，“随着昆仑站 ...

每日甘肃

科学家发明新型飞行器巧妙引开撞地小行星

每日甘肃 - ‎

1908年，一颗足球场大小的陨石在西伯利亚通古斯湖上空发生大爆炸，毁灭了周围近2000平方公里森林，而这种事件大约每100年就会发生一次。美国国家航空航天局估计，约有 ...

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Using technology to solve mysteries
UB Reporter Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:43 PM PDT
The fist-sized hunk of metal or stone found on an Iowa railroad track could have been extraterrestrial, a fragment of the Estherville meteorite that had fallen to Earth from space in May of 1879. If so, the nugget would qualify as a precious object, rare and expensive.

Meteorite mystery
Lancaster Online Tue, 01 Sep 2009 21:36 PM PDT
If you live in the Bird-in-Hand area, especially if you live on a farm, be prepared for a man to knock on your front door. He'll ask if he can check out your property. Maybe after the crops are harvested.He's looking for rocks.Not just any rocks. Meteorites. From outer space.Meteorites that ...

University at Buffalo Reporter

Using technology to solve mysteries

University at Buffalo Reporter
On one well-known collector's Web site, a half-ounce chunk of the meteorite is listed for $964. So with hopes high, the owner of the fist-sized find sent a ...

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