Meteor/Meteorite News- 25SEP09

NASA: Orbiter spots ice in Martian meteor craters Computerworld By Sharon Gaudin Computerworld - A NASA spacecraft orbiting Mars has spotted exposed ice in five different spots on the Red Planet. ... Метеориты обнажили мощный слой льда в средних широтах Марса Новостной проект INFOX.ru - Москва,Russia Помогли открытию удары метеоритов по марсианской поверхности. Летом прошлого года с Марса пришло долгожданное известие – космический аппарат Phoenix ... Pravda Tunguska Meteorite Created Devil's Cemetery in Russia's Siberia Pravda They say that ruinous energy of the place has something to do with the fall of the Tunguska meteorite. Within one decade, from 1980 till 1990, ... Wired News Sept. 25, 2002: Mysterious Meteorite Dazzles Siberia Wired News The meteorite had broken up before hitting the ground and left a score of craters, up to 65 feet in diameter. Nearby tree stumps were shattered or burned. ... Did comet crashes help spark Earth life? MSNBC Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:48 PM PDT Based on evidence from meteorite studies, researchers are simulating comet impacts to see if they might help proliferate the left-handedness in molecules that life on Earth depends upon.

Alex Nye: Not Quite Done with Route 66 East Aurora Advertiser Continuing to Oatman from Holbrook, you will pass signs for the Meteor Crater. It is an honest-to-goodness crater created by a meteor, hence the name. ... See all stories on this topic Star Dust: Saturn Meets Venus at Dawn The Free Press (press release) The meteor shower called the Orionids is usually not spectacular, but this year appears promising for it. These meteors are caused by small pieces (dust, ...

Meteor/Meteorite News- Water Ice on Mars 25SEP09

Los Angeles Times

Ice on Mars more extensive than thought

Los Angeles Times
An orbiter spots ice in five meteorite craters. The planet's underground ice sheet could be twice the size of Greenland's, scientists say. ...




火星陨石坑洞内有冰比想像更接近赤道

大纪元 - USA
负责操作高解析相机的HiRISE研究人员说，在这个新陨石坑洞内发现的冰纯度极高。 柏恩说：“以前我们都觉得是50%的沙尘与50%的冰，不过这次大概是1%的沙尘，99%的冰。 ...

PhysOrg.com

Scientists see water ice in fresh meteorite craters on Mars

PhysOrg.com
The hirise camera on nasa's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter took this image of a new, 8-meter (26-foot)-diameter meteorite impact crater in the topographically ...

Impacto de meteoritos revela água congelada em Marte

Impacto de meteoritos revela água congelada em Marte

Site Inovação Tecnológica - Brazil
Meteoritos que atingiram recentemente a superfície de Marte revelaram depósitos de água congelada logo abaixo da superfície do planeta. ...



Agua en la Luna, hielo en Marte

El Norte de Castilla - Valladolid,Castilla y León,Spain
Pudieran ser provenientes de otros cuerpos externos como meteoritos o cometas impactados contra la superficie lunar u originadas en el interior del satélite ...

印度发现月球有水证据英媒称其为追赶中国加分

搜狐 - Beijing,China
此前曾有研究表明月球两极的陨石坑可能存在冰，但一直没能得到证实。 ... 其中之一便是NASA的“月球侦察者轨道器”，它已经记录了月球极地陨石坑中的最低温度是零下238 ...

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

NASA Spacecraft Sees Ice on Mars Exposed by Meteor Impacts

Jet Propulsion Laboratory
This map shows five locations where fresh impact cratering has excavated water ice from just beneath the surface of Mars. PASADENA, Calif. ...



Scientists see water ice in fresh meteorite craters on Mars

Eureka! Science News
"The other surprising discovery is that ice exposed at the bottom of these meteorite impact craters is so pure," Byrne said. "The thinking before was that ...

Scientific American

Meteorite impacts turn up nearly pure water ice in Mars's mid ...

Scientific American
By John Matson in 60-Second Science Blog Now a team of researchers has let meteorite impacts do the digging for them—a paper in this week's Science presents ...



Water Ice In Fresh Meteorite Craters On Mars

Science Daily (press release)
The spacecraft's observations were obtained from orbit after meteorites excavated fresh craters on the Red Planet. Scientists controlling instruments on the ...

Water on Mars more extensive than thought
Los Angeles Times Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:22 PM PDT
An orbiter spots ice in five meteorite craters. The planet's underground ice sheet could be twice the size of Greenland's, scientists say. There is much more water on Mars than anyone had thought -- possibly twice as much as in Greenland's ice sheet, scientists said Thursday.

NASA Orbiter Finds Ice In New Craters On Mars redOrbit Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:21 PM PDT Image Caption: The HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter took this image of a new, 8-meter (26-foot)-diameter meteorite impact crater in the topographically flat, dark plains within Vastitas Borealis, Mars, on November 1, 2008. The crater was made sometime after Jan. 26, 2008. Bright water ice was excavated by, and now surrounds, the crater. This entire image is 50 meters (164 feet ...

Scientists see water ice in fresh meteorite craters on Mars SpaceRef Thu, 24 Sep 2009 13:32 PM PDT NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has revealed frozen water hiding just below the surface of mid-latitude Mars. The spacecraft's observations were obtained from orbit after meteorites excavated fresh craters on the Red Planet.

Ice on Mars revealed in fresh craters CBC.ca Thu, 24 Sep 2009 12:20 PM PDT Fresh meteorite impacts on Mars have revealed ice under the surface far closer to the Martian equator than astronomers expected to find it.

Cosmic Log: Water found (and lost) on Mars MSNBC Thu, 24 Sep 2009 11:18 AM PDT Science editor Alan Boyle's Weblog: Researchers spot fresh water ice that was thrown up by meteorite impacts on Mars â and then happily watch it disappear.

Meteorite impacts turn up nearly pure water ice in Mars's mid-latitudes Scientific American Thu, 24 Sep 2009 11:18 AM PDT Planetary scientists looking for water ice on Mars have employed a number of tactics to great success in their search. The Phoenix lander dug it up ; orbiting radar measurements have seen it under insulating blankets of debris. ( Frozen water sublimates to vapor in Mars's climate and so is not stable when exposed at the surface.) [More]

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NASA SPACECRAFT SEES ICE ON MARS EXPOSED BY METEOR IMPACTS

PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has revealed
frozen water hiding just below the surface of mid-latitude Mars. The
spacecraft's observations were obtained from orbit after meteorites
excavated fresh craters on the Red Planet.

Scientists controlling instruments on the orbiter found bright ice
exposed at five Martian sites with new craters that range in depth
from approximately 1.5 feet to 8 feet. The craters did not exist in
earlier images of the same sites. Some of the craters show a thin
layer of bright ice atop darker underlying material. The bright
patches darkened in the weeks following initial observations, as the
freshly exposed ice vaporized into the thin Martian atmosphere. One
of the new craters had a bright patch of material large enough for
one of the orbiter's instruments to confirm it is water ice.

The finds indicate water ice occurs beneath Mars' surface halfway
between the north pole and the equator, a lower latitude than
expected in the Martian climate.

"This ice is a relic of a more humid climate from perhaps just several
thousand years ago," said Shane Byrne of the University of Arizona.

Byrne is a member of the team operating the orbiter's High Resolution
Imaging Science Experiment, or HiRISE camera, which captured the
unprecedented images. Byrne and 17 co-authors report the findings in
the Sept. 25 edition of the journal Science.

"We now know we can use new impact sites as probes to look for ice in
the shallow subsurface," said Megan Kennedy of Malin Space Science
Systems in San Diego, a co-author of the paper and member of the team
operating the orbiter's Context Camera.

During a typical week, the Context Camera returns more than 200 images
of Mars that cover a total area greater than California. The camera
team examines each image, sometimes finding dark spots that fresh,
small craters make in terrain covered with dust. Checking earlier
photos of the same areas can confirm a feature is new. The team has
found more than 100 fresh impact sites, mostly closer to the equator
than the ones that revealed ice.

An image from the camera on Aug. 10, 2008, showed apparent cratering
that occurred after an image of the same ground was taken 67 days
earlier. The opportunity to study such a fresh impact site prompted a
look by the orbiter's higher resolution camera on Sept. 12, 2009,
confirming a cluster of small craters.

"Something unusual jumped out," Byrne said. "We observed bright
material at the bottoms of the craters with a very distinct color. It
looked a lot like ice."

The bright material at that site did not cover enough area for a
spectrometer instrument on the orbiter to determine its composition.
However, a Sept. 18, 2008, image of a different mid-latitude site
showed a crater that had not existed eight months earlier. This
crater had a larger area of bright material.

"We were excited about it, so we did a quick-turnaround observation,"
said co-author Kim Seelos of Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics
Laboratory in Laurel, Md., "Everyone thought it was water ice, but it
was important to get the spectrum for confirmation."

The Mars orbiter is designed to facilitate coordination and quick
response by the science teams, making it possible to detect and
understand rapidly changing features. The ice exposed by fresh
impacts suggests that NASA's Viking 2 lander, digging into
mid-latitude Mars in 1976, might have struck ice if it had dug four
inches deeper.

The Viking 2 mission, which consisted of an orbiter and a lander,
launched in September 1975 and became one of the first two space
probes to land successfully on the Martian surface. The Viking 1 and
2 landers characterized the structure and composition of the
atmosphere and surface. They also conducted on-the-spot biological
tests for life on another planet.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena manages the Mars
Reconnaissance Orbiter for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in
Washington. Lockheed Martin Space Systems in Denver built the
spacecraft. The Context Camera was built and is operated by Malin.
The University of Arizona operates the HiRISE camera, which Ball
Aerospace & Technologies Corp., in Boulder, Colo., built. The Johns
Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory led the effort to build
the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer and operates it in
coordination with an international team of researchers.

To view images of the craters and learn more about the Mars
Reconnaissance Orbiter, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/mro

Sept. 24, 2009

Dwayne Brown
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1726
dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov

Guy Webster
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
818-354-6278
guy.webster@jpl.nasa.gov

RELEASE: 09-224

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FROM: Lori Stiles (520-626-4402; lstiles@u.arizona.edu)

SCIENTISTS SEE WATER ICE IN FRESH METEORITE CRATERS ON MARS

Scientists are seeing sub-surface water ice that may be 99 percent pure
halfway between the north pole and the equator on Mars, thanks to
quick-turnaround observations from orbit of fresh meteorite impact
craters on the planet.

"We knew there was ice below the surface at high latitudes of Mars, but
we find that it extends far closer to the equator than you would think,
based on Mars' climate today," said Shane Byrne of the University of
Arizona, a member of the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, or
HiRISE, which runs the high-resolution camera on NASA's Mars
Reconnaissance Orbiter.

"The other surprising discovery is that ice exposed at the bottom of
these meteorite impact craters is so pure," Byrne said. "The thinking
before was that ice accumulates below the surface between soil grains,
so there would be a 50-50 mix of dirt and ice. We were able to figure
out, given how long it took that ice to fade from view, that the mixture
is about one percent dirt and 99 percent ice."

Scientists used several instruments on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter,
or MRO, in quick succession in detecting and confirming highly pure,
bright ice exposed in new craters, ranging from 1.5 feet to 8 feet deep,
at five different Martian sites.

In August 2008, the orbiter's Context camera team examined their images
for any dark spots or other changes that weren't visible in earlier
images of the same area. Meteorites usually leave dark marks when they
crash into dust-covered Mars terrain.

The HiRISE team, which bases its operations at the UA Lunar and
Planetary Laboratory, followed up in September 2008 by taking
high-resolution images of the dark spots.

"We saw something very unusual when we followed up on the first of these
impact craters," Byrne said, "and that was this bright blue material
poking up from the bottom of the crater. It looked a lot like water ice.
And sure enough, when we started monitoring this material, it faded away
like you'd expect water ice to fade, because water ice is unstable on
Mars' surface and turns directly into water vapor in the atmosphere."

A few days later that September, the orbiter's "CRISM" team used their
Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars and got the
spectral signature of water ice exposed in one of the impact craters,
further clinching the discovery.

"All of this had to happen very quickly because 200 days after we first
saw the ice, it was gone, it was the color of dirt," Byrne said. "If we
had taken HiRISE images just a few months later, we wouldn't have
noticed anything unusual. This discovery would have just passed us by."

Byrne and 17 co-authors are reporting the findings in the Sept. 25
edition of the journal Science.

How far water ice extends toward the equator depends largely on how much
water has been available in the Martian atmosphere in the recent past,
Byrne said: "The ice is a relic of a more humid climate not very long
ago, perhaps just several thousand years ago."

The Phoenix Mars Lander mission last year also found clean ice at its
landing site on the northern plains of Mars, Byrne noted.

But to find highly pure ice far closer to the equator because of random
meteor impacts was unexpected, he said.

There are several theories about how a layer of such pure ice could have
formed beneath Mars surface. Byrne said he thinks that one of the most
promising ideas is that this ice on Mars formed in the same way that
pure ice lenses form beneath the surface of the Earth.

"That's where you have very thin films of liquid water around ice grains
and soil grains and they migrate around to form clear ice lenses on top
of the ice table, even at temperatures well below zero. This process is
called 'frost heave' on Earth, and it's considered a nuisance in most
places because it cracks up roads and tilts walls and destroys
foundations of houses.

"But on Mars it would be of great interest if we could discover a
process that involved liquid water in today's climate, and not just in
some of the warmest areas of the planet but in some of the coldest areas
of the planet in the high latitude regions," Byrne said.

In the past decade, researchers from UA's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory
have played major roles in piecing together the picture of where water
is to be found on Mars:

* Professor Alfred McEwen, a co-author on the Sept. 25 Science paper, is
principal investigator for HiRISE, which began imaging Mars in November
2006. At this time, the HiRISE Web site features more than 577processed
pictures of Martian water features among thousands of pictures of
features on the surface of the planet.

* Professor William Boynton developed the Gamma Ray Spectrometer
instrument package on Mars Odyssey that detected water ice near the
Martian poles in 2001.

* Phoenix Mars Lander principal investigator Peter Smith headed the
mission that used a long robotic arm to uncover and confirm the shallow
ice table at its landing site, and other instruments to document
snowfall and ground frost at its high polar latitude. The Phoenix Mars
Mission began science operations on the northern plains of Mars after
landing May 25, 2008, and lasted five months, until winter arrived.

The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is managed by the Jet Propulsion
Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology, for
NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington.

The University of Arizona operates the High Resolution Imaging Science
Experiment, which operates the HiRISE camera built by Ball Aerospace &
Technologies Corp., Boulder, Colo.

Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver, built the spacecraft. The Context
Camera is operated by and was provided by Malin Space Science Systems.
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory led the effort
to build the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars and
operates it in coordination with an international team of researchers.

SCIENCE CONTACTS:

Shane Byrne (520-626-0407; shane@lpl.arizona.edu)
Alfred McEwen (520-621-4573; mcewen@lpl.arizona.edu)

HiRISE WEBSITE & IMAGES:
http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu

Meteor/Meteorite News- 24SEP09

62 New Meteor Showers to Enjoy

Universe Today
A seven year survey by astronomers at the University of Western Ontario has identified 117 new meteor showers, 62 of which have never been reported before. ...

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Astrobiology Magazine
There is evidence from meteorite studies that amino acids may have been delivered to Earth from space. "There is interest in how these building blocks came ...

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The Times of India Wed, 23 Sep 2009 10:34 AM PDT
LONDON: Astronomers have discovered a specific piece of meteorite on Nullabor Plain, after tracking it from orbit, a rare finding which they claim is a major breakthrough for planetary science.

Divers recover large rock from Sylvan Lake

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Namibia Meteor/Meteorite News- Fireball in Namibia 19SEP09 23SEP09

Fireball in Namibia (English Translation below)

Viele Menschen sehen „Lichtblitz“

Allegemeine Zeifung- AZ Online 23.09.2009
Windhoek – Die leuchtende Erscheinung am Himmel ist am vergangenen Samstagvormittag noch von vielen anderen Menschen sowie in verschiedenen Landesteilen Namibias gesehen worden. Nachdem die Windhoekerin Ingrid Bieker auf das Phänomen aufmerksam gemacht hat und einen Meteorit vermutete (AZ berichtete), haben sich seit Wochenbeginn noch weitere Menschen bei der Allgemeinen Zeitung gemeldet und von ihren Beobachtungen berichtet.

So wurde der „Lichtblitz“ unter anderem von Menschen am Oanob-Damm, im Khomas-Hochland, am Swakoppforte-Damm, in Wilhelmstal, auf der Farm Finkenstein östlich von Windhoek, bei Omaruru, nahe Otjiwarongo und natürlich in Windhoek wahrgenommen. Übereinstimmend berichteten alle Anrufer von einem sehr hellen Licht am Morgenhimmel (ca. 9.10 Uhr).

Es könnte sich um einen Meteoriten gehandelt haben, erklärte Sonja Itting-Enke, Betreiberin der Cuno-Hoffmeister-Gedächtnissternwarte, jetzt auf AZ-Nachfrage. Allerdings würden diese eher ein bläuliches Licht erzeugen, weil sie „Kupfer und andere Metalle“ mit sich führten. „Vielleicht war es aber nur Weltraumschrott, denn es fliegt ja heutzutage viel im All herum“, füge sie hinzu. In jedem Fall, das berichteten auch die AZ-Leser, sei das Objekt offenbar beim Eintritt in die Atmosphäre verglüht.

German-English translation by ImTranslator 3.2-P

Many people see "light flash"
AZ Online 23.09.2009
Windhoek – The luminous appearance in the sky has been seen in the last Saturday (19SEP09) morning still by many other people as well as in different land parts of Namibia. After the Windhoek resident, Ingrid Bieker, has drawn the attention to the phenomenon and supposed a meteorite (FILE NUMBER reported), even other people have announced themselves since weekly beginning in the general newspaper and have reported about her observations.

Among the rest, thus the "light flash" was perceived by people in the Oanob dam, in the Khomas highland, in the Swakoppforte dam, in Wilhelm's valley, on the farm finch stone to the east of Windhoek, with Omaruru, close Otjiwarongo and of course in Windhoek. Correspondently all callers reported about a very bright light in the morning sky (approx. 9.10 o'clock).

It could have concerned a meteorite, explained Sonja Itting-Enke, operator of the Cuno Hoffmeister-commemorative observatory, now on AZ inquiry. Indeed, these would generate rather a bluish light because they led „ copper and other metals “ with themselves. „ However, maybe it was only a space scrap metal, because it flies nowadays a lot in all “, she adds. In any case, reported also the AZ readers, the object has apparently died away by the entry into the atmosphere.


http://www.az.com.na/lokales/viele-menschen-sehen-and-lichtblitz-and.93764.php


Source: Dr. Svend Buhl

Meteor/Meteorite News- 23SEP09

Found: 62 meteor showers new to science

New Scientist
Now, researchers in Canada report finding an incredible 62 new meteor showers, displays of 'shooting stars' that recur every year when Earth passes through ...

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Climate Change, The Environmentalists Have it All Wrong!

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Burton Mail

Security guard spotted 'fireball'

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... when I spoke to them had it down as an unidentified flying object and that's what I put in my report but they said it could also have been a meteorite. ...

Brisbane Times

Scientists track meteor from sky to Aussie desert

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La Gaceta de los Negocios - Madrid,Madrid,Spain
El nuevo meteorito, que tiene un tamaño cercano al de una pelota de cricket, es el primero que se ha recogido con las cámaras instaladas en el desierto ...

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Sydney, Sep 21 : Researchers have discovered an unusual kind of meteorite in the Western Australian desert and have uncovered where in the solar system it came from, a new finding suggests.

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Meteor/Meteorite News- 22SEP09

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Meteor/Meteorite News 21SEP09

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Cameras set up in the western Australia desert have helped trace a fallen meteorite to its original place in the solar system, scientists said.

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Pope Benedict visits the Vatican observatory

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Russia-InfoCenter

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Christian Science Monitor

Missiles in Iran that still worry Obama and the West

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StandardNet
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Australia Meteor/Meteorite News- Bunburra Rockhole meteorite announced 19SEP09

Photo of Bunburra Rockhole Meteorite (Eucrite)
Photo credit: Imperial College London







Camera tracks meteorite to home in space
UPI Fri, 18 Sep 2009 10:13 AM PDT
PERTH, Australia, Sept. 18 (UPI) -- Cameras set up in the western Australia desert have helped trace a fallen meteorite to its original place in the solar system, scientists said.

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Nullarbor fireball cameras find rare meteorite EurekAlert! Fri, 18 Sep 2009 06:13 AM PDT ( CSIRO Australia ) Using cameras which capture fireballs streaking across the night sky and sophisticated mathematics, a world-wide team of scientists have managed to find not only a tiny meteorite on the vast Nullarbor Plain, but also its orbit and the asteroid it came from.

Scientists find meteorite that came from innermost asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter New Kerala Fri, 18 Sep 2009 01:23 AM PDT Washington, September 18 : In a very rare finding, scientists have discovered an unusual kind of meteorite in the Western Australian desert and have uncovered that it came from the innermost main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

Rare meteorite found in WA outback Australian Broadcasting Corporation Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:04 PM PDT Scientists have discovered a rare kind of meteorite in outback Western Australia, which could hold clues about the origin of our solar system.

Australian scientists find meteorite BigPond News Thu, 17 Sep 2009 20:56 PM PDT Australian scientists have found a rare meteorite using cameras that capture images of fireballs.

Scientists track down desert meteorites News.com.au Thu, 17 Sep 2009 20:48 PM PDT THE Western Australian Museum today revealed a new golf ball-sized meteorite that was tracked falling onto the Nullarbor Plain by a network of cameras.

Scientists find rare meteorite (The West Australian)
The West Australian Thu, 17 Sep 2009 20:36 PM PDT
Using cameras to capture fireballs streaking across the night sky, scientists have tracked a tiny meteorite that crashed into Australia's Nullarbor Plain.

Montana Meteor Fireball Report 17SEP09- 19SEP09

Montana Fireball

Car Versus Moose and a Mysterious Fireball

by By Heather Jurva , 09-18-09
Thursday 9/17
...."9:22 p.m. Someone saw what was described as a “big fireball” in the sky on the north side of Hash Mountain. Although the reporting party believed it to be an aircraft, all planes in the area were fully accounted for and all was well. ...

http://www.flatheadbeacon.com/articles/article/car_versus_moose_and_a_mysterious_fireball/13066/

Meteor/Meteorite News- 19SEP09

Spaceflight Now

Mars rover Spirit's fate weighed as options dwindle

Spaceflight Now
On the opposite side of Mars, the rover Opportunity is completing inspection and sensor data acquisition on an iron meteorite dubbed Block Island that ...

Camera tracks meteorite to home in space Times of the Internet Cameras set up in the western Australia desert have helped trace a fallen meteorite to its original place in the solar system, scientists said. ... See all stories on this topic Desert Fireball Network tracks first meteorite NEWS.com.au THE Western Australian Museum today revealed a new golf ball-sized meteorite that was tracked falling onto the Nullarbor Plain by a network of cameras. ... Rare snapshot of solar system's dawn DEBORAH SMITH SCIENCE EDITOR September 19, 2009 CAMERAS set up in outback Australia to track fireballs across the night sky have led scientists to a rare meteorite formed at the dawn of the solar system. The fiery streak it made on descent allowed them not only to pinpoint where it would fall on the vast Nullarbor Plain, but also work out where it had come from. ... http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci-tech/rare-snapshot-of-solar-systems-dawn-20090918-fvcl.html

Pope Benedict XVI blesses new headquarters of Vatican Observatory Catholic News Agency During his hour-long visit to the building, the Holy Father viewed the large collection of meteorites housed by the Observatory and held a rock from Mars in ...

Australia Meteor/Meteorite News- Basaltic Meteorite from Australian Fall 18SEP09

Science 18 September 2009: Vol. 325. no. 5947, pp. 1525 - 1527 DOI: 10.1126/science.1174787

Reports

An Anomalous Basaltic Meteorite from the Innermost Main Belt

Philip A. Bland,^1,* Pavel Spurn,² Martin C. Towner,¹ Alex W. R. Bevan,³ Andrew T. Singleton,⁴ William F. Bottke, Jr.,⁵ Richard C. Greenwood,⁶ Steven R. Chesley,⁷ Lukas Shrben,^1,2 Jiri Borovika,² Zdenek Ceplecha,² Terence P. McClafferty,⁸ David Vaughan,⁹ Gretchen K. Benedix,¹⁰ Geoff Deacon,³ Kieren T. Howard,¹⁰ Ian A. Franchi,⁶ Robert M. Hough¹¹

Triangulated observations of fireballs allow us to determine orbits and fall positions for meteorites. The great majority of basaltic meteorites are derived from the asteroid 4 Vesta. We report on a recent fall that has orbital properties and an oxygen isotope composition that suggest a distinct parent body. Although its orbit was almost entirely contained within Earth’s orbit, modeling indicates that it originated from the innermost main belt. Because the meteorite parent body would likely be classified as a V-type asteroid, V-type precursors for basaltic meteorites unrelated to Vesta may reside in the inner main belt. This starting location is in agreement with predictions of a planetesimal evolution model that postulates the formation of differentiated asteroids in the terrestrial planet region, with surviving fragments concentrated in the innermost main belt.

¹ IARC, Department of Earth Science and Engineering, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK.
² Astronomical Institute of the Academy of Sciences, Friova 298, CZ-251 65 Ondejov Observatory, Czech Republic.
³ Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Western Australian Museum, Locked Bag 49 Welshpool DC, Western Australia 6986, Australia.
⁴ Space and Atmospheric Physics Group, Department of Physics, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK.
⁵ Southwest Research Institute, 1050 Walnut Street, Suite 426, Boulder, CO 80302, USA.
⁶ PSSRI, Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA, UK.
⁷ Solar System Dynamics Group, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, M/S 301-150, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA.
⁸ Office of Research and Development, Curtin University of Technology, GPO Box U1987, Perth, Western Australia 6845, Australia.
⁹ Post Office Box 187, Nedlands, Perth, Western Australia 6909, Australia.
¹⁰ IARC, Department of Mineralogy, Natural History Museum, London SW7 5BD, UK.
¹¹ CSIRO Exploration and Mining, CRCLEME, ARRC, 26 Dick Perry Avenue, Kensington, Perth, Western Australia 6151, Australia.

Gujarat India Meteor Fireball 16SEP09- report 18SEP09

Fireball sighted in northern Gujarat

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It can either be a meteorite or a fireball. If the object has survived the fall from space to Earth then it could be a meteorite," said Dr Narottam Sahoo, ...