Meteor/Meteorite News- METEORS FROM HALLEY'S COMET 20OCT09

METEORS FROM HALLEY'S COMET: Earth is entering a stream of dusty debris from Halley's Comet, and this is causing the annual Orionid meteor shower. If forecasters are correct, the shower will peak on Wednesday morning, Oct. 21st, with dozens of meteors per hour. The best time to look is during the dark hours before local dawn.

For the past three years, Orionid rates have been unusually high, with reports of 60 or more meteors per hour. Researchers believe this is a result of some very old and rich debris from Comet Halley drifting across Earth's orbit. Computer models of the debris suggest that it is still in the neighborhood, so the trend of "good Orionids" could continue in 2009. Visit http://spaceweather.com

for photos and updates.

India Meteor/Meteorite News- Lonar Impact Crater 20OCT09

Geology of Lonar Crater, India

(With Link to PDF File of Paper)

Maloof, A. C., S. T. Stewart, B. P. Weiss, S. A. Soule,
N. L. Swanson-Hysell, K. L. Louzada, I. Garrick-Bethell,
and P. M. Poussart. Geology of Lonar Crater, India
Geological Society of America Bulletin. Published Online
September 25, 2009, doi:10.1130/B26474.1

http://gsabulletin.gsapubs.org/content/early/2009/09/24/B26474.1.abstract

PDF file at:

http://web.mit.edu/iang/www/pubs/Lonar_Geology_Preprint_GSABull_submitted_2008.pdf

http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~planets/louzada/page%202.html

Auxillary Materials at:

http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~planets/sstewart/reprints/papers/27_Maloof_et_al_Geology_Lonar_Crater_GSA_Bull_inpress_2009_DR.pdf

http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~planets/louzada/page%202.html

DEM file of crater at:

http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~planets/sstewart/reprints/papers/lonar-dem.zip

http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~planets/louzada/page%202.html

Source: Paul H., USA

Meteor/Meteorite News- 20OCT09

UFO crash in Russia last week

Allnewsweb.com
A meteor? Or perhaps a rocket? The local Chairman of the local civil protection office, Anotoly Nyukin, insists that no rockets could have landed in the ...

Телефон Mobiado Grand 350 Pioneer: корпус из осколков метеорита

e-Katalog - Киев,Ukraine
Новинка под названием Mobiado Grand 350 Pioneer является первым в мире телефоном, при создании которого использовали «неотразимую красоту метеорита». ...

Grimsby can't waste time exploiting space-rock discovery

St. Catharines Standard
The discovery of meteor shrapnel in our midst is a big deal. Indeed, its rarity is being likened to a Toronto Maple Leafs victory. ...

Mobiado Grand 350 Pioneer: телефон из метеорита

Mobile Arsenal - Запорожье,Ukraine
Аккумуляторная крышка каждой модели Grand 350 Pioneer сделана из метеорита, найденного в 1836 году в Намибии. Предполагается, что метеорит является частью ...

Killer algae wiped dinosaurs, may wipe humans, study suggests

RT
Paleontologists still argue over the possible causes, with meteorite impacts, super volcano eruptions, changes of sea level and other catastrophic events ...

Orionid meteor shower to light up night sky Wednesday

Gaea Times (blog)
August 12th, 2009 According to Patric Wiggins NASA Solar System Ambassador page, Meteors and Meteorite falls are often spellbinding, producing spectacular ...

На Марс откриха "метеоритна долина"

News.bg - София,Bulgaria
Новият метеорит е получил названието Mackinac ( в чест на остров Макино на езерото Гурон). Проведеният от Opportunity анализ е показал , че "небесният гост" ...

TV2 Mini-Series

TVNZ
A meteor crashes into the moon, sending it on a collision course with Earth, and the world has 39 days to stop it, before the whole planet perishes. ...

Behold the Orionids!

SILive.com
Mostly clear skies should allow for good viewing of the Orionid meteor shower before sunrise Wednesday morning. What's more, the moon is close to new now so ...


Mobiado Announces Grand 350 Pioneer Luxury Phone

SlashPhone
The company plans to made 37 units of the Grand 350 Pioneer, with an unique Gibeon meteorite battery cover. The material was supplied by the cosmos from a ...

Meteor shower to rain down early Wednesday morning

Salt Lake Tribune
"Flakes of comet dust hitting the atmosphere should give us dozens of meteors per hour." The meteor shower happens each year as Earth passes through a dense ...

Meteorite From September 25 Fireball Event Recovered And Presented
SpaceDaily Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:35 PM PDT
by Staff Writers Grimsby, Canada (SPX) Oct 20, 2009 When Tony Garchinski heard a loud crash just after 9 p.m. on Friday, September 25 he didn't think much of it. That is, until he awoke the next morning to find the windshield of his mom's Nissan Pathfinder with a huge crack in it.


Dinosaur-killer meteorite crashed off Indiaâs west coast
The Hindu Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:10 PM PDT
Washington: A meteorite more than 40 km wide and hurtling towards Earth at 58,000 miles an hour that killed dinosaurs 65 million years ago, had actually crashed off Indiaâs west coast, an Indian-origin professor has ...

Watch the 2009 Orionid meteor shower

Astronomy Magazine
The Orionid meteor shower peaks before dawn October 21. With no Moon to interfere, observers with dark skies can expect to see up to 30 meteors per hour. ...

'Someone Else's Mess'

Wall Street Journal
... Oct. 16 "Ont. Family Finds 4.6-Billion-Year-Old Meteorite in Truck's Windshield"--headline, Canadian Press, Oct. 17 "Some See Animal Welfare Effort on ...

Mobiado Grand 350 Pioneer luxury phone pays homage to NASA

Unwired View
What's unique about the Mobiado Grand 350 Pioneer is that its battery cover is literally made out of materials from the Gibeon meteorite, discovered in ...

Space Shuttle Looses Battle of Launch Dates

Universe Today
A second launch attempt on November 17 is being negotiated, prior to standing down for a Delta IV launch and the Leonid Meteor Shower (NASA won't launch the ...

The 2009 Orionid Meteor Shower Space Fellowship The Orionid meteor shower peaks this week and it could be a very good show. “Earth is passing through a stream of debris from Halley's Comet, the source of ...

'Dinosaur-killer meteorite crashed off India's west coast' Hindu Washington: A meteorite more than 40 km wide and hurtling towards Earth at 58000 miles an hour that killed dinosaurs 65 million years ago, had actually ...

LCROSS Impact; IBEX

AccuWeather.com
Canada officials have confirmed that it was a meteorite, not vandals, that smashed a car windshield late last month. It was determined that a bright ...


Dinosaurs-killer comet crash-landed off India's west coast'

The Hindu
PTI A meteorite more than 40 kms wide and hurtling towards Earth at 58000 miles per hour that killed dinosaurs 65 million years ago, had actually ...

Hundreds in Netherlands and Germany see 'exploding fireball' in sky

India Business Blog (blog)
Perseid meteor shower may yield 80 'space rocks' an hour Washington, August 11 (ANI): Reports indicate that the Perseid meteor shower, which will be visible ...

Physicist to Showcase U of G Work With Mars Rovers Exchange Morning Post “There's no question that it's an iron-nickel meteorite,” says Gellert. “We already investigated several spots that showed intriguing elemental variations ... See all stories on this topic

4.6 bn-year-old meteorite hits Canadian town Thaindian.com The rocks from this meteorite smashed the windowshield of a truck in Grimsby near Niagara Falls on the night of Sep 25. Thinking that it was an act of ...

Meteor/Meteorite News- 19OCT09

Mammoet stierf niet uit door buitenaardse inslag

Het Laatste Nieuws - Belgium
Dat de inslag van een meteoriet 12.900 jaar geleden de aarde zo ernstig deed afkoelen dat onder meer de mammoet en reuzenwolf uitstierven, ...

На Марсе найдено месторождение метеоритов

ГАЗЕТА.GZT.ru - Москва,Russia
Марсоход Opportunity нашел на Марсе очередной метеорит. Причем это уже третья находка за последние несколько месяцев работы робота – ученые считают, ...

Оpportunity нашел на Марсе < метеоритную долину >

Оpportunity нашел на Марсе «метеоритную долину»

СЕГОДНЯ - Киев,Ukraine
Новый метеорит получил наименование Mackinac (в честь острова Макино на озере Гурон). ... Размер этого метеорита составляет около 47 сантиметров. ...

Daily Mail

Indian mega meteor may have wiped out dinosaurs

Daily Mail
By Daily Mail Reporter The dinosaurs may have been wiped out by a meteor four times bigger than the one previously thought to have caused their extinction. ...

We're all doomed in 2012! (Or not)

The Huntsville Times - al.com
This alignment supposedly would set off a series of storms, meteor showers and tsunamis that would doom us all. However, it appears that Western culture's ...

Space Daily

Opportunity Finished With 'Shelter Island'

Space Daily
by Staff Writers Opportunity completed its survey of the meteorite called "Shelter Island". On Sol 2029 (Oct. 8, 2009), the rover completed the in-situ ...

Метеорит Mackinac . Фото NASA / JPL / Stuart Atkinson

Метеорит Mackinac. Фото NASA/JPL/Stuart Atkinson

Lenta.ru - Москва,Russia
Марсоход Opportunity нашел на Марсе третий метеорит за три месяца. Исследователи полагают, что аппарат наткнулся на своего рода "метеоритную долину" ...


Second meteorite found near site of first space rock

Hamilton Spectator
Scientists have discovered a second golf ball-sized meteorite in the western part of this town, and say there could be many more pieces of a Sept. ...

Telegraph.co.uk

Dinosaurs 'could have been wiped out by 25 mile wide meteor'

Telegraph.co.uk
Dinosaurs may have been wiped out by a massive 25 mile wide meteor - four times bigger than the asteroid previously though to be behind their extinction. ...
See all stories on this topic

Hundreds in Netherlands and Germany see 'exploding fireball' in sky

DailyIndia.com
... disintegrated shortly after hitting Earth's atmosphere, according to experts, who speculate that pieces of the meteor may have landed in the North Sea. ...

Meteorite smashes windshield
SpaceDaily Sun, 18 Oct 2009 17:10 PM PDT
by Staff Writers Grimsby, Ontario (UPI) Oct 17, 2009 An Ontario man thought vandals had smashed his mother's car windshield with rocks but it turned out the rocks came from a meteorite, officials in Canada said.

Opportunity Discovers Still Another Meteorite! Find It on Google Mars Universe Today Sun, 18 Oct 2009 15:28 PM PDT Mackinac on Mars. Credit: NASA/JPL/ colorization by Stuart Atkinson Opportunity must be driving down Meteorite Alley on Mars. The rover has come across still another meteorite, the third space rock it has found the past few months, and fourth overall since 2005. This one is called Mackinac, which continues the "island" theme by [...]

Meteorite From September 25 Fireball Recovered
redOrbit Sun, 18 Oct 2009 08:06 AM PDT
Image Caption: Composite all-sky camera image of the end of the fireball as seen from Hamilton (Camera #3, McMaster). Available below are movies of the event as seen by several of the SOMN cameras, as well as animations of the object's arrival at Earth.

Opportunity Discovers Still Another Meteorite! Find It on Google Mars

Universe Today
Opportunity must be driving down Meteorite Alley on Mars. The rover has come across still another meteorite, the third space rock it has found the past few ...

HULIQ

Orionid Meteor shower to dazzle viewers Wednesday Oct 21st

HULIQ
There will be unusually good conditions for viewing the Orionid meteor shower this Wednesday night because of a lack of competing light from the moon. ...
See all stories on this topic

Did Mumbai Meteor kill the dinosaurs?

Pune Mirror
By Mumbai Mirror Bureau Imagine a meteorite more than 40 kilometres wide hurtling toward Earth at 58000 kilometres per hour. The impact would create mass ...

Examiner.com

Orionid meteor showers October 2009

Examiner.com
Stargazers are looking up, searching the skies for this month's Orionid meteor showers. Occurring from October 17th through October 25th, the showers will ...
See all stories on this topic

Ontario Now

Meteorite Hits Family SUV In Ontario

Ontario Now
“Who thinks a meteorite is going to crash-land on your car?” However, the stone was very unusual in it's immense density and odd coloring, prompting the ...

73rd Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society 2010- 19OCT09

73rd Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society
July 26-30, 2010
New York, New York

You are cordially invited to attend the 73rd Annual Meeting of the
Meteoritical Society http://www.meteoriticalsociety.org/

to be held July 26-30, 2010, in the City of New York, New York, USA.

Host and Sponsor:
The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) http://www.amnh.org/

We look forward to listing other sponsors here!

The First Announcement will be online in September 2009.
A pre-conference workshop is planned (July 24-25, 2010).

The scientific program will be held at the Park Central Hotel
http://www.parkcentralny.com/

in upper midtown Manhattan,
a 20 minute walk from the AMNH, across 7th Avenue from Carnegie Hall,
steps from Columbus Circle, and two blocks south of Central Park.

More Details: http://www.metsoc2010.org/

Meteor/Meteorite News- Grimsby Ontario & Groningen con`t 18OCT09

Meteor shower lights up sky

Manila Bulletin
By JC BELLO RUIZ An interesting meteor shower — the “Orionids” meteor shower — is now on display in the sky. Here in the Philippines, however, ...

The wonders of Waterville

The Olympian
Waterville's two meteorites do give residents some bragging rights. The 73-pound Waterville meteorite was discovered in 1917 less than 20 miles from town. ...

Meteor shower sends early signs

Omaha World-Herald
By Nancy Gaarder The Orionid meteor shower, which is expected to peak Wednesday, may have provided an early spectacle. Several people telephoned the ...

Meteorite smashes windshield
UPI Sat, 17 Oct 2009 11:28 AM PDT
GRIMSBY, Ontario, Oct. 17 (UPI) -- An Ontario man thought vandals had smashed his mother's car windshield with rocks but it turned out the rocks came from a meteorite, officials in Canada said.

Meteorite Smashed Canadian Family's SUV Free Internet Press Sat, 17 Oct 2009 11:26 AM PDT The oldest thing Tony Garchinski, his mother, Yvonne or anyone else on the planet has ever touched fell with such force it cracked the windshield on the family's Nissan SUV, skidded across the hood and dented their garage door before landing on the ground, breaking into five fragments.

Second meteorite found near site of first space rock Hamilton Spectator Sat, 17 Oct 2009 01:35 AM PDT GRIMSBY (Oct 17, 2009) - Scientists have discovered a second golf ball-sized meteorite in the western part of this town, and say there could be many more pieces of a Sept. 25 fireball lying around the area.

4.6 bn-year-old meteorite hits Canadian town MalaysiaNews.net Sat, 17 Oct 2009 01:05 AM PDT Toronto, Oct 17 (IANS) What was believed to be an act of vandalism in a small Canadian town has actually turned out to be an act of a 4.6 billion-year-old meteorite.

Meteorite shatters car windshield in southern Ontario Canada.com Fri, 16 Oct 2009 20:48 PM PDT When Tony Garchinski saw five small chunks of black rock sitting on his driveway and the windshield of his mother Yvonneâs car shattered, he thought it was the work of vandals.

Ont. family finds 4.6-billion-year-old meteorite in truck's windshield Coast Reporter Fri, 16 Oct 2009 20:42 PM PDT GRIMSBY, Ont. - The Garchinski family of southwestern Ontario had thought vandals were responsible for a smashed windshield in their truck. After learning a 4.6-billion-year-old meteorite was instead to blame, they're thrilled to be at the centre of a rare scientific find.

Meteorite the culprit in act of supposed vandalism The Globe and Mail Fri, 16 Oct 2009 20:08 PM PDT After police investigated broken windshield of family's SUV, scientists determined meteorite fragments crashed down on Ontario home

âVandal' from outer space smashed family's SUV The Globe and Mail Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:42 PM PDT After police investigate broken windshield, scientists determine meteorite fragments crashed down on Ontario home

Space rock smashes windshield St. Catharines Standard Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:36 PM PDT The Grimsby meteorite has been found. But the space race is far from over, said Phil McCausland, an astrophysicist at the University of Western Ontario.[...]

`Vandal' from outer space
The Globe and Mail Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:12 PM PDT
After police investigate broken windshield of family's SUV, scientists determine meteorite fragments crashed down on Ontario home ...

Orionid meteor shower to peak on October 21

India Business Blog (blog)
by ANI on October 17, 2009 Perseid meteor shower to be best viewed on August 12 Washington, August 7 (ANI): Reports indicate that this year's best viewing ...

Intech looks to the cosmos

Hampshire Chronicle
Visitors were also given the chance to hold a meteorite and speak to astronomers. The venue also hosted school parties from across Hampshire. ...

Meteorite smashes windshield

United Press International
The meteorite's fireball lit up the sky over Ontario Sept. 25 with a light 100 times brighter than the moon. Researchers at the University of Western ...

Picture of the Day – Fireball Meteor Over Groningen

Space Fellowship
The brilliant fireball meteor captured in this snapshot was a startling visitor to Tuesday evening's twilight skies over the city of Groningen. ...

Orionid Meteor Shower Peaks Wednesday

News from the University of Texas at Austin
AUSTIN, Texas — The annual Orionid meteor shower will peak in the hours before dawn on Oct. 21, according to the editors of StarDate magazine, ...

Hawaii Meteor/Meteorite News- Lunar Volcanism Indicated in Meteorites 17OCT09

The Growing Diversity of Lunar Basalts

-- A lunar basaltic meteorite adds complicity to the already complicated story of mare basalt volcanism on the Moon.

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Meteor/Meteorite News- Paleogeographic maps for “World's Biggest Impact Crater” (??) 17OCT09

Paleogeographic maps for “World's Biggest Impact Crater” (??)

Saturday, October 17, 2009 9:53 PM

In “World's Biggest Impact Crater Discovered”,
(http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/meteorite-list/2009-October/057458.html

),

Carl wrote:

“Does anyone have a website of the various maps
of the world millions of years ago? Would come
in handy and give things a little more perspective,
I think. Where was India 65 m.y. ago?”

The maps that you are looking for can be found in

Wandrey, C. F., 1998, Bombay Geologic Province Eocene
to Miocene Composite Total Petroleum System, India.
United States Geological Survey Professional Paper
no. 2208-F

The PDF file of this publication can be found at:

http://pubs.usgs.gov/bul/2208/F/

http://pubs.usgs.gov/bul/2208/F/intro.html

http://pubs.usgs.gov/bul/2208/F/b2208-f.pdf

A few of many other pertinent references:

Basu, D. N., A. Banerjee, and D. M. Tamhane, 1980. Source
areas and migration trends of oil and gas in Bombay offshore
basin, India. Bulletin of American Association of Petroleum
Geologists. vol 64, no. 2, pp. 209-220.

Bhandari, L. L., and S. K. Jain, 1984, Reservoir Geology and
its role in the Development of the Bombay High Field, India.
Journal of Petroleum Geology. vol.7, no.1, pp. 27-46.

Gombos, A. M., Jr., W. G. Powell and I. O. Norton, 1995, The
tectonic evolution of western India and its impact on
hydrocarbon occurrences: an overview. Sedimentary Geology.
vol. 96, no. 1-2, pp. 119-129.

Mohan, M., 1985, Geohistory analysis of Bombay High region.
[Histoire géologique de la haute région de Bombay.] Marine and
Petroleum Geology. vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 350-360.

Naini B. R. , and M. Talwani, 1983, Structural framework and
the evolution history of the continental margin of western India. In
Studies in Continental Margin Geology, J. S. Watkins and C. L.
Drake, eds., pp. 167-191. Memoir no. 34. American Association
Petroleum Geologists, Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Subba Raju, L. V., K. A. K. Raju, V. Subrahmanyam, and D. G.
Rao, 1990, Regional Gravity and Magnetic Studies over the
Continental Margin of the Central West Coast of India.
Geo-Marine Letters. vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 31-36.

Rao, R. P. and S. N. Talukdar, 1980. Petroleum geology of
Bombay High Field, India. In Giant Oil Fields of the Decade,
1968-1978, M. T. Halbouty, ed., pp. 487-506, Memoir no. 30.
American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Tulsas,
Oklahoma.

Ramaswamy, G., and K. L. M. Rao, 1980, Geology of the
continental shelf of the west of India, In Facts and Principles
of World Petroleum Occurrences, A. D. Miall, ed., pp. 801-821.
Canadian Society Petroleum Geologists, Memoir no. 6.

Rathore, S. S, A. R. Vijan, M. P. Singh, B. N. Prabhu
and A. Sahu, 2004, Isotopic evidence of middle proterozoic
magmatism from bombay high field: Implications to crustal
evolution of western offshore of India. Journal of Earth
System Science. vol. 113, no. 1, pp. 27-36.

The Geological Society of America 2009 Annual Meeting
talk that this discussion refers to is:

Chatterjee, S., and N. M. Mehrotta, 2009, Significance of the
Contemporaneous Shiva Impact Structure and Deccan Volcanism
at the KT Boundary. Geological Society of America Abstracts
with Programs. vol. 41, no. 7, pp. 160,

http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2009AM/finalprogram/abstract_160197.htm

It is part of “Paleontology: Extinction & Turnover” at

http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2009AM/finalprogram/session_25248.htm

Yours

Paul H.

India Meteor/Meteorite News- Additional Material Related to “World's Biggest Impact Crater” (??) India 17OCT09

Additional Material Related to “World's Biggest Impact Crater” (??) India

Dr. Chatterjee explains the Seychelles-India break-up as the result
of a massive extraterrestrial impact in:

Chatterjee, S., and N. M. Mehrotta, 2009, Significance of the
Contemporaneous Shiva Impact Structure and Deccan Volcanism
at the KT Boundary. Geological Society of America Abstracts
with Programs. vol. 41, no. 7, pp. 160.

http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2009AM/finalprogram/abstract_160197.htm

The explanation for the Seychelles-India break-up as argued by the
majority of geologists is given in "Age of Seychelles-India break-up" at

http://www.mantleplumes.org/Seychelles.html

and in:

Collier, J. S., V. Sansom, O. Ishizuka, R. N. Taylor, T.A. Minshull
and R. B. Whitmarsh, 2008, Age of Seychelles–India break-up,
Earth and Planetary Science Letters. vol. 272, no. 1-2, pp. 264-277

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2008.04.045

Both the web page and paper have a list of other papers about
pertaining to the geology of the structure, which Chatterjee argues
to have been created by an asteroid impact.

There is a PDF file of a nonpneer-reviewed paper that discusses h
Chatterjee's hypthesis in greater length. It is:

Chatterjee, S., N. Guven, A. Yoshinobu, and P. Donofrio, 2006, Shiva
Structure: a possible KT boundary impact crater on the western shelf
of India.Special Publications, Museum Texas Tech University. no. 20.

http://www.depts.ttu.edu/gesc/Fac_pages/Yoshinobu/Published_pdfs

/Chatterjee%20et%20al.%202006.pdf

Yours,

Paul H.

Meteor/Meteorite News- LCROSS Debris Plume Photographed 17OCT09

LCROSS Debris Plume Photographed

LUNAR IMPACT PLUME: NASA has just released pictures of infrared flashes and a visible plume of debris produced by a Centaur booster rocket hitting the Moon on Oct. 9th. The images confirm that the LCROSS experiment was a success despite the fact that the impacts were visually unimpressive from Earth.

Visit http://spaceweather.com

for images of the plume and commentary from mission scientists.

Meteor/Meteorite News- Grimsby family shows off visitor from space

Grimsby family shows off visitor from space

http://www.thespec.com/News/Local/article/655154

Second meteorite found near site of first space rock

October 17, 2009

Mark McNeil
The Hamilton Spectator
GRIMSBY (Oct 17, 2009)

Scientists have discovered a second golf ball-sized meteorite in the western part of this town, and say there could be many more pieces of a Sept. 25 fireball lying around the area. ...

Meteor/Meteorite News- 17OCT'09

Vandalism proves to be meteorite damage Welland Tribune Now Yvonne and son Tony are the surprised owners of a new windshield -- and five tiny, black and silver fragments of shattered meteorite. ...

Orionid meteor shower to peak on October 21 Thaindian.com Washington, October 17 (ANI): Reports indicate that this year's Orionid meteor shower would peak on October 21, and could produce up to 20 meteors per hour. ...

Saturday Brew: Geographic Personality Profiling, Reference Library Reno ...

blogTO
The meteorite that I mentioned a few Saturdays ago has been found by a family living in Grimbsy, Ontario. They originally thought that the broken windshield ...

Meteorite shatters car windshield in southern Ontario

Ottawa Citizen
The meteorite landed in the yard of Grimsby, Ont. resident Tony Garchinski. GRIMSBY, Ont. — When Tony Garchinski saw five small chunks of black rock sitting ...

Southern Cross Stargazer

MiamiHerald.com
Maximum activity from the annual Orionid Meteor Shower occurs between midnight and dawn today. Glittering debris from the dust tail of long-gone Comet ...

Gifts From the Heavens and Sea in Quebec

New York Times
Some 350 million years ago, a huge meteorite collided with this part of what is now eastern Canada and created the roughly 2300 square miles of valleys and ...

Meteorite the culprit in act of supposed vandalism

Globe and Mail
Researchers are hoping that now this rock has been found and the public knows what a meteorite looks like, more will turn up. Because they found it – or, ...

Ont. family finds 4.6-billion-year-old meteorite in truck's windshield
The Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada News Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:00 PM PDT
GRIMSBY, Ont. - The Garchinski family of southwestern Ontario had thought vandals were responsible for a smashed windshield in their truck.

4.6-billion-year-old meteorite smashes windshield in Grimsby Toronto Star Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:22 PM PDT The Garchinski family had thought vandals were responsible for a smashed windshield in their truck.

Ont. Family At Centre Of Scientific Find; Meteorite Crashes Through Windshield CityNews Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:09 PM PDT A southwestern Ontario family has unwittingly found themselves at the centre of a rare scientific find.

Dino-killing crater crashed near India: Prof Dose Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:55 PM PDT An American professor says he has proof that the massive meteorite that killed the dinosaurs 65 million years ago actually crash-landed off India's west coast.

Grimsby family shows off visitor from space St. Catharines Standard Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:42 PM PDT Yvonne and Tony Garchinski are the proud new owners of five tiny meteorite fragments. They also have a new windshield, after the space rock smashed into their Pathfinder three weeks ago.[...]

Space rock smashes windshield St. Catharines Standard Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:41 PM PDT The Grimsby meteorite has been found. But the space race is far from over, said Phil McCausland, an astrophysicist at the University of Western Ontario.[...]

Meteorite from Sept. 25 fireball event recovered and presented PhysOrg Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:38 PM PDT When Tony Garchinski heard a loud crash just after 9 p.m. on Friday, September 25 he didn't think much of it. That is, until he awoke the next morning to find the windshield of his mom's Nissan Pathfinder with a huge crack in it. Making note of the 'unusual' rocks he later found on the car's hood, Garchinski chalked the incident up to vandalism and filed a police report.

Meteorite crashed into an SUV near Hamilton CTV Toronto Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:37 AM PDT Astronomers say they have found a meteorite fragment the size of a golf ball near Hamilton, which they believe streaked across the night sky above Southern Ontario in late September.

S. Ontario meteorite fragment hit SUV CBC.ca Fri, 16 Oct 2009 09:33 AM PDT Astronomers at the University of Western Ontario have recovered a golf-ball sized fragment of a meteorite that hit an SUV in southern Ontario.

Small meteorite broke windshield of SUV
Hamilton Spectator Fri, 16 Oct 2009 01:41 AM PDT
GRIMSBY (Oct 16, 2009) - Scientists say a golf ball-sized rock that smashed through the windshield of an SUV is a meteorite, possibly from a spectacular fireball that streaked across the sky above Hamilton three weeks ago.

Massive meteor impact off India—not Mexico—may have ended the Dinosaurs

Examiner.com
In comparison, the meteor that struck the Yucatan Peninsula which is commonly believed to have killed the dinosaurs was between 8 and 10 (5 and 6.2 miles) ...

Looking Up: Clouds come and go, but stars shine on

Norwich Bulletin
If you are tired of earthly showers, hopefully the clouds will part long enough for you to see the meteor shower that arrives every mid-October. ...

Dino-killing crater crashed near India: Prof

Vancouver Sun
A professor says the massive meteorite that killed off the dinosaurs 65 million years ago seems to have landed off the west coast of India. ...

4.6-billion-year-old meteorite smashes windshield in Grimsby

Toronto Star
After learning a 4.6-billion-year-old meteorite was instead to blame, they're thrilled to be at the centre of a rare scientific find. ...

Dinosaur-killing space rock may have landed near India

Vancouver Sun
An American professor says he has proof that the massive meteorite that killed the dinosaurs actually crash-landed off India's west coast. ...

Orionids Meteor Shower Starts This Weekend

National Geographic
Spawned by Halley's comet, which last buzzed the planet in 1986, tiny space rocks are the seeds of the annual Orionid meteor shower. ...

Meteorite crashed into an SUV near Hamilton

CTV.ca
Astronomers say they have found a meteorite fragment the size of a golf ball near Hamilton, which they believe streaked across the night sky above Southern ...

Strong Meteor Shower Peaks Wednesday Morning

Space.com
By Geoff Gaherty The Orionid meteor shower, one of the biggest and brightest of the year, is at its peak Wednesday morning, Oct. 21. ...

Tremendous fireball over the Netherlands Discover Magazine In general, meteorites from deep space are not hot, but this is a bit different; it would have fallen from a decaying orbit, meaning a slower speed and a ...

Moon rock lands in Norwich Norwich Evening News Youngsters from across the city will be able to get their hands on some moon rocks and meteorites at a Norwich science centre this half term. ...

S. Ontario meteorite fragment hit SUV

CBC.ca
Astronomers at the University of Western Ontario have recovered a golf-ball sized fragment of a meteorite from an SUV in southern Ontario. ...

Meteor/Meteorite News- Grimsby Ontario Bolide 16OCT09

Grimsby, Ontario bolide info
From: "Matson, Robert D." <ROBERT.D.MATSON@saic.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:16:08 -0700

At the beginning of the week I contacted Dr. Peter Brown at University
of Western
Ontario, letting him know that the Grimsby bolide terminal burst had
been captured
on NexRad Doppler radar images taken in Buffalo, New York. I created
several maps
of the radar returns at three different altitudes, showing that the
terminal burst
location is in perfect agreement with UWO's solution (triangulated from
seven
all-sky cameras). I shared this information with Dr. Tony Phillips at
SpaceWeather,
and he has provided links on his site to a couple of the radar images I
created:

http://www.spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=12&month=10&year=2009

A wide-area map is here:

http://www.spaceweather.com/swpod2009/13oct09/Grimsby_5100m.jpg

And a second map zoomed in on the terminal burst cloud is here:

http://www.spaceweather.com/swpod2009/13oct09/Grimsby_Zoom_5100m.jpg

As the filenames suggest, the Doppler beam altitude at this location was
a little
over 5 km, and the area covered is roughly a mile wide by 2 miles long.
(There
were also colocated radar returns at 6.5 km and 3.7 km, though the
largest
returns were at 5.1 km.) Judging from where meteorites were found in
Park
Forest and Ash Creek (West), I would expect a number of meteorites to be
found
directly beneath the strongest radar returns, with sizes generally
increasing
as you move to the east-southeast.

I have not yet seen any images of the purported golf-ball-sized
meteorite that
hit the SUV, nor do I know where this SUV was parked, so can't judge
whether
it's a legitimate possibility.

--Rob

Meteor/Meteorite News- Grimsby family shows off visitor from space 16OCT09

Grimsby family shows off visitor from space

Posted By Matthew Van Dongen, Standard Staff

The police report was half right.

When Yvonne Garchinski complained a stone-throwing vandal had smashed the windshield of her Nissan Pathfinder three weeks ago, the responding police officer wrote in his notes that the offending rock “was not from the property.” Try not from the planet. ...

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