25 October 2009

Meteor/Meteorite News- 25OCT09

Mercury directly opposite Earth on Nov. 5

Akron Beacon Journal
Two meteor showers occur in November. The South Taurids peak on Nov. 5 and the meteors are probably debris shed by Comet 2P/Encke. ...
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On the importance of dust

The Newark Advocate
The Orionids are a meteor shower associated with Halley's Comet, that "short period" comet which reminds us of the vastness of scale used by astronomers, ...
WHAT TO WATCH FOR

Orillia Packet & Times
I noticed a few early meteors from the Orionid meteor shower. Earth was just entering a stream of dusty debris from Halley's Comet. ...

Is there a conspiracy in this hyper hoaxed world?

Connecticut Post
Breathless newscasters on Fox Business and CNBC read the bogus items like they were announcing a meteor was about to hit the Earth. ...
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Demand Media – the Myspace of online content, or blogging by the numbers

The Inquisitr
It will be just like when that meteor hit the earth 65 million years ago, wiping out the dinosaurs and leaving nothing but rodents. ...
UberGizmo (blog)
Mobiado 350 Pioneer

UberGizmo (blog)
One of the more unique aspects of this phone is that the battery cover is literally made out of materials from the Gibeon meteorite, which was discovered in ...

'Healthy competition' leads to discovery of 3 more space rocks
St. Catharines Standard Fri, 23 Oct 2009 05:10 AM PDT
Meteorite hunters have dug up three more space rocks from the fireball that put Grimsby on the astronomical map last month. That brings the tally to four since scientists revealed last Thursday a rock that broke the windshield of a family's SUV in the town's west end was actually a fragment of 4.[...]

Fewer large asteroids- 24OCT09

Fewer large asteroids than as predicted


And now, from the pessimists...

A fine theory and simulation. A shame it doesn't
correspond in any way to reality. The impact rate
on terrestrial planets starts out very high at the
beginning of the solar system, declines for half
a billion years then rises again in a final flurry of
accretion and clean-up, at 3.9 billion years ago.
The rate declines in a fairly uniform manner
thereafter, but about 600-to-400 million years
ago, it suddenly climbs to a level not seen since
3.4 billion years ago, and it is STILL at that
higher level today.

This is from the actual impact record, not having-
fun-with-your-computer-model science kit. The
data is from impact spherules in the lunar regolith
and the graph of the impact rates throughout
time can be found on page 660 of:
http://muller.lbl.gov/papers/lunar_impacts_Nemesis.pdf


More information here:
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/ciencia/ciencia_nemesis08.htm


True, this researcher thinks it might be proof of
a big comet infall due to an undiscovered companion
small star to the Sun, but so what? It might be, but
the immediate mechanism is likely to be asteroidal
breakup.

The timing matches perfectly with the breakup of
the L-chondrite parent body, the largest asteroidal
breakup in the past few billion years or so. The
evidence and timing for that is presented here:
http://www.psrd.hawaii.edu/Mar04/fossilMeteorites.html


At about 480 million years ago (Ordovician times),
the meteorite fall rate on the Earth was 100 TIMES
GREATER than it is today, during the peak of that
breakup episode.

The history of the formation of the 50 or so asteroidal
families unambiguously identified does not match this
pretty little theory in the least. Reality is contingent,
accidental, and randomly chaotic, and NOT "well
described with a logarithmic decay law."

Source: Sterling K. Webb, USA

Meteor/Meteorite News- 24OCT09

Mobiado's Grand 350 Pioneer is fit for an extraterrestrial

engadget (blog)
The out-of-this-world spec sheet doesn't end there, though: you also get a meteorite embedded behind the display's sapphire crystal and etched text on the ...

More meteor chunks in Grimsby

Hamilton Spectator
GRIMSBY – Scientists and residents have now turned up four more meteorite chunks in west Grimsby. The University of Western Ontario Planetary Science and ...
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Star party planned for Saturday night

Deseret News
There also could be a meteor or two from the Orionids meteor shower, which is just ending. The star party goes from 6:30 to 10 pm There is no charge, ...
Jesus in Ikea -- The top 10 sightings of the son of God

Asylum
Jesus in a meteorite. The face of Jesus appeared in a meteorite which broke in two after smashing into eastern Russia in 1916. A keen-eyed scientist spotted ...

24 October 2009

Meteor/Meteorite News- NASA Mission to Study the Moon's Fragile Atmosphere 23OCT09

NASA Mission to Study the Moon's Fragile Atmosphere
NASA Science News
10.23.2009
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/23oct_ladee.htm



Oct. 23, 2009: Right now, the Moon is a ghost town. Nothing stirs.
Here and there, an abandoned Apollo rover - or the dusty base of a lunar
lander - linger as silent testimony to past human activity. But these
days, only occasional asteroid impacts disrupt the decades-long spell of
profound stillness.

And this stillness presents scientists with an important opportunity.

Currently, the Moon's tenuous atmosphere is relatively undisturbed. But
that won't be true for long. NASA is planning to return people to the
Moon, and human activity will kick up dust, expel rocket exhaust, and
release other gaseous emissions into the lunar atmosphere. Because the
atmosphere is so thin, these disturbances could quickly swamp its
natural composition.

If scientists are ever to know the lunar atmosphere in a relatively
natural state, now is the time to look. So researchers are building a
probe called the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE)
that will orbit the Moon and measure its wispy atmosphere better than
ever before.

"It's important that we understand it in its pristine state before
there's much perturbation," says Anthony Colaprete of NASA's Ames
Research Center in Moffett Field, California. "It's such a fragile
system. It's possible that it will be hard to study once humans are once
more living and working on the Moon."

*Thinner than thin*

Right about now, you might be thinking to yourself: "Hold on a second. I
thought the Moon doesn't have an atmosphere!" And you would be almost
correct. The Moon's "atmosphere" is so tenuous that it's technically
considered an exosphere, not an atmosphere.

"It's not anything like an atmosphere we would think of," Colaprete
says. For example, a cubic centimeter of Earth's atmosphere at sea level
contains about 100 billion /billion/ molecules. That same volume of the
Moon's exosphere contains only about 100 molecules.

In fact, that's so thin that molecules in the lunar exosphere almost
never collide with each other. Rather than constantly ricocheting off
each other to create a cohesive, swarming mass of molecules as happens
in Earth's atmosphere, molecules in the lunar exosphere fly unimpeded,
like microscopic cannon balls following curved, ballistic trajectories.

And the weirdness of the exosphere doesn't stop there. During the lunar
night, the Moon's exosphere mostly falls to the ground. (Just imagine if
our atmosphere fell to the ground at night!) When sunlight returns, the
solar wind kicks up new particles to replenish the exosphere.

Also, intense ultraviolet sunlight kicks electrons off particles in the
lunar soil, giving those particles an electric charge that can cause
them to levitate. Ambient electric fields lift these charged dust
particles as high as kilometers above the surface, forming an important
part of the exosphere.

Lunar astronauts will have to live and work in this bizarre environment,
so scientists want a better picture of the exosphere and its odd
behaviors. Levitating dust can get into equipment, spacesuits, and
computers, causing damage and shortening the hardware's useful life. In
fact, moondust wrecked havoc with the Apollo spacesuits, which were
nearly threadbare by the time they returned to Earth. Knowing how much
dust is floating around in the exosphere and how it behaves will help
engineers design next-generation lunar hardware.

After it launches in 2012, LADEE's spectrometers and dust detectors will
measure the concentrations of 18 different chemicals in the exosphere,
including methane and water vapor. These sensors will document how those
chemicals vary, both from place to place and over time.

Beyond the inherent scientific value of understanding the
chemical makeup of the Moon's exosphere, knowing how chemicals move
within the exosphere could help answer a question of keen interest to
future human habitants: How could the Moon have frozen reserves of water?

Evidence suggests that the Moon might harbor stores of ice in deep, dark
polar craters. On the lunar surface, fierce sunlight would quickly
sublimate any ice and the vapors would drift off into space. But a deep
dark crater, combining unimaginable cold with an absence of sunlight,
could provide a safe-haven for frozen water.

A popular idea is that icy comets brought water to the Moon in a series
of ancient impacts. But there's a problem: Even if a comet landed in one
of those dark polar craters by sheer luck, the heat of impact would
evaporate most of the ice. So how could significant amounts of ice
accumulate?

The Moon's exosphere could help.

Suppose a comet hits the Moon and leaves some H_2 O molecules on the
exposed surface. That water could survive by, essentially, leaping to
safety. Water molecules could "jump" across the lunar surface by
escaping into the exosphere and later be recaptured by the surface as
the exosphere breathes in and out. Individual water molecules could move
around in this way until they land in one of the dark polar craters,
where they would accumulate as solid ice.

Data from LADEE should show whether this "jumping" process works in a
way that could explain how cometary ice could have found its way into
those craters. "We can estimate the likelihood that the water on the
Moon is cometary in origin," Colaprete says.

So much information from such a trifling amount of atmosphere! Stay
tuned for results from LADEE.

Author: Patrick Barry | Editor: Dr. Tony Phillips
Credit: Science@NASA

Quaternary Period - Pleistocene Epoch Changed- 23OCT09

Start of Quaternary Period - Pleistocene Epoch Now 2.58 Million Years Ago

End of an Era: New Ruling Decides the Boundaries of Earth's
History, September 22, 2009

http://www.physorg.com/news172824857.html


After decades of debate and four years of investigation an
international body of earth scientists has formally agreed
to move the boundary dates for the prehistoric Quaternary
age by 800,000 years, reports the Journal of Quaternary
Science.

The paper is:

Gibbard et al., 2009, Formal ratification of the Quaternary
System/Period and the Pleistocene Series/Epoch with a
base at 2.58 Ma. Journal of Quaternary Science.

http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/122602421/abstract


Source: Paul H., USA

Meteor/Meteorite News- 23OCT09

Brandenburger macht hauptberuflich Jagd auf Meteoriten

ShortNews.de - Germany
Wann immer irgendwo ein Meteorit auf die Erde niedergeht, macht sich der Brandenburger Thomas Grau auf die Suche. Der Märker ist der einzige ...

More Chunks of SUV-Smashing Meteorite Found

Universe Today
Three golf ball-sized fragments have been found from a meteorite that created a brilliant fireball seen over Ontario, Canada on September 25, 2009. ...
War of the Worlds' to be performed at Stage West

Tampa Tribune
Suddenly, a meteorite lands in Grover's Mill, New Jersey. As a crowd gathers, the meteorite unscrews, and onlookers see a pulsating, barely moving Martian. ...

Country Cousin

Peshtigo Times
If the skies clear up we're being treated this week to a meteor shower from Orion's belt. Well, not really, but astronomers tell us the annual Orionid ...
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PAGE 2 news notes for Oct. 22

Enterprise News
Astronomers assure us that you can see dozens of meteors per hour if you are willing to set the alarm extra early Friday morning. The Orionid meteor shower ...

Exploding Fireball Rattles European Windows

Earthweek - A Diary of the Planet
The disintegrating meteor created a sonic boom followed by low rumbles that rattled windows across the region. Amateur photographer Robert Mikaelyan had ...
Space debris in Grimsby!

CKTB
According to Phil McCausland from the University of Western Ontario Planetary Science and Exploration Department, the original golf-ball sized meteorite ...

Resident suspects he saw meteor hit park

Jackson Hole Daily
Although he had on his high beams, the amateur astronomer could see the reddish sparks flying from what he has concluded was a meteor. ...

More Chunks of SUV-Smashing Meteorite Found
Universe Today Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:18 PM PDT
Three golf ball-sized fragments have been found from a meteorite that created a brilliant fireball seen over Ontario, Canada on September 25, 2009. The first meteorite fragment recovered did some damage to the windshield of a Nissan Pathfinder, and now two other fragments have been found on nearby properties. The meteor made headlines [...]


'Healthy competition' leads to discovery of 3 more space rocks
St. Catharines Standard Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:40 PM PDT
Meteorite hunters have dug up three more space rocks from the fireball that put Grimsby on the astronomical map last month. That brings the tally to four since scientists revealed last Thursday a rock that broke the windshield of a family's SUV in the town's west end was actually a fragment of 4.[...]

Three more space rocks found in Grimsby
Welland Tribune Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:19 PM PDT
GRIMSBY â Meteorite hunters have dug up three more space rocks from the fireball that put Grimsby on the astronomical map last month.[...]

Grimsby meteorite finds are âworldwide newsâ
Niagara This Week Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:06 PM PDT
Hot on the trail of the meteorite fallout from a fireball that lit up the Lake Ontario skies, scientists, meteorite hunters and media have converged on the Grimsby area in search of the 4.6 billion-year-old black, burned rocks. ...

Meteor shower tonight! Orionid meteor shower begins at 1 am

Christian Science Monitor
Meteor shower tonight? Yep, peak viewing times for the Orionid meteor shower begins tonight (er... tomorrow) at 1 am. By Jimmy Orr | 10.20.09 Are you ready ...

Another Automatic Date Win: Tonight's Meteor Shower

BlackBook Magazine
Did you miss the last meteor shower? If so, the skies are giving you a another chance to gaze at the heavens while a dazzling display of meteors zoom by ...

The Passions of Meteorite Seekers

Science Magazine (subscription)
Cokinos weaves together an account of meteorites, a history of meteorite hunters, and his own travels in the footsteps of collectors and researchers. ...

More meteorite chunks discovered

Western News
The pair are wearing gloves to protect the meteorite.aptiontexthere “The response from the media and the people of Grimsby has really driven this hunt,” ...

Orionid Meteor Shower Continues To Enchant Stargazers

Thaindian.com
By Gina Gomez Oct 22, (THAINDIAN NEWS) For the last few days, meteor shower have became quite a spectacle view in the night sky, which proves to be quite an ...

Meteor shower October 22 and Orionid meteor shower October 2009

Khabrein.info
It is going to be a superb opportunity to view the falling meteor from the sky. It is said that the best time for viewing meteors during October on 21st and ...

23 October 2009

Meteor/Meteorite News- Grimbsy Meteorite 22OCT09

Grimsby meteorite finds are ‘worldwide news’
By Joanne McDonald
Grimsby
Oct 21, 2009
Hot on the trail of the meteorite fallout from a fireball that lit up the Lake Ontario skies, scientists, meteorite hunters and media have converged on the Grimsby area in search of the 4.6 billion-year-old black, burned rocks.

The count is up to three meteorites now found and there are estimates that dozens, maybe hundreds of pieces may be strewn across a path in the immediate area since the rocks rained down Sept. 25. ... (more)


http://www.niagarathisweek.com/news/communities/Regional/article/283476

Siberian Extinction 250mya- 22OCT09

Siberian volcanism 'wiped out world's forests' 250m years ago

Siberian volcano 'wiped out world's forests' 250m years ago
A huge Siberian volcano destroyed the world's forests 250
million years ago in what scientists say was the worst extinction
event the planet has ever witnessed, new research has disclosed.
Telegraph, UK,

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/6253147/Siberian-volcano-wiped-out-worlds-forests-250m-years-ago.html


Sephton, M. A., H. Visscher, C. V. Looy, A. B. Verchovsky,and J. S.
Watson, 2009, Chemical constitution of a Permian-Triassic disaster
species. Geology. vol. 37, pp. 875-878, doi:10.1130/G30096A.1

http://geology.gsapubs.org/content/37/10/875.abstract


Source: Paul H., USA

meteor/Meteorite News- 22OCT09

Make way for meteors! The Orionids are coming!

Christian Science Monitor
It's expected to peak about then, with perhaps as many as 60 or more meteors an hour flitting across the sky. Trace their streaks of light backward. ...

Meteor shower October 2009

番禺网
The Orionid meteor shower, a trail of debris left in space by Halley's Comet, was at its most intense in the early hours of Wednesday. ...

Remainders — Things We Didn't Post

Gizmodo Australia
[BGR] Did you guys know the Orionid meteor shower is tonight? I bet you did. You're a smart bunch. I bet I don't even have to tell you that the Orionid ...

For Tampa Bay, this meteor shower will be hard to see

Tampabay.com
By Brant James, Times Staff Writer Maybe you've heard about the Orionid meteor shower that is lighting up the pre-dawn skies. If you live in the Tampa Bay ...

Three more space rocks found in Grimsby
St. Catharines Standard Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:50 PM PDT
Meteorite hunters have dug up three more space rocks from the fireball that put Grimsby on the astronomical map last month. That brings the tally to four since scientists revealed last Thursday a rock that broke the windshield of a familyâs SUV in the townâs west end was actually a fragment of 4.[...]


SPACE PHOTOS THIS WEEK: Test Rocket, Moon Plume, More
National Geographic Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:40 AM PDT
Get an astronaut's-eye view of a volcanic eruption, examine a newfound Martian meteorite, see proof that a NASA craft smashed into the moon, and more in the week's best space pictures.

Opportunity Finds Another Meteorite on Mars
SpaceRef Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:29 PM PDT
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has found a rock that apparently is another meteorite, less than three weeks after driving away from a larger meteorite that the rover examined for six weeks.

Three more space rocks found in Grimsby

St. Catharines Standard
Meteorite hunters have dug up three more space rocks from the fireball that put Grimsby on the astronomical map last month. That brings the tally to four ...

Geologists analyzing Shiva crater on west coast

Times of India
The 40-km wide crater is thought to have been formed by a meteorite that crashed into the Earth 65 million years ago. The meteorite was travelling at 58000 ...

5 Things to Do This Weekend (Oct. 23-25)

Nebraska City News Press
An Orionid meteor streaking across the sky below the Milky Way and to the right of Venus. The zodiacal light can also be seen in the image. ...
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Algae: A key player in mass extinctions?

United Press International
Castle said nutrient-rich fallout from a volcano eruption or meteor impact lands in the water and becomes food for algae. The algae explode in population, ...
What's the buzz on the Orionid meteor shower last night?

Christian Science Monitor
Peak viewing time for the Orionid meteor shower occurred late last night and early this morning. By Jimmy Orr | 10.21.09 So how was the Orionid meteor ...

The 2009 Orionid Meteor Shower

NASA
The false-color images above are composite images from 2009 Orionids meteor shower observations, as seen in the skies over Huntsville, Ala. ...


Perfect October weather ... until Friday

Baltimore Sun
Counts will be declining for the rest of the week, but the meteor-watching should still be worthwhile. Best time to look? In the hours before dawn.

Meteor shower tonight: Orionids

Examiner.com
The Orionid meteor shower tonight is a continuation of the Earth's passage through the debris of Halley's Comet. Bill Cooke of NASA's Meteorid Environment ...

Starwatch: Dolphin swims into sky

Post-Bulletin
The Orionid meteor peaks this week, especially Tuesday and Wednesday morning. The earth this week is passing through a debris trail left behind by Halley's ...

22 October 2009

Sudbury Impact- New Papers 21OCT09

The Sudbury impact layer in the Paleoproterozoic of northern Michigan, USA

Cannon, W. F., K. J. Schulz, J. Wright Horton, Jr., and
David A. Kring, 2009, The Sudbury impact layer in the
Paleoproterozoic iron ranges of northern Michigan, USA.
Geological Society of America Bulletin. Ahead of Print,
September 25, 2009

http://gsabulletin.gsapubs.org/content/early/2009/09/24/B26517.1.abstract


Pufahl, P. K., Eric E. Hiatt, Clifford R. Stanley, Jared
R. Morrow, Gabriel J. Nelson, and Cole T. Edwards, 2009,
Physical and chemical evidence of the 1850 Ma Sudbury
impact event in the Baraga Group, Michigan, Geology.
vol. 35, no. 9, pp. 827-830.

http://geology.geoscienceworld.org/cgi/content/abstract/35/9/827


http://www.uwosh.edu/faculty_staff/hiatt/Research/Early_ocean/Pufahl_Ejecta_9_07.pdf

http://www.uwosh.edu/faculty_staff/hiatt/Research/Early_oceans.html


Source: Paul H., USA

meteor/Meteorite News- 21OCT09

Телефон, изработен от метеорит

HiComm - София,Bulgaria
Луксозен мобилен телефон, при изработката на който е използван материал от паднал на Земята метеорит, пусна компанията Mobiado. Моделът се нарича Grand 350 ...

In the Tent: Morning shower

Aspen Times
(I learned only later of the ongoing Orionid Meteor Shower, which is expected to peak early this morning — so take a look if you're up early. ...

Nunavut a haven for geology

Northern News Services (subscription)
Nunavut is also a good place for locating meteorites, Beauregard said. "There has even been a meteorite or two," he said. Photos of a possible meteorite ...

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 ...

21 October 2009

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 ...
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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 ...

20 October 2009

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. ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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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/