Meteor/Meteorite News 25JUN2010

This day in history: June 24

WKOW-TV.com
1938 - Pieces of a meteor, estimated to have weighed 450 metric tons when it hit the Earth's atmosphere and exploded, land near Chicora, Pennsylvania. ...

Meteor Party! David Levy's Leonids | LiveScience

Come to a special invitation-only star party: this one's all about meteors. Dave Brody reports from David Levy's Jarnac observatory in Arizona as the Leonid ...

Bootids to illuminate sky in minor meteor shower Indiana Daily Student By IDS Reports | IDS Meteor shower enthusiasts can search the skies tonight for the June Bootids, a group of meteors that have not been seen since 2004. ... See all stories on this topic

Life at the SETI Institute: Meet Dr. Peter Jenniskens -- Video Huffington Post (blog) He is an expert on meteor showers and on the natural and artificial atmospheric entry of objects from space. He aims to give meteors and fireballs their ...

Crater gets inspected Odessa American BY GEOFF FOLSOM Heather Germaine didn't anticipate the Odessa Meteor Crater having a tough time passing its inspection Wednesday. ...

Route 66 attractions in Arizona Helium Meteor Crater- At 4000 ft in diameter and 570 ft deep, Meteor Crater is truly a spectacle. The crater is located not far from Winslow, AZ. ...

Video The Importance of Studying Meteorite Components

Learn about the importance of studying extraterrestrial molecules and meteorite components.
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Brazilian Meteorite Story in the Press about 19JUN2010 Fall

SRZD

Meteorito é encontrado no Noroeste do estado

SRZD - ‎2 時間前‎

... da Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense (Uenf) analisaram uma pedra encontrada em uma propriedade rural e concluíram que se trata de um meteorito. ...

Pedra que seria meteorito é encontrada no interior do Rio
G1.com.br

Brazil Meteor Fireball Produces Meteorites 23JUN2010

Brazil Daylight Meteor Fireball of June 19 Produces Meteorites
posted by LunarMeteoriteHunter (c) - Tokyo, Japan 23JUN2010 11:00 AM
(story embargoed until 10:00PM 13:00GMT 23JUN2010)

































Photos and credits:
Wellington Rangel (Clube de Astronomia Louis Cruls/ Instituto Federal Fluminense)/ Astronomers Without Borders

A ~600 gram meteorite fell about 15 meters from a ranch hand in Varre-Sai, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil on June 19, 2010. The images show the meteorite and how it was found (though it was picked up first, and then replaced for the TV camera). The person talking to the reporter is Prof. Marcelo Souza, Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense, in Campos. The interview will be aired on Brazilian TV today.


Near Hit!
There is an interesting follow-up to the daylight meteor fireball in Brazil of June 19, 2010. At about 21.00 UT, a ranch hand (name withheld) saw the fireball and heard explosions, after which something fell about 15 meters away from him in a pasture. He walked over to the spot and picked up a 600 gram meteorite that had just fallen from the sky. He saw others fall at about the same time nearby but hasn't been able to find them yet. He commented that the air had a "strong smell of iron".
The meteorite appears to be an ordinary chondrite with both primary and secondary fusion crust. I expect several more meteorites to be found from this fall based upon eyewitness reports. The local university and others will be joining the hunt today and in the coming days; stay tuned-in for more.

Have information about this meteorite fall or others? Please email drtanuki@gmail.com


Previously reported:

Brazil Daytime Fireball
A daytime fireball with sonic booms was reported by many people in Campos dos Goytacazes, Brazil on June 19 at about 21.00 UT. A local astronomy and physics professor, Prof. Marcelo Souza, was contacted by the fire department and others for explanation.


Map of the Campos dos Goytacazes area in Brazil:
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=-21.742918,-41.32782&spn=1.035766,1.796265&z=10

Meteor/Meteorite News 23JUN2010

NMSU Building System To Track Meteors

KRWG 90.7
The $825000 award will fund the development of a field network of an all-sky camera system intended to monitor, track and analyze atmospheric meteors and ...

Mammoth-Belch Deficit Caused Prehistoric Cooling?
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Video The Importance of Studying Meteorite Components

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Not for Public Display: Backstage at the American Museum of Natural History

Wired News
By Betsy Mason and Jonathan Snyder The American Museum of Natural History is known for the biggest chunk of meteorite on display in any museum: The ...

Meteor/Meteorite News 21JUN2010

EYE ON RESEARCH: Upward-looking camera systems yield information about ...

Las Cruces Sun-News
The camera unit is used along with numerous other similar cameras to provide a ground-based, all-sky camera network to monitor natural meteor events and to ...

Japan Space Program Shines with Hayabusa, IKAROS Success

TIME - ‎9 時間前‎

(See pictures of meteor strikes on Earth.) Scientists at both NASA and JAXA say it's likely the Hayabusa has returned at least some asteroid material, and ...

Not a Comet, but Fungus, Fire and Fecal Pellets

Astrobiology Magazine
New findings challenge a theory that a meteor explosion or impact thousands of years ago caused catastrophic fires over much of North America and Europe and ...

Meteor shower to wreck Hubble Space Telescope, ISS

Hindustan Times
The Hubble Space Telescope and the International Space Station could suffer heavy damage from the worst meteor storm in over a decade, NASA has warned. ...

Are We Overlooking Alien Beacons?

Discovery News
Last week Hubble Space Telescope images definitively showed that the bright flash of light seen on Jupiter was simply a meteor. Albeit, a blinding bright ...

Brazil Daytime Fireball 19JUN2010

Brazil Daytime Fireball
A daytime fireball with sonic booms reported by many people in Campos dos Goytacazes [Guaytocazes?], Brazil at on June 19 at about 21.00 UT. A local astronomy expert was contacted by the fire department and others for explanation. No other information is available at this time.
Source: Astronomers Without Borders- M.S.

If you have any information please leave a comment. Thank you.

Map of area in Brazil:
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=-21.742918,-41.32782&spn=1.035766,1.796265&z=10

Meteor/Meteorite News 18JUN2010

Meteorite owner unsure what to do with it
ABC via Yahoo!7 News Thu, 17 Jun 2010 16:45 PM PDT
A property owner from south-west Queensland has been declared the rightful owner of a 25 kilogram meteorite. ...

National Geographic Meteor Caused Jupiter Flash, Hubble Reveals National Geographic Hubble findings suggest that a flash seen on Jupiter was caused by a meteor, not an asteroid or comet. A mysterious flash of light seen on Jupiter early ... FEMA Releases Prep Guide for an Extinction-sized Meteorite Impact Glossy News (satire) WASHINGTON DC (GlossyNews) — The thought of an approaching meteor the size of Manhattan is certain to cause anyone a fair amount of anxiety. ... Stone cold serious fight for 'space rock' Daily Telegraph Thu, 17 Jun 2010 14:14 PM PDT ROCKÂ kept in secret location under lock, key and alarm as landowners fight for "meteorite"...

Row over 'space rock' settled The Courier Mail Thu, 17 Jun 2010 07:01 AM PDT A PECULIAR-shaped rock at the centre of a long-running custody battle has finally found itself a home. Find out who the meteorite is going home with....

Landowner wins custody battle for meteorite ABC via Yahoo!7 News Thu, 17 Jun 2010 00:35 AM PDT A magistrate has handed down his ruling in a lengthy legal dispute over a meteorite that landed in south-west Queensland....

Custody battle over who owns meteorite
ABC via Yahoo!7 News Wed, 16 Jun 2010 20:15 PM PDT
A magistrate in south-west Queensland is today considering a custody dispute over a meteorite. ...

Fossil evidence challenges Younger Dryas Impact theory

Oneindia
Washington, June 17 (ANI): A new study has found evidence against a theory, which claimed that a meteor explosion or impact thousands of years ago caused ...
NASA telescope solves mystery of light flash on Jupiter

Albuquerque Express
The flash of light came from a giant meteor that was burning high above Jupiter's cloud tops. The meteor didn't enter the atmosphere deep enough to explode ...

How are Craters Formed?

Discovery News
When a meteor makes it through Earth's atmosphere without burning up, it strikes the ground faster than the speed of sound. “Something we don't understand ...

Meteor storm from passing comet could threaten spacecraft

Christian Science Monitor
A meteor storm predicted for next year could imperil satellites and the space station, say NASA experts. Meteors from Leonid meteor shower streak across the ...

Hubble: Jupiter 'Flash' Caused by Meteor, Not Fireball : Big Pic ...

Three days after the June 3 Jupiter "flash", the Hubble Space Telescope took a closer look at the site. It didn't find any trace of an impact leading.
news.discovery.com/space/big-pic-hubble-jupiter-flash.html


NASA Prepares for Potentially Damaging 2011 Meteor Shower

The meteor shower risk assessment is actually more art than science, ... The yearly Draconids are not known for their bright meteor displays, Cooke said. ...

Crackpot YD Impact Hypothesis Gets a Whack

CBS News

Scientists: Earth Catastrophic Meteor Theory Wrong

CBS News
About 12900 years ago, a very large meteor hurtling through space either slammed into the Earth or exploded in in the atmosphere, obliterating most of North ...

Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 17JUN2010

'Ball of fire' still a mystery

Journal Pioneer - Colin Maclean - 15 hours ago

A mysterious ball of fire that crashed into a farmer's field here Saturday has attracted the attention of a meteorite expert. Dr. Robert Hawkes, professor ...

Journal Pioneer

Museum Marks Historic Partnership with Tribes of Grand Ronde

02:10 - Today youtube.com

B. Cullman Hall of the Universe, and affirming the Museum's role in maintaining public access to it. ... museum meteorite "grand ronde" oregon "willamette meteorite" space ...

youtube.com

What whacked Jupiter A giant meteor Spacecom msnbccom

Scientists say a huge meteor created the fireball that was spotted on Jupiter two weeks ago, and they also explain what happened to some of the giant ...

Mysterious Flash on Jupiter Left No Debris Cloud

HubbleSite
It came from a giant meteor burning up high above Jupiter's cloud tops. The space visitor did not plunge deep enough into the atmosphere to explode and ...

SPACEcom Giant Meteor Caused Jupiter Fireball Scientists Say

The mystery fireball that smacked into Jupiter on June 3 has been identified as a big meteor that plunged into the planet's atmosphere and burned up high ...

Rare meteorites to be displayed at PARI in Rosman

Asheville Citizen-Times
ROSMAN — The public is invited to a special meteorite presentation by Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute President Don Cline on July 9. ...

Space.com

NASA Prepares for Potentially Damaging 2011 Meteor Shower

Space.com
By Leonard David NASA is assessing the risk to spacecraft posed by the upcoming 2011 Draconid meteor shower, a seven-hour storm of tiny space rocks that has ...

Eerste hands-on 3DS!

NZone - ‎22 時間前‎

... je NOG beter ziet hoe je lasers en bommen gaan vliegen, plus dat je mooi kan inschatten hoe ver die ene vijand of meteoriet nog van je vandaan is. ...

Maan bevat iets meer water dan gedacht

NU.nl - ‎2010年6月14日‎

Vervolgonderzoek aan een ander bodemmonster en een op aarde gevonden meteoriet die van de maan afkomstig is, bevestigt dat resultaat. ...

Sigmar Polke (1941-2010) overleden

NRC Handelsblad - ‎2010年6月12日‎

Hij gebruikte exotische materialen als gemalen meteoriet, maar ook zilver en bladgoud. Kijkend naar zijn schilderijen kreeg je vaak het gevoel dat het ...

Lapan Ragukan Ledakan Misterius di Tangerang Karena Meteor

Tempo Interaktif - ‎2010年6月10日‎

"Saya meragukan jika benda yang jatuh itu adalah meteorit atau sampah antariksa lainnya," ujar Profesor Riset Bidang Astronomi di Pusat Since Antariksa ...

Sfârşitul lumii aşa cum o ştim

Romania Libera - ‎2010年6月14日‎

În fiecare secol un meteorit de 10 metri cade pe Pământ cu forţa unui dispozitiv nuclear de mici dimensiuni. Tunguska a fost ultimul loc, în 1908, ...

Mesosiderite, Teil 4: NWA 1827

myheimat.de - ‎2010年6月10日‎

Dieser Meteorit wurde 2003 in Marokko gefunden. Seine Gesamtmasse beträgt 877 Gramm, von denen 20 Gramm an der University of Washington, 1 Gramm am Center ...

Pallasite, Teil 1: Admire

myheimat.de - ‎2010年6月12日‎

Dieser Meteorit wurde 1881 in Illinois, USA gefunden, wobei über den genauen Ort keine Klarheit herrscht. Er wurde erst 1962 analysiert und als Pallasit ...

Meteor/Meteorite News 16JUN2010

June meteors will streak through the sky

Astronomy Magazine
The Boötid meteor shower could put on a nice show June 23, although the meteors must contend with moonlight. Astronomy: Roen Kelly [View Larger Image] ...

Farm fire not caused by meteorite
CBC.ca Tue, 15 Jun 2010 10:24 AM PDT
A meteorite expert says a strange ball of fire that landed in a Prince Edward Island farmer's field last Saturday was not from a meteor. ..

Meteor nears Earth in 2029 8 hours ago - The asteroid now called the Apophis was tracked by Russia and expected to come very close to being an Earth meteor on April 13th, 2029 and again in 2036. www.examiner.com/x-30093-Toronto-Science-News-Examiner~y2010m1d2-Meteor-nears-Earth-in-2029 NEW CU-BOULDER STUDY INDICATES AN ANCIENT OCEAN MAY HAVE COVERED ONE-THIRD OF MARS A vast ocean likely covered one-third of the surface of Mars some 3.5 billion years ago, according to a new study conducted by University of Colorado at Boulder scientists. ...

Moon may have more water than believed

msnbc.com
For this new study, the researchers were able to compare their calculations to analyses of samples of Apollo moon rocks and a lunar meteorite from Africa. ...

Meteorite exhibition opens at the Museum of Technology in Warsaw, Poland
The exhibition is open from 1 June for three months.
http://www.woreczko.pl/meteorites/exhibitions/Warsaw2010/indeks.htm

Astro Bob blog: Florida man uncovers possible Earth-related meteorite

Duluth News Tribune
A meteorite hunter has brought to light a meteorite that may once have come from Earth. Meteorite enthusiast Greg Hupe holds a small meteorite he found from ...

Japan Meteor/Meteorite News 14JUN2010

Hayabusa asteroid-sample capsule recovered in Outback

By Jonathan Amos
Science correspondent, BBC News
The Japanese space capsule which landed in the Australian Outback on Sunday night (local time) has been recovered. The Hayabusa pod was picked up by a helicopter team and transferred to a control centre on the Woomera Prohibited Area. The canister, which is believed to hold the first samples ever grabbed from the surface of an asteroid, will now be shipped to Tokyo. ... [more]
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science_and_environment/10307048.stm

Raw Video: Probe Returns After Going to Asteroid

Posted on YouTube by AssociatedPress — [259 views] 2010年06月14日
— A Japanese capsule returned to Earth overnight after a seven-year, 4 billion-mile journey, burning apart on re-entry in a spectacular fireball. This is the first time a spacecraft successfully landed on an asteroid and returned to Earth. (June 14) ...

Asteroid mission returns to Earth (13/6/2010)

Posted on YouTube by UFOReportLive — [77 views] 2010年06月14日
— A capsule thought to contain the first samples grabbed from the surface of an asteroid has returned to Earth. The Japanese Hayabusa container hit the top of the atmosphere just after 1350 GMT, producing a bright fireball over southern Australia. It had a shield to cope with the heat of re-entry and a parachute for the final drop to the ground.
A recovery team later reported they had identified the landing zone in the Woomera Prohibited Range. BBC Science Correspondent Jonathan Amos describes the capsule's dramatic re-entry. Japanese space probe returns to Earth (14/6/2010)- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQAbFv...

Meteor/Meteorite News 14JUN2010

AFP

Scientists scramble for Japanese asteroid capsule

AFP
The pod, which was ejected from a Japanese space probe as it burned up in a spectacular meteor-like display over Australia, could hold the first piece of ...


「はやぶさ」大気圏突入、６０億キロの旅帰還

　【グレンダンボ（オーストラリア南部）＝本間雅江】宇宙航空研究開発機構の小惑星探査機「はやぶさ」が１３日夜、７年に及ぶ旅を終え、地球に帰還 した。 飛行した距離は、地球―太陽間の４０倍にあたる６０億キロ・メートルで、満身創痍(そ うい)の奇跡 ...

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/science/news/20100613-OYT1T00818.htm

Capsule plunges to Earth after historic visit to asteroid
BY STEPHEN CLARK, SPACEFLIGHT NOW June 13, 2010
Cutting across the night sky at more than 27,000 mph, a small Japanese
capsule returned to Earth from the surface of an asteroid Sunday and
landed in the remote Australian outback.
The 16-inch-wide capsule plunged into the atmosphere over Australia at
1351 GMT (9:51 a.m. EDT) on the second-fastest re-entry of a manmade
spacecraft ever attempted. ...
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n1006/13hayabusaentry/

NASA Team Captures Hayabusa Spacecraft Reentry- YouTube Video

Posted on YouTube by nasaames — [202 views] 2010年06月13日
— A group of astronomers from NASA, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and other organizations had a front row seat to observe the Hayabusa spacecraft's fiery plunge into Earth's atmosphere. The team flew aboard NASA's DC-8 airborne laboratory, packed with cameras and other imaging instruments, to capture the high-speed re-entry over an unpopulated area of central Australia on June 13, 2010. The Japanese spacecraft completed its seven-year, 1.25 billion mile journey to return a sample of the asteroid Itokawa. ...

The end of the world as we know it

Independent
Every century or so, a 10-meter meteor slams into the Earth with the force of a small nuclear device. Tunguska was the site of the last, in 1908, ...

Do You Have a Moon Rock?
FoxNews.com
June 13, 2010 - 3:04 PM | by: Michael Sorrentino
Former NASA Special Investigator and college professor Joseph Gutheinz is on a mission. He set out years ago to recover the missing "Goodwill Moon Rocks" that were given to all 50 states and more than 100 countries by the Nixon ...
http://liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com/2010/06/13/do-you-have-a-moon-rock/

Pasco man says rock collection holds discovery

TheNewsTribune.com
Calvert claims the hole proves the rock had to have been made of compacted comet dust, not a meteor that would be more dense and unlikely to have a hole ... [hoax]

Meteor/Meteorite News 11JUN2010

Jupiter Impact: Mystery of the Missing Debris
NASA Science News
June 11, 2010: On June 3rd, 2010, something hit Jupiter. A comet or
asteroid descended from the black of space, struck the planet's
cloudtops, and disintegrated, producing a flash of light so bright it
was visible in backyard telescopes on Earth. ...
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2010/11jun_missingdebris/

Space.com

NASA Sends Aircraft to Watch Asteroid Probe's Fiery Re-entry

Space.com
... sample will be only 6500 feet ahead of the rest of the spacecraft, which will break into numerous pieces, essentially making it a man-made meteor. ...


New Model Is Proposed to Explain Absence of Organic Compounds on Surface of Mars
New Rochelle, June 10, 2010 - The ongoing search for evidence of past or
present life on Mars includes efforts to identify organic compounds such
as proteins in Martian soil, but their absence to date remains a
mystery. A new theory to explain what happens to these carbon-based
molecules is presented in an article published in Astrobiology, a
peer-reviewed journal published by *Mary Ann Liebert, Inc ...
http://cl.exct.net/?qs=97fedff095471e983a892ac0dc3aad36dafafbb1325782a25edc67ddec013666

The article is available free online
http://cl.exct.net/?qs=97fedff095471e98ccccc9761f9002c96987c594a653787d99cfa30a353d28cd

Extreme Life on Earth Could Survive on Mars, Too
space.com
08 June 2010
A new discovery of bacterial life in a Martian-like environment on Earth
suggests our neighboring red planet could also be hospitable to some
form of microbial life.
Researchers found methane-eating bacteria that appear to be thriving in
a unique spring called Lost Hammer on Axel Heiberg Island in the extreme
north of Canada....

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/mars-hospitable-life-earth-100608.html

June Meteorite-Times Now Online
The June issue of Meteorite-Times is now up.
A huge thank you to all the writers for their contribution of talent and time each month.
http://www.meteorite-times.com/meteorite_frame.htm

Enjoy! Paul and Jim

Rec center is rocking place during annual gem show

Delta County Independent
A display of blue petrified wood from Wyoming and a meteor fragment from Delta were among the hundreds of interesting and educational exhibits at the show. ...

NASA flying observatory to track return of Japanese asteroid sampling spacecraft

The Canadian Press
The group will study the meteor-like plunge of the Hyabusa spacecraft, which visited the asteroid Itokawa during a seven-year mission and is carrying a ...

Meteor/Meteorite News 10JUN2010

NASA gets front row seat for fiery “man-made meteor” reentry

NetworkWorld.com
... essentially making it a man-made meteor," said Peter Jenniskens, the observation campaign's principal investigator and a scientist at NASA's Ames ...

NASA Astronomers to Observe Hayabusa Homecoming
MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. -- A group of astronomers from NASA, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and other organizations are flying to the other side of the world for a front row seat and a rare opportunity to study a spacecraft's targeted fiery descent through Earth's atmosphere. ...
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/news/releases/2010/10-48AR.html


Hayabusa on course for Australia landing zone
BY STEPHEN CLARK
SPACEFLIGHT NOW
June 9, 2010
Five days before it will fall into the Australian outback, Japan's
returning Hayabusa asteroid mission finished targeting the landing site
Tuesday in a final ion engine burn. ...
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n1006/09hayabusa/

DC-8 Flying Laboratory Heading To Australia For Hayabusa Re-entry

RedOrbit
During those missions, scientists studied the levels of radiation, light and out-gassing of the descending spacecraft, to better understand meteor and heat ...

Meteor/Meteorite News 9JUN2010

ニュー ス 科学＆宇宙 木星に隕石が衝突昨年から2年連続 ナショナルジオ ...

ニュース - 科学＆宇宙 - 木星に隕石が衝突、昨年から2年連続 - ナショナルジオグラフィック 公式日本語サイト.
www.nationalgeographic.co.jp/news/news_article.php?file_id...

New Comet in the Morning Sky
Space Weather News for June 8, 2010
http://spaceweather.com

NEW COMET McNAUGHT: A fresh comet is swinging through the inner solar system, and it is brightening rapidly as it approaches Earth for a 100 million mile close encounter in mid-June. Comet McNaught (C/2009 R1) has a vivid green head and a long wispy tail that look great through small telescopes. By the end of the month it could be visible to the naked eye perhaps as bright as the stars of the Big Dipper. Because this is the comet's first visit to the inner solar system, predictions of future brightness are necessarily uncertain; amateur astronomers should be alert for the unexpected. Visit http://spaceweather.com

for sky maps, photos and more information. ...


NASA Helps in Upcoming Asteroid Mission Homecoming
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
June 08, 2010
The space and astronomy worlds have June 13 circled on the calendar.
That's when the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) expects the
sample return capsule of the agency's technology demonstrator
spacecraft, Hayabusa, to boomerang back to Earth. The capsule, along
with its mother ship, visited a near-Earth asteroid, Itokawa, five years
ago and has logged about 2 billion kilometers (1.25 billion miles) since
its launch in May 2003. ...
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2010-194

Detailed Martian Scenes in New Images from Mars Orbiter
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
June 09, 2010
Six hundred recent observations of the Mars landscape from an orbiting
telescopic camera include scenes of sinuous gullies, geometrical ridges
and steep cliffs. ...
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2010-193

Finding a 5 kg while prospecting for gold nuggets..

02:07
While prospecting for gold nuggets in central Australia I sometimes come across a meteorite or two.. This is a particularly nice one poking out at ...
youtube.com

Meteor/Meteorite News 9JUN2010

Hayabusa on Track for June 13 Return Home

Softpedia - ‎5 時間前‎

Once around the planet, it will eject a canister that JAXA experts hope contains some pebbles and meteorite dust. However, this is uncertain, given that the ...

Als der Mars noch lebensfreundlich war

derStandard.at - ‎2010年6月6日‎

Diese Zusammensetzung findet sich auch in den Carbonatkügelchen, die in dem Mars-Meteoriten ALH 84001 entdeckt wurden. Der Allan-Hills-Meteorit sorgte Ende ...

山村晴朗天氣天上掉三大塊冰塊 墜落時帶響(圖)

中國經濟網 - ‎10 時間前‎

6月6日上午，記者趕到了波東村，正巧遇到聞訊趕來的北京天文臺研究隕石的專家張寶林和北京 電視臺科技頻道的記者，記者和專家走訪了20多位村民，大家都說當時確實沒有聽到和看到飛機經過，當時也確實是晴天。豐寧滿族自治縣氣象局局長吳曉軍證 實，6月5日上午8時至9時，衛星 ...
Village sunny weather, the three large ice cubes fall out the sky when the band sound (Figure) China Economic Net - 10 hours ago on June 6 morning, reporters rushed to the wave of East Village, jumped at the Beijing Observatory, who heard of meteorites Experts Baolin and Beijing TV channel technology journalists, reporters and experts visited more than 20 villagers, everyone says that when the aircraft did not hear and see through, was indeed a sunny day. Wu Xiaojun Fengning County Meteorological Bureau confirmed that, at eight o'clock on the June 5 to 9, the satellite ...

２０１０年宇宙の旅：小惑星の岩石採取、新設装置で分析へ

毎日新聞 - ‎16 時間前‎

地球に落下する隕 石（いんせき）は、小惑星からもたらされる物質の代表格だ。だが隕石は大気圏を通過する途中で高温になり、落下後は地球環境にさら されて変質している。はやぶさが持ち帰る物質は、このような熱変化や地球環境による汚染の影響がない。 ...
2010 A Space Odyssey: an asteroid rock samples, to analyze
毎日新聞 - 16 hours ago
Meteorites fall to Earth (Inseki) is the representative of the material come from the asteroid. But along the way became a hot meteorite through the atmosphere after the fall has been exposed to environmental deterioration. Material brought back by the spacecraft is not affected by pollution and global environmental changes such heat. ...

Meteor/Meteorite News 8JUN2010

NASA wants you ... to help find meteorites

msnbc.com
The blazing meteor lit up the Alabama sky on May 18 and was spotted by all-sky cameras at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville and the Walker ...

Mystery of the Canadian Fireball Procession of 1913

Toronto Star
But what intrigued Olson about the painting was the rarity of the event that it seems to depict: a “meteor procession.” A meteor procession happens when a ...

Colorado fireball/meteor 6JUN2010

Henry Mendoza wrote:

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Subject: [meteorite-list] Colorado fireball/meteor 6/6/10


Hi folks!

Was driving home with the family after watching Ironman 2 for my birthday tonite, when I saw a bright fireball/meteor come down. I was heading east. The meteor appeared at the top left corner of my driver side of the windshield and shot down at a sharp 65 to 70 degree angle east to southeast. It was approximately 12:20 AM MST. What I saw of it from inside the car lasted only a second to a second and a half. It was bright but it did not flash or detonate. I was so caught off guard by it that all I could yell out to my wife and kids was "Whoa, whoa, whoa!!" and point. But they all thought I was freaking out about something on the road ahead of the car and therefore no one else got to see it. I had been hoping on seeing a fireball, so I guess I got overly excited that I actually got to see one. I haven't seen a bright fireball since I was a kid in New Jersey about thirty plus years ago.

Shame that it just burned up and diminished. Would have been even more exciting if it had detonated and flashed. Oh well.
Have a nice morning!
Regards,
Henry Mendoza


Chris Peterson replied:

Hi Henry-

Here is an image and video of the fireball from about 120 km south of you. Should have the data off the roof camera at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science tomorrow, and the position can be nailed down.

http://www.cloudbait.com/meteor/data.php?recnum=34030



Chris

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