29 October 2010

Meteor/Meteorite News 29OCT2010

Close Earth Flyby of Asteroid 2003 UV11 
ASTEROID FLYBY:  Asteroid 2003 UV11 will fly past Earth
on Oct. 29th and 30th at a distance of only 1.2 million
miles. ...


The Leonids are coming: Meteors arrive Nov. 17
 Mountain Xpress (blog)
Meteors result from particles of dust causing the atmosphere to glow as the particles enter the upper atmosphere of the Earth. ...

Romania Meteor 28OCT2010
A reader writes, "I saw a meteor in Constanta, Romania , today 28.10.2010, at approx. 16:30 local time."  Anon. (no secondary confirmation)

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NASA Spacecraft Preps for Comet Flyby
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
October 27, 2010
In one of its final mission trajectory correction maneuvers, the EPOXI
mission spacecraft has refined its orbit, preparing it for the flyby of
comet Hartley 2 on Nov. 4. The time of closest approach to the comet on
that day is expected to be about 7:02 a.m. PDT (10:02 a.m. EDT). ...

Green comet expected to bring meteor shower to UK
New York Post
A green comet that is passing close to Earth this month could produce an impressive meteor shower over Britain and Ireland next week, astronomers predicted. ...

Meteorite Men Prepare for Season Two Premiere
Tucson Citizen
Steve and Geoff on location filming "Meteorite Men," June 2010. Photo by Suzanne Morrison. For Season Two we were given just five months to produce eight ...

28 October 2010

Italian Bolide Meteor Fireball 27OCT2010 Meteor/Meteorite News 28OCT2010

Italian Bolide 27OCT2010 Meteor/Meteorite News 28OCT2010

Italian Bolide 27OCT2010 (c) Ferruccio Zanotti 2010
  Italian Bolide Fireball-
Fireball North Taurids 2010.10.27_04.04.46 ± 1 U.T. from Italy
Fireball North Taurids mag.  -10 ± 0.60 from Ferrara ( Italy )
Video station: *IMTN-Ferrara1-SE- ( C ) F. Zanotti*
Observer: Ferruccio Zanotti
Location: Ferrara 44.8181 N; 11.6167 E; alt. 9 m s.l.m.
Direction: az: 139 ° ev:47°
Camera: Mintron MTV-12V6H-EX integration 2x ( 1/25s )
Computer Lens 2.6mm F/1.0 FOV: 122.8° * 97.1° ( diagonal: 148° )
for image and video:
http://meteore.forumattivo.com/bolidi-e-superbolidi-riprese-video-f30/fireball-north-taurids-20101027_040446-1-ut-t1396.htm#5853

Ferruccio Zanotti
Italian Meteor and TLE Network
http://meteore.forumattivo.com/forum.htm

Meteor/Meteorite News 28OCT2010

UNT confirms man's meteorite
Denton Record Chronicle
By Rachel Mehlhaff / Staff Writer A man recently found out that a rock he stumbled upon two years ago is actually a meteorite. George Wright holds a ... (Lufkin, TX meteorite)

Meteoriti u Srbiji 
B92 - ‎2010年10月25日‎ 
Meteorit koji se čuva se u Prirodnjačkom muzeju težak je nešto preko 16 kilograma, a ostali primerci krase vitrine mnogih svetskih muzeja. ...
ImTranslator 3.3.4-P  Serbian to English
Meteorites in Serbia
B92 - 2010 年 10 月 25 日
Meteorite kept the Natural History Museum weighs just over 16 pounds, and other sample adorned showcases many world museums. ... 

Twin Fireballs May Have Come From Comet Hartley 2
Space.com
[Photo of the Oct. 16 fireballs] Before the fireballs were observed, NASA scientists were skeptical of any substantial meteor display from Comet Hartley 2. ...

Scientists Watch for a "Hartley-id" Meteor Shower - NASA Science
A pair of unusual fireballs over Canada and the southeastern USA have experts wondering if Comet Hartley 2 might produce a meteor shower in early November. ...

 How Comets Cause Meteor Showers - Yahoo! News
Meteors — popularly referred to as "shooting stars" — are generated when debris ... But astronomers have found that some meteor swarms correspond closely to ...

Giant Impact Crater Found In Australia
Slashdot Wed, 27 Oct 2010 02:19 AM PDT
An anonymous reader writes "One of the largest meteorite impacts in the world has been discovered in the South Australian outback by geothermal researchers. It may explain one of the many extinction events in the past 600 million years, and may contain rare and exotic minerals. The crater is said to have been 'produced by an asteroid six to 12 km across' â which is really big!" Read more of this ...  


Giant crater may have been extinction trigger
Cosmos
SYDNEY: One of the largest meteorite impacts in the world has been discovered in the Australian outback - an impact so powerful it may have been the trigger ...

NASA: Comet may produce a new meteor shower
Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)
Comet Hartley 2 is traveling nearer to the earth than a comet has in centuries, and astronomers are wondering if the close approach might produce a meteor ...

27 October 2010

Meteor/Meteorite News 27OCT2010

Nasa prepares to view comet up close
Times LIVE
A meteor streaks past stars in the night sky in Tecate in Baja California. The Perseid meteor shower is sparked every August when the Earth passes through a ...

Jimmy Westlake: The fireballs of fall
Steamboat Pilot
It's just the annual Taurid meteor showers reaching their peak of activity. The Taurid meteors are so named because they seem to spring outward from the ...

26 October 2010

Meteor/Meteorite News 26OCT2010

Kopernik Observatory Help Students Explore Space
FOX 40 Binghamton Mon, 25 Oct 2010 16:19 PM PDT
Getting kids excited about science is the goal of Kopernik's Science Days, which are going on Monday and Tuesday at Vestal Middle School. Monday, students from Unatego, and St. James in Johnson City, did everything from check out 3d video of the earth, to actually handling pieces of a giant meteorite. Kopernik's Roy Williams says that because kids are naturally curious about planets and stars ...


The Meteorite Men on Friday News Feedbag
Discovery News Mon, 25 Oct 2010 15:24 PM PDT
On this week's Friday News Feedbag, Geoffrey Notkin and Steve Arnold, aka Science Channel's Meteorite Men stop by the studio to talk about hunting for meteorites all over the world. If this is your first exposure to the Friday News ... 


Search is on to locate meteorite fragments in Clare
The Clare People
By Andrew Hamilton · October 25, 2010 · No comments A RACE against time has begun to locate priceless fragments of the rare meteorite which landed somewhere ...

NASA Hosts Media Teleconference To Preview Comet Encounter

 PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA is hosting a media teleconference at 11 a.m.
PDT on Tuesday Oct. 26, to preview the EPOXI mission's upcoming flyby
and study of the comet Hartley 2. The Nov. 4 encounter will provide
the best, extended view of a comet in history....

How a comet can cause a meteor shower
Christian Science Monitor
Some meteor showers correspond with the orbits of comets. By Joe Rao, SPACE.com's Space Insider Columnist / October 25, 2010 Meteors — popularly referred ...

25 October 2010

Meteor/Meteorite News 25OCT2010

Mystery of Tunguska meteorite solved
Pravda
As a result, it was proved that it was not a meteorite, but a comet. The mystery of the Tunguska meteorite has long attracted the attention of researchers ...


Oct 19/20 to 22/23 Meteors « The Transient Sky – Comets, Asteroids ...
By Carl Hergenrother
Visual reports submitted to the International Meteor Organization suggest a peak ZHR of ~40-50 per hour. Of course, ZHR rates are only observed under perfectly dark conditions. With the nearly Full Moon and the usual issue of light ...

24 October 2010

Meteor/Meteorite News 24OCT2010

Orionid Meteor Shower This Week
A stream of meteors is expected to streak across the skies this week.
blogs.nasa.gov/cm/blog/NES.../post_1287592307817.html

Geminid Meteor Shower | Universe Today

On a clear night, preferably in the countryside where light pollution is at a minimum, the night sky can provide a viewer with one of the most spectacular.

Mr-Meteorite (Ruben Garcia) and Hopper on ...
4 min
Mr-Meteorite (Ruben Garcia) and Hopper on Meteorite Man TV Show
youtube.com

Man Claims Meteorite Had Alien Life. Feds Steal it.
Ghost Theory
GT reader John P. sent me this amusing article about a man in Canada who believes that federal geologists had stolen a piece of meteorite he found in the ... 

23 October 2010

Meteor/Meteorite News 23OCT2010

Mythbusters , Meteorite Men Hit D.C.'s Mall
US News & World Report Fri, 22 Oct 2010 10:30 AM PDT
Science Channel hosts hit national science fair.


Mars meteorite controversy continues
PhysOrg Fri, 22 Oct 2010 07:14 AM PDT
The most illustrious meteorite in history continues to inspire heated debate. Does it carry microbial fossils from Mars or are its strange features just the product of some unique geochemistry? After almost 20 years, dueling papers are still coming out, and the opposing parties are no closer to a resolution.

Yukon man seeks $12M for space rock damage
CBC.ca Thu, 21 Oct 2010 17:55 PM PDT
A Yukon mining prospector claims federal geologists stole a priceless piece of meteorite he found in the 1980s that contained alien organisms, but RCMP say they haven't found any evidence to support that allegation. 


The Orionid Meteor Shower is not over, continues tonight
Examiner.com
Last night marked the peak of the Orionid Meteor Shower for 2010. However, despite what most of the news media may lead you to believe, there is a lot more ...
 

 Meteor shower tonight: Orionid Meteor Shower to peak tonight
 

New Delhi Chronicle.com
Meteor shower tonight: Orionid Meteor Shower to peak tonight. Meteor showers are again giving great time to sky gazers. This is the time of the year when we ...


Did you see something unidentified in the sky?
Daily Comet
Local sky experts say that if anything was seen, it could be related to a recent meteor shower. Online databases of alleged ET-style encounters — with a ...


Meteor Shower Was At Its Peak Last Night
 

Thaindian.com
The Orionids Meteor Shower, which the Earth is witnessing right now is associated with this comet. It has been named so, as the point from with it comes, ...
 

Halley's Comet Produces Orionid Meteor Shower - Peak Tonight - How to View ...
 

National News Break
NationalNewsBreak.com gathers all meteor shower tonight headline from nearly every place around the internet – Check in very often to keep up to date on ..

22 October 2010

Meteor/Meteorite News 22OCT2010

How Comets Cause Meteor Showers
Space.com
By Joe Rao Meteors — popularly referred to as "shooting stars" — are generated when debris enters and burns up in Earth's atmosphere. ...


Orionid Meteor Shower Visible this Week
FOX 9 News
The Orionids, a "junior version" of the Persoid meteor shower, may hit its peak before sunrise on Oct. 21, according to AOL News . The meteors are nicknamed ...
 

 Orionid Meteor Shower peaks tonight: Will it be clear?
 

Examiner.com
After a days-long lead-up, tonight, October 21/22, 2010, is finally the peak of the Orionid Meteor Shower, which means that tonight, more so than any before ...


Moment CCTV captured asteroid hitting the earth
 

The Sun
Here, in Day Two of our extracts from a new book by Sun professor Brian Cox, Wonders Of The Solar System, he describes the meteorite's spectacular final ...
Debate Over Life on Mars No Closer to Resolution
 

Softpedia
More than two decades after the discovery of the meteorite ALH84001, the oldest to have arrived to Earth from Mars, scientists have not yet come to a ...


Meteors from Halley's Comet rain down on Earth - Technology ...
 Halley's Comet won't zoom near Earth again for another 50 years, but the ice ball may still put on a show for some skywatchers this week in the form of a ...

 Orionid meteor shower from Halley's Comet has big finish Thursday ...
 

Orionid meteor shower will conclude Thursday night as the Earth finishes traversing through the debris field that follows Halley's Comet. ...


Yukon man seeks $12M for space rock damage
CBC.ca
A Yukon mining prospector claims federal geologists stole a priceless piece of meteorite he found in the 1980s that contained alien organisms, ...


Meteor Shower From Halley´s Comet Can Be Seen This Week
ShortNews.com
The meteor shower that appears in May is called Eta Aquarids, the October-shower is called Orionids, as the meteors appear to come from Orion the Hunter. ...


Astro Bob blog: Comets, ancient galaxies and the dark ages
Duluth News Tribune
I see by the International Meteor Organization's (IMO) quicklook data that Orionid meteor shower activity started picking up around 10 pm last night to 35 ...


Look Up: What's in the Sky This Week?
DCist.com
The annual Orionid meteor shower reached its peak starting last night and continues through this evening. Orionid meteors are fragments of Halley's Comet, ...

Meteorite Hunter - Ruben Garcia - Filming TV Show ...
3 min youtube.com
Here is a video - Ruben Garcia - filming a TV show about Meteorite Hunting! The video is a behind the scenes look at filming the ...




21 October 2010

Meteor/Meteorite News 21OCT2010

Orionid Meteor Shower Visible this Week
The Orionids ajunior version of the Persoid meteor shower may hit its peak before sunrise on Oct 21 according to AOL News The meteors are nicknamed the ...

Meteorite-Based Debate Over Martian Life Is Far from Over
Space.com
By Michael Schirber The most illustrious meteorite in history continues to inspire heated debate. Does it carry microbial fossils from Mars or are its ...

The Continuing Controversy of the Mars Meteorite
Astrobiology Magazine
The most illustrious meteorite in history continues to inspire heated debate. Does it carry microbial fossils from Mars or are its strange features just the ...

Meteor shower to light up Territory skies
ABC Online
(AFP: Ethan Miller/Getty Images, file photo) Northern Territory skies will be lit up with yellow meteors over the next two mornings as the annual Orionid ...

Meteors From Halley's Comet Rain Down on Earth
Space.com
Astronomers in Canada have snapped photos of meteors that are actually bits of Halley's Comet left behind during its long, looping, 76-year trip around the ...
 No Telescope Required!! for The Orionid Meteor Shower October 20 ...
You don't need a telescope to view this heavenly meteor shower! That's the beauty of meteor showers. They appear in our night sky as shooting stars....

Skywatchers prepare for Comet Hartley, Orionid meteor showers

CLEVELAND -- Early morning autumn skies are bringing fantastic celestial displays from the heavens with this year's annual Orionid meteor showers. ...

Astro Bob blog: Halley's Comet comes back to life tonight
Duluth News Tribune
Credit: John Chumack Tomorrow morning is the peak of the annual Orionid meteor shower. It's one of two times each year our planet intersects the orbit of ...

Halley's meteors streak past
New Scientist (blog)
The meteoroids burn up quickly high in the atmosphere, creating the streaks of a meteor shower. October's meteors appear to come from the direction of the ...

Stargazers can watch Orionid meteor shower, debris from Halley's Comet
Examiner.com
The 2010 Orionid meteor shower peaks during the day of October 21, 2010. For stargazers wanting to observe Orionid meteors, the best times will me the ...

20 October 2010

Meteor/Meteorite News 20OCT2010

Orionid Meteor Shower peaks tomorrow, get viewing tips now
Examiner.com
The peak of the Orionid Meteor Shower will be tomorrow on the night of October 21/22, 2010. However, despite the fact that peak doesn't occur until tomorrow ...


Orionids Meteor Shower This Weekend – 20 & 21 October 2010 ...
The Orionid meteor shower is due to peak this weekend, 20 & 21 October 2010. To view it properly, it is best to go out into the countryside, where the sky ...

Skywatchers prepare for Comet Hartley, Orionids meteor showers
WKYC-TV
CLEVELAND -- Early morning autumn skies are bringing fantastic celestial displays from the heavens with this year's annual Orionids meteor showers. ...


The Guardian Family Friendly Museum Award
Guardian Unlimited Tue, 19 Oct 2010 03:58 AM PDT
Nominate your favourite museum and get a free Quentin Blake poster! Perhaps it was the notice by the meteorite, saying: "This is the oldest object you will ever touch." Or your toddler being invited to roar at a ruff-collared ducal portrait in the 17th-century gallery to show an early appreciation of art. Or the quiet chat about war-time childhood between a grandparent and child over a 1940s ...  


Spacing Out
KTSM News Channel 9
"I knew it wasn't meteorites when I first saw them. And nothing suspends in air like that anyway if it was a meteorite. Meteorites always leave a ...


More from meteor witness
Bombala Times
IT has been a few weeks since we last had news of the search for the meteorite that landed in the local district in August, but the Bombala Times has now ...
 

 Meteor Shower this Week
 

allvoices
A harvest moon is scheduled for the week which impede some of the meteor spectacular. Meteor showers, called Orionids, due to the fact that they appear to ...


Grimsby meteorite update.
CKTB
Meteorites have been recovered in the Grimsby area. Phil McCausland from Western University says they came from the asteroid belt. ...


The Comet Cometh: Hartley 2 Visible in Night Sky
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Backyard stargazers with a telescope or binoculars and a clear night's sky can now inspect the comet that in a little over two weeks will become only the fifth in history to be imaged close up. Comet Hartley 2 will come within 17.7 million kilometers (11 million miles) of Earth this Wed., Oct. 20 at noon PDT (3 p.m. EDT). NASA's EPOXI mission will come within 700 kilometers (435 miles) of Hartley 2 on Nov. 4. ...





 Trojan Asteroid Found in Neptune's Trailing Gravitational Stability Zone
There are places in space where the gravitational tug between a planet and the Sun balance out, allowing other smaller bodies to remain stable. These places are called Lagrangian points.
So-called Trojan asteroids have been found in some of these stable spots near Jupiter and Neptune. Trojans share their planet's orbit and help astronomers understand how the planets formed and how the solar system evolved. Now Scott Sheppard at the Carnegie ...

19 October 2010

Meteor/ Meteorite News 19OCT2010

The Orionid Meteor Shower is coming!
 Examiner.com  Meteors will soon start streaking through the sky thanks to the Orionid Meteor Shower. In two days, the night of October 21/22 will mark the peak of the ...

Oman is major site for meteor discovery
Emirates 24/7
Shining sand and rocks and other factors have turned Oman into a major site of meteorite discoveries, ranking second only to Antarctica in such findings ...
2011 IAA Planetary Defense Conference: From Threat to Action 
The International Academy of Astronautics will hold its second conference on protecting our planet from impacts by asteroids and comets from 9 - 12 May 2011 in Bucharest, Romania. The 1st IAA Planetary Defense Conference: Protecting Earth from Asteroids, co-sponsored by the European Space Agency and The Aerospace Corporation, is the follow-on to three previous planetary defense conferences held in 2004 in Los Angeles and 2007 in Washington, D.C., and in 2009 in Granada, Spain.  For the upcoming conference in 2011, the call for papers is now open - see the menu item on the left for further details. ...

Moonlight meteor shower spawned by Halley's Comet
msnbc.com
Even though the radiant of the shower is in Orion, meteors can appear far from the constellation. By Joe Rao A junior version of the famous Perseid meteor ...

This Week's Orionid Meteor Shower
Gant Daily
A sky map of the Orionids meteor shower. This one's from 2009 — the planets and stars listed will be different this year. Image courtesy NASA. ...

18 October 2010

Meteor/Meteorite News 18OCT2010

Spectacular Meteor Shower Coming this Week
iSurfHopkins.com
HOPKINS COUNTY, KY—Every year in the early morning Autumn sky comes a spectacular celestial show put on by the annual Orionid meteor shower. ...


Meteor showers October 2010: Orionid, Taurid, Epsilon Geminid ...

 
October 2010 meteor showers include one major meteor shower and three minor meteor showers. The Orionid meteor shower is the major shower. The minor meteor ...
 
AccuWeather.com - Weather Video - Orionid Meteor Hunting and Comet ...
 

The Orionid Meteor Shower peaks this week, while the moon and Comet Hartley rule the sky! ...

17 October 2010

Meteor/Meteorite News 17OCT2010

Travel in space: Viewing the galaxy from Israel
Jerusalem Post
By MIKA SCHICK An increased amount of meteoroids will create a meteor shower called Leonids, which can be seen clearly from the Negev. ...

Moonlight Meteor Shower Spawned By Halley's Comet - Yahoo! News
A junior version of the famous Perseid meteor shower thought to have originated from the remains of Halley's Comet will hit its peak over the next week, ...

16 October 2010

Meteor/Meteorite News 16OCT2010

Moonlight Meteor Shower Spawned By Halley's Comet
Space.com
By Joe Rao A junior version of the famous Perseid meteor shower thought to have originated from the remains of Halley's Comet will hit its peak over the ...

US: Meteor Over East County Monday Night? -- Signs of the Times News
Jamul - An East County Magazine reader asks, "I want to know who else saw the blue and whitish-orange meteor I saw from my house in Deerhorn Valley in Jamul ...

Training New Explorers for the Surfaces of the Moon, Mars, and Beyond

Space Ref (press release)
Tomorrow, a NASA-sponsored Field Training and Research Program begins at Meteor Crater, Arizona. The field training will be led by Dr. David Kring, ...








Is Earth prepared for a close encounter?

89.3 KPCC
A meteor from the Geminids meteor shower enters the Earth's atmosphere past the stars Castor and Pollux above Southold, New York. Did you know that there is ...

Take a look at Jupiter this month
Cincinnati.com
Last year an amateur astronomer first observed a dark scar on Jupiter where a meteor exploded inside the atmosphere. This year the same man was at his ...

15 October 2010

Meteor/Meteorite News 15OCT2010

Fireball streaks across Northern Ireland skies
BBC News
The whole event only lasted several seconds and was captured by the Armagh Observatory meteor cameras, which have been recording meteor activity on the ...

METEOR SITING CONFIRMED BY 2ND WITNESS; EXPERTS SEEKS MORE INFO TO LAUNCH ...
East County Magazine

Today, we received an e-mail from Erich Wichman, a meteorite hunter and researcher with Meteorites USA and Meteorite Hunting & Collecting Magazine. ...


Bombing Earth-bound Asteroids a Viable Option, Experts Say 

In the movies, a bomb is usually the most effective way of stopping an asteroid from wiping out life on Earth. But real scientists have had their doubts about bombing the potentially hazardous objects. ...



more asteroid news
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11534216


recent Division of Planetary Sciences meeting
 http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/10/101013-science-space-asteroids-near-earth-nuclear-bombs/
 



Is there a meteor shower tonight? October 8 2010 ? - Yahoo! Answers

google? and It hasn't been on the news.. ... http://earthsky.org/astronomy- essentials/earthskys-meteor-shower-guide This website claims there is, but others don't ...

14 October 2010

Meteor/Meteorite News 14OCT2010

METEOR OVER EAST COUNTY MONDAY NIGHT?
East County Magazine
October 13, 2010 (Jamul) – An East County Magazine reader asks, “I want to know who else saw the blue and whitish-orange meteor I saw from my house in ...

The best meteor shower you never saw... until next year

KOMO News (blog)
By Scott Sistek Hey, did you see the big Draconid Meteor shower last week? No? You weren't alone. The annual meteor shower was a big dud this year as the ...
 


New manager at the UNH Observatory
Foster's Daily Democrat
Cohen is looking forward to observing a few different astronomical events at the end of October, including comet Hartley and the Orionid meteor shower. ...

NASA'S HUBBLE CAPTURES FIRST IMAGES OF AFTERMATH OF POSSIBLE ASTEROID COLLISION
WASHINGTON -- NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured the first
snapshots of a suspected asteroid collision. The images show a
bizarre X-shaped object at the head of a comet-like trail of
material.  ...

Asteroid collision
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/asteroid-collision-hubble-photographs-101013.html

12 October 2010

Meteor/Meteorite News 12OCT2010

Asteroid 2010 TD54 to Pass Within Earth-Moon System on October 12
PASADENA, Calif. -- A small asteroid will fly past Earth early Tuesday within the Earth-moon system. The asteroid, 2010 TD54, will have its closest approach to Earth's surface at an altitude of about 45,000 kilometers (27,960 miles) at 6:50 EDT a.m. (3:50 a.m. PDT). At that time, the asteroid will be over southeastern Asia in the vicinity of Singapore. ...

11 October 2010

Meteor/Meteorite News 11OCT2010

New find points toward habitable environments deep in Martian crust
Oneindia
A deposit of carbonate rocks that once existed 6 km (about 4 miles) below the surface of Mars was uplifted and exposed by an ancient meteor impact, ...

Impact begins nickel drilling program at Australian Yarrabubba project
Energy Business Review
The Yarrabubba Project covers a large (>50 km) diameter meteorite impact structure that has similar geological features to those at the large Sudbury mining ...

Space dust helps reveal origins of Milky Way
ABC Online
And this has been a debate that has been passed down through meteoritics because we see the same sort of structures in meteorites. ...

Meteor????
I am on Tobago Island, Oct. 7 2010 which is a small island off of Panama City, Panama and last night I saw a HUGE meteor with a tail and all in the North ...

Astro Bob blog: This house is full of wonder
Duluth News Tribune
They're composed of minerals like olivine (peridot) and pyroxene, which are very common in certain types of meteorites. This chondrule, measuring 5.5mm ...

Meteor/Meteorite News 10.10.10 10OCT2010

Asteroid P/2010 A2 Collision

"Astronomers report that a small asteroid located in the inner asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter took a major hit early last year. Previously rendered only in artists' conceptions, the first asteroid collision known in modern times revealed itself in a tail of debris streaming from what astronomers at first assumed was a comet. Instead of a steady stream of dust ...