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Germany / Deutschland Meteor Fireball ~22:25 CET 25MAR2012

25MAR2012 Kai Frankfurt, Germany 22:20 CEST 2 sec N-S white/light yellow ball, long tail quite bright no, but long tail it appeared quite close, tail stretched over a quarter of the night sky

25MAR2012 ruth berry Garmisch-Partenkirchen 22:35 (europe daylight saving) 7 seconds from west towards east, right to left I was facing west low in the sky, large ball with tail same as aeroplane lights tail behind with sparkle effect trajectory parallel to earth, looked closer than an aeroplane passing overhead

25MAR2012 Frank Bichowski Britzingen, Baden Wurtemberg, Germany 22.27 CET About 6 to 7 seconds E-W, I was facing North Yellow - the longest tail shape I have ever seen, it was covering almost As bright as the Venus No parts falling off The greatest and brightest Meteorit I have ever seen

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meteorobs : Message: (meteorobs) Early history of meteor ...
Interesting paper about the early history of trying to study and analyse meteor spectra and meteortrains by C. C. Trowbridge. Well worth a read from a historic ... ( Early history of meteor spectroscopy )
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What is this cloudy spot on Mars?
io9
There are still a number of theories as to the origin of the cloud — it could be debris from a meteorimpact, a towering weather system, or perhaps just a trick of the light. You can see Jaeschke's animation of the anomaly to get a better sense of ...

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Gem show to have meteorite remnant
Enterprise-Record
By Staff Reports PARADISE — A recovered remnant of a meteorite that fell in Oroville will be on display at the 58th annual Paradise of Gems Show on April 7-8. The meteorite made tremendous impact when it first arrived to Butte County in 1892, ...

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A piece on Mars is going on the block
Cherry Hill Courier Post (blog)
The only meteorite from Mars known to have impacted earth since 1962 is going on the auction block. The specimen is on display at a New York City gallery now through March 26, according to an article in Auction Central News. ...

Is there life on Mars? Well it certainly looks like it has CLOUDS
Daily Mail
Some observers have suggested the so-called clouds are at least 150 miles away from the surface while others have suggested it could be debris which was disturbed after the Red Planet was hit by a meteor. Amateur astrophotographer Wayne Jaeschke ...

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New map of Jupiter's moon Io reveals epic volcanic violence
DVICE
The fresh ones are easy to spot, like Meteor Crater in Arizona. But older craters gradually get covered up over time. For example, underneath Chesapeake Bay is an impact crater about 90km in diameter. You can't see it anymore because over the last 35 ...

Oklahoma City, Tulsa residents among those who reported seeing a ...
Residents in the Oklahoma City and Tulsa metro areas reported seeing a bright meteor about 6:40 a.m. Tuesday.
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Brainerd Man Saw Meteor That Hit Near Rock Spring - Topix
A Brainerd man said he saw the meteor streaking across the sky that landed near Rock Spring in Walker County, Ga., on Wednesday. Share. Post. Leave a ...
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What is meteor - Ask Community
its a big rock that flies through outerspace ready to destroy anything that it hits. :)
www.ask.com/answers/108659241/what-is-meteor

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A MESSENGER to Mercury reveals a strange little planet
Ars Technica
The topography (surface features) of a planet is shaped by internal forces and weathering—which in the case of Mercury is primarily from meteor impacts, since it lacks an atmosphere. Tectonic activity, any volcanism, and cracks in the surface as the ...

meteorobs Messagemeteorobs Meteor Activity Outlook for March 1723 2012
hours but will not interfere with meteor observations The estimated total hourly rates for evening observers this week is near three for observers in the ...
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Meteor Weds. AM
WOOD-TV (blog)
A meteor (also known as a shooting star) shot across the sky Weds. AM. I had several calls and emails here at the station and through facebook. It was not part of ameteor shower (here's a list of this year's meteor showers).

Lorton Meteorite Part of Smithsonian Hearings
Patch.com
Meteorite hit a Lorton doctor's office in 2010 and was tied up in a legal dispute. By Beth Lawton The 5.4 billion-year-old Lorton meteorite, which was caught up in a legal dispute between the doctors who wanted to donate it to the Smithsonian and the ...

Meteorite, or meteor-wrong?
Burns Lake District News
An X marks the spot where local Joseph Driscol thinks there is three meteorite craters in the Burns Lake area. He needs the help of a geologist to confirm his discoveries. By Rebecca Billard - Burns Lake Lakes District News A Burns Lake man thinks he ...

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Lorton Meteorite stars at Smithsonian appropriations hearing
Washington Post Tue, 20 Mar 2012 15:36 PM PDT
The Lorton meteorite , the one that crashed into a doctorâs office in 2010, made a surprise appearance Tuesday at the Smithsonian Institutionâs appropriations hearing. Bringing a rare artifact out of a locked warehouse or protective glass case is always bold evidence that few people collect, study and preserve items to the extent the Smithsonian does. Read full article >>

Satellites Spot Hidden Layers of Ancient Towns
Fox News Tue, 20 Mar 2012 05:01 AM PDT
Scientists find 9,500 possible 'lived in' human settlements in Middle East after looking for mounds, soil activity Go-to Meteorite Guy Reveals Out-of-This-World Finds

Harvard experts debunk meteorite discovery in Exeter
Exeter News-Letter Mon, 19 Mar 2012 23:19 PM PDT
EXETER â The town's recent out-of-this-world discovery may not be from out of this world after all.

Fossils will fuel museum's birthday blast
Philadelphia Inquirer
A meteorite, an extinct Irish elk, and the general public's first peek at rare collections of bird skins, snakes in jars, and bugs on pins help drive home what a treasure the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University is, as the nation's oldest ...

Asteroid lands in Hamilton garden
The Scottish Sun
By NICK SHARPE, Chief Reporter STUNNED Emilie Rennie found a space rock in her flowerbed — two days after a monster meteor blazed through Scotland's skies. Mum Emilie, 56, of Hamilton, stumbled on the golfball-sized debris in her back garden. (Looks like another meteorite-find hoax!)

Man offers £20000 for piece of meteor that blazed trail over Cumbria
News & Star
By Phil Coleman Anyone who finds a chunk of the meteor which streaked over Cumbria could be in line for £20000 – but their chances are pie in the sky. A self-confessed full-time meteorite hunter, Rob Elliott, from Fife, is offering the cash for anyone ...

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Meteor Activity Outlook for March 17-23, 2012 « The Transient Sky ...
The following is a slightly edited version of Bob Lunsford's excellent weekly summary of meteoractivity. The original version can be found at the American ...
transientsky.wordpress.com/.../meteor-activity-outlook-for-ma...

Harvard experts debunk meteorite discovery in town
Seacoastonline.com
Officials at the Harvard Mineralogical Museum recently told Exeter resident Aidan Ulery that themeteorites he believed he found on Feb. 29 are actually slag, a byproduct of metal smelting that can sometimes appear in concrete.

NASA scientists search for meteor fragments in Walker County
Chattanooga Times Free Press
by WRCB-TV Channel 3 The quiet Cove community in Walker County could be harboring a rock from hundreds of millions of miles away. NASA scientists believe meteorites from a space rock that flew into earth's atmosphere the night of March 7 could be ...

Bob Dyer: Akronites saw second mysterious fireball
Akron Beacon Journal
10, 1965, described a huge fireball witnessed by thousands the previous day. It shot east over Akron at 4:45 pm and eventually into UFO lore after landing in Kecksburg, Pa. Stories labeled "Beacon First" are published in the newspaper before appearing ...

Scientists search for meteor in Walker County
WRCB-TV
Cooke tells Channel 3 this particular meteor caught them by surprise. "When we first picked it up it was doing around 33500 mph," says Cooke. Channel 3 obtained NASA video that shows a bright light streak across the sky above Huntsville, AL.

Go-to meteorite guy reveals out-of-this-world finds
Fox News Mon, 19 Mar 2012 12:29 PM PDT
A chance meeting between a pair of treasure-hunting brothers and a geology professor affiliated with University of Washington has led to the discovery of some the most extraordinary and valuable meteorites in history.

Harvard experts debunk meteorite discovery in Exeter
Exeter News-Letter Mon, 19 Mar 2012 09:31 AM PDT
EXETER â The townâs recent out-of-this-world discovery may not be from out of this world.

fireball / bolide 2012-03-17 Germany - YouTube
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Very Bright meteor - BOLIDE EVENT OVER HOUSEby FOUNTAINVIDEO353 views · Fireball ...
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meteorobs: Amateur meteor astronomy. ... (meteorobs) KS MO OK AR meteor video now posted with sighting map 13, Topic List < Prev Topic | Next Topic > ...
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GOOD NEWS: NEOs
Odessa American
NEOs (Near Earth Objects) are the subject of a special events display at the Meteor Crater Museum. The display was prompted by an Odessa American article from Nov. 6, 2011, reporting an NEO passing near the earth, 'Near' being closer to than the moon.

UW's Tony Irving is the go-to man in the red-hot world of meteorites
The Seattle Times
A chance meeting between a pair of treasure-hunting brothers and a geology professor affiliated with University of Washington has led to the discovery of some the most extraordinary and valuablemeteorites in history. By Craig Welch Tony Irving, ...

Weekly SkyWatcher's Forecast – March 19-25, 2012
Universe Today
The planets continue to dazzle as we not only celebrate the Vernal Equinox, but the March Geminid meteor shower as well! If that doesn't get your pulsar racing – nothing will. It's time to get out your binoculars and telescopes and meet me in the ...

Fireball in night sky doesn't fade in one man's memory (he thinks)
The Republic
10, 1965, story read, "Many Here Saw Fireball, But Where Did It Go?" Some of the eyewitnesses thought it ended up in Bath Township, but we now know it ended up in Kecksburg, Pa., flaming its way into UFO lore. To believers in alien spaceships, ...

Cradle of Humankind rocks
Independent Online
By Wren Mast-Ingle Standing on the restaurant balcony at Maropeng it is difficult to imagine that the magnificent rolling hills were formed by the impact of the Vredefortmeteor two billion years ago when a piece of rock the size of Table Mountain ...

Meteorite fall in southern Norway 01.03.2012 - YouTube
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Hunt is on for meteor 'treasure'
Belfast Telegraph
By Lewis Smith The sight of a meteor shooting across the night sky sparked fears that a passenger jet was about to crash – then triggered a treasure hunt. Astronomers are desperate to track down the remnants of the meteor, which was witnessed from the ...

Ethnic man arrested for $2,300 meteorite scam in central Vietnam
Thanh Nien Daily Sun, 18 Mar 2012 03:22 AM PDT
Police in Vietnamâs Central Highlands arrested an ethnic minority Tuesday for cheating a woman, who believed she was purchasing part of a meteorite, out of more than US$2,300.

UW professor is go-to guy in world of meteorites
Wisconsin Rapids Tribune
The trio grew into an unorthodox team, becoming central players in a thriving international subculture — an obscure band of treasure hunters who scour the planet collecting, buying, selling and studyingmeteorites. In this Byzantine world, ...

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By Lunar Meteorite * Hunter
NEOs (Near Earth Objects) are the subject of a special events display at the Meteor Crater Museum. The display was prompted by an Odessa American article from Nov. 6, 2011, reporting an NEO passing near the earth, 'Near' being closer to ...
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Brainerd Man Saw Meteor That Hit Near Rock Spring
The Chattanoogan
A Brainerd man said he saw the meteor streaking across the sky that landed near Rock Spring in Walker County, Ga., on Wednesday. Wesley Schultz, who lives on North Moore Road, said, "I was in the back yard bent over painting a concrete table and ...

Meteor Activity Outlook for March 17-23, 2012 | American Meteor ...
This weekend the waning crescent moon will rise during the early morning hours but will not interfere with meteor observations. The estimated total hourly rates ...
www.amsmeteors.org/.../meteor-activity-outlook-for-march-1...

A meteor...in broad daylight! - Stargazers Lounge
So I was out birding on Thursday (my daytime passion) at Beeley Moor in Derbyshire, when I was amazed to see what was obviously a very bright meteor.
stargazerslounge.com/.../180730-meteor-broad-daylight.html

MBIQ Detects Ohio / Michigan Meteor Fireball 16MAR2012
By Lunar Meteorite * Hunter
16MAR2012 Amy Smith Troy, Michigan US 2000 5 seconds south to south-east Orange fireball with Blue glowing hue Brighter than a close aircraft light at night None It was really cool. 16MAR2012 Rick Brown SE of Sandusky, Ohio, USA ...
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Low-Flying Fireball Streaks Across Northern West Virginia Skies, March 16, 2012
DBKP - Death By 1000 Papercuts
Between 8:15 and 8:20 PM, EST, residents of the northern panhandle of West Virginia witnessed a super-bright low-flying object that resembled a large fireball streak across the sky. According to one witness, the object traveled on a horizontal line ...

Much Hadham motorist's meteorite shock
Hertfordshire Mercury Fri, 16 Mar 2012 03:22 AM PDT
A MUCH Hadham motorist had the shock of his life when a meteoriteplummeted from the sky just outside the village.

Meteorite chunk falls on Oslo
BigPond News Thu, 15 Mar 2012 18:21 PM PDT
A chunk of meteorite crashed through the roof and a family's home in the middle of Oslo on March 1.

Meteor Breaks Up Over Walker County
WTVC
The noise was from a space visitor that traveled hundreds of millions of miles -- but don't panic, it was a meteor that exploded into smaller meteorites as it entered the earth's atmosphere. A NASA meteor tracking camera in Hunstville, Alabama caught ...

Recent meteor may have left pieces in Walker County -- Fire in the ...
On Wednesday, March 7, shortly after 10 p.m., a meteor ended its long journey across space just above Walker County. Bill Cooke, Walker County native and ...
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NASA animation shows the moon's development through the ages
The Verge
The animation condenses the millennia down to just under three minutes, highlighting the major periods of meteor bombardment and volcanic activity which shaped the satellite. The images come courtesy of Goddard's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, ...

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Third fireball explodes over Norway this month -- Fire in the Sky ...
Translated by Sott.net reader Before the dust from the previous meteor had settled down, a newmeteor illuminated the night sky over the eastern part of Norway. Tonight's fireball was observed at 00.09.30 on the 14th of March, and was visible ...
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MBIQ Detects Ohio / Michigan Meteor Fireball ~20:05 EST16MAR2012
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16MAR2012 Brian Canfield, Ohio, United States 2010 EST 6 sec W-SE Facing South Flaming green ball As bright as the sun, but only about 1/5 the size of a full moon. Behind mostly. Also slighty flaring left and right with the green fire. About 80 degrees high in the sky, and was moving slightly faster than a satellite.

16MAR2012 Amy Smith Troy, Michigan US 2000 5 seconds south to south-east Orange fireball with Blue glowing hue Brighter than a close aircraft light at night None It was really cool

16MAR2012 Rick Brown SE of Sandusky, Ohio, USA 20:00 EDT 5 seconds West to east - seen while driving eastbound on the Ohio Turnpike white Venus no Very noticeable despite hazy sky - was seen to the SE of our position

16MAR2012 Brian Dishon Newark, Ohio, USA 2007 5 seconds W-E
bright white with large trail sun no very large and bright

16MAR2012 sonya Dresden Ohio United States around 8:00 p.m. 6-8 seconds i was north facing it went west to east was almost blue on the tail orange toward the front Extremely bright..like that of a big full moon no i have never seen a "shooting star" so close!

16NOV2012 Brian Newark, Ohio 20:05 EST 4 seconds West to East Bright white same as sun no but huge trail I have seen many shooting stars before but nothing like this. so huge and still daylight. I was waiting for an explosion. Carziest thing I have ever seen and seemed so close. If I hold my arm straight out would have been the size of a silver dollar

16MAR2012 Sarah W Willoughby Hills, Ohio, USA 2000 EST 8 seconds Eastward Bright White with Red on ball and in trail At least as bright as the moon No Lowest/brightest I've ever seen, and then it just fizzled out

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Meteorite Men - Series 6 (In Russian)
метеорит Meteorite Hunting in Whitecourt, Canada

YouTube Uploaded by meteoritika02 on 13 Mar 2012 27 Views
Meteorite men. Series 6. (In Russian)
Люди и метеориты. Серия 6.
Режиссер: Эдвард Хорвиц.
Производство: 2011
Парни отправляются в Канаду в кратер Уайткорт ( 54.00 N, 115.60 W), чтобы собрать внеземные сокровища для научных исследований.

2012 THE Year of Meteors!

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Meteor Activity Outlook for March 10-16, 2012 | American Meteor ...
This weekend the waning gibbous moon will severely hamper meteor observations as the moon will be above the horizon most of the night. Only an hour or two ...
www.amsmeteors.org/.../meteor-activity-outlook-for-march-1...

Recent meteor may have left pieces in Walker County
Rome News-Tribune Thu, 15 Mar 2012 14:21 PM PDT
On Wednesday, March 7, shortly after 10 p.m., a meteor ended its long journey across space just above Walker County. Bill Cooke, Walker County native and current lead member of the NASA Meteorite ...

Meteorite crashes into Norway cabin
UPI Thu, 15 Mar 2012 13:57 PM PDT
OSLO, Norway, March 15 (UPI) -- A Norwegian family said they visited their cabin after leaving it alone all winter and discovered a meteoritehad crashed through the roof.

Moon History: NASA Video Shows Volcanoes ...
How did the 'man in the moon' take shape? A new NASA video on lunar evolution explains ...
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Mars rocks! Rare Martian meteorite on view through Mar. 26 in NYC
Auction Central News
NEW YORK – An extraordinarily rare Martian meteorite – the only one known to have impacted earth since 1962 – is on display at a New York City gallery now through March 26. Immediately following its East Coast exhibition, the stellar specimen will ...

Moon History: NASA Video Shows Volcanoes, Meteorite Impacts That Made Craters ...
Huffington Post
The video includes extreme impact events like the one that created the moon's South Pole-Aitkin Basin, and views of the volcanic activity subsequently unleashed by smaller meteorites. What's the take-away? Says the LRO team in the video's description: ...

Much Hadham motorist's meteorite shock
Herts and Essex Observer
By Web Reporter A MUCH Hadham motorist had the shock of his life when a meteorite plummeted from the sky just outside the village. Anthony Baxter, who was driving north on the B180 towards Little Hadham, says the object hurtled towards the ground just ...

Oklahomans Report Seeing Meteor In The Pre-Dawn Sky Tuesday
News On 6
The American Meteor Society, a non-profit group dedicated to the study of meteors by both professional and amateur astronomers, says it's received at least 20 reports of a "dazzling fireball" over much of the Midwest. "Reports of many different colors ...

Strategy for modernization of Russian space program
The Voice of Russia
There are currently three working satellites for Earth remote sensing, starting from heavy Resurs-DK (launched in 2006), through Meteor-M No1 (2009), and Elektro-L No 1 on the geostationary orbit (2011). Other launches have been gradually postponed, ...

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March NEOs Updated - More Close to Call Ides 15MAR2012
NEOs (2012 EN5), (2012 EK5), and (2012 EG5) are to make close approaches from today through April 2. Expect some increased meteor, fireball and bolide activity until early April 2012. Get outside and watch and have your video cameras ready. Clear Skies! -LunarMeteorite*Hunter, Tokyo.

UPCOMING CLOSE APPROACHES TO EARTH

1 AU = ~150 million kilometers
1 LD = Lunar Distance = ~384,000 kilometers

Object Name	Close Approach Date	Miss Distance (AU)	Miss Distance (LD)	Estimated Diameter*	H (mag)	Relative Velocity (km/s)
(2012 BB14)	2012-Mar-15	0.0483	18.8	27 m - 60 m	25.0	2.10
(2012 EH5)	2012-Mar-15	0.1105	43.0	41 m - 92 m	24.0	8.39
(2012 EN5)	2012-Mar-15	0.0037	1.4	9.6 m - 22 m	27.2	9.90
(2011 YU62)	2012-Mar-16	0.1885	73.4	830 m - 1.8 km	17.5	17.85
(2010 FN)	2012-Mar-19	0.1438	56.0	13 m - 28 m	26.6	11.18
(2012 BT23)	2012-Mar-20	0.1239	48.2	420 m - 930 m	19.0	13.11
(2012 DO8)	2012-Mar-20	0.1756	68.3	91 m - 200 m	22.3	7.26
(2012 DH4)	2012-Mar-21	0.0606	23.6	190 m - 420 m	20.7	15.55
(2011 SY120)	2012-Mar-21	0.0517	20.1	65 m - 150 m	23.1	17.55
(2001 QJ142)	2012-Mar-22	0.1909	74.3	55 m - 120 m	23.4	8.46
(2012 EK5)	2012-Mar-22	0.0150	5.8	20 m - 45 m	25.6	15.42
(2010 FR9)	2012-Mar-22	0.0479	18.6	16 m - 35 m	26.1	8.66
(2012 EB2)	2012-Mar-23	0.0393	15.3	34 m - 77 m	24.4	5.82
(2012 BS23)	2012-Mar-23	0.1580	61.5	140 m - 310 m	21.4	11.05
(2012 DW30)	2012-Mar-24	0.1191	46.4	76 m - 170 m	22.7	5.02
(2012 EC)	2012-Mar-24	0.1939	75.4	52 m - 120 m	23.5	2.90
(2012 DO)	2012-Mar-25	0.1061	41.3	240 m - 540 m	20.2	7.59
152754 (1999 GS6)	2012-Mar-26	0.1118	43.5	340 m - 760 m	19.5	11.71
(2011 GB55)	2012-Mar-27	0.1114	43.4	130 m - 280 m	21.6	16.14
(2002 EW8)	2012-Mar-28	0.1996	77.7	53 m - 120 m	23.5	13.67
(2012 CA55)	2012-Mar-30	0.0566	22.0	120 m - 260 m	21.8	9.26
(2008 GD)	2012-Mar-30	0.1687	65.6	300 m - 670 m	19.7	32.35
(2009 TP)	2012-Mar-31	0.1157	45.0	52 m - 120 m	23.5	3.72
(2008 CH70)	2012-Apr-01	0.0872	33.9	34 m - 77 m	24.4	9.06
(2012 EG5)	2012-Apr-02	0.0017	0.7	40 m - 89 m	24.1	8.24

Source and latest updates: http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/ca/

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Life in rock: What meteorites can tell us about the solar system
Wired.co.uk
By Hal Hodson What clues about life in our solar system are encased in the millions of tonnes of meteorite that pummel our atmosphere every day? Wired.co.uk met astrobiologist Zita Martins at the Royal Society's Objects in Space exhibition to find out.

This is why astronomers build telescopes in the mountains of Chile
io9
When it comes to enjoying the full-blown magnificence of a star-studded sky, or the peak of a spectacular meteor shower, the Moon (to borrow a phrase from astronomer Mike Brown) is your nemesis. But if this map of light pollution in the United States ...

R. Jeffrey Smith
The Cutting Edge
The asteroid that created Arizona's Barringer Meteor Crater was about 150 feet across, and hit at about 28600 mph. The crater is 2.4 miles in circumference and more than 550 feet deep. More will be known next year, after new calculations, ...

Meteor in Kansas March 13th 2012 6:42AM - YouTube
2 min
This is a clip off of a home CCTV system in Haysville KS of the Meteor that was spotted ...
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Family finds meteorite in living room
Examiner.com
At the start of March, there was a rash of meteor sightings in Northern Europe, with some even being caught on video. The surprising fact: there was no meteor shower taking place at the time, either, meaning that the Earth had hit a random stream of ...

New Mesmerizing Video Shows the Whole Evolution of the Moon
Gizmodo
It went through a period of heavy meteor bombardment. That's when its main basin was formed. This violent era lasted from 4.1 to 3.8 billion years ago, but it wasn't the last one. The Moon resisted stoically and deformed for a few more years, ...

County holding Dark Sky Park forum March 23
Harbor Light
Plans will be also shared for how you can participate in the “Lights Out Across the Bay” challenge scheduled for Saturday evening, April 21, the night of the Lyrid Meteor Shower and during Global Astronomy Month. Those interested in participating can ...

Watch how the Moon was formed
ITworld.com
This second video might even be cooler - it shows animation of how the moon evolved, from its beginnings about 4.5 billion years ago, to crater creation through meteor bombardment. A lot of the information for the videos and animation comes from the ...

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Venus and Jupiter in Conjunction 15MAR2012

'Conjunction of Glory as seen from Southern Germany' by Robert Blasius. #VenusJupiter
Astronomers Without Borders (AWB) http://www.astronomerswithoutborders.org/

Venus and Jupiter will be in conjunction on March 15th, 2012, passing within 3° of each other. The two planets have been getting closer and closer in the sky for the last month, and now it’s time to see them side-by-side. Venus is the higher, brighter object, and Jupiter is the lower dimmer one.

Of course, Venus and Jupiter aren’t actually close to one another in the sky. They’re really separated by millions of kilometres. But from our perspective here on Earth, we see the two objects closely lined up. That’s a conjunction. And in case you’re wondering, the conjunction will be visible from everywhere on Earth As a special bonus, the planet Mars is also high and bright in the sky, visible as that bright red “star” further to the East, Mars recently reached its closest point to Earth, known as opposition. Mars won’t be this close and bright for two more years. The sky show will continue, and on March 25th, 2012, the New Moon will join the pair again to create a triple conjunction. Another great photo opportunity. Although 3° sounds close, they can actually get much closer. In October 26, 2015, for example, the two planets will only be 1° apart.

We are organizing observation session, all members are invited, come down to our Zubair Camp, the event is free, we will start 6PM to 9PM. For location please see maps on our website. http://www.dubaiastronomy.com/

Wish you Astronomical times.
Best Regards,
Hasan Ahmad Al Hariri
Dubai Astronomy Group

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