Meteor/Meteorite News 29DEC2010

Largest single fragment of stony meteorite ever found
People's Daily Online
In 1976, a rare large meteorite shower covering 500 square kilometers appeared in Jilin City. The largest meteorite, weighing 1770 kilograms, ...


Berwyn Mountains “UFO” mystery deepens
Daily Post North Wales
One suggested there was a combination of events, a meteor shower combined with an earthquake – the epicentre of which was at Bala Lake – and misperception ...

Meteorite Hunting Secrets Revealed by 'Meteorite Men' Star ContributorNetwork via Yahoo! News Tue, 28 Dec 2010 11:04 AM PST This is the third article based on my exclusive interview with Steve Arnold, one of the two co-stars of the Science Channel TV show "Meteorite Men." Read the first, "Meteorite Men Star Clears Up Misconceptions about Meteors", here. The second, "Meteorite Men Star Builds Career from Space Rocks," is here. ... Boom, flash mystifies Troy on Christmas The Western News Steve Sigler, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Missoula, said it is possible Troy witnessed its own personal Christmas meteor. ... 39th Annual Flagg Gem and Mineral Show EVLiving This is also the first year that ASU's Center for Meteorite Studies will participate with a “meteorite dig” activity in which visitors can collect fragments ...

Meteor/Meteorite News 28DEC2010

Viewing the 2011 Quadrantid Meteor Shower | American Meteor Society
Examples of Quadrantid meteors seen looking north near 5am local time on ... He received a sample copy of Meteor News. He was amazed to learn there was a ...
www.amsmeteors.org/.../viewing-the-2011-quadrantid-meteor...


SkyandTelescope.com - Meteors - Meteor Showers in 2011
Sky & Telescope predicts that 2011's best meteor showers should be the Quadrantids in January and — maybe — an unusual outburst by the normally meek ...
www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/objects/.../112475399.ht...

Meteors will light up the winter sky
Astronomy Magazine
By Michael E. Bakich — Published: December 27, 2010 The Quadrantid meteor shower peaks before dawn January 4. There will be no interference from the New ...


Starship Asterisk* • View topic - Meteor Impact
What speed would a 10^9 kg heavy meteor need to have to slow down the rotation of the earth that a day lasts 25 hours? Did the day length on the earth vary ...
bb.nightskylive.net/asterisk/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=22299

Meteor/Meteorite News 27DEC2010

Dec 25, 2010 evening fireball - New Mexico

reported by Thomas Ashcraft  |  New Mexico

Nice meteor over eastern New Mexico Dec 25 at 2218 MST evening. (Dec 26, 2010, 0518 UTC).

Interestingly, the slower and sometimes larger the fireball, the less radio scatter reflection it creates. This one made just a subtle "twinkle."
http://www.heliotown.com/FBs20101226_0518ut_Ashcraft.mp4

Team extends Stardust's fuel mileage for comet mission
BY STEPHEN CLARK - SPACEFLIGHT NOW
December 23, 2010
DENVER -- A lean team of Lockheed Martin engineers is taking fuel efficiency to new heights. Flight controllers here are meticulously managing what little fuel is left inside the Stardust spacecraft speeding toward a Valentine's Day rendezvous with Tempel 1, a ball of ice and rock bombarded by a manmade impactor five years ago. NASA and Lockheed Martin officials are confident Stardust has just enough fuel to pull off the flyby, which is scheduled around 11:30 p.m. Eastern time on Feb. 14. ...


Meteor Showers in 2011
Sky & Telescope
by J. Kelly Beatty Spend even an hour under a dark, Moonless sky, and you'll likely catch sight of ameteor as it suddenly and unexpectedly paints a bright ...


Wave at the International Space Station This Week
Patch
There are so many objects up there to catch our attention; the moon, stars, planets and even the occasional meteor. Let me give you another object look for! ...


Discoveries, cosmic events await new decade
Akron Beacon Journal (blog)
The Quadrantid meteor shower peaks in the early morning hours of Jan. 3 and 4. Observers may see from 10 to around 60 meteors per hour at maximum. ...


Sparkling silence at last
Nashua Telegraph
Early on during the first month of 2011, we kick off the new year with a regularly pleasing meteorshower. The Quadrantids typically produce around 40 ...

What's Up in January Year begins with good views of giant stars and planets Press Herald The other highlights for this first month of the year include another meteor shower, Jupiter still gracing our evening sky, and Saturn and Venus adorning ...

Meteor/Meteorite News 26DEC2010

Quadrantid Meteors: Fire over Ice Sky & Telescope And lying still for an hour or more to count meteors means you generate your minimum body heat. Welcome to viewing conditions for the Quadrantid meteor ... Sparkling silence at last Nashua Telegraph Early on during the first month of 2011, we kick off the new year with a regularly pleasing meteor shower. The Quadrantids typically produce around 40 ... Halley's Comet steps in for the Star of Bethlehem | Astro Bob By astrobob I suppose you could argue that it also resembles a meteor, but it's unlikely that's what Giotto had in mind. A meteor, however bright, flashes by in a second or two and is gone. Assuming the artist wanted to stick to the Biblical ... Astro Bob - http://astrobob.areavoices.com/

elp allsky: Merry Christmas Meteors...DEC25, 2010... By elp allsky Meteor News...Geminids Image Updated 12/19/10 at 01:48 MST (08:48 UTC)... The desert skies of El Paso, Texas in the Southwestern U.S. offered some of the best views of this year's Geminid Meteor Shower. Upwards of . ... elp allsky - http://elpasoallsky.blogspot.com/ Cosmic Collisions: Meteorite Treasure : Video ... 3 min Fragments of extraterrestrial rock are valuable, much sought after clues to the history and composition of the Solar System. dsc.discovery.com ニュース 科学＆宇宙 超高温の隕石からアミノ酸を発見 ナショナルジオ ... ニュース - 科学＆宇宙 - 超高温の隕石からアミノ酸を発見 - 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... Indian rocket fails moments after liftoff Spaceflight Now BY STEPHEN CLARK India's largest rocket lost control and erupted in a fireball Saturday, dealing another blow to the country's space program after ...

Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 25DEC2010 Merry Christmas!

What's going on: Dec. 24, 2010 Odessa American Fri, 24 Dec 2010 10:29 AM PST EVENTS The Crater Museum has scheduled the "Meteorites as Art"  exhibit beginning Jan. 1 at the Crater Museum. Twelve photographs  show the colorful mineral ingredients that form a meteorite. Museum  hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through... Volcano Watch: Revisiting the 1919–1920 Mauna Iki eruption Hawaii 24/7 December 16, 1919, a bright meteor streaked over Kilauea like a fireball  and exploded southwest of the summit. The concussion — a portent of  things to come on the ... A fin de cuentas, ¿hubo una estrella en Belén? MDZol - ‎16 時間前‎ Meteoritos.- Una lluvia de meteoritos no parece ser una opción, pues Mateo tan sólo habla de una estrella en singular. Pero un único meteorito o un bólido, ...

Meteor/Meteorite News 25DEC2010

Telepolis

„Unmögliche“ Amino-säuren in Meteorit entdeckt

scinexx | Das Wissensmagazin - ‎2010年12月22日‎

Wissenschaftler haben Aminosäuren in einem Meteoriten
 nachgewiesen, die es eigentlich nicht geben dürfte. Denn
 der Asteroid 2008 TC3 wurde kurz vor seinem ...

KOMPAS.com

Bakal Kehidupan Ditemukan di Meteorit

KOMPAS.com - ‎2010年12月22日‎

KOMPAS.com — Asam amino yang selama ini disebut
 sebagai senyawa bakal kehidupan ditemukan di batu
 meteor (meteorit) yang jatuh di Sudan. ...

WartaNews

NASA Temukan Unsur Asam Amino Pada Meteorit

WartaNews - ‎2010年12月21日‎

Asam amino yang merupakan cikal bakal dari protein,
ditemukan secara tidak sengaja di dalam fragmen meteorit
 tersebut, dimana sebelumnya Asam Amino ...

Geologen erklären größte Katastrophe des Mittelalters

Spiegel Online - ‎2010年12月21日‎

Geoforscher haben den Kreis möglicher Verursacher eingegrenzt:
 Nur ein großer Vulkan oder ein Meteorit kommen in Frage. Doch
 was genau die Ursache war wurde ...

Idegen aminosavat talált a NASA egy meteoritban

Index - ‎2010年12月22日‎

Ezúttal egy 2008-ban Szudánban lezuhant meteorit belsejében
találták meg az élet legalapvetőbb építőkockáit, aminosavakat.
Az aminosavak a fehérjék ...

Feuriger Weihnachtstruthahn

Deutschlandfunk - ‎2010年12月23日‎
Dezember ein anfangs vermutlich etwa 40 Zentimeter großer
Meteorit von Südosten kommend über Mittelengland hinweg.
Als grelle Feuerkugel verlor er einen ...

Osel.cz

Aminokyseliny ve vzácném meteoritu Almahata Sitta

Osel.cz - ‎2010年12月20日‎

Tomu bylo přisouzeno označení 2008 TC 3 , jeho
 fragmentům pak souhrnný název meteorit Almahata
 Sitta, což v arabštině znamená Stanice šest, neboli
Šestá ...

Meteor/Meteorite News 24DEC2010

Meteor/Meteorite News 2011 not far away!

NASA's Next Mars Rover to Zap Rocks With Laser
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
December 22, 2010
A rock-zapping laser instrument on NASA's next Mars rover has roots in a demonstration that Roger Wiens saw 13 years ago in a colleague's room at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. ...

UA Catalina Sky Survey Discovers Possible Extinct Comet
... An asteroid, [asteroid 596 Scheila] discovered more than 100 years ago my not be an asteroid at all, but an extinct comet that is coming back to life, according to new observations. ...

Stargazing Live in and around Liverpool
BBC News
Among events covered are: a partial eclipse of the sun; a major meteorite shower; and the close conjunction of Jupiter and Uranus. ...

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