26 May 2010

Meteor/Meteorite News 26MAY2010

Colorado Fireball of May 16, 2010
The meteor was very slow, and did show some small fragmentation events.
Witnesses reported seeing debris shedding. The later part of the ground path
is over private ranch land in South Park (cattle and buffalo), and is
potentially searchable. The central part of the path, where most of the
fragmentation was observed, is over mountainous area that will make finding
anything very unlikely.
by Chris Peterson Cloudbait Observatory
released May 25, 2010 pm
http://www.cloudbait.com

Navy plane drops buoy on Florida house
MANDARIN, Fla. (AP) - A north Florida man is glad his daughter didn't sleep in on Friday.
http://www.wdtn.com/dpps/military/Navy-plane-drops-buoy-on-Florida-house_3378473

Meteorite? Piece of Icelandic volcano? Rock?
KLTV 7 Tyler
Tue, 25 May 2010 14:23 PM PDT
Imagine sitting in your backyard when all of a sudden, an object comes hurling out of the sky! That's what happened to a Tyler woman Monday afternoon.... [not a meteorite]

Search launched off NT coast

ABC Local
Police are organising a search after a flare was seen off the coast of the Northern Territory last night, but they suspect it was a meteor. ...

Martian meteorite may hold clues to water on the Red Planet
PhysOrg Mon, 24 May 2010 04:03 AM PDT
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists are examining fragments of a Martian meteorite to try to establish when water was freely flowing on the red planet.
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Atlantis: Damage survey ahead
Straits Times Mon, 24 May 2010 02:02 AM PDT
CAPE CANAVERAL (Florida) - THE Atlantis astronauts have some surveying work ahead of them, now that they're flying free of the International Space Station. The six shuttle astronauts will pull out their newly repaired inspection boom on Monday to check for any micro-meteorite damage that might have occurred during the past week and a half. A snagged cord prevented them from conducting a proper ...

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