26 July 2010

Meteor/Meteorite News 26JUL10

Untouched meteorite impact crater found via Google Earth
PhysOrg.com(PhysOrg.com) -- A pristine meteorite impact crater has been found in a remote area of the Sahara desert in southwest Egypt. The crater was originally ...

Star gazers of Akashmitra unite at astronomy lecture series
Indian ExpressAt the age of 16, Rucha Deshpande has seen a Venus transit and several meteor showers, is the proud owner of two telescopes, and on Sunday, she delivered an ...

Research Yields Greater Precision In Determining Age of MeteoritesSpace Dailyby Staff Writers Researchers have aged dated a very important group of meteorites with far greater precision than previously possible by using a different ...

First Person: False Alarm Leads to Once-in-a-Lifetime Shooting StarSpace.comI enjoyed some doozies during the 2001 Leonid meteor shower. Some are created by bits of natural space debris no bigger than a pea, often chunks of ...

Meteorite' lands on cricket pitch during county matchTelegraph.co.ukUnless, that is, it turns out to be a meteorite. By Richard Alleyne, Science Correspondent Jan Marszel, 51, and Richard Haynes, 52, were on the boundary ...

'Meteorite' lands on cricket pitch during county matchTelegraph.co.ukUnless, that is, it turns out to be a meteorite. By Richard Alleyne, Science Correspondent Jan Marszel, 51, and Richard Haynes, 52, were on the boundary ...

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