01 July 2011

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 30JUN2011

Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News: Breaking News -MBIQ ...
Queensland, NSW, Australia Meteor 17JUN2011 v.5(c) 2011 LunarMeteorite*Hunter / Google Earth
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Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News: MBIQ Detects Poland Meteor ...
Poland Meteor 18JUN2011 v.1(c) LunarMeteorite*Hunter / Google Earth
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Huge Meteor Plunges Into Sea (or Not)
North Coast Journal
(June 30, 2011) “Huge Meteor Plunges Into Sea Narrowly Missing Tug,” reads the page one headline of Eureka's old daily, the Humboldt Standard, for Sept. 13, 1930. “Tug Humboldt was towing the Norwegian motorship Childar out to sea on a 300-yard line ...

Stargazers' Guide: Just what is a meteor shower?
TriValley Central
By KAYNE CRISON Before getting started on meteor showers, it may be best to take a minute to explain the difference between a meteor and a meteorite. The difference is whether it makes it to the ground or not. Outer space is filled with trillions of 
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Reaching for the stars could avert catastrophe
Abilene Reporter-News
Even a small meteor, such as one that exploded in the air above Siberia in 1908, burst with "about a megaton" of power — equivalent to about million tons of TNT. A meteor that airburst over Brazil in the 1930s exploded over a similarly unpopulated ...


Why I'm Sad Asteroid 2011 MD Missed Earth
Discovery News
But probably the most famous "quasi-near miss" was The Great Daylight Fireball of 1972 when a 3 meter-wide meteoroid entered our upper atmosphere for a few seconds and left again after passing over the USA. On a technically, the 1972 fireball hit our ...



NASA Online Videos Provide New Approach to Teach Science to Public
PR Newswire (press release)
Future episodes will focus on citizen science research; the search for new galaxies; how to watch this summer's Perseid meteor shower; and the causes of recent wild weather events in the United States. NASA's Science Mission Directorate seeks new ...



Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News: Sweden / Finland Green ...
By LunarMeteorite*Hunter
Composite Image of 27JUN2011 Meteor Event as Seen from Mikkeli Ursa,Finland (c) 2011 Aki Taavitsainen and Jani Lauanne ALL Rights Reserved - No Copy without written permission. Sweden Bolide Meteor Fireball ~23:55 Sweden Local Time ...
Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News




One Hundred Years Ago Today, A Mars Meteorite Fell in a Blaze
Smithsonian (blog)
But soon after, WF Hume, minister of the Geological Survey of Egypt, began taking eyewitness statements, and two months later published his report, “The FirstMeteorite Record in Egypt.” One of those statements, from a farmer who claimed to have seen a ...


Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News: Lexington, KY Orange-red ...
By LunarMeteorite*Hunter
Location name (town,city) where you were when saw the meteor? Start and Stop location in sky? Direction of movement? Duration of Event (seconds)? Brightness ( in comparison with Venus, Moon, Sun) color, sounds? Photos? ...
Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News


Fire And Flood Stoke Fears At US Nuclear Facilities, But Officials Say ...
Huffington Post
"The biggest concern now would be an upstream dam," he added. "If one of those were to fail, that would change the situation, but then you just start doing a lot of 'what ifs' -- like what if a meteor
 hits the plant."


Meteor Activity Outlook for June 25-July 1, 2011 | American Meteor ...
It must be remembered that meteor activity is rarely seen at the radiant position. Rather they shoot outwards from the radiant so it is best to center your ...
www.amsmeteors.org/.../meteor-activity-outlook-for-june-25-j..
Asteroid the size of an RV buzzes the Earth today
God Discussion
It's not the size of the monster that created Meteor Crater in Arizona, but it's pretty large, all the same. And lucky for us, the asteroid coined MD 2011 will miss us by 12, 400 km (7430 miles) today. ...


Weighted ping-pong balls can fall endlessly through a granular medium (w/ video)
PhysOrg.com
(PhysOrg.com) -- When a meteor impacts a planet or a moon, it always stops at a relatively shallow depth, even when impacting at high speeds. Until now, researchers have assumed that all objects impacting a granular medium – such as sand or beads...


6th-grade graduation brings tears
Worcester Telegram
She had come in possession of an object that she felt was part of a meteorite. I had looked at hermeteorite, weighed it in my hands, and declared that it was no meteorite at all, perhaps a piece of burnt and hardened plastic container, but definitely ...
This Week in Space History: Los Alamos tested nuclear engines for spaceflight
Alamogordo Daily News
Nellis Air Force Base and McCarran officials determined the object was a "dying meteor" and not "one of those airborne weirdies." The "only disappointed persons in the matter were avid science fiction readers and relentless pursuers of unidentified ...
Adirondack Almanack: Adirondack Astronomy: The Boötid Meteor Shower
By Michael Rector
At this time of year the orbital dust from the comet 7P/Pons-Winnecke, which orbits our sun once about every six years, is the cause of the Bootid meteor shower. In 1998 and 2004 this shower had outbursts that produced up to 50-100 ...
Field Training and Research Program at Meteor Crater
The Field Training and Research Program at Meteor Crater is organized under the auspices of the NASA Lunar Science Institute, which is designed in part, ...
lunarscience.arc.nasa.gov/.../field-training-and-research-progr...
meteorobs : Message: Re: (meteorobs) Ready with Meteor Mitts!
meteorobs: Amateur meteor astronomy. ... Re: (meteorobs) Ready with Meteor Mitts ! In a message dated 6/23/2011 1:31:44 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, ...
tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/meteorobs/message/40019
June 20th 2011 Meteor over Central Texas on Vimeo
My meteor camera at my BuckSnort Observatory in Central Texas caught this bright fireball last night!
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INCOMING! Asteroid to Narrowly Miss Earth on Monday
Discovery News
On arrival at the asteroid, and having sacrificed many of the team, Willis et al. succeeded in dropping a typical Hollywood-style uber-bomb into the depths of the incoming asteroid and blew it to bits, giving everyone on Earth a glitzy meteor shower.
Tatler's today in American history — June 24
Pajamas Media
In 1938, pieces of a large meteor struck near Chicora, PA. In 1947, the term “flying saucer” was born, near Mt. Ranier, WA. In 2010, American John Isner defeated Frenchman Nicolas Mahut at Wimbledon, in the longest match in pro tennis history.
Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News: Breaking Meteor News- MBIQ ...
I caught the Fireball seen over Texas last night (June 20th) with my meteor camera – wow! My camera is located at my observatory near Adamsville, Texas. ...
lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.com/.../killeen-tx-green-meteo..
Meteor Crater Field Camp Opportunity for Graduate Students (Apply ...
By smdnews
Organized under the NASA Lunar Science Institute, The Field Training and Research Program atMeteor Crater is a week-long geology field class and research project based at Barringer Meteorite Crater, Ariz. The field camp will be led by ...
NASA Earth & Space Science Education..


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