26 April 2012

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 26APR2012 - late news

 Meteorite Found In Sierra Foothills - Sacramento ...
LOTUS, Calif -- Tiny meteorites found in the Sierra foothills of Northern California likely were ...
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Meteorites From Giant Fireball Found In Sierra Foothills Town « CBS ...
By Staff
Tiny meteorites found in the Sierra foothills of Northern California likely were part of a giant fireballthat exploded in daylight with about one-third the explosive force of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima at the end of World War II, scientists said ...
CBS Sacramento

APNewsBreak: Fireball remnants likely in Calif. - WMBFNews.com ...
Robert Ward has been hunting and collecting meteorites for more than 20 years so he knew he'd found something special in the Sierra foothills along the path of a flaming fireball that shook parts of Northern California...More >> ...
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From giant fireball over Calif., tiny meteorites
Fox News
AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli April 22, 2012: A fireball lights up the sky.FOX40 Apr. 25, 2012: Robert Ward displays one of two pieces of a meteorite he found at a park in Lotus, Calif. The rocks came from a meteor, believed to between 4 to 5 billion years ...

Rush on to find fragments of California meteor – This ...
There's a new rush on in California's gold rush country. This time, they're prospecting for ...
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Meteorite hunters descend on Gold Rush towns
News10.net
LOTUS, CA - Meteorite hunters are flooding into this historic Gold Rush canyon in search of a new kind of gold, black meteorites that hit above the Sierra last Sunday morning. Now, it's meteoritehunters like Robert Ward of Prescott, Ariz. who are ...

Join Rockhaven meteorite hunt
StarPhoenix
21, and are likely aware that numerous people have been searching for meteorites that might have been produced. So far, no meteorite fragment have been found that are definitely attributed to this event. It seems likely that if a specimen is to be ...

Fireball Remnants Likely in Calif. Some of Oldest
ABC News
Robert Ward has been hunting and collecting meteorites for more than 20 years so he knew he'd found something special in the Sierra foothills along the path of a flamingfireball that shook parts of Northern California and Nevada with a sonic boom over ...

Meteorite Found In Sierra Foothills
KCRA Sacramento
LOTUS, Calif -- Researchers believe tiny meteorites found in the Sierra foothills of northern California were part of a giant fireball that exploded over El Dorado County Sunday. Professional meteorite hunter Robert Ward found two 10 gram rocks along ...

Astronomer finds meteorite pieces
San Francisco Chronicle
Searchers near historic Sutter's Mill have discovered fragments of the meteorite that exploded high in the sky at sunrise last Sunday. Petrus Jenniskens, the same NASA astronomer who trekked across the Nubian desert four years ago to recover fragments ...

Let's Talk About: Antarctic meteorites
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
By Dan Malerbo / Buhl Planetarium and Observatory Scientists recently returned 302 meteoritesfrom an expedition to Antarctica. Since the first meteorite was discovered on that continent in 1912, Antarctica has become the world's major meteorite ...

Fireball Remnants Likely Found Outside Sacto
NBC Bay Area
“Fireballs you can see relatively easily in the daytime and are many times that size – anywhere from a baseball-sized object to something as big as a minivan.” The Associated Press is reporting that possible remnants from the blast are now being found ...

APNewsBreak: Fireball remnants likely in Calif.
Daily Comet
Tiny meteorites found in the Sierra foothills of Northern California likely were part of a giant fireball that exploded in daylight with about one-third the explosive force of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima at the end of World War II, scientists said ...

Fireball remnants likely in California after meteor
USA TODAY
A meteor soars over Reno, Nev., on Sunday. Reports of the fireball have come in from as far north as Sacramento, Calif. A meteor soars over Reno, Nev., on Sunday. Reports of the fireball have come in from as far north as Sacramento, Calif.

USA TODAY

NASA Asks Public to Provide Videos and Photos of Meteor (with photos of fresh ...
Space Ref (press release)
NASA and the SETI Institute are asking the public for more information to help find amateur photos and video footage of the daylight meteor that illuminated the sky over the Sierra Nevada mountains and created sonic booms that were heard over a wide ...

Space Ref (press release)

Astronomer finds meteorite pieces in Gold Country
San Francisco Chronicle
"This meteor itself must have been big," Jennniskens said, "probably in the kiloton range. But now we need to find more fragments so we can begin to understand how it broke apart and what was inside it." A team of searchers from the NASA Ames Research ...

Meteor/Fireball Seen Over Brazil - April 20th, 2012
YouTube
At approximately 23:20 pm, the day on April 21, a meteor was seen passing over the city of Campos dos Goytacazes Southwest to the Northeast according to recent reports of people who saw the fireball, probably lasting over 10 seconds and very bright.

APNewsBreak: Meteorites found in Northern California likely from giant ...
Washington Post
Tiny meteorites found in the Sierra foothills of northern California were part of a giant fireball that exploded over the weekend with about one-third the explosive force of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in World War II, scientists said ...

APNewsBreak: Fireball remnants likely in Calif.
Palm Beach Post
Robert Ward displays one of two pieces of a meteorite he found at a park in Lotus, Calif., Wednesday, April 25, 2012. Ward found the pieces from a meteor that was probably about the size of a minivan when it entered the Earth's atmosphere with a loud...
Meteor Explosion In Nevada Was One Third The Size Of Hiroshima Bomb, Expert Says
Huffington Post
Experts say the flaming meteor, dating to the early formation of the solar system 4 to 5 billion years ago, was probably about the size of a minivan when it entered the Earth's atmosphere with a loud boom early Sunday. It was seen from Sacramento, ...

Fireball remnants likely in California after meteor
USA TODAY
(AP) – Tiny meteorites found in the Sierra foothills of northern California were part of a giant fireballthat exploded over the weekend with about one-third the explosive force of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in World War II, scientists said ...

Recent Fireball Seen in Brazil Was Actually Re-Entering Centaur Rocket
Universe Today
“An amazing video that shows a fireball lasting more than 30 seconds captured the reentry of a Centaur rocket body that was launched on 1985,” said Irizarry in an email, reporting for the Sociedad de Astronomía del Caribe, the Puerto Rican Astronomy ...

Universe Today

2012 THE Year of Meteors!