29 March 2013

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 29MAR2013

Meteor Activity Outlook for March 23-29, 2013 | American Meteor ...
The estimated total hourly meteor rates for evening observers this week is near two as seen from the northern hemisphere and three as seen from south of the ...

Meteor lights up night sky over eastern United States - Yahoo! News ...
From Yahoo! News Canada: By Daniel Trotta NEW YORK (Reuters) - A meteor bright enough to be classified as a fireball lit up the night sky over eastern North ...
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Watch NOVA's “Meteor Strike”
Watch Meteor Strike on PBS. See more from NOVA. It was an event that took the world by ...
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Meteor lights up sky along east coast | Fox News Video
Meteor lights up sky along east coast. Advertisement. Details. Description. Fireball seen from ...
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Meteor lights up Wyoming sky
Casper Star-Tribune Online
Technically, the debris was a “fireball,” a meteor brighter than Venus, and possibly a “bolide,” a fireball that explodes in the atmosphere, according to the American Meteor Society. The society tracks sightings of space debris. It received 55 reports ...

Meteor Strike: NOVA on PBS digs into science of 2013 Russian asteroid landing
Stabley Times
Russia survived the last meteor, and PBS survived that last presidential election, and now the two are coming together on tonight's episode of NOVA. The science themed show run by David Pogue and company will delve into what really happened with the ...

Green Meteorite May Be from Mercury, a First
Thu, 28 Mar, 2013 12:59 PM PDT
A newfound meteorite may actually be from Mercury.Continue reading

Rock used by Spanish farmer to press ham for 30 years turns out to be ironmeteorite worth £3.5m
Thu, 28 Mar, 2013 07:58 AM PDT
Faustino Asensio Lopez found the 100kg rock, which measures just 45x31x20cm, as he was tending to livestock with his father in a field near Ciudad Real in 1980.Continue reading

Volcano eruption theory gains backing in dinosaur extinction
Thu, 28 Mar, 2013 10:33 AM PDT
By Larry O'HanlonDiscovery NewsSome 20 years after its conviction in slaying of the dinosaurs, the Chicxulub impact crater is facing a retrial by a growing number of geologists who think the mass extinction event 65 million years ago was caused by something much larger. Not a larger meteorite, but a fa...Continue reading

Early birds report meteor
ReporterHerald.com
What is thought to have been a bright meteor, streaking across the predawn Northern Colorado sky Thursday, sparked reports from dozens of early birds who happened to view it. Loveland resident Shawn Kraft caught it as he drove northward on U.S. 287, ...

The Eta Aquarid meteor shower peaks in early May
Astronomy Magazine
At 148,000 mph (238,000 km/h), Eta Aquarid meteors are the second fastest of any annual shower. Only the Leonids of November hit our atmosphere faster, at 159,000 mph (256,000 km/h). The Eta Aquarid meteor shower is one of two that derives from Comet ...

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