26 August 2011

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 26AUG2011

Astronomers discover planet made of diamond
(Reuters) - Astronomers have spotted an exotic planet that seems to be made of diamond racing around a tiny star in our galactic backyard. ...

Meteorite soars over Peru
Telegraph.co.uk
A suspected meteorite has been caught on film soaring across the sky over the Peruvian city of Cusco. The amateur footage shows the glowing ball of rock soaring across the horizon near the Andes mountains in southern Peru. As it fell from space local ...  (Contrail from Aircraft!!!)

Meteor Survival Tips | Ape, not monkey
By Jeffrey Weston
Updated every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Meteor Survival Tips. ◄ Previous |. August 26th, 2011 ... Latest Comics. Meteor Survival Tips · Origin Of Cloud Nine · Calculating The Gravitational Constant ...

Mutant Space Maggots Invade the Earth
Dread Central
meteor blasts through space and quickly enters the Earth's atmosphere, crashing hard and littering the area with fragments of meteorite. Two unsuspecting campers witness the spectacle and proceed to investigate. Maggots crawl from the broken ...
Streak in sky likely piece of comet
Winnipeg Sun
“People said it looked like a very bright fireball and it was heading in a westerly direction,” Rutkowski said of Tuesday's sighting. “Some people described it as a long, blue teardrop. Clearly it was a piece of a comet or something like that. 
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Weather Talk: Region witnesses a type of meteor called fireball
In-Forum
What they saw was a kind of glorified meteor called a fireball. Most meteors are made of a rock from space smaller than a pea. As they enter Earth's atmosphere at an extremely high velocity, these pebbles burn up quickly, usually at an altitude of 40 
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Asteroid Dust Confirms Meteorite Origins
New York Times
By SINDYA N. BHANOO Last year, a Japanese spacecraft brought asteroid dust back to Earth for the first time, and now researchers analyzing the dust report that mostmeteorites on Earth originate from stony S-type asteroids like the one sampled, ...
Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News: MBIQ Indicates Meteor ...
MBIQ Indicates Meteor Event Over South Dakota, North Dakota, Colorado, Nebraska, Minnesota and Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Canada 23AUG2011 ...
lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.com/.../mbiq-indicates-meteor-...

Malta: Burning UFO thought to be a fireball -- Fire in the Sky -- Sott.net
A strange object spotted by residents in the skies above Birżebbuġa on Saturday night could have been a "very bright meteor", also referred to as a fireball...
www.sott.net/.../234037-Malta-Burning-UFO-thought-to-be-a-...

Astronomers confirm fireball meteor entered Irish atmosphere
Irish Central
Irish astronomers have confirmed that a fireball meteor entered the atmosphere above Ireland earlier this week and have appealed for video evidence of the event. Astronomy Ireland has reported that afireball meteor entered the atmosphere in the early 
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Asteroid sample nails meteorite source
Science News
For starters, the dust reveals which type of asteroid is responsible for the meteorites that litter Earth, says planetary scientist Bill Bottke of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo. Until Hayabusa returned with a sample of Itokawa's 
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Weird lights flash across night sky Tuesday
Dickinson Press
Echo Press reader Brian Alvstad posted this on the newspaper's Facebook page Wednesday: “Find out what the heck that meteor or asteroid or comet was that flew in the sky around 9:45 last night [Tuesday]...it was green and purple and you could tell when 
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Weird lights flash across night sky
Jamestown Sun
After hunting around on the Internet, the newspaper found a blog — lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot — that included several sightings of a fireball or meteor from sky watchers across the Midwest on Tuesday night. Here are just a few: Huron, South 
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Burning UFO thought to be a fireball
Times of Malta
A strange object spotted by residents in the skies above Birżebbuġa on Saturday night could have been a “very bright meteor”, also referred to as a fireball, according to the Astronomical Society of Malta. It has attempted to shed light on the 
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隕石の中からDNAの構成要素と宇宙由来の有機物を確認
隕石と有機物の化学式イメージクリックで拡大提供NASA's Goddard Space Flight ... 隕石のうち特に炭素に富んでいる炭素質隕石と呼ばれる隕石や NASA の探査機 ...
www.astroarts.co.jp/news/2011/08/22meteorite/index-j.shtml

Ufologist says bright thing in Manitoba sky could have been a meteor, or ?
Winnipeg Free Press
Rutkowski says once in a while pieces of meteor drop to earth, but the cases are extremely rare and usually happen in very isolated areas. He also says this is a good time to be watching for planets —- Mars and Jupiter are visible very early in the ...

Bright Lights In the Manitoba Sky
CJOB
A very bright meteor or even a chunk of a comet was seen over Manitoba skies Tuesday night. Chris Rutkowski who does Ufology Research in Manitoba gets the calls when there are sightings here. Rutkowski says once in awhile pieces of meteor drop to earth ...

Burning Fireball Lights Up Sky
Portage Online
A number of southern Manitoba residents noticed something unique in the sky last night. Scott Young is an astronomer at The Manitoba Museum, and shares they've already received quite a few reports. Young tells us people were able to watch it for a few ...

Meteorites Possible From Irish Fireball -- Fire in the Sky -- Sott.net
Astronomy Ireland (AI) has confirmed that a fireball meteor entered the atmosphere above Ireland in the early hours of Tuesday morning (23 August 2011).
www.sott.net/.../233935-Meteorites-Possible-From-Irish-Fireba...

Meteorite researcher blasts through his field
Science Network Western Australia
A WA researcher has received an Australian Laureate Fellowship for his research into meteoritesand the data they hold of the origins of The Solar System. “Information about where individualmeteorites originated and how they moved around the Solar ...

APOD: 2011 August 13 - Castle and Meteor by Moonlight
A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.
apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap110813.html


High confidence meteorite fall in Northeast Ohio
On August 8 at 1:22 Eastern Daylight Time, 4 all sky cameras belonging to the Southern Ontario Meteor Network detected a fireball ...
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ALERT Aug.18: NASA Warns, Fireball Leads to ...
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Meteorites Possible From Midwest US Fireball www.space.com Fireball Leads to Midwest Meteorite Alert, NASA Warns Read more ...
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Fireball Leads To Midwestern Meteorite Alert, NASA ...
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UFO in Peru? Amazing video of what is thought to be a ...
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What is believed to be a meteorite has been caught on film soaring across the sky over the Peruvian city of Cusco.
youtube.com  (Contrail from Aircraft...NOT a meteor!!!)