09 February 2013

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 09FEB2013

The Tunguska event: a Siberian meteor mystery from 1908
The Guardian (blog)
Next week will see a small asteroid pass closer to the earth than TV satellites, but Nasa have assured the world that there is no danger of impact. The celestial visitor has been named DA14 and is expected to travel at speeds of about 8 miles (13km) a ...

Meteor Crater - View 1 – Street View – Google Maps
Meteor Crater lies at an elevation of about 1740 m (5709 ft) above sea level. It is about 1200 m (4000 ft) in diameter, some 170 m deep (570 ft), and is ...
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The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 27JAN2013
As the week progresses the moon will rise a little later each evening but there is little meteor activity to be seen during the dark evening hours. The estimated .
lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.com/.../the-latest-worldwide-m...

Meteor behind death of dinosaurs | Boroondara Review Local
IT IS the world's coldest case. For decades, scientists have argued over what caused the almost overnight demise of land roaming dinosaurs 66 million years ...
www.boroondarareviewlocal.com.au/.../meteor-behind-death-...

Meteor strike was 'nail in dinosaurs' coffin'
Planet Earth
Some blame a six-mile-wide meteor slamming into the planet. Others suggest that massive volcanic activity, which lasted for over a million years, was the likely cause. Such eruptions spewed around 1.1 million square kilometres – the size of Colombia ...

Dinosaurs died out 'within a gnat's eyebrow' of devastating meteor impact ...
Daily Mail
Dinosaurs vanished earlier than previously thought and 'within a gnat's eyebrow' of the cataclysmic meteor impact blamed for their extinction, say scientists. Corrected dates for both events suggest they occurred almost at the same time, around ...

2013 THE Year of Meteors, Asteroids, Comets, and MORE!!

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