15 August 2009

Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News- For the Day of 15AUG09

A Mars múltját tárhatja fel az Opportunity meteoritja

SG.hu - ‎2009年8月13日‎
A NASA Opportunity marsjárója által felfedezett görögdinnye méretű fémes meteorit vizsgálataiból újabb részleteket tudhatunk meg a Mars környezeti ...

Un extraño fogonazo iluminó el cielo de Mendoza

Diario Uno - ‎4 時間前‎
22:00 | Mendoza | Se presume que se trató de un meteorito que cerca de las 21.15 pudieron visualizar varios mendocinos. Bajó en dirección noroeste. ...

SATELLITENBILD DER WOCHE Rätselhaftes Loch in der Wüste

Spiegel Online - ‎17 時間前‎
Es war ein gigantisches Feuerwerk in ferner Vergangenheit: Ein Meteorit raste auf die Erde zu und traf mit enormer Wucht auf. ...

Meteorite on Mars at least 3 billion years old

San Francisco Chronicle
Opportunity, the tireless Mars rover now trekking across a Martian plain in search of small meteorite fragments called cobbles, has come upon a really big ...

Perseid Meteors Shower the Sky

io9
By Lauren Davis , 2:00 PM on Fri Aug 14 2009, 2179 views Didn't get a chance to see this week's Perseid meteor shower? Amateur and professor astronomy ...

Estherville meteorite on the auction block

Estherville Daily News
by David Swartz - Managing Editor EDINBURGH, Scotland - A large piece of the Estherville meteorite will be put up for public auction on Tuesday, Aug. ...

Collector plans cut-price space rock sale
Reuters Fri, 14 Aug 2009 08:13 AM PDT
LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Cosmic rock collectors and inventive investors could snap up scraps of the solar system at knock-down prices in a sale planned by a leading British meteorite dealer next Tuesday.



Rover investigating ancient meteorite on Mars

Pasadena Star-News
The Mars Rover Opportunity is investigating a metallic meteorite the size of a large watermelon that could provide clues about billions of years of Mars' ...

Meteor shower sparks interest in stargazing

Galesburg Register-Mail
Martin says a meteorite of iron the size of a man's fist likely would survive to reach the ground, but most were much smaller. Icy pieces of a comet had “no ...
Workload Optimization, PoE+, Analytics a la Grid

Cherry Creek News
And in 1846, the Cape Girardeau meteorite, a 2.3 kg chondrite-type meteorite struck near the town of Cape Girardeau, Missouri. Happy Birthday Mila Kunis ...
Asteroid hits Ithaca! (safely at the Sciencenter)

Ithaca Journal
The Sciencenter will officially open its newest exhibit,―a real 4.5-billion-year-old touchable meteorite, at noon Monday at at the Sun station on The Ithaca ...
The Kappa Cygnid Meteor Shower

Examiner.com
The Kappa Cygnid meteor shower is not one of the spectacular meteor showers of the year. It is also not a famous meteor shower. In fact, on average, ...
Photo of Perseid meteors in Walker County

Rome News Tribune
by CatWalkChatt Most Romans couldn't see this week's Perseid meteor shower because of cloud cover, but the NASA meteor camera located at the Walker County ...

UK collector plans cut-price space rock sale

Reuters India
Rob Elliott, who has been collecting and dealing in rare meteorites since the mid 1990s, plans to sell his 171-lot collection through Edinburgh-based ...

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