01 October 2009

Meteor/Meteorite News- 1OCT09

Controversy Erupts Over Supposed Meteorite That Fell in Argentina

Latin American Herald Tribune
However, astronomer Beatriz Garcia denied that it was space trash and said that it was a meteorite due to the “bluish-white color that it left in sight. ...
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Popular Science
Meet the Asteroid Hunters

Popular Science
Back in Sudan, the pebble-like meteorites formed by the explosion in the atmosphere had scattered miles over the desert, lost on the rocky plain. ...


Latest news and analysis from Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral

Florida Today
18; the peak of the Leonids meteor shower on Nov. 17; the peak of the Geminids around Dec. 13 or Dec. 14; and the Russian launch of new crewmates to the ...

Scientific American
Meteorite impacts turn up nearly pure water ice in Mars's mid ...

Scientific American
By John Matson Now a team of researchers has let meteorite impacts do the digging for them—a paper in this week's Science presents observations of fresh ...




Meteors, traffic jeopardize Atlantis launch

The News-Press
9:49 AM — CAPE CANAVERAL -- Two planned rocket launches, short shuttle launch windows, traffic congestion at the International Space Station and two meteor ...

The meteorological freak week of 1926

York County Coast Star
Professor Charles Hutchins of the physics department at Bowdoin College confirmed to the press that a meteor had exploded over the crook in the Androscoggin ...


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