23 July 2011

Meteor/Meteorite News 22-23JUL2011

Northeastern USA Fireball Sunday Morning 7/17/11 | American Meteor ...
In the AMS fireball table, refer to event #684 for 2011. ... saw a flash and turned our heads just in time to see a BRIGHT BIG turquoise colored fireball...
www.amsmeteors.org/.../northeastern-usa-fireball-sunday-mor...



Meteor created a stir across wide area of N. Arizona
Arizona Daily Star
PRESCOTT - Winslow, Holbrook and the country adjacent for a radius of over 30 miles were thrown into a state of excitement Saturday evening last that bordered close onto a panic when a meteorpassed over that country and exploded at a height estimated ...




Massive Meteorite Found in China

The current leader in the region Xinjiang - meteorite Armanty in situ ;-)
http://www.woreczko.pl/meteorites/events/2011/Jul17-Armanty_in-situ.jpg
Best wishes,
Woreczko



Bright fireball over Poland -- Fire in the Sky -- Sott.
Visualization of the fireball orbit.
www.sott.net/image/.../Fireball_20110707_2112_orbita.png



What is Gravity? - The Code - Episode 1 - BBC Two
BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/code In episode one of The Code, Marcus du Sautoy uses a fireball and a trebuchet to explain the rules of gravity and shows how analysing a flight using numbers helps us understand this fundamental law.



Massive Meteorite Found in China
Sky & Telescope
As the meteorite specialist for the Beijing Planetarium, Baolin Zhang gets all kinds of unusual reports — like the dramatic (but ultimately specious) tale of a peasant woman who recently found a blue-ice "meteorite" in her yard. ...




Three near-earth objects buzz our planet this weekend
WJLA (blog)
The good folks over at Lunar Meteorite Hunters posted recently: Projected NEO [Near-Earth Object] debris activity associated with potential Earth meteor encounters. I expect that we will see possible increased bolide /fireball /meteor activity from ...


Snowstorms on Mars may dwarf those on Earth
New Scientist
Lakes may form when meteorite impacts heat ice in the crust or when underground reservoirs of water kept liquid by geothermal heat leak onto the surface. Edwin Kite of the University of California, Berkeley, and colleagues wondered how the planet's ...



Meteor Shower is July 29 - Local News - Little Rock, AR - msnbc.com
There's a big event coming up for people who like to keep an eye on the sky, especially at night. The viewing peak for the Delta Aquarids Meteor Shower is ...
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43814148/.../meteor-shower-july/



Space Rocks: Meteorite hunting fever slams into Russia
Paranormal Old Pueblo
By Cherlyn Gardner Strong In Kenya, a meteorite crashed into the earth this past weekend. The impact created a very loud explosion to announce its arrival to earthlings. The space rock was taken away for study, shortly after impact. ...




Meteorite Holds Clues to Organic Chemistry of the ...
3 min
Carbonaceous chondrites are a type of organic-rich meteorite that contain samples of the materials that took part in the creation of ...
metacafe.com


Kenya: Scientist Commence Study On Fallen Meteorite
AllAfrica.com Thu, 21 Jul 2011 03:25 AM PDT
Scientists from the University of Nairobi and experts from the department of mines and geology have begun tracing the route that a space rock followed before landing with a loud bang in Thika