18 August 2011

Meteor/Meteorite News 18AUG2011


NASA METEORITE ALERT - SMALL TOWNS EAST ...
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Meteorites Possible From Midwest US Fireball
SPACE.com Wed, 17 Aug 2011 14:33 PM PDT
Meteorite hunters should be on the lookout for potential fragments from a fireball detected over Ohio. ...


Arrival in the Arctic
Space Daily
While Meteor Crater is classified as a "simple" crater, Haughton is considered a "complex" crater, presenting higher-impact-energy features such as impact melts, collapsed rim terraces and a central uplift. The morning after I arrived in Resolute Bay I ...




NASA looks for meteor fragments in Northeast Ohio
NewsNet5.com
CLEVELAND - NASA officials want people to be on the look out for pieces of a meteorthat hit near Cleveland. Bill Cooke with the NASA Meteoroid Environments Office said the impact area is near Warren, Kinsman and Hermitage, where are east of Cleveland....



Bidder pays £3200 for fragment of Strathmore Meteorite
Scotland Courier
A four-billion-year-old meteorite proved to be the star turn at a specialist auction. By Sandra Gray Almost 100 years after the Strathmore Meteorite plummeted to earth, a tiny piece of it has sold for £3200. The fragment comes from one of four that ...


Slice of rare meteorite sold
Yorkshire Post
A SLICE of a four-billion-year-old meteorite which landed in Yorkshire was sold yesterday as part of a collection auctioned off for tens of thousands of pounds. The collection from the UK's only professional dealer Rob Elliott, dubbed the “Indiana ...



Will We Be Able to Deflect an Earthbound Asteroid?
Space.com
[When Space Attacks: 6 Craziest Meteor Impacts on Earth] It depends. "Human beings can solve any technical problems that are put in front of us," said Daniel Durda, senior planetary scientist at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo., ...



Meteorite came from outer space ... and crash-landed near Wigan
Manchester Evening News
A tiny fragment of space rock which crashed to Earth near Wigan is up for sale as part of an extraordinary collection of meteorites. The rare 'amphoterite' hit Appley Bridge at around 150mph on October 13, 1914 – just ten weeks after the start of the ...




[IMO-News] Video Observations Results - June 2011

The June 2011 report from the IMO Video Meteor Network is available at
http://www.imonet.org/reports/201106.pdf
Best wishes,
Sirko Molau