03 May 2012

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 03MAY2012

Mom Stumbles Onto Meteorite Worth About $20000
CBS Local
LOTUS (CBS13) – People from all over the world are in the tiny town of Lotus in El Dorado County looking for something that's out of this world, but leave it to a stay-at-home mom walking her dog to find a precious meteorite. The rock Brenda Salveson ...

Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News: MBIQ Detects Possible ...
By Lunar Meteorite * Hunter
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Meteorite Hunting: Five Tips For Finding Space Rocks
Huffington Post
For folks like Robert Ward, a professional meteorite hunter who last month found a piece of a meteorthat was seen crashing through Earth's atmosphere above California the day before, the thrill is finding new arrivals. Furthermore, when a newly fallen ...

PhotoBlog - NASA releases photo of meteor blazing across Nevada ...
NASA has released a photograph of a flaming meteor that unleashed a powerful sonic boom Sunday morning, rattling houses in California and Nevada when its ...
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APOD: 2012 April 25 - Meteor Over Crater Lake
One of the more common questions during a meteor shower occurs because the time it takes for ameteor to flash is typically less than the time it takes for a head ...
apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120425.html


Huge fireball and explosion across California and Nevada as meteor
The boom of the space rock as it disintegrated rattled houses in both California and Nevada and ...
www.dailymail.co.uk/.../Huge-fireball-explosion-California-N...

Dinosaurs on the decline before meteor collision
Mother Nature Network
The demise of all dinosaurs except birds came about 65 million years ago, when researchers think a giant meteor collided with Earth. Still, it was unclear if mass extinctions started gradually before the impact, perhaps due to volcanoes or other forces ...

Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News: Italia Meteor Fireball ...
By Lunar Meteorite * Hunter
Breaking News - California / Nevada Daytime Bolide Meteor Fireball 22APR2012. California / Nevada Daytime Bolide Meteor Fireball 22APR2012 A bright fireball occurred over California and Nevadaat approximately 8:00am P... The Latest ...
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Fragments of Meteorite Worth Their Weight in Gold
Universe Today
by Jason Major on May 1, 2012 Actually it's more like 3.5 times their weight in gold, according to today's market value… and meteorite experts from SETI and NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center. During the daylight hours of April 22, 2012, reports came...

Picture Special - The Northern Lights and Lyrid Meteor over Ireland
Derry Journal
Journal reader Patryk Sadowski has sent us some amazing shots of the Northern Lights and LyridMeteor taken in the skies above the north west of Ireland over recent weeks. Please sign in to be able to comment on this story. Search for: (Plumber, Taxi, ...

'Supermoon' May Outshine Meteor Shower This Weekend
Space.com
by Tariq Malik, SPACE.com Managing Editor The biggest full moon of the year, a so-called "supermoon," will take center stage when it rises this weekend, and may interfere with the peak of an annual meteor shower created by the leftovers from Halley's ...

Geoff Notkin on the California fireball - Dave's Universe - Astronomy ...
By David Eicher
Check out this movie I shot on Friday at the Northeast Astro Imaging Conference (NEAIC) in Suffern, New York. It features Geoff Notkin of the TV show Meteorite Men on the Science Channel talking about the April 22 meteorite that was widely ...
Dave's Universe

2012 THE Year of Meteors!