14 June 2010

Meteor/Meteorite News 14JUN2010

AFP
Scientists scramble for Japanese asteroid capsule

AFP
The pod, which was ejected from a Japanese space probe as it burned up in a spectacular meteor-like display over Australia, could hold the first piece of ...


「はやぶさ」大気圏突入、60億キロの旅帰還

 【グレンダンボ(オーストラリア南部)=本間雅江】宇宙航空研究開発機構の小惑星探査機「はやぶさ」が13日夜、7年に及ぶ旅を終え、地球に帰還 した。 飛行した距離は、地球―太陽間の40倍にあたる60億キロ・メートルで、満身創痍(そ うい)の奇跡 ...

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/science/news/20100613-OYT1T00818.htm


Capsule plunges to Earth after historic visit to asteroid
BY STEPHEN CLARK, SPACEFLIGHT NOW June 13, 2010
Cutting across the night sky at more than 27,000 mph, a small Japanese
capsule returned to Earth from the surface of an asteroid Sunday and
landed in the remote Australian outback.
The 16-inch-wide capsule plunged into the atmosphere over Australia at
1351 GMT (9:51 a.m. EDT) on the second-fastest re-entry of a manmade
spacecraft ever attempted. ...
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n1006/13hayabusaentry/

NASA Team Captures Hayabusa Spacecraft Reentry- YouTube Video


Posted on YouTube by nasaames [202 views] 2010年06月13日
A group of astronomers from NASA, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and other organizations had a front row seat to observe the Hayabusa spacecraft's fiery plunge into Earth's atmosphere. The team flew aboard NASA's DC-8 airborne laboratory, packed with cameras and other imaging instruments, to capture the high-speed re-entry over an unpopulated area of central Australia on June 13, 2010. The Japanese spacecraft completed its seven-year, 1.25 billion mile journey to return a sample of the asteroid Itokawa. ...

The end of the world as we know it

Independent
Every century or so, a 10-meter meteor slams into the Earth with the force of a small nuclear device. Tunguska was the site of the last, in 1908, ...


Do You Have a Moon Rock?
FoxNews.com
June 13, 2010 - 3:04 PM | by
: Michael Sorrentino
Former NASA Special Investigator and college professor Joseph Gutheinz is on a mission. He set out years ago to recover the missing "Goodwill Moon Rocks" that were given to all 50 states and more than 100 countries by the Nixon ...
http://liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com/2010/06/13/do-you-have-a-moon-rock/

Pasco man says rock collection holds discovery

TheNewsTribune.com
Calvert claims the hole proves the rock had to have been made of compacted comet dust, not a meteor that would be more dense and unlikely to have a hole ...
[hoax]

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