28 August 2011

Meteor/Meteorite News 27AUG2011

Falling meteor depicted in 5000-year-old rock carving in north China
Xinhua
27 (Xinhua) -- A 5000-year old rock carving in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region depicts a falling meteor, said archaeologists on Saturday. A rock on the side of Dahei Mountain in the city of Chifeng has images of people, domed houses and ...



Upper Mid-Western Fireball August 23, 2011 | American Meteor ...
In the AMS fireball table, refer to event #898 for 2011. ... 8:55 pm (Mountain Time) near Hot Springs SD I saw a fireball appear out of no where and it was so low I ...
www.amsmeteors.org/.../upper-mid-western-fireball-august-23...



Meteorite hunt underway in the North while stargazers gather for a cosmic ...
thejournal.ie
ASTRONOMY IRELAND IS asking people interested in looking for a potentially valuable meteorite to get involved in a search for a rock from space somewhere in the north of the country. David Moore from Astronomy Ireland has told TheJournal.ie that the ...




Asteroid dust reveals meteorite origins
ABC Online
The results of the Itokawa sample study, reported in the journal Science confirms ordinary chondrites, the most common types of meteorites found on Earth are pieces of stony asteroids known as S-types. Dr Trevor Ireland from the Australian National ...
Meteor flashes across area skies Tuesday
Daily Republic
A Mitchell police dispatch log that described a “strange sighting near Corsica” shortly before 10 pm Tuesday was one of many such meteor sightings, said Mike Buss, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Sioux Falls. ... (The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News was the first to break this story minutes after the event due to MBIQ (Meteor Bot Internet Queries) and numerous sighting reports from readers; thank you!)

Canada: Burning Fireball Lights Up Sky -- Fire in the Sky -- Sott.net
A number of southern Manitoba residents noticed something unique in the sky last night. Scott Young is an astronomer at The Manitoba Museum, ...
www.sott.net/.../234011-Canada-Burning-Fireball-Lights-Up-S...

'Meteor' lights up sky over Peru
The Sun
By STAFF REPORTER A "METEOR" has been spotted in the skies over the city of Cusco in Peru. Quick-thinking locals managed to capture the suspected space rock on film as it blazed through the clouds at 2pm yesterday. It vanished over the horizon without ... 
(As I posted earlier as the story broke, this IS NOT a meteor!  It is a video of an aircraft contrail.)


Suspected meteorite caught on tape in Peru
CBS News
A suspected meteorite streaked across the Peruvian sky over the ancient city of Cusco on Thursday. Residents were surprised to see the object shooting across the horizon around 2 pm local time. A meteorite is a natural object from space that survives ... 
(As I posted earlier as the story broke, this IS NOT a meteor!  It is a video of an aircraft contrail.)



UFO in Peru identified as falling meteor? 'Not so fast,' some claim [video]
Examiner.com
The fireball was spotted near the Andes mountains in Peru on August 25, 2011 around 2:00 in the afternoon. At least one lucky observer was able to capture the amazing sight on video. News reports from Sky News in the United Kingdom initially called the ...




Meteor Causes Fires in Peru (27th August 2011)
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youtube.com  (As I posted earlier as the story broke, this IS NOT a meteor!  It is a video of an aircraft contrail.)