14 November 2013

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 14NOV2013

Life may have arrived from space
Natural History Museum (United Kingdom)- 11 November 2013
Reporting in the journal Nature Geoscience, mineralogist Dr Kieran Howard
and his team have discovered intact organic molecules inside debris from
a meteorite impact. Dr Howard was a researcher at the Museum when he performed
the analyses. ...

Spectacular Meteor Shower: Nov 13, 1833
UpperMichigansSource.com
Possibly the most spectacular meteor shower in history was observed at various points across the United States including Upper Michigan during the early ...

Taurids Meteor Shower 2013 – South Taurid and North Taurid
Tehran Chronicle
Previous week, the South Taurid meteor shower was at its apogee. Wednesday (Today), is the time for North Taurid. According to one of the daily radio series, ...

Meteorite impacts capture time capsules of the ecosystems they ...
Ars Technica
When a meteor enters Earth's atmosphere, the air around the meteorgets very quickly compressed causing it to heat up, scorching everything in its path. Most of ...

Amateur Footage Helps Scientists Trace Path of Russian Meteor ...
In February 2013, an asteroid smashed into Earth near the town of Chelyabinsk in Russia. The event was captured on film by hundreds of local people and the ...
www.scientificamerican.com/video.cfm?id=amateur...11...

Prehistoric Atlantic Ocean Was Twice As Salty As Today
Discover - 4 hours
It's been 35 million years since a large meteorite slammed into the Earth, cracking bedrock beneath what is now the Chesapeake Bay. The ...

UNM scientist studies Russian meteorite
KRQE & KASA FOX 2 Albuquerque - 22 hours
In the nine months after a meteor was caught on camera exploding over Russia, researchers from all over the world, including right here in ...

Life may have arrived from space
PhysOrg - 11 hours
New research shows that organic molecules, on which life is based, can survive the impact from a meteorite.

To Understand A Russian Fireball, Physicists Turn To YouTube
WWNO
Hundreds of personal videos captured the fireball's flight — and that means you can watch the spectacle from almost any vantage point on YouTube. Now, in ...

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 13NOV2013
Each year the International Meteor Organization organizes a four-day conference where about 100 meteor enthusiasts from around the world attend lectures ...
lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.com/.../the-latest-worldwide-m...

Meteor Seen in Several Western States Streaking ...
2 min
A possible cause for concern; every few months the earth is hit by a meteorite the size of a house.
abcnews.go.com

A New Threat from Space
Space Daily
The Chelyabinsk meteor's shallow angle of entry almost allowed it to skip off the upper atmosphere and continue in heliocentric orbit. However, the angle of ...

Leonid Meteor Shower May Be Outshone By the Moon
The Leonid meteor shower is expected to peak about 10:00 a.m. MST on Sunday, November 17. This meteor shower occurs every year as Earth plows though a ...
clarkplanetarium.org/leonid-meteors-verses-moon/

Russian meteorite explosion was as powerful as ...
4 min
U.S. physicist Mark Boslough said collisions from outer space could cause more damage than ...
dailymail.co.uk

2013 THE Year of Meteors, Asteroids, Comets, and MORE!!

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