23 December 2014

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 23DEC2014

Prague Daily Monitor - 16 hours
Members of an extended team searching for pieces of a bright meteorite, which recently blazed across the night sky and crashed in the area of ...

ESA carries out asteroid impact drill
Gizmag
... the ones in between that can and have caused real damage, such as the 2013 Chelyabinsk event, where a 19 m (62 ft), 3,300 ton meteor exploded ...

Last meteor shower of the year peaks early Tuesday morning
WDEZ.com
The Aurigid meteor shower as observed by a group of astronomers on a NASA mission at 47,000 feet. (photo: By Jeremie Vaubaillon, Caltech, NASA ...

Calgary photographer captures meteor on camera
Calgary Sun
Meteor Calgary photographer Brett Abernethy snapped this great shot of a meteor, which is generating quite the buzz online. Photo courtesy Brett ...

Tales from a Martian rock
EurekAlert! - 3 hours
( University of California - San Diego ) A new analysis of a Martian rock that meteorite hunters plucked from an Antarctic ice field 30 years ...

New chemical analysis of ancient Martian meteorite provides clues to planet's history of habitabilityPhysOrg - 4 hours
A new analysis of a Martian rock that meteorite hunters plucked from an Antarctic ice field 30 years ago this month reveals a record of the ...
LiveScience.com via Yahoo! News - 11 hours
SAN FRANCISCO — Space rocks barreling toward Earth could potentially be discovered by detecting changes in streams of plasma and particles ...

Did a massive volcanic eruption in India kill off the dinosaurs?
Santa Fe New Mexican - 18 hours
There’s a solid consensus among scientists about what happened to the dinosaurs 66 million years ago: A mountain-sized meteorite crashed into ...

Ursid Meteor Shower Peaks Tonight: How to See It
Space.com
When sky watchers think of meteor showers during the month of December, the Geminid shower (which peaked earlier this month) usually comes to ...

Meteor radar? Solar wind could help predict impacts
Fox News
The findings could help identify smaller near-Earth objects like the Chelyabinsk meteor that exploded over Russia in 2013 before they blast through ...

Possible Ursid meteor shower streaks through NJ
New Jersey 101.5 FM Radio
22nd, Earth is passing through a diffuse stream of debris from Comet 8P/Tuttle, source of the annual Ursid meteor shower. Because of winter weather, ...

In photos: Collector has dinosaur egg to Capone's car on display
The Globe and Mail
His collection includes a 65-million-year-old dinosaur egg, meteor fragments, a car that once belonged to American mob boss Al Capone, a lock of ...

2014 The Year of "CERTAIN Uncertainty" ™; Meteors, Asteroids, Comets, and MORE!!

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