22 October 2010

Meteor/Meteorite News 22OCT2010

How Comets Cause Meteor Showers
Space.com
By Joe Rao Meteors — popularly referred to as "shooting stars" — are generated when debris enters and burns up in Earth's atmosphere. ...


Orionid Meteor Shower Visible this Week
FOX 9 News
The Orionids, a "junior version" of the Persoid meteor shower, may hit its peak before sunrise on Oct. 21, according to AOL News . The meteors are nicknamed ...
 

 Orionid Meteor Shower peaks tonight: Will it be clear?
 

Examiner.com
After a days-long lead-up, tonight, October 21/22, 2010, is finally the peak of the Orionid Meteor Shower, which means that tonight, more so than any before ...


Moment CCTV captured asteroid hitting the earth
 

The Sun
Here, in Day Two of our extracts from a new book by Sun professor Brian Cox, Wonders Of The Solar System, he describes the meteorite's spectacular final ...
Debate Over Life on Mars No Closer to Resolution
 

Softpedia
More than two decades after the discovery of the meteorite ALH84001, the oldest to have arrived to Earth from Mars, scientists have not yet come to a ...


Meteors from Halley's Comet rain down on Earth - Technology ...
 Halley's Comet won't zoom near Earth again for another 50 years, but the ice ball may still put on a show for some skywatchers this week in the form of a ...

 Orionid meteor shower from Halley's Comet has big finish Thursday ...
 

Orionid meteor shower will conclude Thursday night as the Earth finishes traversing through the debris field that follows Halley's Comet. ...


Yukon man seeks $12M for space rock damage
CBC.ca
A Yukon mining prospector claims federal geologists stole a priceless piece of meteorite he found in the 1980s that contained alien organisms, ...


Meteor Shower From Halley´s Comet Can Be Seen This Week
ShortNews.com
The meteor shower that appears in May is called Eta Aquarids, the October-shower is called Orionids, as the meteors appear to come from Orion the Hunter. ...


Astro Bob blog: Comets, ancient galaxies and the dark ages
Duluth News Tribune
I see by the International Meteor Organization's (IMO) quicklook data that Orionid meteor shower activity started picking up around 10 pm last night to 35 ...


Look Up: What's in the Sky This Week?
DCist.com
The annual Orionid meteor shower reached its peak starting last night and continues through this evening. Orionid meteors are fragments of Halley's Comet, ...

Meteorite Hunter - Ruben Garcia - Filming TV Show ...
3 min youtube.com
Here is a video - Ruben Garcia - filming a TV show about Meteorite Hunting! The video is a behind the scenes look at filming the ...




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