03 February 2011

Meteor/Meteorite News 3FEB2011

India Meteor? 26JAN2011

UFO mystery in Kolkata air


Deccan Herald - 19 hours ago
“It could be a shooting star or part of a meteor or a metal that had a sudden entry into the earth's atmosphere as a result of which it turned into a ...



February 2nd: Meteor Detection by Radar for the Amateur Observer
By kortney.hogan
Using simple receiving equipment and a distant TV or radio transmitter, radar echoes can be received that will allow meteors to be observed throughout the day , including meteor showers that only ever occur during daylight. ...
365 Days of Astronomy - http://365daysofastronomy.org/



USM Southworth Planetarium · [DA February 2, 2011] Cross Walks
By Edward Gleason
Just now, I saw a meteor: a meteoroid's fleeting glory. Once there, now gone. It spent billions of years out there: part of a comet that was before a fragment of the solar system's periphery. Before that, ...
USM Southworth Planetarium - http://blogs.usm.maine.edu/planetarium/



Top 5 Books You Do Not Want to Miss at the Library This Week
Patch
Cathryn J. Prince, A Professor, a President and a Meteor: The Birth of American Science (2010) In the early 1800s, science still took a backseat to ...



The Sky is Falling ... More Than We Thought
Science Now
Sometime in the past 5000 years, a small iron meteorite slammed into the southwest corner of Egypt, punching a 45-meter-wide crater into the rock and sand. ...



Meteor Sighting Reported Over Cambridge
WCVB-TV
A Somerville photographer captured a photo of what he believes was a meteor streaking across the sky over Harvard Square Saturday night, our news partner ...




American Meteor Society - Search a Fireball Report

13 hours ago - American Meteor Society · Go back to AMS Homepage · Report a Fireball · Search a Report · Go back to AMS Homepage. Search a Fireball Report. Date Range ...
www.amsmeteors.org/fireball2/public.php

Century-old Natural History Museum meteorite gives a glimpse of ...


Culture24 - 30 minutes ago
By Culture24 Staff | 02 February 2011 Scientists have used a 100-year-old Egyptian meteorite at the Natural History Museum to discover the presence of water ...




 The Importance of Studying Meteorite Components
1 min
Learn about the importance of studying extraterrestrial molecules andmeteorite components.
articlesbase.com




3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Just saw tonight around 8:35 - Clinton, NJ - HUGE metor(ite?) in the low sky WSW with a fiery tail behind it. Behind the trees. Never saw anything like it. Any other reports? It was awesomely shocking and beautiful at the same time. Never saw anything like it.

Anonymous said...

Saw a meteorite on Thursday, Feb 3, 2011 over York, PA sky at approx. 8:30 pm. Awesome!

Anonymous said...

yea i saw the same one as i was walking throught philly on thursday