30 April 2012

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 30APR2012


A mother from the small Sierra community of Rescue ...
Scientists, full-time collectors and amateur meteorite hunters have since flocked to the Sierra.
fox40.com


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FOX News 22.04.12 Possible Meteor Boom Wakes Nevada-California Region. Large parts of ...youtube.com

Meteorites from fireball found
The Nation, Pakistan
Tiny meteorites found in northern California were part of a giant fireball that exploded over the weekend with about one-third the explosive force of the atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima in World War II, scientists said on Wednesday.

Meteor Explosion Over California Was One Third The Size Of ...
RENO, Nev. — Tiny meteorites found in the Sierra foothills of northern California were part of a giant fireball that exploded over the weekend with about one-third ...
www.huffingtonpost.com/.../meteor-explosion-california_n_1...

Meteor hunters strike pay dirt
Los Angeles Times
A different kind of rush hits California's Gold Country after the recent shower of rocks from space, which scientists crave and can fetch $1000 a gram. Jason Utas, right, a geology student at UC Berkeley, shows a 7.5 gram fragment of a meteorite Doug ...

Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News: The Latest Worldwide ...
By Lunar Meteorite * Hunter
A fireball which streaked across the sky and caused a sonic boom Sunday startled residents of California and Nevada. The fireball was probably the result of a meteor passing through. It was observed last Sunday in the Sierra Foothhills, and ...
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Meteorite hunters descend on Gold Rush towns ...
Meteorite hunters are flooding into this historic Gold Rush canyon in search of a new kind of ...
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NASA looking for video of weekend meteor
KGO-TV
Researchers are looking for photos and video of a meteor that came down in Northern California last Sunday. It created a sonic boom as it raced over the Sierra Nevada and broke apart. Pieces landed in Gold Country, about 35 miles north of Sacramento in ...

If You Got Video of Falling Meteor, NASA Wants You
Patch.com
People all over Northern California might have captured footage of a meteor that fell over the state on Sunday. Remember those mysterious booms that were heard around Novato on a sporadic basis, prompting residents to call police?

Meteor Explodes Over California
Astrobiology Magazine (press release)
“This was a BIG event,” said Elizabeth Silber of the Meteor Group at the Western University in Ontario, Canada. “Most meteors you see in the night's sky are the size of tiny stones or even grains of sand and their trail lasts all of a second or two,” ...

Skywatcher Photos: 2012 Quadrantid Meteor Shower
Space.com
by Tariq Malik, SPACE.com Managing Editor The annual Lyrid meteor shower will hit its peak this weekend and promises to put on an eye-catching display. So much so, NASA is pulling out all the stops. NASA scientists plan to track the Lyrid meteor shower ...

Weekly SkyWatcher's Forecast: April 30-May 6, 2012
Universe Today
Are you ready for another week filled with bright planets, a meteor shower, challenging lunar features, interesting stars and astronomy history? Then you have come to the right place! Bring along your telescopes and binoculars and meet me in the ..


Meteorites from giant fireball over California found Telegraph
Tiny meteorites found in northern California were part of a giant fireball that exploded over the weekend with about onethird the explosive force of the ...
www.telegraph.co.uk/.../Meteorites-from-giant-fireball-over-C...

Meteorite Shower Brings Joy for Hunters
French Tribune
It has been revealed that meteorite shower started on April 22, but it got worsened on the next day. A woman, who experienced the supersonic shower, said that her window panes were rattling even at the time when incident occurred some eight hundred ...
French Tribune

Asteroid impacts join science fiction with fact
Canton Daily Ledger
A meteorite hit the earth with a force of 15 megatons of TNT, 1000 times the energy of the bomb which leveled Hiroshima, destroying thousands of acres of forest, blowing out the windows and knocking down bystanders in a small trading station 70 ...

NASA describes Meteor Explosion a 'Huge Event ...
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Dr. Bill Cooke with the Lead, NASA Meteroid Environments Office said themeteor eruption ...
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Meteor Streaks Across Sky In the Sierra Nevada's ...
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A large fireball was seen over the skys of California and Nevada on Sunday. A loud boom was ...
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2012 THE Year of Meteors!