21 August 2010

Meteor/Meteorite News 21AUG2010

`Star Gazer' host Jack Horkheimer dies
By ELINOR J. BRECHER crline ebrecher@MiamiHerald.com
Jack Horkheimer, Public Television's ``Star Gazer'', died Friday afternoon of a respiratory ailment, according to a spokesman for the Miami Museum of Science and Space Transit Planetarium.Born June 11, 1938, he was 72. ...
Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/08/20/1785361/star-gazer-host-jack-horkheimer.html#ixzz0xCELKTTs

Researchers find evidence that the moon has been shrinking

Vancouver Sun

Heat from the moon's radioactive core, the impact and subsequent meteor impacts caused the moon to collapse into its circular shape before cooling. ...


Awesome video of meteor shower above Mt. Rainier and aurora from space

KATU (blog)
First of all, take a look at this time lapse video that has been posted of the Perseid Meteor Shower raging above Mt. Rainier last week. ...

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