12 October 2011

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 12OCT2011


Meteorite Crashed On A French Family's Roof!
International Business Times AU
By Karen Mae Cordon | October 12, 2011 12:52 PM EST An egg shaped 4.5 million year old meteorite crashed directly on the roof of a French Family. Coincidentally, the house is owned by the Comette family which is on a vacation when it happened. ...



Meteorite rocks house of Comette
Sydney Morning Herald
meteorite billions of years old hit the Paris home - of the Comettes. Photo: Roy Fleming WHEN your name is Comette, you may get used to jokes about rockets and space and planets. But French schoolboy Hugo Comette, 11, had the last laugh when of all ...


Looking to the skies
Nanton News
The Orionids Meteor Shower will take place Oct. 21-22. This will produce about 20 falling meteors per hour, at its peak. Meteors may be seen any time from Oct. 17-25, and the best viewing will be to the east, after midnight. ...




Almahata Sitta Meteorites Could Come From Triple Asteroid Mash-Up
Space Daily
by Staff Writers Analysis of fragments of the Almahata Sitta meteorite, which landed in Sudan in 2008, has shown that the parent asteroid was probably formed through collisions of three different types of asteroids. The meteorites are of particular ...



Raining Meteorites May Have Led to Earth's Primordial Life
LiveScience.com
Although it's widely accepted that a meteor strike about 65 million years ago killed off the dinosaurs, scientists say a hail of meteorites far earlier in Earth's history may have created ideal conditions for primordial life forms. ...


French Family's Home Hit by 4.5-Billion-Year-Old Meteorite
NBC Bay Area
A French family whose tile roof started leaking discovered a 4.5-billion-year-old meteor the size of an egg had fallen all the way down from an asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter and come to rest in their attic insulation. ...




Heavens! Meteorite hits Comette family home
Canada.com Tue, 11 Oct 2011 12:30 PM PDT
A family returned from holiday to discover a 4.5 billion-year-old egg-sized meteorite had smashed through the roof of their house in suburban Paris.



Ancient meteorite crashes into the roof of Comette familyâs house in Paris
Batangas Today Tue, 11 Oct 2011 11:30 AM PDT
An ancient meteorite recently crashed into the roof of the house of French family in suburban Paris, according to various news sites on Monday, October 10, 2011. Martine Comette (left) holding the egg-sizedmeteorite Image Credit: PHOTOPQR/LE PARISIEN Coincidentally, the people living in that house in Draveil, about 12 miles south of Paris, and returned [...]


Meteorite lands on appropriate house
Herald Sun Mon, 10 Oct 2011 15:54 PM PDT
WHAT are the odds? A meteorite plunging to Earth landed on the roof of a Mrs Comette in the southern suburbs of Paris.

Meteorite lands on house of Mrs Comette
Adelaide Now Mon, 10 Oct 2011 14:31 PM PDT
WHAT are the odds? A meteorite plunging to Earth landed on the roof of a Mrs Comette in the southern suburbs of Paris.

Meteorite Visits the Comettes
Universe Today Mon, 10 Oct 2011 13:31 PM PDT
When your last name is Comette, Iâm sure the occasional astronomy-themed joke is never far away. But itâs no joke that the Comette family living in Draveil, a suburb south of Paris, was paid a visit by a real extraterrestrial a couple of weeks ago â in the form of an 88-gram (3.5 oz.) meteorite [...]

4.5 billion year-old meteorite crashes into Paris family home
Daily Telegraph Mon, 10 Oct 2011 10:59 AM PDT
A French family returned from holiday to discover a 4.5 billion year old egg-sized meteorite had smashed its way through the roof of their house in suburban Paris.