26 January 2012

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 26JAN2012

On TV Thursday, Jan. 26
Tampabay.com
The Fireball of Christ, 8 pm, NatGeo A documentary about how a possible meteorite strike may have been the sign that pushed the Romans to convert to Christianity. Either that, or it's a rockumentary about a Christian death-metal band. 30 Rock, 8 pm, ...

Molten blobs create moon flashes
Science News
Meteor showers, like the Leonids in November, can dump as many as 20 objects on the moon in one night. At first, scientists didn't think the flashes necessarily came from the moon; they might have been reflections from tumbling satellites or some other ...

Astronomer for the Vatican says U.K. a star
Chicago Tribune
Brother Guy Consolmagno, a staff astronomer and the curator of meteorites at the Vatican Observatory, travels about 100,000 miles each year, splitting his time between Tucson, Ariz., and Rome. The planetary scientist also gives 40 to 50 talks annually at universities, schools and parishes around the world. ...

Astronomers seek meteroite samples
Drogheda Independent
Astronomy experts believe a meteorite may have landed somewhere in the Co Louth region, after a large 'fireball', which is a really big meteor, was seen from various parts of the country. After issuing an appeal for reports on where the meteor was ...

"Life in CI meteorites"
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lifedetection2012/pdf/6035.pdf

Curtin Geologists Discover Proof of Meteorite Collisions on the Moon
International Business Times AU
By Genalyn Corocoto | January 26, 2012 12:39 AM EST A new study by geologists from Curtin University revealed proof of meteorite collisions on the Moon as evidence by the mineral zircon from lunar rock samples recovered during NASA's Apollo missions.

Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News: Greece ...
It could have been 23:30 according to our time ( Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia ...
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