29 September 2012

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 28/29SEP2012

Implications for the hydrogen detected on Vesta with Dawn data.
report on hydrogen in Vesta's regolith http://www.psrd.hawaii.edu/CosmoSparks/Sept12/Vesta-by-Dawn.html

UFO gives a dazzling show in night skies
The Independent
The display, initially believed to be a meteor shower, is thought to have been caused by space junk – debris from spacecraft or satellites – burning up on entry to the atmosphere, experts said yesterday. Police and coastguards were inundated with calls ...

Dazzling meteor fireball lights up UK sky - Technology & science ...
A spectacular meteor wowed stargazers across the United Kingdom Friday when it flared up and shattered into pieces in a surprise display of celestial fireworks.
www.msnbc.msn.com/.../spectacular-meteor-fireball-lights-nig...

2012 Meteor Showers In October
Brevard Times
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida -- October 2012 promises a spectatcular display ofmeteor showers thanks in part to the timing of the Full and New Moon around the 2012 Orionid meteor shower which peaks on October 21, 2012 (other years are usually October ...

Meteor / Meteorite over Manchester airport england ...
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Filmed over Manchester airport, by lee ogden 21/09/2012.
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Meteor Shower Over Scotland & Ireland 21st September 2012
YouTube
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Did an Ancient Meteor Have an Icy Double Punch?
A new study suggests that a large meteor impact 2.5 million years ago could have caused massive tsunamis and kick started the world's Ice Ages.
www.astrobio.net/.../did-an-ancient-meteor-have-an-icy-doubl...

ナチスの彫像実は隕石 チベットから持ち帰る日本経済新聞
1930年代末にナチス・ドイツがチベットから持ち帰った彫像を調べてみると、宇宙から落下した珍しい隕石でできていた――。考古学者とナチスが登場する映画「インディ・ ...
www.nikkei.com/.../DGXNASDG2701H_X20C12A9CR0000/

Researchers: Buddhist statue found by Nazis made from meteorite
Washington Post
BERLIN — An ancient Buddhist statue that a Nazi expedition brought back from Tibet shortly before World War II was carved from a meteorite that crashed on Earth thousands of years ago. What sounds like an Indiana Jones movie plot appears to have ...

Nazi space Buddha was meteorite, includes swastika
Christian Science Monitor
It sounds like a mash-up of Indiana Jones' plots, but German researchers say a heavy Buddha statue brought to Europe by the Nazis was carved from a meteorite that likely fell 10,000 years ago along the Siberia-Mongolia border. Skip to next paragraph ...

Large colourful meteor blazes over California, 16 September 2012 ...
Meteor Bot Internet Query (MBIQ) Bot has just detected a meteor fireball event over California at approximately 10:45 pm 16 September 2012. 16 SEP 2012 ...
www.sott.net/.../251551-Large-colourful-meteor-blazes-over-...

Ancient statue discovered by Nazis is made from meteorite
BBC News
An ancient Buddhist statue that was recovered by a Nazi expedition in the 1930s was originally carved from a highly valuable meteorite. Researchers say the 1,000-year-old object with a swastika on its stomach is made from a rare form of iron with a ...

2012 THE Year of Meteors!

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