22 August 2010

Meteor/Meteorite News 22AUG2010

Santa Fe once destroyed by ancient meteorite

Mother Nature Network
By Katherine ButlerSat, Aug 21 2010 at 11:56 AM EST Comments A large meteorite smashed into what is now Santa Fe, New Mexico, some million or billion years ...

Countdown to Vesta

NASA Science News- August 19, 2010
Let the countdown begin. NASA's Dawn spacecraft is less than one year
away from giant asteroid Vesta.
"There's nothing more exciting than revealing an unexplored, alien
world," says Marc Rayman, Dawn's chief engineer at the Jet Propulsion
Laboratory. "Vesta," he predicts, "is going to amaze us."
Dawn is slated to enter orbit around Vesta in late July 2011. As the
first breathtaking images are beamed back to Earth, researchers will
quickly combine them into a movie, allowing us all to ride along. ... (more)
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2010/19aug_dawn2/

Perseid meteor shower lives up to its promise - Technology ...

Space.com: The 2010 Perseid meteor shower lived up to its promise of a meteor per minute just before dawn Friday, providing an excellent celestial spectacle ...

na11 MeteorScan 020728d 1 40sec, 10 0, 13st, PER

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skjeller1 | 2010年08月18日 1681 views
11 August, 19:07 UT, -10 mag, dur=1.40 sec, 13 sec train, PER.
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UFO WAS NO METEOR-FRIGHT

WalesOnline
“I had the meteorite people call here. There's a smell of sulphur with meteors and there was no smell, just night air. “We just saw this huge ball glowing ...

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