12 December 2011

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 12DEC2011

Full Moon May Spoil Geminid Meteor Shower's Peak Tomorrow ...
The annual Geminid meteor shower peaks on Dec. 13, but bright moonlight is threatening to dampen what has typically been one of the most spectacular light ...
www.space.com/13893-geminid-meteor-shower-peak-dec-13...

2011 Geminid meteor shower peaks December 13/14
Examiner.com
The Geminid meteor shower is one of the more active annual meteor showers with peak zenith hourly rates often as high as 120 meteor per hour. The 2011 Geminid meteor shower reaches its peak about mid day (1 pm EST, 10 am PST) for North American ...

Christmas star part of planetarium event Thursday
Prescott Daily Courier
meteor? A conjunction of planets? There is a lot of conjecture about what it could have been and who saw it," said Brian DeWelles, owner of the Starlight Planetarium who will deliver the presentation. "I'll talk about what the scientific explanation ...

NASA reports at least 500 missing moon rocks it brought back as souvenirs
allvoices
These samples that included moon rocks, meteorites, comet chunks and lunar soil were loaned to museums or researchers, but were never returned. The lack of sufficient control has put these souvenirs at risk. It was not until a lost six-inch lunar ...

Starwatch: Mercury in view
The Guardian
Don't forget the imminent peak on the 14th, Wednesday, of the annual Geminids meteor shower. Its meteors are bright, relatively slow and appear in all parts of the sky, though their paths diverge from a radiant point near Castor in Gemini, ...

December sky full of sights
Hesperia Star
The Geminid meteor shower is visible all night on Dec. 13 and 14, somewhat washed out by a nearly full moon. The Ursid meteor shower is pre-dawn on Dec. 22. The winter solstice (the first day of winter in the northern hemisphere) occurs on Dec. 21. ...

SeeSat-L Dec-11 : Re: satellite reentry or meteor?
Previous message: James Dietrich: "satellite reentry or meteor?" In reply to: James Dietrich: "satellite reentry or meteor?" Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] ...
www.satobs.org/seesat/Dec-2011/0039.html

Where in the solar system do these colorful meteorites come from?
io9
Generally speaking, when a meteorite hits Earth, we can only identify where it came from in the vaguest of generalities, identifying it either as a relic of the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, of the much more massive deposits of material found ...