01 October 2013

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 01OCT2013

NASA's Cassini Spacecraft Finds Ingredient of Household Plastic in Space
PASADENA, Calif. - NASA's Cassini spacecraft has detected propylene, a chemical used to make food-storage containers, car bumpers and other consumer products, on Saturn's moon Titan. ...

Astronomy and Space News - Astro Watch: Asteroid Near-Miss ...www.astrowatch.net/2013/09/asteroid-near-miss-reported...
A 15-meter (approximately 50 feet) asteroid, similar to the one that exploded above Russia in February, was detected hours before it narrowly ...

Comet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet
A comet is an icy small Solar System body that, when passing close to the Sun, displays a visible atmosphere or coma and sometimes also a ...

LOOK AT THIS: Fireball Meteor Caught on Camera
WILX-TV
LOOK AT THIS: Fireball Meteor Caught on Camera. Print. Updated: Mon 11:59 PM, Sep 30, 2013.  ...

State residents report seeing meteor over the First State | WDDE ...
A few First State residents report seeing a meteor passing over Delaware on Sunday night. Three Delawareans were among the 21 people along the East Coast ...
www.wdde.org/50822-delaware-meteor-sighting

The Great Ordovician meteor shower | Metageologist - All-geo
Between Mars and Jupiter, 470 million years ago, there was a massive collision between two 100km-sized chunks of rock – this solar system's biggest bang of ...
PlanetSave.com
The often times prolific, but somewhat unpredictable, Draconid meteor shower is almost here — next Monday, on the night of October 7, 2013, the Draconids are ...

Dronino meteorite - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dronino_meteorite
The Dronino meteorite is a 40 kilograms (88 lb) iron meteorite that was found in the Ryazan Oblast of Russia in July 2000. It is classified ...

Divers recover 10 1/2-pound meteorite fragment from lake in Urals
www.spacedaily.com/...10_12-pound_meteorite_fragment_from...
Divers have raised what is believed to be the largest rock found so far from a meteorite that exploded over Russia in February, Russian ...

Russian puts rare meteorite fragment on sale-Eastday
Eastday.com - 20 hours
MOSCOW, Sept. 29 -- The biggest commercially available fragment of a meteorite, which fell into Russia's Chelyabinsk earlier this year, has ...

Russian Astronomers Claim Sizeable Asteroid Just Came Within 12,000km Of Earth
The Huffington Post UK - 10 hours
Russian researchers claim to have spotted an asteroid pass narrowly above the Earth, unbeknownst to astronomers. The asteroid was reported to ...

Meteor reported over Delaware
The News Journal
Witnesses reported the sighting on the American Meteor Society's website. ... said he also spotted it, and described the meteor as a “perfectly round ball of fire.”.

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