26 October 2010

Meteor/Meteorite News 26OCT2010

Kopernik Observatory Help Students Explore Space
FOX 40 Binghamton Mon, 25 Oct 2010 16:19 PM PDT
Getting kids excited about science is the goal of Kopernik's Science Days, which are going on Monday and Tuesday at Vestal Middle School. Monday, students from Unatego, and St. James in Johnson City, did everything from check out 3d video of the earth, to actually handling pieces of a giant meteorite. Kopernik's Roy Williams says that because kids are naturally curious about planets and stars ...


The Meteorite Men on Friday News Feedbag
Discovery News Mon, 25 Oct 2010 15:24 PM PDT
On this week's Friday News Feedbag, Geoffrey Notkin and Steve Arnold, aka Science Channel's Meteorite Men stop by the studio to talk about hunting for meteorites all over the world. If this is your first exposure to the Friday News ... 


Search is on to locate meteorite fragments in Clare
The Clare People
By Andrew Hamilton · October 25, 2010 · No comments A RACE against time has begun to locate priceless fragments of the rare meteorite which landed somewhere ...

NASA Hosts Media Teleconference To Preview Comet Encounter

 PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA is hosting a media teleconference at 11 a.m.
PDT on Tuesday Oct. 26, to preview the EPOXI mission's upcoming flyby
and study of the comet Hartley 2. The Nov. 4 encounter will provide
the best, extended view of a comet in history....

How a comet can cause a meteor shower
Christian Science Monitor
Some meteor showers correspond with the orbits of comets. By Joe Rao, SPACE.com's Space Insider Columnist / October 25, 2010 Meteors — popularly referred ...

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