03 March 2011

Meteor/Meteorite News 3MAR2011

What's Hitting Earth? - NASA Science
Groups of smart cameras in the new meteor network triangulate the fireballs' paths, and special software1 uses the data to compute their orbits and email ...
science.nasa.gov/science-news/...at.../01mar_meteornetwork/



Meteor Activity Outlook for February 26- March 4 | American Meteor ...
March is the slowest month for meteor activity. No major annual showers are active and only two very weak minor showers produce activity this month. ...


Discovery hints that meteorites seeded life on Earth
physicsworld.com
Researchers in the US say they have found strong evidence to support the theory that life on Earth could have been seeded by meteorites from outer space. Sandra Pizzarello of Arizona State University and colleagues in California say that a primitive ...



Insider's hand suspected in theft of meteorites from museum
Times of India
CHENNAI: The five meteorite pieces taken away from the Chennai museum were all originals and the one left behind in the display case was a "fake" generally used for study purposes, investigations found on Wednesday. Museum authorities and the police ...




Study offers warning about next potential mass extinction
USA Today
One possible cause of the largest extinction event in the history of life on Earth was ameteor that crashed off the coast of Australia about 251 million years ago. Scientists in 2004 found evidence of an impact crater there, believed to be from a ...

NASA Tracks Shooting Stars to Give You More Chances at Wishes
TIME
NASA's All Sky Fireball Network aims to make the process of night sky gazing a lot easier. Using three video cameras located in Tullahoma, Tenn.; Chickamauga, Geor.; and Huntsville, Ala., scientists are tracking the trajectory of fireballs - or meteors ...

Abundant ammonia aids life's origins
Arizona State University
A portion of the asteroidal meteorite CR2 Grave Nunataks (GRA) 95229 used in this study. Download image An important discovery has been made with respect to the possible inventory of molecules available to the early Earth. Scientists led by Sandra ...

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