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Meteorite Hoax In Northern Latvia, Many Tricked Riga, Latvia (RIA Novosti) Oct 26, 2009 
No one was injured after a meteorite fell near a small town in northern Latvia on Sunday, local Latvian media reported. According to media reports, the meteorite fell near a residential house on the outskirts of Mazsalaca town in the Valmiera district of Latvia, leaving a crater of some 20 meters (66 feet) in diameter and 10 meters (33 feet) deep. A spokesperson for the Latvian State Fire ... read moreThe 2009 Orionid Meteor Shower 
Huntsville AL (SPX) Oct 22, 2009The false-color images above are composite images from 2009 Orionids meteor shower observations, as seen in the skies over Huntsville, Ala. "Earth is passing through a stream of debris from Halley's Comet, the source of the Orionids," says Bill Cooke of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office. "Flakes of comet dust hitting the atmosphere should give us dozens of meteors per hour." ... more
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The 2009 Orionid Meteor Shower
Huntsville AL (SPX) Oct 20, 2009The Orionid meteor shower peaks this week and it could be a very good show. "Earth is passing through a stream of debris from Halley's Comet, the source of the Orionids," says Bill Cooke of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office. "Flakes of comet dust hitting the atmosphere should give us dozens of meteors per hour." The best time to look is before sunrise on Wednesday, Oct. 21st. That's when ... more Meteorite From September 25 Fireball Event Recovered And Presented 
Grimsby, Canada (SPX) Oct 20, 2009When Tony Garchinski heard a loud crash just after 9 p.m. on Friday, September 25 he didn't think much of it. That is, until he awoke the next morning to find the windshield of his mom's Nissan Pathfinder with a huge crack in it. Making note of the 'unusual' rocks he later found on the car's hood, Garchinski chalked the incident up to vandalism and filed a police report. It wasn't until ... more Meteorite smashes windshield 
Grimsby, Ontario (UPI) Oct 17, 2009 An Ontario man thought vandals had smashed his mother's car windshield with rocks but it turned out the rocks came from a meteorite, officials in Canada said. The meteorite's fireball lit up the sky over Ontario Sept. 25 with a light 100 times brighter than the moon. Researchers at the University of Western Ontario tracked the remains of the fireball to Grimsby, Ontario, where ... more What's Behind The 2012 Doomsday Craze 
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 16, 2009On December 21, 2012, Earth's magnetic poles will not flip, California will not break apart and slide into the sea, and a secret monster planet will not smash into Earth out of the invisible nowhere. But every week, more and more people are coming to believe such things will happen - thanks to a spectacular blend of bad astronomy, bad Maya ethnography, several popular books, and spreading ... more |
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Horse Flies And Meteors
Huntsville AL (SPX) Aug 11, 2009Splat! There goes another bug on the windshield. Anyone who's ever driven down a country lane has seen it happen. A fast moving car, a cloud of multiplying insects, and a big disgusting mess. The next time that happens to you, instead of grossing out, try thinking of the experience as an astronomy lesson. Your car is Earth. The bugs are tiny flakes of comet dust. The carnage on your ... more Perseid Meteor Shower Peaks Tuesday August 12 
Fort Davis TX (SPX) Aug 11, 2009It's time once again for nature to put on its late-summer fireworks show: the Perseid meteor shower. This year's best viewing will be before dawn on August 12, with a second chance after sunset that night, according to the editors of StarDate magazine. At its peak, this year's shower could produce up to 100 meteors per hour. The actual peak is during the day for viewers in North America ... more What Hit Jupiter 
Huntsville AL (SPX) Aug 10, 2009It began with a furrowed brow, a moment of puzzlement, quickly dismissed. The date was July 19, 2009. Amateur astronomer Anthony Wesley was photographing Jupiter from his backyard observatory in Murrumbateman, Australia, when something odd caught his eye. "My attention was fixed on the Great Red Spot, which was setting beautifully over Jupiter's horizon," recalls Wesley. "I almost didn't ... more Our Smashing Solar System 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Aug 03, 2009Like messages in a bottle, grains inside meteorites carry clues to the history of our solar system. Some of these tiny crystals are older than the solar system itself. A new study has determined the age of a set of grains from one meteorite. The results seem to indicate a galactic disturbance may have triggered the formation of our solar system. Where do we come from? The answer varies dep ... more |
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