News About Deep Impacts On Earth 16-MAY-08 en-us Washington DC (SPX) May 05, 2008 - The eta Aquarid meteor shower peaks this year on Tuesday, May 6th. The best time to look, no matter where you live, is during the hours immediately before sunrise. If you can, get away from city lights; you will see more meteors from the dark countryside.]]> ]]> Ottawa (UPI) May 2, 2008 - Canadian researchers are working on a tiny satellite that will alert the world to the potential of asteroid strikes.]]> Manoa HI (SPX) Apr 17, 2008 - Scientists have developed a new way of determining the size and frequency of meteorites that have collided with Earth. Their work shows that the size of the meteorite that likely plummeted to Earth at the time of the Cretaceous-Tertiary (K-T) boundary 65 million years ago was four to six kilometers in diameter. The meteorite was the trigger, scientists believe, for the mass extinction of dinosaurs and other life forms.]]> Honolulu, April 11, 2008 - A scientist in Hawaii says the asteroid implicated in the extinction of dinosaurs was much smaller than previously suggested.]]> ]]> Aberdeen, Scotland (SPX) Mar 28, 2008 - Evidence of the biggest meteorite ever to hit the British Isles has been found by scientists from the University of Aberdeen and the University of Oxford. The scientists believe that a large meteorite hit northwest Scotland about 1.2 billion years ago near the Scottish town of Ullapool.]]> Providence RI (SPX) Mar 14, 2008 - It made news around the world: On Sept. 15, 2007, an object hurtled through the sky and crashed into the Peruvian countryside. Scientists dispatched to the site near the village of Carancas found a gaping hole in the ground. Peter Schultz, professor of geological sciences at Brown University and an expert in extraterrestrial impacts, went to Peru to learn more.]]> London, Ontario (UPI) Mar 11, 2008 - Canadian astronomers at the University of Western Ontario are hunting for pieces of a meteorite they videotaped falling to Earth.]]> ]]> Moscow (RIA Novosti) Mar 09, 2008 - Almost a century ago, on June 17 (30), 1908, a massive explosion occurred near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River, in what is now Russia's Krasnoyarsk Territory, Central Siberia.]]> Lower Hutt, New Zealand (UPI) Jan 23, 2008 - A New Zealand study suggests meteor impacts with the Earth can produce effects of a more subtle and insidious kind than just catastrophic extinction.]]> Paris (AFP) Jan 23, 2008 - A huge asteroid will zoom past Earth next week at such a close distance that amateur astronomers should be able to spot it, specialists said on Wednesday.]]> ]]> ]]> Austin TX (SPX) Jan 24, 2008 - The most detailed three-dimensional seismic images yet of the Chicxulub crater, a mostly submerged and buried impact crater on the Mexico coast, may modify a theory explaining the extinction of 70 percent of life on Earth 65 million years ago. The Chicxulub crater was formed when an asteroid struck on the coast of the Yucatan Peninsula. Most scientists agree the impact played a major role in the "KT Extinction Event" that caused the extinction of most life on Earth, including the dinosaurs.]]> Albuquerque NM (SPX) Jan 07, 2008 - The stunning amount of forest devastation at Tunguska a century ago in Siberia may have been caused by an asteroid only a fraction as large as previously published estimates, Sandia National Laboratories supercomputer simulations suggest. "The asteroid that caused the extensive damage was much smaller than we had thought," says Sandia principal investigator Mark Boslough of the impact that occurred June 30, 1908.]]> Albuquerque NM (SPX) Dec 19, 2007 - The stunning amount of forest devastation at Tunguska a century ago in Siberia may have been caused by an asteroid only a fraction as large as previously published estimates, Sandia National Laboratories supercomputer simulations suggest. "The asteroid that caused the extensive damage was much smaller than we had thought," says Sandia principal investigator Mark Boslough of the impact that occurred June 30, 1908.]]> Advertise in this newsletter or website click for advertising kit - PDF File

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