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 Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:21:24 -0700 |
| Gunlock meteorite on display in Salt Lake - April 30, 2008 |
The 4.5 billion-year-old Gunlock meteorite, recently acquired by the Utah Geological Survey, is now on display at the Natural Resources Map & Bookstore, 1594 W. North Temple.
Idaho geologist Don Adair found the meteorite in 1982. He sawed the specimen in two, and the other half is at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, according to the Utah Department of Natural Resources.
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| Mon, 5 May 2008 22:39:33 -0700 |
| Gem of a show - April 25, 2008 |
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4) A program at 3 p.m. Saturday will focus on how meteorites impact Earth and another one at 2 p.m. Sunday will look at unique meteorites in Kansas. Both are being presented by the Kansas Meteorite Society. A 108-pound pallasite found near Greensburg will be on display.
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| Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:19:37 -0700 |
| Mysterious Lights, Boom Baffle Residents, Authorities - April 17, 2008 |
KOKOMO, Ind. -- Strange sights and sounds filled the nighttime sky in Howard and Tipton counties late Wednesday night, leaving residents and authorities wondering what they had seen and heard.
Calls flooded dispatch centers and 6News from people concerned that what they had seen and heard might have been a crashing plane, a meteorite or something else.
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| Fri, 11 Apr 2008 09:56:59 -0700 |
| Seawater osmium sizes up meteorites - April 11, 2008 |
Osmium isotopes in seawater sediment can be used to reveal ancient meteorite strikes, US-based scientists say. The sensitive technique could provide more details on the size of extraterrestrial rocks which have plunged into the sea and vapourised, leaving no crater-shaped calling card behind.
Geochemists routinely measure the sediment concentrations of elements such as iridium, in order to infer the presence of meteorites. High levels in ocean sediment indicate that a rock with unnatural concentrations of the element must have dissolved in the sea millions of years ago. But iridium concentrations in seawater vary naturally around the globe, so many monitoring sites are needed.
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| Fri, 11 Apr 2008 09:55:25 -0700 |
| Earth from Space: Lake Janisjarvi Impact Crater - April 10, 2008 |
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Lake Jänisjärvi is a roughly oval-shaped lake, some 13 by 17 kilometers (8 by 11 miles) across, in northwestern Russia, near the Finnish border. The basin for this lake was formed hundreds of millions of years ago by a meteorite impact.
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| Fri, 11 Apr 2008 09:53:49 -0700 |
| The Fukang Pallasite for sale - April 9, 2008 |
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Meteorite enthusiasts the world over know of the Fukang Meteorite. Discovered in the Gobi desert (near Fukang) in China eight years ago, the extremely rare and beautiful Pallasite meteorite is thought to have originated at the mantle-core boundary of very large differentiated asteroids that were destroyed during the early formation of the solar system over 4.5 billion years ago, give or take a hundred millennia or so. Fukang’s unique crystalline structures formed as the metal matrix cooled, with no gravitational influence, at a rate of only a few degrees per million-year period.
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| Fri, 11 Apr 2008 09:52:01 -0700 |
| Hunt on for Argentine meteorite |
The space rock reportedly crashed late Sunday somewhere in Entre Rios Province, some 260 miles northwest of Buenos Aires, reports the daily Clarin, which quoted a witness, Milton Blumhagen, a student and astronomy buff: "For three or four seconds I saw an object in flames, changing color until it turned blue when it approached the ground.'' A fire department source said the impact was felt for miles around. No damage was reported.
The curious are headed out to the isolated rural zone where the meteorite, or whatever it was, is believed to have struck.
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| Tue, 8 Apr 2008 08:43:15 -0700 |
| Tunguska Miracle Festival in Evenkiya - April 8th, 2008 |
Lawmakers of Regional Board of Deputies of the Evenkiya municipal district of Russia at the last session approved the programme of celebrating the 100th anniversary of Tunguska Meteorite fall in 2008. The programme has been estimated at 6 million RUB (163.000EUR approximately) and is aimed at drawing attention of publicity to the problems of environment protection, preserving the original culture of the peoples populating Evenkiya.
One of the key events of the 100th anniversary celebration will be Tunguska Divo Festival (divo means miracle in Russian) that will take place in Vanavara village on 27-30 June, 2008. Expectedly, the festival will be attended by several hundreds of guests: scientists, students, tourists, journalists, etc.
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| Tue, 1 Apr 2008 10:48:32 -0700 |
| Microbes could survive meteorite smashes - March 31, 2008 |
You wouldn't bet on many things surviving a direct hit from a massive asteroid. Yet a few hardy microbes have been shown to live through a simulated smash, boosting the theory that life on Earth could have been seeded from another planet.
Large asteroids or comets that collide with rocky planets like Mars blast fragments into space, and some researchers reckon that this may feed a cosmic conveyor belt of life, in which streams of alien microbes travel from planet to planet inside meteoroids
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| Tue, 1 Apr 2008 10:47:27 -0700 |
| Evidence of ancient meteorite strike found - March 29, 2008 |
GLASGOW, Scotland, March 29 (UPI) -- Geologists said a seam of stratified rock on the northwest coast of Scotland was formed by a major meteorite strike 1.2 billion years ago.
The scientists said it appears the meteorite hit Earth with the force of a 145,000 megaton bomb, the Scotsman newspaper reported Friday. The meteorite is thought to have measured more than one-half mile across, ejecting rock over a 40-mile area.
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