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Meteorites Stolen from University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy

Wed, 7 Mar 2012 19:31:53 -0800

Sometime between January 27 and March 3, a person or persons entered an office at the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy at 640 North A'ohoku Place, Hilo, Hawaii and removed meteorites from within it. The items were important research specimens and teaching tools used in education and public outreach with the young people of Hawaii.

Announcing The Meteorite Exchange Network

Sat, 10 Sep 2011 17:28:41 -0800

Announcing The Meteorite Exchange Network, a new global menu that allows you to easily hop between our websites. We also have a new website with two sections finished and a third under development.

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What Is A Meteorite?

Sun, 4 Sep 2011 21:11:04 -0800

Meteorites have many meanings and have many fascinating tales to tell, but they can be summed up simply as – rocks from space.

Meteorites are fragments of rock and iron that populate the solar system, and most of them originate in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Each one orbits in it’s own path around the Sun, much like our own planet does on a larger scale...

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Fri, 12 Aug 2011 09:12:04 -0800

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Giant Meteorite Discovered in China

Mon, 25 Jul 2011 22:48:06 -0800

A massive space rock – one that could rank as one of the largest meteorites ever recovered – has been found in a remote and mountainous region in northwest China, according to news reports.

The huge and oddly-shaped rock was found in the Altai mountains in China's Xinjiang Uygur province, according to Sky and Telescope magazine. Earlier this month, Baolin Zhang, a meteorite specialist at the Beijing Planetarium, led a small team up a 9,500-foot (2,900-meter) summit to investigate reports of the supposed meteorite.

Massive Meteorite Found in China

Fri, 22 Jul 2011 17:26:49 -0800

On the afternoon of July 16th, after reaching a mountainous crest 9,500 feet (2,900 m) up Zhang and his team finally spotted their objective: a large dark-brown stone jutting from the ground. It took only moments for him to realize what they'd found. "This is a huge iron meteorite,"

Will colonizing meteorites and asteroids with bacteria one day save life as we know it?

Thu, 21 Jul 2011 19:04:29 -0800

Mautner became interested in the idea when he was studying at New York’s Rockefeller University in the early 1970s. It was there, in the midst of the Cold War’s nuclear standoff, that he felt “our survival really became a question.” He’s been advocating directed panspermia ever since. In 1995, he founded the Panspermia Society for Life in Space, and for most of his professional life, he has studied whether microbes can survive on asteroids and meteorites in space. This, he says, is necessary for directed panspermia to work.

Meteorite Rush: ET treasure hunters dig deep for 'alien gold'

Thu, 21 Jul 2011 16:57:55 -0800

That, at least, is the case in Central Russia's Ryazan region, where meteorite fever has spread in recent years. RT's Oksana Boyko jumped at the chance to ...

Scientist Commence Study On Fallen Meteorite

Thu, 21 Jul 2011 05:58:46 -0800

Scientists from the University of Nairobi and experts from the department of mines and geology have begun tracing the route that a space rock followed before landing with a loud bang in Thika.

Mars Day! 2011 at the National Air and Space Museum

Wed, 20 Jul 2011 23:09:49 -0800

Mars Day! is an annual National Air and Space Museum event that celebrates the Red Planet with educational and fun family activities. Visitors can take part in a variety of activities, see a real meteorite that came from Mars, talk to scientists active in Mars research, and learn about current and future missions.

Meteor sighted before crashing in Kilimambogo, Kenya

Sun, 17 Jul 2011 21:51:44 -0800

Residents of the towns of Kilimambogo and Tala in Kenya spotted an object in the sky on Saturday. Those who did not see the object, heard it, as it crashed to the ground.

Residents of the nearby towns of Yatta, Kakuzi and Kangundo reported hearing an explosion around 10am, which they said was comparable to a plane crash or bomb explosion.

Experts to study Meteor object from the sky

Sun, 17 Jul 2011 20:59:03 -0800

Experts will use data from a rock that fell from outer space to learn more about the universe.

The black object that landed on a remote village near Thika town on Saturday has been handed over to geologists and military experts for analysis.

Meteorite Times Magazine July Issue Now Available

Sat, 16 Jul 2011 07:12:21 -0800

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Meteorite did kill the dinosaurs, fossil shows

Sat, 16 Jul 2011 08:51:22 -0800

A horn from one of the last surviving dinosaurs could be clinching evidence that a massive meteor strike ended the extinct reptiles' reign on Earth.

Ancient turtle survived meteorite

Sat, 16 Jul 2011 08:49:35 -0800

The remains of a turtle that survived the 65 million-year-old meteorite impact that wiped out the dinosaurs have been found in North Dakota and Montana.

While most groups of animals show high rates of extinction 65-million-years-ago, this new discovery provides more data indicating that turtles came out largely unscathed by the meteorite impact.

One Hundred Years Ago Today, A Mars Meteorite Fell in a Blaze

Sat, 16 Jul 2011 08:53:14 -0800

On the morning of June 28, 1911, somewhere between 8:30 and 9:00 in the morning, a fireball was observed northwest of Alexandria, Egypt. Few would realize what it was. But soon after, W.F. Hume, minister of the Geological Survey of Egypt, began taking eyewitness statements, and two months later published his report, “The First Meteorite Record in Egypt.”

Meteorite Times Magazine April Issue Now Available

Fri, 15 Apr 2011 18:01:08 -0800

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Meteorite Community Scuffles with New York Times Over Controversial Science Article

Wed, 13 Apr 2011 07:22:13 -0800

On April 4 The New York Times published an inflammatory article titled “Black-Market Trinkets From Space.” The author, a respected Pulitzer prize-winning senior writer, William J. Broad, included a quote from geologist Ralph P. Harvey that likened international commerce in meteorites to the drug trade. Mr. Harvey has since stated that his quote was taken out of context, and that’s happened to me enough times in interviews, so I have no reason to doubt his word.

Scientists dismiss alien life report

Tue, 8 Mar 2011 11:28:28 -0800

A report claiming to find remnants of alien life in meteorites has been broadly dismissed by scientists after its publication Friday in an eccentric online journal.

The report was written by Richard Hoover, an engineer at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. He had sliced open a couple of small meteorites, looked at them under a microscope and seen what he thought were the fossils of tiny bacteria called cyanobacteria.

Feburary Issue of Meteorite Times Now Up

Sat, 26 Feb 2011 09:30:07 -0800

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2011 Tucson Gem and Mineral Show

Tue, 18 Jan 2011 09:29:25 -0800

The annual Tucson Gem and Mineral show is a huge event that draws more than 100,000 to the city each year to look at hundreds of thousands of minerals, gems, meteorites, beads, pieces of jewelry, and other items that rock and gem folks just love — and all of it’s for sale. The show is the big event for the meteorite world and brings together hundreds of dealers and collectors.

Science Channel renews 'Meteorite Men'

Tue, 8 Feb 2011 09:21:54 -0800

Science Channel has ordered a third season of "Meteorite Men."

Produced by the LMNO Cable Group, skein follows co-hosts Geoff Notkin and Steve Arnold as they search for outer space objects, some more than 40 million years old, that have landed on Earth. Eric Schotz is exec producer.

The Sky Is Falling ... More Than We Thought

Mon, 31 Jan 2011 09:16:43 -0800

Sometime in the past 5000 years, a small iron meteorite slammed into the southwest corner of Egypt, punching a 45-meter-wide crater into the rock and sand. A new study suggests that small meteorites like this may survive their plunge through Earth's atmosphere intact much more often than previously suspected.

Wyoming meteorite travels far to be classified

Sun, 30 Jan 2011 09:14:09 -0800

It takes more than a rock hunter's hunch for the world to accept a rock as a meteorite.

First, a scientist determines if it is a meteorite by examining its surface characteristics and mineral content, said Howard McLean, a meteorite hunter from Auburn, Ala.

Then the meteorite has to have its name approved by the Meteoritical Society, an international scholarly organization that records all known meteorites.

Space Rocks!

Thu, 27 Jan 2011 09:13:14 -0800

Space Rocks covers topics like asteroid-hunting, scaling the asteroid belt, craters on Earth and the Moon, and identifying meteorites versus “meteorwrongs.” Included activities allow astronomy clubs and societies to bring unexpected aspects of astronomy to their outreach programs. Each kit contains numerous links

Mifflin Meteorite gets permanent home

Thu, 9 Dec 2010 08:12:18 -0800

La Crosse, WI (WXOW) - Fragments of the meteorite that brightened the skies of Wisconsin and parts of Iowa on April 14-th.

Now have a permanent home at the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Geology Museum.

Mars Meteorite Not Evidence of Extraterrestrials

Thu, 9 Dec 2010 08:11:46 -0800

What some argue is evidence of ancient life in a meteorite from Mars could have a simple chemical explanation, scientists now suggest.

These findings could also shed light on of the tricky chemistry going on in the atmospheres of both Mars and Earth.

Supernova Shrapnel Discovered Inside Meteorite

Thu, 9 Dec 2010 08:10:54 -0800

A meteorite than landed on Earth nearly 150 years ago has been found to contain microscopic shrapnel from a star that exploded about the time our solar system was born.

The chemical composition of the Orgueil meteorite, which struck France in 1864, indicates that a nearby star exploded in a supernova around 4.5 billion years ago, right when the sun's planets were forming. From the faint remnants of the stellar explosion, researchers are now in position to determine what kind of star exploded.

Bolide lights up sky over Serbia

Sat, 13 Nov 2010 10:40:50 -0800

VRANJE, BELGRADE -- Milan Jelic(ic' of the Ru?er Boškovic' Astronomical Society says that a bolide was seen in the sky above Serbia last night.

Mystery of Tunguska meteorite solved

Tue, 26 Oct 2010 08:45:46 -0800

102 years after the fall of the famous celestial body in Tunguska taiga, scientists finally managed to identify the crash site of one of its fragments and examine the unusual composition of the substance of this space creature. The study was conducted using a unique instrument - GPR. As a result, it was proved that it was not a meteorite, but a comet.

Midwest Meteor Gets Named

Sat, 4 Sep 2010 16:54:06 -0800

Chicago's Field Museum said this week that the Meteoritical Society named the meteorite after Mifflin Township, Wisc., where it fell
on April 14.

Santa Fe once destroyed by ancient meteorite

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 07:09:51 -0800

A large meteorite smashed into what is now Santa Fe, New Mexico, some million or billion years ago. Now scientists are trying to determine exactly when this life-killer hit. Space.com reports that geologists are studying the impact crater in detail to determine its size and moment of earth-shattering impact.

Odessa meteor crater expert dies

Sat, 7 Aug 2010 10:15:56 -0800

Glen L. Evans, a prominent geologist who was in charge of exploration of the Odessa Meteor Crater from 1939 to 1941, died July 14.

He completed a publication in 2000 with Charles "Gene" Mear titled, "The Odessa meteor craters and their geological implications" in the "Occasional Papers of the Strecker Museum, No. 5" at Baylor University.

Meteorites and minerals planned for New Mexico mineral museum

Sat, 7 Aug 2010 10:12:50 -0800

A new mineral museum project is planned to commence in rural New Mexico in late 2010. The John H. Eicher Mineral Museum will be constructed at Granite Gap, a short distance north of Animas, New Mexico,

Meteorite crater discovered in Egypt

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 09:48:12 -0800

There have only been 176 confirmed impact craters on Earth, but this one, called Kamil, is one of the best-preserved.

It measures 45m wide and 16m deep and was first noticed on Google Earth images in 2008 by Vincenzo de Michele, former curator of the Civico Museo di Storia Naturale, in Milan, Italy.

Meteorite Information Links Directory

Sat, 7 Aug 2010 10:17:04 -0800

The public is welcome to post interesting meteorite and tektite sites to this new meteorite links directory informational site.

Meteor Man

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 09:46:22 -0800

Ernst Chladni, the man who proved stones really do fall from the sky

Research Yields Greater Precision in Age of Meteorites

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 12:15:00 -0800

Researchers have aged dated a very important group of meteorites with far greater precision than previously possible by using a different type of radioactive dating on a particularly difficult type of specimen to study.

The project found that the asteroid from which ureilite meteorites are derived differentiated -- or separated into parts of different composition -- within 5 million years of the formation of the Solar System

Rare meteorite sliced open

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 12:13:16 -0800

Mineralogists at the Royal Ontario Museum had their first look Wednesday inside a rare, 53-kilogram meteorite chunk found near Springwater, Sask., in 2009.

After 48 hours of careful cutting, a wire saw studded with diamonds released a piece of rock about the size of a large slice of bread Wednesday morning from a hunk as large as a high school student's backpack

Fight Over Meteorite Crashes Into Court

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 11:00:35 -0800

A family medical practice has sued its landlord to determine who owns the palm-sized meteorite that crashed through the building's roof into an examination room. The doctors say the meteorite is in "safekeeping" at the Smithsonian Institutions, which offered $5,000 for the space rock, which the doctors want to donate for relief work in Haiti.

Meteorite Hunting & Collecting Magazine

Tue, 13 Jul 2010 12:56:48 -0800

A new and exciting meteorite related print magazine with a focus on the adventure, science, and fun of meteorite hunting and collecting. Meteorite Hunting & Collecting Magazine is a bi-monthly full color magazine chock full of interesting meteorite articles and information for the amateur and professional meteorite hunter, collector, astronomer and scientist alike. Learn what meteorites are, where they come from, how to find meteorites, recover, collect meteorites, and help advance the great science of meteoritics.

On the trail of the Willamette Meteorite

Tue, 13 Jul 2010 13:01:11 -0800

The group toured the Willamette Meteorite Interpretive Trail at Fields Bridge Park on June 11. They were impressed with the design of the information areas along the trail as well as the sculpture of the meteorite

Rare meteorites to be displayed at PARI in Rosman

Wed, 16 Jun 2010 09:12:04 -0800

The public is invited to a special meteorite presentation by Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute President Don Cline on July 9. The evening’s activities will include a tour of the PARI campus near Rosman and celestial observations using PARI’s optical or radio telescopes.

Florida man uncovers possible Earth-related meteorite

Tue, 15 Jun 2010 15:39:36 -0800

Meteorite enthusiast Greg Hupe holds a small meteorite he found from the April fireball in southern Wisconsin. Hupe has been fascinated with meteorites the past 14 years, calling his hobby "an obsession". Credit: Jack Schrader and Michael Johnson

NASA wants you ... to help find meteorites

Sun, 13 Jun 2010 11:31:11 -0800

NASA has launched an all-out search for any meteorites that may have survived from a bright fireball that streaked over northeastern Alabama last month. And the space agency wants your help.

Meteorite hunter combs the land for extraterrestrial rubble

Mon, 31 May 2010 11:09:01 -0800

Ruben Garcia watches the skies, not for what he might see up there but for what might fall to the ground. The Phoenix resident is a meteorite hunter, making his living by finding and selling the rocks from space that litter the Earth. He monitors the Internet for reports of meteor sightings, combing through news reports, blogs and Twitter feeds

Meteorites burning up the market

Thu, 13 May 2010 07:41:18 -0800

Meteorite hunters scouring North America for pieces of rock from outer space are confirming something Illinois residents already know: Meteorites are a hot commodity.

Space rock's overdue return to Wold Newton

Thu, 29 Apr 2010 07:51:52 -0800

WOLD NEWTON proudly welcomed back a famous extra-terrestrial visitor - 215 years after it first crashed to earth.
The meteorite, the second largest ever to have fallen in England, landed in December 1795 and was subsequently broken up to be shown to astronomers the world over.

Astro Bob blog: First meteorite recovered from Wisconsin fireball

Fri, 16 Apr 2010 09:39:03 -0800

It looks like southern Wisconsin's the place to be right now if you want to hunt for fresh meteorites. Pieces of meteorite from Wednesday night's amazing fireball appear to have fallen over the Livingston area between Platteville and Avoca.

Meteorite Recovered from April 14 Fireball

Fri, 16 Apr 2010 09:36:14 -0800

Via the Astro Bob and Rocks From Space websites comes news that the first meteorite has been recovered from the spectacular fireball that was seen over seven states on April 14, 2010. Brothers Christopher and Evan Boudreaux from southern Wisconsin located a piece of what was likely a meter-wide space rock, according to NASA' Near Earth Object office. Astro Bob said that pieces of meteorite from Wednesday night's amazing fireball appear to have fallen over the Livingston, Wisconson area between Platteville and Avoca.

What exactly was the 'fireball' in the sky?

Thu, 15 Apr 2010 11:13:54 -0800

Everyone's talking about the apparent meteor that lit up the sky around 10:15 p.m. on Wednesday, and the big question is: What was it?

It could be a number of things, ranging from an extraterrestrial object to space junk or rocket casing, said Ed Eloranta, senior scientist at UW-Madison's Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences.

Eloranta says he believes this was a meteor that burned up while still airborne, as opposed to a meteorite, which hits the ground.

Spectacular meteor lights up the Midwest

Thu, 15 Apr 2010 11:12:17 -0800

CHICAGO - Skywatchers over a wide area of the Midwest got a brief but spectacular light show as a fireball streaked across the sky Wednesday night

Large fireball seen in the Midwest may have been a meteorite

Thu, 15 Apr 2010 11:11:15 -0800

According to the National Weather Service, reports of a bright fireball flooded sheriff dispatch centers across the southern half of Wisconsin around 10 p.m. Wednesday night. National Weather Service offices in La Crosse, Davenport and Des Moines Iowa as well as St. Louis and Kansas City Missouri also received reports of a fireball from both law enforcement officials and the public.