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One of our museum display specimens was stolen out of its case -- most likely just before Christmas break, during opening hours. The specimen is a "Sikhote Alin" weighing 9490 grams. I would like to alert the meteorite collector community to be on the look-out for this specimen, it is unique and easily identifiable as our property.
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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...
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.
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,"
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.
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 ...
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! 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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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 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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Chicago's Field Museum said this week that the Meteoritical Society named the meteorite after Mifflin Township, Wisc., where it fell
on April 14.
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.
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.
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,
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.
The public is welcome to post interesting meteorite and tektite sites to this new meteorite links directory informational site.
Ernst Chladni, the man who proved stones really do fall from the sky
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
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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 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.
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
Meteorite hunters scouring North America for pieces of rock from outer space are confirming something Illinois residents already know: Meteorites are a hot commodity.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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