Meteorite News Headlines

Meteorite crater discovered in Egypt

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 09:48:12 -0700

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.

Meteor Man

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 09:46:22 -0700

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 -0700

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 -0700

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 -0700

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 -0700

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 -0700

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 -0700

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 -0700

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 -0700

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 -0700

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 -0700

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 -0700

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 -0700

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 -0700

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 -0700

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 -0700

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 -0700

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.

Look out! Meteorite is heading our way

Thu, 15 Apr 2010 11:09:52 -0700

ITS latest journey will not end with a violent crash landing as happened more than 200 years ago.

Yet for those behind the meteorite's return to East Yorkshire, the space rock's arrival is no less significant.

Part of the second biggest meteorite to hit England is this week heading back to Wold Cottage, in Wold Newton, near Driffield – where it originally landed in 1795

Hosts of "Meteorite Men" to visit gallery

Fri, 9 Apr 2010 19:20:59 -0700

Geoffrey Notkin said he enjoys visits to the university's Oscar E. Monnig Meteorite Gallery. So much, in fact, that he said the university feels like his "home away from home."

Notkin, a meteorite hunter and co-host of the Science Channel's show "Meteorite Men," will get to see one of his favorite museums Saturday when he visits the university with fellow meteorite hunter and "Meteorite Men" co-host Steve Arnold.

METEORITE MEN, Steven Arnold and Geoff Notkin, return for a new season

Fri, 9 Apr 2010 19:20:01 -0700

The METEORITE MEN, Steven Arnold and Geoff Notkin, return for a new season of searching for invaluable records of the universe, and it’s all about rockets and backyard innovation in Science Channel’s coverage of the annual L.D.R.S. competition.

HENDERSON CAMPUS: Moon rocks going on display at CSN Meteorites to be exhibited also

Mon, 5 Apr 2010 11:10:23 -0700

The College of Southern Nevada is inviting the public this week to view a moon rock collection on loan from NASA.

These things aren't loaned out to just anybody. They've never been on display like this here, and they probably won't be again anytime soon.

Greenwood Finds History of Lunar Water in Meteorite

Sat, 3 Apr 2010 01:14:25 -0700

Forty years since the first moon landing, a University professor has used samples from that historic mission to make a giant leap forward in the search for water on the moon. Using a novel approach, James Greenwood, Research Assistant Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences, found the highest concentration of water from any lunar sample.

Hour-long comet hailstorm may have caused 1,000-year freeze

Sat, 3 Apr 2010 01:13:16 -0700

The catastrophe, caused by a disintegrating comet, wiped out large numbers of animal species and disrupted human cultures.

A new theory put forward by according to Professor Bill Napier, from the Cardiff University Astrobiology Centre suggests it occurred when the Earth strayed into a dense trail of fragments shed by a large comet.

Man on run after theft of space rock from Dungeness resident

Fri, 2 Apr 2010 07:58:42 -0700

DUNGENESS -- A man who allegedly stole a rare meteorite from a Dungeness resident more than a year ago is on the run, according to the Clallam County Sheriff's Office.

A bench warrant was issued for the arrest of Raymond R. Lima after he missed a court appearance in February.

Smithsonian discusses the rare, recent Lorton Meteorite

Fri, 2 Apr 2010 08:00:29 -0700

ON Jan. 18, 2010, a very rare astronomical event occurred in our area as a meteorite crashed through the roof of a medical office building on Richmond Highway in Lorton.

This meteorite, before it ended its journey in Northern Virginia after traversing outer space for billions of years, was seen streaking across the sky by people along the eastern seaboard as they made their way home from work that evening.

Meteorite-like rock strikes near Rist Canyon home

Fri, 2 Apr 2010 08:04:29 -0700

Roger Hebbert got more than a cake for his 75th birthday this morning; he awoke to find what he believes is a meteorite that struck just 10 feet from his rural Rist Canyon home.

Massive comet striking Canada may have triggered prehistoric extinctions

Fri, 2 Apr 2010 08:02:50 -0700

A British astronomer has published new evidence that North America was strafed by thousands of fragments from a massive comet about 12,900 years ago, a theory he says is the best explanation yet for why the planet was plunged into a 1,000-year cooling period and dozens of Ice Age mammals went extinct at that time.

Meteorite Crashes Through Virginia Doctor's Office

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 08:07:32 -0700

A small meteorite fell from the sky and crashed through the roof of a doctor's office in Virginia, but luckily no one was hit, experts say. The half-pound meteorite struck the Lorton, Va office of Dr. Frank Ciampi, a general practice physician, on Monday evening while he was on the second floor of his two-story building.