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Norwegian meteors
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Two Norwegian meteors reported - one over Østlandet and another the following day over Mjøsa. Ildkule på himmelen 17. mai Ifølge astronom Knut Jørgen Røed var det en stor meteorit som skapte den kraftige ildkulen som var synlig over Østlandet noen minutter over klokka 19 på 17. mai. [url=http://ww...
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Okanagan meteor
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Startled stargazers were treated to a rare and beautiful sight this week when a brilliant meteor streaked through Okanagan skies. "It was an amazing, vibrant sight, a fireball with a white centre, blue halo and a long pink tail" - Connie Denesiuk, who, with her husband, Bob, happened to s...
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Idaho meteor
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A meteor lit up the night sky across eastern Idaho yesterday evening. Residents from Pocatello to Driggs say they saw the bright flashes around nine PM. Read more
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The Churchill meteorite
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Canada's latest cosmic rock has been tagged by University of Calgary researchers, bumping up the country's meteorite count to 72. But University of Calgary geologist Dr. Alan Hildebrand figures it'd be light years before his Prairie Meteorite Search uncovers all the galactic deposits litteri...
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Shrewsbury Meteorite
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A diamond-shaped, two-pound piece of the only meteorite ever found in York County has returned home for the 100-year anniversary of its discovery. Found in 1907 about 7 miles north of the Shrewsbury borough line, the entire meteorite weighed about 24 pounds, said Bill Kreiger, a professor of Earth...
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Puget Sound meteorite
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A University of Washington engineer said a mystery rock -- said to be from an unidentified flying object -- is probably a meteorite fragment. Bill Beaty, a researcher in the chemistry department, said the fragment could also have a terrestrial origin -- old lava. "I'm not a geologist, but this...
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Denver fireball
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A fireball that streaked across the Denver sky at 11 p.m. Friday prompted dozens of people to call the Cloudbait Observatory in Guffey to report the bright meteor. "It was not uncommon and moved fairly slow" - Chris Peterson, a research associate at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science...
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Canadian meteor
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Dave Gough isn't quite certain exactly what he saw streak through the sky above the Churchill Plaza around 11 a.m. Thursday morning. "I saw a fiery ball fly through the sky from east to west" - Dave Gough. Local astronomy experts say it could have been anything from a meteor to a piece of spac...
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Meteorite Museum
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Rocks arouse more interest when they come from outer space, thus becoming meteorites. "Asteroids tell us about the early history, the dawn of the solar system. The rocks are part of the story of how the solar system formed and evolved. Instead of using the world's largest telescopes to study ho...
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Sakhalinka astroblem
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A theory suggests a giant meteorite falling on Earth 65 million years ago and killing all dinosaurs. Russian scientists have found traces of this meteorite. During a marine expedition, organized by the Institute of Marine Geology and Geophysics (Russian Academy of Sciences) and aimed at ocean st...
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Meteorite smugglers
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Mauritania's second city, Nouadhibou, is a strange frontier town that feels like the end of the world. In the market you can buy anything from chickens and goats to traditional herbal remedies and magic potions. But perhaps the weirdest objects of all on sale are meteorites, some of the rarest rocks...
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Maui Meteor
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A brightly glowing object that streaked across the sky above Maui was reported by a few people up early enough Wednesday morning to witness the phenomenon. The Maui News received several phone calls from people who said they saw what probably was a large meteor that moved from northwest to southeast...
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Florida Sonic Boom
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The explosion was heard miles away. At Pineda Crossing, near the Suntree subdivision, John Panik said he was having trouble sleeping, got out of bed and turned on the television just before 3 a.m. "I was sitting there and suddenly there was a loud boom. It shook the windows not like a big rattle, b...
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Airways New Zealand, which manages New Zealand's air traffic, said it had been warned by Russian authorities that an obsolete satellite was due to fall into the Pacific Ocean on Wednesday. But the debris had apparently fallen into the area 12 hours earlier than the time advised by the Russians. A spo...
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Bloomington chunk of metal
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A Bloomington couple caught a falling star Monday morning not quite in their pockets but in a bedroom of their house. A chunk of metal that crashed through the bedroom window of David and Dee Riddle just after 9:30 a.m. may be a meteorite but it also could be a piece of space junk according to preliminary...
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