Oct 25 2010

The Meteorite Men on Friday News Feedbag

On this week's Friday News Feedbag, Geoffrey Notkin and Steve Arnold, aka Science Channel's Meteorite Men stop by the studio to talk about hunting for meteorites all over the world. If this is your first exposure to the Friday News ...

Sep 22 2010

Mars Rover Spies a Possible Meteorite

Tag: Mars,Meteors,NASAIrene Klotz @ 12:24 pm
Mars rover Opportunity will make a pit stop to get a closer look at the toaster-sized rock.

Sep 15 2010

Did the Greeks Spot Halley’s Comet First?

Tag: Comets,Meteorites,MeteorsIan O'Neill @ 6:27 am
After some fascinating astronomical detective work, researchers have (possibly) found the first documented proof of a sighting of Halley's Comet two centuries earlier than Chinese astronomers.

Aug 11 2010

Sharing the Perseids with #Meteorwatch

Tag: Current Events,MeteorsNicole Gugliucci @ 2:11 am
Get outside and watch the annual Perseid meteor shower while participating in the global social media event: #Meteorwatch.

Aug 10 2010

Fresh Scar on the Moon’s Surface

Tag: Meteorites,Meteors,The MoonNicole Gugliucci @ 5:43 pm
Although typically a sign of an ancient, unchanged landscape, a new crater has been discovered on the Moon, reminding us that we still live in an intergalactic shooting gallery.

Jun 11 2010

Poetry in Motion: Forensic Astronomers Solve Whitman Mystery

Tag: Astronomy,Comets,MeteorsJennifer Ouellette @ 4:19 pm
Was the "strange huge meteor procession," as described in Walt Whitman's famous poem Leaves of Grass , based on an actual event?

May 01 2010

New And Old Observations Bolster Asteroid Worries

Tag: Asteroids,Doomsday,Hubble Telescope,MeteorsRay Villard @ 9:30 pm
Unsettling clues that underscore our lack of knowledge about the asteroid threat can be found as far as 500 million miles away, and a few centuries back in time.

Apr 17 2010

Piece of Midwestern Meteor Found

Tag: Asteroids,Comets,Meteorites,MeteorsDiscovery News - Top Stories @ 10:14 am
A peanut-sized, encrusted rock may be a fragment of a meteor that lit up Midwestern skies on Wednesday night.

Apr 17 2010

Piece of Midwestern Meteor Found

Tag: Asteroids,Comets,Meteorites,MeteorsDiscovery News - Top Stories @ 10:14 am
A peanut-sized, encrusted rock may be a fragment of a meteor that lit up Midwestern skies on Wednesday night.

Mar 04 2010

Asteroid Did Kill Dinos, Scientists Affirm

Tag: Asteroids,Dinosaurs,Impact Craters,Meteors,Volcanic EruptionsDiscovery News - Top Stories @ 2:41 pm
A 30-year-old theory about the demise of the dinosaurs gets affirmation from a team of scientists.

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