01 December 2009

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News- 1 DEC09

Daily TWiP – Ann Hodges becomes first person hit by a meteorite today in 1954
Nashua Telegraph
Hodges was the first documented individual to be hit by a meteorite and the fragment that hit her was subsequently named the Hodges Meteorite. ...

What's in the Dec. night sky other than reindeer?
Splash
The Geminid Meteor shower peaks on the morning of Dec. 14, so the waning crescent moon will interfere little with the approximately a meteor a minute fall ...

Meteorite study revives life-on-Mars debate
msnbc.com
By Irene Klotz New analysis of a 13000-year-old Mars meteorite, retrieved from Antarctica, has rekindled the debate about whether the ancient rock holds ...

New Study Adds to finding of Ancient Life Signs In Mars Meteorite
Space Ref (press release)
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Meteorite hunters find 13 space rocks in Grimsby
St. Catharines Standard
Meteorite hunters now have a baker's dozen of space rocks that rained down on Grimsby two months ago. But the scientist leading the University of Western ...

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