16 October 2011

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 16OCT2011

Council flick switch on Goytre schoolgirl's star-gazing
South Wales Argus
A TEENAGE star gazer from Goytre convinced Monmouthshire Council to turn off street lighting - so she could witness a major meteor shower. Amy Jones, 15, a pupil at King Henry VIII School, Abergavenny, asked the local authority to turn off the bright ...




Thanks to Haley's Comet, Orionid Meteor Showers 2011 Coming Next Week Amid ...
International Business Times
By IBTimes Staff Reporter | October 15, 2011 12:48 PM EDT Haley's Comet will yield a nice spectacle next week -- the Orionid meteor showers 2011. And this year the viewing should be spectacular amid a slender moon. To view it, you'll have to get up and ...



The Temperature of Early Mars
Astrobiology Magazine (press release)
By analyzing carbonate minerals in a four-billion-year-old meteorite that originated near the surface of Mars, the scientists determined that the minerals formed at about 18 degrees Celsius (64 degrees Fahrenheit). “The thing that's really cool is that ...