16 November 2009

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News- 16NOV09

Strong Leonid Meteor Shower Peaks Early Tuesday Morning

Space.com
By Robert Roy Britt
One of the best annual meteor showers will peak in the pre-dawn hours Tuesday, and for some skywatchers the show could be quite ...
'Nearly ideal' viewing conditions for Leonid meteor shower

Ottawa Citizen
By Tom Spears, The Ottawa citizennovember 16, 2009 12:02 AM OTTAWA-Tonight may be the best opportunity in years to see the annual Leonid meteor shower, ...
Leonid meteor shower to peak Tuesday

CNN
NASA says that this year's Leonid meteor shower will be light over the United States and heavier over Asia. (CNN) -- This year's Leonid meteor shower will ...
Leonid meteor shower visable early Tuesday morning

Examiner.com
Head outdoors early Tuesday morning if you want to catch the Leonid meteor shower. Astronomers say that 20-30 showers should be visible in North America ...
Leonid meteor to light up sky on Tuesday

The Money Times
The Leonid meteor get their name from the location of their constellation Leo, and are associated with the comet Tempel-Tuttle. They occur every year when ...
The Sky Will Be Falling

NBC Washington
By JIM IOVINO Back in the day (like 1833), the Leonids were the bee's knees of meteor showers. Sky and Telescope said the meteors fell "like snowflakes in a ...
Leonid meteor showers to light up night sky on Monday

Times of India

CHANDIGARH: The night sky would light up for the next couple of days with Leonid meteor shower expected to peak on Tuesday. Experts say skywatchers would be ...

SHOOTING STARS TO LIGHT UP THE NIGHT SKY

Star of Mysore
Some of these visitors from space are large enough to survive their trip through the atmosphere and impact the ground as meteorites. ...

Meteor shower hits peak tonight

Red and Black
Shooting stars and meteors will spray across the sky 500 times an hour tonight during the once-in-a-lifetime Leonid Meteor Shower. Leonid meteors are debris ...


Best spots in Utah to watch the Leonids Meteor Shower, peaking on November 17th

Examiner.com

The Leonids Meteor Shower happens like clockwork every November. Leonid Meteor Showers occur when the earth passes through clouds of dusty debris left in ...


Leonid Meteor Shower to Light Up Ithaca Sky

WVBR

Meteors wills streak across the night sky early Tuesday morning in the annual Leonid meteor shower. Experts estimate that several hundred meteors per hour ...

Giant Steps Are What You Take Walking On The Moon - With Frozen Water!

Voxy
In recent decades, scientists have seized upon a theory that a meteorite collision during the early stages of the Earth's formation created a large amount ...
Spirit's roving chances bleak, team cheered by discoveries

Spaceflight Now
Those periods would have been the time before a meteorite punched into the spot and churned up the sulfate soil, and again when the material that made up ...
Leonid meteor showers to light up night sky on Monday

Times of India
CHANDIGARH: The night sky would light up for the next couple of days with Leonid meteor shower expected to peak on Tuesday. Experts say skywatchers would be ...

Meteor showers to streak across sky Tuesday

Desert Dispatch

The Leonid meteor shower reaches its annual peak around 1 am Tuesday morning, and late viewers may be able to see a second peak Tuesday night, ...


1833 meteor shower's effects are seen to this day in religion

Press-Enterprise
By DAVID OLSON The Leonid meteor shower makes its annual appearance tonight, and it's expected to be mediocre at best. You'll probably see a few sporadic ...


Look Up: What's in the Sky This Week?

DCist.com
This meteor shower often gives one of the best shows of the year, on rare occasions being so spectacular that it surpasses being just a shower and becomes a ...

Zarzuty za atak na rzeźbę papieża

TVN24 - Warsawa,Poland
Były europoseł Witold Tomczak usłyszy prokuratorskie zarzuty za zniszczenie w 2000 r. rzeźby papieża Jana Pawła II przygniecionego meteorytem w galerii ...

Leonid Meteor Shower to Light Up Ithaca Sky

WVBR
Meteors wills streak across the night sky early Tuesday morning in the annual Leonid meteor shower. Experts estimate that several hundred meteors per hour ...

UGA Observatory to host open house tonight

Online Athens
Now is the height of the annual Leonid Meteor Shower, and astronomers think the celestial display could be especially impressive this year - so uga's ...
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Pagasa: 'Leonids' to light up skies for 2 days

Philippine Star
By Dennis Carcamo (philstar.com) Updated November 16, 2009 04:45 PM MANILA, Philippines – A "prolific" meteor shower is expected to light up the skies of ...
Leonid meteor shower to peak early Tuesday morning

Denver Post
By The Denver Post The annual Leonid meteor shower peaks early Tuesday across North America, although experts say there should be good viewing in the hours ...

Clouds are likely to obscure Leonid meteor shower

Indianapolis Star
With a new moon offering little light to compete, the annual Leonid meteor shower was expected to be especially visible -- unless you're in Indiana. ...

Best viewing of Leonid meteor showers should be during Tueday's predawn hours

Kingsport Times News
By Staff Report Weather permitting, sky watchers will get a treat tonight with the peak of the Leonid meteor shower. It's peak viewing time in this region ...

NASA speaks out as 2012 film sparks fears of end of world

Coventry Telegraph
There is no risk of a massive solar flare set to destroy the planet in 2012 and monitoring systems do not predict any meteorite impact in that year. ...

Usunął meteoryt, a teraz nie stawił się w prokuraturze

Kurier Szczecinski - Szszecin,Poland
... prac była „La Nona Ora” (Dziewiąta godzina), instalacja włoskiego artysty Maurizio Cattelana przedstawiająca Jana Pawła II przygniecionego meteorytem. ...

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