21 September 2011

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 21SEP2011

NASA satellite days away from plunging to earth
33 KDAF-TV
"I think we stand a greater chance of getting hit by a meteor or something rather than space junk", said Justin Krieg. The satellite was launched in 2001 to study the earth's ozone and other compounds in the atmosphere. It was decommissioned in 2005. ...



Baptistina Asteroid Not Responsible For Dinosaur Extinction: NASA
International Business Times
In its report, NASA scientists maintained the currently widespread belief that a large meteor crash 65 million ago did cause the dinosaurs' extinction. The report simply casts doubt on a 2007 theory that cited the giant Baptistina asteroid as a ...




Early bird disappearance solved
BBC News
The meteorite impact that coincided with the disappearance of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, also saw a rapid decline in primitive bird species. Only a few bird groups survived through the mass extinction, from which all modern birds are descended ...


CBS new video shows Southwestern USA "meteor ...
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Early today, the CBS News LA aired a compilation of videos recorded by different witnesses across Southwestern USA, who caught ...
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The Meteorites That Fell To Earth
Discovery News
The Dawn mission should also provide more information on the various minerals that make up Vesta, although here there is a little less mystery, thanks to meteorites -- pieces of Vesta that broke off and fell to Earth -- that have been recovered and ...




Primitive birds and dinosaurs shared the same meteorite fate
New Kerala Tue, 20 Sep 2011 09:13 AM PDT
Washington, Sept 20 : A new study has suggested that archaic birds were virtually wiped out by the same meteorite impact that led to the extinction of dinosaurs 65 million years ago.

Study Finds 'Clear Evidence' Meteorite Wiped Out Primitive Birds
redOrbit Tue, 20 Sep 2011 07:14 AM PDT

The same meteorite impact that caused dinosaurs to go extinct 65 million years ago also essentially wiped out ancient birds, a team of paleontologists claim in a new study. The researchers, led by Nicholas Longrich of Yale University, studied collections of approximately two dozen bird fossils of various species from the school's Peabody Museum of Natural History, as well as from the American ...


Meteorite Hunters
KSEE 24 Fresno Tue, 20 Sep 2011 00:36 AM PDT
Space rocks buried in Midwest soil give valuable information to scientists...