10 November 2011

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 10NOV2011

Meteorites and Meteor-wrongs Video w/ Dr. Randy L. Korotev (Dr. Lunar)
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WUSTL professor and lunar meteorite expert, Randy L. Korotev, discusses the differences betweenmeteorites and the stones people find that turn out to be meteor-wrongs....




Cosmic voyager has a layover in St. Louis
Washington University in St. Louis News
By Diana Lutz Randy Korotev, PhD, research professor in Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a new Missouri meteorite the owners allowed him “to fondle briefly,” on their way through town last January. Korotev's lab analyzed the olivine crystals in the ... 


Fireballs, Sunspots, and a Space Station in the Night Sky | NBC ...
News4's Tom Kierein says that fireball was part of the Taurid meteor shower, which takes place when the Earth passes through a debris field left by a passing ...
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Bright colours light up Thunder Bay sky
CBC.ca
At about 4:30, it's believed a meteorite moved across the sky just north of Thunder Bay. According to Randy McAllister, the owner/operator of the Thunder Bay Observatory, he's received a lot of reports from his members. “They were reporting a large ...


Meteorites and Meteor-wrongs
7 min
WUSTL professor and lunar meteorite expert, Randy L. Korotev, discusses the differences between meteorites and the stones ...

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