12 November 2011

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 12NOV2011

Weatherwatch: Meteorology blame it on Aristotle
The Guardian
The word meteor was in 1590 specifically used to mean a fireball or shooting star. Photograph: Alamy Why is the study of the weather confusingly known as meteorology? We can blame Aristotle, who wrote a book on the weather describing the interplay of 
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Farmer Finds Rare Meteorite
Discovery News
Scientists are analyzing an extremely rare meteorite found by a farmer in a tiny Missouri town called Conception Junction (population 202), reports Washington University in St. Louis, which helped identify the rock. An unnamed farmer had found the ...