17 December 2011

Surprised passengers spot UFO from moving car on busy Tokyo street [video]
Examiner.com
Several people who have seen the video have put forth the opinion that this unidentified flying object was actually nothing more than a meteor. There is reportedly at least one other video showing the object from another angle. ...



Meteorites Trigger Avalanches on Mars
Space.com
by Clara Moskowitz, SPACE.com Assistant Managing Editor As meteorites careen toward the surface of Mars, they can trigger avalanches before they even hit the ground, a new study suggests. Space rocks flying toward the Martian surface can travel at ...



Video captures falling meteor
Fort Frances Times
LONDON, Ont.—Astronomers from the University of Western Ontario have released rare video of ameteor that travelled through the evening sky east of Toronto earlier this week. Six cameras belonging to Western's Southern Ontario Meteor Network captured ...




Former resident's work may help other scientistsThief River Falls Northern Watch
Soon, he will be creating computer simulations of those unique crystalline patterns that appear on most iron meteorites. Jason Hicks hopes his work will provide other scientists with a better insight into how the patterns form in nature. 
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