[meteorite-list] Meteorite Picture of the Day

2014-12-10 Thread Paul Swartz via Meteorite-list
Today's Meteorite Picture of the Day: Allende TS

Contributed by: Peter Marmet

http://www.tucsonmeteorites.com/mpodmain.asp?DD=12/11/2014
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[meteorite-list] Thank You Readers! Over 2, 004, 635 Viewers / 334, 328, 694 Views! as of 10DEC2014 Since This Website Started Counting in 2008!

2014-12-10 Thread drtanuki via Meteorite-list
List,

Thank You Readers! Over 2,004,635 Viewers / 334,328,694 Views! as of 10DEC2014 
Since This Website Started Counting in 2008!  Thank you all!
http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.com/2014/12/thank-you-readers-over-2004635-viewers.html

If you haven"t yet please bookmark The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News- 
2015 and the coming years will become even more exciting!
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[meteorite-list] ONT MI Meteor approx 2150 EST 10DEC2014

2014-12-10 Thread drtanuki via Meteorite-list
List,
ONT MI Meteor approx 2150 EST 10DEC2014
http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.jp/2014/12/ont-mi-fireball-meteor-10dec2014.html

Dirk Ross...Tokyo
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[meteorite-list] Germany / Czech Rep. / Poland / Austria / Slovakia Fireball Meteor 09DEC2014 updated

2014-12-10 Thread drtanuki via Meteorite-list
List,
Update-

Germany / Czech Rep. / Poland / Austria / Slovakia Fireball Meteor 
17:17 MEZ /  1616 UTC 09DEC2014 
2 videos! 5 Reports
http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.jp/2014/12/germany-czech-rep-poland-austria.html

Dirk Ross...Tokyo
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[meteorite-list] Detained at LAX today.

2014-12-10 Thread Michael Farmer via Meteorite-list
I was detained at LAX today, my bags searched, all my Esquel confiscated. 
Argentine police/embassy people waiting on my flight arrival with Homeland 
Security! I was taken into custody by a Japanese/American undercover officer. 
After 4 hours, I was released minus 2 kg esquel. No information except they 
were looking for anything from Argentina, especially Esquel.
Esquel is perfectly legal, but of course Argentina now seems to want it all 
back. I'll fight them in court. It was exported legally when I was in middle 
school!
Be warned that something is going on.

Michael Farmer
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[meteorite-list] Interesting Meteorite Falls on Dec 10

2014-12-10 Thread Ron Baalke via Meteorite-list

Hi,

Here are some interesting meteorite falls, all happening on December 10th.

Dec 10, 1950 - 1 kg meteorite fell in St. Louis, Missouri and hit a moving car
Dec 10, 1984 - 1.5 kg meteorite fell in Claxton, Georgia and hit a mailbox
Dec 10, 1992 - 6.4 kg meteorite fell in Mihonoseki, Japan and hit a house

Ron
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[meteorite-list] Detained at LAX for Esquel

2014-12-10 Thread Michael Farmer via Meteorite-list
I was detained at LAX today, my bags searched, all my Esquel confiscated. 
Argentine police/embassy people waiting on my flight arrival with Homeland 
Security! I was taken into custody by a Japanese/American undercover officer. 
After 4 hours, I was released minus 2 kg esquel. No information except they 
were looking for anything from Argentina, especially Esquel.
Esquel is perfectly legal, but of course Argentina now seems to want it all 
back. I'll fight them in court. It was exported legally when I was in middle 
school!
Be warned that something is going on.

Michael Farmer
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[meteorite-list] Rosetta Fuels Debate on Origin of Earth's Oceans

2014-12-10 Thread Ron Baalke via Meteorite-list


http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Rosetta/Rosetta_fuels_debate_on_origin_of_Earth_s_oceans

Rosetta Fuels Debate on Origin of Earth's Oceans
European Space Agency
10 December 2014

ESA's Rosetta spacecraft has found the water vapour from its target comet 
to be significantly different to that found on Earth. The discovery fuels 
the debate on the origin of our planet's oceans.

The measurements were made in the month following the spacecraft's arrival 
at Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on 6 August. It is one of the most 
anticipated early results of the mission, because the origin of Earth's 
water is still an open question.

One of the leading hypotheses on Earth's formation is that it was so hot 
when it formed 4.6 billion years ago that any original water content should 
have boiled off. But, today, two thirds of the surface is covered in water, 
so where did it come from?

In this scenario, it should have been delivered after our planet had cooled 
down, most likely from collisions with comets and asteroids. The relative 
contribution of each class of object to our planet's water supply is, 
however, still debated.

The key to determining where the water originated is in its "flavour", 
in this case the proportion of deuterium - a form of hydrogen with an 
additional neutron - to normal hydrogen.

This proportion is an important indicator of the formation and early evolution 
of the Solar System, with theoretical simulations showing that it should 
change with distance from the Sun and with time in the first few million 
years.

One key goal is to compare the value for different kinds of object with 
that measured for Earth's oceans, in order to determine how much each 
type of object may have contributed to Earth's water.

Comets in particular are unique tools for probing the early Solar System: 
they harbour material left over from the protoplanetary disc out of which 
the planets formed, and therefore should reflect the primordial composition 
of their places of origin.

But thanks to the dynamics of the early Solar System, this is not a 
straightforward 
process. Long-period comets that hail from the distant Oort cloud originally 
formed in Uranus-Neptune region, far enough from the Sun that water ice 
could survive.

They were later scattered to the Solar System's far outer reaches as a 
result of gravitational interactions with the gas giant planets as they 
settled in their orbits.

Conversely, Jupiter-family comets like Rosetta's comet were thought to 
have formed further out, in the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune. Occasionally 
these bodies are disrupted from this location and sent towards the inner 
Solar System, where their orbits become controlled by the gravitational 
influence of Jupiter.

Indeed, Rosetta's comet now travels around the Sun between the orbits 
of Earth and Mars at its closest and just beyond Jupiter at its furthest, 
with a period of about 6.5 years.

Deuterium-to-hydrogen in the Solar System

Previous measurements of the deuterium/hydrogen (D/H) ratio in other comets 
have shown a wide range of values. Of the 11 comets for which measurements 
have been made, it is only the Jupiter-family Comet 103P/Hartley 2 that 
was found to match the composition of Earth's water, in observations made 
by ESA's Herschel mission in 2011.

By contrast, meteorites originally hailing from asteroids in the Asteroid 
Belt also match the composition of Earth's water. Thus, despite the fact 
that asteroids have a much lower overall water content, impacts by a large 
number of them could still have resulted in Earth's oceans.

It is against this backdrop that Rosetta's investigations are important. 
Interestingly, the D/H ratio measured by the Rosetta Orbiter Spectrometer 
for Ion and Neutral Analysis, or ROSINA, is more than three times greater 
than for Earth's oceans and for its Jupiter-family companion, Comet Hartley 2. 
Indeed, it is even higher than measured for any Oort cloud comet as 
well.

"This surprising finding could indicate a diverse origin for the Jupiter-family 
comets - perhaps they formed over a wider range of distances in the young 
Solar System than we previously thought," says Kathrin Altwegg, principal 
investigator for ROSINA and lead author of the paper reporting the results 
in the journal Science this week.

"Our finding also rules out the idea that Jupiter-family comets contain 
solely Earth ocean-like water, and adds weight to models that place more 
emphasis on asteroids as the main delivery mechanism for Earth's oceans."

"We knew that Rosetta's in situ analysis of this comet was always going 
to throw up surprises for the bigger picture of Solar System science, 
and this outstanding observation certainly adds fuel to the debate about 
the origin of Earth's water," says Matt Taylor, ESA's Rosetta project 
scientist.

"As Rosetta continues to follow the comet on its orbit around the Sun 
throughout next year, we'll be keeping a close watch on how it evo

[meteorite-list] MRO HiRISE Images: December 10, 2014

2014-12-10 Thread Ron Baalke via Meteorite-list


MARS RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER HIRISE IMAGES
December 10, 2014

o Recurring Slope Lineae in Juventae Chasma
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_030373_1755

  Recurring slope lineae (RSL) are best explained as due to 
  seasonal seeping of water on steep slopes in warm seasons.

o Seeing Beneath the Surface in Morava Valles   
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_038798_1665

  Morava Valles is a small outflow channel in the Margaritifer 
  Sinus region of Mars.

o Frosted Gullies in a Central Pit  
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_038903_1115

  Carbon dioxide frost covers much of the region and helps to 
  reveal subtle textures in the landscape.

o Inverted Ridges in the Eridania Basin 
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_038949_1485

  The ridges display a branched pattern and may have once been 
  connected to a larger channel.

All of the HiRISE images are archived here:

http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/

Information about the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is 
online at http://www.nasa.gov/mro. The mission is 
managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division 
of the California Institute of Technology, for the NASA 
Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. Lockheed 
Martin Space Systems, of Denver, is the prime contractor 
and built the spacecraft. HiRISE is operated by the 
University of Arizona. Ball Aerospace and Technologies 
Corp., of Boulder, Colo., built the HiRISE instrument.

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[meteorite-list] Mars Rover Opportunity Update: November 24 - December 3, 2014

2014-12-10 Thread Ron Baalke via Meteorite-list

http://mars.nasa.gov/mer/mission/status.html#opportunity

OPPORTUNITY UPDATE:  Flash-Memory Reformat Planned  - sols 3852-3861, 
November 24, 2014-December 03, 2014:

Opportunity is on the west rim of Endeavour Crater heading towards 'Marathon 
Valley,' a putative location for abundant clay minerals less than a mile 
(about a kilometer) to the south.

The rover is stopped at an interesting geologic unit and conducting in-situ 
(contact) measurements. On Sol 3853 (Nov. 25, 2014), the rover used the 
robotic arm to reposition the Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer (APXS) 
for a surface measurement. On the next sol, the Rock Abrasion Tool (RAT) 
was used to brush a new surface target, which was then imaged with the 
Microscopic Imager (MI) and examined with the APXS.

With the Thanksgiving holiday, a multi-sol plan was built to collect Pancam 
images over the long holiday weekend. However, the rover experienced amnesia 
events and then a computer reset around Sol 3856 (Nov. 28, 2014). After 
the reboot, the rover was no longer under sequence control and was unable 
to mount the flash (non-volatile) memory. The project restored the rover 
to normal sequence operation on Sol 3859 (Dec. 1, 2014), but the flash 
file system remained unavailable. The project prepared for a reformatting 
of the flash memory on Sol 3862 (Dec. 4, 2014).

As of Sol 3859 (Dec. 1, 2014), solar-array energy production was 468 
watt-hours, 
with an atmospheric opacity (Tau) of 1.376 and a solar-array dust factor 
of 0.638.

Total odometry as of Sol 3861 (Dec. 3, 2014) is 25.66 miles (41.30 kilometers).
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Re: [meteorite-list] The Orgueil meteorite: 150 years of history

2014-12-10 Thread Gmail via Meteorite-list
I loved this paper. Was very well written.

Mendy Ouzillou

On Dec 9, 2014, at 9:37 PM, Shawn Alan via Meteorite-list 
 wrote:

Hello Listers

If you have MAPS you should read this, and if you don't, try to get the
PDF of this file or find someone that can loan the MAPS to you on the
Orgueil meteorite fall 150 years ago. Down below is an abstract of the
paper and a link to the whole article. 

Enjoy :)

Shawn Alan
IMCA 1633 
ebay store http://www.ebay.com/sch/imca1633ny/m.html
Website http://meteoritefalls.com 

Abstract



The Orgueil meteorite: 150 years of history

Matthieu Gounelle1,2,* and
Michael E. Zolensky3

Article first published online: 16 OCT 2014

DOI: 10./maps.12351


Abstract


The goal of this paper is to summarize 150 yr of history of a very
special meteorite. The Orgueil meteorite fell near Montauban in
southwestern France on May 14, 1864. The bolide, which was the size of
the full Moon, was seen across Western France, and almost immediately
made the news in local and Parisian newspapers. Within a few weeks of
the fall, a great diversity of analyses were performed under the
authority of Gabriel Auguste Daubrée, geology professor at the Paris
Museum, and published in the Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences.
The skilled scientists reported the presence of iron sulfides, hydrated
silicates, and carbonates in Orgueil. They also characterized ammonium
salts which are now gone, and observed sulfates being remobilized at the
surface of the stone. They identified the high water and carbon
contents, and noted similarities with the Alais meteorite, which had
fallen in 1806, 300 km away. While Daubrée and his colleagues noted the
similarity of the Orgueil organic matter with some terrestrial humus,
they were cautious not to make a direct link with living organisms. One
century later, Nagy and Claus were less prudent and announced the
discovery of “organized” elements in some samples of Orgueil. Their
observations were quickly discredited by Edward Anders and others who
also discovered that some pollen grains were intentionally placed into
the rock back in the 1860s. Orgueil is now one of the most studied
meteorites, indeed one of the most studied rocks of any kind. Not only
does it contain a large diversity of carbon-rich compounds, which help
address the question of organo-synthesis in the early solar system but
its chemical composition is also close to that of the Sun's photosphere
and serves as a cosmic reference. Secondary minerals, which make up 99%
of the volume of Orgueil, were probably formed during hydrothermal
alteration on the parent-body within the first few million years of the
solar system; their study is essential to our understanding of
fluid–rock interaction in asteroids and comets. Finally, the Orgueil
meteorite probably originated from a volatile-rich “cometary” outer
solar system body as indicated by its orbit. Because it bears strong
similarities to other carbonaceous chondrites that originated on dark
asteroids, this cometary connection supports the idea of a continuum
between dark asteroids and comets.


link:
http://www.readcube.com/articles/10.%2Fmaps.12351?r3_referer=wol&tracking_action=preview_click&show_checkout=1
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Re: [meteorite-list] Research Offers Explanation for Titan Dune Puzzle

2014-12-10 Thread Steve Dunklee via Meteorite-list
Hmm Anyone else here ever see dunes created liquids rather than water? saw them 
all the time on the bottom of shallow lakes and you can recreate them by 
putting a thin layer of sand at the bottom of a dish and just starting some 
wave motion.
Cheers
Steve


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From: Ron Baalke via Meteorite-list 
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Cc: 
Sent: Monday, December 8, 2014 7:11 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Research Offers Explanation for Titan Dune Puzzle



http://tntoday.utk.edu/2014/12/08/ut-research-offers-explanation-titan-dune-puzzle/

UT Research Offers Explanation for Titan Dune Puzzle
University of Tennessee
December 8, 2014

Titan, Saturn's largest moon, is a peculiar place. Unlike any other moon, 
it has a dense atmosphere. It has rivers and lakes made up of components 
of natural gas, such as ethane and methane. It also has windswept dunes 
that are hundreds of yards high, more than a mile wide and hundreds of 
miles long - despite data suggesting the body to have only light breezes.

[Photo]
Sediment inside the Titan wind tunnel for testing.

Research led by Devon Burr, an associate professor in UT's Earth and Planetary 
Sciences Department, shows that winds on Titan must blow faster than previously 
thought to move sand. The discovery may explain how the dunes were formed.

The findings are published in the current edition of the academic journal 
Nature.

A decade ago, Burr and other scientists were amazed by the Cassini spacecraft's 
pictures of Titan that showed never-before-seen dunes created by particles 
previously not known to have existed.

"It was surprising that Titan had particles the size of grains of sand 
- we still don't understand their source - and that it had winds strong 
enough to move them," said Burr. "Before seeing the images, we thought 
that the winds were likely too light to accomplish this movement."

The biggest mystery, however, was the shape of the dunes. The Cassini 
data showed that the predominant winds that shaped the dunes blew from 
east to west. However, the streamlined appearance of the dunes around 
obstacles like mountains and craters indicated they were created by winds 
moving in exactly the opposite direction.

[Photo]
Cassini radar sees sand dunes on Saturn's giant moon Titan (upper photo) 
that are sculpted like Namibian sand dunes on Earth (lower photo). The 
bright features in the upper radar photo are not clouds but topographic 
features among the dunes. Credit: NASA

To get to the bottom of this conundrum, Burr dedicated six years to 
refurbishing 
a defunct NASA high-pressure wind tunnel to recreate Titan's surface 
conditions. 
She and her team then turned up the tunnel's pressure to simulate Titan's 
dense atmosphere, turned on the wind tunnel fan, and studied how the 
experimental 
sand behaved. Because of uncertainties in the properties of sand on Titan, 
they used 23 different varieties of sand in the wind tunnel to capture 
the possible sand behavior on Titan.

After two years of many models and recalibrations, the team discovered 
that the minimum wind on Titan has to be about 50 percent faster than 
previously thought to move the sand.

"Our models started with previous wind speed models but we had to keep 
tweaking them to match the wind tunnel data," said Burr. "We discovered 
that movement of sand on Titan's surface needed a wind speed that was 
higher than what previous models suggested."

The reason for the needed tweaking was the dense atmosphere. So this finding 
also validates the use of the older models for bodies with thin atmospheres, 
like comets and asteroids.

The discovery of the higher threshold wind offers an explanation for the 
shape of the dunes, too.

"If the predominant winds are light and blow east to west, then they are 
not strong enough to move sand," said Burr. "But a rare event may cause 
the winds to reverse momentarily and strengthen."

According to atmospheric models, the wind reverses twice during a Saturn 
year which is equal to about thirty Earth years. This reversal happens 
when the sun crosses over the equator, causing the atmosphere - and 
subsequently 
the winds - to shift. Burr theorizes that it is only during this brief 
time of fast winds blowing from the west that the dunes are shaped.

"The high wind speed might have gone undetected by Cassini because it 
happens so infrequently."

This research was supported by grants from NASA's Planetary Geology and 
Geophysics Program and the Outer Planets Research Program. A new grant 
will allow Burr and her colleagues to examine Titan's winds during different 
climates on Titan as well as the effect of electrostatic forces on the 
sand movement.

Burr's team included UT Earth and Planetary Sciences Assistant Professor 
Josh Emery as well as colleagues from the Johns Hopkins University Applied 
Physics Laboratory, SETI Institute, Arizona State University, and the 
University of California, Davis.


Photo Caption 1: Sediment inside the Tita

Re: [meteorite-list] Finding organic compounds is not proof life has been found on Mars

2014-12-10 Thread Shawn Alan via Meteorite-list
Just think,
50 years from now, what we thought was science with meteorites today,
could be nonsense in the future, who knows what will be discovered down
the road in the name of science or religion. But I think, time will tell
and both will be able to coexist.  

Shawn Alan
IMCA 1633 
ebay store http://www.ebay.com/sch/imca1633ny/m.html
Website http://meteoritefalls.com 

>  Original Message 
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Finding organic compounds is not proof
> life has  been found on Mars
> From: john shea 
> Date: Sat, December 06, 2014 8:11 pm
> To: Shawn Alan ,  Meteorite Central
> 
> 
> 
> The response of religious communities to life on other planets is a non-issue 
> in my opinion.
> 
> The majority of religious individuals are not so enamoured by their faith 
> that they would resist new discoveries in science just because their 
> "leadership" might speak against the idea.
> 
> I barely consider this an opinion.  For instance, there may be a pocket of 
> people who refuse to acknowledge the realities of Evolution, but society has 
> already labeled them as having their heads in the sand.  
> 
> In other words, it is not at all socially acceptable to deny the realities of 
> science.
> 
> Cheers,
> John
> IMCA3295
> 
> 
> Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android
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[meteorite-list] The Orgueil meteorite: 150 years of history

2014-12-10 Thread Shawn Alan via Meteorite-list
Hello Listers

If you have MAPS you should read this, and if you don't, try to get the
PDF of this file or find someone that can loan the MAPS to you on the
Orgueil meteorite fall 150 years ago. Down below is an abstract of the
paper and a link to the whole article. 

Enjoy :)

Shawn Alan
IMCA 1633 
ebay store http://www.ebay.com/sch/imca1633ny/m.html
Website http://meteoritefalls.com 

Abstract



The Orgueil meteorite: 150 years of history

Matthieu Gounelle1,2,* and
Michael E. Zolensky3

Article first published online: 16 OCT 2014

DOI: 10./maps.12351


Abstract


The goal of this paper is to summarize 150 yr of history of a very
special meteorite. The Orgueil meteorite fell near Montauban in
southwestern France on May 14, 1864. The bolide, which was the size of
the full Moon, was seen across Western France, and almost immediately
made the news in local and Parisian newspapers. Within a few weeks of
the fall, a great diversity of analyses were performed under the
authority of Gabriel Auguste Daubrée, geology professor at the Paris
Museum, and published in the Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences.
The skilled scientists reported the presence of iron sulfides, hydrated
silicates, and carbonates in Orgueil. They also characterized ammonium
salts which are now gone, and observed sulfates being remobilized at the
surface of the stone. They identified the high water and carbon
contents, and noted similarities with the Alais meteorite, which had
fallen in 1806, 300 km away. While Daubrée and his colleagues noted the
similarity of the Orgueil organic matter with some terrestrial humus,
they were cautious not to make a direct link with living organisms. One
century later, Nagy and Claus were less prudent and announced the
discovery of “organized” elements in some samples of Orgueil. Their
observations were quickly discredited by Edward Anders and others who
also discovered that some pollen grains were intentionally placed into
the rock back in the 1860s. Orgueil is now one of the most studied
meteorites, indeed one of the most studied rocks of any kind. Not only
does it contain a large diversity of carbon-rich compounds, which help
address the question of organo-synthesis in the early solar system but
its chemical composition is also close to that of the Sun's photosphere
and serves as a cosmic reference. Secondary minerals, which make up 99%
of the volume of Orgueil, were probably formed during hydrothermal
alteration on the parent-body within the first few million years of the
solar system; their study is essential to our understanding of
fluid–rock interaction in asteroids and comets. Finally, the Orgueil
meteorite probably originated from a volatile-rich “cometary” outer
solar system body as indicated by its orbit. Because it bears strong
similarities to other carbonaceous chondrites that originated on dark
asteroids, this cometary connection supports the idea of a continuum
between dark asteroids and comets.


link:
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Re: [meteorite-list] Asteroid 2014 UR116, A 400-meter Sized Near-Earth Asteroid, Represents No Threat to the Earth Hype.

2014-12-10 Thread Steve Dunklee via Meteorite-list
and heres the hype.
http://news.yahoo.com/russian-scientist-spies-mountain-sized-asteroid-heading-way-170022867.html

cheers
Steve
  
 
Russian scientist spies mountain-sized asteroid heading ...
A Russian astrophysicist says his team has located a huge, mountain-sized 
asteroid whose orbit crosses the Earth's every three years.  
View on news.yahoo.com Preview by Yahoo  
  




From: Ron Baalke via Meteorite-list 
To: Meteorite Mailing List  
Sent: Monday, December 8, 2014 6:57 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Asteroid 2014 UR116,A 400-meter Sized Near-Earth 
Asteroid,Represents No Threat to the Earth



http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news187.html

Asteroid 2014 UR116, A 400-meter Sized Near-Earth Asteroid, Represents 
No Threat to the Earth

NASA/JPL Near-Earth Object Program Office
December 8, 2014

Some recent press reports have suggested that an asteroid designated 2014 
UR116, found on October 27, 2014, at the MASTER-II observatory in Kislovodsk, 
Russia, represents an impact threat to the Earth. While this approximately 
400-meter sized asteroid has a three year orbital period around the sun 
and returns to the Earth's neighborhood periodically, it does not represent 
a threat because it's orbital path does not pass sufficiently close to 
the Earth's orbit.

Furthermore, Tim Spahr, Director of the Minor Planet Center in Cambridge 
Massachusetts, has also re-computed this object's orbit after noticing 
that it was the same as an object observed six years ago. Using both sets 
of observations, the future motion of this asteroid was carried further 
forward in time using the automatic computations made by the Sentry system 
at NASA's Near-Earth Object Program Office at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. 
These computations rule out this object as an impact threat to Earth (or 
any other planet) for at least the next 150 years.

Any statements about risk for impact of discovered asteroids and comets 
should be verified by scientists and the media by accessing NASA' Near 
Earth Object (NEO) Program web site at

http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/risk/

or the European equivalent, the NEO Dynamic Site at

http://newton.dm.unipi.it/neodys/index.php?pc=4.1 . 
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[meteorite-list] Germany / Czech Rep. / Poland / Austria Fireball Meteor 1616 UTC 09DEC2014

2014-12-10 Thread drtanuki via Meteorite-list
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Germany / Czech Rep. / Poland / Austria Fireball Meteor 09DEC2014
http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.jp/2014/12/germany-czech-rep-poland-austria.html

Dirk Ross...Tokyo
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[meteorite-list] Meteorite Picture of the Day

2014-12-10 Thread Paul Swartz via Meteorite-list
Today's Meteorite Picture of the Day: Tatahouine TS

Contributed by: Jeffery Hodges

http://www.tucsonmeteorites.com/mpodmain.asp?DD=12/10/2014
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