Finally the Tucson Show is in town. I’m in town, and adding meteorites to the site. Keep an eye out for meteorites on the Tucson Show page. I’ll have highlights from the show later. In the meantime, take a look at the first meteorites up for sale so far.
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NEW METEORITES ADDED!
Taza, [...]
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Well, it’s official. The newest meteorite fall in the USA happened on Monday evening on January 18th.
A 308g stone chondrite meteorite crashed through the roof and ceiling of a dental office in Lorton VA. This is the first meteorite fall in the USA since the Whetstone Mountains meteorite fall just outside Tucson Arizona last year. [...]
The Meteorite Men series premier airs tonight on the Science Channel. Geoff Notkin and Steve Arnold are professional meteorite hunters who travel the world hunting for space rocks. The cosmic treasures they find tell us more about the universe we live in and helps us better understand our world. Even cooler, hunting meteorites is an [...]
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The Meteorite Men’s official Science Channel website is LIVE! Steve Arnold and Geoff Notkin are the Meteorite Men. They travel the world searching for cosmic treasure that falls from the heavens. They are meteorite hunters.
Earlier this week the Science channel unveiled their new website featuring the Meteorite Men TV series and it’s chock full of [...]
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has discovered the smallest object ever seen in visible light in the Kuiper Belt, a vast ring of icy debris that is encircling the outer rim of the solar system just beyond Neptune.
This artist’s concept of the needle-in-a-haystack object found by Hubble is only 3,200 feet across and a whopping [...]
“…Proof of Life in Three Martian Rocks May Come This Year – NASA says advanced instruments will allow it to definitively prove whether three Martian meteorites contain evidence of life…”
According toNASA “…Using more advanced analytical instruments now available, a Johnson Space Center research team has reexamined the 1996 finding that a meteorite contains strong evidence [...]
NASA Confirms that 2010 AL30 is most likely a small asteroid measuring 10-15 meters (30-45 feet). As the update on NASA states there was some doubt as to whether the object was an asteroid.
Too bad it’s not going to impact Earth though… It would most likely produce a very nice meteorite strewnfield and would become [...]
A big fireball was seen over southern California last night be science school teacher Doug Peltz from Irvine CA.
A good sign there may be material on the ground is that Peltz actually heard a crackling sound as it flew over. One witness stated he saw it all the way from Las Vegas. 9 other witnesses [...]
According to an article on the KTUU.com channel 2 news website in Anchorage Alaska there was a meteor fireball sighted over Anchorage early Sunday morning. It was reported that it was captured by an FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) weather webcam. KTUU reports the meteorite fell in the Chugach Mountains. Below is that report.
“…Meteor shower lights [...]
What is A Meteorite Strewnfield?
To understand what a meteorite strewn field is you must first understand what a meteorite is and how it ends up on the Earth.
Meteorites are fragments of asteroids and meteoroids which have impacted the Earth. This debris, at one time was floating around the solar system orbiting the Sun. Most of [...]
To understand how to identify a meteorite you must first know the types of meteorites there are. There is a set of identifying characteristics that most meteorites exhibit that will aid in identification.
Typically most meteorites contain iron and tend to be magnetic. They are usually heavier and much more dense than ordinary terrestrial stones due [...]
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A Comet Gets Eaten By The Sun! [VIDEO] Nasa SOHO
The SOHO spacecraft captured the arcing orbit of a sungrazing comet as it approached the Sun (Jan. 3, 2010) and evaporated. The comet is believed to belong to the Kreutz family of comets that broke up from a much larger comet [...]
What’s the difference between asteroids, meteoroids, meteors, and meteorites? Well if you don’t know you’re not alone. Many people confuse them and use the terms interchangeably when in fact they aren’t all the same at all. In it’s simplest form an asteroid is BIG, a meteoroid is smaller, meteors are flaming meteoroids as they are [...]
Ruben Garcia & Son just had a successful trip to the Gold Basin meteorite strewnfield. See the photos below on the wonderful Gold Basin meteorites they collected. 355 grams in all. Two of the fragments fit together… Wow! Great work guys!
The Gold Basin meteorite strewnfield is located in northern Arizona about 45 minutes north of [...]
The Meteorite Men are coming! Everyone should run, not walk, to their TIVO and set this show for record. After last years surprise smash hit on May 10th 2009, the Meteorite Men have been busy making 6 new episodes for the coming season starting on January 20th on the Science Channel.
The Meteorite Men cable series [...]
Meteorite hunting in the United States.
Hi Everyone, Welcome To The New And Improved Meteorites USA
Like many people today that are curious about meteorites and meteorite hunting you probably want to know where you can find them. Well the quick and dirty answer to that is that you can find them anywhere. Meteorites have been falling [...]
Meteorites In The United States
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A Google Earth Map of all meteorites found and classified in the United States, complete with links, classification types, and coordinates of the meteorite falls and finds. Data will be added over time and are searchable on the Meteoritical Bulletin’s website for more information.
Meteorites USA
Have you seen a meteor fireball? Report it here.
To Report A Fireball Sighting: Fill out the form below and click SEND. Someone from Meteorites USA will be in contact with you shortly. Clicking SEND will post the report info immediatly to the site in REAL TIME. If there’s info you don’t wish to be [...]
