Meteorite Men: Ash Creek Meteorite Fall, West, Texas

It’s that time again, and regretfully this is the last one for the season. The season finale of the Meteorite Men on Science channel is Wednesday night at 9pm local time. This episode has information and adventure on the West, Texas  fireball which produced the Ash Creek meteorite on February 15th 2009. This meteorite fall [...]

Meteorite Men – The Dry Lake Bed!

UPDATE: 10:57pm Feb 17th – Just finished watching the show tonight… I must say I’m quite disappointed. I really expected much more from the show than 500+ meteorites and the tiny 699 gram carbonaceous meteorite which is super rare and only the second one found outside of Antarctica. Hmmmph, that’s nothing… Anyone can find 500 [...]

Meteorite Impact Crater in Mexico?

Reports are coming in that there has been a meteorite impact 100 miles NorthEast of Mexico City. It’s also been reported that authorities have cordoned off the area. Discover Magazine’s Bad Astronomy Blog has a report Mexican Meteorite Crater? Below is an excerpt from that report.
“…Reports are a bit sketchy right now, but apparently a [...]

Asteroid Collision In Asteroid Belt: P/2010 A2

Looks like we might have some new meteorites on the way here now after two asteroids collided in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
HISTORY’S FIRST RECORDED ASTEROID COLLISION
This is the first time in the history of mankind that such an event has been witnessed and recorded. Will there be meteorites from this event? Eventually, [...]

Tucson Show – Meteorites For Sale

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.
Authentic Meteorite Specimens For Sale
http://www.meteoritesusa.com/tucson/
NEW METEORITES ADDED!
Taza, [...]

Lorton Meteorite Fall: Meteorite Smashes Through Doctors Roof! [VIDEO]

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. [...]

Meteorite Men Series Premier: Buzzard Coulee & Whitecourt Crater

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 [...]

Meteorite Men: Official Science Channel Website [VIDEO]

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 [...]

Hubble Finds Smallest Kuiper Belt Object

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 [...]

3 Mars Meteorites Could Be “Proof of Life” On Mars Says NASA

“…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 [...]

2010 AL30: Space Junk or Asteroid?

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 [...]

FIREBALL SIGHTING: Meteor Streaks Across Southern California!

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 [...]

Alaska Fireball – NORAD Confirms Meteor – Possible New USA Meteorite Fall

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?

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 [...]

Meteorite Identification – How To Identify A Meteorite

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 [...]

Comet Eaten By Sun [VIDEOS]

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 [...]

Asteroids Meteoroids Meteors & Meteorites

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 [...]

Gold Basin Meteorite Hunt – Mr Meteorite! Ruben Garcia

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 Series!

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

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 [...]