Dec 29th 2008 Fireball! Looks like the year is going out with a meteoric bang. There’s been multiple significant fireball sightings over the last few days and the one in New England looks to have even more eye witnesses than the last one in northern California. Don’t forget about the new Meteorite Fall in Canada [...]
California Fireball Sightings
December 28, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Meteor Fireball There’s been yet another fireball, this time in California. According to SpaceWeather.com here’s and excerpt from the report they’ve written up along with some eye witness accounts. “…I was looking up over our house and what I saw was the most beautiful ball of light I have ever seen!!!! As it came [...]
What is a Meteorite?
December 26, 2008 By Leave a Comment
What Is A Meteorite? by Eric Wichman If you’ve ever wanted to know what the difference between a meteorite, meteoroid, and meteor is, here are some basic facts in order of appearance. A meteoroid floats through space until the Earth’s gravity pulls it into our atmosphere. Once it enters our atmosphere it begins to [...]
Iron Meteorites
December 26, 2008 By 2 Comments
Iron (nickel iron) Meteorites – Campo del Cielo & Canyon Diablo: Famous meteorites Shop Classifieds: Iron Meteorites For Sale Iron meteorites are among some of the most rare on earth. only about 5% of all meteorites that fall to earth are irons. That’s not much considering meteorites are rare to begin with. Scientists believe that iron meteorites are [...]
Meteorites Are Cool
December 25, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Meteorites are the coolest things on the face of the planet, in my humble opinion. They are space rocks, born in fire and have survived their course of travel through space for millions of years before being pulled through our atmosphere in a spectacular fireball to the Earth’s surface to be found by a [...]
