Meteors


What is a Meteorite?
Meteorite Central
The Meteoritical Society
Meteorite Minerals
Types of Meteorites
Any Point Australia - Henbury Meteorite Craters Conservation Reserve
The Meteorite Market
Europe's biggest smash hit - 15/02/99 largest meteorite crater ever found in Europe - in the Barents Sea
CNN - Meteor blasts New Zealand with sonic boom - July 8, 1999
Return to Tunguska
Sound of shooting stars - 19/04/99
Small but deadly comets identified - 16/09/99
Surprise meteor shower possible - 08/11/99
Voyage through a Comet's Tail - 17/11/99
How to catch the Leonids - 17/11/99
Meteorite Book Reviews
Leonid Storm
Understanding the Leonid Meteor Storms
ESA Science - Leonids meteor shower 1999
The Leonids, Live
Sky & Telescope's Meteor Page
The International Meteor Organization
North American Meteor Network
Comets & Meteor Showers, inc. "Cometography"
The American Meteor Society
Pace of Leonid meteors expected to increase - 17/11/99
Online Guide to Meteor Showers and their Observation
In the Leonids' lair - 18/11/99
Leonid strikes the Moon - 23/11/99
Geminid meteor shower peaks - 14/12/99
Robot hunts for space rocks - 19/01/00
Meteor explodes in air near Alaska, Yukon border - 20/01/00
Woman finds space fireball debris - 31/01/00
New Mars meteorite found - 31/01/00
Rock hunter finds second Mars meteorite known in U.S. - 04/02/00
Meteorites reveal deep secrets - 08/02/00
Rare meteorite promises glimpse into dawn of creation - 17/03/00
Rare Mars meteorite discovered in Middle East - 25/05/00
A meteorite worth its salt - 08/06/00
Meteorite Zag sheds light on life in cosmos - 09/06/00
Awaiting Perseids' shooting stars - 23/07/00 RealVideo
Rock that damaged car is a meteorite - 25/07/00
Northern lights join meteors in dazzling sky display - 14/08/00
Meteorite records early Solar System - 05/09/00 "Tagish Lake Meteorite" ... a sample of the pre-solar nebula, out of which the planets formed
Primordial meteorite defies known categories - 06/09/00 Tagish Lake meteorite
Rare space rock in British lab - 08/09/00 Tagish Lake meteorite
Call for asteroid defences - 18/09/00
Fireball ignites scientific curiosity - 12/10/00
Study: Carbon-rich meteorite may give new clues to origin of life - 12/10/00
Lunar meteorites reveal life's troubles - 30/11/00
Listen to the sound of falling meteors - 13/12/00
Asteroid misses Earth 'by whisker' - 23/12/00
Quadrantid meteors promise fireworks this week - 01/01/01
Meteorite 'seeds' clue to origins of life on Earth - 12/04/01
Trade growing in stolen meteorites - 11/05/01
Listening for secret nukes, hearing giant meteors - 23/05/01
Martian meteorite may contain water - 13/06/01
Newly discovered Mars meteorite - 18/06/01 named Sayh al Uhaymir 094 after the region of Oman desert where the team found it and more than 180 other meteorites
Meteorite leaves trail of fire, confusion - 24/07/01 Eastern USA
Perseid Meteor Shower, 2001 - 10/08/01 How to observe the summer's best sky show
Leonid Meteor storm may be spectacular - 15/11/01 Rock hunters bag five Mars meteorites - 25/01/02
New Mars meteorites reunited after long split - 15/05/02
Mercury meteorite puzzle - 17/05/02 NWA 011 was found in the Moroccan Sahara in Dec 1999
Space rock 'on collision course' - 24/07/02 Asteroid 2002 NT7 is on an impact course with Earth and could strike the planet on 1 February, 2019
Earth's early battering revealed - 24/07/02
UK's first impact crater discovered - 01/08/02
Skywatchers treated to celestial display - 13/08/02
Meteorite hit Earth at the dawning of life - 23/02/08 about 3.5 billion years ago
Meteorite 'changed Earth's history' - 23/08/02
Giant meteorite rocked life on young Earth? - 23/08/02
Cash plea for Russian meteor chasers - 08/10/02
Skywatchers prepare for meteor show - 18/11/02
Dino crater viewed from space - 10/03/03 Chicxulub
Meteor caused Lesotho 'poltergeist' - 22/04/03
Space impact 'saved Christianity' - 23/06/03 Did a meteorite form the Cratere del Sirente in central Italy in AD 312?
Perseids set for sky show - 11/08/03
Space rock's close call - 24/09/03
Schoolboy's photo amazes Nasa - 02/10/03
Leonid meteors to light up night - 16/11/03 They cannot be seen before 2300 GMT and the best time to spot them is about 0300 GMT or 0400 GMT
New Mars rock hints at past water - 21/01/04
Boost to asteroid wipe-out theory - 13/05/04
Space rock smashes into NZ home - 13/06/04
Public invited to hunt meteorites - 03/08/04
Meteor show may be 'spectacular' - 10/08/04
Antarctic craters reveal strike - 19/08/04
Meteor Crater formation revisited - 10/03/05
North Sea crater shows its scars - 18/03/05
Huge impact crater found in Egypt - 06/03/06
Space impact clue in Antarctica - 17/03/06
Meteorites carry ancient carbon - 08/05/06
Big crater seen beneath ice sheet - 03/06/06
Tut's gem hints at space impact - 19/07/06
Sky-watchers await celestial show - 11/08/06
Unusual meteorite found in Kansas - 16/10/06
'Crater' spied under California - 16/03/07 The 5.5km-wide bowl is buried under shale sediments west of Stockton, in San Joaquin County, and is thought to be between 37 and 49 million years old
Team makes Tunguska crater claim - 26/06/07
Stargazers set sights on meteors - 10/08/07 The Perseids
Scores ill in Peru 'meteor crash' - 19/09/07
Great beasts peppered from space - 11/12/07
"Year's Best" Meteor Shower to Peak December 13-14 - 10/12/07 Geminids


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