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Western fireball may have been small asteroid
Seeded on Wed Nov 18, 2009 9:07 PM EST (Maryland Weather)
"Witnesses in Colorado, Utah, Idaho and elsewhere say the fireball "turned night into day" and "shook the ground" when it exploded just after midnight Mountain Standard Time. Researchers who are analyzing infrasound recordings of the blast say the fireball was not a Leonid.
Experts explain meteor's flash of light (Ball of Fire in Utah)
Seeded on Wed Nov 18, 2009 3:59 PM EST ()
SALT LAKE CITY -- People all over the state were caught off guard when a ball of fire suddenly lit up the night sky. Just after midnight, the phones lit up at KSL as people across the state called to tell us what they saw and ask what it was.
Mystery 'dark flow' extends towards edge of universe - space
Seeded on Tue Nov 17, 2009 4:20 PM EST (newscientist.com)
SOMETHING big is out there beyond the visible edge of our universe. That's the conclusion of the largest analysis to date of over 1000 galaxy clusters streaming in one direction at blistering speeds.
Splash! NASA moon crash struck lots of water
Seeded on Sat Nov 14, 2009 6:40 AM EST (Google)
LOS ANGELES — The lunar dud for space enthusiasts has become a watershed event for NASA.
An estimate of the chemical composition of Titan's lakes
Seeded on Thu Nov 12, 2009 5:32 AM EST (astro-ph updates on arXiv.org)
Hundreds of radar-dark patches interpreted as lakes have been discovered in the north and south polar regions of Titan.
Asteroids were born big
Seeded on Thu Nov 12, 2009 5:27 AM EST (adsabs.harvard.edu)
How big were the first planetesimals? We attempt to answer this question by conducting coagulation simulations in which the planetesimals grow by mutual collisions and form larger bodies and planetary embryos. [...] We find that, if the initial planetesimals were small (e.g.
Shedding Light On The Cosmic Skeleton
Seeded on Wed Nov 4, 2009 7:23 AM EST (Science Daily)
Astronomers have tracked down a gigantic, previously unknown assembly of galaxies located almost seven billion light-years away from us.
Physicist Makes New High-resolution Panorama Of Milky Way
Seeded on Wed Oct 28, 2009 6:00 PM EDT (Science Daily)
Cobbling together 3000 individual photographs, a physicist has made a new high-resolution panoramic image of the full night sky, with the Milky Way galaxy as its centerpiece.
Collins' New Egypt Book Gives New Meaning to Adage 'As above, so below' as He Reveals Caves Beneath Giza Plain
Wed Oct 21, 2009 9:26 PM EDT
Although the title and advance news of this latest book by Andrew Collins promotes the discovery of a vast cave network beneath the Giza plain, in fact that part of the book is just one section of the volume.
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Happy 400th Birthday, Dear Telescope
Seeded on Wed Oct 21, 2009 6:52 AM EDT (NPR.org)
Exactly 400 years ago in 1609, one Galileo Galilei popularized a new invention: the telescope. The man had crazy gadgets to support crazy theories -- such as Copernicus' idea that the sun was at the center of the universe.
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