http://www.mail.com/subjects/67818-meteors-meteorites.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.28/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/subjects/67818-meteors-meteorites.html http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1974702-nasa-flash-east-coast-sky-meteor.html NEW YORK (AP) — East Coast residents were buzzing on social media sites and elsewhere Friday night after a brief but bright flash of light streaked across the early-evening sky —in what experts say was almost certainly a meteor coming down. Bill Cooke of NASA's Meteoroid Environmental Office said the flash appears to be "a single meteor event." He said it... Sat, 23 Mar 2013 06:02:13 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1974702-nasa-flash-east-coast-sky-meteor.html 2013-03-23T06:02:13Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1899192-russian-scientists-recover-meteor-fragments.html MOSCOW (AP) — Scientists have found more than 50 tiny fragments of a meteor that exploded over Russia's Ural Mountains, and preliminary tests are turning up information about its contents. However, local residents seem more interested in the black market value of the fragments. As they search for their own pieces of the meteor, sales offers already are fi... Mon, 18 Feb 2013 17:01:12 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1899192-russian-scientists-recover-meteor-fragments.html 2013-02-18T17:01:12Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1897598-meteor-broken-windows-russian-city-fixed.html MOSCOW (AP) — Authorities in a Russian city say more than half of the acres of windows smashed in the city by an exploding meteor's shock wave have been replaced. Friday's explosion, estimated to be equivalent to several atomic bombs, shattered glass in more than 4,000 buildings in Chelyabinsk and the surrounding region, leaving residents vulnerable in te... Sun, 17 Feb 2013 12:21:11 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1897598-meteor-broken-windows-russian-city-fixed.html 2013-02-17T12:21:11Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1896160-russian-region-recovery-meteor-fall.html CHELYABINSK, Russia (AP) — As a small army of people worked to replace acres of windows shattered by the enormous explosion from a meteor, many joked on Saturday about what had happened in this troubled pocket of Russia. One of the most popular jests: Residents of the meteor were terrified to see Chelyabinsk approaching. The fireball that streaked into th... Sat, 16 Feb 2013 23:58:35 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1896160-russian-region-recovery-meteor-fall.html 2013-02-16T23:58:35Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1896846-cuba-too-reports-powerful-meteorite-explosion.html HAVANA (AP) — Cuba apparently experienced a phenomenon similar to but smaller than the meteorite that detonated over Russia this week, island media reported, with startled residents describing a bright light in the sky and a loud explosion that shook windows and walls. There were no reports of any injuries or damage such as those caused by the Russia mete... Sat, 16 Feb 2013 19:20:49 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1896846-cuba-too-reports-powerful-meteorite-explosion.html 2013-02-16T19:20:49Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1895684-2-space-rocks-hours-apart-point-up-danger.html CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A space rock even bigger than the meteor that exploded like an atom bomb over Russia could drop out of the sky unannounced at any time and wreak havoc on a city. And Hollywood to the contrary, there isn't much the world's scientists and generals can do about it. But some former astronauts want to give the world a fighting chanc... Fri, 15 Feb 2013 23:16:46 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1895684-2-space-rocks-hours-apart-point-up-danger.html 2013-02-15T23:16:46Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1893804-meteor-explodes-russia-1100-injured.html MOSCOW (AP) — With a blinding flash and a booming shock wave, a meteor blazed across the western Siberian sky Friday and exploded with the force of 20 atomic bombs, injuring more than 1,000 people as it blasted out windows and spread panic in a city of 1 million. While NASA estimated the meteor was only about the size of a bus and weighed an estimated 7,0... Fri, 15 Feb 2013 23:00:40 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1893804-meteor-explodes-russia-1100-injured.html 2013-02-15T23:00:40Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1894274-skyfall-meteorites-strike-earth-months.html BERLIN (AP) — A meteor exploded in the sky above Russia's Ural Mountains on Friday, causing a shockwave that blew out countless windows and injured hundreds of people with flying glass. Here's a look at those objects in the sky: Q. What's the difference between a meteor and a meteorite? A. Meteors are pieces of space... Fri, 15 Feb 2013 19:59:52 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1894274-skyfall-meteorites-strike-earth-months.html 2013-02-15T19:59:52Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1895062-ap-photos-meteor-explodes-russia.html A meteor streaked across the sky and exploded over Russia's Ural Mountains with the power of an atomic bomb Friday, its sonic blasts shattering countless windows and injuring nearly 1,000 people. The spectacle deeply frightened many Russians, with some declaring that the world was coming to an end. Many of the injured were cut by flying glass as they flocked to windows to se... Fri, 15 Feb 2013 17:39:44 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1895062-ap-photos-meteor-explodes-russia.html 2013-02-15T17:39:44Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1812400-whew-big-asteroid-longer-threat-to-earth.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Upon further review, a big scary-sounding asteroid is no longer even a remote threat to smash into Earth in about 20 years, NASA says. Astronomers got a much better look at the asteroid when it whizzed by Earth on Wednesday from a relative safe 9 million miles away. They recalculated the space rock's trajectory and determined it wasn't o... Thu, 10 Jan 2013 22:47:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1812400-whew-big-asteroid-longer-threat-to-earth.html 2013-01-10T22:47:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1798114-martian-rock-sahara-desert-unlike.html LOS ANGELES (AP) — Scientists are abuzz about a coal-colored rock from Mars that landed in the Sahara desert: A yearlong analysis revealed it's quite different from other Martian meteorites. Not only is it older than most, it also contains more water, tests showed. The baseball-size meteorite, estimated to be 2 billion years old, is strikingly similar to ... Thu, 03 Jan 2013 20:25:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1798114-martian-rock-sahara-desert-unlike.html 2013-01-03T20:25:00Z