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Meteoritical Bulletin Database
News feed for newly approved meteorites:

• Erg Chech 005 (Eucrite-melt breccia) 2022-01-15
• Kereb es Sefiat 002 (H3) 2022-01-15
• Northwest Africa 14579 (L3) 2022-01-15
• Northwest Africa 14586 (LL3) 2022-01-15
• Northwest Africa 14598 (H3) 2022-01-15
• Northwest Africa 14602 (L3) 2022-01-15
• Grove Mountains 090991 (H3) 2022-01-09
• Grove Mountains 091232 (H3) 2022-01-09
• Grove Mountains 091435 (H3) 2022-01-09
• Grove Mountains 091482 (H3) 2022-01-09
• Grove Mountains 130295 (L3) 2022-01-09
• Grove Mountains 130487 (L3) 2022-01-09
• Grove Mountains 130552 (H3) 2022-01-09
• Grove Mountains 150030 (H3) 2022-01-09
• Grove Mountains 150133 (L3) 2022-01-09
• Grove Mountains 150276 (L3) 2022-01-09
• Northwest Africa 13980 (CK3) 2021-12-26
• Northwest Africa 14387 (LL3) 2021-12-26
• Northwest Africa 14568 (L3) 2021-12-26
• Calama 217 (L3) 2021-12-24

NASA CNEOS

• NASA’s Next-Generation Asteroid Impact Monitoring System Goes Online
  2021-12-06
  To date, nearly 28,000 near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) have been found by survey telescopes that continually scan the night sky, adding new discoveries at a rate of about 3,000 per year. But as larger and more advanced survey telescopes turbocharge the search over the next few years, a rapid uptick in ...
• International Observation Campaign Will Assess Asteroid Timing Accuracies
  2021-10-07
  The International Asteroid Warning Network (IAWN) will conduct an observational campaign in November with the goal of assessing the accuracy of the observation times reported by asteroid observers.
• Planetary Radar Observes 1,000th Near-Earth Asteroid Since 1968
  2021-09-03
  On Aug. 14, 2021, a small near-Earth asteroid (NEA) designated 2021 PJ1 passed our planet at a distance of over 1 million miles (about 1.7 million kilometers). Between 65 and 100 feet (20 and 30 meters) wide, the recently discovered asteroid wasn’t a threat to Earth. But this asteroid’s approach ...
• NASA Spacecraft Provides Insight into Asteroid Bennu's Future Orbit
  2021-08-11
  In a study released Wednesday, NASA researchers used precision-tracking data from the agency's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft to better understand movements of the potentially hazardous asteroid Bennu through the year 2300, significantly reducing uncertainties related to its future orbit, and improving scientists' ability to determine ...
• NASA Analysis: Earth Is Safe From Asteroid Apophis for 100-Plus Years
  2021-03-25
  After its discovery in 2004, asteroid 99942 Apophis had been identified as one of the most hazardous asteroids that could impact Earth. But that impact assessment changed as astronomers tracked Apophis and its orbit became better determined.Now, the results from a new radar observation campaign combined with precise orbit analysis ...
• Asteroid 2001 FO32 Will Safely Pass by Earth March 21
  2021-03-11
  The largest asteroid predicted to pass by our planet in 2021 will be at its closest on March 21, providing astronomers a rare opportunity to get a good look at a rocky relic that formed at the dawn of our solar system.Called 2001 FO32, the near-Earth asteroid will make its ...
• Earth May Have Captured a 1960s-Era Rocket Booster
  2020-11-12
  Earth has captured a tiny object from its orbit around the Sun and will keep it as a temporary satellite for a few months before it escapes back to a solar orbit. But the object is likely not an asteroid; it's probably the Centaur upper stage rocket booster that helped ...
• School Bus-Size Asteroid to Safely Zoom Past Earth
  2020-09-22
  A small near-Earth asteroid (or NEA) will briefly visit Earth's neighborhood on Thursday, Sept. 24, zooming past at a distance of about 13,000 miles (22,000 kilometers) above our planet's surface. The asteroid will make its close approach below the ring of geostationary satellites orbiting about 22,000 miles (36,000 kilometers) away ...
• Tiny Asteroid Buzzes by Earth - the Closest Flyby on Record
  2020-08-18
  Near Earth Asteroids, or NEAs, pass by our home planet all the time. But an SUV-size asteroid set the record this past weekend for coming closer to Earth than any other known NEA: It passed 1,830 miles (2,950 kilometers) above the southern Indian Ocean on Sunday, Aug. 16 at 12:08 ...
• Asteroid 1998 OR2 to Safely Fly Past Earth This Week
  2020-04-28
  A large near-Earth asteroid will safely pass by our planet on Wednesday morning, providing astronomers with an exceptional opportunity to study the 2-kilometer-wide (1.5-mile-wide) object in great detail.

NASA Jet Propulsilon Laboratory:

• New Data Confirm 2020 SO to Be the Upper Centaur Rocket Booster From the 1960's
  2020-12-02
  The object, discovered in September by astronomers searching for near-Earth asteroids, garnered interest in the planetary science community due to its size and unusual orbit.
• MOXIE Could Help Future Rockets Launch Off Mars
  2020-11-24
  NASA's Perseverance rover carries a device to convert Martian air into oxygen that, if produced on a larger scale, could be used not just for breathing, but also for fuel.
• Independent Review Indicates NASA Prepared for Mars Sample Return Campaign
  2020-11-10
  A report, released Tuesday, concludes that the agency is well positioned for its ambitious plan to bring samples back from the Red Planet for further study on Earth.
• Impact Craters Reveal Details of Titan's Dynamic Surface Weathering
  2020-10-29
  New research on nine craters of Saturn's largest moon provides more details about how weathering affects the evolution of the surface - and what lies beneath.
• NASA InSight's 'Mole' Is Out of Sight
  2020-10-16
  Now that the heat probe is just below the Martian surface, InSight's arm will scoop some additional soil on top to help it keep digging so it can take Mars' temperature.
• This Transforming Rover Can Explore the Toughest Terrain
  2020-10-13
  Made of a pair of two-wheeled vehicles, NASA's DuAxel is designed to descend crater sides and near-vertical cliffs on the Moon, Mars, and beyond.
• NASA's Perseverance Rover Will Peer Beneath Mars' Surface
  2020-10-08
  The agency's newest rover will use the first ground-penetrating radar instrument on the Martian surface to help search for signs of past microbial life.
• AI Is Helping Scientists Discover Fresh Craters on Mars
  2020-10-01
  It's the first time machine learning has been used to find previously unknown craters on the Red Planet.
• School Bus-Size Asteroid to Safely Zoom Past Earth
  2020-09-22
  Roughly 15 to 30 feet wide, the object will make its closest approach on Sept. 24.
• Comet Discovered to Have Its Own Northern Lights
  2020-09-21
  An atmospheric light show previously relegated to planets and Jupiter moons is found on comet using data from ESA's Rosetta spacecraft.

Astronomy Now

• Catch some Quadrantid meteors to kick off 2022
  2022-01-01
  The annual Quadrantid meteor shower peaks on the night of 3/4 January and, as one of the recognised major meteor showers of the year, there’s a great chance to see at least dozens of shooting stars each hour, especially as the Moon will not interfere this year.

Univere Today

• Astronomy Jargon 101: Bolide
  2022-01-16
  In this series we are exploring the weird and wonderful world of astronomy jargon! You’ll be struck by today’s topic: bolide! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a…bolide? The word “bolide” has two main definitions, and even then it’s never used in a consistent way. The International Astronomical Union, for ...
• Astronomy Jargon 101: Coma
  2022-01-14
  In this series we are exploring the weird and wonderful world of astronomy jargon! You’ll be surrounded by today’s topic: coma! “Coma” comes from the Greek word for “hair”, and it’s also the origins of the word comet. When comets appear in the sky, they don’t look like a normal star. ...

The Planetary Society

• How to see Comet Leonard
  2022-01-10
  Tips on seeing a comet that will be visible throughout Dec. 2021 and into Jan. 2022.
• Do look up!
  2021-12-10
  A comet, an eclipse, a meteor shower, and planets... all are amazing reasons to look up at the night skies.
• Craters are great but we’ve had enough, thank you
  2021-11-19
  Take a look at some of Earth’s epic impact craters, and learn what we’re doing to ensure they’re our last.
• DART mission resources for space fans and the press
  2021-11-17
  Exclusive Planetary Society materials to help space fans tell the world about NASA's upcoming mission to impact an asteroid.
• Hera, ESA’s asteroid investigator
  2021-11-12
  The European Space Agency (ESA) will launch the Hera spacecraft in October 2024.
• Cost of the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission
  2021-11-10
  NASA's DART mission cost approximately $324 million, including launch vehicle, spacecraft development, and operations. It is NASA's lowest-cost planetary mission in nearly 20 years.
• We love Lucy
  2021-10-15
  Everything you need to know about NASA’s Lucy mission to the Trojan asteroids.
• NASA’s Lucy mission: an odyssey to the Trojan asteroids
  2021-10-15
  On October 16, NASA's Lucy spacecraft is expected to depart for the Trojan asteroids — rocky bodies that share an orbit with Jupiter.
• The Cost of NASA's Psyche Mission to a Metallic Asteroid
  2021-10-12
  The Psyche mission will cost approximately $961 million over 12 years. But that's not the whole story.
• The Cost of the Lucy Mission to the Trojan Asteroids
  2021-10-11
  The Lucy spacecraft will cost approximately $989 million over 16 years. But that's not the whole story.

Phys.org

• Study nixes Mars life in meteorite found in Antarctica
  2022-01-16
  A 4 billion-year-old meteorite from Mars that caused a splash here on Earth decades ago contains no evidence of ancient, primitive Martian life after all, scientists reported Thursday.

• Study nixes Mars life in meteorite found in Antarctica
  2022-01-16
  A 4 billion-year-old meteorite from Mars that caused a splash here on Earth decades ago contains no evidence of ancient, primitive Martian life after all, scientists reported Thursday.
• Life on Mars? Implication from analog sites in Qaidam Basin, northwestern China
  2021-10-29
  Astrobiology is a scientific field that studies the origin,evolution, and distribution of life and habitability in the universe. Mars is the most promising planet for the discovery of extraterrestrial life in the solar system; thus, exploration of Martian life and habitable environment have been a special focus in planetary science.
• Cosmic concrete developed from space dust and astronaut blood
  2021-09-13
  Transporting a single brick to Mars can cost more than a million British pounds—making the future construction of a Martian colony seem prohibitively expensive. Scientists at The University of Manchester have now developed a way to potentially overcome this problem, by creating a concrete-like material made of extra-terrestrial dust along ...
• Perseverance Mars Rover to acquire first sample
  2021-07-21
  NASA is making final preparations for its Perseverance Mars rover to collect its first-ever sample of Martian rock, which future planned missions will transport to Earth. The six-wheeled geologist is searching for a scientifically interesting target in a part of Jezero Crater called the "Cratered Floor Fractured Rough."
• New type of cosmic dust in meteorite may reveal origins of water on Earth
  2021-07-12
  Scientists have discovered a new type of star dust whose composition indicates that it formed during a rare form of nucleosynthesis (the process through which new atomic nuclei are created) and could shed new light on the history of water on Earth.

• Martian meteorite's organic materials origin not biological, formed by geochemical interactions between water and rock
  2022-01-13
  Organic molecules found in a meteorite that hurtled to Earth from Mars were synthesized during interactions between water and rocks that occurred on the Red Planet about 4 billion years ago, according to new analysis led by Carnegie's Andrew Steele and published by Science.
• Widespread megaripple activity found on Martian north pole area
  2022-01-12
  Megaripples, intermediate-scale bedforms caused by the action of the wind, have been studied extensively and thought to be largely inactive relics of past climates, save for a few exceptions. A new paper by Planetary Science Institute Research Scientist Matthew Chojnacki shows that abundant megaripple populations were identified across the north ...
• Scientist aims to ensure 'microbe-free' Mars samples
  2022-01-07
  The Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover is collecting samples in search of signs of ancient microbial life, which would advance NASA's quest to explore the past habitability of Mars. The samples are set to return to Earth no earlier than 2031, as part of the Mars Sample Return campaign being planned ...
• Several asteroids are heading towards Earth: How we deal with threats
  2022-01-07
  Don't look now—but we are currently experiencing a rash of stories about a forthcoming global catastrophe. But in a change from reports of pandemics and climate change, this global catastrophe is produced by the impact of a giant asteroid. Or comet. Or both. This may feel extra ominous given the ...

• Scientist aims to ensure 'microbe-free' Mars samples
  2022-01-07
  The Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover is collecting samples in search of signs of ancient microbial life, which would advance NASA's quest to explore the past habitability of Mars. The samples are set to return to Earth no earlier than 2031, as part of the Mars Sample Return campaign being planned ...
• Asteroids, the moon and Mars: Space missions to look forward to in 2022
  2022-01-06
  Astronomers ended 2021 on a high with the launch on December 25 of the James Webb Space Telescope, a joint mission between the European Space Agency, Nasa and the Canadian Space Agency. It was a relief to hear that the precision drives that opened up the complex sunshield, which is ...

Science Daily

• Martian meteorite’s organic materials origin not biological, formed by geochemical interactions between water and rock
  2022-01-13
  Organic molecules found in a meteorite that hurtled to Earth from Mars were synthesized during interactions between water and rocks that occurred on the Red Planet about 4 billion years ago, according to new analysis.

LSM.LV

• Ko šogad vērosim Latvijas debesīs? Intervija ar Astronomijas biedrības vadītāju
  2022-01-15
  Šogad Latvijas debesīs būs novērojamas ierastās meteoru plūsmas, gada otrajā pusē gaidāms daļējs Saules aptumsums un kādā decembra rītā varēs redzēt, kā Mēness aizklāj Marsu. Intervijā Latvijas Radio Latvijas astronomijas biedrības vadītājs Māris Krastiņš stāstīja par to, kādi astronomisko parādību datumi šogad jāiegaumē, kā attīstās astronomijas amatieru un profesionāļu kustība ...

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