More pictures, videos, etc. Meteorite crash in Russia, Russia Today “A series of explosions in the skies of Russia’s Urals region, reportedly caused by a meteor shower, has sparked panic in three major cities. Witnesses said that houses shuddered, windows were blown out and cellphones stopped working. Atmospheric phenomena have been registered in the cities of Chelyabinsk, Yekaterinburg and Tyumen. Lifenews tabloid reported that at least one piece of the […]

NASA Asks Public to Provide Videos and Photos of Meteor (with photos of fresh finds) “NASA and the SETI Institute are asking the public for more information to help find amateur photos and video footage of the daylight meteor that illuminated the sky over the Sierra Nevada mountains and created sonic booms that were heard over a wide area at 7:51 a.m. PDT Sunday, April 22, 2012.”

Life in meteorites? Study stirs debate, MSNBC “Many scientists have examined thousands of meteorites in detail over the past 50 years without finding any evidence of fossil life,” David Morrison, senior scientist at the NASA Astrobiology Institute at Ames Research Center, told me in an e-mail. “Further, we know a great deal about the conditions on the parent objects of the meteorites, which (not counting the few meteorites from the […]

New Study Adds to Finding of Ancient Life Signs In Mars Meteorite, NASA “Using more advanced analytical instruments now available, a Johnson Space Center research team has reexamined the 1996 finding that a meteorite contains strong evidence that life may have existed on ancient Mars.” More Mars Meteorite ALH84001 Discoveries Published, earlier post Keith’s note: This is interesting news. Yet I see no mention that NASA HQ issued the release […]