I spent some time over the last couple of weeks weeding out my meteorite collection, with the aim of selling off a lot of less interesting ones, and buying a few historical falls. The results are beginning to appear. A couple of small micros first – Quenggouk (fell in Irrawaddy, Burma, 1857) - very rare, with a total weight...
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Newly-discovered asteroid 2011 CQ1 will make its closest approach to earth around 1700GMT – about 20 minutes time. The ‘miss distance’ (yes, that’s the technical term) is 60,000 miles, or about a quarter of the distance to the moon. It’s 2m across so about the size of a family car. You can see a...
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Thanks to a tip-off from the guys on the BIMS list, I was able to grab a small piece of another UK/Irish meteorite. Bovedy was seen to fall near Belfast at 2125 on the 25th April, 1969. According to the Met Soc database: “The fireball was seen all the way from Sussex through London, Doncaster and Yorkshire to Northern Ireland...
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It appears that an image of the above asteroid, which was predicted to impact earth a few weeks ago, has come to light. It shows the trail left behind by the object in the pre-dawn sky of Sudan. (Image by Mohamed Elhassan Abdelatif...
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Here’s a nice detail of fusion crust spatter on a 100g Bassikounou I bought from Mike...
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A few weeks back we had the first example of an earth-impacting asteroid, 2008 TC3, which was predicted in advance. OK – very shortly in advance – about 24 hrs, in fact. The captain of an Air France/KLM flight apparently witnessed the fireball, and it’s possible it was imaged by Meteosat 8. Some time over the next 24...
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