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New evidence that meteorite killed the dinosaurs, MU researcher finds
By Eric Hand
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
11/30/2006
Geologists have long known that the fossil record suddenly dies off 65 million years ago between two geological periods: the Cretaceous and the Paleogene.

Evidence for a doomsday rock from outer space built when, around the globe, geologists found a layer of clay right at the boundary of those periods. The clay contained iridium, a rare substance on Earth but common in meteorites.
New evidence that meteorite killed the dinosaurs, MU researcher finds


http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/sciencemedicine/story/309881DECE8825D78625723600175A80?OpenDocument

Space experiments and spinoffs on Earth

There are many who believe the space station and the space program are a waste of money. Well if it wasn't for the spinoffs from the space programs we would not have
(1) Medical equipment for newborn babies and much more
(2) space age plastics and material for cars, insulation etc
(3) inventions like microwave, computers and more
(4) satellites and equipment to watch bad weather
and much much more

just type in NASA spinoffs on google and read more as well as blow

Dr.Eric



Space Station Science Overdrive

By Tariq Malik
Staff Writer
posted: 28 November 2006

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/061128_space_science.html

Saturn's very tiny moon

Saturn's tiny moon Daphnis makes waves as it orbits the Ringed Planet. Even though it's only 7 km (4.3 miles) across, the moon's gravity draws material along the edges of the Keeler gap, creating the serrated knife edge you see. Cassini took this photo on Ocrober 27, 2006 when it was approximately 325,000 kilometers (202,000 miles) from Daphnis.

Gamma rays and black holes

Scientists do not know what causes massive explosions that cause huge amount of gamma rays to be released. Scientists keep finding more evidence and ideas.

Astronomers have discovered a gamma ray source in the sky that acts like a natural clock. The object is called LS 5039, and consists of a massive blue star orbiting an unknown object - possibly a black hole. The two objects orbit each other closely, completing an orbit every four days. With each orbit, the black hole flies through the blue star's stellar wind, and accelerates particles to gamma ray levels. This is the first time a source of gamma rays has been discovered with such a regular schedule.

Read the full story..
http://www.universetoday.com/2006/11/28/set-your-clock-with-gamma-rays/

Fireball in Australia alarms people

Fireball in Australia alarms people

Some people come them comets, some meteorites but what they really are are METEORS or when are also bright and create sound BOLIDES

http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2006/11/fiery_green_intruder_from_spac.php

mars meteorite info

http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/snc/

also many links below for good reading
:)

Dr. Eric Flescher (kcstarguy@aol.com), Olathe, KS

new tagish canada meteorite info

new tagish meteorite info

I have a small samples from the famous recent find

MPORTANT NEWS - MAY 14TH 2006
Just this week there has been an important scientific announcement concerning Tagish lake and other carbonaceous chondrites.
They have discovered that - much like the samples recovered by the recent cometary sample expeditions, these meteorites contain interstellar grains. These are incredibly exciting particles as they were created at the VERY start of the Solar System.
This not only makes this sample far more important, scientifically - it may well shoot the commercial value through the roof!
Click this link for the full story


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4973696.stm

meteor video, northern lights and strange cloud

Spaceweather.com

11/23 /2006 view the Nov. 2006 Aurora Gallery
NOT A ROCKET: Did a rocket just launch? That's what onlookers in the Dominican Republic were wondering last Friday when they saw this rainbow-colored plume in the sky: Photo credit: Tracy Jurgensen
Rocket plumes, filled with ice crystals and water droplets, sometimes do glow with the colors of a rainbow--but this is not rocket exhaust.
"This is an iridescent pileus cloud," explains atmospheric optics expert Les Cowley. "On sunny afternoons, cumulus clouds boil upwards. They push layers of moist air above them even higher where they cool and condense to form cloud caps, 'pileus,' over the cumulus. Clouds formed so quickly have their droplets all the same size--the perfect condition for iridescent colors."

LEONID FLURRY: On Nov. 19th, Earth ran into a cloud of comet dust--debris from Comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle. The result was an outburst of Leonid meteors over Europe. In Spain, Dutch Meteor Society members Casper ter Kuile and Robert Haas caught the outburst on video: very nice 6 MB movie.
2006 Leonid Photo Gallery

astro news

* Nearby Star Erupts Dramatically
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/061106_star_flare.html

A flare-up on a relatively nearby star is perhaps the most powerful such event ever detected, astronomers said today.
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/061120_mm_blackhole_spin.html

X-ray vision has brought astronomers closer than ever to completely characterizing a black hole, a place where strange things happen.
Astronomers measured the spinning speed of three black holes, finding that one rotates at a breakneck 950 times per second, nearing its theoretical rotation limit of 1,150 spins a second. The black hole lies within the constellation Aquila (the Eagle) about 35,000 light-years from Earth.



Brilliant flare seen in II Pegasi
Scientists using NASA's Swift satellite have spotted a stellar flare on a nearby star so powerful that, had it been from our sun, it would have triggered a mass extinction on Earth. The flare was perhaps the most energetic magnetic stellar explosion ever detected ...
http://www.astronomy.com/asy/default.aspx?c=a&id=4656

A Hubble and Spitzer masterpiece
A new image from NASA's Spitzer and Hubble Space Telescopes looks more like an abstract painting than a cosmic snapshot. The masterpiece shows the Orion Nebula in an explosion of infrared, ultraviolet and visible-light colors. It was "painted" by hundreds of baby stars on a canvas of gas and dust, with intense ultraviolet light and strong stellar winds as brushes ...
http://www.astronomy.com/asy/default.aspx?c=a&id=4655

Antarctica Yields New Lunar Meteorite

Antarctica Yields New Lunar Meteorite
http://ctanews.com/blogs/Lunar-meteorite/

the satyrical) Onion about chasing tornadoes

Ever see (the satyrical) Onion
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/53929

well I chase storms and tornadoes and this ditty on it was interesting.

Dr. Eric Flescher (kcstarguy@aol.com): Olathe, KS:

name a star what a bunch of ...

1b. Name a star
Posted by: AR


(please disregard as not eclipse related, and accept
my apology for wasting your bandwidth.)

I just got an email from the universal star council offering me a
deal to name a star for only $39.95.
I hate these people more than department stores selling rickety 60mm
refractors that reach 600 power.

Please get the word out to friends and associates about these crooks.
I always hate it when someone at a public star party wants me to show
them their star, and I don't really like having to tell them they
have been swindled instead of showing them the glory of the night sky.



Thanks
**
Nothing burns me more then when I hear the " name a star " on radio. I immediately turn the channel as I can't stand to listen to these shysters. But people still think they will get a "a good deal" by trying something different. We get notes from people all the times to our astro club whether this is a good idea or not. Leagally we can't say much as I have heard that the the NAS legal department will sue. So it is left up to the public to be a little smart and not waste their time. (How many times is this possible? I mean some people elected Bush twice !!!) . Think. Don't waste the money. Bamble gamble in the casinos at least you have a chance. These shysters will put your name on a piece of paper of a star. For $40 what a deal. Doesn't someone have a better way to spend their hard earned money??? For many guess not.

Dr. Eric Flescher (kcstarguy@aol.com), Olathe, KS:

cute eclipse sighting sort of

real cute!! so when you line them up it is an eclipse of the Accord.
Dr. Eric Flescher (kcstarguy@aol.com), Olathe, KS

personalized license plates
Posted by: "1eclipse" 1eclipse@vtc.net
wrote
Date: Tue Nov 7, 2006 4:59 am (PST)

My largest vehicle (SUV) is 1 SUN
My smallest vehicle (MC) is 2 MOON
My intermediate Accord LE is 3 EARTH

:) So I can have an eclipse whenever I want :)

eclipse March 2006 from Libya on video

thanks for the heads up PBS eclipse video and more
Posted by: "KCStarguy@aol.com" KCStarguy@aol.com kcstarguy2001
Date: Fri Nov 3, 2006 10:07 pm (PST)

Appreciate the heads up about the Eclipse from Libya on PBS and Frontline.
I appreciate the url below as I could not find the info on pbs because it was
under the frontierworld part of the url.

> http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/rough/2006/08/libya_out_of_th.html
> If you go to the website you can also see the feedback from people

I did not quite understand why the journalist was supposedly asking some
dangerous questions to the locals.

The viewing of the uncoming shadow and the eclipse and scenery was really
nice. The more that I see of this one and others that saw the 2006 eclipse
soothe my aching of not being able to go because the schools did not let me . I
still have my videos of 1998, 1999 and 2001 and that and SEML will keep me
going to see 2008, 2009,2010 (which are in the summer so no school stuff and
hindrance).

Thanks again.

Dr. Eric Flescher (kcstarguy@aol.com), Olathe, KS:

Victoria's Secrets: Mars Rovers Ready for New Duties

Victoria's Secrets: Mars Rovers Ready for New Duties
http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/061106_mars_update.html

NASA's lively robotic twosome—the Spirit and Opportunity Mars rovers—are in good shape to soldier onward in their dealings with the red planet.

Comet Plunges into the Sun

Comet Plunges into the Sun
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/061106_comet_sun.html

A comet made a death plunge into the Sun on Friday, disintegrating as its icy chemicals vaporized on the way in.

Mercury’s Transit Captured by Hinode

Mercury’s Transit Captured by Hinode
http://www.universetoday.com/2006/11/17/mercurys-transit-captured-by-hinode/
spectacular photo
Mercury transits in front of the Sun. Image credit: JAXA
The Japanese solar observing spacecraft Hinode captured this photograph of Mercury's transit this week. Hinode, formerly known as Solar B, is currently in its shakedown period, where controllers ensure that each of its scientific instruments are working. But they couldn't pass up this opportunity, so they pointed the spacecraft at the Sun, and watched the entire transit. Hinode should resume its normal science operations next month.

Martian Life Could Have Evaded Detection by Viking Landers

* Martian Life Could Have Evaded Detection by Viking Landers
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/061024_mars_viking.html

A chemical test used by the Mars Viking landers more than 30 years ago was not sensitive enough to detect signs of alien life even if they existed, a new study suggests.

Leonid Meteor shower in Kansas Nov.18&19/2006

11/18/2006
12:30-2:45
Friday I went out at 12:30 to view the Leonids at Powell. Only one person was there using the outside telescope. He left and a family with many boys came out to see the meteor shower. The little observatory cat was out here too. But that was about it .

There weren't a lot of meteors to see. The best was a -3 very wide Sporadi fireball heading towards constellation Leo, at 12:30. As Clint Eastwood said " make my day" and that one was really nice.
Saw only 8 in 1.5 hours ( 5 sporadics and 3 Leonids ) so I was a little disappointed in the numbers. 2 had trains. Most were White and faint.

4:30-6:11
11/19/2006
Cloudy went to bed and woke up and headed to POwell. Nobody around not even the cat. Saw 9 (7 Leondis and 2 sporadics). Mostly fain 2-4 magnitude but 4 had nice trains.
That's all folks about that.

Dr. Eric Flescher (kcstarguy@aol.com), Olathe, KS:
Member #2572 IMCA (International Meteorite Collectors Association)
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