http://www.wtfnews.org/ Stories tagged Meteor en-us Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:35:39 -0400 http://www.wtfnews.org/science-technology/sonic-boom-from-meteor-wakes-region/ No need to call 911 or enlist Bruce Willis to save the world, but a meteor shower certainly rocked Northern California Sunday morning. Reports of a sonic boom came in from all over California and northern Nevada just before 8 a.m. In Pollock Pines, Annette Yoakum woke up out of a dead sleep. “I woke up with this boom, I thought something fell on our house,” Yoakum told FOX40. ]]> Mon, 23 Apr 2012 04:19:40 -0400 http://www.wtfnews.org/science-technology/sonic-boom-from-meteor-wakes-region/ http://www.wtfnews.org/out-of-this-world/meteor-mystery-across-british-skies-scotland-and-england-witness-suspected-meteor-fireball/ Police forces and astronomy websites have been inundated with sightings after a suspected meteor shot across darkened British skies. Reports of a "bright light" and an "orange glow" were received by police across Scotland and the north of England at around 9.40pm on Saturday. The Met Office tweeted: "Hi All, for anyone seeing something in the night sky, we believe it was a meteorite." ]]> Sun, 04 Mar 2012 08:32:20 -0500 http://www.wtfnews.org/out-of-this-world/meteor-mystery-across-british-skies-scotland-and-england-witness-suspected-meteor-fireball/ http://www.wtfnews.org/out-of-this-world/biggest-ever-meteorite-found-on-doorstep/ An ornamental rock that lay on the doorstep of a house for at least 80 years has just been revealed as the biggest meteorite ever found in Britain. The space rock, which weighs 200lb and is 1.6ft long, had been outside a house at Wilsford cum Lake, near Amesbury, Wilts, since at least the early 1900s. ]]> Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:41:02 -0500 http://www.wtfnews.org/out-of-this-world/biggest-ever-meteorite-found-on-doorstep/ http://www.wtfnews.org/out-of-this-world/exploding-meteor-wakes-niue-with-a-start/ An exploding meteor was believed to be responsible for a huge bang that reverberated around the Pacific island nation of Niue last week, police said Monday. Niue police chief Mark Chenery said the loud bang on Wednesday night woke the island's 1,200 residents and he initially thought a boat had exploded in the harbour. Chenery said there was widespread speculation about the cause of the noise but the Carter observatory in New Zealand had told him it was likely to be a... ]]> Mon, 08 Aug 2011 07:34:02 -0400 http://www.wtfnews.org/out-of-this-world/exploding-meteor-wakes-niue-with-a-start/ http://www.wtfnews.org/out-of-this-world/scientist-claims-fossilized-bacteria-in-meteorite-is-evidence-earth-lifes-space-origins/ A NASA scientist has restarted the debate on the space origin of life on Earth with his discovery of fossilized bacteria in a meteorite. His work was published in the March issue of the Journal of Cosmology. Richard B. Hoover of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center headquartered in Redstone Arsenal, Alabama said he found the fossilized bacteria in rare carbonaceous chondrite meteorites called Cl1. The fossilized bacteria may have come from Mars, the Saturn moon Enceladus and Jup... ]]> Sun, 13 Mar 2011 22:51:03 -0400 http://www.wtfnews.org/out-of-this-world/scientist-claims-fossilized-bacteria-in-meteorite-is-evidence-earth-lifes-space-origins/