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Inside Meteorites

  • Meteor bursts seen in the south of France. credits: B HoussetMeteorites Hit South of France
  • Shortly after 0900 local time, on a crisp February day in Chelyabinsk, Russia, Marat Ahmetvaleev went to one of his favorite spots to catch some photographs of the rising sun. Instead, he captured this streak of fire, smoke, and stone. At maximum brightness, the burning 17m rock travelled at 18.6km/s. ©Marat Ahmetvaleev http://marateaman.livejournal.com/Death by Meteorite!
  • A meteorite struck a college in southern India leading to the first confirmed death in such a case. credits; Kristhian MasonMeteorite Fatality Confirmed by Preliminary Lab Report
  • Infrasound arrays at an infrasound station at Qaanaaq, Greenland, part of the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty monitoring system (Credits: CTBT).Infrasonic Detection of Meteorites
  • Shortly after 0900 local time, on a crisp February day in Chelyabinsk, Russia, Marat Ahmetvaleev went to one of his favorite spots to catch some photographs of the rising sun. Instead, he captured this streak of fire, smoke, and stone. At maximum brightness, the burning 17m rock travelled at 18.6km/s. ©Marat Ahmetvaleev http://marateaman.livejournal.com/Exploding Meteors Still Surprise
  • The Last Word on IAC 2013
  • The biggest of seven major chunks that the celestial body fragmented into ended up in the local Chebarkul Lake (Credits: RT.com/RIA Novosti).Russia and US Join Forces Against Space Threats
  • American Meteor Society Straightens Out the Space Rocks
  • Fireball Startles Texans
  • Tissint Meteorites Came from Mars
  • Meteorites Striking Earth? There's an App for That
  • New Impact Model Improves Meteorite Fallout Predictions
  • October Meteor Shower, Potential Danger to Spacecraft
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Browse The Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster

  • Evidence of foam loss preceding the disastrous Shuttle Columbia reentry (Credits: NASA)How We Nearly Lost Discovery: Returning to Flight After Columbia
  • Remembering Columbia
  • Learning from Columbia
  • Remnants of the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, stored in the RLV hangar at Kennedy Space Center (Credits: NASA).Organizational Factors of the Columbia Disaster
  • The Columbia Disaster and Space Program Safety
  • Columbia And The Day of Remembrance
  • Sixteen Minutes from Home
  • STS-107: Columbia's Lost Crew
  • Columbia debris reconstructionTimeline of the Columbia Disaster
  • Columbia Disaster Recommended Reading
  • Sacriflight by Lloyd Behrendt, commemorates Columbia's last launchColumbia Disaster Creative Works
  • The Columbia Disaster In Perspective
  • A trajectory analysis that used a computational fluid dynamics approach to determine the likely position and velocity histories of the foam (Credits: NASA Ref [1] p61).Cause and Consequences of the Columbia Disaster
  • According to CAIB, destruction of the crew module took place over a period of 24 seconds, beginning at an altitude of approximately 42,672m and ending at 32,000m (Credits: NASA).Lessons Learned from the Columbia Disaster
  • Columbia streaking over the Very Large Array radio telescope in Socorro, New Mexico (Credits: NASA).Impact of Columbia Disaster on US Aviation Safety
  • Columbia debris reconstructionLiving with Columbia: Interview with Mike Cianilli
  • Remembering the Columbia Crew, One Day at a Time
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