[meteorite-list] Cassini Finds Saturn Moon Enceladus May Have Tipped Over

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=6860 Cassini Finds Saturn Moon May Have Tipped Over Jet Propulsion Laboratory May 30, 2017 Saturn's icy, ocean-bearing moon Enceladus may have tipped over in the distant past, according to recent research from NASA's Cassini mission. Researchers

[meteorite-list] NASA Finds Evidence of Diverse Environments in Curiosity Samples

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=6870 NASA Finds Evidence of Diverse Environments in Curiosity Samples Jet Propulsion Laboratory June 9, 2017 NASA scientists have found a wide diversity of minerals in the initial samples of rocks collected by the Curiosity rover in the lowermost

[meteorite-list] NASA's Asteroid-Hunting Spacecraft a Discovery Machine (NEOWISE)

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=6864 NASA's Asteroid-Hunting Spacecraft a Discovery Machine Jet Propulsion Laboratory June 5, 2017 NASA's Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) mission has released its third year of survey data, with the spacecraft

[meteorite-list] The Day The Internet Stood Still

https://www.nasa.gov/specials/pathfinder20/ The Day The Internet Stood Still By Brian Dunbar July 2017 Twenty years ago, NASA landed a little rover on Mars . . . and blew up the Internet. As people clamored for pictures - overwhelming servers and bringing network traffic to a standstill - it

[meteorite-list] Curiosity Peels Back Layers on Ancient Martian Lake

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=6863 Curiosity Peels Back Layers on Ancient Martian Lake Jet Propulsion Laboratory June 1, 2017 Fast Facts: o NASA's Curiosity Mars rover mission has provided an unprecedented level of detail about an ancient lake environment on Mars that offered

[meteorite-list] Why Morocco Loves its Meteorites (And Meteorite News From Sudan)

Why Morocco loves its meteorites Why have more space rocks been recovered in Morocco than in other countries of a similar size? It’s a great question for the world’s Asteroid Day New Scientist, June 30, 2017 https://www.newscientist.com/article/2139323-why-morocco-loves-its-meteorites/ To save

[meteorite-list] High-Silica 'Halos' Shed Light on Wet Ancient Mars

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=6859 High-Silica 'Halos' Shed Light on Wet Ancient Mars Jet Propulsion Laboratory May 30, 2017 Pale "halos" around fractures in bedrock analyzed by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover contain copious silica, indicating that ancient Mars had liquid water

[meteorite-list] AD: Tunguska Wood Specimens Available For Sale (Ad 13/14)

Dear Fellow Collectors, Hope you are all doing well.   Recently updated my website to include two very nice specimens from the University of Bologna Expedition to the site of the Tunguska Event. A wood section showing the “light rings” studied on that expedition, within the tree rings in the

[meteorite-list] Meteorite Picture of the Day

Today's Meteorite Picture of the Day: NWA 11359 Contributed by: Mohamed Salem EL Wali El Alaoui http://www.tucsonmeteorites.com/mpodmain.asp?DD=07/07/2017 __ Visit our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/meteoritecentral and the Archives at