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 Fri, 22 Jan 2010 08:07:32 -0800 |
| Meteorite Crashes Through Virginia Doctor's Office |
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A small meteorite fell from the sky and crashed through the roof of a doctor's office in Virginia, but luckily no one was hit, experts say. The half-pound meteorite struck the Lorton, Va office of Dr. Frank Ciampi, a general practice physician, on Monday evening while he was on the second floor of his two-story building.
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| Wed, 20 Jan 2010 11:30:54 -0800 |
| METEORITE MEN NEW SERIES WORLD PREMIERE |
WEDNESDAY 20TH 9 pm EST - ONLY ON SCIENCE CHANNEL
Visit the official Science Channel Meteorite Men website for Meteorite Men show times, an illustrated episode guide with details about their hunting locations, exclusive video clips from the show including special behind-the-scenes material, the new promo trailers, a photo gallery and much more!
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| Mon, 28 Dec 2009 09:59:36 -0800 |
| MEET THE METEOR MAN |
A professional meteorite hunter from Portland, Ore., is about to put a piece of the famed Grimsby space rock up for sale on the Internet.
But Rob Wesel says he's not likely to get back the money he spent on the cross-continent adventure he took to find the loonie-sized 14.5 gram stone....
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| Sun, 1 Nov 2009 09:29:12 -0800 |
| Science Channel Commissions More Meteorite Men |
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SILVER SPRING: Science Channel has commissioned LMNO Cable Group for six further episodes of Meteorite Men, which chronicles modern-day treasure hunters Geoff Notkin and Steve Arnold as they traverse North America in search of lost pieces of our universe.
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| Fri, 18 Sep 2009 07:26:25 -0800 |
| Meteor Crater takes center stage |
When “Meteorite Men,” a one-time special for Discovery’s Science Channel, was green-lighted for a six-episode season, the hosts knew where to take their giant metal detectors — the Odessa Meteor Crater.
“Our friends at Science Channel asked us to give them a list of places we’d like to hunt and this was at the top of our list,” said Geoffrey Notkin, one of the hosts of the show, which is being produced by Encino, Calif.-based LMNO Productions.
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| Thu, 3 Sep 2009 09:39:30 -0800 |
| Josh receives a heavenly gift from meteorite collector |
A SIX-year-old stargazer from Bratton Fleming who found what he thought was a meteorite in his back garden has been given a generous gift from one of the worlds most prolific meteorite collectors.
The story about his find which featured in the North Devon Journal was read online by Scottish meteorite collector Robert Elliott, who recently sold part of his vast collection at auction...
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| Fri, 29 May 2009 12:57:51 -0800 |
| O. Richard Norton 1937 - 2009 |
O. Richard Norton passed away at Hospice House in Bend, Oregon, on May 17 after a long illness. A life-long educator and the author of popular books and articles about meteorites, astronomy and planetariums, Richard discovered his life’s passion when he built his first telescope at 14. His love for the sky and all things astronomical led him from an after-school job at Cave Optical Company in Long Beach, California, to a career in public science education.
While studying astronomy and meteoritics at UCLA, he was a lecturer at Griffith Observatory and Planetarium in Los Angeles. In 1957 he worked at the Nevada Test Site as a field researcher for the Atomic Energy Commission. There he witnessed the last 10 above-ground nuclear explosions and conducted research at the test site on the ecological effects of radiation. After graduation in 1960, he worked briefly as an optical engineer at Northrop Corporation and Tinsley Laboratories.
But he soon returned to his beloved planetariums. After 2 years at Morrison Planetarium in San Francisco, in 1963 he became Director of the University of Nevada’s Fleischmann Planetarium in Reno, where he also taught astronomy. There Richard designed the world’s first 35mm fisheye motion picture system, called the Atmospherium, which was used to project realistic time-lapse motion pictures of developing weather systems onto the interior of a planetarium dome. His first book, The Planetarium and Atmospherium, An Indoor Universe, was published in 1969. He was a planetarium design engineer and consultant for Minolta Camera Company in Osaka, Japan. Richard became the founding director of the University of Arizona’s Flandrau Planetarium in 1973, where he continued teaching and co-designed a fisheye projection camera system which flew on the Space Shuttle Challenger in 1984, producing the first full sky motion pictures from space. In 1978 he started Science Graphics, a company that manufactured sets of teaching slides in astronomy and other sciences for use in college level courses.
Richard loved teaching and sharing his enthusiasm for astronomy, the space program, photography, geology and telescope making. He gave public lectures and taught community education classes, even venturing into the Arizona State Penitentiary to teach in maximum security and protective custody. He led field trips to Cape Canaveral, where he had his fisheye cameras at most Apollo launches, and on solar eclipse trips around the world, from Mexico to Romania.
In 1986 he moved to Bend, where he taught astronomy at Central Oregon Community College for 7 years. In Bend he rediscovered his early passion for meteorites. His book Rocks From Space was published in 1994, followed by The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Meteorites in 2002. His wife Dorothy Sigler Norton, who is a scientific illustrator, produced the illustrations and cover designs. The Field Guide to Meteors and Meteorites, published in 2008, was co-authored with Bend geologist Lawrence Chitwood. Many of Richard’s meteorites are on display at the Sunriver Nature Center in Sunriver, Oregon.
Richard loved classical music and had studied piano since the age of 7. In Bend he started a series of concerts called the Four Seasons, which were held for more than 10 years at the Norton home on the equinoxes and solstices.
Richard is survived by his wife Dorothy, his sister Gloria Berg, three children from previous marriages and a granddaughter.
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| Mon, 4 May 2009 17:23:08 -0800 |
| METEORITE MEN |
SCIENCE CHANNEL’S METEORITE MEN TAKES VIEWERS ON
QUEST FOR EXTRATERRESTRIAL TREASURE
-- New One-Hour Special World Premieres Sunday, May 10, 2009 at 9 PM (ET/PT) --
(Silver Spring, Md.) – For thousands of years meteorites have slammed into the earth’s surface,
each one carrying an invaluable record of the very beginnings of the solar system. But finding
meteorites, some buried over centuries by thick layers of dirt and sediment, is no easy task.
SCIENCE CHANNEL’S METEORITE MEN TAKES VIEWERS ON
QUEST FOR EXTRATERRESTRIAL TREASURE
-- New One-Hour Special World Premieres Sunday, May 10, 2009 at 9 PM (ET/PT) --
(Silver Spring, Md.) – For thousands of years meteorites have slammed into the earth’s surface,
each one carrying an invaluable record of the very beginnings of the solar system. But finding
meteorites, some buried over centuries by thick layers of dirt and sediment, is no easy task.
Now, Science Channel is bringing viewers on a search for these alien treasures and revealing
these lost pieces of our universe for the first time in METEORITE MEN, world premiering
Sunday, May 10 at 9 PM (ET/PT).
Modern day treasure hunters Geoff Notkin and Steve Arnold have travelled the world for years
to search as a team for remnants of ancient meteorites. In METEORITE MEN, viewers find
the pair in Brenham, Kansas where for more than a century pieces of a large meteorite that fell
thousands of years ago have been unearthed.
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| Wed, 6 May 2009 09:46:14 -0800 |
| GIA Helps Science Channel - Meteorite Men |
Science Channel treasure hunters Geoff Notkin and Steve Arnold travel the world searching for meteorites, including fragments of one particular variety that needed the expert analysis of gemologists at the Gemological Institute of America (GIA).
The fragments in question, according to John Koivula, GIA’s chief gemologist and an expert on extraterrestrial and terrestrial gems, are from a rare stony-iron meteorite known as a pallasite, which contains glassy-looking crystalline fragments of transparent to translucent olivine. These were captured as inclusions in a massive network of two solid elemental metals, nickel and iron.
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| Thu, 30 Apr 2009 09:13:45 -0800 |
| University, museum looking for meteorites in Ontario. |
NEWMARKET, Ont. - People north of Toronto are being asked to lend a helping hand in tracking meteorite fragments that are suspected to have landed in the Newmarket area over the weekend.
The University of Western Ontario and the Royal Ontario Museum are looking for meteorites that likely fell from a fireball in the sky just after 8:30 p.m. Sunday.
The university's southern Ontario Meteor Network has five cameras that captured the fireball as it crossed the night sky. Fragments are believed to have fallen between Newmarket and Lake Simcoe.
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