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Death by Meteorite?

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Death by Meteorite? India Tragedy May Be 1st in Recorded History Credit: yahoo.com Update on Wednesday, Feb. 10, at 9:12 a.m.: NASA officials said in a statement that online photos of the event are more consistent with a land-based explosion than a space rock,  as reported by the New York Times .  For the first time in recorded history, a meteorite is reported to have killed a person. The incident happened Saturday (Feb. 6) when an object, thought to be a meteorite, hit a college campus in Tamil Nadu, a state in southern India, the Wall Street Journal reported . The impact killed a man and injured three others, the WSJ said. Officials found a 4-feet-deep (1.2 meters) crater in the ground that contained "bluish black" rock fragments, G. Baskar, the college's principal in Tamil Nadu's Vellore district, told the WSJ. [ When Space Attacks: The 6 Craziest Meteor Impacts ] But NASA has yet to confirm whether the mysterious object is indeed

Surprise! Monster Black Hole Found in Dwarf Galaxy

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news.yahoo.com By by Charles Q. Choi, SPACE.com Contributor  Astronomers have just discovered the smallest known galaxy that harbors a huge, supermassive black hole at its core. The relatively nearby dwarf galaxy may house a  supermassive black hole  at its heart equal in mass to about 21 million suns. The discovery suggests that supermassive black holes may be far more common than previously thought. A supermassive black hole millions to billions of times the mass of the sun lies at the heart of nearly every large galaxy like the Milky Way. These monstrously huge black holes have existed since the infancy of the universe, some 800 million years or so after the Big Bang. Scientists are uncertain whether dwarf galaxies might also harbor supermassive black holes. [ Watch a Space.com video about the new dwarf galaxy finding ] "Dwarf galaxies usually refer to any galaxy less than roughly one-fiftieth the brightness of the Milky Way," said lead study autho

Solar flare event like 1859

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Credit: examiner.com Solar flare event like 1859 due, scientists warn: Food, gas, money unobtainable by: Roz Zurko August 3, 2014 Apocalyptic events have been promised by all sorts of people in the past few years and the  preppers  have become so prevalent that they’ve got their own TV show. With the latest warning coming from scientists instead of someone with a crystal ball, you might want to take a lesson from the preppers. Express U.K.  reports on August 1 that scientists are warning of a  solar storm  so catastrophic that it can wipe out modern day  technology  and destroy life as we know it today. A solar storm like the one that hit earth in 1859 would bring civilization to a grinding halt for sure. When that massive solar storm hit over 150-years ago, very little technology existed, but what was in place at the time was thrown into turmoil.   Read more >> Source:   http://www.examiner.com/article/solar-flare-event-like-1859-due-scientists-warn-food-

Fireball Over Alabama Sky

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Credit Image: poleshift.ning.com Another fireball 'burns brightly with a tail of fire' as it streaks across Alabama sky (video) As thousands looked down on the football field in Tuscaloosa, many others were reportedly looking up at a possible meteor streaking through the sky over the stadium Saturday evening. An eyewitness in Bryant-Denny Stadium reported that she was surrounded by screaming Alabama fans when "the fireball appeared in the sky above the upper deck and burned brightly with a tail of fire and disappeared within about 5 seconds."

Huge Fireball Explosion Cuts Power In Mexico

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FIRE IN THE SKY : Stunning Reports Of The Latest Sightings Of Fireballs - Huge Fireball Explosion Cuts Power In Mexico Upon Impact ; "Round Ball Of Fire" Reported Over Delaware ; Fireball Creates Huge Explosion, Obliterates House, Leaving Big Hole In Connecticut ; Massive And "Unusual" Fireball Seen Over Indiana, Shone As Bright As The Crescent Moon ; Meteor Creates Massive Explosion, Destroying A House And Killing 2 In Ohio, Debris Scattered Up To Quarter-Mile Away! September 30, 2013 - SPACE - The following constitutes several of the latest reports of fireballs, seen in the skies, across the globe. Huge Fireball Explosion Cuts Power In Mexico Upon Impact. Sunday evening, a weird sky phenomenon broke up the monotony of a small Maya Town as a huge object, thought to be a fireball, lit up the skies over the town of Ichmul in southern Yucatan at around 8:30 PM local time. Credit Image:  thecelestialconvergence.blogspot.com Fragments of Ichmul meteo