Discovery

• Refitted Radio Telescope Observes Distant Supernova
  It seems you can teach an old telescope new tricks. The Expanded Very Large Array (or EVLA) has spotted a distant supernova during commissioning.
• Tether Maneuvers Spacecraft Without Fuel
  The technology pushes against Earth’s magnetic field for propulsion.
• Janus Patrols Saturns Rings : Big Pic
  Near Saturn’s ringplane, the Cassini-Equinox mission snaps a shot of the small moon Janus.
• NPR: Keeping Trapped Chilean Miners Sane (Featuring Discovery News)
  In response to the article “Can NASA Help Trapped Chilean Miners?”, Discovery News space producer Ian O’Neill was asked to appear as a guest on NPR’s “Talk of the Nation” program.
• Dissecting Hurricane Earl: Big Pics
  Satellites are giving us amazing new looks inside the guts of Hurricane Earl as it bears down on the U.S. coast.

Meteorites

• Santa Fe once destroyed by ancient meteorite
  A large meteorite smashed into what is now Santa Fe, New Mexico, some million or billion years ago. Now scientists are trying to determine exactly when this life-killer hit. Space.com reports that geologists are studying the impact crater in detail to determine its size and moment of earth-shattering impact.
• Odessa meteor crater expert dies
  Glen L. Evans, a prominent geologist who was in charge of exploration of the Odessa Meteor Crater from 1939 to 1941, died July 14.br
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  He completed a publication in 2000 with Charles Gene Mear titled, The Odessa meteor craters and their geological implications in the Occasional Papers of the Strecker Museum, No. 5 at Baylor University.
• Meteorites and minerals planned for New Mexico mineral museum
  A new mineral museum project is planned to commence in rural New Mexico in late 2010. The John H. Eicher Mineral Museum will be constructed at Granite Gap, a short distance north of Animas, New Mexico,
• Meteorite crater discovered in Egypt
  There have only been 176 confirmed impact craters on Earth, but this one, called Kamil, is one of the best-preserved.br
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  It measures 45m wide and 16m deep and was first noticed on Google Earth images in 2008 by Vincenzo de Michele, former curator of the Civico Museo di Storia Naturale, in Milan, Italy.
• Meteorite Information Links Directory
  The public is welcome to post interesting meteorite and tektite sites to this new meteorite links directory informational site.