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A team of researchers has discovered five new meteorites in Antarctica—one of which weighs a whopping 16.7 pounds. For about a week and a half, the scientists rode snowmobiles and slept in tents, enduring the cold Antarctic summer temperatures of 14 degrees Fahrenheit as they searched for space rocks in the ice. Their largest find is among the heaviest meteorites ever found on the continent and could provide a glimpse into our solar system’s history. “The object comes from the asteroid belt and probably plopped down into the Antarctic blue ice several tens of thousands of years ago,” Ryoga Maeda,...

A group of several dozen “Occupy Las Vegas” protesters camping on Clark County land located under the final approach to Runway 19 at McCarran International Airport today narrowly missed being injured when a 50 lb. slab of “blue ice” reportedly landed within feet of their tents. According to witnesses, the slab fell to earth seconds after Air Force One passed overhead while landing.

Starting on Sunday, June 21, 2009, I expect more news coming out of Paris and the le Bureau d’enquêtes et d’analyses (BEA). The “big tent” for the “le cirque” came down on the Paris Air Show Saturday night and the French press/media restrictions on Air France Flight 447 will be most likely be lifted by the Euro/French government. The Brazilian Air Force (FAB) and Navy have been doing a great recovery operation under difficult sea conditions. I don’t expect the additional recovery of any significant wreckage or remains. Brazilian families of Flight 447 are sequestered in the Guanabara Hotel in...

MOSCOW, September 24 (RIA Novosti) - A 15-year-old boy from the Urals suffered acute frostbite after riding the wing of a Boeing-737 plane on a two-hour flight from Perm to Moscow, Russian radio station Mayak reported on Monday. After clinging on for the entire 1300-kilometer (808-mile) flight to Vnukova Airport, the boy, named Andrei, collapsed onto the tarmac. His arms and legs were so severely frozen that rescuers were at first unable to remove his coat and shoes, the radio station said. The airport did not confirm the report. "We have no information on this," the Vnukovo press service told...

Frozen human waste from jet crashes onto car Driver upset because no-one wants to pay for damage, glob removal The Associated Press Updated: 9:27 a.m. ET Feb. 1, 2005LEOMINSTER, Mass. - It came from the friendly skies, and caused quite a bit of damage. Frozen waste from a jet’s toilet smashed onto a woman’s car last week, crushing part of the roof and shattering the windshield. A Massachusetts woman says no one is willing to help her pay for the repairs, or take responsibility. Nina Gambone says federal aviation officials determined the chunk of frozen debris came from a jet’s...

Ice crashes through roof of California home (Santa Cruz, California-AP) -- It might have seemed like the sky was falling. A large chunk of ice fell through the roof of a house in Santa Cruz, California. It didn't hit anyone, but it tore a hole about a foot and a-half wide in the roof. It fell just a few feet away from where a mother and her daughter were sitting. No word on where the ice came from, but an F-A-A spokesman tells an area T-V station (K-I-O-N) that it could be what's called blue ice. Blue ice is caused...