15 November 2010

NEOs Close Earth Encounters 15-20NOV2010 Meteor/Meteorite News 16NOV2010

Asteroid  2010 VK139 2.8 LD Miss
Asteroid (2010 VK139) 15NOV2010 (c)Caltech/JPL 2010

Object
Name
Close
Approach
Date
Miss
Distance
(AU)
Miss
Distance
(LD)
Estimated
Diameter*
H
(mag)
Relative
Velocity
(km/s)
1 LD = Lunar Distance = ~384,000 kilometers
 2010-Nov-15
0.1818
70.7
41 m - 92 m
24.0
5.40
 2010-Nov-15
0.0906
35.3
30 m - 67 m
24.7
7.93
 2010-Nov-15
0.0318
12.4
68 m - 150 m
23.0
8.02
 2010-Nov-15
0.1647
64.1
460 m - 1.0 km
18.8
36.52
 2010-Nov-15
0.0073
2.8
55 m - 120 m
23.4
13.88
 2010-Nov-16
0.1996
77.7
780 m - 1.7 km
17.7
16.02
 2010-Nov-16
0.0325
12.7
120 m - 270 m
21.7
11.70
 2010-Nov-16
0.1165
45.3
290 m - 660 m
19.8
14.88
 2010-Nov-17
0.1195
46.5
370 m - 830 m
19.3
17.67
 2010-Nov-18
0.0879
34.2
27 m - 60 m
25.0
2.78
 2010-Nov-18
0.0292
11.4
34 m - 77 m
24.4
23.27
 2010-Nov-18
0.1214
47.2
36 m - 80 m
24.3
13.07
 2010-Nov-19
0.1429
55.6
350 m - 780 m
19.4
19.89
 2010-Nov-20
0.1453
56.6
16 m - 36 m
26.1
5.55


Reader writes about Serbia/ Macedonia Big Meteor 12NOV2010
Hello,  I’m an italian guy, more or less at that time (friday 12th November, approximately 7.50 pm) I was travelling toward Ohrid, Macedonia (Google Maps) from the Albanian border!
 I was with other 4 friends and all of us we saw something that appeared like a meteor but nobody is expert about that those things. I was driving and I looked at the sky in front of me cos I thought that there was the moon, but the light wasn’t the moon’s light but something like a firework was falling from the sky on the horizon!
We were all surprised and this morning I checked on the web and I found that information on this website.
I hope that can be useful for your research! Unfortunately it was too short to take a picture!
I’m a bit curious to know what that was exactly!
Good luck!
Francesco

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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

you may want to include the following link in your next blog entry:

http://www.blic.rs/Vesti/Drustvo/217474/Moguca-potraga-za-ostacima-srpskog-meteora