23 May 2014

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 23MAY2014

Potential Weekend Meteor Shower Will Pelt the Moon Too!
by Bob King- Universe Today - May 21, 2014
If the hoped-for meteor blast materializes this Friday night / Saturday
morning (May 23-24) Earth won't be the only world getting peppered with
debris strewn by comet 209P/LINEAR. The moon will zoom through the comet's
dusty filaments in tandem with us....


Earth to Experience a Never-Before-Seen Meteor Shower May 23-24
Posted to YouTube by nemesis maturity 305 views

10 Tips For Photographing Meteor Showers (Get Reay For Tomorrow's Shower!) - DIY Photography
DIYPhotography.net -Hacking Photography, One Picture At A Time ⋅ Guest Author
Photographing a meteor shower is more like photographing a time-lapse than traditional still photos. You can never anticipate where or when a ...

How to hear tomorrow night's meteor shower - Holy Kaw!
Holy Kaw! ⋅ Kate Rinsema
Just in case it's cloudy where you are tomorrow night when the new Camelopardalis meteor shower is set to hit, check out how you can still tune into ...

NASA Mars Weathercam Helps Find Big New Crater
Researchers have discovered on the Red Planet the largest fresh meteor-impact crater ever firmly documented with before-and-after images. ...

NASA finds fresh Mars meteor crater, likens it to Chelyabinsk impact
Los Angeles Times
We keep such careful tabs on Mars that scientists have pinpointed, to the day, when a meteor smacked into the Red Planet, leaving a crater about half ...

Video: Meteor caught on camera during fireworks display - Telegraph
telegraph.co.uk
A Meteor is unexpectedly caught on film in the middle of a fireworks display in the US.

Cemelopardalid Meteor Shower May Be Storm of Fireballs; When to Watch, Where to Find It  -Leesburg Patch News ⋅ Greg Hambrick
Astronomers are united in their assessment of whether the spakin' new May Cameloparid meteor shower, due this weekend, will be the best celestial ...

Possible New Meteor Shower May 24th…Will it Sizzle or Fizzle? | The Quad-Cities Daily
The Quad-Cities Daily ⋅ Ronald Blake
FLORENCE-Astronomers are predicting a possible new meteor shower for the night of May 23rd/24th.Meteor showers occur when the Earth enters a ...

A once-in-a-lifetime meteor shower may be on its way -- Fire in the Sky -- Sott.net - Signs of the Times
sott.net
Skywatchers in North America may be in for a once-in-a-lifetime meteor shower this weekend if the May Camelopardalis light up the night sky early ...

Weekend Meteor Shower | SkyNews
skynews.ca
This coming Friday night/Saturday morning (May 23/24), sky watchers may get to witness a new meteorshower resulting from debris shed by the faint ...

Comet 209P/LINEAR Meteor Shower | Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute
nasa.gov
A new meteor shower, called May Camelopardalis, is expected to peak in the early morning hours on Saturday, May 24, with some forecasters ...

New Meteor Shower Friday Night: How to See It | Space.com
space.com
Learn about how you can prepare to see the new meteor shower Friday (May 23) night.

Russian Meteor: Chelyabinsk Asteroid Had Violent Past
MAY 22, 2014 02:39 PM ET // BY IRENE KLOTZ
Shock veins typically form when the parent body of a meteor or asteroid collides with a larger object in space. Heat and pressure from the impact cause rock to melt. It later reforms bearing vein-shaped patterns. ...

The awesome forces behind the Chelyabinsk fireball
Southland Times
Most of the 20-metre wide asteroid that blazed over Chelyabinsk in southwestern Siberia on February 15, 2013, was incinerated in a bright fireball, the ...

Chelyabinsk Meteorite Collided With Asteroid Before Hitting Earth
Discover - 8 hours
The chunk of space rock that streaked across a Siberian sky in February 2013 left its mark via tweets and viral videos shared around the ...

Dazzling meteorite shower to be seen in Israel
Haaretz Daily - 6 hours
Shower expected on Friday morning; best to watch it before dawn, as earth passes through tail of comet discovered in 2004.

NASA 'Go' to Start Building 2016 Mars Lander
SPACE.com via Yahoo! News - 8 hours
The next NASA robot to touch down on the surface of Mars will soon begin taking shape. NASA's InSight Mars lander, which is scheduled to ...

Earth to Experience a Never-Before-Seen Meteor Shower May 23-24 (Video) See n Share ...
beforeitsnews.com
(Before It's News). Earth to Experience a Never-Before-Seen Meteor Shower May 23-24. May 22 2014. Are you geared-up for this show in the sky?

What Are Meteor Outbursts & Why Do They Occur? : Planets, Stars & More - YouTube
youtube.com ⋅ 02:46
A meteor outburst are meteor showers that we are not expecting. Find out aboutmeteor outbursts and why they occur with help from an experienced ...

Major meteor shower could delight N. America May 23-24
GlobalPost
Skywatchers in the United States and Canada could see a one-of-a-kind meteor shower late Friday night and early Saturday, astronomers say.

Meteor Shower Could Be Meteor Storm
KWTX
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (May 22, 2014) A meteor shower that should be visible, weather permitting, from around 9:30 p.m. Friday to around 6 a.m. ...

Catch the meteor at LIGO
KEPR 19
Catch the meteor at LIGO ... Science buffs and stargazers have a chance to check out LIGO during an upcoming meteor shower. The facility is home to ...

Meteor Shower Expected Fri Night to Sat Morning
1340 WJOL
The weather forcast is looking great for the holiday weekend, and means great viewing in the skies for Friday night's meteor shower, scheduled to run ...

Meteor shower may dazzle South Florida - Sun Sentinel
sun-sentinel.com
South Florida stargazers may be treated to a veritable meteor storm early Saturday and Sunday as the Earth passes through debris left by a newly ...

New meteor shower, the Camelopardalids, expected Friday - News - MSN CA
msn.com
A meteor shower that has never been seen before is expected to hit Friday night and into Saturday; and it could be spectacular.

NASA Teams with Web Tech Company Slooh to Bring Universe to Everyone and Help Protect Earth Too
The live astronomy events on which NASA and Slooh will partner include the
LINEAR comet meteor shower, occurring Friday, May 23, and Saturday, May 24.
Slooh will provide live feeds of the event from 6 p.m. EDT Friday to 3 a.m.
Saturday on the company's website and the UStream feed for NASA's Marshall
Spaceflight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, at:
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nasa-msfc

Psychedelic Meteor Storm THIS weekend! - The Psychedelic Experience - Shroomery Message ...
shroomery.org
So who else is planning on tripping to the potential meteor storm this weekend!? They say there could be up to 1k meteors and hour (~15 per minute)! YOU HAVE TO BE KIDDING; NOW I HAVE HEARD OF EVERYTHING!

Meteor strike hits Plymouth...but don't worry, it was in 1623.
Plymouth Herald
It is one of only a dozen officially recognised meteorites to have hit England in the last 1,000 years. The strike is detailed in a book from the 1820s, ...

Telescope Reviews: Fireball Meteor Shower May 23rd/24th - Cloudy Nights
cloudynights.com
I remember being at a shower when I was just a kid, I am thinking around 1982. It was summer and we were in Vantage, WA at a boat race. That night ...

SPECTACULAR: A meteor shower is going to be seen early Friday morning in Israel, sort of like ...
JEWSNEWS ⋅ admin
SPECTACULAR: A meteor shower is going to be seen early Friday morning in Israel, sort of like this from 2013. Posted on 5/22/2014 by admin. Tweet.

NASA: New Meteor Shower Could Rival Perseids « CBS Sacramento
cbslocal.com
SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – It could rival the famed Perseid meteor shower from later in the summer, or it could be a dud. But, NASA scientists are ...

10 Tips - How To Photograph A Meteor Shower - Shutter Muse
shuttermuse.com
These 10 simple tips will show you how to photograph a meteor shower and capture amazing photos of showers such as Perseids, Geminids and ...

Meteor shower - The Homestretch - CBC Player
cbc.ca
Astronomy author and photographer Alan Dyer tells us about a meteor shower happening this weekend.

Interview Alert - Wayne State astronomy professor available to discuss raremeteor shower ...
Wayne State University Public Relations ⋅ Wayne State University
A rare meteor shower is expected to light up the night sky Saturday, May 24 as Earth passes through streams of cosmic debris produced by the faint ...

The Camel-what? Your guide to viewing the one-time-only Camelopardalis meteor shower ...
catholic.org
Friday night could offer the most spectacular meteor shower of their lives with as many as 1,000 meteors per hour between 1 A.M. and 3 A.M. Eastern ...

Chelyabinsk Meteorite Was Struck By An Asteroid Before Hitting Earth
io9
Scientists studying the fragments of the Chelyabinsk meteorite have concluded that the object was separated from its parent body after being struck by ...

2014 The Year of "CERTAIN Uncertainty" ™; Meteors, Asteroids, Comets, and MORE!!

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