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 VC40)	2010-Nov-15	0.1818	70.7	41 m - 92 m	24.0	5.40
(2010 VB40)	2010-Nov-15	0.0906	35.3	30 m - 67 m	24.7	7.93
(2010 UX6)	2010-Nov-15	0.0318	12.4	68 m - 150 m	23.0	8.02
(2010 US7)	2010-Nov-15	0.1647	64.1	460 m - 1.0 km	18.8	36.52
(2010 VK139)	2010-Nov-15	0.0073	2.8	55 m - 120 m	23.4	13.88
250697 (2005 QY151)	2010-Nov-16	0.1996	77.7	780 m - 1.7 km	17.7	16.02
(2005 JU81)	2010-Nov-16	0.0325	12.7	120 m - 270 m	21.7	11.70
202683 (2006 US216)	2010-Nov-16	0.1165	45.3	290 m - 660 m	19.8	14.88
(2007 VC138)	2010-Nov-17	0.1195	46.5	370 m - 830 m	19.3	17.67
(2010 UE8)	2010-Nov-18	0.0879	34.2	27 m - 60 m	25.0	2.78
(2010 VN139)	2010-Nov-18	0.0292	11.4	34 m - 77 m	24.4	23.27
(2010 VP98)	2010-Nov-18	0.1214	47.2	36 m - 80 m	24.3	13.07
(2007 TC66)	2010-Nov-19	0.1429	55.6	350 m - 780 m	19.4	19.89
(2010 HW20)	2010-Nov-20	0.1453	56.6	16 m - 36 m	26.1	5.55

NASA/JPL  http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/ca/

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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