Meteor/Meteorite News 2DEC2010

Mystery Boom Rattles Georgia 2 min - 168 views - Uploaded by NOLINKNEWS DOUGLASVILLE, Ga., Nov. 28 -- Residents of three counties in rural west Georgia heard a boom that rattled windows, but officials ... (26NOV2010 Georgia event) youtube.com  How about this theory: Villa Rica bang was a meteor? Atlanta Journal Constitution Some people have contacted the AJC saying they saw a large meteor around the same time as the noise, and others say a meteor can make a sonic boom if it ... (26NOV2010 Georgia event) Ball lightning 'may explain UFOs' BBC News "Could it be that the meteor descending through the atmosphere, having passed through the ionosphere, actually created a transient conductive connection ...

UFO sightings 'could be explained by meteors' Telegraph.co.uk UFO sightings could be explained by meteor showers and ball lightening, according to an Australian astropyhsicist. Dr Stephen Hughes has made a ... The Geminids Meteor Shower is Coming Twin County News The Geminid meteor shower is an annual meteor shower that is extremely regular in its timing and can potentially be visible for days in the December sky, ... Stargazing December 2010, Geminid meteor shower, lunar eclipse Examiner.com The December 2010 night sky will have two major highlights for stargazers: The Geminid meteorshower and a total lunar eclipse. The December Geminid meteor ... Green fireballs and ball lightning Hughes, Stephen W. (2010) Green fireballs and ball lightning. Royal Society of London. Proceedings A. Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences. (In Press) This paper presents evidence of an apparent connection between ball lightning and a green fireball. On the evening of the 16th May 2006 at least three fireballs were seen by many people in the skies of Queensland, Australia. One of the fireballs was seen passing over the Great Divide about 120 km west of Brisbane, and soon after, a luminous green ball about 30 cm in diameter was seen rolling down the slope of the Great Divide. A detailed description given by a witness indicates that the phenomenon was probably a highly luminous form of ball lightning. An hypothesis presented in this paper is that the passage of the Queensland fireball meteor created an electrically conductive path between the ionosphere and ground, providing energy for the ball lightning phenomenon. A strong similarity is noted between the Queensland fireball and the Pasamonte fireball seen in New Mexico in 1933. Both meteors exhibit a twist in the tail that could be explained by hydrodynamic forces. The possibility that multiple sightings of fireballs across South East Queensland were produced owing to fragments from comet 73P Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 is discussed. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/38939/ DOI: 10.1098/rspa2010.0409     Official URL: http://rspa.royalsocietypublishing.org/ Transport of the First Rocks of the Solar System by X-Winds by Renyu Hu "It has been suggested that chondrules and calcium-aluminum-rich inclusions (CAIs) were formed at the inner edge of the protoplanetary disk and then entrained in magnetocentrifugal X-winds".... http://iopscience.iop.org/0004-637X/725/2/1421 Supernova Confetti in Meteorites - Pre-solar grains carrying anomalous chromium-54 show evidence for formation in a supernova. http://www.psrd.hawaii.edu/Nov10/supernova-nanoparticles.html