06 March 2011

Elevated Green Fireball Activity Expected for 6MAR2011 - 9MAR2011



NEOs Green Fireballs...Yes RATS! photo credit:Takashi Shinohara, Kyoto University/PNAS
 Elevated Green Fireball Activity Worldwide Projected* for 6MAR2011- 9MAR2011
Have your cameras ready for a capture!  Alberta, are you ready?
Known NEOs (Near-Earth Objects) asteroids will pass safely but their debris and unknowns are likely to produce Green Fireball and Bolides this coming Monday through Wednesday. (March 6-9) Get out and watch! 

 22 /41(as of 7MAR) New NEO discoveries have been made for March 2011 with more to come! 
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-* by LunarMeteorite*Hunter Tokyo, Japan.


IF you witness a Green Meteor Fireball please email: lunarmeteoritehunter@gmail.com
or the easiest leave a comment below.  Thank you!

NEOs Scheduled Passes 

UPCOMING CLOSE APPROACHES TO EARTH


AU = ~150 million kilometers
1 LD = Lunar Distance = ~384,000 kilometers

Object
Name
Close
Approach
Date
Miss
Distance
(AU)
Miss
Distance
(LD)
Estimated
Diameter*
H
(mag)
Relative
Velocity
(km/s)
(2011 CG33) 2011-Mar-050.187472.9110 m - 240 m22.019.37
(2011 ET4) 2011-Mar-050.184271.7170 m - 390 m20.916.81
(2011 BA12) 2011-Mar-050.075329.380 m - 180 m22.66.85
(2010 CO1) 2011-Mar-060.082532.1130 m - 290 m21.514.96
(1998 HK49) 2011-Mar-060.136453.190 m - 200 m22.35.37
(2011 EC) 2011-Mar-060.02379.221 m - 46 m25.67.55
(2011 EO11) 2011-Mar-060.00461.89.0 m - 20 m27.411.57
(2011 BX59) 2011-Mar-060.073328.529 m - 65 m24.87.93
(2011 EY11) 2011-Mar-070.00090.35.8 m - 13 m28.311.72
(2011 EC12) 2011-Mar-080.00873.417 m - 38 m26.015.28
(2008 CA22) 2011-Mar-090.198277.1200 m - 440 m20.627.69

NASA/JPL  For more information:
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/ca/

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

I witnessed a large and slow green meteor with a somewhat orange center streak across the sky in Portland, Maine USA today at around 7:15 EST on March 5th, 2011.

AwesomeCloud and family said...

I must have seen the same meteor as the commenter above: 7:15 PM on March 5 from Barnstable, MA.

Rob said...

here in New Zealand, it was snap frozen here this morning. its summer here but this morning was so cold.

Unknown said...

no reports in the uk as yet n my neck hurts

Anonymous said...

My partner says he and a neighbour saw a distant mass with a trail of fire hurtling through the sky over Richmond, Surrey around 6pm on Sunday 6th March

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