Meteor/Meteorite News 26MAR2011

AWB-DG 4th International Meeting of Astronomy and AstronauticsApril 21-23, 2011, will happen in Brazil the 4th International Meeting of Astronomy and Astronautics http://meeting.passeiopeloceu.org

 Will be a GAM event here in Brazil. Invited Speakers from12 countries will participate. Confirmed participation: Apollo 16 Mission Astronaut Charlie Duke (USA), Brazilian Astronaut Marcos Pontes, Cosmonauts Oleg Kotov and Pavel Vinogradov (Russia), Mike Simmons (AWB - president and founder), Jin Zhu (China), Manoj Pai (India), Babak Tafreshi (Iran), Dirk Ross (Japan), Rosa Doran (Portugal), Virgiliu Pop (Romenia), Enrique Torres (Venezuela), Andrea Sanchez (Uruguay), Marco Pirateque (Colombia), Joan Chamberlin (USA), Michael Uberty (USA), Ronaldo Mourão (Brazil)...
Soon more wonderful news. Free registration is open.
In the press:
http://www.diariodarussia.com.br/tecnologia/noticias/2011/03/11/encontro-internacional-de-astronomia-traz-cosmonautas-russos-ao-brasil
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Fireball Event 331 – TX, OK, KS, CO, AR, NM | American Meteor Society
The AMS has received over 30 witness reports for a large fireball seen March 23, 2011 at 21:17 CDT. Witness reports have come in from Texas, Oklahoma, ...
www.amsmeteors.org/.../fireball-event-331-tx-ok-ks-co-ar-nm...


Bright Light Shoots Across Oklahoma Sky
News On 6
An expert says he thinks it was a meteor about the size of a walnut. OKLAHOMA CITY -- News 9 received numerous reports of a bright light that shot across the Oklahoma sky Wednesday night. Many of the reports were in western and central Oklahoma, ...


Emergency crews report no plane crash, just meteor
KHAS-TV
What was first called in as a plane crashing to the ground, in the end, turns out to be a meteor. Around 9 pm Wednesday, emergency crews were called to Ayr after residents in the area reported seeing something on fire falling from the sky. ...


U Local Member Captures 'Shooting Star' On Video
KOCO Oklahoma City
Tonight it caught a historic meteor west, northwest of Oklahoma City. I think you will like it," Beauchamp posted to KOCO.com's U Local site. The shooting stars Wednesday night across Oklahoma were the second 'sky event' this week. ...

OK 24 Mar 2011 0220 UTC mfries01 | 25 March 2011 at 11:17 |  URL: http://wp.me/p11rrV-2J

This large fireball was seen by a large number of eyewitnesses and recorded by a few all-sky cameras (I'm not sure how many). This is a significant fireball, with an apparently ~flat trajectory and low velocity. Material is clearly seen to spall off the end of the track, and overall there appears to be a high likelihood [...]

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On the Road: Tunisia, in search of ancient meteorites, Days 5 and 6 Astronomy Magazine (blog) On Thursday, we set off from Tataouine, leaving the area of the meteorite strewn field where we were all successful in finding pieces of the famous Tataouine meteorite. Our first stop was truly amazing; approaching Matmata, working our way to the west ...

On the Road: Tunisia, in search of ancient meteorites, Day 4
Astronomy Magazine (blog)
Imagine picking up a piece of the asteroid Vesta from a rocky desert hillside, the first person ever to touch that meteorite in history. That's exactly what all of the members of Astronomy magazine's Tunisian tour group got to do around noontime on ...


On the Road: Tunisia, in search of ancient meteorites, Day 3
Astronomy Magazine (blog)
Here, we visited the local Earth science museum that features meteorites and minerals, including some specimens of the famous Tatahouine (meteorite collectors include the sometimes missing “h” from the locality) that fell in 1931 and features unusual ...

Radar Meteor Detection: Concept, Data Acquisition And Online ...
Radar Meteor Detection: Concept, Data Acquisition and Online Triggering Eric V. C. Leite, Gustavo de O. e Alves, José M. de Seixas, Fernando Marroquim, ...
www.intechopen.com/.../radar-meteor-detection-concept-data-...

2 Arizona "rock stars" imprisoned in Oman tell their story
KVOA Tucson Tue, 22 Mar 2011 14:32 PM PDT
TUCSON - Two Arizona meteorite hunters got caught in the middle of the political unrest we see on the news every night and were imprisoned in the county of Oman.

15-Ton Manmade Fireball Expected on March 29 (HTV)

Japanese controllers at the Tsukuba Space Center outside Tokyo plan to
order the expendable spacecraft back into Earth's atmosphere March 29
over the Pacific Ocean, destroying the ship and its load of space
station garbage.

http://www.spaceflightnow.com/h2b/htv2/status.html

43rd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference
March 19-23, 2012
The Woodlands Waterway Marriott Hotel and Convention Center
1601 Lake Robbins Drive
The Woodlands, Texas 77380

http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2012/