16 September 2011

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 16SEP2011


Tiny Asteroid Created Bright Meteor, NASA Says
ABC News (blog)
Reports of the fireball, which reportedly traveled east across the western US, streamed in on the American Meteor Society's website Wednesday. Toni Flint, from Glendale, Ariz., wrote that it was “the most amazing and beautiful sight that I have ever ...
What was it? 'Glowing object' lights up sky over Arizona, Southwest
ABC15.com (KNXV-TV)
PHOENIX - Experts believe a bright 'glowing object' spotted over the Arizona sky Wednesday night was either a fireball or a bright meteor. Residents in Las Vegas and Southern California also reported seeing the light. A NASA scientist told msnbc.com ...
Fireball lights up night sky across the Southwest
News 8 KFMB
The sightings started happening around 7:45 pm and astronomers say the fast-moving, glowing object was most likely a falling meteor. Dozens of people across the Southwest, including residents in Los Angeles, Phoenix and Las Vegas, reported seeing the ...



No conspiracy here, JPL expert says of greenish meteor
Los Angeles Times
Wednesday's meteor wasn't aliens or a spacecraft burning up during reentry, says a JPL expert who runs NASA's Near Earth Object Program. It was probably a chunk of asteroid. By Andrew Blankstein, Los Angeles Times As word spread of the greenish, ...



Mysterious light was meteor, UA expert says
KVOA Tucson News
He says the meteor is "a reminder that there's a solar system out there that occasionally decides to touch the earth by throwing a rock at us or something like that." Tucsonan Michael Farmer hunts meteorites, the rocks that fall from meteors. ...




VIDEO: 'Glowing object' flies across PHX night sky
ABC15.com (KNXV-TV)
Kimberly Curto, a freshman at Desert Vista High School in Phoenix, posted a YouTube video showing a possible meteor that flew through the night sky during her brother's Junior Varsity football game. She sent ABC15 the video that lasts just a few ...
Mysterious light seen in southwestern sky
CNN
By Scott Thompson and Joe Sterling, CNN (CNN) -- The streak of light that blazed across southwestern US skies and stoked burning curiosity across the social media landscape was probably a tiny and bright meteor known as a fireball, a NASA spokeswoman ...



Mysterious light seen in Southwestern sky 9/14/2011
YouTube
A streak of light that some are describing as a fireball, was seen shooting across the night sky and law enforcement and media from Phoenix to Los Angeles to Las Vegas were fielding calls of the reported sighting. Lt. Justin Griffin of the Maricopa ...




Rare meteorite piece donated by US-based scientist
New Kerala Thu, 15 Sep 2011 00:43 AM PDT
Tiruchirapalli, Sep 15 : Dr Ramachandran Ganapathy, Scientist, Baker Fellow (retd), JT Baker Chemical Research Laboratory, Phillipsburg, US, has donated a rare and invaluable piece of meteorite weighing about 1.5 kg to the city-based Seethalakshmi Ramaswami College here.
Meteor lights up Wednesday night sky
Prescott Daily Courier
meteor was zipping through the sky from the west and disappeared behind Granite Mountain at about 7:45 pm, perfectly framed by her 5-by-5-foot window in the Mint Creek Ranch subdivision northwest of Prescott. "I'm 55 years old and I've never seen ...



Palm Springs residents spot apparent meteor in sky
The Desert Sun
meteor, also known as a shooting star, is a “light phenomena” that happens when a meteoroid enters the Earth's atmosphere and vaporizes. A meteoroid is a small particle from a comet or asteroid that orbits the sun. A real UFO — probably a meteor...



Fireball sighted in skies over southwestern US -- Fire in the Sky ...
Reports stream in from Southern California and Nevada; experts say it's a meteor People from San Diego to Los Angeles to Las Vegas reported seeing a large, ...
www.sott.net/.../234973-Fireball-sighted-in-skies-over-southw...




Bright Green Fireball Lights Up Sky Southwest US
Space.com
A bright, green-colored fireball that streaked across the night sky over the southwestern United States yesterday (Sept. 14) was most likely a meteor, according to NASA. Surprised residents in Phoenix, Las Vegas and parts of Southern California...
Bright Flash Lights Up Sky
KYMA
Meteoroligists say it was most likely a meteor. It lit up the sky in the Desert Southwest with reported sightings from Las Vega to Yuma to Southern California. It appeared around 7:45 pm People say they saw green, blue, purple and white light streaking ...
Fireball in the sky
KXO Radio
Officials are now saying the light was a Wednesday night was a very bright meteor, also known as a fireball. People from San Diego to Arizona and up to Los Angeles and Nevada reported seeing it at around 7:45 pm. It was described as changing from ...



Odd light seen over Southern Arizona
KOLD-TV
AP Entertainment News Video By Aaron Pickering - bio | email *Update* - Thursday 9-15-11 (9:20AM) - KOLD News 13 has received word from expert at Kitt Peak have said the "odd light" was almost certainly a meteor. Mike Terenzoni with the U of A said he ...



UFO was likely basketball-sized fireball
The Desert Sun
A real UFO streaked across the Coachella Valley's skies Wednesday night, but by morning NASA scientists were fairly certain they had identified the object as a fireball. “We can't say 100 percent,” said Don Yeomans, manager of NASA's Near-Earth Object ...



UFO fireball streaks across the Southwestern skies and creates a buzz (video)
Examiner.com
Wednesday night, a bright light or “fireball” streaked across the skies over the Southwestern US and the news has created an Internet buzz; leaving many to wonder if it was a UFO. Website chat rooms and Facebook lit up with chatter wondering what the ...



Meteor Activity Outlook for September 10-16, 2011 | American ...
This is the worst time to try and view meteor activity this month as the intense moonlight will obscure all but the brightest meteors. Conditions will not improve ...
www.amsmeteors.org/.../meteor-activity-outlook-for-septembe...



sky is glowing where meteor 'hit'
Meteor witness in Palm Springs, CA says the sky is glowing in the direction where the meteor may have impacted the ground.
www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message1639071/pg1



Possible meteor sightings dazzle Arizona and California - Yahoo ...
Read 'Possible meteor sightings dazzle Arizona and California' on Yahoo! News. PHOENIX (Reuters) - Dozens of people reported observing a dazzling, bright ...
news.yahoo.com/possible-meteor-sightings-dazzle-arizona-cali...



Did You See Anything in the Sky? Strange Lights Reported
Patch.com
Curt Kaplan of the National Weather Service told KCAL9 that what was seen falling from the sky was probably a meteor. The lights were also reported in Arizona and Las Vegas. -- The City News Service contributed to this report. Interested in a follow-up ...



Meteor Reported Seen over Southern California ... - myFOXla.com Home
Meteor Reported Seen over Southern California Arizona_20110914233235_JPG ... Meteor Seen over California Arizona_20110914231616_JPG. Credit abc15com ...
www.myfoxla.com/.../meteorites-reported-southern-california-...



UFO - maybe meteor or asteroid - seen flying in night sky
The Desert Sun
It was most likely a fireball — a fragment of an asteroid that entered Earth's atmosphere — a NASA scientists said late Wednesday. Experts and residents offered conflicting explanations, though, about the bright light the streaked through the ...



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cbsnews.com