This weekend the waning gibbous moon will interfere with meteor observing during the morning hours. Skies will be dark during the early evening hours until ...
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Bright Green Fireball Amazes Skywatchers in Southwest US ...
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 ...
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Fireball Streaked Across Southwest United States | Video | TheBlaze ...
What was that? Michael Kahnke (@mlkahnke) wrote "It was large, slow-moving and parts were breaking off." "That" occurred last night around 7 p.m. Pacific ...
www.theblaze.com/.../what-was-the-fireball-seen-in-the-south...
Meteor Likely Cause of Southwest U.S. Light Show NASA Jet ...
A meteor is the most probable cause of a bright, colorful fireball witnessed by people in a wide swath of the southwestern United States.
www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2011-291
Bright orb of light across sky turns out to be fireball
The Desert Sun
“But it's almost certain that the object was a fireball the size of a basketball or baseball .” Believed to be an asteroid fragment that strayed into Earth's atmosphere about 7:45 pm Wednesday, it lit up not only the sky but dispatchers' switchboards ...
| Unearthly sounds of Earth perplexing scientists DigitalJournal.com Another natural suggestion were meteor shower sounds captured in space. Some scientists have theorized a massive meteor caused, or partly caused, the global Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction 65.5 million years ago. Now other scientists are discovering ... |
LA Weekly (blog)
In other words it was a piece of meteor that broke off and burned up upon entering earth's atmosphere. Maybe. Some people freaked out and called 911. It was seen from here to Arizona about 7:30 last night. But there's nothing to worry about. ...
| Mysterious Light in Southwestern Sky Probably Piece of Asteroid, Expert Says International Business Times Experts said a fireball - or very bright meteor - was likely to blame when residents from Phoenix to Las Vegas to Southern California' coastal area reported that they saw the light move quickly from west to east at around 7:45 pm PT, about 10:45 pm ET. ... |
| Meteorite Hunt Begins After Thousands Witness Southwestern US Fireball iWeather Online By Mark Dunphy - Fri Sep 16, 7:34 pm A meteor is the most probable cause of a bright, colourful fireball witnessed by thousands of people in a wide swath of the southwestern United States on Wednesday night, according to NASA. ... |
| The hunt for rocks from space BBC News They believe tiny pieces of the meteor - meteorites - could have survived the fall to Earth, and they have begun gathering data to aid the search. The fireball flew eastward over southern California, was observed in Nevada and Arizona, ... |
Huffington Post
Whatever it was that streaked from west to east through the sky Wednesday night over several southwest states still has people wondering if it was a meteor, fireball, space debris or, you guessed it, a UFO. Keep in mind that UFO means Unidentified ...
Meteor Likely Cause of Southwest US Light Show
Science Daily (press release)
15, 2011) — A meteor is the most probable cause of a bright, colorful fireball witnessed by people in a wide swath of the southwestern United States, according to Don Yeomans, manager of NASA's Near-Earth Object Program Office at JPL. ...
Major Fireball Event Seen From Southern California, Arizona and ...
Here's a map of the fireball witness reports. The green lines represent where the witness first saw the fireball, the yellow line is where the fireball was last sighted ...
www.amsmeteors.org/.../major-fireball-event-seen-from-south...
| Fireball seen in southwest states likely falling meteor abc7.com "Based on the reports we heard, a bright meteor was seen over much of the western, southwestern part of the country, California, maybe a little of Arizona and Nevada, maybe more," said Dr. Ed Krupp, director of Griffith Observatory. ... |
When a streak of fire blazed through the air above southern California, people could have been forgiven for thinking the Earth was under attack.
www.dailymail.co.uk/.../Rare-fireball-rips-night-sky-California...
 | MAY Have Been Meteor Or Piece Of Asteroid 2 min September 15, 2011 CNN MOXNews.com youtube.com |
