Bright Fireball Over Finland - January 3, 2012
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[Translated Article]: "Tuesday evening, above Finland showed a significant fireball. Impressive bright phenomenon lasted for a total of over 10 seconds. Ursaan were reported as soon as the ball came to a lot of sightings from all over the South-Finnish ...
Ohio fireball UFO sighting to be investigated by MUFON
Examiner.com
He believes it was a meteor. His son Rick was fortunate to see the unidentified flying object as it made its way toward the Earth. He told Fox 8 News that he saw "a ball of fire with a tail 200-yards long."...
Finding fallen stars
Bastrop Daily Enterprise
Murry Crowe of Sterlington found this large meteorite, called a pallasite, using a metal detecting system mounted on a homemade PVC pipe frame. By Wes Helbling Growing up, Murry Crowe searched for American Indian relics in northeast Louisiana. ...
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By Lunar Meteorite * Hunter
4), thrilling amateur astronomers around the world with views of the Quadrantid meteor shower. Usually one of the most dependable meteor displays of the year, the Quadrantid meteor shower peaked at about 2:30 am EST (0730 GMT) in a ...
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Quadrantid Meteor Shower not over, continues tonight
Examiner.com
Last night marked the peak of the Quadrantid Meteor Shower for 2012. However, despite what most of the news media may lead you to believe, there is a lot more to the Quadrantid shower than the night of December 13/14. While most news outlets only focus ...
Quadrantids Meteor Shower Lights Up Night Sky
Huffington Post
Did you see last night's meteor shower? If you live in the northern hemisphere and stayed up past three in the morning, you had the opportunity to see an impressive meteor shower -- the first of 2012. Experts predicted that last night's Quadrantids ...
Early-Morning Meteor Shower Biggest of the Year
Patch.com
By Aaron Castrejon Meteor Shower Expected to Peak in the Wee Hours of Wednesday, Jan. 4 The first meteor shower of 2012 promises to be the most spectacular and the shortest such event of its kind. The Quadrantid meteor shower will peak around 3 am ...
Looking to the Stars: NASA Touts 'Beautiful' Meteor Shower Wednesday
TIME
By Joe Jackson | @JoeJackson | January 3, 2012 | + False-color image of a rare early Quadrantid, captured by a NASA meteor camera in 2010. Heads up for stargazers: an annual meteor shower early Wednesday morning promises a “brief, beautiful show” worth ...
Meteor shower to offer brief show early Wednesday
Chicago Sun-Times
By ELIZABETH WEISE January 3, 2012 1:08PM If you snooze, you'll lose Wednesday morning, when a little known meteor shower will be visible for two hours to those who are stalwart enough to brave the chilly hours before dawn. The Quadrantids — named for ...
In photos: the Quadrantid Meteor Shower
Examiner.com
Yesterday brought the peak of the annual Quadrantid Meteor Shower, which was unusually strong this year to the tune of up to 100 meteors per hour. Needless to say, being a once a year event,it is only natural that people will turn their cameras skyward ...
Video: Quadrantid meteor shower kicks off 2012
Examiner.com
Trending - [ Video ] Early Wednesday morning, a Quadrantid meteor shower kicked off the new year with rare flashes in the night sky for astronomy enthusiasts. Peak meteor activity was captured on camera around 2:30 am eastern standard time in North ...
Quadrantid Meteor Shower To Peak Early Wednesday
KMGH Denver
Unlike some meteor showers, this one will not be hindered by a bright moon. The waxing gibbous moon will set at 3:12 am and sunrise is not until 7:21 am Temperatures at that time will run in the 30s throughout the Front Range, making it a little more ...
Quadrantids meteor shower over the DMV: Did you see it? (Photos)
Washington Post (blog)
By Maggie Fazeli Fard If you were up past 3 am and willing to brave sub-freezing temperatures Wednesday morning, you may have been one of the lucky people who saw the Quadrantids meteorshower light up the night sky. The brief light show featured as ...
Quadrantid meteor shower tops talk on ABC Action News Facebook page
ABC Action News
Space is always a popular topic on abcactionnews.com, but Tuesday's story on the Quadrantid meteor shower was quite the hot post. When asked they ever wake up in the middle of the night, our Facebook users were quick to respond. ...
How to See the Best Meteor Showers of 2012
Space.com
Meteor showers are some of the most popular skywatching events each year, and 2012's lineup of celestial light shows is already expected to be more impressive than last year. A meteor shower occurs when Earth travels through specks of debris from ...
Meteor show sparks chills and thrills
msnbc.com (blog)
This long-exposure photo by Roberto Porto shows the bright arcs of star trails and a bright Quadrantid meteor in the predawn sky over Tenerife in Spain's Canary Islands. By Tariq Malik A dazzling display of "shooting stars" kicked off the 2012 ...
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By Lunar Meteorite * Hunter
But tonight around 11:30 pm, depending on cloud cover in the South Sound, observers can look forward to 2012's first major meteor shower as reported in the Huffintgon Post today. The showers are expected to last several hours in the ...
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Meteor Shower
WGAL Lancaster
False-color image of a rare early Quadrantid, captured by a NASA meteor camera in 2010. (NASA/MEO/B. Cooke) People who brave the chilly temperatures before dawn will be treated to one of the best meteor showers of the year. The meteors will be seen in ...
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Photo of Meteor Fireball Ozark, AR, USA 2JAN2012 ...
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