30 June 2015

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North Yellow with orange tail Like a meteor shower No Long streaking beautiful. 29JUN2015 Telynn and Mark Stewart Salem, Alabama 01:35 am 20 ...

New Headline Article: Chondritic Asteroids--When Did Aqueous Alteration Happen?
-- New dates determined for aqueous alteration on chondritic parent bodies, based on a new
mineral standard, have big implications on the timing and location of accretion. By guest author
Patricia M. Doyle. ...

Have geologists discovered all the big craters on Earth? - ZME Science
ZME Science
The Meteor Crater is “only” 1 mile across – craters larger than this are becoming increasingly harder to discover… because we may have discovered ...

Resupply mission to ferry a meteor shower camera to the ISS
Singapore News
Resupply mission to ferry a meteor shower camera to the ISS. Thumbnail for 1037293. There's a lot at stake with Falcon 9′s June 28th launch. ...

National Meteor Day 2015: 5 Must-Know Facts About Shooting Stars, Plus Stunning Pictures Of ...
International Business Times
Celebrate National Meteor Day on June 30 by going outside and gazing at the night skies. Above, Lyrids meteors shower passing near the Milky Way ...

Asteroid Day Takes Aim at Our Cosmic Blind Spot: Threats From Above
NBCNews.com
He told NBC News that the biggest consciousness-raiser hit us two years ago, in the form of a nuclear-scale meteor blast that shook the Russian city of ...

MSFC: Walker County fireball caused by some type of re-entry
FOX6 WBRC - MyFoxAL.com
Witnesses called the Walker County Sheriff's Office around 1 a.m. Monday morning to report the fireball. Deputies with the Walker and Jefferson ...

MSFC: Walker County fireball caused by some type of re-entry
WAFF
Cooke said the fireball, picked up by six different NASA meteor cameras in the southeast, lasted over 30 seconds and moved at 14,500 mph. Cooke ...

Officials: Space junk seen in sky, not meteor
WBTV
What some thought was a possible meteor seen flying over several southeastern states was actually a re-entering piece of space junk, according to ...

'Fireball' Over Georgia Not a Fireball
Patch.com
A mysterious light show over Cartersville and other parts of Georgia early Monday morning wasn't a fireball. Instead, experts say it was space junk.

NASA says mysterious bright object streaking across sky was 'too slow' to be meteor
Daily Mirror
A bright event seen across several Southeast U.S. states, this object was not ameteor or fireball, but rather a possible reentry of space debris.

Possible space debris reentry seen over Georgia
American Meteor Society
The American Meteor Society received over 150 reports about a slow moving grouping of bright fiery objects traveling from the south west to the north ...

NASA Explains Mystery Object Soaring through Atlanta's Night Skies
Latinos Post
NASA observed the event through five of their meteor cameras that are positioned throughout the southeastern US and according to their observations ...

Ask the 6 Storm Team: Bright light shooting across Tenn. sky was likely space debris | WATE 6 On ...
WATE 6 On Your Side
The light is probably not a shooting star or a meteor because it seemed to be traveling too slowly. Meteors travel at about 25,000 mph and this wasn't ...

Fiery display in Walker Co. sky was Russian rocket body, official says - MyFoxAL.com
FOX6 WBRC - MyFoxAL.com
Bill Cooke, with the Meteoroid Environments Office at Marshall Space Flight Center said the display was picked up by six different NASA meteor ...

Brights streaks in sky Monday morning likely "space junk" - WRCBtv.com | Chattanooga News ...
WRCB-TV
Donna Hodge captured the activity on her cellphone and sent us pictures. Many thought it was a meteor, but Bill Cooke, a NASA scientist in Huntsville ...

Sky fireball mystery solved
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
That startling flash in the night sky that many people reported seeing early Monday morning wasn't a fireball or meteor after all, scientists are now ...

​'Mysterious' fireball lights up Atlanta sky
RT
The fireball was spotted by the residents of Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee and Alabama at about 1:30am local time, local media report.

Boat captain spots object that 'looked like a 747 on fire in the sky'
The Alexander City Outlook
We also picked it up on our meteor cameras,” Cooke told WCNC in Charlotte. “The object moved too slow for meteor (only 14,500 mph), was visible for ...

Furman astronomer: Glowing object seen over Upstate skies not a
FOX Carolina 21
Some described the object as a meteor, others as a “fireball.” A local astronomer said the object did not appear to be a meteor. One viewer sent in ...

NASA identifies 'fireball' over southeast as falling space junk
whnt.com
“This was definitely not aliens,” says Bill Cooke, who studies meteoroids at Marshall Space Flight Center. There's still some mystery surrounding the ...

An Asteroid Impact Could Wipe Out Humanity - US Agencies Preparing Nukes
Hacked
In 2013 the meteor shown in the image, traveling at approximately 40,000 mph when it entered Earth's atmosphere, burst at an altitude of about ...

Atlantans see meteor streak across night sky
WSB-tv
Atlantans see meteor streak across night sky ....

NASA says mysterious bright object streaking across sky was 'too slow' to be meteor - so what was it?
Mirror.co.uk
Kind of scared me for a minute though,” said eyewitness Ron M, posting to the American Meteor Society website. Sean E added: “It looked almost like ...

Meteor shower spotted Monday in Central Georgia
13WMAZ
Meteorologist Olivia James said she believes the activity was a "sporadic meteorshower." Donna Hodge captured the activity on her cellphone and ...

Shooting Star Spotted Around Southeast
WKRG
Did you see it? There have been several reports of a shooting star, or tiny meteorseen around the area overnight. There were reports coming in from ...

Skywatchers mystified by overnight fireball over Georgia
Atlanta Journal Constitution
Was the object, which was described as looking like a fireball with lights streaming behind it, space junk? Or maybe interplanetary debris burning up ...

Meteor streaks across the Georgia and South Carolina sky
Signs of the Times
This is likely a meteor, known as a "Shooting star" by many. Tiny meteors up to several inches in diameter burn in the Earth's atmosphere every few ...

Meteor Streaks Across the CSRA Sky
WJBF-TV
This is likely a meteor, known as a “Shooting star” by many. Tiny meteors up to several inches in diameter burn in the Earth's atmosphere every few ...

Mystery object lights up sky in metro Atlanta
WSB Atlanta
People described it looking like a bright fireball with lights streaming behind it. The flash didn't last very long, it disappeared after a few moments.

Strange Light Streaks Across the CSRA Sky
WJBF.com
This is likely a meteor, known as a “Shooting star” by many, or space debris. Tiny meteors up to several inches in diameter burn in the Earth's ...

What was that light in the sky?
WCNC
The American Meteor Society reporting page was full of reports. Notice all were around 1:30-1:40 a.m. EDT Monday, and the duration of the fireballs ...

Glowing object seen over Upstate skies early Monday
WHNS Greenville
Some described the object as a meteor, others as a “fireball.” One viewer sent in video that was recorded in the parking lot of the QT station in Easley ...

FAA: Fireball seen in Walker County was a meteor
FOX6 WBRC - MyFoxAL.com
FAA: Fireball seen in Walker County was a meteor ... Aviation Administration says the fireball seen over Walker County overnight was a meteor.

FAA: Atlanta fireball was a meteor, not a plane crash
UPI.com
So far, the American Meteor Society has received some 130 reports about a Monday morning fireball report from skywatchers in the Southeast -- most ...

File:Another view of Odessa Meteor Crater DSCN1362.JPG
Wikimedia Commons
DescriptionAnother view of Odessa Meteor Crater DSCN1362.JPG. English: I took photo of Odessa MeteorCrater with Nikon camera. Date, 5 April ...

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