The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News: March 2016

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This is how big an asteroid would need to be to wipe out New York City
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The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 30MAR2016
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Florida Fireball Meteor 29MAR2016 The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News If you have a video or still image please send to me ...

Green fireball spotted over South Florida by dozens of people
Palm Beach Post (blog)
A report from a West Palm Beach man says the fireball cut a long trail across the sky. “Train was glowing an iridescent or almost neon blue with white ...

Meteor Crater Drill Cuttings Sampling Protocol
USGS Astrogeology Science Center
Meteor Crater Drill Cuttings Sampling Protocol. Mimetype: application/pdf; Filename: Cuttings Protocol.pdf; Author: coreuser3; Originator: USGS ...

A Month Of Meteor Showers Coming Soon
WBSM
Get ready! Beginning in April, the early mornings and late nights will be splashed soon with meteor showers.
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APOLO11.COM - Vídeo: asteroide de grandes dimensões atinge o planeta júpiter
www.apolo11.com
Um forte impacto, similar ao choque de um cometa, foi observado recentemente por astrônomos amadores...
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John Higgins
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3513998/Rare-meteorite-fragments-discovered-Germany-Space-rocks-recently-fireball-shine-purple-blue-microscope.html

Rare meteorite fragments discovered in Germany
www.dailymail.co.uk

Experts from Munster said they are 'delighted' to recover fragments of the 'LL Chondritenklasse' cla...

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Florida Fireball Meteor 29MAR2016
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If you have a video or still image please send to me @ drtanukiATgmailDOTcom; Thank you! Initial Meteor Reports- 29MAR2016 Marc Miami, Florida, USA ...

Missing Minerals Found Inside Of A Meteorite
YouTube
Hidden inside a meteorite that struck land in Australia 135 years ago, lies a previously undiscovered form of garnet. The particles of the dense mineral ...

Jupiter Got Smashed by a Speeding Space Rock
Discovery News
The gas giant appears to have experienced a pretty significant impact event and the flash of the extraterrestrial meteor was caught by amateur ...

Presumed meteor puts on pre-dawn show; sightings reported from Florida Keys to Jacksonville
Sun Sentinel
A Boca Raton physician walking his dogs Tuesday morning said he looked up to see something shooting across the pre-dawn sky....

Presumed meteor sightings reported across South Florida
Sun Sentinel
A possible meteor was sighted across the sky in South Florida on Tuesday morning. Meteorologist Barry Baxter for the National Weather Service said ..

Green fireball spotted in South Florida by dozens of people
Palm Beach Post (blog)
More than 40 reports were made to the AMS from people who claim to have witnessed the event from Kendall to Jupiter. Nine reports came from ...

Rare meteorite fragments discovered in Germany: Space rocks from recent fireball shine purple ...
Daily Mail
The fireball was spotted over Bavaria on 6 March (pictured). In Germany, experts say a meteorite actually strikes the ground only once every eight ...

Watch A Mysterious Object Crash Into Jupiter
Outer Places
The nature of the object is still unknown, but it is most likely an asteroid, meteor, or small comet. The flash was relatively brief, so the object was ...
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One of Earth’s missing minerals found locked inside meteorite
www.sciencenews.org
Scientists have discovered the last undiscovered dense mineral of the pyroxene group in a meteorite....

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Florida Fireball Meteor Approx. 0630 EST 29MAR2016

Report your meteor sightings please-
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Please help get the word about this event so that we might recover security camera video or cell phone captures.
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Initial Meteor Reports-29MAR2016 Marc Miami, Florida, USA 6:45 AM 2-3 seconds West to East Orange first, then bright green Bright green - brighter than the moon Maybe toward the end -- looked like it broke up Lowest, brightest meteor I have ever seen. Bright green.

29MAR2016 Lynn Hartmann NAPLES,FL,USA 0630AM, EST 3-5 seconds Southeast to South, about 15 degree arc moving left to right as I faced south Bright white at start then a green flame at finish Very bright white then a bright green flame at the end. Not as bright as the sun The green color flared out so maybe None

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Flyby Comet Was WAY Bigger Than Thought
SPACE.Com

P/2016 BA14, a comet that was first detected as an asteroid by the University of Hawaii's PanSTARRS telescope in January and then re-identified as a comet by the Discovery Channel Telescope at Lowell Observatory in Arizona....

South Jersey skies full of activity from the moon tometeor shower
Press of Atlantic City
They may have produced a weak (5 to 10 meteor per hour) shower last night - or be producing it tonight. If the shower occurs tonight, we'd see it in the ...

Need site or # for report of possible daytime meteor explosion
Cloudy Nights
Need site or # for report of possible daytime meteor explosion - posted in General Observing and Astronomy: South central Minnesota 4:37 PM CDT ...

APR 22 LYRID METEOR SHOWER
Night Sky Notebook
APR 22 LYRID METEOR SHOWER. Posted by Peter Detterline at 3:31 AM · Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest ...
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Daniel Leal Mateus
March 29 at 0326
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Bright meteor fireball fragments over the Netherlands, Belgium and UK
Signs of the Times
Shortly after midnight on Saturday March 26, 2016, a meteor fireball was spotted over the Netherlands, from Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Cuijck, Pijnacker ...

Project Meteor
Parabolic Arc
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla., March 26, 2016 (CASIS PR) – The most recent series of payloads have berthed with the International Space Station ...

Clark Pla netarium plans meteor exhibit of 'disastrous' proportions
Salt Lake City News
Clark Planetarium plans meteor exhibit of 'disastrous' proportions. KSL Newsradio Sunday 27th March, 2016. WINSLOW, Ariz. -- If you're traveling a ..

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 27MAR2016
Posted: 26 Mar 2016 05:13 PM PDT
Research Payloads Arrive at the International Space Station US National Laboratory Space Ref (press release) Project Meteor will provide a continuous monitor of meteor interaction with the Earth's atmosphere without limitations of the ozone absorption.The Five Greatest Balls Of Fire Over Earth IFL Science Hurtling across the sky at tens of kilometres a second, the air ahead of the meteor was ...

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Bright green meteor fireball explodes over the Netherlands
Signs of the Times
A bright green fireball was reported across the Netherlands on March 26, 2016, shortly after midnight. The burning meteor exploded after multiple-step ...

Resea rch Payloads Arrive at the International Space Station US National Laboratory
Space Ref (press release)
Project Meteor will provide a continuous monitor of meteor interaction with the Earth's atmosphere without limitations of the ozone absorption.

The Five Greatest Balls Of Fire Over Earth
IFLScience
Hurtling across the sky at tens of kilometres a second, the air ahead of the meteor was compressed and heated, vaporizing the object as it penetrated ...

Project Meteor
The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News
Research Payloads Arrive at the International Space Station US National Laboratory Space Ref (press release) Project Meteor will provide a ...

What's up in April: April shower include meteors
Press Herald
The Lyrid meteor shower will peak April 22, but the full moon will wash out most of these meteors, caused by Comet Thatcher, which has a 415-year ...

Met eor sighting
Reddit
Anyone just see that big meteor in Los Angeles? ... Meteor sighting (self.LosAngeles). submitted 4 minutes ago by Ken Mixtape. Anyone just see that ...

Talking Lyrids, Pi Puppids and a tail of two comets
New Jersey Herald
Photo by Chris Callie - A panorama of a nighttime observation session at Jenny Jump observatories.The Jenny Jump observatories and lecture series ...

Clar k Planetarium plans meteor exhibit of 'disastrous' proportions
KSL.com
Clark Planetarium plans meteor exhibit of 'disastrous' proportions. By John Hollenhorst | Posted Mar 26th, 2016 @ 4:00pm ...
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Thomas Kapitany
March 27 at 6:57pm

Pink Meteorite reveals rare unstable element
www.geologyin.com
Pink Meteorite reveals rare unstable element 0 Geology, Meteorite, News 2:03 PM...

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South Wales, UK Fireball Meteor 17MAR2016 Video
The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News
Info from Licensor: "Meteor caught on my dashcam. The Meteor was captured on the way home from a night shift at roughly 3:15 am. This was filmed in ...

Halle y's Comet Is Going to Put On a Spectacular Meteor Shower in AprilMic
The meteor shower is called the Eta Aquarids because you can see it in the same area of the sky as the constellation of Aquarius. The shower will start ...

Earth Is About To Pass Through The Tail Of Halley's Comet, Giving Us A Month Of Meteor Showers
IFLScience
Photo credit: Composite of the Eta Aquarid Meteor Shower on May 13, 2013. NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center/Flickr. (CC BY-NC 2.0). Crane your

Eta Aquarids Meteor Shower Begins April: What Is It And When Is The Best Time To Watch
Tech Times
Compared to other major meteor showers, the Eta Aquarids do not have any sharp peaks. However, they do have a period of good visibility rates that ...

Get ready for a month of meteor showers
WNOX
The Earth is about to get a showing of meteors lasting an entire month. . Classic Hits 93.1 WNOX FM Knoxville, TN.

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Jose Ildefonso
March 26 at 12:56am

How We Found the Dinosaur Doomsday Site - D-brief
blogs.discovermagazine.com
One scientist looks back on nailing down the most important event in the past 100 million years, 25 ...

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Comet Flying by Earth Observed with Radar and Infrared
Jet Propulsion Laboratory- March 24, 2016
These radar images of comet P/2016 BA14 were taken on March 23, 2016, by scientists using an antenna of NASA's Deep Space Network at Goldstone, California. At the time, the comet was about 2.2 million miles (3.6 million kilometers) from Earth. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/GSSR...

Meteorite oxide from Meteor Crater, AZ
Cloudy Nights
Meteorite oxide from Meteor Crater, AZ - posted in Space Rocks: I bought this I think in 1961 at the crater. For size reference the card is 90x65mm.

Meteor Spectroscopy - help!
Stargazers Lounge
Hi all, This is way beyond my level of understanding, but I have a friend who is looking to take a Spectrum of a meteor. They have a Dslr, and a star...

Blue meteor flashes through sky in this new dash cam footage caught by M4 driver
Mirror.co.uk
This dash cam footage captured the amazing moment a meteorflashed through the night sky. The video was recorded by a driver as he travelled ...

Meteor 17/03/2016
YouTube
Meteorite over Southern England at 3:16AM 17/03/2016. Caught on CCTV system. Location Buckler's Hard, Beaulieu, Hampshire UK.

Meteor Activity Outlook for March 26-April 1, 2016
American Meteor Society
This weekend the waning gibbous moon will rise during the late evening hours and will ruin meteor observing attempts during the remainder of the ...

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Granada Fireball Meteor 2236 UTC 20MAR2016 w/ video

Fireball over Granada on 20 March 2016

Posted to YouTube by Meteors 28 views

Published on Mar 25, 2016
Slow-moving fireball recorded on 20 March 2016 at 22h36m UT (23h 36m local time) over Granada.
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South Wales, UK Fireball Meteor 0316 Local 17MAR2016 Video

Incredible Meteor Streaks Across Night Sky
Posted to YouTube by ViralHog 3,038 views

Published on Mar 23, 2016
Info from Licensor: "Meteor caught on my dashcam. The Meteor was captured on the way home from a night shift at roughly 3:15 am. This was filmed in South Wales, UK. on the M4 Motorway." - Dario Oliver

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Observatory near Petersfield captures meteor
Petersfield Today
The last week has been a thrilling one for the Hampshire Astronomical Group (HAG) as their images of the 'St Patrick's Day Meteor' have dazzled ...

Meteor camera headed to ISS
ntv.co.jp
NTV News 24 is a service of Nippon Television, Japan's leading broadcasting network. This page provides a selection of today's leading stories in.

Meteor Experiment: Out the Window Looks from the Space Station
Leonard David's INSIDE OUTER SPACE
Meteor will be installed in the station's Window Observational Research ... Secondary targets include minor meteor showers and periods with little or ...

Fire, meteor and gecko-gripper experiments en route to Space Station
Gizmag
As part of Meteor, a visible spectroscopy instrument will be installed at the ISS' Window Observational Research Facility (WORF) rack, a section of the ...

NASA Sends Fire, Meteor Experiments to International Space Station on Commercial Cargo ...
New Kerala
Washington, Mar 23 : Scientific investigations of fire in microgravity and grippers inspired by geckos are among the nearly 7,500 pounds of cargo ...

Incredible Meteor Streaks Across Night Sky
YouTube
Info from Licensor: "Meteor caught on my dashcam. The Meteorwas captured on the way home from a night shift at roughly 3:15 am. This was filmed in ...
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March 24 at 7:44pm
Estação de monitoramento de meteoros implantada na ISS.
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Analysis of St. Patrick's day fireball over the UK
reported by meteordetective
An excellent follow-up to the 'St. Patrick's Day' meteor (which was widely reported and seen across much of England) has been posted at The Watchers website. It seems like the meteor was, perhaps, part of a (fast-moving) Comet?

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Analysis of St. Patrick's day fireball over the UK
The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News
An excellent follow-up to the 'St. Patrick's Day' meteor (which was widely reported and seen across much of England) has been posted at The ...

How to watch tonight's Space Station-bound rocket launch
Washington Post
Also contained in Cygnus is an instrument called Meteor, which scientists will use to evaluate the chemical composition of meteors entering Earth's ...

Astronomical discovery
BerthoudSurveyor.com
The second team of students was recognized by the National Aeronautical Space Administration (NASA) where their research regarding meteor ...

Meteor-Tracking Experiment Headed to Space After 2 Failed Launches
Space.com
In August 2011, NASA astronaut Ron Garan captured this photo of the Perseid meteor shower from space. The meteor investigation aims to analyze ...

Comets to Pass Earth This Week Will Set Proximity Record
Newsmax
Image: Comets to Pass Earth This Week Will Set Proximity RecordMeteor streaks across the sky in the early morning during the Perseid meteor ...

Meteorite over the UK caught on dashcam!
LiveLeak.com
For all the space lovers out there. Footage of a meteorite caught on my dash cam. Enjoy :) m4 motorway South Wales ...

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Watch TWO Tiny Comets Zip Past Earth This Week During a Very Close Encounter
By Phil Plait- March 21, 2016
On Monday and Tuesday, two comets will pass Earth in their orbits around the Sun. There are lots of cool things about this event: They are among the closest comets to have ever passed us in modern times ...

Cosmochemists find evidence of rare element in early solar system
'Curious Marie' sample leads to critical detection of curium in meteorite
University of Chicago- March 4, 2016
UChicago scientists have discovered evidence in a meteorite that a rare element, curium, was present during the formation of the solar system. The finding ends a 35-year-old debate...

First South American trace of meteorite that killed dinosaurs found in Colombia
Fox News Latino- March 16, 2016
Bogota,(EFE) - A team of scientists headed by geologist Herman Bermudez working on the Colombian island of Gorgonilla, in the Pacific, has found fragments of the meteorite that 66 million years ago...

New Gravity Map Gives Best View Yet Inside Mars
Jet Propulsion Laboratory- March 21, 2016
A new map of Mars' gravity made with three NASA spacecraft is the most detailed to date, providing a revealing glimpse into the hidden interior of the Red Planet. ...
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Sami Makki
March 22 at 1:12pm

Two Tiny Comets Will Fly Past Earth in a Pair of the Closest Encounters in History. Watch Live!
www.slate.com
Two tiny comets will sail past Earth today and tomorrow in a pair of the closest encounters in histo...

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Twin Comets may Spark Rare Meteor Shower (+Video)
Before It's News
Little is known about meteors from these comets, so estimates of the meteor rate are very uncertain. http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=252P;orb=1

Rapidly Brightening Comet 252P/LINEAR to pass near Earth Monday
AccuWeather.com
... to that of Earth's orbit. So, it's not out of the question that this comet leaves some debris in its wake. And, this may result in a new meteor shower.

Massive Green Meteor Spotted Over UK On St Patrick's Day
IFLScience
In the early morning of March 17, hours before the Saint Patrick's Day festivities began, the skies of Britain were lit up by a bright blue-green meteor.

St. Patrick's Day Fireball Full Report
UK Meteor Observation Network
This time it was the UK's turn to enjoy a spectacular meteor event, which occurred in the early morning March 17, 2016 at 3:16:54 UT (i.e. GMT).

March issue of Meteorite Times
March issue is now up.

Event 1089-2016
Fireball event
Events in 2016 1089-2016 KML. AMS received one report about a fireball seen over CA on Saturday, March 19th 2016 around 05:30 UT. D. Sound.
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Ravi Jagtiani
March 21 at 5:49pm
via Laintal Sibornal 's RASNZ newsletter
====7. Weak Meteor Shower
March 28-29?
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Peter Jenniskens of the SETI Institute and NASA Ames Research Center; and J. Vaubaillon, Institut de Mecanique Celeste et de Calcul des Ephemerides, Paris, report that, in the wake of the close 0.0356-AU approach of comet 252P to the earth on Mar. 21, it is possible that a new meteor shower will appear on Mar. 28 and 29. A standard model was developed by integrating the orbit of the comet back to A.D. 1850 and ejecting dust at each perihelion passage since that time. After forward-integrating these particles to March 2016, it was found that at no time this year are the densest dust trail sections in the earth's path. Instead, a diffuse cloud of perturbed meteoroids ejected during 1894-1926 is calculated to be in the earth's path between Mar. 28.0 and 29.417 UT. Dust ejected in 1921 is predicted to peak Mar. 28.5 and 28.958 UT, respectively), while dust from 1915 would peak at March 28.75. Slow meteors will radiate from a geocentric radiant at R.A. = 5h08m, Decl. = -16.3°, with velocity 11.1 km/s.
Rates will be low.
-- From Central Bureau Electronic Telegram 4267, 2016 March 17.
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Colourful meteor passes over Battersea, London
MSN.com
Dashcam footage shows the moment a meteor passed through the skies above Battersea, south London, UK..

More near-Earth objects — like meteors — busting up than expected
Arizona Daily Star
The theory explains how streams of asteroid material produced meteor showers when astronomers could find no “parent” objects for them, ...

M eteor in the sky 3/19/2016
YouTube
Meteor Falling in the sky in San Antonio A lot of weird things happening.
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Carlos Augusto Di Pietro
March 20 at 9:16am
E hoje tivemos uma estréia, a primeira órbita da Estação Dante (administrador Marcos Calil). A estação está instalada no Colégio Dante Alighieri em São Paulo, capital, e faz parte do projeto Cientista Aprendiz.
O meteoro em questão foi um representante de um radiante de nossos céus Austrais, um Delta Mensidas (DME), a declinação do radiante do meteoro foi de simplesmente -83, praticamente proveio do Polo Celeste Sul. O radiante DME foi descoberto por observações em rádio em 1969 e existe pouca informação observacional direta sobre ele.
Foi um belo meteoro, que deixou um traço longo (4.6 segundos) de magnitude -1.3. Seu provável corpo parental é o cometa Pons of 1804 (C/1804 E1), apesar que a questão ainda está em aberto.
O belo meteoro foi triangulado com a estação HAL, localizada também em São Paulo, capital (administradora Amanda Martins)

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Josep Maria Trigo Rodríguez
March 20 at 9:09am
IMPRESIONANTE BÓLIDO SOBRE REINO UNIDO: Posiblemente no produjo meteoritos por su altísima velocidad terminal y la altura de la fase luminosa terminal: http://meteornews.org/st-patricks-day-fireball-united-kingdom/

St. Patrick's Day fireball over United Kingdom - Meteor News
meteornews.org
On Saturday 17th March 2016 UK public woke up to bit of a shock. 8 UKMON stations ( Church Crookham,...
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Amanda Martins
March 20 at 7:17am
Agora! HAL/SP

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Small asteroid detected 4 days after passing as close as satellites
EarthSky
However, even a small asteroid would produce an impressive meteor if it enters our atmosphere. Can a Chelyabinsk type event repeat? Yes, clearly it ...

A Meteor Above Rundle Mountain, Canada.
Reddit
A Meteor Above Rundle Mountain, Canada. (i.imgur.com). submitted 8 hours ago by nohopedude · 22 comments; share. loading... all 22 comments.

A New Space Station Camera Will Watch Meteors From Above
Air & Space Magazine
From a window in the floor of the U.S. Destiny lab module, the Meteor experiment will use a visible-light spectrometer to capture high-resolution video ...

A 'Tail' of Two Comets
March 18, 2015
Two comets that will safely fly past Earth later this month may havemore in common than their intriguingly similar orbits. They may be twinsof a sort.
Comet P/2016 BA14 was discovered on Jan. 22, 2016, by the University of Hawaii's PanSTARRS telescope on Haleakala, on the island of Maui. It was initially thought to be an asteroid, but follow-up observations by a University of Maryland and Lowell Observatory team with the Discovery Channel Telescope...

Watch meteor as captured from North Wales
Daily Post North Wales
This stunning video captures the moment a huge meteor blazes a trail across the sky above North Wales. Chris Cameron-Wilson took the incredible ...

UK: Green meteor lights up the skies on St. Patrick's day
YouTube
Footage captured by a camera at Clanfield Observatory, Hampshire, shows a bright meteor which lit up the skies over Britain during the early hours of ...

Colourful meteor passes over Battersea, London
MSN.com
Dashcam footage shows the moment a meteor passed through the skies above Battersea, south London, UK in the early hours of Thursday morning.

St. Patrick's Day 'meteor' spotted over Cumbria, UK
MSN.com
Footage of the bright "meteor" spotted over Britain early this morning. The video, filmed on a webcam over Ulverston, Cumbria at around quarter past ...

Meteor Activity Outlook for March 19-25, 2016
American Meteor Society
The estimated total hourly meteor rates for evening observers this week is near 2 for observers located in the northern hemisphere and 3 for observers ...

25 reports
American Meteor Society
AMS received 51 reports about a fireball seen over England, Picardie, Drenthe, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Vlaanderen, Région wallonne, Zuid-Holland, ...

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UK Meteor Observation Network
Astronomy Now
Observers across the British Isles report a fireball seen shortly before 3:17am GMT on 17 March. The UK Meteor Observation Network's monochrome ...

MAJOR Meteor/Fireball Event Seen Across the UK w/ Fragmentation
Before It's News
MAJOR Meteor/Fireball Event Seen Across the UK w/ Fragmentation ... by public was first noticed by the UK METEOR NETWORK at 3:16 this morning.

Watch: Dawlish webcam catches St Patrick's Day meteorite that lit up sky over Devon
Exeter Express and Echo
According to the Guardian, the word meteor describes the process of a meteoroid – a body of dust and rocky or metallic particles travelling through ...

Early morning meteor lights up Britain's skies
MSN.com
LONDON — A bright "fireball" meteor has lit up British skies.Co-founder of the U.K. Meteor Observation Network Richard Kacerek said Thursday that ...

meteor sighting reports across Britain
BBC News
Describing the meteor as "spectacular", Dr John Mason of the British Astronomical Association said it was bright enough to be categorised as a fireball ...

Meteor fireball brightens up UK skies - video
Leicester Mercury
Skies across the UK were brightened up last night when a meteor flew across the country and the moment was captured on video. Pictured around ...

Did you spot strange lights in Coventry skies last night?
Coventry Telegraph
Coinciding with St. Patrick's Day, a meteor lit up skies across the UK with green flashes from about 3.20am. Reports suggest the lights were seen ...

Watch a meteor shoot across skies above Britain
International Business Times
Incredible footage shot by the UK Meteor Observation Network, shows the moment a meteor shot across British skies on 17 March. The St Patrick's ...

Meteor Creates Greenish Streak Across UK Sky
CBS News
Watch "Meteor Creates Greenish Streak Across UK Sky", a CBSN video on CBSNews.com. View more CBSN videos and watch CBSN, a live news ...

Watch Meteor Light Up Night Sky Over UK
NBC News
A camera operated by the U.K. Meteor Observation Network captured the meteor flashing through the sky above Church Crookham, Hampshire.

St Patrick's Day meteor lights up night sky above London
Yahoo7 News
A huge fireball flying above London has been dubbed the 'St Patrick's Day meteor' after its bright colours dazzled the night sky in the early hours of ...

Meteor as bright as full moon streaks across Britain's skies
The Japan Times
Co-founder of the U.K. Meteor Observation Network Richard Kacerek said Thursday that the meteor shone almost as brightly as a full moon. He said it ...

St. Patrick's Day meteor lights up Britain's skies with green flash
Globalnews.ca
WATCH ABOVE: The United Kingdom Meteor Observation Network caught a meteor exploding over Crookham, Hampshire early Thursday morning.

Early morning meteor lights up Britain's skies
Fox News
LONDON – A bright "fireball" meteor has lit up British skies. Co-founder of the U.K. Meteor Observation Network Richard Kacerek said Thursday that ...

Dashcam captures green 'St. Patrick's Day' meteor over Britain
Mashable
The UK Meteor Observation Network also posted a video captured at Church Crookham station in northeast Hampshire, showing the huge flash of ...

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Josep Maria Trigo Rodríguez
March 18 at 9:15am
EL SISTEMA DE PLUTÓN: FASCINANTE PRODUCTO DE UN GRAN IMPACTO: Os invito a leer este previo sobre los fascinantes artículos que ha publicado Science sobre los resultados de la sonda New Horizons (NASA) sobre el sistema de Plutón. Por favor, compartidlo directamente desde la web de IyC: http://www.investigacionyciencia.es/blogs/astronomia/45/posts/el-sistema-de-plutn-fascinante-producto-de-un-gran-impacto-14068

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reported by meteordetective

Things seem to be picking-up rapidly!

NASA NEOP has just posted details of asteroid 2016 EF195 which made its close-approach at just 15,558 miles from Earth's surface on 11-Mar-2016 at 03Z52.

2016 EF195 is estimated to be 20m - 50m in diameter (based on magnitude) and travelling at 10km/s or 6.25 mi/s. It's close-approach brought it beneath geo-stationary satellite altitude of ~22,236 miles. It was not detected until 4 days after its close-approach.

It is the 4,881st asteroid (within 0.5 AU) to be discovered in the first two weeks of March 2016 (NASA period "E") and the 34th asteroid discovery of 2016 period "E" to approach within 10LD or less.

2016 EF195 is the 2nd asteroid within a month (the other was 2016 DY30) to make its close-approach below geo-stationary satellite altitude.

Keep your cameras ready and your eyes on the skies (when it's safe to do so).

2016 The THIRD Year of "CERTAIN Uncertainty" ™ / Meteors, Asteroids, Comets, and MORE!!

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As reported earlier today, by UK Meteor Observation Network:
reported by meteordetective
"Very large fireball reported by public was first noticed by our Church Crookham station at 3:16 this morning. It momentarily overloaded the camera with light and with second video we will be able to triangulate and calculate the orbit soon."

Please visit their webpage to view multiple views of the bolide, which was captured by cameras across the UK - including the Natural History Museum in London.

The Daily Mirror reports that the bolide might have been observed from Germany, too. BBC, amongst others, are reporting on the bolide too.

Meteorites may have been produced. Stay tuned for updates from UKMON - regarding trajectory.

2016 The THIRD Year of "CERTAIN Uncertainty" ™ / Meteors, Asteroids, Comets, and MORE!!

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NEO asteroid discoveries update
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Huge Fireball 17 March 2016 At 3:16
UK Meteor Observation Network
Very large fireball reported by public was recorded by out Church Crookham station at 3:16 this morning.

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Incredible moment meteor flashes across UK skies
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[ 17 March 2016 ] Spectacular green fireball seen over UK News
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The St Patrick's Day meteor made its way across the sky at 3.20am

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Bright meteor streaks over UK skies
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Stargazers Lounge
Did anyone catch this? 'Green flash' meteor sightings across Britain http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-35829815.

Rate of meteor fireballs over US so far in 2016 is DOUBLE that of 2015
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(SOTT) While March is usually a slow month for meteor showers as none of the major annual events occur this month, the American Meteor Society ...

March 17, 2016 in Atlas 5: International Space Station to study meteors hitting atmosphere
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Astronaut Ron Garan, Expedition 28 flight engineer, caught this image from the International Space Station in 2011 during Perseid Meteor Shower.

NASA will intentionally start a fire on a cargo ship in space
The Verge
The Cygnus will also be carrying an instrument called Meteor, that will be used to figure out the composition of meteors entering Earth's atmosphere.

Rate of meteor fireballs over US so far in 2016 is DOUBLE that of 2015
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Very large fireball over UK
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What I likely saw that night was a meteor, or even more likely- afireball. A fireball is just a very bright meteor that can be so bright, it can turn the night ...
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Marcelo Zurita
March 17 at 6:48pm

Huge fireball 17 March at 3:16
Massive fireball captured by Church Crookham station at 3:16
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Marcelo Zurita- March 17 at 6:46pm

Timeline Photos
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Josep Maria Trigo Rodríguez
March 17 at 7:43pm
COMETA C/2013 X1 PANSTARRS: Captado el 2.79 de enero de 2016 por el Telescopio Joan Oró (TJO) situado en el Observatori Astronòmic del Montsec operado por el IEEC. Dos imágenes de 30 segundos en filtro R. Para más detalles sobre el seguimiento a este cometa y otras imágenes junto a resultados fotométricos podéis leer nuestro abstract presentado en la Lunar Planetary Science Conference de Houston, TX: http://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2016/pdf/1431.pdf

2016 The THIRD Year of "CERTAIN Uncertainty" ™ / Meteors, Asteroids, Comets, and MORE!!

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Shock compression research shows hexagonal diamond could serve as meteor impact marker
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In 1967, a hexagonal form of diamond, later named lonsdaleite, was identified for the first time inside fragments of the Canyon Diablo meteorite, the ..

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This beautiful lake is not a result of any volcanic tragedy but it was created by a meteor collision. It's located in Buldhana district of Maharashtra.

American Meteor Society
50Weather
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While March is usually a slow month for meteor showers as none of the major annual events occur this month, the American Meteor Society has ...

2016 The THIRD Year of "CERTAIN Uncertainty" ™ / Meteors, Asteroids, Comets, and MORE!!

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FIRE IN THE SKY
The CELESTIAL Convergence
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Nagpur HC asks ecologists about larger zone for Lonar
Pune Mirror
It was formed thousands of years ago when a meteor hit the planet's surface and is the only hyper-velocity impact crater of basaltic rock in the world.

Dark flight of meteoroids modelling
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2012pimo.conf...23A
and
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1987BAICz..38..222C

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Alex Folta
March 14 at 3:46am
Another interesting article about the "Curious Mary"

Meteorite reveals rare unstable element | EarthSky.org
earthsky.org
A pink meteorite inclusion nicknamed Curious Marie shows that a highly unstable element, curium, was...
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Josep Maria Trigo Rodríguez
March 13 at 6:44am
SI OS GUSTA LA DIVULGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA Y OS MUEVE LA ASTRONOMÍA: Bienvenidos, os invito a conocer mis libros: http://www.spmn.uji.es/ESP/trigobook.html

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Ravi Jagtiani
March 12 at 6:53pm
2016 March 12th Melbourne, 20:35 AEST , duration 5 secs.
Report of a SW to NE "shooting star" over Melbourne with sonics
https://www.facebook.com/david.west.35513/posts/1250938298266867
Ravi Jagtiani .. Tina West just saw the biggest "shooting star" in her life [ her own words ] time w...

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