08 March 2017

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 08MAR2017

A New Take on the Audible Meteor Mystery
SkyandTelescope.com (blog)
A brilliant fireball captured over the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) located on the Chajnantor Plateau in the Chilean Andes.

Three new minerals discovered in a unique meteorite
Chi Ma/Caltech
Researchers led by mineralogist Chi Ma have identified three new minerals in a tiny sample of the Khatyrka meteorite. The meteorite, recovered in pieces from the Koryak Mountains in eastern Russia in 1979 and 2011, made news in recent years for containing the first three natural quasicrystals ever found....

Radio Meteor Observation Bulletin No. 283 of February 2017 (51 K)
http://www.rmob.org/rmobtext/rmob1702.txt

896h
American Meteor Society
Persistent train. Observation, Yes. Duration, 3s. Length, -. Remarks, Smoke fallowing it as it spiraled down to the horizon, then turned red like it burnt ...

896a
American Meteor Society
Location. Address, Hanceville, AL. Latitude, 34° 5' 52.3'' N (34.097862°). Longitude, 86° 40' 4.47'' W (-86.667908°). Elevation, 212.34m. Time and ...

american meteor society
Science.gov
The American Meteor Society (AMS) founded in 1911 pioneered the visual study of meteors and has collected data relating to meteor observations ...

2017 The FOURTH Year of "CERTAIN Uncertainty" ™ / Meteors, Asteroids, Comets, and MORE!!

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