The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 17APR2018

'Tunguska'-Size Asteroid Makes Surprise Flyby of Earth
Space.com
This newfound asteroid is three to six times as big as another recent meteor, the one that broke up over Chelyabinsk, Russia, in 2013. That object injured more than 1,200 people and damaged thousands of buildings up to 58 miles (93 km) away from the impact site. "If 2018 GE3 had hit Earth, it would ...

Sneaky Asteroid Skimmed Past Earth Just Hours After Detection
Newsweek
Potentially larger than the Statue of Liberty in New York, the asteroid was up to five times the size of the Chelyabinsk meteor that struck the skies above Russia in 2013. 4_16_Asteroid Ida Asteroid Ida, a large asteroid in the Koronis family of the asteroid belt, is depicted. Unlike 2018 GE3, this asteroid ...

An Asteroid Came Within 119500 Miles Of Earth & Scientists Didn't Spot It Until Hours Before It ...
Bustle
EarthSky reports that the asteroid was about 157 to 361 feet in diameter, which makes it significantly larger than the infamous Chelyabinsk meteor that exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia in February 2013. Later that year, The Guardian reported the Chelyabinsk meteor, which was about 20 meters wide, ...

An Asteroid The Size Of A Football Field Just Sailed Past Earth And No One Noticed Until After It ...
Tech Times
An asteroid the size of a football field skimmed Earth on Saturday, and no one knew that it was coming until after it had passed. It was bigger than the meteor that exploded over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk five years ago. It came between the Earth and the moon.

Fine-scale observations of the Doppler frequency shifts affecting meteor head radio echoes
arXiv
affecting meteor head radio echoes. Jean-Louis Rault1, Mirel Birlan2, Cyril Blanpain3, Sylvain Bouley4, Stéphane Caminade4, François. Colas2, Jérôme Gattacceca5, Simon Jeanne2, Julien Lecubin3, Adrien Malgoyre3, Chiara Marmo4,. Jérémie Vaubaillon2, Pierre Vernazza6, Brigitte Zanda7.

A dazzling annual meteor shower starts this week — here's how to watch it
Business Insider
The dazzling Lyrid meteor shower is starting this week. The annual shower, which happens between April 16 and 25 each year, occurs when the Earth passes through the tail of a comet. While meteor showers are difficult to accurately predict, you'll probably get your best glimpse of it in the early morning ...

The Great Leonids Meteor Storm of 1833
Astronomy Trek
The Leonids Meteor Storm of 1833 was one of the most spectacular astronomical sights ever seen in the modern era, with many people believing that the world was coming to an end. It also occurred at a time before electric street lights had been invented, and the Moon had set in the early evening ...

NASA Basically Missed a Huge Asteroid That Passed Unnervingly Close to Earth
ScienceAlert
Around 50-100 m in diameter, it was several times the 2013 Chelyabinsk meteor, around the size of the 1908 Tunguska event ~ easily enough to destroy a city. We had less than a day's warning. ( Michael Jäger) pic.twitter.com/kElrxBiUoB. — Andrew Rader (@marsrader) April 16, 2018. The situation is ...

Weekend Asteroid Flyby Confirms We're Worrying About the Wrong Space Rocks
Gizmodo
That same NASA FAQ page does say that a meteor like Chelyabinsk should only strike once or twice a century, and bigger objects would be several times rarer. But they make it clear: “Given the current incompleteness of the [near-Earth object] catalogue, an unpredicted impact—such as the ...

Diamonds that fell to Earth came from long-lost planet, researchers say
National Post
Specks of diamond inside a meteor that fell from space into the Nubian Desert of northern Sudan were formed inside a long-lost planet in the early years of the solar system, according to a new scientific report. The surprisingly large size of these extraterrestrial gemstones is the first compelling and direct ...

A 300 Kg Satellite S Traveling At 8 Km/s Is Hit By...
Chegg
A 300 kg satellite S traveling at 8 km/s is hit by a 2kg meteor M traveling at 16km/s. The meteor is embedded in the satellite by the impact. Determine the magnitude of the velocity of their common canter of mass after the impact and angle theta between the path of the center of mass and the original path ...

thatcher
International Meteor Organization
April 15, 2018 by Robert Lunsford -. Latest Major Fireball Events. Everyday, we receive reports about Fireballs. Here are some of the latest major Fireball Events: 12Apr 27 reports (KY, MS...) 8Apr 53 reports · 30Mar 28 reports (WI, IL...) 28Mar 29 reports (MI & OH). 28Mar 34 reports (NC, VA...) 28Mar 75 ...

Fireball report
American Meteor Society
This report has been submitted with a video and a photo that will be both reviewed by our team ASAP. Observer. Name, Joseph G. Experience Level, 4/5. Remarks, meteor appeared about 3 degrees above Jupiter heading South through Libra. Location. Address, Lakeland, FL. Latitude, 28° 0' 3.72'' N ...

Events in 2018 1400-2018 KML
Fireball event
We received 27 reports about a fireball seen over KY, MS, AR, TN, AL and MO on Thursday, April 12th 2018 around 10:59 UT. The trajectory displayed on the map and the KML file has been automatically computed based on all the witness reports and may not be the most optimized.

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