21 February 2018

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 21FEB2017

Take a look inside Arizona State University's meteorite vault
ABC15 Arizona
TEMPE, AZ - They light up the night sky. Filling those who witness them with jubilation and can fill the pockets of those who find them. It turns out there's no better place to learn about what makes meteorites so special than this highly secured vault at Arizona State University. "This is the largest ...

Take a look inside ASU's meteorite vault
YouTube
It turns out there's no better place to learn about what makes meteorites so special than the highly secured vault as Arizona State University.

Bright meteor fireball reported over Bahia, Brazil (VIDEOS)
Sott
Residents of Salvador, the capital of Brazil's northeastern state of Bahia, reported a bright meteor fireball streaking through the night sky around 10:30 p.m. on Tuesday 20th February according to A Tarde On Line. Sightings of the event were...

Taylor Observatory hosts Feb. 24 'Window to the Universe'
Lake County News
The mission of ATLAS is to protect or at least warn earthlings of potentially damaging impacts such as the Chelyabinsk meteor impact in Russia in 2013, which injured 1,500 residents. Had ATLAS been operational, even this relatively small 20-meter diameter asteroid could have been detected a day in ...

Fireball report
American Meteor Society
We don't exactely know the trajectory of the object and we are not sure about It's nature but we suspect it was a meteor. We heard a sound around 8min after the explosion. We don't know if it was related to the explosion. However if it is the case, the meteor should have crashed around150km ...

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