The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 16DEC2011

Ontario university astronomers capture basketball-sized meteor on video
Winnipeg Free Press
LONDON, Ont. - Astronomers from the University of Western Ontario have released rare video of ameteor that travelled through the evening sky east of Toronto earlier this week. Although the bright fireball appeared near the peak of the annual Geminid ...

Cameras capture meteor in the skies near Toronto ... Astronomers say they've caught a rare cosmic snapshot of a fiery meteorhurtling through the ... ctv.ca

Astronomers seek pieces from 'slow-moving' meteor over Ontario
Vancouver Sun
By Hilary Roberts, Postmedia News December 14, 2011 A relatively slow-moving meteor flashed across southern Ontario on Monday night and astronomers are looking for help in picking up any pieces it likely left behind. Astronomers from the University of ...

UWO cameras capture meteor's fall east of Toronto Macleans.ca By Jane Switzer | December 14th, 2011 | 4:06 pm Astronomers from the University of Western Ontario released a rare video Wednesday of a meteor falling from the sky just east of Toronto. The footage was captured just after 6 pm on Monday evening by six ... Meteor crashed near Selwyn - THE LATEST Peterborough Examiner "If anyone saw it, heard it, they can let us know so we can track it down," said Peter Brown, ameteor scientist at the London, Ont. university. Western tracked the meteorite through its network of nine cameras and audio monitors scattered throughout ... What would you do if you found a meteorite? CBC.ca (CBC) Ontario researchers are interested in speaking to anyone who saw a meteorthat fell east of Toronto Monday evening or found the fallen meteorites. Researchers at the University of Western Ontario released a video Wednesday that shows the meteor... Video: Western astronomers capture fiery footage of meteor over Ontario MetroNews Canada Astronomers from the University of Western Ontario say they have captured footage of a meteor that may have sprinkled a few small mementoes near an Ontario town. The footage, caught on Monday evening, shows a fireball that scientists say was likely no ... Orangeville camera catches meteor in sky Orangeville Banner astronomers from the University of Western Ontario (UWO) released footage of a meteortraveling through the sky early Monday evening. The bright fireball was caught by six of Western's Southern Ontario Meteor Network cameras, but the image coming ... West Ontario lit up by meteor Canada.com A slow-moving meteor flashed across southern Ontario on Monday night and astronomers are looking for help in picking up any pieces it likely left behind. Astronomers from the University of Western Ontario in London, Ont., caught the fireball from space ... Did you see this fireball over the skies east of Toronto? Some scientists ... National Post (blog) Astronomers at the University of Western Ontario and the Royal Ontario Museum are searching for witnesses after a “slow-moving” fireball apparently fell from the sky near Toronto on Monday evening. After a meteorite apparently hit earth on Monday ... Scientists on lookout for meteor fragments north of Peterborough Globe and Mail Researchers at the Royal Ontario Museum and University of Western Ontario are asking for the public's help to find fragments of meteoric fireball that were seen in the southern Ontario sky on Monday evening. The UWO astronomers say fragments of the... Visibility of Geminid meteor shower in Taiwan not promising: museum Focus Taiwan News Channel 13 (CNA) Visibility of the Geminid meteor shower is likely to be poor in Taiwan this year, as it will occur during a waxing moon and rainy weather, the Taipei Astronomical Museum said Wednesday. One of the three most prolific meteor showers of the year ...

Meteorite Shockwaves Trigger Dust Avalanches on Mars UA News (press release) (Click image to enlarge) Close-up of Martian terrain with dark streaks interpreted as avalanches blasted by shockwaves from a meteorite impact. (Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/The University of Arizona) (Click image to enlarge) HiRISE image of the study area ...

Star Gazing: Dark Sky program tonight at HeadlandsHarbor Light
16, beginning at 7 pm the program, “The Christmas Star, the Venus Transit and the Mayan Calendar,” will take place during the Geminid meteor shower that night. December is ideal for stargazing, given the cool, clear nights and the brilliant dark of the ...

Meteor shower watcher plunges off LA mountain roadSan Jose Mercury News
A man who was looking for a place to watch the Geminid meteor shower may have seen a few stars after his car plunged 100 feet down a hill in the Angeles National Forest. The California Highway Patrol says the driver was looking for a spot to watch the ...

Did you see the Geminid meteor shower?CBC.ca (Wally Pacholka/AstroPics.com/Associated Press) The Geminid meteor shower that NASA predicted would be the year's best was expected to peak on Tuesday night. Shooting stars appearing to originate from the constellation Gemini were expected to streak ... How to photograph tonight's Geminid Meteor ShowerExaminer.com Tonight marks the peak of the Geminid Meteor Shower, a once a year event that, this year, could produce 1000 meteors per hour and stunning pictures. Yes, while meteor watching is a favorite past time for many, other people desire more, namely, ... Hunting for meteorites and their clues to Earth's origins CBC.ca Earlier this week, researchers at the University of Western Ontario in London spotted ameteor streaking through the sky with the help of their Southern Ontario MeteorNetwork, a combination of cameras, radar and shock-wave-detecting microphones set up ...