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16 September 2011

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 16SEP2011


Tiny Asteroid Created Bright Meteor, NASA Says
ABC News (blog)
Reports of the fireball, which reportedly traveled east across the western US, streamed in on the American Meteor Society's website Wednesday. Toni Flint, from Glendale, Ariz., wrote that it was “the most amazing and beautiful sight that I have ever ...
What was it? 'Glowing object' lights up sky over Arizona, Southwest
ABC15.com (KNXV-TV)
PHOENIX - Experts believe a bright 'glowing object' spotted over the Arizona sky Wednesday night was either a fireball or a bright meteor. Residents in Las Vegas and Southern California also reported seeing the light. A NASA scientist told msnbc.com ...
Fireball lights up night sky across the Southwest
News 8 KFMB
The sightings started happening around 7:45 pm and astronomers say the fast-moving, glowing object was most likely a falling meteor. Dozens of people across the Southwest, including residents in Los Angeles, Phoenix and Las Vegas, reported seeing the ...



No conspiracy here, JPL expert says of greenish meteor
Los Angeles Times
Wednesday's meteor wasn't aliens or a spacecraft burning up during reentry, says a JPL expert who runs NASA's Near Earth Object Program. It was probably a chunk of asteroid. By Andrew Blankstein, Los Angeles Times As word spread of the greenish, ...



Mysterious light was meteor, UA expert says
KVOA Tucson News
He says the meteor is "a reminder that there's a solar system out there that occasionally decides to touch the earth by throwing a rock at us or something like that." Tucsonan Michael Farmer hunts meteorites, the rocks that fall from meteors. ...




VIDEO: 'Glowing object' flies across PHX night sky
ABC15.com (KNXV-TV)
Kimberly Curto, a freshman at Desert Vista High School in Phoenix, posted a YouTube video showing a possible meteor that flew through the night sky during her brother's Junior Varsity football game. She sent ABC15 the video that lasts just a few ...
Mysterious light seen in southwestern sky
CNN
By Scott Thompson and Joe Sterling, CNN (CNN) -- The streak of light that blazed across southwestern US skies and stoked burning curiosity across the social media landscape was probably a tiny and bright meteor known as a fireball, a NASA spokeswoman ...



Mysterious light seen in Southwestern sky 9/14/2011
YouTube
A streak of light that some are describing as a fireball, was seen shooting across the night sky and law enforcement and media from Phoenix to Los Angeles to Las Vegas were fielding calls of the reported sighting. Lt. Justin Griffin of the Maricopa ...




Rare meteorite piece donated by US-based scientist
New Kerala Thu, 15 Sep 2011 00:43 AM PDT
Tiruchirapalli, Sep 15 : Dr Ramachandran Ganapathy, Scientist, Baker Fellow (retd), JT Baker Chemical Research Laboratory, Phillipsburg, US, has donated a rare and invaluable piece of meteorite weighing about 1.5 kg to the city-based Seethalakshmi Ramaswami College here.
Meteor lights up Wednesday night sky
Prescott Daily Courier
meteor was zipping through the sky from the west and disappeared behind Granite Mountain at about 7:45 pm, perfectly framed by her 5-by-5-foot window in the Mint Creek Ranch subdivision northwest of Prescott. "I'm 55 years old and I've never seen ...



Palm Springs residents spot apparent meteor in sky
The Desert Sun
meteor, also known as a shooting star, is a “light phenomena” that happens when a meteoroid enters the Earth's atmosphere and vaporizes. A meteoroid is a small particle from a comet or asteroid that orbits the sun. A real UFO — probably a meteor...



Fireball sighted in skies over southwestern US -- Fire in the Sky ...
Reports stream in from Southern California and Nevada; experts say it's a meteor People from San Diego to Los Angeles to Las Vegas reported seeing a large, ...
www.sott.net/.../234973-Fireball-sighted-in-skies-over-southw...




Bright Green Fireball Lights Up Sky Southwest US
Space.com
A bright, green-colored fireball that streaked across the night sky over the southwestern United States yesterday (Sept. 14) was most likely a meteor, according to NASA. Surprised residents in Phoenix, Las Vegas and parts of Southern California...
Bright Flash Lights Up Sky
KYMA
Meteoroligists say it was most likely a meteor. It lit up the sky in the Desert Southwest with reported sightings from Las Vega to Yuma to Southern California. It appeared around 7:45 pm People say they saw green, blue, purple and white light streaking ...
Fireball in the sky
KXO Radio
Officials are now saying the light was a Wednesday night was a very bright meteor, also known as a fireball. People from San Diego to Arizona and up to Los Angeles and Nevada reported seeing it at around 7:45 pm. It was described as changing from ...



Odd light seen over Southern Arizona
KOLD-TV
AP Entertainment News Video By Aaron Pickering - bio | email *Update* - Thursday 9-15-11 (9:20AM) - KOLD News 13 has received word from expert at Kitt Peak have said the "odd light" was almost certainly a meteor. Mike Terenzoni with the U of A said he ...



UFO was likely basketball-sized fireball
The Desert Sun
A real UFO streaked across the Coachella Valley's skies Wednesday night, but by morning NASA scientists were fairly certain they had identified the object as a fireball. “We can't say 100 percent,” said Don Yeomans, manager of NASA's Near-Earth Object ...



UFO fireball streaks across the Southwestern skies and creates a buzz (video)
Examiner.com
Wednesday night, a bright light or “fireball” streaked across the skies over the Southwestern US and the news has created an Internet buzz; leaving many to wonder if it was a UFO. Website chat rooms and Facebook lit up with chatter wondering what the ...



Meteor Activity Outlook for September 10-16, 2011 | American ...
This is the worst time to try and view meteor activity this month as the intense moonlight will obscure all but the brightest meteors. Conditions will not improve ...
www.amsmeteors.org/.../meteor-activity-outlook-for-septembe...



sky is glowing where meteor 'hit'
Meteor witness in Palm Springs, CA says the sky is glowing in the direction where the meteor may have impacted the ground.
www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message1639071/pg1



Possible meteor sightings dazzle Arizona and California - Yahoo ...
Read 'Possible meteor sightings dazzle Arizona and California' on Yahoo! News. PHOENIX (Reuters) - Dozens of people reported observing a dazzling, bright ...
news.yahoo.com/possible-meteor-sightings-dazzle-arizona-cali...



Did You See Anything in the Sky? Strange Lights Reported
Patch.com
Curt Kaplan of the National Weather Service told KCAL9 that what was seen falling from the sky was probably a meteor. The lights were also reported in Arizona and Las Vegas. -- The City News Service contributed to this report. Interested in a follow-up ...



Meteor Reported Seen over Southern California ... - myFOXla.com Home
Meteor Reported Seen over Southern California Arizona_20110914233235_JPG ... Meteor Seen over California Arizona_20110914231616_JPG. Credit abc15com ...
www.myfoxla.com/.../meteorites-reported-southern-california-...



UFO - maybe meteor or asteroid - seen flying in night sky
The Desert Sun
It was most likely a fireball — a fragment of an asteroid that entered Earth's atmosphere — a NASA scientists said late Wednesday. Experts and residents offered conflicting explanations, though, about the bright light the streaked through the ...



What was that streaking light in sky over SW?
cbsepisode fire fireball light meteor mysterious streak the early show cbsepisode the early show fireball meteor california arizona ...
cbsnews.com

15 September 2011

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 15SEP2011

Fireball sighted over southwest US Technology & science Space msnbccom
People in Southern California and Nevada report seeing a large fireball shooting across the sky Wednesday evening.
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/.../ns/technology_and_science-space/



Reported meteor was probably small piece of asteroid, expert says
Los Angeles Times
Thousands of people from Phoenix to Los Angeles reported seeing what they believed was a bright-green meteor. But the object was probably a "near-earth asteroid" no bigger than a basketball, said Don Yeomans, a Jet Propulsion Laboratory Fellow who ...




Expert: Green 'Meteor' Sighting Was Probably a Piece of Asteroid
KTLA
LOS ANGELES (KTLA) -- A mysterious ball of light spotted in the sky Wednesday night led to thousands of reports of meteor sightings from Los Angeles to Phoenix. But, an expert says, it was probably part of an asteroid. The California Highway Patrol...
Reports of 'glowing object' flying across Arizona sky
NewsNet5.com
A spokesman with the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office said their aviation unit did confirm seeing the meteor over Deer Valley Airport, but there hasn't been any reports of an impact site. Sharon Roesch wrote, "It was huge and incredible- we were ...
Mysterious Light Seen In Southwestern Sky
KTBS
Was it a meteor, a falling satellite or, perhaps, something more mysterious? A streak of light that some are describing as a fireball, was seen shooting across the night sky and law enforcement and media from Phoenix to Los Angeles to Las Vegas were ...



Coachella Valley residents report UFO - maybe meteor or asteroid - flying in ...
The Desert Sun
When a piece of that asteroid — known as a meteoroid — enters the Earth and vaporizes, the light phenomenon that results is called a meteor. That object becomes known as a meteorite if it survives its passage through the Earth's atmosphere and hits ...



People See Large Fiery Object in Sky
NBC Connecticut
A spokesman from the National Weather Service says it "sounds" like it was a meteor. Experts say it's not unusual for a meteor to appear to change colors. Many meteors are out there during the day. But, if they are seen at night, they appear much more ...



Strange Lights Seen In Sky, Residents Report
Patch.com
Curt Kaplan of the National Weather Service told the news station the object “was probably ameteor." Ed Krupp, director of the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles, agreed. It was likely “a piece of interplanetary debris that passed through the Earth's ...



Green fireball in sky dazzles southwest US Technology & science ...
A brilliant bright light seen streaking over the Southwestern sky Wednesday night was most likely a fragment of an asteroid that entered Earth's atmosphere, ...
www.msnbc.msn.com/.../green-fireball-sky-dazzles-southwest-...



Phoenixarea meteor activity reported
Phoenix-area meteor activity reported, Stargazers in a broad swath of the Southwest reported seeing a colorful, mysterious display in the night sky ...
www.azcentral.com/.../20110914Phoenix-meteorite-activity-re...



'Green' fireball in sky dazzles southwest US
msnbc.com
Experts said a fireball — or very bright meteor — was likely to blame. "I saw something that looked like a falling star but it must have been a fireball in the atmosphere," one witness told NBCLA. "It was huge. It had a green glow in front of it and ...



Mysterious light over Southwest likely a fireball
Newsday (subscription)
Click here Mysterious light over Southwest likely a fireball Published: September 15, 2011 3:18 AM By The Associated Press DENISE PETSKI (Associated Press) (AP) -- A brilliant bright light seen streaking in the night sky over the Southwest was most ...



California Meteor: Reports Of Possible Meteor In Southwest United ...
By The Huffington Post News Editors
LOS ANGELES — A NASA scientist says a brilliant bright light seen streaking over the Southwestern sky was most likely a fireball – a fragment of an asteroid that entered Earth's atmosphere. Don Yeomans, manager of NASA's Near Earth ...



Possible meteor sightings dazzle Arizona and California
Reuters
But the organization said that bright moonlight would obscure viewing for all but the brightest of heavenly fireballs this week. The sightings on Wednesday caused a stir on Twitter, with one observer reporting, "I saw a lot of red in it from my vantage ...



'Fireball' Seen Streaking Across SoCal Sky
KGTV San Diego
SAN DIEGO -- Numerous reports and viewer calls have stated that a “red fireball” was seen in the east sky around 7:40 pm 10News reported. “I was just outside smoking when I saw it zoom by,” said 10News viewer Mike Naegel. “It only seemed to last for ...



People See Large Fiery Object in Sky
NBC Los Angeles
It like green fireworks going across the sky." The FAA and the National Weather Service say they have both received many calls. A spokesman from the National Weather Service says it "sounds" like it could be a meteor. If you have any photographs of the ...




Reports of 'glowing object' flying across Arizona sky
ABC15.com (KNXV-TV)
ABC15 started getting reports of the possible meteor around 7:45 pm Wednesday. Many of our viewers are also sounding off about it on the ABC15 Facebook page. Sharon Roesch wrote, "It was huge and incredible- we were driving and too much in shock. ...
Fastmoving object perhaps a meteor seen hurtling across sky latimescom
A fast-moving object, perhaps a meteor, was reported hurtling across the sky Wednesday night, officials said. In eastern Riverside County, the California ...
latimesblogs.latimes.com/.../meteor-reported-across-sky.html



Mystery light rips across Valley's western sky
KPHO Phoenix
... "I was just on the sofa and it really caught my eye." Resident Geneva Ward said, "I thought it was lightning but it went horizontal." "My hubby was outside," said Stephanie Scovell in a Facebook post. "He said it was like a meteor burning up."



Phil's Astronomy Blog: Fireball!!!
Fireball!!! While I was driving home from the gas station tonight, I observed a very large firebill/bolide streak ... Labels: Austin Texas, bolide, fireball, meteor ...
theguvnah.blogspot.com/2011/09/fireball.html






meteor fireball 9/14/11
6 sec
a crappy video i took with my flip-phone of tonight's fireball meteor 9/14/11
(Faked video- different meteor event NOT 14SEP2011 Meteor event!)
youtube.com




Meteorite in SW United States Wednesday 14 ...
6 sec
A large meteorite or space junk entered the atmosphere over the SW United States on Wednesday evening September 14 2011 ... (Video of a different event - faked video!)
youtube.com