The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 14SEP2016

Argentina: 30-tonne meteorite found in Gancedo
YouTube
Footage released on Monday, shows scientists in Gancedo excavating a meteorite weighing 30 tonnes (68000 lbs), the second biggest ever to be ...

A giant meteor has just been unearthed in Argentina
ScienceAlert
The discovery, made on the border of Chaco, about 1,078 km (670 miles) northwest of the Buenos Aires, has been attributed to a meteor shower that ...

68000 lb Meteor Unearthed in Argentina
Santa monica Observed
The accurately named Campo del Cielo is blistered with craters caused by a powerful meteor shower 4000 to 4700 years ago. At least 26 craters ...

World's second biggest meteor ever discovered buried in 'field of heaven'
Mirror.co.uk
A giant meteor has been found buried five-metres down in a field in Argentina. The huge space rock , which weighs around 30 tonnes, was unearthed ...

The second largest meteorite ever recorded on Earth is uncovered
YouTube
The second largest meteorite on record was extracted from the ground at the Campo del Cielo in Argentina, on the weekend of September 10-11.

Revealed: Giant 30 tonne meteorite discovered in Argentina is the second heaviest ever found
Daily Mail
In February 2013, a meteor thought to be part of a family of asteroids orbiting around 93 million miles from our sun, streaked across the sky above ...

2nd-largest meteorite in world, weighing nearly 68K pounds, found in Argentina
Fox News Latino
Vesconi told Télam that the team took the opportunity of having the large machinery at hand to weigh another meteor found nearby, called the El ...

Martian Methane May Come From Comets
Air & Space Magazine
Will future methane “spikes” correlate to meteor showers on Mars, or were past correlations noticed by Fries and his colleagues just a coincidence?

Don't Panic, But There's An Asteroid Right Over There
FiveThirtyEight
But even an all-sky search can miss a threatening space invader. The Chelyabinsk meteor started out as an asteroid about 56 feet across, but nobody ...

Suspected Meteor Flies Past Cyprus And Explodes Mid-Air
Cyprus News
The night sky in the island nation of Cyprus lit up as a suspected meteor flew over and exploded mid-air on September 9. One security camera in the...

Six night sky events to look up for in Fall 2016
The Weather Network
The Orionid meteor shower - the second of the year's two meteor showers that originate from Halley's Comet - peaks on the night of October 20-21.

Event 3398-2016
Fireball event
AMS received 40 reports about a fireball seen over ME, NY, MA, NJ, CT, RI, PA and NH on Tuesday, September 13th 2016 around 01:14 UT.

Photo insight with Robert Canis: Marsh and meteor shower under moonlight
Amateur Photographer
With talk of the supermoon and meteor shower filling the news, I considered my options as to where I should set up the camera. For the past 25 years ...

2016 The THIRD Year of "CERTAIN Uncertainty" ™ / Meteors, Asteroids, Comets, and MORE!!

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 01-03DEC2012

The Spectacular Geminid Meteor Shower 2012 Peak: When and Where to Watch
Patch.com
The Geminid meteor shower 2012, the final major meteor shower of every year and likely to be the best, peaks overnight Dec. 13 and Dec. 14, and you may be able to see a great show on either side of those dates. If you liked the Perseids meteor shower ...

Visualizing Meteor Impact « Duke Physics News
They are exploring the questions of: How does granular material respond to a high-speed impact by a foreign object, such as a meteor striking a planetary ...
news.phy.duke.edu/2012/11/visualizing-meteor-impact/

Did The Sun Torch Geminid Meteor Shower's Parent Body? | Video ...
The peak of the shower (possibly hundreds of meteors per hour) occurs on December 13th and
www.space.com/18714-did-the-sun-torch-geminid-meteor-sho...

Geminid meteor shower and visible asteroids in December 2012 ...
If you're planning to skywatch this December, this video will take you through some of the notable objects in the sky this month, including a meteor shower, large ...
beforeitsnews.com/.../geminid-meteor-shower-and-visible-aste...

IMO Membership for 2013 | International Meteor Organization
The International Meteor Organization (IMO) was established in 1988. Over the past 25 years, the IMO managed to collect an impressive amount of ...
www.imo.net/news/membership2013

Best Meteor Shower of the Year Coming in December
GoLocalProv
This year's Geminid meteor shower will peak on the night of December 13-14, and are the best meteor shower of the year for northern hemisphere viewers. Photo: Wally Pacholka/AstroPics.com via NASA. Mild comfortable nights of observing are now behind ...

Will We See A New Meteor Shower?
Some computer models indicate that the Earth may pass near decades old debris left behind by Comet Wirtanen in mid December, creating a new meteor ...
blogs.nasa.gov/cm/blog/.../posts/post_1354292295986.html

Meteor shower over Wyoming pics
I find it funny how fake it looks I know it IS real it just LOOKS fake because that's not how we imagine meteor showers to be ...
www.reddit.com/r/pics/.../meteor_shower_over_wyoming/

Meteor Activity Outlook for December 1-7, 2012 « The Transient Sky ...
By Carl Hergenrother
The following is a slightly edited version of Bob Lunsford's excellent weekly summary of meteoractivity. The original version can be found at the American Meteor Society's site. No matter where you live, the first half of December provides some ...
The Transient Sky - Comets, Asteroids...

Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News: Weekend Sci-Fi Matinee ...
By Lunar Meteorite * Hunter
"Without Warning" is a TV movie featuring veteran news anchor Sander Vanocur and reporter Bree Walker as themselves covering a breaking news story of three meteor fragments crashing into the Earth's northern hemisphere in October ...
Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News

Marshall Center's Meteoroid Environment Office Welcomes Noted Meteor Expert ...
NASA
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. -- The Meteoroid Environment Office at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., welcomes noted meteor expert Dr. Marc Fries to Marshall Nov. 8. Fries is a research scientist at the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson ...

Planets and meteor shower visible during December - wdbj7.com
December is full of night sky happenings. Everything from the Geminid Meteors, to Jupiter and Saturn on display.
www.wdbj7.com/.../wdbj7-planets-and-meteor-shower-visible-...

ScienceCasts: Rock Comet Meteor Shower - YouTube
Visit http://science.nasa.gov/ for more. The Geminid meteor shower peaks on Dec . 13th and ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEPPGF3KrMQ

The Watchers - Geminid meteor shower and visible ...
If you're planning to skywatch this December, this video will take you through some of the ...
thewatchers.adorraeli.com

Astronomical Wonders: #4 Meteor Showers
Yahoo! News (blog)
The night sky was alight with several meteor showers, including the Leonid in mid-November. As bits of space-debris from comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle vaporized in the Earth's atmosphere, we had the pleasure of observing the resulting fireworks. They made ...

Multi-colored full moon-sized fireball with enormous trail blazes over ...
Initial Meteor Sighting Reports 28 November 2012 - Phil, Georgetown, MA 23:00 EST 6 seconds duration - East to West. Bright and white, same as the moon.
www.sott.net/.../254268-Multi-colored-full-moon-sized-firebal...

2012 THE Year of Meteors!

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 16NOV2011

Western Ontario 09 Nov 2011 0936 UTC 
by mfries01
We've got a significant meteor, possibly also a significant meteorite fall: http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.com/2011/11/dryden-ontario-meteor-9nov2011.html I'm quite impressed with the video. The meteor is slow-moving, long-lasting, and has produced an obvious trail of material. Radar is interesting as well: If the upload worked, this should be an animated gif showing radar data from the Canadian national weather network. [...] (Dryden, Ontario Event with video 9NOV2011) Read more of this post


November Issue of Meteorite Times now up

The November issue of Meteorite Times is now up.
The following URL gives access to the Web Browser View, Flash Magazine View, and Mobile PDF.
http://www.meteorite-times.com/monthly-issues/
This page also has an easy way to view all of the "Mag View" issues in the "Archives" section of the page.
http://issuu.com/meteorite-times/docs
Enjoy!-Paul and Jim

Leonid Meteor Shower Peaks on Thursday
Space.com
But when the Earth passes through a cloud of debris, it sometimes produces displays known asmeteor showers. A famous annual shower known as the Leonids is set to peak Thursday night (Nov. 17). Unlike rain showers, meteor showers are not concentrated. ...


It's a bird, a plane, a UFO … or maybe just meteors
The Seattle Times (blog)
... wasn't making a pass at the time people called. “There's a lot of junk up there,” he said. He didn't think the bright objects were meteors, which are certainly fast but not terribly bright. The Leonidmeteor shower was expected to peak Thursday night.


Historically impressive meteor shower this week
KOLD-TV
AP Entertainment News Video By Erin Jordan - bio | email Astronomy Live says the peak number of meteors hitting the atmosphere will be at 5:04 AM on Friday. With forecasted clear skies and sunrise holding off until 6:55 AM, there is a good chance to ...

Sky Show Thursday: Leonid Meteor Shower to Peak National Geographic "The quarter-phase moon"—when the lunar disk appears half dark—"will interfere withmeteor watching this year," said Ben Burress, staff astronomer at the Chabot Space and Science Center in Oakland, California. "But since [the moon] won't rise until ... Jordan to witness meteor shower Friday Petra News Agency Amman, Nov 15 (Petra) -- Intense Leonid meteor showers hit Jordan at dawn on Friday at a rate of roughly 30 objects an hour, according to astronomers. Leonids are bits of debris from Comet Tempel-Tuttle, which visits the inner solar system every 33 ...

Meteor/Meteorite News 19AUG2011

Eastern OH, 08 Aug 2011 0522 UTC

Eastern OH, 08 Aug 2011 0522 UTC mfries01 | 17 August 2011 at 21:23 | Categories: Uncategorized | URL: http://wp.me/p11rrV-3y

Here's the text I sent in a conversation about the fireball in eastern Ohio recently, with the email addresses redacted. Howdy all I've just finished analyzing radar data from the KCLE and KPBT radars in the NEXRAD long-range weather radar network, as well as from the short-range airport radars at the Cleveland and Pittsburgh airports. [...]

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Fireball Leads to Midwest Meteorite Alert, NASA Warns Fox News By Denise Chow Ohio residents should be on the lookout for potential smallmeteorites that may have been created by a bright fireball that streaked over southern Ontario, Canada, last week, NASA said. The fireball was detected by all-sky cameras from ...

Fireball Over Montenegro : Science & Technology
Folks, what do you think about this? Fireball over Becici August 16, 2011, Becici, country of Montenegro, Eastern Europe Article from a Daily newspaper: All ...www.disclose.tv/forum/fireball-over-montenegro-t57301.html

Meteorites Possible From Midwest US Fireball - Yahoo! News
Read 'Meteorites Possible From Midwest US Fireball' on Yahoo! News. Ohio residents should be on the lookout for potential small meteorites that may have ...
news.yahoo.com/meteorites-possible-midwest-us-fireball-1128...


Meteorites may have landed in the region
Warren Tribune Chronicle
The International Astronomical Union defines a fireball as "a meteorite brighter than any of the planets." In essence, the mass and speed of the meteor increase its visibility, Cooke said. Cooke said the fragments are about two to three inches in ...


Meteorites may have fallen in Northeast Ohio yards
WKYC-TV
CLEVELAND - NASA's meteor expert says a meteor that broke up over Lake Erie last week likely produced small meteorites. The pieces may be as small as a thumbnail, or slightly larger. On August 8, around 1:22 am, four Canadian sky cameras captured the ...


Boom Goes the… We Don't Know
KHQ Right Now
Hobbs saw a meteor in Oregon several years ago and said the sound he heard last night was similar to the one he heard then leading him to the big bang theory that last night's explosion was a meteor. "It might have been that (a meteor)," he said. ...


On This Day ... August 18
Patch.com
In 1783, a huge fireball meteor is seen across the United Kingdom. In 1868, the gas helium is discovered by Pierre Jules Cesar Janssen. In 1891, 700 people die in a major hurricane in Martinique. In 1920, women gain the right to vote with the passage ...

Bright Fireball Leads To Meteorite Search In Ohio Irish Weather Online By Mark Dunphy - Thu Aug 18, 4:00 pm Composite of Lake Erie fireball meteor, as seen by the Orangeville, Ontario camera. (University of Western Ontario) NASA's Meteoroid Office has confirmed a fireball meteor entered the atmosphere above Lake Erie, ...

Fireball Meteorite Alert Issued for Ohio
Gather.com
NASA has issued a fireball meteorite alert, and the potential impact area is east of Cleveland. Afireball was pinpointed by cameras in Ontario on August 8th, and its path was tracked, leading Bill Cooke of NASA's head of NASA's Meteoroid Environments ...


NASA tells Cleveland area residents to be on lookout for fallen meteorites
Examiner.com
NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office has issued an alert for residents in Northeast Ohio, specifically those East of Cleveland, to be on the lookout for meteorites after a bright fireball was captured on camera coming in over Lake Erie and heading ...