Meteor/Meteorite News 26SEP2010

Rocket Launch Not a Meteor
25SEP2010  at about 9:41pm PDT there was a launch of a Minotaur IV rocket in California.  Several persons have checked my website thinking that they had seen a meteor... 
related  story: A Minotaur IV rocket is scheduled to launch from Space Launch Complex-8 here Sept. 25 at 9:41 pm PDT....  Minotaur IV launch scheduled.


100th anniversary: Pioneers' Home housed notables
Sun Shopper - Joanna Dodder Nellans - 6 hours ago
Albert Franklin Banta - often credited with being the first white man to discover Arizona's Meteor Crater. Banta first came to Arizona in 1863 and helped ...

Scientist confirms meteorite fall north of Jacksonville
Jacksonville Journal-Courier Sat, 25 Sep 2010 05:03 AM PDT
It was a mystery more than three years in the making. Not the bright lights reported across west-central Illinois the evening of Feb. 4, 2007. Most already figured the widespread calls to law enforcement agencies in Iowa, Wisconsin and Illinois...  

Bright September Meteor
Also seen by NASA's all sky meteor cameras at MSFC and in Chickamauga, GA, the meteor was located above the Atlanta area, some 180 miles away from where he ...

Google Earth helps scientist spot meteor crash site
Metro
The 10-tonne meteor drilled a hole 16m deep and 45m wide in the rocky terrain. Researchers are now analysing meteor fragments from the site. ...

Solved: mystery of the meteor-shedding asteroid

New Scientist
AN ASTEROID that is the source of an annual meteor shower may owe its weird crumbliness to intense cooking by the sun. Most meteor showers are thought to ...

Fireball seen over Santa Fe likely a meteor; plus video, page 1
A bright, "significant" fireball seen passing near Santa Fe and Pecos on Tuesday night was likely a meteor, according to an Eldorado astronomer who captured ...

Astro Bob blog: Curious dark rock on Mars may be visitor from the asteroid belt

Duluth News TribuneThe Opportunity Rover finds another possible iron meteorite on Mars. Some cool pix, including 3D photos. NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity used its ...


Jacksonville, IL (05 Feb 07, 0144 UTC)
Fireball Radar Analysis by Marc FriesThis post is in response to a comment from Jake (jacob.schafer5), who wrote (23 Sep 10): -
There was a fireball I saw a couple years ago while in western Indiana. Recently I have gotten into meteorite hunting and thought back on it and I guess a bunch of other people saw it too: [Event]#69 ...

Major Bolide Meteor Fireball 23 Seconds Duration Texas, New Mexico, Colorado 21SEP2010

Major Asteroid Debris Passes? or Hits?
Bolide Meteor Fireball 23-Second Duration Texas, New Mexico, Colorado 21SEP2010

"EVENT 3"- 23 Seconds!!! Multple Bolide Event 9:03MDT 21SEP2010
(03:03 UTC 22SEP2010) Event 3 of 4 reported
written and reported by Jim Gamble (El Paso) and Dirk Ross (Tokyo)
All RightsReserved LunarMeteorite*Hunters 12:03p 22 SEP2010 Tokyo
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Allsky cameras throughout New Mexico captured a major bolide(s)/meteor fireball（ｓ） at approximately 9:03 pm MDT (03:03 UTC). The fireball was traveling SSE to NNW, one of which flew directly over Albuquerque, NM producing sonic booms as reported by Thomas Ashcraft of the Ashcraft All Sky Meteor Observatory in Santa Fe, NM.
The "Event 3" was visually observed from El Paso All Sky Camera in El Paso, Texas by Jim Gamble. Initial estimates place the magnitude of the event at a -11 (nearly as bright as the full moon).
"Event 3", captured by the Ashcraft Observatory had a duration of 23 seconds with no terminal detonation detected, even though sonic booms were reported.
Additional data/video from Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, NM. and New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, NM. will be released later when available.
Reports on Events 1, 2, and 4 are posted, please see Jim Gamble`s Website @ http://www.elpasoallsky.blogspot.com/

Asteroid Debris Bolide Event #3 Video

Video Credit: Thomas Ashcraft (c) 2010 ALL Rights Reserved
TX, NM, CO "Event 3" Asteroid Bolide 21SEP2010

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Meteor/Meteorite News 30AUG2010

Berthoud, CO (05 Oct 04 ~1930 UTC) « Radar Obs of Meteor Events

By mfries01
Radar Obs of Meteor Events. 29 August 2010 / mfries01. Berthoud, CO (05 Oct 04 ~1930 UTC) The Berthoud fall consists of the witnessed fall of a single, monomict eucrite. Several members of a family heard "a whistling noise" and a "thump", and one person saw the meteorite fall ~100 feet from [...]
Radar Obs of Meteor Events - http://radarmeteorites.wordpress.com/

ALH 84001 -Photo by NASA
Balmy water once bathed Mars rock claimed to host life
New Scientist Fri, 28 Aug 2009 11:32 AM PDT
Researchers have yet to confirm a controversial claim that a meteorite from Mars boasts fossilised life, but a new study suggests the rock did form in hospitable conditions ....