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NASA Was Given $36 Million Extra To Find 90% Of Dangerous Asteroids - And They Failed
CAPE CANAVERAL Fla. (Reuters) - NASA won't meet a congressionally ordered goal to find 90 percent of nearbyand potentially dangerous asteroids larger than 460 feet (140 meters) in diameter, the agency’s Inspector General said on Monday. ...

US Military's Meteor Explosion Data Can Help Scientists Protect Earth
Space.com
Picture shows Sandia National Laboratories researcher Mark Boslough reviewing a supercomputer simulation of an asteroidfireball exploding in ...

VA MD PA Meteor 14SEP2014
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Alert: Fireball Meteor Events California, VA, MD, PA, Alberta, Canada
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Meteor Fireball. by vidur on September 13th, 2014. IMG_8439_EXPORT So, me and some of my astronomy enthusiast friends went out to look for .

Martian meteorite yields more evidence of the possibility of life on Mars
University of Manchester
While investigating the Martian meteorite, known as Nakhla, Dr Elias Chatzitheodoridis of the National Technical University of Athens found an ...

Martian meteorite yields more evidence of the possibility of life on Mars
Phys.Org
While investigating the Martian meteorite, known as Nakhla, Dr Elias Chatzitheodoridis of the National Technical University of Athens found an ...

Fireball streaked across Mid-Atlantic sky Sunday evening
Signs of the Times
If you saw a bright object race across sky around 11 p.m. Sunday, you're not alone. Social media exploded with reports of a fireball streaking across ...

FLASH OF LIGHT "Meteor" IN NEW YORK CITY SKY
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Bright Meteor Fireball streaks across Mid Atlantic, Northeast sky
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fireball Meteor Northeast Midwest A bright fireball lit up the sky Sunday night, sparking reports from the D.C. region as well as parts of the Northeast ...

Video: Meteor spotted over Vancouver skyline
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A meteor illuminated the Vancouver skyline as it shot across the Canadian city on September 13. Social media users said the meteorshone bright ...

115 reports
American Meteor Society
AMS received 17 reports about a fireball seen over BC, OR and WA on September 14th 2014 around 03:54 (UTC)

Secret missile tests or space junk falling back to earth? Mysterious bright lights reported from coast ...
Daily Mail
Despite there being two meteor showers taking place currently across the northern hemisphere, astronomers are unsure if the evidence points ...

2nd UPDATE — Fireball streaks across sky, dazzling observers locally and from BC to California
Peninsula Daily
EDITOR'S NOTE — This update adds more comments about the object. We would welcome any comments from observers who saw the fireball — and ...

Mysterious Streak Of Light Leaves Scientists Baffled; Was It A Meteorite, A Missile, Or A UFO ...
Headlines & Global News
There was a strange light in the sky early Friday, and enlightened folks were in the dark about it. (Photo : YouTube screen shot/KPIX 5 ). Two days after ...

Bright meteor seen streaking
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People across the province took to social media to describe a meteor sighting Saturday night.

Scientists shocked to find cell-like structures within Martian meteorite
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Scientists have cracked open an ancient meteorite from Mars and say they have found strong evidence that suggests Mars may have had life in ...

Martian meteorite yields more evidence of the possibility of life on Mars

Science Daily - 10 hours
A tiny fragment of Martian meteorite 1.3 billion years old is helping to make the case for the possibility of life on Mars, say scientists. ...

'Life could exist on Mars': Analysis of 1.3 billion-year-old meteorite suggests that the red planet is STILL habitable

Daily Mail - 8 hours
UK and Greece researchers have re-examined a meteorite that has an egg-shaped structure (shown), which resembles a 'fossilised biological ...

Is there life on Mars? 1.3 billion year old Martian meteorite found that held WATER

Daily Express - 9 hours
A METEORITE more than a billion years old has been found which expert say raises the possibility that there is LIFE on Mars.

Central PA Meteor from York, PA & Flash from Vinco, PA 9/15
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The meteor itself was caught on the AccuCam webcam network at York, PA, facing NW at 10:56 PM ET on 9/15/2014. Video (C) AccuWeather.com ...

Central PA Meteor Turns Night into Day!
AccuWeather.com (blog)
There was a meteor over the mid-Atlantic last night (so say 150+ reports). Over the last year I've set up the AccuCam Weather Webcam Network and I ...

2014 The Year of "CERTAIN Uncertainty" ™; Meteors, Asteroids, Comets, and MORE!!

CALIFORNIA/NEW MEXICO FIREBALL 03OCT1996

CALIFORNIA/NEW MEXICO Green FIREBALL 03OCT1996

Re: (meteorobs) Possible fireball in California
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Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Possible fireball in California
From: Joseph_Assmus@PACE-POST.ucsd.edu (by way of Mark Davis <Joseph_Assmus@PACE-POST.ucsd.edu>)
Date: Sat, 26 Oct 1996 21:48:27 -0400
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Sender: owner-meteorobsAnother possible mail list note... ---Mark NEWS CLIPPING ON

CALIFORNIA/NEW MEXICO FIREBALL 03OCT1996

CALIFORNIA/NEW MEXICO FIREBALL Yesterday, a friend gave me a news clipping dated TUE Oct 15, 1996 from the Los Angeles Times. Since I have no scanner I will handtype it in. Here it goes: 'GREEN FLASH' WAS REALLY 2, EXPERTS SAY -Astronomy: Meteor was seen over New Mexico 100 minutes before it was sighted in L.A. By Thomas H Maugh III TIMES Staff Writer The meteor that caused a green flash over the southland in the early evening of Oct 3 apparently streaked thru the sky above New Mexico 100 minutes ealier, then circled the earth before reaching the ground near Kernville, UCLA researchers said Mon. Intrigued by this unusal event, the UCLA team is offering a $5000 reward for the first person who finds a piece of the meteorite weighing more than 4 oz. The bright green flash, which was widely reported in the LA area, stirred a great deal of interest and speculation about its origin, in part because some sightings were as far as New Mexico. But UCLAs John Wasson a cosmochemist, was skeptical about some of the reports. Because of the curvature of the earth, to be seen from New Mexico, the LA-area meteor must have been more than 100miles above California, Wasson said. But meteors do not encounter enough atmosphere to be visible-what we see is the glow of the speeding space rock buring up as it contacts the air-until they are beloew 100 miles. "THe couldn't have seen [the same meteor] there" he said of the people in N. Mex. Or did they? Meteor researcher Mark Boslough of the Sandia Labs in Albuquerque, who investigated the NM sighting, found that residents there had indeed seen a green flash, heading in a east-northeasterly direction at 8:04pm MDT. That report was itself unusual though. Most meteors brighten as they pass thru the sky, often disappearing in a bright flash. The NM meteor, however, brightened, then dimmed-as would be expected if it were just skipping briefly thru the atmosphere. At UCLA, a reconstruction by Wasson and Lori Leshin found that the meteor flashed thru the Southland skies 100 min later, at 8:44 PDT. One hundred min is the time required for an object in low Earth orbit to make one circuit. The rock from space, which Wasson estimates weighed at least 2.2 lbs passed over Calif coast N of Santa Barbara also traveling E-NE, the researchers concluded. They think it traveled N of Bakersfield (CA) and disappeared in the Sequoia Nat'l Forest N of Kernville. Its disappearance from the sky was noted by a group of students and teachers from Flintridge Prep School in La Canada, who were camping along Lower Peppermint Creek in the forest. The meteor's latitude over Calif was the same as it was over NM, a necessary condition if it had been in orbit, Wasson said. Finally, he noted, the longitudinal distance between the two sightings was 25 deg, the amount Earth turns on its axis in 100 min. "We can't be 100% certain that it was the same object, but there are too many similarities for it to be a coincidence", he said. Wasson doesn't know for certain if the rock reached the ground. If it did, houwever, he and his colleagues would like to see it-so much so that they pooled their resources to offer a reward. Pieces from the meteorite could have fallen anywhere along the ground track of the object, he said. They would probably be about the size of a pea or a grape and have a matte black crust. It it struck something on the ground, part of the crust might have chipped off, revealing a lighter interior. Anyone who thinks they have found such a piece may contact Wasson by e-mail: wasson@igpp.ucla.edu or by regular mail at UCLA. Whew. that's it. Hope you all find the story interesting and or useful. Joseph

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