The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 14OCT2011

Afraid of being hit by a meteorite? You're more likely to win the lottery The Guardian (blog) Afraid of being hit by a meteorite? You're more likely to win the lottery | David Spiegelhalter This article was published on guardian.co.uk at 15.53 BST on Thursday 13 October 2011 . A crater 30 metres in diameter in the Peruvian region of Puno after...

Astrophysics, Alien Fireballs  Video 46 min Meteor Impact in Canada A 2009 fireball caught by seven cameras at the University of Western Ontario set scientists on a hunt ... youtube.com

Meteor Fireball over Where I Live (Spring 2011)  Video 10 sec A meteor fireball recorded from the local college in the spring of 2011. I personally did not see it, but I did hear it. I thought it was a ... youtube.com

Meteorite Men: Meteorite Men… Video Geoff's metal detector goes bonkers and the guys are hopeful they hit it big! video.app.msn.com

Draconid Meteor Shower Thrills Skywatchers ... Video The 2011 Draconid meteor shower wasn't visible in the US, but European skywatchers were amazed. space.com

Meteorite Man`s Video- Space Peanut- Joe Dirt

Meteorite Man`s Video- Space Peanut?

YouTube - Uploaded by Bloodjunkie833 on 26 Mar 2007 88,337 views

Meteor/Meteorite News Catch-up 16-19FEB2011

Land Deals, Meteorites & Money with VIDEO

KWCH
In 2008, meteorite hunter Steve Arnold came to Lyon County to look for meteorites. Certain locations in Kansas contain meteorites that fell from the sky thousands of years ago. Many are found by farmers as they work the land. Arnold made deals with 19 ... video

Hands-On Science Center can now track fireballs
Tullahoma News and Guardian
A fireball is described as an “extremely brilliant meteor streaking across the night sky, as bright as or brighter than Venus.” Fireballs are tracked and photographed with a highly automated "Droid" camera system, which has been installed on the roof ...


Middlesbrough meteorite on show
BBC News
Because Middlesbrough had no museum at the time, the 'Middlesbrough Meteorite' was handed to York Museum. To mark the anniversary of its landing on March 14, the rock is currently on loan to Middlesbrough's Dorman Museum. The rock is unusual in that it ...


American Meteor Society - Search a Fireball Report
It moved much too quickly to be anything but either an optical illusion, or a fireball. I spotted it as it came into my windshield field of view ...
www.amsmeteors.org/.../public.php?start...


Streaking asteroid fireball sets morning skyline alight over Calgary
Calgary Herald
The fireball as recorded lasted for approximately three seconds occurring from 6:55:20 to 6:55:23 AM MST on Monday February 14th. Space gave Canada a Valentine's Day rock on Monday when a piece of asteroid lit up the Calgary morning skyline. ...


Huge Meteor Misses East Coast Space rock caused rare daytime fireball
A meteor big enough to have ruined a lot of people Valentine's Days streaked over the East Coast earlier this week, creating a rare daytime fireball.
www.newser.com/story/.../huge-meteor-misses-east-coast.html


Rare daytime fireball lights up East Coast skies ...
A rare daytime fireball lit up the sky over much of the eastern United States on Monday, causing necks to crane and jaws to drop from Maryland to ...
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/.../ns/technology_and_science-space/

Meteor Streaking Over New York City Yesterday Afternoon Caused Alarm Gather.com New York City avoided a big disaster yesterday when a meteor made an appearance over Manhattan. Luckily it kept moving until it crashed into the ocean. Meteors aren't often seen in the daylight hours. Yesterday, however, numerous people spotted a ...

Rare Daytime Fireball Lights Up Sky Over Eastern US Space.com Rao said he could only remember one other event like yesterday's, when a daytime meteor was widely seen across a broad swathe of land — and that happened in 1972, over the central US and Canada. The cause of yesterday's fireball was most likely a ... Meteor Streaks Across Sky Over Long Island Long Island Press A meteor was spotted streaking across the sky on Long Island and beyond, although the fate of the earthbound space rock remains unknown. ...

Moon rocks, meteorite samples a hit at Trinity Academy
Republican & Herald
There were also samples of meteorites. Joseph Coddington, Pottsville, was a high school sophomore when Neil Armstrong walked on the moon. ...

Ruben Garcia and Neil Degrasse Tyson on NOVA ... 59 sec My Website: www.MrMeteorite.Com My Articles www.meteorite.com My Jeep Stars in this Neil Degrasse Tyson (NOVA Science NOW ... youtube.com

Silver Streaks in the Sky Likely a Meteor 1 min Silver Streaks in the Sky Likely a Meteor youtube.com

Meteor/Meteorite News 29DEC2010

Largest single fragment of stony meteorite ever found
People's Daily Online
In 1976, a rare large meteorite shower covering 500 square kilometers appeared in Jilin City. The largest meteorite, weighing 1770 kilograms, ...


Berwyn Mountains “UFO” mystery deepens
Daily Post North Wales
One suggested there was a combination of events, a meteor shower combined with an earthquake – the epicentre of which was at Bala Lake – and misperception ...

Meteorite Hunting Secrets Revealed by 'Meteorite Men' Star ContributorNetwork via Yahoo! News Tue, 28 Dec 2010 11:04 AM PST This is the third article based on my exclusive interview with Steve Arnold, one of the two co-stars of the Science Channel TV show "Meteorite Men." Read the first, "Meteorite Men Star Clears Up Misconceptions about Meteors", here. The second, "Meteorite Men Star Builds Career from Space Rocks," is here. ... Boom, flash mystifies Troy on Christmas The Western News Steve Sigler, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Missoula, said it is possible Troy witnessed its own personal Christmas meteor. ... 39th Annual Flagg Gem and Mineral Show EVLiving This is also the first year that ASU's Center for Meteorite Studies will participate with a “meteorite dig” activity in which visitors can collect fragments ...

Meteor/Meteorite News 15DEC2010

Geminid Meteor Show  2010 Chris Peterson (c) 2010
 http://www.cloudbait.com/science/geminid2010.html

Reported by Chris Peterson- Cloudbait Observatory
The annual Geminid meteor shower occurs when debris from the asteroid 3200 Phaethon intercepts the Earth. This is an unusual type of shower in having an asteroidal, rather than cometary parent. However, evidence suggests that Phaethon is actually the rocky core of an evaporated comet. These meteors intercept the Earth at a fairly low speed of 35 km/s (79,000 mph). Because of this, Geminids tend to be slow and colorful- probably the prettiest of the major showers.

This is a composite image of 363 Geminid meteors collected between sunset on December 10 and sunrise on December 14 (19, 31, 89, and 229 meteors respectively). Since the images were collected over many hours, the radiant of the shower is not in a fixed location. Conditions this year were good, with little interference from the Moon and largely clear skies.

Long necklace-like trails on the image are the paths of stars and planets, circling the north celestial pole in the upper left.

This image contains only meteors identified as Geminids. Several other showers are currently active as well. Recorded, but not shown in the composite, are 30 Puppid-Velids, 58 Monocerotids, 7 Chi Orionids, 49 Sigma Hydrids, and 80 sporadics.  (more)  see  http://www.cloudbait.com/science/geminid2010.html


Catch a falling star and find out where it came from
Imperial College London
by Colin Smith Scientists are celebrating the discovery of a second meteorite in the Western Australian desert using 'star gazing' cameras. ...


Meteorite Men' Star Clears Up Misconceptions About Meteors
Yahoo! News
"Hollywood has done a really good job misrepresenting meteors," says Steve Arnold, one of the Science Channel's Meteorite Men. They always show meteors as ...


Geminids 2010: visual data quicklook
gem2010_rate.csv (number of meteors per interval per observer) ... Handbook for meteorobservations; Chapter 9, Analyses and Calculations. ...
www.imo.net/live/geminids2010/


elp allsky: Meteor News...Oklahoma City, Edmond, Ardmore, Enid ...
By El Paso AllSky Camera
Reports coming in to ELPALLSKY of an Oklahoma Fireball... Dec 13 2010, 6:33 PM wulfpig (guest) Reports: Traveling North on 1-35 in Edmond Oklahoma 12-13-10 just before 6:00pm central standard time and saw a meteor (?) in the northwest. ...


NASA MSFC on USTREAM: .
NASA MSFC @ USTREAM: Ready to stay up all night? On Monday, Dec. 13 from 11:00 pm to 5:00 am EST, meteor experts Bill ...


"Aurora Fireball" by Yuichi Takasaka (TWAN)
A bright meteor streaks the sky of Yellowknife in the Northwest Territories, Canada. The area is best known for viewing the northern nights. ...


SPACE.com: Image of GEM with Sentinel All Sky Camera , Hillo, Mex.
Max Peak of GEM and Images:

http://www.space.com/nightsky/geminid-meteor-shower-photos-101214.html
and image of All Sky Camera Sentinel ( Sandia National Labs) Hillo, Son,
Mexico. http://bit.ly/gARUQG

Reported by Salvador Aguirre

Skywatchers Capture Gorgeous Photos of Geminid Meteor ShowerLiveScience.com
By Clara Moskowitz, SPACE.com Senior Writer The year's best meteor shower peaked last night (Dec. 13), giving skywatchers around the world an incredible ...

Darwin vs. the Sun

Universe Today
These ranged from burning coal to a constant bombardment of comets and meteors to slow contraction. Each of these methods seemed initially plausible, ...

Geminid Meteor Shower 2010: Videos From December 13, 14
Huffington Post
As we reported yesterday, the 2010 Geminid meteor shower peaked late last night and early this morning. Fortunately, for those who missed it, ...