Meteor/Meteorite News 8JAN2011

Man recalls local meteorite
Danville Commercial News
He was in Arkansas where he spends the winter months with his daughter, and an article about ameteorite had brought back memories of his childhood days on ... (Paragould Meteorite 800 pounds fell in Arkansas, Feb. 1, 1930)

elp allsky: Meteor News...Bright Long Duration Fireball Over W NM ...
By elp allsky
ELPALLSKY has captured the fireball... Initial composite image below. Thank you Chris! The Fireball appears in the upper left and lasted roughly 5 seconds. Preliminary view shows the meteor WNW of El Paso, TX. More to come. ...


Nepal Astronomical Society(NASO): Night Sky: January 2011
By Nepal Astronomical Society NASO
Quandrantid meteor shower could exhibit the fascinating flashes of its shooting stars that peak in northeastern sky on 04 January before dawn as they emanate from the northern region of Bootes (herdsman). Meteor shower obtain their ...

Ancient NT meteorite in eBay sale NTNews.com.au The meteorite is owned by a seller from West Virginia in the United States. It weighs 1.8kg and has a listed price of $US4000 - plus $15 to post it overseas ...

Mysterious orb seen in sky over Ealing
Ealing Gazette
A 'FIREBALL' travelling through the night sky has ignited neighbours' curiosity about the presence of unexplained phenomena in our atmosphere. ...


Great Photos from a Celestial Double-Header
Sky & Telescope
At 2:43 am Eastern time on January 4th, several hours after the meteors peaked, a small fireball that flashed through the camera's field and left a glowing ... (Mike Hankey, Astro Mike)

نيزك Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 7JAN2011

The hunt for the lunar core Credit: Tom Story/ASU  Caption: Patty Lin, a postdoctoral candidate in ASU's School of  Earth and Space Exploration, holds Northwest Africa 5000, a lunar  meteorite in the collection of the ASU Center for Meteorite Studies.  Lin and her adviser professor Ed Garnero use seismology to study  inaccessible regions of Earth's interior, a technique they are now  applying on the moon to learn more about Earth's natural satellite. ...  http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-01/asu-thf010611.php Md. astrophotog captures Quadrantid meteor Baltimore Sun (blog) Mike Hankey, an amateur astrophotographer in north-central  Maryland, set up his camera Tuesday morning to capture images  of some of the Quadrantid meteors. ... Meteor Activity Outlook for January 1-7, 2011 | American Meteor ... This will be the best time of the month to view meteor activity as  the moon will not interfere plus themeteor rates will be at their highest. ... 2011 Quadrantid Meteors: See What You May Have Missed National Geographic This year the Quadrantids peak featured rates of more than a  hundred meteors an hour. The peak coincided with the dark new  moon in Tuesday's predawn hours, ... نيزك هائل سيدمر الكرة الارضية بمطلع عام 2019 By رئيس التحرير في وكالة الفضاء الأميركية "ناسا"  من أن نيزكا يتجاوز عرضه الميل يتجه نحو  الأرض، حاليا ويشكل أكبر خطر تواجهه في تاريخها. وقالت صحيفة "إندبندنت" البريطانية، في... Author to sign new book on historic scientists, Jefferson and Silliman The Register Citizen Sun, 02 Jan 2011 22:04 PM PST On Dec. 14, 1807, a meteorite blazed across the pre-dawn sky,  appearing to be two-thirds the size of the moon. It was visible to early  risers as far away as Vermont and Massachusetts, but it was over the  town of Weston, that three loud explosions rent the air.  Stone fragments fell in at least six places. ... (Weston meteor/meteorite) Author: 1807 Weston meteorite critical moment for American science Greenwich Time Sun, 02 Jan 2011 19:23 PM PST Author Cathryn Prince of Weston sits on the shore of the Easton  Reservoir, where meteorites were found in 1807. The discovery is  the subject of her new book "A Professor, a President, and a Meteor:  the Birth of American Science". ... (Weston meteor/meteorite) Himachal: Space scientist to resolve Khaziyar Lake mystery in Chamba Northern Voices Online (blog) ... district in Himachal as he have the evidences that the lake was created  due to the striking of meteor from the space around thousands of years  back. ... (unreliable report about an alleged crater in India) Reports from Readers of Meteor/Meteorite News: 6JAN2011 Guest657 (guest): I live in southern california and I just witnessed the  strangest sight I have ever seen. I saw what I thought was a huge meteor coming down toward the pacific ocean. Then the fireball split into 3 separate lights and continued at equal distance from each other, like  fighter jets in a formation.

jrslandscaping:YES I saw the same thing it was hudge i actually got scared.
  I live in Menifee , CA i saw at about 730pm PST.http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-01/asu-thf010611.php

Meteor/Meteorite News- More Videos of the 6JUL09 Pennsylvania Fireball 10OCT09

I've recently been able to collect 4 new meteor videos from the York
Water company. All of the videos come from the same original location
and are taken from different cameras.

One in particular has really good shadows.

An interesting observation I made while reviewing these: 3 of the
videos show a secondary light flash after the primary burst. In the
shadow video it looks like the shadow is longer on the secondary
flare. I think this could mean the 2nd object is lower in altitude?

Another thing that is interesting is in one of the videos a light goes
out 27 seconds after the meteor is first seen. I'm thinking the sonic
boom tripped a sensor or blew out the light bulb. I'm not sure if
there is benefit in knowing the exact amount of time that transpired
from the original sighting to the sonic boom.

These 4 videos bring York Water's total video count up to 6 plus the 3
others makes 9 total videos for this fall.

I put all 6 York Videos into one youtube to keep them all in the same
place. Two of these are re-posts but the other 4 are new.

http://www.mikesastrophotos.com/baltimore-pa-meteor/four-new-meteor-videos/

Pennsylvania Meteor/Meteorite News- York Meteor Video Recovered -6OCT09

new video of the Mason Dixon Meteor. Its
technically not really new, but it was new to me and never published
to my knowledge. This video was taken by the York Water Company. I
recently contacted Jeff Hines, the president of York Water, about
doing a calibrated stellar survey of his original video. Through the
course of the conversation he let me know about his 2nd video. Its not
as sensational as the first but it does show a shadow cast from a tall
flag pole as well as several other smaller shadows. If you are
interested in more info or the high res version please contact me off
list.

http://www.mikesastrophotos.com/baltimore-pa-meteor/newly-acquired-meteor-video/

Source:
Mike Hankey
http://www.mikesastrophotos.com

Pennsylvania Meteor/Meteorite News- 6JUL09 Meteor 3D Simulation 10AUG09

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