Meteor/Meteorite News 8AUG2011

Exploding meteor wakes Niue with a start
An exploding meteor was believed to be responsible for a huge bang that reverberated around the Pacific island nation of Niue last week, police said Monday.
www.physorg.com/news/2011-08-meteor-niue.html


Exploding meteor wakes Pacific Island
Straits Times
WELLINGTON (AFP) - AN EXPLODING meteor was believed to be responsible for a huge bang that reverberated around the Pacific island nation of Niue last week, police said Monday. Niue police chief Mark Chenery said the loud bang on Wednesday night woke ...

Meteor streaks across sky over Hungary Caboodle.hu A flaming meteor streaked over Hungary late Friday evening, according to eyewitness accounts on several websites. This photo of the meteor was taken by the Nagykanizsa Amateur Astronomer Association. Weather portal Idokep.hu put themeteor over Western ...

Exploding meteor wakes Niue with a startHerald Sun
AN exploding meteor is believed to be responsible for a huge bang that reverberated around the Pacific island nation of Niue last week. Niue police chief Mark Chenery said the loud bang on Wednesday night woke the island's 1200 residents and he ...

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Large noise heard in Niue thought to be caused by a meteor
Radio New Zealand International
The Niue police chief says a large bang heard around the island late on Tuesday night sounded like thunder but may have been a meteor exploding. Mark Chenery says the island has been abuzz about the loud noise and inquiries made at Wellington's Carter ...


Europe's Plan to Move An Asteroid
Technology Review (MIT)
August 2, 2011
If we ever need to prevent an asteroid hitting Earth, we'll have to
deflect it somehow. To practice, the European Space Agency is planning a
game of asteroid billiards
If astronomers ever spot an asteroid coming our way, the world will have
to decide pretty quickly what to do.
One idea is to knock it off course. But although that sounds pretty
straightforward, it hides a multitude of challenges. The most obvious of
these is to determine how big an impact would be necessary and how this
could be delivered.
In 2002, the European Space Agency began a program called "Don Quijote"
to find out how best to perform such a deflection. ...


Meteor Activity Outlook for July 30-August 5, 2011 | American ...
This period will be the best time to view meteor activity during July and August as the Perseids will suffer from a full moon at the time of their maximum. ...
www.amsmeteors.org/.../meteor-activity-outlook-for-july-30-a...


"Spectacular" Double Meteor Shower This Week Delta Aquarid ...
One of the best shooting star events of the year is the annual August Perseid meteor shower. However this year's peak, on August 12, happens to coincide ...
www.cosmostv.org/.../spectacular-double-meteor-shower-this...


Get Your Camera Ready: Double Meteor Shower This Week! - Photoxels ...
One of the best shooting star events of the year is the annual August Perseid meteor shower and it will just start to ramp up on Friday. At the same time, ...
www.photoxels.com/get-your-camera-ready-double-meteor-sh...

2011 The Year of Meteors!