The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 21AUG2015

NASA: There is No Asteroid Threatening Earth
Jet Propulsion Laboratory- August 19, 2015
"There is no scientific basis -- not one shred of evidence -- that an
asteroid or any other celestial object will impact Earth on those dates,"
said Paul Chodas ...

Breaking News - Puerto Rico Bolide Meteor 2128 Local 20AUG2015 w/ Video
A bright meteor was seen from Puerto Rico on the night of August 20, according to Sociedad de Astronomía del Caribe (SAC)....

Norway Bolide Meteor 12AUG2015 w/ Video
Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News - Blogger
The activity of meteor swarm Perseids is at its greatest in those days and several in Eastern Norway were up in the night to see meteors, got a great ...

NASA: No, an asteroid is not about to destroy the world
CBS News
Meteor Gonna Asteroid that "could end human life" is heading for Earth. Well, NASA says you can relax, the end of the world isn't coming next month ...

Meteor Blast
Vimeo
On 8/12/2015, while I was taking photos of the Perseid meteor shower over Mauna Kea, one bright meteor left a puffy trail of "smoke" after the fireball…

Out of this world! Family discover 'meteorites' behind their back garden
Hull Daily Mail
Joanne Mallinson, 34, said she was watching the meteor shower last week with her sons, Josh, 16, and Jake, 11, when they heard something fall. ... Highly UNLIKELY; story lacks adequate information such as quality photographs! - LunarMeteoriteHunter, Tokyo

2015 The SECOND Year of "CERTAIN Uncertainty" ™ / Meteors, Asteroids, Comets, and MORE!!

Breaking News - Caribbean Meteor News -Puerto Rico, Aruba, Curacao, Jamaica, Dominican Republic Meteor Fireball 16JAN2012

Breaking News - Caribbean Meteor News - Jamaica, Aruba, Curacao, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico Meteor Fireball 16JAN2012
MBIQ has indicated that a Fireball Meteor was widely seen in the Caribbean (~20:00 Puerto Rico Local Time) 16JAN2012.

Caribbean Meteor Fireball 16JAN2012
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Reports:

16JAN2012 LAETICIA CURTIN WILLEMSTAD, CURACAO 19:50 EST 3 to 4 sec W-E left to right GREEN flying beam with sparkles, at first I thaught it was fireworks.. bright green, like sun brightness sparkles it was night time could not see anything fall off. Aamazing! Unfortunately too late to capture it

16JAN2012 Frenis Rincon, Puerto Rico 20:00 AST Approx. 10 sec. N-S Bright green Much brighter than other objects in the sky Very long trailing debris field Both my wife & I saw the object, we thought it might have been falling space debris.

16JAN2012 Raul lopez Aguadilla, Puerto Rico 8:05 pm atlantic (1hr after EST) About 10 min. South West Very bright green Several times brighter than Venus, like a bright flare venus. Did not see fragments Very low in the sky, disappeared over the horizon

16JAN2012 ultraviolet Rincon, Puerto Rico 8:15PM GMT 7 sec North East Blue Green w/trailing yellow red Sun not sure Beautiful Sight

16JAN2012 Capt. Richard J. Wittig Sr. Palmas del Mar, Puerto Rico 2005 4 - 5 seconds S.SE White going into Green and then Blue white twice as bright as Jupiter, brighter towards the earth possibly towards the hills from my spospective Wow

16JAN2012 Martin Saez Osma, Edo. Vargas, Venezuela GMT-430 1830 2-3 seconds E-W Color green, no sound very bright there was a fragmentation of the tale like little points It was awesome

16JAN2012 Marcos Bislip astronomer San Nicolas, Aruba 8 pm AST 20 seconds E-W green very bright none none

16JAN2012 Ghislaine Francisco Aruba 20:06:00 8 sec Heading North Green/ No sound Venus No Looked like Fireworks

16JAN2012 Albert Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, PR 20:06/Atlantic Time Zone 7 seconds N-S Green Very brigth No Look like green fire.

16JAN2012 Hiljan Christiaan Willemstad, Curacao 20:05:00 6 Netherlands Antilles green venus  yes single big green object, blistering into smaller tail

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