The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 5JAN2011

Spectacular Photos: 1st Meteor Shower of 2012 Amazes Skywatchers
Space.com
4), thrilling amateur astronomers around the world with views of the Quadrantid meteor shower. Usually one of the most dependable meteor displays of the year, the Quadrantid meteor shower peaked at about 2:30 am EST (0730 GMT) in a brief, ...

Museum Photographs Meteor Shower
GPB
(photo courtesy of Tellus Science Museum) The Tellus Science in Museum in Cartersville took photographs of a meteor shower Wednesday morning. The museum's Fireball camera, one of four such cameras installed by NASA in the southeast, captured the event. ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Indiana University
The Quadrantid meteor shower is active for the first week of January, having peaked during the hours before dawn on Jan. 4. The waxing gibbous moon will interfere with the display until it sets around 3 am local time, when viewing conditions under a ...

Space Junk Flies at You in New 3D Film on Debris Threat
Space.com
Blending scientific information with state-of-the-art, 3D visualizations, "Space Junk 3D" takes the viewer from the depths of Meteor Crater in Arizona to the growing spread of Earth-orbiting debris — a troubling legacy of more than five decades of ...

Meteor shower
Washington Post (blog)
By Melissa Bell Star gazers braved the cold and the dark on Wednesday morning to catch the peak of the Quadrantid meteor shower. Dennis Bloom took the below photo at 5 am in his backyard in Suffolk, England, using a Canon 500D, Peleng 8mm fisheye lens ...

Wednesday's Meteor Shower: Where and When to Watch It
Patch.com
The peak of the annual Quadrantids shower will be Wednesday night, making it the first majormeteor shower display of 2012. By Dan Abendschein The Quadrantids meteor shower, expected to be one of the major meteor shower displays of 2012, will be at its ...

UFO group to probe Ohioan's report of mysterious fireball
Salt Lake Tribune
... by another man from the area who described himself as an astronomer. Lt. Michael Vinson with the Mansfield post of the State Highway Patrol says authorities searched the woods but found nothing. He says they believe the fireball may have been a meteor.

The Paw Print: Shooting Stars
my.hsj.org
To those who live in a big city, you probably didn't see the shooting stars, but Dennis Boon of Suffolk, England captured a photo of what appears to be a meteor around 5 am The scientists that predicted the meteor shower say that the predictions are ...

Quadrantid Meteor Shower: Pictures from Winter Night
ABC News (blog)
The Quadrantid Meteor Shower did have to happen on a cold night for many of us. Did you get up to look this morning? Did you do the brave thing and go back to bed? Dennis Boon of Suffolk, England, says he took the image above at 5 am, local time, ...

Meteor shower tonight: Quadrantids to kick off 2012
Vancouver Sun
By ELIZABETH WEISE, USA Today January 3, 2012 7:58 PM A Perseid meteor streaks across the sky over the ruins of the Cook Bank building early August 13, 2007 in the ghost town of Rhyolite, Nevada. The meteor display, known as the Perseid shower because ...

Breaking: 2012 Starts With Massive Meteor Shower ...
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The first meteor shower of 2012 — the lesser known Quadrantid meteor shower — will kick ...
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Quadrantid Meteor Shower - YouTube
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If you snooze you'll lose Wednesday morning, when a little known but activemeteor shower ...
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Great fireball spotted over southern Finland
YLE News
A large fireball was seen over southern Finland on Tuesday evening, reports a magazine published by the Ursa Astronomical Association. The ball, shining brighter than the moon, was visible for about ten seconds. Ursa received numerous sightings of the ...

UFO group to probe Ohioan's report of fireball
Chillicothe Gazette
MANSFIELD, Ohio (WTW) — A UFO research group will look into an Ohio man's report of a mysterious fireball that fell from the sky and lit up the woods near his home. Rick Beverly says the big ball of fire was "cruising" when it came down Nov. ...

Major Meteor Shower Expected Tuesday Night, First of 2012
Patch.com
But tonight around 11:30 pm, depending on cloud cover in the South Sound, observers can look forward to 2012's first major meteor shower as reported in the Huffintgon Post today. The showers are expected to last several hours in the Northern Hemisphere ...

Skywatchers brace for showers of hundreds of meteors per hour as blink-and-you ...
Daily Mail
By Rob Waugh The Quadrantid meteor shower is due overnight in the US - and forecasters expect night owls could be treated to a spectacular display in the hours just before dawn, weather permitting. The waxing moon will stop sky watchers seeing too much ...

Quadrantid Meteor Shower, First of 2012, May Dazzle Early ...
From Yahoo! News: The first meteor shower of 2012 — the lesser known Quadrantid meteor shower — will kick off a new year of skywatching when it peaks on ...

Washington Post: Skygazers can see meteor shower, first of the year, tonight
El Paso Times
By Elizabeth Flock / Washington Post The Quadrantid meteor shower is unpredictable and sometimes difficult to see, but skygazers say tonight will be clear and dark enough that the firstmeteor shower of the year may also be the best. ...

Follow The Quadrantids Meteor Shower Online [LIVE VIDEO]
By Peter Pachal
Between a NASA live stream, Twitter and Facebook, the Web has tonight's Quadrantids meteorshower covered.

Quadrantid Meteor Shower 2012: January 4 Could Show 100 ...
By The Huffington Post News Editors
Stargazers in the Northern Hemisphere can look forward to 2012's first meteor shower which is set to peak at 2:30 a.m. EST on Wednesday, Jan. 4.

Quadrantids meteor shower peaks – briefly – tonight | Bad ...
By Phil Plait
Astronomy | meteor showers | Tonight is one of the odder meteor showers of the years. Why is it odd? Well for one, it's called the Quadrantids -- named after a constellation that got redefi.
Bad Astronomy

NASA Provides Live All-Sky Video Feed for Quadrantid Meteor ...
By Nancy Atkinson
If you are hoping to see some meteors from the Quadrantid meteor shower but are being foiled by cloudy weather or if it's just too cold outside to get up off your couch, NASA has come to the rescue. The.
Universe Today

Look To The Skies Wednesday For A Meteor ...
According to NASA officials you may want to look at the sky early Wednesday morning, that's ...
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Intense Meteor Shower Expected Wednesday
NBC Los Angeles
By Scott Weber Those willing to brave the early morning hours in Southern California should be treated to quite a light show when the first meteor show of 2012 is expected to begin. The Quadrantid meteor shower will be visible for about two hours ...



Jupiter, moon dazzle with celestial dance
msnbc.com

4, the annual Quadrantid meteor shower is peaking, promising up to 100 meteors an hour in the most optimum viewing conditions. The best time to see the meteor shower is at 2:30 am EST on Jan. 4. To see the Quadrantids, look to the northeastern sky at... December Video Captures for OKC uploaded December's Oklahoma City Sandia All-sky events are on video. Good collection of Leonids and a few neat surprises... Sorry I couldn't get to putting in times for them all. ...James Beauchamp http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3e5BqKG1iM Did you see the 'fireball' over Huntsville this morning?al.com (blog) By Lee Roop, The Huntsville Times View full sizeThis color image taken at Huntsville's Marshall Space Flight Center shows the fireball that passed over the city Tuesday morning. (NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center) HUNTSVILLE, Alabama -- A rare meteor ...  World's Only Known Natural Quasicrystal Traced to Ancient Meteorite Scientific American Tue, 03 Jan 2012 13:22 PM PSTTheoretical physicist Paul Steinhardt did not expect to spend last summer travelling across spongy tundra to a remote gold-mining region in north-eastern Russia. But that is where he spent three weeks tracing the origins of the worldâs only known natural example of a quasicrystal--an exotic type of structure discovered in 1982 in a synthetic material by Dan Shechtman, a materials scientist at ... RCAF aircraft likely responsible for 'fireball in the sky'Squamish Chief 29DEC2011) as looking “like a giant dripping triangle,” while another described one of the lights as “a flamingfireball in the sky.” Lt. Trevor Reid, public affairs officer with the 19th Wing Division based at CFB Comox, on Tuesday (Jan. ... NASA - Quadrantids Will Create Brief, Beautiful Show on Jan. 3-4 For northern hemisphere viewers, the 2012 Quadrantid meteor shower will provide a beautiful but brief sky show in the wee morning hours of Jan. 4. www.nasa.gov/topics/solarsystem/.../quadrantids_2012.html Strong Quadrantid Meteor Shower, One of 2012's Best, Peaks ... From Yahoo! News: If you enjoy the sight of "shooting stars" then make plans to be out looking skyward during the predawn hours on Wednesday (Jan. 4) when ... news.yahoo.com/strong-quadrantid-meteor-shower-one-2012s... Strange Crystals Reveal Rock to be Ancient Meteorite Space.com by Nola Taylor Redd, SPACE.com Contributor A rock made of a type of crystal never before seen outside a laboratory is most likely a meteorite from the early days of the solar system, geologists say. Two years after identifying the Russian rock's ... Over 100 Falling Stars to Populate Tonight's Sky [AUDIO] WJON News That's when a meteor shower, known by astronomers as the “Quads,” is supposed to start. College of St. Benedict and St. John's University physics professor Jim Crumley says you'll have a chance to see up to 100 falling stars every hour. ... The quasicrystal from outer space Nature.com The only known natural example of the material that won last year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry comes from an ancient meteorite. Theoretical physicist Paul Steinhardt did not expect to spend last summer travelling across spongy tundra to a remote ... First Meteor Shower of 2012 to Peak Wednesday National Geographic The new year is kicking off with some cosmic fireworks: The 2012 Quadrantid meteorshower will peak in the predawn hours this Wednesday. The Quadrantids are mostly visible from the Northern Hemisphere, where the sky show happens in the dead of winter. ... Light not so strange The Press A strange light in the sky over Christchurch in the first few minutes of 2012 may have been a paper lantern, space junk or a meteor. Christchurch resident Julian Idle saw an orange light moving slowly across the sky from east to west at 12.08am on ... A rock fragment containing a previously unidentified natural quasicrystal may ... LiveScience.com Various features of the quasicrystal suggest a meteorite origin, including the shapes of the grains and its chemical composition of metallic copper and aluminum that resemble those found in so-called carbonaceous chondrites; these are primitive ... Quadrantid Meteor Shower 2012: Shooting Stars Wednesday Morning ABC News By NED POTTER (@NedPotterABC) A meteor streaks across the sky in this August 13, 2010 file photo. (Jorge Guerrero/AFP/Getty Images) If you're up early Wednesday morning and the weather is promising, bundle up and go outside. ...

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Strong Quadrantid Meteor Shower, One of 2012's Best, Peaks Wednesday
Space.com
This first meteor shower of the year may end up being one of the best meteor showers of 2012. To paraphrase Forrest Gump: The Quadrantid meteor shower is like opening up a box of chocolates; you never know what you're going to get! ...

Extraterrestrial Russian rock found
Examiner.com
The quasi-crystal may be the result of a meteor impact on Earth 4.5 billion years ago. The molecular arrangements of a quasi-crystal have a regular arrangement of atoms not normally found in Earth origin crystals. "Mass spectrometry and oxygen isotope ...

Spaceship Earth: The first photos
Washington Post (blog)
A side benefit was the mounting of test cameras for the soon to be launched Soviet Meteor weather satellites and photos from geosynchronous distances (approx. 30000 miles).' The archivist sent an attachment of the Technology Week article, and it showed ...

Clouds might obscure Quadrantid meteor shower
Focus Taiwan News Channel
3 (CNA) The first meteor shower of 2012 is unlikely to be visible, thanks to poor weather expected across Taiwan, the Central Weather Bureau (CWB) said Tuesday. The Quadrantid meteor shower, one of the year's most prolific, is expected to be obscured ...

IA WI MN NE Meteor Fireball 2JAN2012 - Rocks on Ground!!!?
By Lunar Meteorite * Hunter
2JAN2012 Dave Tetzlaff Wausau, WI 6:20:00 1-2 seconds Looking South, fireball was travelling from right to left looked like fireball "Fireball" Yes fragments were visible Was travelling on I-39 S, fireballseemed to disappear behind Rib ...
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Space Mountain Produces Terrestrial Meteorites
Clarksville Online
“Those meteorites just might be pieces of the basin excavated when Vesta's giant mountain formed,” says Dawn PI Chris Russell of UCLA. Russell believes the mountain was created by a 'big bad impact' with a smaller body; material displaced in the ...

SW USA Fireball December 31st, 2011 | American Meteor Society
The American Meteor Society has so far received approximately 50 reports of a bright fireball over much of the southwestern states of the USA, from Colorado to ...
www.amsmeteors.org/.../sw-usa-fireball-december-31st-2011/

Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News: New Brunswick / Nova ...
I am a regular meteor shower observer but this was beyond any experience. I would never have seen it but forgot something in my vehicle and had turned ...
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How to see the best meteor showers of 2012: Tools, tips and 'save ...
(PhysOrg.com) -- Whether you're watching from a downtown area or the dark countryside, here are some tips to help you enjoy these celestial shows of shooting ...
www.physorg.com/.../2012-01-meteor-showers-tools-dates.ht...

Quadrantid meteor shower sweetens up the week | Astro Bob
A spear-like bright Quadrantid meteor. The meteors are the remains of asteroid 2003 EH3, which astronomers believe is an extinct comet. Credit: Mike Hankey ...
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'Fireball' lights up Squamish night sky
Squamish Chief
An unexplained light or series of bright lights that one witness described as looking “like a giant dripping triangle” and another described as a "flaming fireball" made an appearance in the night sky over Squamish last week. While descriptions of the ...

Meteor shower to kick off 2012
USA TODAY
By Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY If you snooze you'll lose Wednesday morning, when a little known but active meteor shower will start 2012 for people stalwart enough to brave the chilly hours before dawn. By Wally Pacholka, AP A meteor explodes over the ...

Finding my meteorite (not quite) from Mr. Cline`s cow pasture
The Salisbury Post Sun, 01 Jan 2012 21:22 PM PST
From time to time, at the science museum where I work, individuals will stop by with something which they perceive to be a rocky visitor from space: a meteorite. On more than one occasion, such individuals have phoned me and informed me of their

Quadrantid meteor shower won't have to compete with moonlight
Christian Science Monitor
Quadrantid meteor shower peak could hit as many as 100 meteors per hour, says NASA. The Quadrantid meteor shower will peak at 2 am on Jan. 4. By Denise Chow, Space.com / January 2, 2012 False-color image of a rare early Quadrantid, captured by a NASA ...

Meteor shower dazzles night sky
Tempo
Manila, Philippines – The Quadrantid meteor shower will dazzle the night sky nationwide this week, with up to 60 meteors per hour during its peak today and tomorrow, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical, and Astronomical Services Administration ...

Three celestial events this week
Deccan Chronicle
Moreover, a meteor shower will brighten up the night skies. On Tuesday, planet Jupiter can be spotted with the naked eye using the moon as the heavenly guide. Jupiter will be in conjunction with the moon ie both of them will appear to be nearer to each ...

NM; AZ (Phoenix);CO Bolide Meteor Fireball (UFO?) New Year's ...
"Breaking News - NM AZ CO Bolide Meteor Fireball approximately 8'20 pm MST 31DEC2011 ...
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Green Fireball Recorded from Japan - Dec. 27, 2011 - YouTube
source: http://sonotaco.jp ^_^ NASA's All Sky Fireball Network: http://fireballs.ndc. nasa ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQO_YZ1YlSc