Showing posts with label Utah bolide fireball meteor 18NOV09. Show all posts
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28 November 2009

Green Fireballs- H. G. Wells 28NOV09

The War of the Worlds
- written by
H. G. Wells (Wikipedia link)
original post 25AUG09 replay 26NOV09 updated28NOV09
Chapters 1-12 of H. G. Wells' story
based on the 1897 publication in Pearson's Magazine.
narration by Orson Welles
(Wikipedia link)
H. Springer/TOYMAN Studios Production 2008
posted on YouTube
by
aonl

Part I - The Falling Star (best part)


Part II


Part III


Part IV


Part V

24 November 2009

Greek μετεωρίτης Meteor/Meteorite News- Week Prior+ 23NOV09

Μετεωρίτης στον ουρανό της Γιούτα

Έθνος - ‎2009年11月19日‎
Το βίντεο από τις κάμερες ασφαλείας του Πανεπιστημίου Μίλφορντ κατέγραψαν μία εκτυφλωτική αστραπή, την οποία ακολούθησε εμφανώς ένα αντικείμενο που κινείτο ...
Meteorites in the sky, Utah
Nation - 2009年11月19日
The videos from security cameras at the University Milfornt recorded a blinding flash, followed by an object apparently a step ...

Διαφημιστικό κόλπο η "πτώση μετεωρίτη"

iKypros - ‎2009年10月27日‎
Η λετονική εταιρεία κινητής τηλεφωνίας Tele2 παραδέχθηκε το απόγευμα της Δευτέρας ότι σκηνοθέτησε για διαφημιστικούς σκοπούς την "πτώση μετεωρίτη" σε χωριό ...
Advertising bay the "meteorite fall"
iKypros - 2009年10月27日
Latvian mobile operator Tele2 conceded Monday afternoon that he directed for promotional purposes the "meteorite fall" in a village ...

21 November 2009

Utah Meteorite News- Dugway Increases Security after Meteor

Dugway beefs up security after meteor
Fox 13 Now- Salt Lake City
DUGWAY PROVING GROUND - Security at this military testing facility has been increased after a meteor was spotted over Utah, and believed to have crashed ...
http://www.fox13now.com/news/kstu-dugway-meteor-problems,0,3733479.story

Other News:
Space.com
Cosmic Triple-Play: Asteroid Flyby, Fireball over Utah, Meteor Shower
A Fireball over Utah, an energetic asteroid whizzing past Earth and a dazzling meteor shower...
Read More


Spectacular Meteor Lights Up The Utah Skies
Gizmodo Australia
Clark Planetarium Director Seth Jarvis said the stony meteorite was probably travelling 80000 miles [129000km] an hour when it hit our atmosphere. ...

Meteor showers in Asia disappoint
Auburn Citizen
Thousands of stargazers across Asia stayed awake overnight to catch a glimpse of what was advertised as an intense Leonid meteor shower, but the show ...

Space 101 - What is a meteor shower?
Examiner.com
A meteor shower is when small bits of space rock produce tiny pinpoints of light that streak through the sky. These small fragments enter the Earth's ...

Friday TV Colombia World News Update
Colombia News
... Tournament in Dubai while Colombia's Camilo Villegas is second. Plus, a surveillance camera at a Utah university captures a meteorite flash across the sky.

Leonids a cosmic time to watch "ET"
Denver Post
( Universal Studios/ Amblin Entertainment ) Sitting under the Eastern Plains stars the other night, and the occasional Leonid meteorite, my oldest daughter ...

19 November 2009

Meteor/Meteorite News- Summary 19NOV09

Great ball of fire flashes in Utah sky

NECN
NASA officials quickly explained the phenomenon, calling it a meteor known as a bolide. It broke through the Earth's atmosphere and created the blinding ...


Meteor Explosion Lights Up Sky Over Utah

Space.com
The meteor exploded with the equivalent of 0.5 to 1 kilotons of TNT, according to spaceweather.com. Then, about six hours later, a "twisting iridescent-blue ...

Scientist confirms meteorite lands in Liberal

NTV
(AP) - A biophysicist has confirmed that a black rock that fell into a backyard in Liberal during the weekend was a meteorite. 10-year-old Chandler Harp ...

Meteor shower still visible until Saturday

Times and Transcript
The annual Leonid meteor shower reached its peak activity for star gazers in southeastern New Brunswick in the pre-dawn hours of Tuesday morning. ...

Overnight meteor streak stuns Utahns

StandardNet
By Standard-Examiner staff OGDEN — A bright light that made midnight seem bright as daylight early Wednesday was likely a meteor. Katie Weaver of Layton saw ...

Op-Ed: Earthly phenomena could bring communities closer together

The Maine Campus
By Anya Rose Every November, when Earth is hurled through a section of space that has an especially high volume of debris, the Leonid meteor shower occurs. ...

Biophysicist confirms Liberal boy's meteorite discovery

Hutchinson News
"There's no question in my mind whatsoever that what they have is a meteorite," said Don Stimpson of Haviland, a biophysicist who owns the Kansas Meteorite ...

Huge flash in the night may have been meteor

Deseret News
... likely a bolide meteor, one that becomes a fireball and breaks up. People in Los Angeles, Nevada, Utah, Idaho and Wyoming reported seeing the meteor. ...

Midnight meteor streaks across Western skies

Newsday
SALT LAKE CITY - SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A streaking meteor the size of an oven briefly illuminated parts of the Utah sky to daylight-level conditions early ...
Meteors disappoint

Yale Daily News
By Carol Hsin When about 40 Yale meteor enthusiasts drove to a soccer field for the Leonid meteor shower Tuesday, they did not expect the skies to flare ...

Space Weather News for Nov. 18, 2009
http://spaceweather.com

FIREBALLS AND METEORS: As forecasters predicted, the Leonid meteor shower peaked during the late hours of Nov. 17th, favoring sky watchers in Asia with an outburst of 100+ meteors per hour. Just as the outburst was dying down, an even bigger event took place over the western USA. Something hit Earth's atmosphere and exploded ...

Utah Bolide Meteor 18NOV09- Fireball News Summary 19NOV09

Google News Search- "Utah Meteor Bolide" as of 19NOV09 12:00 (Tokyo Time)

Flash of light interrupts meteor shower above Reno
Reno Gazette-Journal
It appeared the object was comet fragments and part of the Leonids meteor shower during the past few days, said Dan Ruby, associate planetarium director. ...
Meteor Hits Idaho
KIVI-TV
It was actually a meteor and our very own chief meteorologist Scott Dorval also witnessed it. "I saw a big flaming ball it was bright red and yellow then it ...
Meteor the size of oven lights up the night sky, alarms Utahns
KSL-TV - Alex Cabrero - ‎52 minutes ago‎
Patrick Wiggins, NASA Solar Ambassador At exactly 12:07, people from all over the western United States watched as the bolide meteor crashed into Earth's ...

Meteor Lights Up Western Sky

KOLO - Ed Pearce - ‎1 hour ago‎
A surveillance camera at the University of Utah observatory south of Salt Lake City captured the meteor as is streaked to Earth. It shows pretty much what ...

Midnight meteor fascinates Utahns

Salt Lake Tribune - Sheena Mcfarland - ‎1 hour ago‎
The couple were driving home from a concert just after midnight when they saw the meteor, called a fireball or bolide because of its intense light output. ...

Meteor Caught On Video in Utah

KKTV 11 News - ‎2 hours ago‎
The University of Utah's new Willard L. Eccles Observatory cameras caught the meteor as it flew by and exploded. The university says the Bolide Meteor was ...

WNCT - ‎4 hours ago‎
Experts say the Bolide (bow-lide) meteor was probably a straggler from Tuesday's (11/17) Leonid meteor shower. There were reports of the meteor being seen ...

Midnight Meteor Streaks Across Western Skies

cbs4denver.com - ‎4 hours ago‎
Read more in our Privacy Policy SALT LAKE CITY (AP) ― A streaking meteor the size of an oven briefly illuminated parts of the Utah sky to daylight-level ...

Fireball Lights Up the Night Sky in Parts of the West

Nick.com - ‎4 hours ago‎
One expert told KTVX the fireball that was seen early Wednesday over the western United States was a bolide. That's a very bright meteor that sometimes ...

Midnight meteor delights, alarms Utahns

istockAnalyst.com (press release) - ‎5 hours ago‎
But a bright light in the sky just after midnight Wednesday morning certainly got the attention of skywatchers in northern Utah. The event also kept police ...

Midnight meteor streaks across Western skies

Arizona Daily Sun - ‎5 hours ago‎
The fireball roughly coincided with the annual Leonid meteor shower. Surveillance cameras, including some operated by the University of Utah, captured the ...

Ghostly Spokes; Retro Exoplanet

AccuWeather.com - ‎6 hours ago‎
So good in fact that one of the meteors lit up the sky as bright as day when it exploded high in the atmosphere. This bolide explosion was so great that it ...

Meteor lights up Idaho night sky

Northwest Cable News - Edgar Linares - ‎7 hours ago‎
A meteor streaked across the night Idaho sky Tuesday, lighting it up as if it were daytime. The phone was ringing off the hook at Ada County dispatch and ...

Meteor Streak Lights Up the Night Across Utah

Fox 13 Now - Salt Lake City - ‎7 hours ago‎
NASA Solar System Ambassador Patrick Wiggins, said the light was caused by a Bolide meteor. "The movie 2012 is out there, but don't worry it's not a ...

Overnight meteor streak stuns Utahns

StandardNet - ‎8 hours ago‎
... News the incident was likely a bolide meteor, which causes a short, intense bright light as it explodes while passing through the Earth's atmosphere.

Meteor Explosion Lights Up Sky Over Utah

Space.com - ‎8 hours ago‎
Then, about six hours later, a "twisting iridescent-blue cloud" lit up the dawn sky for residents in Utah and Colorado. Meteors are fallen debris from a ...

Probably meteor explodes over Utah, lights up midnight sky

Deseret News - Lynn Arave - ‎9 hours ago‎
According to Patrick Wiggins, a NASA ambassador living in Tooele County, the intense light was most likely a bolide meteor, one that becomes a fireball and ...

Witnesses describe watching massive meteor flash

ABC 4 - Brian Carlson - ‎11 hours ago‎
SALT LAKE CITY (ABC 4 News) – A massive meteor lit up the sky overnight across Utah, and people who saw it are sharing their experience. “I saw the meteor. ...

A flash of light in the sky over Utah

ABC 4 - Marti Skold - ‎13 hours ago‎
We called Utah's NASA and Solar System Ambassador Patrick Wiggins who tells ABC4 that it was a meteor also known as a bolide. From his observatory near ...

Flash Brightens Sky

KIDK - Brian Bitzer - ‎13 hours ago‎
Idaho Falls - A meteor lit up the night skies over most of Idaho, Utah and Wyoming early Wednesday morning. Eyewitness News spoke to police ...

Meteor Lights Up Night Sky

LocalNews8.com - Michael Coats - ‎15 hours ago‎
Wiggins told KTVX that it was a meteor also known as a bolide. From his observatory near Stansbury Park, Utah, he said the break up of the meteor occurred ...

What was the bright light in Utah skies?

St. George Daily Spectrum - ‎18 hours ago‎
The article says a meteor is the likely cause of the bright light that lit up Utah skies. The earth is currently passing through the Leonids, a spectacular ...

Bright flash turns night into day

KSL-TV - Alex Cabrero - ‎18 hours ago‎
Patrick Wiggins, who is a NASA ambassador living in Tooele County, says the bright light is most likely a bolide meteor. The Earth is passing the Leonids ...

Meteor Streak Lights Up the Night Across the State

Fox 13 Now - Salt Lake City - Aaron Vaughn - ‎18 hours ago‎
... alarming residents throughout Northern Utah to Las Vegas. NASA Solar System Ambassador Patrick Wiggins, says the light was caused by a Bolide meteor. ...

18 November 2009

Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News- Utah Bolide Event Update 18NOV09 19NOV09


Meteor lit up night sky, caught on video
Edgar Linares
Idaho's NewsChannel 7
http://www.ktvb.com/news/Witnesses-see-meteor-light-up-the-night-sky-70358772.html

UPDATE:
Twitter Video-
Utah (Wyoming, Idaho) Bolide of 18NOV09

http://www.twitvid.com/7F1F9

Western "fireball" may have been small asteroid

Baltimore Sun
Efforts are underway to measure the trajectory of the asteroid and guide meteorite recovery efforts." Security camera footage of the event shows a flash ...

Local ISU Students Witness Tuesday Night's Meteor Shower

LocalNews8.com
Many locals may have seen the Leonid meteor shower and wondered what it was. “It was really cool,” said Tanner Gragg, ISU, Freshman. ...

Cosmic Triple-Play: Asteroid Flyby, Fireball over Utah, Meteor Shower

Space.com
Meanwhile, a meteor shower dazzled skywatchers around the globe early Tuesday morning. What's going on? Nothing all that unusual, astronomers say. ...

Comet debris put on spectacular show last night as it burned over western US sky

Reno Gazette Journal
There are pieces of leftover comet that the earth passes through annually called the Leonids meteor shower and the fireball last night was likely an ...

Witnesses describe watching massive meteor flash

ABC 4
SALT LAKE CITY (ABC 4 News) – A massive meteor lit up the sky overnight across Utah, and people who saw it are sharing their experience. “I saw the meteor. ...
Midnight meteor delights, alarms Utahns

Salt Lake Tribune
By Bob Mims A photo of the meteor's aftermath taken at 7 am on Wednesday, November 18, 2009, from Clive, Utah, in western Tooele County, looking east toward ...

Meteor seen lighting up the night sky

KTVB
A meteor streaked across the night sky-- lighting it up as if it were daytime. The phone was ringing off the hook at Ada County dispatch and the Boise ...
Experts explain meteor's flash of light

KSL-TV
Clark Planetarium director Seth Jarvis said the stony meteorite was probably around the size of an oven, traveling 80000 miles an hour when it hit our ...


lash Brightens Sky

KIDK
By Brian Bitzer Idaho Falls - A meteor lit up the night skies over most of Idaho, Utah and Wyoming early Wednesday morning. Eyewitness News spoke to police ...

Meteor Lights Up Night Sky

LocalNews8.com
By Michael Coats, First Alert 8 Meteorologist People from all over the Mountain West reported a "bright light" or "meteor streak" around midnight Wednesday ...


Midnight meteor delights, alarms Utahns

Salt Lake Tribune
The light, described some as a bright green glow that may have exploded in a bright display, was a meteor, NASA Solar System Ambassador Patrick Wiggins told ...

Midnight Meteor Streaks Across Western Skies

cbs4denver.com
Read more in our Privacy Policy SALT LAKE CITY (AP) ― A streaking meteor the size of an oven briefly illuminated parts of the Utah sky to daylight-level ...

Probably meteor explodes over Utah, lights up midnight sky

Deseret News
By Lynn Arave A probable meteor likely exploded over Utah's west desert region Wednesday night, producing a flash that briefly turned night into day over a ...
Midnight meteor streaks across Western skies

KRDO
AP - November 18, 2009 4:34 PM ET SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Scientists are buzzing about a streaking meteor that flashed across parts of the Western sky. ...


Other Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News:

Did you see last night's meteor? Share your observations and stories with ...

The Herald Journal
Did you see last night's meteor? Share your observations and stories with other HJ readers here. Following are comments from online Herald Journal readers. ...
2012 probably not going to be that bad

Corydon Democrat
There's a lot of stuff flying around out there, and just last week NASA discovered a meteor seven meters in size a mere 15 hours before it passed within ...
'Field Guide to Meteors and Meteorites' wins award from the Geoscience ...

PhysOrg.com
The Springer book Field Guide to Meteors and Meteorites by O. Richard Norton and Lawrence A. Chitwood has been awarded the Mary B. Ansari Best Reference ...


Cooper views: Meteors are cool

Hawaii 24/7
If there are gonna be meteors, I'm gonna be in the back yard looking up. I went outside, looked up, got cold and shuffled back inside to put on some socks. ...

Utah Meteor/Meteorite News- Bolide Fireball Lights Up Utah Sky 18NOV09

Meteor Streak Lights Up the Night Across the State

Fox 13 Now - Salt Lake City
Professor Patrick Higgins, from University of Utah's physics department, said that the light was caused by a Bolide meteor. The meteor was said to have ...