Update- Fall now predicted for Monday.
China space lab may fall to Earth on Monday: European Space Agency
Hindustan Times
Chinese authorities have said the roughly eight-tonne Tiangong-1 is unlikely to cause any damage when it comes down and that its fiery disintegration will offer a “splendid” show akin to a meteor shower. The abandoned craft is expected to make its plunge between the afternoon of Sunday and early ...
Chinese space station hurtling towards Earth won't hit for another day
Telegraph.co.uk
A spokesman said that such falling spacecraft do "not crash into the Earth fiercely like in sci-fi movies, but turn into a splendid (meteor shower) and move across the beautiful starry sky as they race towards the Earth". Lu Kang, a spokesman for China's foreign ministry, said the country would step up ...
Chinese space lab may fall to earth later than expected: European Space Agency
The Straits Times
Such falling spacecraft do "not crash into the Earth fiercely like in sci-fi movies, but turn into a splendid (meteor shower) and move across the beautiful starry sky as they race towards the Earth", it said. Tiangong-1 - or "Heavenly Palace" - was placed in orbit in September 2011 and had been slated for a ...
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Chinese space station falling toward earth, expected to hit Sunday
9News.com KUSA
Phil
Plait, an astronomer, says if you see it you may think it's a meteor
show - but meteors are a little different. They're pieces of rock and
ice and sometimes metal, and they're moving at very high speeds – think
20, 30, or 40 miles per second. “So when they burn up and burn across
the sky they zip ...
Earth-bound space lab to be 'splendid' show, China says
Taipei Times
An
out-of-control space laboratory that is to plunge back to Earth in the
coming days is unlikely to cause any damage, Chinese authorities said,
but would offer instead a “splendid” show akin to a meteor shower.
China's space agency on Thursday said that the nearly 8-tonne Tiangong-1
would re-enter ...
China space station will offer 'splendid meteor shower' as April 1 crash date CONFIRMED
Daily Star
Instead,
CMSEO said the spacecraft will “turn into a splendid [meteor shower]
and move across the beautiful starry sky as they race towards the
Earth". China's space agency lost control of the space lab on March 16,
2016, when it entered the “final phase” of its five-year lifespan. Since
then experts using ...
Out-of-control 9-TONNE Chinese space station Tiangong-1 will give 'splendid show' when it ...
The Sun
THE
out-of-control Chinese space station heading for Earth this weekend is
expected to put on a "splendid show", according to experts. The
Tiangong-1 space craft is expected to tear across the sky - similar to
that of a meteor shower - once it plummets into the Earth's atmosphere
somewhere between ...
Earth-bound space lab won't cause damage, says China
The Straits Times
BEIJING
• An out-of-control space laboratory that will plunge back to Earth in
the coming days is unlikely to cause any damage, the Chinese authorities
said, but will instead offer a "splendid" show akin to a meteor shower.
China's space agency said on Thursday that the nearly eight-tonne
Tiangong-1 ...
China says Earth-bound space lab to offer splendid show like meteor shower
Hindustan Times
An
out-of-control space laboratory that will plunge back to Earth in the
coming days is unlikely to cause any damage, Chinese authorities say,
but will offer instead a “splendid” show akin to a meteor shower.
China's space agency said on Thursday that the nearly eight-tonne
Tiangong-1 will re-enter the ...
Falling Chinese Space Station to Crash This Weekend
Popular Mechanics
If
you are lucky enough to be in the right spot at the right time, you
could see parts of the spacecraft burning up in the atmosphere, similar
to a meteor shower. Astronomers and national space agencies are closely
tracking the station, though in the final days leading up to reentry, it
is impossible to say ...
Defunct Chinese space lab to plummet from sky this weekend
NEWS.com.au
But
there is “no need for people to worry”, the China Manned Space
Engineering Office (CMSEO) said on its WeChat social media account. Such
falling spacecraft do “not crash into the Earth fiercely like in sci-fi
movies, but turn into a splendid (meteor shower) and move across the
beautiful starry sky as ...
Space Station Debris Could Hit Parts Of Indiana
Indiana Public Media
“It'll
be a melted mangle of metal and you won't know what part of the
spacecraft that came from” McCauley says. “It's just best to leave it
alone.” He advises everyone to pay attention and stay alert and believes
that the crash will be similar to a meteor shower, so there is no need
to prepare in advance.
2018 The FIFTH Year of "CERTAIN Uncertainty" ™ / Meteors, Asteroids, Comets, and MORE!!
Showing posts with label fireballs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fireballs. Show all posts
07 January 2014
Australia Develops Cell Phone App for Meteors! - Australians Check it Out! Today 2014!
Australians Check it Out Today 2014!
Support Australian Meteor/Meteorite Research!
The Birth of a New Era in Australian Meteor Research; Become a Part of the Project!
-LunarMeteoriteHunter in cooperation with the Desert Fireball Network and Curtin University, Australia.
Fireballs in the Sky: an iOS and Android app that allows anyone to report a fireball sighting anywhere in the world from their phone.
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Fireballs in the Sky (iOS/Android) - Curtin University
When you open the app, go to ‘report a sighting’. Simply point at the sky where the fireball started and click on your phone (a heads-up display and star background help orient you), and do the same for where it ended. You can then input a variety of other data, gradually building up an animation of the fireball that you witnessed based on duration; fragmentation colour; brightness etc. If we get enough observations we can determine a trajectory and send that information back to the you. The goal is to give members of the public a way of participating in research via their own observations, while also collecting data that has real scientific value. The app is free and available for iPhone at https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/fireballs-in-the-sky/id709019924?mt=8 and Android at https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tw.fireballs (or just search for ‘fireballs in the sky’ on app stores).
All the raw data will be shared with any local groups (amateur societies or research organisations) that would like to participate in the project, to help with triangulation or searching for specific events. If you’re interested in participating please send us your details and we’ll include you on the app as a collaborator organisation with links to your website. The goal is to engage members of the public and get useful data on more fireball events. We want to share the data with you. Get in touch and get involved.
The main network project is funded by the Australian Research Council and is called the Desert Fireball Network. In a nutshell, having a network in a desert makes it more likely that we can find the meteorites. We’ll be putting 50-60 all-sky cameras throughout regional and remote areas of Australia. We’ve just installed the first 5. Additional information about the project can be found at: http://www.fireballsinthesky.com.au/. The website right now is bare-bones. We’ll be upgrading it early next year with an interactive map that will let users click on cameras and download images directly.
Best wishes,
Phil Bland
BSc(Hons) PhD
Australian Laureate Fellow | Science & Engineering
Professor | Applied Geology
Western Australian School of Mines
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About Dr. Phil Bland-
Phil started out as a geologist, and pretty much got into meteorites by chance. It’s not something he’s ever regretted. He has interests in many areas in planetary science, but mainly in trying to understand the record of the origin and evolution of the solar system contained in ancient meteorites.
The comparison he makes is with geology in the late 1950’s. Plate tectonics – geology’s grand unifying theory – was just around the corner, but no-one knew it. All they had was a lot of data that didn’t really fit together very well. Planetary science today is at a similar point. We know how the Earth works, but we don’t know how it was made. The idea behind the Desert Fireball Network is really just basic geology – you need to know where rocks come from in order to understand them. The possibility that if we get this data for meteorites, that that might be a big part of the puzzle, is something he finds really exciting.
Phil has worked at a bunch of places, most recently Imperial College London. He spent many years trying to get funding for the trial phase of the Desert Fireball Network. After proving that the concept worked, Phil started at Curtin in May 2012 with funding from an ARC Laureate Fellowship and Curtin University to expand the network across Australia. The Desert Fireball Network team will be spending the next few years doing just that, and sharing what they’re doing with you.
2014 The Year of CERTAIN Uncertainty; Meteors, Asteroids, Comets, and MORE!!
Support Australian Meteor/Meteorite Research!
The Birth of a New Era in Australian Meteor Research; Become a Part of the Project!
-LunarMeteoriteHunter in cooperation with the Desert Fireball Network and Curtin University, Australia.
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Fireballs in the Sky (iOS/Android) - Curtin University
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When you open the app, go to ‘report a sighting’. Simply point at the sky where the fireball started and click on your phone (a heads-up display and star background help orient you), and do the same for where it ended. You can then input a variety of other data, gradually building up an animation of the fireball that you witnessed based on duration; fragmentation colour; brightness etc. If we get enough observations we can determine a trajectory and send that information back to the you. The goal is to give members of the public a way of participating in research via their own observations, while also collecting data that has real scientific value. The app is free and available for iPhone at https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/fireballs-in-the-sky/id709019924?mt=8 and Android at https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tw.fireballs (or just search for ‘fireballs in the sky’ on app stores).
All the raw data will be shared with any local groups (amateur societies or research organisations) that would like to participate in the project, to help with triangulation or searching for specific events. If you’re interested in participating please send us your details and we’ll include you on the app as a collaborator organisation with links to your website. The goal is to engage members of the public and get useful data on more fireball events. We want to share the data with you. Get in touch and get involved.
The main network project is funded by the Australian Research Council and is called the Desert Fireball Network. In a nutshell, having a network in a desert makes it more likely that we can find the meteorites. We’ll be putting 50-60 all-sky cameras throughout regional and remote areas of Australia. We’ve just installed the first 5. Additional information about the project can be found at: http://www.fireballsinthesky.com.au/. The website right now is bare-bones. We’ll be upgrading it early next year with an interactive map that will let users click on cameras and download images directly.
Best wishes,
Phil Bland
BSc(Hons) PhD
Australian Laureate Fellow | Science & Engineering
Professor | Applied Geology
Western Australian School of Mines
---
About Dr. Phil Bland-
Phil started out as a geologist, and pretty much got into meteorites by chance. It’s not something he’s ever regretted. He has interests in many areas in planetary science, but mainly in trying to understand the record of the origin and evolution of the solar system contained in ancient meteorites.
The comparison he makes is with geology in the late 1950’s. Plate tectonics – geology’s grand unifying theory – was just around the corner, but no-one knew it. All they had was a lot of data that didn’t really fit together very well. Planetary science today is at a similar point. We know how the Earth works, but we don’t know how it was made. The idea behind the Desert Fireball Network is really just basic geology – you need to know where rocks come from in order to understand them. The possibility that if we get this data for meteorites, that that might be a big part of the puzzle, is something he finds really exciting.
Phil has worked at a bunch of places, most recently Imperial College London. He spent many years trying to get funding for the trial phase of the Desert Fireball Network. After proving that the concept worked, Phil started at Curtin in May 2012 with funding from an ARC Laureate Fellowship and Curtin University to expand the network across Australia. The Desert Fireball Network team will be spending the next few years doing just that, and sharing what they’re doing with you.
2014 The Year of CERTAIN Uncertainty; Meteors, Asteroids, Comets, and MORE!!
19 February 2013
JAPAN Researchers of Bolides, Fireballs request to contact -Possible DAYTIME Bolide in Japan
JAPAN Researchers of Bolides, Fireballs request to contact -Possible DAYTIME Bolide in Japan 10FEB2013 and 15?16?FEB2013
10FEB2013 Paul Tokyo 4pm asia 15sec south west white venus no was just walking home, was bright like a star, thought it was a plane but it got brighter till it disappeared
Other sighting by me, Dirk Ross, from Nerima-Ku during afternoon (details upon contact)
contact me please drtanuki@gmail.com
2013 THE Year of Meteors, Asteroids, Comets, and MORE!!
10FEB2013 Paul Tokyo 4pm asia 15sec south west white venus no was just walking home, was bright like a star, thought it was a plane but it got brighter till it disappeared
Other sighting by me, Dirk Ross, from Nerima-Ku during afternoon (details upon contact)
contact me please drtanuki@gmail.com
2013 THE Year of Meteors, Asteroids, Comets, and MORE!!
23 November 2011
NEOs Close Approach - Meteors, Fireballs, Bolides Watch from 18NOV-27NOV
NEO Asteroids Close Approach -Meteors, Fireballs, Bolides
Watch from 18NOV-27NOV
These two just slipped by:
Source: NASA/JPL http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/ca/
Any sighting reports?
Please report: Date and Time of event? Location name (town,city) where you were when saw the meteor? Start and Stop location in sky? Direction of movement? Duration of Event (seconds)? Brightness ( in comparison with Venus, Moon, Sun) color, sounds? Photos? Videos? please email LunarMeteoriteHunter@gmail.com Your reports make it possible for all to check what they saw as well. Thank you! 2011 The Year of Meteors!
Watch from 18NOV-27NOV
These two just slipped by:
| (2011 WJ15) | 2011-Nov-20 | 0.0067 | 2.6 | 24 m - 54 m | 25.2 | 26.33 |
| (2011 WQ4) | 2011-Nov-21 | 0.0051 | 2.0 | 9.1 m - 20 m | 27.3 | 7.57 |
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1 LD = Lunar Distance = ~384,000 kilometers
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Source: NASA/JPL http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/ca/
Any sighting reports?
Please report: Date and Time of event? Location name (town,city) where you were when saw the meteor? Start and Stop location in sky? Direction of movement? Duration of Event (seconds)? Brightness ( in comparison with Venus, Moon, Sun) color, sounds? Photos? Videos? please email LunarMeteoriteHunter@gmail.com Your reports make it possible for all to check what they saw as well. Thank you! 2011 The Year of Meteors!
11 May 2009
Forty Thousand Meteor Origins Across the Sky
(click on image to enlarge)
Forty Thousand Meteor Origins Across the Sky
Explanation: Where do meteors come from? Visible meteors are typically sand-sized grains of ice and rock that once fragmented from comets. Many a meteor shower has been associated with a known comet, although some intriguing orphan showers do remain. Recently, a group of meteor enthusiasts created a network of over 100 video cameras placed at 25 well-separated locations across Japan. This unprecedented network recorded not only 240,000 optically bright meteors over two years, but almost 40,000 meteors seen by more than one station. These multiple-station events were particularly interesting because they enabled the observers to extrapolate meteor trajectories back into the Solar System. The resulting radiant map is shown above, with many well known meteor showers labelled by the first three letters of the home constellation. Besides known meteor showers, eleven new showers were identified by new radiants on the sky from which meteors appear to flow. The meteor sky is ever changing, and it may be possible that new shower radiants will appear in the future. Research like this could also potentially identify previously unknown comets or asteroids that might one day pass close to the Earth.
Explanation: Where do meteors come from? Visible meteors are typically sand-sized grains of ice and rock that once fragmented from comets. Many a meteor shower has been associated with a known comet, although some intriguing orphan showers do remain. Recently, a group of meteor enthusiasts created a network of over 100 video cameras placed at 25 well-separated locations across Japan. This unprecedented network recorded not only 240,000 optically bright meteors over two years, but almost 40,000 meteors seen by more than one station. These multiple-station events were particularly interesting because they enabled the observers to extrapolate meteor trajectories back into the Solar System. The resulting radiant map is shown above, with many well known meteor showers labelled by the first three letters of the home constellation. Besides known meteor showers, eleven new showers were identified by new radiants on the sky from which meteors appear to flow. The meteor sky is ever changing, and it may be possible that new shower radiants will appear in the future. Research like this could also potentially identify previously unknown comets or asteroids that might one day pass close to the Earth.
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