The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 21APR2018

How to See This Weekend's Lyrid Meteor Shower
MSN.com
You'll want to look beyond our planet this Earth Day. The Lyrid meteor shower will peak in the early hours of Sunday, April 22, lighting up the sky with 10 to 20 shooting stars per hour. Added bonus: The sky will be purely dark for prime meteor viewing in the hours before dawn because the moon will set ...

When does the Lyrid meteor shower 2018 peak? Here's the best time to witness the dazzling ...
Mirror.co.uk
Stargazers are getting ready for one of the oldest meteor showers on the astronomical calendar. The Lyrids tgake place every April and, if conditions stay as they are at the moment, all of us in the UK will be in for a dazzling display. On a clear night, it's possible to see up to 20 meteors - also known as ...

Lyrid meteor shower peaks early Sunday morning
nbc25news.com
This meteor shower happens every year when Earth's orbit passes through tiny pieces of debris left behind by Comet Thatcher. In some years, Earth will pass through an unusually dense patch of debris, which can cause an outburst of Lyrid meteors, but 2018 is not predicted to be one of those years.

Lyrids 2018: How To Watch Dazzling Shooting Stars This Weekend 

- International Business Times

Eyes open: Meteor shower to light up Vietnamese skies this weekend
VnExpress International
The annual Lyrid meteor shower is expected to beguile astronomy enthusiasts with a light show across Vietnam this weekend. Astronomers have predicted that observers will be able to see 15 to 20 meteors per hour. Dang Vu Tuan Son, chairman of the Vietnam Amateur Astronomy Club, said the best ...

Lyrid Meteor Shower 2018: How, When and Where to Catch the Peak Moment
Newsweek
Stargazers should head outside the evening of April 21 if they want to catch the best glimpse of our galaxy's oldest meteor shower. Although the Lyrid shower began earlier in the week, it will hit its peak before dawn on Sunday. In order to witness the annual event, viewers should head outdoors when it's ...

Gran asteroide casi choca contra la Tierra y la Nasa ni siquiera lo vio
Prensa Libre
En 2013 un meteorito cayó en una localidad poblada de Rusia. El sitio destaca que su onda expansiva dejó unos mil 500 heridos en el poblado de Cheliabinsk. Sin embargo, destaca la publicación, el cuerpo celeste de este domingo tiene un diámetro seis veces mayor que el del 2013, lo que dispara ...

Stishovite, SiO2, a very high pressure new mineral from Meteor Crater, Arizona
AGU Publications - Wiley
Stishovite, SiO2, a very high pressure new mineral from Meteor Crater, Arizona. E. C. T. Chao · Search for more papers by this author · J. J. Fahey · Search for more papers by this author · Janet Littler · Search for more papers by this author · D. J. Milton · Search for more papers by this author.

Meteor Scientists Analyse Data for Natural History Museum
William Perkin CofE High School
Meteor scientists have been analysing all the meteor data uploaded from the school computer, captured by our camera on the roof of the school. All the data they hone each month will go up on Twitter by Dr Ashley King from The Natural History Museum, which goes round the world, via their contacts, ...

Event 1496-2018
Fireball event
We received 6 reports about a fireball seen over Baden-Württemberg, Thüringen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Grand Est and Bourgogne Franche-Comté on Friday, April 20th 2018 around 19:45 UT. The trajectory displayed on the map and the KML file has been automatically computed based on all the witness ...

Event 1490-2018
Fireball event
Events in 2018 1490-2018 KML. AMS received 13 reports about a fireball seen over MO, IA, IL and Missouri on Friday, April 20th 2018 around 03:15 UT. D. Sound. 9 no. C. Sound. 11 no. Frag. 1 yes. 8 no. Twitter0. 13 Reports. a - Gary M. Level 4. b - Patrick A. Level 3. c - Mona M. Level 1. d - Angi S.

Event 1483-2018
Fireball event
Events in 2018 1483-2018 KML. AMS received 49 reports about a fireball seen over NY, PA, DE, NJ, CT, MD, New York, New Jersey and VA on Friday, April 20th 2018 around 00:48 UT. D. Sound. 1 yes. 39 no. C. Sound. 1 yes. 43 no. Frag. 6 yes. 32 no. Google+0. Twitter0. Stumbleupon0. 49 Reports ...

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The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 12JAN2013

Man rescued from mine shaft in Meteor Crater
Arizona Republic
He paid his $16 admission fee at the visitors center, then walked among the tourists at Meteor Crater who were gawking at the mile-wide impression in the earth created by a falling asteroid about 50,000 years ago. The 28-year-old would later tell his ...

CA man rescued after jumping down Meteor Crater mine shaft
KPHO Phoenix
A Meteor Crater park employee notified the sheriff's office about 4 p.m. of a man trespassing at the bottom of the crater, which is closed to the public, Wiltenmuth said. The employee continued to watch the man while a deputy drove to the crater, and ...

Rescuers pull man from mine shaft at bottom of Meteor Crater
cvbugle
10 at about 4 p.m., an employee of the Meteor Crater park called the Coconino County Sheriff's Office to report a male subject who was trespassing at the bottom of the crater, which is closed to public access. While the first Coconino County Sheriff's ...

Agency: Flash, noise over Rockford was meteor - Spokesman.com ...
A flash of light and loud noise seen and heard in the morning skies of Eastern Washington this morning probably was a meteor, a government agency said.
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Man jumps into Meteor Crater to 'appease gods'
MyFox Phoenix
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) - Authorities have rescued a California man from the bottom of a mine shaft in northern Arizona's Meteor Crater. Coconino County Sheriff's officials say 28-year-old Parminder Singh told deputies after his rescue early Friday that ...

Man jumps into Meteor crater mine shaft
Verde Independent
It all started about 4 p.m. Thursday when an employee at Meteor Crater Park called the Coconino Sheriff's Office to report a man was trespassing at the bottom of the crater, which is closed to public access. While the Sheriff's deputies were driving to ...

Mysterious light seen streaking across Inland NW skies
Fri, 11 Jan, 2013 01:14 PM PST
SPOKANE, Wash. -- Dozens of calls, emails and Facebook comments rolled into the KREM 2 newsroom today about a suspicious light over the Inland Northwest sky Friday morning. People suspect it was a meteorite streaking through the sky around 6:20. The consensus seems to be it appeared to be a green streak, with an audible impact to follow. Some saw it, some heard it and others experienced both ...

Man jumps into Meteor Crater mine shaft to 'appease the gods'
AZFamily
More than 30 rescuers had to battle freezing temperatures, high winds and rough terrain to save an injured man who jumped into a mine shaft in the bottom of Meteor Crater on Thursday. Coconino County Sheriff's Office spokesman Gerry Blair said ...

Massive effort rescues man from bottom of Meteor Crater mineshaft
Arizona Daily Sun
An employee at the privately owned meteor impact site called the Sheriff's office at about 4 p.m on Thursday when the employee spotted the man hiking to the bottom of the 600 foot deep crater. The employee then watched through binoculars as the man ...

Arizona Meteor Crater rescue: Man who fell pulled out from hole
WPTV
A man who fell into a sinkhole at the Meteor Crater tourist attraction 35 miles east of Flagstaff has been pulled out, according to authorities. Photographer: Shane.torgerson/Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license. Copyright 2013 Scripps ...

A Lucky Picture-Perfect Snap of a Fireball Zipping Across the Night Sky
PetaPixel
Walkthroughs of photographs that aren't easily reproducible (or are impossible to reproduce) might not be very useful to many, but it's still interesting to learn how rare shots come about. An example would be the photograph above, captured by ...

Martian Meteorite NWA 7034 - YouTube
1 min
NASA-funded researchers analyzing a small meteorite that may be the first discovered from the ...
youtube.com

UNM studies one of a kind meteorite - YouTube
2 min
Was there life on Mars? Scientists may be one step closer to answering that question - thanks to ...
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2013 THE Year of Meteors, Asteroids, Comets, and MORE!!

Meteor/Meteorite News 31DEC2010

Remembering 2010's fireballs
Baltimore Sun (blog)
On May 10, just before 5 am, a spectacular meteor startled early commuters as it crossed the sky from west to east. Many Marylanders also spotted the ...

A Commonplace Book: Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News: Meteor ...
By Will McLean
Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News: Meteor MA, MD, VA, NY, DC and PA 28DEC2010 Reports... December 28th, ca. 6.45 PM EST. Malvern PA, outside Philadelphia. A big fireball passed overhead, roughly east to west, crossing near zenith. ...

Witnesses startled by shooting star over Frederick
Frederick News Post (subscription)
If it was a meteor, it likely left a trail of debris, said expert John Wasson at the University of California at Los Angeles. ...

Suspected Meteor Startles Western Md Stargazers Baltimore Maryland ...
FREDERICK, Md. -- Some western Maryland residents said an apparent meteor put on a sky show they won't soon forget. Thursday, December 30, 2010.

Starry starry night
Odessa American
The show doesn't stop once the meteorite hits the ground. As scientists delve into compositions ofmeteorites, minerals that make up the space rocks offer a ...

Blinded to Science
Litchfield County Times
“I saw there was going to be a celebration of the bicentennial of the meteor. I am a total history buff—I have just recently earned a master's degree in ... (Weston Meteorite)

China verifies its first meteor crater in Liaoning
The location of Xiuyan meteor crater. (By Guangzhou Daily) The meteor crater at Xiuyan Man Autonomous County in Anshan City of Liaoning Province. ...

The sky in January Meteors herald dawn solar eclipse on Tuesday
Scotsman
By Alan Pickup The New Year opens in spectacular fashion with the peak of the Quadrantids meteorshower next Monday night and a partial eclipse of the Sun ...

elp allsky: Meteor News...Houston Texas Fireball DEC28, 2010...
By elp allsky
A report has come in to ELPALLSKY of a fireball over Houston Texas Dec. 28th, 2010...the same night as the Large East Coast Fireball reported on below. Am trying to get a time for this Texas event and will post info as it is acquired. ...

Big meteor seen over East Coast | Portal to the Universe
A large meteor fireball was seen along the US East Coast on Tuesday evening: ... Large US East Coast Meteor Fireball Bolide DEC28, 2010!!! - elp allsky ...

Meteor Hunter: End of Astrovid
By Meteor Hunter
As a farewell to Astrovid in 2010, here a few interesting pics of my Fireball cam in different Melbourne weather conditions. From cold rainy winter days to scorching summer days like today where the temperature is 38 degrees Celsius! ...

Stargazing Live
BBC News
People across the UK should be able to observe the alignment of Uranus and Jupiter, a partial solar eclipse and the Quadrantid meteor shower. ...

Eclipse and meteor shower to light up New Year Whitby Today First up is the Quadrantid meteor shower, one of the years more prolific, which is active between 1 and 7 January and peaks in the early morning hours of ... Jack Horkheimer's Christmas Gift San Saba News & Star 3/4 Mon. night/Tue. morning: The Quadrantid meteor shower peaks to the north with no Moon interference all night; most meteor showers are best in the ... Meteor/Meteorite News Readers write: Guest375 (guest): i saw a fireball south of yosemite park on sunday dec.26 around 4:30pm, amazing... Guest216 (guest): I live in Cambridge NY and at about 4 am saw a huge shooting star with a blue light (in the western sky i think) Guest401 (guest):december 4th i saw a nice bright meteor fall while traveling north on I91 from brattelboro vt. It was traveling almost straight down but from east to west and i believe it landed somewhere in Vermont. unfortuatley i did not take the time to look at a clock or stop to see exactly where i was on the highway but it was north of exit 3 as i headed to exit 7. It was sometime around 9:30pm I know we had just left a resturant that was closing. Guest724 (guest):Between 6pm and 7pm Dec 30 from Des Moines IA I witnessed a meteor? traveling from south to north in the eastern sky. Color was bluish green and trailed a white tail for quite a ways across the sky. Guest184 (guest): At approximately 12:30am I saw what appeared to be a shooting star fall...then burn out as it fell. I was traveling west on 202. I saw this approximately 1/2 miles after passing char restaurant, the star was seen on the right and appear to fall behind the trees. Anonymous wrote:  On Dec 30, about 6:00pm while traveling northeast out of Fulton, MO. on hwy 54. Me & my girlfriend saw 2 shooting stars. both traveling from west to east. the first lasted 1 sec as a white streak. The 2nd Sparking in and out for 3-5 seconds, bright white to faight red glow.  Guest838 (guest):Norwalk, CT Dec 28 meteor sighting approx. 6:40 PM east to west very low in sky. Guest841 (guest): Saw what appears to have been a meteor fall from sky straight down. Ended with bright flash before fizzling out. Very clear and seemed close by. Was looking north from Hanover Ma toward Boston around 7:15pm New years eve dec 31