Russia Super Bolide / Asteroid Strike? or SOMETHING ELSE! 14NOV2014

Breaking News- MASSIVE EVENT!
Russia Super Bolide? / Asteroid Strike? / OR Something Else!
1839 Local Time 14NOV2014  
- Munitions storage depo Explosion!- LunarMeteoriteHunter - Tokyo
- 3 Different VIDEOS
Sverdlovsk Region / Rezhom, New Region - Yekaterinburg

Russian News mentions the possibility of explosions at the old Rezhevskoy chemical plant.???

-IF you are really interested seeing videos of other "something else" scroll down to the bottom of this post and compare with the YouTube videos/links I have posted. - LunarMeteoriteHunter...Tokyo

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Russia Super Bolide / Asteroid Strike? / OR something else? 1839 Local Time 14NOV2014
Image Credit- Some Very Lucky Russian to Witness!
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Video 1
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UFO? Meteor? Blast? Massive light flash over Russian Urals stuns locals, scientists (DASHCAM)
Posted on YouTube by RT 301 views

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Video 2

Video filmed by Anton Glavatskih schoolboy and his classmates.Posted to YouTube by ТВ Новый день - Новый регион 301 views
Published on Nov 18, 2014Видеоновости РИА "Новый регион" http://urfo.org/ekb/video/
Strange celestial event happened last weekend in the Sverdlovsk region. First, the sky turned red, and then lit up with a bright yellow light. Celestial phenomena have not been able to comment on any of the Sverdlovsk forecasters Hydrometcenter nor representatives Kourovka Observatory. Best phenomenon was seen in the sky over the city Rezhom.
Странное небесное явление произошло в минувшие выходные в Свердловской области. Сначала небо покраснело, а затем озарилось ярким желтым светом. Небесное явление прокомментировать пока не смогли ни синоптики Свердловского Гидрометцентра, ни представители Коуровской обсерватории. Лучше всего явление было видно в небе над городом Режом.

Press Report in Russian-
NewDayNews.Ru
http://urfo.org/ekb/518345.html/print/

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Video 3
MOST IMPORTANT VIDEO showing explosion from ground and not from meteor!

Вспышка над Свердловской областью | Explosion in the Sverdlovsk region, Russia

Posted to YouTube by IrSCr 6,098 views

Expert opinion-
  Hmmm. I doubt this one is a meteor.
From the video, it appears that the person shooting it was already starting to pay attention well before the peak event. In the video, you can see a pulsating red glow in a stationary position well before it becomes very bright, the latter only happening 18 seconds in the video. The bright peak, of several seconds duration, also seems to be quite stationary. So the event, whatever it was, was already going on for at least 18 seconds, and it does not seem to be moving during that time.
  My guess this is something originating on Earth. To me, it looks like a fire or series of small explosions and subsequent large explosion or flash fire reflecting on a cloud deck. The Russian article (in Google translation) seems to suggest there is a major chemical plant nearby? I wonder if any explosions were heard some tens of seconds after the movie ends.
- Marco
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Dr Marco (asteroid 183294) Langbroek
Dutch Meteor Society (DMS)

Thank you Marco!
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US / World NEWS Coverage of Event 
- citing The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News-

Meteor? UFO? Flash Over Russia May Have Earthly Origin
NBC news
http://www.nbcnews.com/science/weird-science/meteor-ufo-flash-over-russia-may-have-earthly-origin-n251081

4 Possible Explanations for That Mysterious Flash of Light Over Russia
TIME
http://time.com/3598224/russia-flash-light-sverdlovsk/

Something Mysterious Lit Up the Russian Sky — and No One Knows Exactly What It Was

The Blaze
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/11/18/something-mysterious-lit-up-the-russian-sky-and-no-one-knows-exactly-what-it-was/

Hatalmas fényvillanás Oroszország felett
Szeretlek Magyarorszag
http://www.szeretlekmagyarorszag.hu/hatalmas-fenyvillanas-oroszorszag-felett-2/

Graban una enorme explosión en el cielo en Rusia
GIZMODO
http://es.gizmodo.com/graban-una-enorme-explosion-en-el-cielo-en-rusia-1660530973

What In The Hell Caused This Enormous Flash Over Russia?
io9
http://io9.com/what-in-the-hell-caused-this-enormous-flash-over-russia-1660574552

Explosive Flash In Russia Blamed On Meteor
Austrian Times
http://austriantimes.at/news/Around_the_World/2014-11-19/51971/Explosive_Flash_In_Russia_Blamed_On_Meteor

YouTube-
Mysterious Explosion over Russia: Meteor or 'Russian KILLER Satellite'!

ShantiUniverse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybeSYCj8adc

YouTube-
Fire in the Sky News/Powerhouse events ROCK atmosphere!

MrMBB333
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qN3CFyerF8E&list=UUaVp-iXRPfiSxbkhmi56IHQ

Astronomy.Russia Discussion Forum-
Astronomy.ru
http://www.astronomy.ru/forum/index.php/topic,24233.7020.html

AstroForum- Forum za Astronome

Meteor u Rusiji? (Pregledano: 8093 puta)
zvjezdarnica.com
http://www.zvjezdarnica.com/forum/index.php?topic=8662.190;topicseen

UK weatherworld Forum
http://www.ukweatherworld.co.uk/forum/index.php?/topic/105784-leonids-november-17-18th-mon-tue/

De aarde wordt geraakt! Vreemde gebeurtenissen zijn gaande – Tweede zon? Planeet X? – Het gonst van de Theorieën!

worldunity
http://worldunity.me/de-aarde-wordt-geraakt-vreemde-gebeurtenissen-zijn-gaande-tweede-zon-planeet-x-het-gonst-van-de-theorieen/


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UPDATE- Previous NON-meteor events in Russia- 
Take a look.- Lunar Meteorite Hunter
Electrical Fault 2012

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Huge explosion in the sky of Russia (Огромный взрыв в небе России)

• by SpectacularScenes
• 2 years ago
• 1,102 views

(Yahoo) Motorists were shocked while driving on a street in Moscow, Russia, when the sky was lit on Monday (6) after a large explosion. The video was recorded by a camera installed 

Munitions storage depo

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Stunning amateur videos of giant arms depot explosions in Russia

• by RT 
•  3 years ago
• 144,747 views

A major fire has broken out at a ammunitions storage depot in Central Russia (Удмуртия), triggering explosions and injuring 45. Two elderly people have died from heart attacks said 

Munitions storage depo

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Raw video of weapons depot inferno in Russia

• by RT 
•  5 years ago
• 30,010 views

Russia's Ministry of Defence says at least two military firefighters are dead after a series of blasts at a weapons storage facility in central Russia. Officials say 43 people have been 

Munitions storage depo

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Video: Far-east wildfire ignites military depot, massive explosions rock Siberia, deaths reported

• by RT 
•  6 months ago
• 10,911 views

At least 11 people have been killed in explosions at a military depot in Russia's Transbaikal. Over 400 people have been evacuated, but this figure may grow. There were 

Munitions storage depo

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Blast At Russia Arms Depot Sends Shells Flying Over 4 Kilometers

• by Alexander Higgins
• 2 years ago
• 8,160 views

Massive explosions have rocked an area outside the Russian city of Orenburg on Monday as fire engulfed an armaments warehouse, forcing local residents to flee their homes.

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Thank you Andrei in Ol'khovatov, Russia, Moscow!

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Farmer City, IL Fireball Meteor 17NOV2014 Video Capture

Farmer City, IL Fireball Meteor 2253 CST 17NOV2014 Video Capture

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Farmer City, Illlinois Fireball Meteor  2253 CST / 0453 UTC 17/18NOV2014
Farmer City, IL AllSky, Saandia Sentinel All Sky Network , Steve Witt

Farmer City, Illlinois Fireball Meteor 2253 CST 17NOV2014 Video Capture

Farmer City, IL AllSky,  Saandia Sentinel All Sky Network , Steve Witt

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Leonid Meteor Shower Live/Feed 2014 - NASA MSFC

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Geologic Maps of Vesta from NASA's Dawn Mission Published

Geologic Maps of Vesta from NASA's Dawn Mission Published

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This high-resolution geological map of Vesta is derived from Dawn spacecraft data.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU

This high-resolution geological map of Vesta is derived from Dawn spacecraft data. Brown colors represent the oldest, most heavily cratered surface. Purple colors in the north and light blue represent terrains modified by the Veneneia and Rheasilvia impacts, respectively. Light purples and dark blue colors below the equator represent the interior of the Rheasilvia and Veneneia basins. Greens and yellows represent relatively young landslides or other downhill movement and crater impact materials, respectively. This map unifies 15 individual quadrangle maps published this week in a special issue of Icarus. Map is a Mollweide projection, centered on 180 degrees longitude using the Dawn Claudia coordinate system.

JPL manages the Dawn mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. Dawn is a project of the directorate's Discovery Program, managed by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) is responsible for overall Dawn mission science. Orbital Sciences Corp. in Dulles, Virginia, designed and built the spacecraft. The German Aerospace Center, the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, the Italian Space Agency and the Italian National Astrophysical Institute are international partners on the mission team.

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More information about Dawn is online at http://www.nasa.gov/dawn.

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Vesta Topography Map
Credit- NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA/PSI

Vesta Topography Map
This color-coded topography map from NASA's Dawn mission shows the giant asteroid Vesta in an equirectangular projection at 32 pixels per degree, relative to an ellipsoid of 177 miles by 177 miles by 142 miles (285 kilometers by 285 kilometers by 229 kilometers). The color scale extends from 13.96 miles (22.47 kilometers) below the surface in purple to 12.11 miles (19.48 kilometers) above the surface in white. The topographic map was constructed from analyzing more than 17,000 images from Dawn's framing camera that were taken with varying sun and viewing angles.

The Dawn mission to Vesta and Ceres is managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. The University of California, Los Angeles, is responsible for overall Dawn mission science. The Dawn framing cameras were developed and built under the leadership of the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany, with significant contributions by DLR German Aerospace Center, Institute of Planetary Research, Berlin, and in coordination with the Institute of Computer and Communication Network Engineering, Braunschweig. The framing camera project is funded by the Max Planck Society, DLR and NASA.

More information on Dawn is available at: http://www.nasa.gov/dawn and http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov .


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NOVEMBER 17, 2014
Geologic Maps of Vesta from NASA's Dawn Mission Published

Images from NASA's Dawn Mission have been used to create a series of high-resolution geological maps of the large asteroid Vesta, revealing the variety of surface features in unprecedented detail. These maps are included with a series of 11 scientific papers published this week in a special issue of the journal Icarus.

Geological mapping is a technique used to derive the geologic history of a planetary object from detailed analysis of surface morphology, topography, color and brightness information. A team of 14 scientists mapped the surface of Vesta using Dawn spacecraft data, led by three NASA-funded participating scientists: David A. Williams of Arizona State University, Tempe; R. Aileen Yingst of the Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, Arizona; and W. Brent Garry of the NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland.

"The geologic mapping campaign at Vesta took about two-and-a-half years to complete, and the resulting maps enabled us to recognize a geologic timescale of Vesta for comparison to other planets," said Williams.

Scientists discovered through these maps that impacts from several large meteorites have shaped Vesta's history. Asteroids like Vesta are remnants of the formation of the solar system, giving scientists a peek at its history. Asteroids could also harbor molecules that are the building blocks of life and reveal clues about the origins of life on Earth.

The geologic mapping of Vesta is enabled by images obtained by the framing camera provided by the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research of the German Max Planck Society and the German Aerospace Center. This camera takes panchromatic images and seven bands of color-filtered images. Stereo photos are used to create topographic models of the surface that aid in the geologic interpretation.

Vesta's geologic timescale is determined by the sequence of large impact events, primarily by the Veneneia and Rheasilvia impacts in Vesta's early history and the Marcia impact in its late history. The oldest crust on Vesta pre-dates the Veneneia impact.The relative timescale is supplemented by model-based absolute ages from two different approaches that apply crater statistics to date the surface.

"This mapping was crucial for getting a better understanding of Vesta's geological history, as well as providing context for the compositional information that we received from other instruments on the spacecraft: the visible and infrared (VIR) mapping spectrometer and the gamma-ray and neutron detector (GRaND)," said Carol Raymond, Dawn's deputy principal investigator at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

The objective of NASA's Dawn mission is to characterize the two most massive objects in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter - Vesta and the dwarf planet Ceres. The spacecraft launched in 2007. Vesta, orbited by the Dawn spacecraft between July 2011 and September 2012, was thought to be the source of a unique set of basaltic meteorites (called HEDs, for howardite-eucrite-diogenite), and Dawn confirmed the Vesta-HED connection.

The Dawn spacecraft is currently on its way to Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt. Dawn will arrive at Ceres in March 2015.

Dawn uses ion propulsion in spiraling trajectories to travel from Earth to Vesta, orbit Vesta and then continue on to orbit the dwarf planet Ceres. Ion engines use very small amounts of onboard fuel, enabling a mission that would be unaffordable or impossible without them.

JPL manages the Dawn mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. Dawn is a project of the directorate's Discovery Program, managed by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) is responsible for overall Dawn mission science. Orbital Sciences Corp. in Dulles, Virginia, designed and built the spacecraft. The German Aerospace Center, the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, the Italian Space Agency and the Italian National Astrophysical Institute are international partners on the mission team.

For more information about Dawn, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/dawn


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EPS special issue "Science of solar system materials examined from Hayabusa and future missions" People

EPS special issue "Science of solar system materials examined from Hayabusa and future missions" People

"Earth, Planets and Space (EPS)" started working as an open access-style
journal under SpringerOpen this year.
The EPS special issue "Science of solar system materials examined from Hayabusa and future missions" will be published soon,
as the proceedings of the HAYABUSA 2013 symposium
<http://hayabusaao.isas.jaxa.jp/symposium/2013/program.html>,
papers of which are accessible now, as follows:

Mineralogy of four Itokawa particles collected from the first touchdown site
Takaaki Noguchi, John C Bridges, Leon J Hicks, Steven J Gurman, Makoto Kimura, Takahito Hashimoto, Mitsuru Konno, John P Bradley, Ryuji Okazaki, Masayuki Uesugi, Toru Yada, Yuzuru Karouji, Masanao Abe, Tatsuaki Okada, Takuya Mitsunari, Tomoki Nakamura, Hiroyuki Kagi
Earth, Planets and Space 2014, 66:124 (9 October 2014)
http://www.earth-planets-space.com/content/pdf/1880-5981-66-124.pdf

Mineralogy and defect microstructure of an olivine-dominated Itokawa dust
particle: evidence for shock metamorphism, collisional fragmentation, and LL
chondrite origin
Falko Langenhorst, Dennis Harries, Kilian Pollok, Peter A van Aken
Earth, Planets and Space 2014, 66:118 (17 September 2014)
http://www.earth-planets-space.com/content/pdf/1880-5981-66-118.pdf

Sequential analysis of carbonaceous materials in Hayabusa-returned samples
for the determination of their origin
Masayuki Uesugi, Hiroshi Naraoka, Motoo Ito, Hikaru Yabuta, Fumio Kitajima, Yoshinori Takano, Hajime Mita, Ichiro Ohnishi, Yoko Kebukawa, Toru Yada, Yuzuru Karouji, Yukihiro Ishibashi, Takaaki Okada, Masanao Abe
Earth, Planets and Space 2014, 66:102 (26 August 2014)
http://www.earth-planets-space.com/content/pdf/1880-5981-66-102.pdf

Microchemical and structural evidence for space weathering in soils from
asteroid Itokawa
Michelle S Thompson, Roy Christoffersen, Thomas J Zega, Lindsay P Keller
Earth, Planets and Space 2014, 66:89 (13 August 2014)
http://www.earth-planets-space.com/content/pdf/1880-5981-66-89.pdf

Mineralogy and crystallography of some Itokawa particles returned by the
Hayabusa asteroidal sample return mission
Takashi Mikouchi, Mutsumi Komatsu, Kenji Hagiya, Kazumasa Ohsumi, Michael E Zolensky, Viktor Hoffmann, James Martinez, Rupert Hochleitner, Melanie Kaliwoda, Yasuko Terada, Naoto Yagi, Masaki Takata, Wataru Satake, Yuya Aoyagi, Atsushi Takenouchi, Yuzuru Karouji, Masayuki Uesugi, Toru Yada
Earth, Planets and Space 2014, 66:82 (1 August 2014)
http://www.earth-planets-space.com/content/pdf/1880-5981-66-82.pdf

A transmission electron microscope study of Itokawa regolith grains
Lindsay P Keller, Eve L Berger
Earth, Planets and Space 2014, 66:71 (15 July 2014)
http://www.earth-planets-space.com/content/pdf/1880-5981-66-71.pdf

Robotic systems for the determination of the composition of solar system
materials by means of fireball spectroscopy
José M Madiedo
Earth, Planets and Space 2014, 66:70 (15 July 2014)
http://www.earth-planets-space.com/content/pdf/1880-5981-66-70.pdf

BTW, the HAYABUSA2014 symposium will be held on 4--5 December at JAXA/ISAS
Sagamihara, Japan.
http://hayabusaao.isas.jaxa.jp/symposium/

Katsu Ohtsuka

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The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 15NOV2014

Watch the Leonid Meteor Shower for a Weekend Spectacle
National Geographic
Like other meteor showers, the Leonids happen when Earth plows through a trail of debris left in the wake of a comet orbiting the sun, in this case ...

Leonid meteor shower peaks early Tuesday morning
Baltimore Sun (blog)
The Leonid meteor shower will be at its most active late Sunday night into early Monday morning, but it's not expected to be a good time to watch from ...

Leonid meteor shower best views before dawn November 17, 2014
Phys.Org
A "streaky" meteor shower will be at its best before dawn on Monday, November 17, according to the editors of StarDate magazine. Unfortunately, this ...

BBC Local Live: Derbyshire
BBC News
This morning I'm with a group of amateur astronomers from Derbyshire who are hoping for a spectacular view of the Leonidsmeteor shower this ...

Meteorite Bears Evidence of Magnetic Fields in Early Solar System

Scientific American - 9 hours
New research shows that magnetic fields played a role in the solar system's formation -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Diamonds Found In El Dorado County Meteorite

CBS Sacramento - 2 hours
Diamonds are now a scientist’s best friend.

Could there be organic matter on Mars?

Fox News - 7 hours
The origins of organic matter found by Mars lander missions have long been debated, but a new study suggests a way to find out whether these ...

Here's how our solar system may have evolved

ANI via Yahoo! India News - 16 hours
Washington, Nov 14 (ANI): A new study explored the measurements of magnetic fields trapped in grains within a primitive meteorite that gave ...

Glenvar library to host special viewing program for Leonid meteorshower Nov. 17
Roanoke Times
The Leonid meteor shower takes place every November, as the earth moves through space. This year, the peak night of the shower is expected from ...

Amateur astronomer on the hunt for Soyuz rocket debris that streaked across Australian skies in July
Sydney Morning Herald
The object, which many thought was a meteor, was the "third stage" of the Soyuz rocket, used on July 8 to launch Russia's second Meteor-M weather ...

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Newly Released Map Data Shows Frequency of Small Asteroid Impacts, Provides Clues on Larger Asteroid Population

Newly Released Map Data Shows Frequency of Small Asteroid Impacts, Provides Clues on Larger Asteroid Population
Linda Billings & NASA/JPL Near-Earth Object Program Office- November 14, 2014

Map showing the bolide events from 1994 to 2013

It happens all the time: small asteroids impact Earth's atmosphere

Small asteroids near Earth, with sizes of only about a meter, hit the atmosphere and disintegrate with surprising frequency - around every other week, new data show.

Data gathered by U.S. government sensors and released to NASA for use by the science community reveal that these small impact events are frequent and random. A map of these small impact events - known as fireballs or bolides - recently released by NASA shows the frequency and approximate
energy released by bolide events detected from 1994 through 2013. It dwarfs a data-base of small impacts based on infra-sound detections released last fall, but it does not contain all fireballs - objects less than a meter in size - that impacted the Earth during this period.

Over this 20-year interval, U.S. Government assets recorded at least 556 bolide events of various energies. On this world map illustration, the size of the orange dots (daytime events) and blue dots (nighttime events) are proportional to the optical radiated energy of the impact event measured
in billions of Joules (GJ) of energy. An approximate conversion between the measured optical radiant energy and the total impact energy can be made using an empirical relationship provided by Peter Brown and colleagues in 2002. For example the smallest dot on the map represents 1 billion
Joules (1 GJ) of optical radiant energy, or when expressed in terms of a total impact energy the equivalent of about 5 tons of TNT explosives. Likewise, the dots representing 100, 10,000 and 1,000,000 Giga Joules of optical radiant energies correspond to impact energies of about 300 tons, 18,000 tons and one million tons of TNT explosives respectively.

The largest impact energy recorded during this 20-year interval was the recent daytime Chelyabinsk event (440,000 - 500,000 tons of TNT) recorded over central Russia on February 15, 2013. This small asteroid that exploded in the atmosphere near Chelyabinsk, Russia was about 20 meters in size
before it hit the Earth. While that impact focused public attention on the potential hazards of NEO impacts with Earth, space scientists have long known that such events are just a part of Earth's geologic history.

NASA's Near Earth Object (NEO) Observations Program finds, tracks, and characterizes asteroids whose orbits bring them within approximately 50 million kilometers (31 million miles) of Earth's orbit about the sun.

"We now know that Earth's atmosphere does a great job of protecting Earth from small asteroids", said NASA NEO Observations Program Executive Lindley Johnson. The new data will be extrapolated to estimate more precisely the frequency of impacts by asteroids large enough to cause ground damage.
"How big is the population of larger asteroids we really need to worry about? We need to better understand that." Johnson said.

While the new data emphasize that small asteroid impacts with Earth are not unusual, the risk of future impacts is not to be taken lightly. "The aim is to find potentially hazardous asteroids before they find us," said Donald Yeomans, manager of NASA's NEO Program Office at the Jet Propulsion
Laboratory.

NASA's Asteroid Initiative features a Grand Challenge to the community "to create a plan to find all asteroid threats to human populations and know what to do about them."

The NEO Observations Program already has identified more than 96 percent of the estimated population of nearly one thousand one-kilometer or larger
sized asteroids. The Program's current objective is to identify 90 percent or more of the far more numerous NEOs larger than 140-meters in diameter. It is estimated they may be as much as 25 times more numerous than 1 kilometer asteroids.

Every day, Earth is bombarded with more than 100 tons of dust and sand-sized particles from space. About once a year, an automobile-sized asteroid hits Earth's atmosphere, creating a spectacular fireball (bolide) event as the friction of the Earth's atmosphere causes them to disintegrate - sometimes explosively.

Studies of Earth's history indicate that about once every 5,000 years or so on average an object the size of a football field hits Earth and causes significant damage. Once every few million years on average an object large enough to cause regional or global disaster impacts Earth. Impact craters on Earth, the Moon and other planetary bodies are evidence of these occurrences.

Meteor Crater near Winslow, Arizona, is evidence of the impact with Earth's surface of a 50-meter asteroid about 50,000 years ago. Impact of the metal-rich object released energy equivalent to a 10 megaton explosion and formed a 1.2 kilometer-diameter crater. Scientists have identified several dozen
impact craters in North America alone, most masked by erosion and vegetation.

Scientific assessments of the risk of, as well as the hazards posed by, future asteroid impacts with Earth vary. In a 2013 paper published in Nature, Peter Brown and his colleagues reported that "telescopic surveys have only discovered about 500 near-Earth asteroids that are 10-20 meters
in diameter (comparable to the Chelyabinsk asteroid) of an estimated near-Earth asteroid population of around 2 x 10 7 [20 million], implying that a significant impactor population at these sizes could be present but not yet cataloged in the discovered near-Earth asteroid population."

"These newly released data will help NEO scientists construct a more complete picture of the frequency and scope of asteroid impacts with Earth," said Johnson.

In conducting its work, the NEO Observations Program collaborates with other U.S. government agencies, other national and international entities, and professional and amateur astronomers around the world. NASA works closely with the Federal Emergency Management Agency and other federal
government departments and agencies on NEO impact warning, mitigation and response planning. The Program is responsible for facilitating communications between the astronomical community, the federal government and the public about NEO impact hazards and risks. The NEO Observations Program is a lead participant in a newly organized International Asteroid Warning Network.

For more information:
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news186.html

http://science.nasa.gov/planetary-science/near-earth-objects/

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/asteroids/overview/fastfacts.html

For a documented list of bolide events, see:
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/fireball

References:
P.G. Brown et al., The flux of small near-Earth objects colliding with
the Earth. Nature, vol. 420, 21 Nov. 2002, pp. 294-296

P.G. Brown et al., A 500-kiloton airburst over Chelyabinsk and an enhanced
hazard from small impactors, Nature 503, 14 November 2013

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The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 14NOV2014

Rosetta's Comet Lander Landed Three Times
Space.com
The Rosetta mission's Philae comet lander bounced off the surface twice before coming to rest on the surface. Many of its science instruments have already sent back data. ...

Look for Leonids meteor shower early Tuesday morning
Bellingham Herald
The Leonid meteor shower will reach its peak Monday night and Tuesday morning. Now, South Sound astronomers just need the clouds to cooperate.

Comet Siding Spring Captured by ISRO's Mars Orbiter
Science Times
After a preliminary analysis of the mineral traces, researchers found that the meteor was composed of eight trace minerals and metals

'Black Beauty' meteorite found in 2011 expected to fetch £63,000

Daily Mail - 22 hours
The ‘Black Beauty’ meteorite from Mars was discovered in the Sahara Desert in 2011. Less than two inches long, it is expected to fetch ...

Magnetic fields frozen into meteorite grains tell a shocking tale of solar system birth

EurekAlert! - 4 hours
( Arizona State University ) Astrophysicist Steve Desch of ASU's School of Earth and Space Exploration says that magnetic clues in a ...

Could There Be Organic Matter on Mars?

SPACE.com - 9 hours
The origins of organic matter found by Mars lander missions have long been debated, but a new study suggests a way to find out whether these ...

New Horizons Set to Wake Up for Pluto Encounter
November 13, 2014
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft comes out of hibernation for the last
time on Dec. 6. Between now and then, while the Pluto-bound probe enjoys
three more weeks of electronic slumber, work on Earth is well under way
to prepare the spacecraft for a six-month encounter with the dwarf
planet that begins in January. ...

Meteor Activity Outlook for November 15-21, 2014
American Meteor Society
Since it will be less than half illuminated it will not compromise meteor watching unless you view directly toward the moon. As the week progresses ...

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Japan Bolide Meteor 13NOV2014 -2014年11月13日22:17:36JST 火球

Tokyo / Osaka, Japan Bolide Meteor 2217 JST 13NOV2014 -2014年11月13日22:17:36JST 火球
Seen from both Tokyo and Osaka! This was a small asteroid!

"click on image to enlarge"
Tokyo / Osaka, Japan Bolide Meteor 2217 JST 13NOV2014-2014年11月13日22:17:36JST 火球
C2014 SonotaCo / Site Admin

SonotaCO Meteor Forum for more photos and videos of the event-
http://sonotaco.jp/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3379&sid=573fd8c2f53953c0c523243f5926c6a9

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VA MD NC Meteor 14NOV2014

VA MD NC Meteor Apprx. 2000 EST 14NOV2014

Check your security cameras!

Please file your meteor sightings please HERE-
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Please help get the word about this event so that we might recover security camera video or cell phone captures; spread the word about this website via Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Reddit, GLP, SOTT and your favorite forums; contact your local news outlets; thank you!  Tell them about this website and event.
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Initial Meteor Sighting Reports-
14NOV2014 Jennifer Vallandingham Knoxville, MD USA 2109 EST,PM 3 SECS W-S WHITE MOON NO BIG WHITE SHOOTING STAR

14NOV2014 Walter Goldschmidt Fairfax, Va USA 21:02 EST 1-2 Seconds SW ~50 degrees to 20 degrees (straight down) White Moon No straight down, bright streak

14NOV2014 Rick Hunter Stokesdale, NC USA 21:00 PM EST 4 seconds United States white moon no very bright with long tail

All meteor sighting reports can be seen here

http://thelatestworldwidemeteorreports.blogspot.com/

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[IMO-News] WGN Vol. 42, No. 5

International Meteor Organization-News- WGN Vol. 42, No. 5

WGN - Journal of the International Meteor Organization
Volume 42, Number 5, October 2014, pages 155-204

The new issue of this Journal is now in print. It will be posted
shortly; subscribers should receive it soon. Subscribers can also access
the Journal in PDF format immediately through the IMO's web site
<http://www.imo.net/imo/wgn>.

All WGN subscribers will receive this. Those who are also IMO Members
will receive the new Administrative Booklet as well.

The Journal contents are below.

Letter - Meteoroid streams, meteor showers
Juergen Rendtel ................................................ 155

From the Treasurer - IMO Membership/WGN Subscription Renewal
for 2015
Marc Gyssens ................................................... 157

Letter - The CMN catalogue of orbits for 2012
Croatian Meteor Network ........................................ 157

International Meteor Conference 2014 report
Auriane Egal ................................................... 158

First announcement of the International Meteor Conference 2015
Thomas Weiland ................................................. 160

Details of the Proceedings of the International Meteor Conference,
Poznan, Poland, 22-25 August 2013
Marc Gyssens, Paul Roggemans, and PrzemyslZoladek, editors ..... 160

Various meteor scenes I: the perception and the conception of
a 'meteor shower'
Masahiro Koseki ............................................... 170

Various meteor scenes II: Cygnid-Draconid Complex (kappa-Cygnids)
Masahiro Koseki ............................................... 181

Meteorite producing fragment on the Apophis' orbit
Alexandra Terentjeva, Elena Bakanas ............................ 198

Results of the IMO Video Meteor Network - June 2014
Sirko Molau, Javor Kac, Stefano Crivello, Enrico Stomeo, Geert
Barentsen, Rui Goncalves, and Antal Igaz ......................... 201

Those who do not subscribe to this Journal, but wish to, should see the
IMO's web site
http://www.imo.net
and follow the link to WGN. As well as subscribing to WGN, you can
apply to join IMO at the same time. We encourage you to do this.

Writing for WGN
---------------
This Journal welcomes papers submitted for publication. Papers could
include (but are not limited to) theoretical articles, shower analyses,
observing reports, and other meteor related articles.
All papers are reviewed for scientific content, and edited for English
and style. Instructions for authors can be found in WGN 31:4, 124-128,
and at <http://www.imo.net/docs/writingforwgn.pdf>.

--
Javor Kac
Editor-in-Chief
WGN, Journal of the International Meteor Organization
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