Meteor/Meteorite News 8OCT2010

New Clue to Whether Phaeton Is Asteroid or Comet
Space Ref (press release)
Asteroid 3200 Phaethon sometimes acts like a comet, lighting up the Earth's night sky with meteor showers. Sometimes it's like an asteroid, a hunk of rock ...
Space Weather News for Oct. 8, 2010
DRACONID METEORS: Every year around Oct. 8th, Earth passes through a minefield of dusty debris from Comet Giacobini-Zinner, source of the annual Draconid meteor shower. This year, forecasters expect Earth to narrowly miss several of the debris streams ...

Toms River man learns mysterious rock that landed in his yard is not a meteorite
Asbury Park Press Wed, 06 Oct 2010 19:12 PM PDT
TOMS RIVER â The mysterious rock that almost conked township resident Salvadore D'Addario on the head a year ago is still that: a mystery. ...

Draconids Meteor Shower Tonight
National Geographic
Against a backdrop of blurred stars, the comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner, source of the Draconids meteor shower, is seen. Photograph courtesy NASA JPL. ...
Opportunity Finishes Studying Oileán Ruaidh
Softpedia
Officials at the American space agency say that the Martian rover Opportunity has just finished studying the sixth meteorite it found on the Red Planet, ...

Meteor/Meteorite News 7OCT2010

El Paso TX All Sky Meteor Detection Camera Blog Site: Bright SE ...
By ElPasoAllSky
Marshall Space Flight Center PAO Steve Roy was out jogging early Friday morning with his dogs, Lilly and Scout, when he couldn't help but notice this bright meteor low in the eastern sky. Posted by ElPasoAllSky at 10/07/2010 02:28:00 AM ...
Toms River man learns mysterious rock that landed in his yard is not a meteorite
Asbury Park Press
Linda Welzenbach, a Smithsonian Institution geologist and meteorite scientist, estimated that one meteorite that hit a Lorton, Va., doctor's office in ...


A Deluge of Draconids?
Sky & Telescope
Everyone enjoys a great meteor shower, those special times each year when a profusion of shooting stars zip across the sky. So here's a head's up: all of ...
Idaho State University receives $220000 NSF grant to research Nevada meteor ...
Idaho State University
Idaho State University researchers are attempting to connect prep students and teachers in Idaho, Nevada and Utah with the Alamo meteor that struck the ...
Astro Bob blog: Jupiter cheers up the Lonely Star
Duluth News Tribune
The Mars Opportunity Rover took this recent photo of the iron-nickel meteorite Oileán Ruaidh. The meteorite was discovered en route to Endeavour Crater, ...

A Deluge of Draconids? Sky & Telescope Everyone enjoys a great meteor shower, those special times each year when a profusion of shooting stars zip across the sky. So here's a head's up: all of ...

A Deluge of Draconids? Sky & Telescope Everyone enjoys a great meteor shower, those special times each year when a profusion of shooting stars zip across the sky. So here's a head's up: all of ...

Meteor/Meteorite News 6OCT2010

Meteor/Meteorite News 5OCT2010

Green Comet 103P/Hartley 2 Approaches
Space Weather News for Oct. 1, 2010
APPROACHING COMET: Green comet 103P/Hartley 2 is approaching Earth for a close encounter on Oct. 20th. At that time, the comet will be only 11 million miles (0.12 AU) from our planet and should be dimly visible to the naked eye ...

Unraveling the Origin of the Lunar Highlands Crust
Announcement from Planetary Science Research Discoveries [PSRD]
--  Lunar meteorites contain clasts that may plausibly be samples of post-magma-ocean plutons that helped build the highlands crust. ...
Possibile meteorite find in Lincolnshire, UK?
Yesterday whilst out in Lincolnshire with Chris Keyworth, aka Pathfinder, I, or more accurately he, spotted something of interest laid in a field - it’s only small but perfectly formed ...

How to party with the stars
DesMoinesRegister.com
But if you want to invite friends to something different, plan a "star party" to coincide with several upcoming meteor showers. ...

PAGASA: Comet, meteor shower visible in October
GMANews.TV
A bright comet, a meteor shower, and various stars and planets will give stargazers a treat this October, state astronomers said. ...

Meteor/Meteorite News 4OCT2010

Early October SE U.S. Fireball
Fireball in the Sky!
It was brief, but it was brilliant! On Saturday, Oct. 2, 2010 at approximately 8:50 p.m. CDT, cameras operated by NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., recorded a slow moving fireball moving from the north to the southwest...

Starline: October's skies
Mankato Free Press
October features two meteor showers: the Draconids, a weak shower early in the month and the Orionids, a rich shower later in the month. ...

Meteor/Meteorite News 3OCT2010

October Night Skies
OFW News On Web
Moon would appear above Jupiter at dusk on October 19th and on the 22nd, bright moon will wash out the meteors of the Orion Meteor shower. ...

Meteor/Meteorite News 2OCT2010

Fireball in the sky: Artist-turned-astronomer tracks the galaxy's glowing ...
New Mexican
With a radar, when a meteor passes through the atmosphere, it pings back. "I don't have a radar. I'm using a method called forward scatter (or meteor ...

Oregon Trails: The history of meteorites in Oregon
KDRV
As long as men have watched the skies, meteorites, have held a special fascination. The Fitzwater Pass Meteorite, announced this week, was found near ...

Mars Rover Opportunity approaching possible meteorite
Science Daily Thu, 30 Sep 2010 22:22 PM PDT
Images that NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity took at the end of an 81-meter (266-foot) drive on Sept. 16 reveal a dark rock about 31 meters (102 feet) away. The rover's science team has decided to go get a closer look at the toaster-sized rock and determine whether it is an iron meteorite. ...

Meteor Crater Discovered - Articles - Coast to Coast AM
A meteor crater in the Egyptian desert, previously undiscovered, was recently revealed via Google Earth's satellite. The impact may be only a few thousand ...

Meteor/Meteorite News 1OOCT2010

Even small asteroids can cause big damage
Honolulu Star-Advertiser
This began to change with the verification only 50 years ago that the astrobleme now called Meteor Crater was indeed the result of an impact by a solid, ...

Meteor/fireball reported this evening
By Eric Sorensen
13News has received several reports of a fireball/meteor this evening. We do not have any word on whether it landed around here. We checked with the National Weather Service offices in Milwaukee and the Quad Cities and neither have had ...

Opportunity rover finds 6th Mars meteorite
Tehran Times
After spending the weekend studying a meteorite on Mars, NASA's rover Opportunity headed to yet another space rock — the sixth it has discovered on the Red ...

Meteor/Meteorite News 30SEP2010

Google Earth finds massive meteor crater!
By A Michael J. Scott
An Italian mineralogist found a massive meteor crater in the Egyptian desert using only Google Earth, the Telegraph reports. The meteor is thought to have hit as recently as a few thousand years ago, and geologists say its impact site ...

Habital Planet Discovery Announcement
Its preprint is in arXiv.org ...
http://lanl.arxiv.org/abs/1009.5733

Visible from Asheville area: Orionid meteor shower coming up
Asheville Citizen-Times
ASHEVILLE — Astronomers at the Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute (PARI) in Rosman remind the public of the annual Orionid Meteor Shower in October. ...

Space.com Forums | View topic - Meteor impacts news and updates
A 2008 Google Earth search led to the discovery of Kamil crater, one of the best -preserved meteorite impact sites ever found. Earlier this year, a gritty, ...

Meteor/Meteorite News 29SEP2010

Opportunity rover finds 6th Mars meteorite MSNBC Tue, 28 Sep 2010 07:45 AM PDT After spending the weekend studying a meteorite on Mars, NASA's rover Opportunity headed to yet another space rock the sixth it has discovered on the Red Planet, SPACE.com has learned. Mars - NASA - Opportunity rover - SPACE.com - Space ...

Mars moon Phobos likely forged by catastrophic blast MSNBC Tue, 28 Sep 2010 07:44 AM PDT Space.com: One of the two moons of Mars most likely formed from rubble catapulted into space after a comet or meteorite slammed into the Red Planet, a new study finds. Mars - Phobos - Space.com - Space - Solar System ...

Meteorite expert makes stop in S. Oregon NewsWatch 12 Medford - Klamath Falls Mon, 27 Sep 2010 19:21 PM PDT Over 3 decades ago a rare meteorite was found southwest of Lakeview. ...

Google Earth Finds Meteor Crater in Egypt
IndyPosted
The National Institute of Astrophysics believe that the meteor, which weighed about ten tons, was traveling at more than 7500 mph when it struck the earth. ...

Opportunity rover finds 6th Mars meteorite
msnbc.com
NASA's Mars rover Opportunity took this close-up photo of an iron meteorite on Mars. The meteorite is called Oilean Ruaidh and is the fifth iron meteorite ...

YouTube - SOUTHWESTERN FIREBALL: Meteor (Sept.21st;2010.)
SOUTHWESTERN FIREBALL: Last night (Sept. 21st) around 09:01 pm MDT, a dazzling fireball glided across the skies of New Mexico and west Texas. "We've been ...

Meteor/Meteorite News 28SEP2010

Google Earth helps discover massive meteor crater
Sify
London, Sep 28 (IANS) Google Earth has helped spot a meteor crater in Egypt that lay undiscovered, which could help scientists size up risks of potentially ...

Meteorite expert makes stop in S. Oregon
KDRV
A meteorite expert with Portland State University was in Lakeview Monday, urging residents to keep their eyes open for the rare rocks. ...

Opportunity Rover Finds 6th Mars Meteorite SPACE.com Mon, 27 Sep 2010 15:45 PM PDT After spending the weekend studying a meteorite on Mars, NASA's rover Opportunity headed to yet another space rock - the sixth it has discovered on the Red Planet. ...

Mars Moon Phobos Likely Forged by Catastrophic Blast SPACE.com Mon, 27 Sep 2010 05:15 AM PDT One of Mars' moons probably coalesced from rubble thrown into space after a comet or meteorite slammed into the Red Planet, a new study has found. ...

Google Earth Reveals Huge Meteor Crater 'Less Than Few Thousand' Years Old
Gather.com
An Italian scientist by the name of Vincenzo De Michele used Google Earth to uncover a previously unknown meteor crater in the Egyptian desert in 2008, ...

Meteor/Meteorite News 27SEP2010

Meteor/Meteorite News 26SEP2010

Rocket Launch Not a Meteor
25SEP2010  at about 9:41pm PDT there was a launch of a Minotaur IV rocket in California.  Several persons have checked my website thinking that they had seen a meteor... 
related  story: A Minotaur IV rocket is scheduled to launch from Space Launch Complex-8 here Sept. 25 at 9:41 pm PDT....  Minotaur IV launch scheduled.


100th anniversary: Pioneers' Home housed notables
Sun Shopper - Joanna Dodder Nellans - 6 hours ago
Albert Franklin Banta - often credited with being the first white man to discover Arizona's Meteor Crater. Banta first came to Arizona in 1863 and helped ...

Scientist confirms meteorite fall north of Jacksonville
Jacksonville Journal-Courier Sat, 25 Sep 2010 05:03 AM PDT
It was a mystery more than three years in the making. Not the bright lights reported across west-central Illinois the evening of Feb. 4, 2007. Most already figured the widespread calls to law enforcement agencies in Iowa, Wisconsin and Illinois...  

Bright September Meteor
Also seen by NASA's all sky meteor cameras at MSFC and in Chickamauga, GA, the meteor was located above the Atlanta area, some 180 miles away from where he ...

Google Earth helps scientist spot meteor crash site
Metro
The 10-tonne meteor drilled a hole 16m deep and 45m wide in the rocky terrain. Researchers are now analysing meteor fragments from the site. ...

Solved: mystery of the meteor-shedding asteroid

New Scientist
AN ASTEROID that is the source of an annual meteor shower may owe its weird crumbliness to intense cooking by the sun. Most meteor showers are thought to ...

Fireball seen over Santa Fe likely a meteor; plus video, page 1
A bright, "significant" fireball seen passing near Santa Fe and Pecos on Tuesday night was likely a meteor, according to an Eldorado astronomer who captured ...

Astro Bob blog: Curious dark rock on Mars may be visitor from the asteroid belt

Duluth News TribuneThe Opportunity Rover finds another possible iron meteorite on Mars. Some cool pix, including 3D photos. NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity used its ...


Jacksonville, IL (05 Feb 07, 0144 UTC)
Fireball Radar Analysis by Marc FriesThis post is in response to a comment from Jake (jacob.schafer5), who wrote (23 Sep 10): -
There was a fireball I saw a couple years ago while in western Indiana. Recently I have gotten into meteorite hunting and thought back on it and I guess a bunch of other people saw it too: [Event]#69 ...

Meteor/Meteorite Bulletin-- CA, AZ, NV, UT Meteor 24SEP2010 Detected -Update to follow

CA, AZ, NV, UT 8:40 Pacific 24SEP2010 Meteor Observers (c) 2010 Mike Bandli / LunarMeteoriteHunters 

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CA, AZ, NV, UT Meteor 24SEP2010  Meteor Detection System Trigger:

  The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News Site Traffic indicated a major meteor event over CA, AZ, NV and UT at approximately 8:40pm Pacific time on September 24. 
Subsequent checking on Facebook and Twitter also indicated meteor activity (see Google Earth image about to see where observers were located).

No further details are known at this time; updates to follow.  LunarMeteorite*Hunter

Sample of Search Data (incomplete listing):

Searcher`s Location ---- Searched Terms--- Time of Search ---

Santa Monica, California  september 24 2010 meteorite.  14:29:31 -- 8 minutes ago

Phoenix, Arizona  meteor crash arizons september 24 2010.  14:29:15 -- 8 minutes ago

Camarillo, California   fireball southern CA  14:27:18 -- 14 minutes ago

Chino Valley, Arizona meteor arizona  24 september 2010   14:08:36 -- 25 seconds ago

Hesperia, California  Fireball September, 24 2010  14:06:18 -- 2 minutes ago
  
San Bernardino, California a meteor sightings sept 24 2010.  13:59:59 -- 9 minutes ago

Los Angeles, California  fireball sightings in inland empire california sept 24 2010  13:55:56 -- 13 minutes ago


Lakeside, California  shooting star sightings sept. 24 2010.  13:43:38 -- 25 minutes ago

Las Vegas, Nevada meteor in california on september 24, 2010.  13:36:18 -- 32 minutes ago

Lake Hughes, California  large meteor in West Sept 24 2010.  13:30:58 -- 38 minutes ago

United States glowing fireball over mi sept 24 2010.  13:29:56 -- 39 minutes ago
  
Goodyear, Arizona  Sep 24 2010 meteor sighting Phoenix Az 2010.  13:20:02 -- 48 minutes ago


Chino Hills, California  meteor september 24 2010.  13:16:16 -- 52 minutes ago

Video #3 - "Event 3" Texas, New Mexico, Colorado Meteor 21SEP2010 9:01pm MDT 24SEP2010

"Event 3" Texas, New Mexico, Colorado Meteor 21SEP2010 9:01pm MDT

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posted on YouTube by weatherroads | 2010年09月23日 1View
Video Source: NMSU Allsky Camera Network (c)2010

Back to Other Meteor/Meteorite News 23SEP2010

Fireball seen over Santa Fe likely a meteor

New Mexican
A bright "significant" fireball seen passing near Santa Fe and Pecos last night was likely a meteor, according to an Eldorado astronomer observer who caught ...

Mars rover will look at possible meteorite

UPI.com
22 (UPI) -- The Mars Rover Opportunity snapped an image of a rock on the planet's surface that may be a meteorite and is being sent to investigate, ...

Google Earth Search Leads to Meteorite Impact Site Discovery in Egyptian Desert

Space Ref (press release)
A 2008 Google Earth search led to the discovery of Kamil crater, one of the best-preserved meteorite impact sites ever found. Earlier this year, a gritty, ...

Sandia National Laboratories meteor video

KRQE.com
The all-sky camera at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque captured a large meteor streaking across the sky Tuesday night.

NASA rover finds another possible meteorite on Mars
MSNBC Wed, 22 Sep 2010 09:44 AM PDT
NASA's plucky Mars rover Opportunity has discovered what appears to be another meteorite on the surface of the Red Planet, bringing its lifetime total to five so far.Space.com: Mars - Mars rover - Red Planet - Opportunity rover - Space ...

Rare meteorite discovered in rural southern Oregon
The Oregonian Tue, 21 Sep 2010 18:40 PM PDT
Chemical analysis has determined that the 63.6 gram (about 2 ounces) space rock belongs to the IIF iron meteorite group, which includes only eight other recognized meteorites across the globe, said Lyn Craig of Fossil, executive director of the nonprofit Libraries of Eastern Oregon. The libraries, with funding help from NASA, have sponsored Pugh to speak to more than four dozen public libraries ...

Martian meteorite grabs NASA Mars rover's attention Network World Wed, 22 Sep 2010 09:32 AM PDT NASA's Mars rover Opportunity will take a small detour on its current journey to check out what could be a toaster-sized iron-based meteorite that crashed into the red planet.... Read more

Oppyâs New Meteorite Find (in 3-D!) Universe Today Wed, 22 Sep 2010 07:10 AM PDT The Opportunity rover has done it again â found another strange-looking rock sitting on Meridiani Planum, and it looks like another meteorite. âThe dark color, rounded texture and the way it is perched on the surface all make it look like an iron meteorite,â said Matt Golombek from the MER science team. Unofficially named [...]

Opportunity finds possible meteorite PhysOrg Wed, 22 Sep 2010 06:28 AM PDT (PhysOrg.com) -- Images that NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity took at the end of an 81-meter (266-foot) drive on Sept. 16 reveal a dark rock about 31 meters (102 feet) away. The rover's science team has decided to go get a closer look at the toaster-sized rock and determine whether it is an iron meteorite....

Mars Rover Spies a Possible Meteorite Discovery News Wed, 22 Sep 2010 05:53 AM PDT Mars rover Opportunity will make a pit stop to get a closer look at the toaster-sized rock.... Ore. meteorite generating interest The Columbian Now he's learned it's actually a thumb-size meteorite that's generating interest from scientists around the world. Dick Pugh of the Cascadia Meteorite ... It came from outer space: Rare meteorite discovered in Oregon OregonLive.com Now, the thumb-sized "Fitzwater Pass meteorite" that he picked up in 1976 while hunting for agates and jasper is generating interest from scientists ... Terry Pratchett's Self-Made Meteorite Sword Slashdot Tue, 21 Sep 2010 07:37 AM PDT jamie writes "Fantasy author Sir Terry Pratchett says he was so excited after being knighted by the Queen that he decided to make his own sword to equip himself for his new status... the author dug up 81kg of ore and smelted it in the grounds of his house, using a makeshift kiln built from clay and hay and fueled with damp sheep manure. ... Sir Terry Pratchett's Self-Made Meteorite Sword Is the Closest We Get to Excalibur [Swords] Gizmodo Mon, 20 Sep 2010 20:10 PM PDT # swords Terry Pratchett may write a mean fantasy novel, but he also forges one heckuva sword. In honor of being knighted last year, Sir Pratchett dug up 175 pounds of iron ore, sprinkled in some meteorites, and made himself a proper weapon. ...

Sandia Video for "Event 3" of Major Bolides 21SEP2010 TX NM CO

Sandia Video for "Event 3" of Major Bolide 21SEP2010 TX, NM, CO
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Fireball event over Oregon and Washington Thursday, September 23, 2010 5:46 AM

Fireball event over Oregon and Washington
At 6:00 a.m., yesterday, Tuesday September 21st, fishermen
along the Deschutes river near the Columbia river witness a
large fireball traveling from the South to the North. It
broke into multiple pieces with numerous bursts and disruptions. They saw glowing pieces moving beyond the fireballs. The light from the fireball cast shadows and illuminated the ground as dawn was approaching. Several photographs were taken of the fireball and the contrail that remained in the sky after the event. Bob Toman a river guide sitting in his jet sled at the mouth of the Deschutes where it flows into the Columbia river said that it was close to dark there on the river but the contrail was illuminated by the rising sunlight.
E.T. posted on Meteorite List

UPDATES Coming In --Texas, New Mexico, Colorado Fireball 21SEP2010 23SEP2010

Meteor lights up New Mexico night sky

posted on YouTube by KRQE | 2010年09月22日1View

New Mexicans looking skyward at about 9:03 p.m. Tuesday witnessed a brighter-than-average meteor streaking across the sky.

Major Bolide Meteor Fireball 23 Seconds Duration Texas, New Mexico, Colorado 21SEP2010

Major Asteroid Debris Passes? or Hits?
Bolide Meteor Fireball 23-Second Duration Texas, New Mexico, Colorado 21SEP2010

"EVENT 3"- 23 Seconds!!! Multple Bolide Event 9:03MDT 21SEP2010
(03:03 UTC 22SEP2010) Event 3 of 4 reported
written and reported by Jim Gamble (El Paso) and Dirk Ross (Tokyo)
All RightsReserved LunarMeteorite*Hunters 12:03p 22 SEP2010 Tokyo
Contact for publication: drtanuki@gmail.com

Allsky cameras throughout New Mexico captured a major bolide(s)/meteor fireball（ｓ） at approximately 9:03 pm MDT (03:03 UTC). The fireball was traveling SSE to NNW, one of which flew directly over Albuquerque, NM producing sonic booms as reported by Thomas Ashcraft of the Ashcraft All Sky Meteor Observatory in Santa Fe, NM.
The "Event 3" was visually observed from El Paso All Sky Camera in El Paso, Texas by Jim Gamble. Initial estimates place the magnitude of the event at a -11 (nearly as bright as the full moon).
"Event 3", captured by the Ashcraft Observatory had a duration of 23 seconds with no terminal detonation detected, even though sonic booms were reported.
Additional data/video from Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, NM. and New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, NM. will be released later when available.
Reports on Events 1, 2, and 4 are posted, please see Jim Gamble`s Website @ http://www.elpasoallsky.blogspot.com/

Asteroid Debris Bolide Event #3 Video

Video Credit: Thomas Ashcraft (c) 2010 ALL Rights Reserved
TX, NM, CO "Event 3" Asteroid Bolide 21SEP2010

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