The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 24OCT2014

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They are usually seen during meteor showers. During the next few days the Orionid shower will reach its maximum. According to the work group, .

Discussion of a GSA session on Mars minerals:
<http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2014/10231731-gsa-2014-the-puzzle-of-gale.html>

MAVEN Ultraviolet Image of Comet Siding Spring's Hydrogen Coma
NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft obtained
this ultraviolet image of hydrogen surrounding comet C/2013 A1 Siding
Spring on Oct. 17, 2014,

Extinctions common but complicated
Brantford Expositor
By now most people are aware that the current theory of the extinction of the dinosaurs is that a large meteor struck the Earth about 65 million years .

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Fireball from 22 October 2014 captured by 4 cameras
UK Meteor Observation Network
fireball from 22 October at 05:44:02 UT was captured by three UKMON cameras.

Did Mammals Sleep Through Cosmic Impact That Ended Dinosaurs?LiveScience.com via Yahoo! News - 10 hours
A shrewlike creature in Madagascar that can hibernate for at least nine months of the year without waking may help reveal how mammals ...

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They are usually seen during meteor showers. During the next few days the Orionid shower will reach its maximum. According to the work group, .

"Green Glow" of the Orionid Meteor Shower
Cloudy Nights
An image of an early Orionid meteor from 2013, along with the green glow of ... The picture was described by anchor David Muir as the Orionid meteor ...

Comet Siding Spring hurtles past Mars in rare close fly-by
Telegraph.co.uk
Mars' atmosphere, though much thinner than Earth's, will shield Nasa's Opportunity and Curiosity rovers from comet dust, which may trigger meteor ...

Fancy some stargazing? Halley's Comet will be over Scottish skies tonight
Aberdeen Press and Journal
Keen stargazers will enjoy a view of a meteor shower caused by the tail end of Halley's comet tonight – providing the skies stay clear enough for them ...

Solar Eclipse On October 23rd Visible Without Telescope; May Cause Meteor Shower
Before It's News
A solar eclipse is expected to wow North America and cause a meteor shower at the same time, according to NASA. This is an event that must not be ...

Newspaper item about a meteor from 1865 - Hubbardsville, Mass.
City-Data.com
The "gelatinous... substance" aside, this must have been an exceptional meteor/fireball but I have found no record of it. Or perhaps it's a complete ...

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The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 22OCT2014

Fireball seen over Trussville, Ala.
Washington Post
October 21, 2014 9:36 AM EDT - A fireball blazed through the sky over Alabama on Monday, as the Orionid meteor shower came to its peak. (YouTube ...

Moment Mystery Light Streaked Across Night Sky Captured on Video
ABC News
While it's not entirely clear what the streak of light captured on the security camera is, it's possible it could be the fireball that Cooke mentions.

Watch live! NASA video streams Orionid meteor shower – or go outside and look yourself

The Register - 20 hours
Earth passes through Halley’s Comet debris Vid If you're in a position to see the constellation of Orion tonight then it's time to enjoy the ...

Orionids Live Stream: Watch The Orionid MeteorShower Peak Here
International Business Times
The Orionid meteor shower peaks this week, and it will be easy to observe the meteors from Halley's Comet in person or from the comfort of one's ...

Watch: Meteor showers visible Tuesday night
The Courier-Journal
A big meteor shower called the Orionids, could produce as many as 60 falling stars an hour as the Earth passes through the trail of Halley's comet.

Meteorite
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They are usually seen during meteor showers. During the next few days the Orioniden shower will reach its maximum. According to the work group, .

Nuke the asteroid aggressors?
Charleston Post Courier
In this frame grab made from dashboard camera vide shows a meteor streaking through the sky over Chelyabinsk, about 930 miles east of Moscow, ...

Moment Mystery Light Streaked Across Night Sky Captured on Video
ABC News
The sighting came as the Earth passed through the debris cloud from Halley's Comet, which produces the annual Orionid meteor shower. Bill Cooke of ...

Watch the skies! Halley's Comet meteor shower
Edinburgh Evening News - The Scotsman
A METEOR shower is set to light up the night sky above Edinburgh as the cosmic dust from Halley's Comet hits the Earth's atmosphere.

Latest weather forecast from KRDO
Pueblo Chieftain
Tonight: Mostly cloudy skies will blanket southern Colorado, making the second viewing of the Orinoid Meteor Shower a bit less visible. If you head out ..

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The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 21OCT2014

“Fireball” meteor streaks across Dutch sky
NL Times
They are usually seen during meteor showers. During the next few days the Orioniden shower will reach its maximum. According to the work group, ...

Report on fireball from 19 October 2014
ukmeteornetwork.co.uk
Then we received further confirmation from Oostkapelle video-allsky camera based in Holland, notice small image with meteor trail 6 minutes later.

Meteor showers predicted early Tuesday morning
ABC15.com
If you wake up early enough on Tuesday, you might see some shooting stars.

Viewing the Orionid Meteor Shower in 2014
American Meteor Society
Radiant drift for the Orionids during October and early November (Courtesy the InternationalMeteor Organization). The next few nights will provide the ..

Pre-dawn meteor shower forecast Tuesday
Mobile Site - Jamaica Observer
Pre-dawn meteor shower forecast Tuesday. Monday, October 20, 2014. PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (Trinidad Express) -- Weather permitting, ...

Look up! Orionid meteor shower coming the next 2 nights
Before It's News
The Orionid meteor shower will be visible Monday and Tuesday nights. There could be as many as 25 meteors per hour at its height, according to ...

Monday Weather: Sunny; Clear For Orionids MeteorShower Tonight
KOAA.com
... in the mountains west of I-25. That makes for overall favorable viewing for the Orionids Meteor Shower, which peaks tonight and tomorrow morning.

Catch the Orionid Meteor Shower
U.S. News & World Report
According to NASA, the Orionid meteor shower is scheduled to occur just before sunrise on Tuesday. The shower will produce 20 meteors per hour as ...

See the Orionid meteor shower Tuesday from 3-6am
FOX2now.com
ST. LOUIS, MO (KTVI) – You can see a meteor show early Tuesday morning in St. Louis. The Orionid Meteor shower will be visible in the area from ...

Comet Siding Spring Whizzes Past Mars

Discovery News - 10 hours
A comet the size of a small mountain and about as solid as a pile of talcum powder whizzed past Mars.

Water On The Moon Was Blown in by Solar Wind

Universe Today - 3 hours
When they first set foot on the Moon, the Apollo 11 astronauts painted a picture of the landscape as a bone-dry desert. So astronomers were ...

Russia Plans to Boost Space Monitoring Capability by 2018Russian Information Agency Novosti - 4 hours
Russia will build a network of advanced laser-optical and radar stations in the next four years to boost its space object recognition ...

Orionids meteor shower

Daily Telegraph - 10 hours
The Orionid meteor shower, a trail of debris left in space by Halley's Comet, will light up the night sky tonight and tomorrow

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The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 20OCT2014

“Fireball” meteor streaks across Dutch sky
NL Times
The Werkgroep Meteoren says that it was visible as a bright sphere. The work group received more than 20 reports from people who saw thefireball ...

MBIQ Detects UK Meteor 19OCT2014
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Initial Meteor Sighting Reports-. 19OCT2014 Peter Nottingham, UK 20:15 gmt Maybe 1 to 2 seconds Left to right at about 45 degrees, we were facing ...

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MBIQ Detects UK Meteor 19OCT2014

MBIQ Detects UK Meteor Approx. 2015 GMT 19OCT2014

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UK Meteor Approx. 2015 GMT 19OCT2014
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Check your security cameras!
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Initial Meteor Sighting Reports-

19OCT2014 Peter Nottingham, UK 20:15 gmt Maybe 1 to 2 seconds Left to right at about 45 degrees, we were facing south Bright white, blue white trail off both sides Bright bulb White trail about 4 times longer than the bright light at from of formation Nothing else. Extremely fast

19OCT2014 Ivan Friedman Eastbourne,UK 20:15pm? 2 Facing the sea, left to right, white, blue, yellow halo brighter than the moon, dimmer than the sun no, just one big ball of flame It looked really big and I saw it for a very short time before it disappeared into the sea mist.

All meteor sighting reports can be seen here
http://thelatestworldwidemeteorreports.blogspot.com/

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Bright Fireball Meteor Lights Up Japan Skies 15OCT2014 Posted to YouTube by nemesis maturity 117 views. Slow fireball emerged from the .

PA NY Fireball Meteor 17OCT2014
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"click on image to enlarge" PA NY Fireball Meteor Apprx. 0:45 AM EDT 17OCT2014 v.1 c2014 LunarMeteoriteHunter / Google Earth ..

Local astronomer thinks big 'boom' heard in ArkLaTex could have been meteor
KLTV
... afternoon, but there are some clues and plenty of theories, including what one local astronomer described as a meteor entering the atmosphere.

The once in a million year flypast of Mars: Nasa prepares to observe close encounter with 'dawn of ...
Daily Mail
Observations of the Martian atmosphere are designed to check for possible meteor trails, changes in distribution of neutral and charged particles, and ...

A close encounter in the city's skies?
Plymouth Herald
David Wilton, chair of the astronomical society, said: "There is a big meteor shower that peaks next Tuesday, so possibly it could be one of these.

Meteor Activity Outlook for October 18-24, 2014
American Meteor Society
The estimated total hourly meteor rates for evening observers this week is near 3 as seen from the northern hemisphere and 2 as seen from southern ...

Russia's Meteor Shower As Seen By Social Media
YouTube ⋅ 07:24
Catalyst: Meteors - Citizens of Chelyabinsk document the natural phenomenon through social media : ...

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Two Daytime Meteors Witnessed Over US in 9 Days

Two Daytime Meteors Witnessed Over the US in 9 Days, one in Arizona and one in Louisiana,
... and BOTH likely produced meteorites. Hunters are currently scouring the fall areas for them.

The Flagstaff, AZ daytime bolide meteor was seen leaving a debris trail on 04OCT2014 at approximately 0900 MDT and then on 13OCT2014 at 1623 CDT the Shreveport, LA Loud Boom was heard and witnessed. We now have solid evidence including radar images of the debris clouds. Debris clouds from both events indicate meteorites have survived, and are yet to be found.

More details will be added later... off to bed.

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The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite New 18OCT2014

Japan Fireball Meteor 15OCT2014
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Bright Fireball Meteor Lights Up Japan Skies 15OCT2014 Posted to YouTube by nemesis maturity 117 views. Slow fireball emerged from the ...

The Big Boom: Could it have been a meteorite?

KSLA-TV Shreveport - 5 hours
One theory that the loud "boom" heard around the ArkLaTex on Monday might have been a meteorite fits a few of the clues some say could be ..

Local astronomer thinks big 'boom' heard in ArkLaTex could have been meteor
KSLA-TV
"The best answer is that it must have to be some type of meteor that for some odd reason we didn't see, and it exploded in our atmosphere," he said.

Ready for Prime Time: Comet to Buzz Mars on Sunday

Discovery News - 5 hours
Comet Siding Spring will make a heart-stopping close flyby of the Red Planet in Sunday, giving our Martian armada of robotic explorers a ...

Orionids meteor shower 2014: October peak times, how to watch brilliant fireball display on Oct. 21
ChristianToday
Sky watchers around the world will be able to see the biggest display of meteor rain before the morning breaks on Oct. 21 and Oct. 22, when the ...

Possible Meteor Explosion/Mystery Boom over Louisianan Oct 15th 2014
YouTube ⋅ 07:29
Possible Meteor Explosion/ Mystery Boom over Louisianan Oct 15th 2014 http://www.inquisitr.com/1541850/a-lo.

Orionids Meteor Shower 2014: Peak Time and Dates for Orionid Meteors From Comet Halley
The Epoch Times
An astronomer observes the night sky for Orionid Meteors as uses a laser pointer to show a radiate at an observatory near the village of Avren east of ...

Your Chance To Name A Comet Landing Site
Jet Propulsion Laboratory- October 16, 2014
Ever want to get in on the celestial feature-naming action? Now is your
chance. The European Space Agency is inviting the public to suggest a
name for the site where the Rosetta mission's Philae lander will touch

Rare moon rocks and priceless meteorites land in Trimdon school

Northern Echo - 13 hours
FASCINATED children got to grips with rare moon rocks and meteorites dating back billions of years this week.

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PA NY Fireball Meteor 17OCT2014

PA NY Fireball Meteor Apprx. 0:45 AM EDT 17OCT2014 w/ sonics!

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PA NY Fireball Meteor Apprx. 0:45 AM EDT 17OCT2014
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Please report YOUR sightings! Thank you. Report HERE link

Check your security cameras!
Please file your meteor sightings please HERE-
http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.jp/2000/11/meteor-fireball-report-form.html

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-

17OCT2014 Geoff Chambers Allentown, PA 00:45 AM (approx) 1-2 sec max approx SE-NW direction (could be off) white, no sound bright as moon unknown fireball broke through overcast sky, witnessed by my wife and me in separate vehicles

17OCT2014 Lisa Osborne Hawley,PA 00:50/EST/AM 5-6 seconds United States Rumbling then explosion sound lit up the woods like day The 3 tafton Firefighters said it was extremely bright and lit up the woods. I and many others heard it as a rolling type of loudness such as an explosion that starts to drift off. No photo but it was heard by myself and by many in Wayne, Pike Monroe County PA witnessed by 3 Tafton PA firefighters.

17OCT2014 gunther buetow sidney ny 00:50/EST 1-3 secs facing south west. start midway/ top of sky heading down. Ended after it passed the tree line. direction north east to south east flash of blue light. lit up whole sky similar to lightning. object was a bright green light bright as full moon and smiliar size to moon in sky no fragmentation visible two other people present. 10 min earlier small shooting star passed in different direction i was not a witness to the shooting star but a witness to the green light ball

17OCT2014 Sister Lynn, CSJ North Merrick, NY USA 0:45 AM 5-10sec NNW Blue/green Brighter than Venus, appeared much larger than visible stars I didn't not any Beautiful

17OCT2014 russ Saratoga New York USA 00:42 eastern am 2-3 sec E-W green very bright like a flare then exploded no when it went below some clouds it exploded and lite up the sky

All 9 meteor sighting reports can be seen here
http://thelatestworldwidemeteorreports.blogspot.com/

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Japan Fireball Meteor 15OCT2014

Japan Fireball  Meteor 0453 JST 15OCT2014

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Japan Fireball  Meteor 0453 JST 15OCT2014
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Bright Fireball Meteor Lights Up Japan Skies 15OCT2014
Posted to YouTube by nemesis maturity 117 views
Slow fireball emerged from the Southwest.

Sonotaco Meteor Forum- For Many more spectacular photos and videos of this event.
http://sonotaco.jp/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3360&sid=3332f088d9831ecdecaf7de367f745ab

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The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite New 17OCT2014

Bright Fireball Meteor Lights Up Japan Skies 15OCT2014
YouTube ⋅ 01:08
Japan Bright Fireball Meteor 15OCT2014 Japan Fireball Meteor 04:53 JST 15OCT2014 Slow fireball emerged from the Southwest.

Recife, Brasil Large Bolide
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Posted to YouTube by Canal So bexsteira 301 views. Transformer Substation electrical explosion/s. Please report YOUR meteor sightings! Thank you.

Mysterious Loud Boom Heard In ArkLaTex
Headlines & Global News
IF media witness reports are correct, and IF this event was meteor related, the detonation occurred near Greenwood, LA and Waskom, LA areas at ...

Orionid Meteor Shower, Morning 22 October 2014
Astroblog
You can find out the predicted rates for your location using the NASA meteor flux estimator (use 8 Orionids and make sure you set the dates to 21-22 ...

How is a meteor crater formed?
Yahoo
Science & Mathematics >; Earth Sciences & Geology. Science & Mathematics >; Earth Sciences & Geology. Next ...

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Louisiana Loud Boom - Mystery NOT solved / Meteor After All?

Update- 18OCT2014 0515 JST
X-37B Returns Safely / Louisiana X-37B Loud Boom - Mystery NOT Solved / Meteor Again?

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
From: 30th Space Wing Public Affairs, www.vandenberg.af.mil

X-37B ORBITAL TEST VEHICLE-3 LANDS AT VANDENBERG AFB
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -

The X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle mission 3 (OTV-3), the Air Force's unmanned, reusable space plane, landed at Vandenberg Air Force Base at 9:24 a.m. Oct. 17 . "The 30th Space Wing and our mission partners, Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office, Boeing, and our base support contractors, have put countless hours of hard work into preparing for this landing and today we were able to see the culmination of that dedication," said Col Keith Balts, 30th Space Wing commander. "I'm extremely proud of our team for coming together to execute this third safe and successful landing. Everyone from our on console space operators to our airfield managers and civil engineers take pride in this unique mission and exemplify excellence during its execution." The OTV-3 conducted on-orbit experiments for 674 days during its mission, extending the total number of days spent on-orbit for the OTV program to 1367 days. "The landing of OTV-3 marks a hallmark event for the program" said the X-37B program manager. "The mission is our longest to date and we're pleased with the incremental progress we've seen in our testing of the reusable space plane. The dedication and hard work by the entire team has made us extremely proud." The X-37B is the newest and most advanced re-entry spacecraft. Managed by the Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office, the X-37B program performs risk 

reduction, experimentation and concept of operations development for reusable space vehicle technologies. The Air Force is preparing to launch the fourth X-37B mission from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in 2015.

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Louisiana X-37B Loud Boom - Mystery Solved NOT Solved -Scrap this hypothesis
SECRET X-37B Re-entry Path Over Shreveport, LA. 13OCT2014 -- Controlled Deceleration of the Craft Caused the Loud Boom!
Convenient cloudy overcast provided cover.
written 2340 JST,  16OCT2014 Tokyo
by Dirk Ross...LunarMeteoriteHunter, Tokyo

SECRET Boeing X-37B / NASA

Since the mystery Loud Boom in the Shreveport, Louisiana area on Monday, October 13 at approximately 4:27 pm CDT, the event was felt and heard by thousands of residents in and around the city.and even over the state line into Texas some 35 miles away.

   At the time of the event I started getting an unusual pattern of traffic indicating an event and then queries starting coming in.  I immediately set off to post about the event in hopes of capturing reports from witnesses and to break the news story ahead of the media..  Minutes later I had the event confirmed via my network.

  Since Shreveport has had past loud booms, one on October 15, 2012 being the most recent, it was first guessed that it might have been a munitions bunker again, but it wasn't.  The Calumet plant was the next suspect because they had a prior loud boom; Calumet - negative!  Pipelines, other possible factories, and the military bases no cause was found.

 The next likely culprit, and my favorite at the time was a bolide, a large meteor, entering and fragmenting and this hypothesis lasted about two days for me.

 After contacting Marc Fries, a meteor radar expert, asked him to search for possible radar debris evidence;  Marc reported, "Nothing!". Meanwhile the National Weather Service, found a debris plume to the southeast of Shreveport.  NWS called the artifact a debris cloud. Marc found the same artifact on the same radar 15 minutes PRIOR to the event, discounting radar debris field evidence.

  This started me thinking about other possibilities. Was it a re-entry craft or vehicle, and what kind?

   The Google Search bar quickly found the SECRET X-37B, "Space Drone", was scheduled to be back at any time soon and of course secret, but open sources gave the location as Vandenberg AFB in California, but I also found that there was talk of landing one "in the future" at KFC as a trial run.

  Ok, I had my possible cause, looking more deeply into the bowels of Google and an IDEA hit me; check the Columbia return path!  Well I didn't just then, but I found that the Columbia had first entered over land at San Francisco, California and was to land at Kennedy Flight Center.  On Google Earth, I drew a line between the two locations, the line went right over Shreveport!  I found the Columbia's path on an official map, the map showed the flight path right over the Shreveport, LA area.

  This set me off on a search chase to find out more about the X-37B ......which I will write about later.  ........More about the story to come................ to be continued after I have some sleep

  The previous original post reports and prior updates can be read here -
http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.jp/2014/10/shreveport-louisiana-loud-boom-meteor.html

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Metal Tile "Meteorite" Falls in NJ

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Metal Tile "Meteorite" Falls in NJ -08OCT2014 Man Believes Debris Fell From Sky Onto Secaucus, NJ Waste Water Treatment Plant CBS NY October ...

2014 Meteor Shower: Orionids Meteor Shower To Peak On October 21, Sky Event To Offer Brilliant ...

International Business Times AU

Sky watchers will be able to observe a meteor shower display happening this October. The Orionids meteor shower is set to peak on Tuesday, Oct. 21, ...

Meteorite fragments discovered 20 years after bolide event in Czech RepublicScience Daily  - 7 hours 
Scientists have discovered meteorite fragments 20 years after the corresponding bolide was seen in the skies of the Czech Republic. This ...

A Loud ‘Boom’ Rattled Northwestern Louisiana And The National Weather Service Has Spotted A ‘Debris Field’The Inquisitr  - 5 hours 
Residents of northeastern Louisiana were rattled Monday when a still-unexplained (as of this post) loud boom cracked the sky, and now the ...

Europe gives green light for comet landing sitePhysOrg  - 8 hours 
The European Space Agency (ESA) confirmed Wednesday its choice of the site for a historic unmanned landing next month on a comet in deep ...

Comet A1 Siding Spring vs Mars—views in space and timePhysOrg  - 8 hours 
Oh, to be a stranded astronaut on the surface of the planet Mars this week. There's a great scene from Andy Weir's recent novel The Martian ...

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Recife, Brasil Large Bolide 15OCT2014 Breaking News

Recife, Brasil Large Bolide 2221 Local Time 15OCT2014 -

[TV JORNAL] Queda de meteoro assusta população do Grande Recife e outros estados
Posted to YouTube by TV Jornal 7,847 views
  Likely a meteor caused the flash that lit up the sky in Recife during the night of Wednesday (15), around 22h. Cameras and Urban Transit Company Transportation (CTTU) recorded the phenomenon. The celestial body probably went into combustion when it came into contact with the air pressure in the atmosphere and formed a fireball, fireball named. According to the Astronomical Society of Recife (SAR), the explosion is part of the "Meteor Orionídea", which starts on the 14th and ends on the 29th of this month.

Um provável meteoro causou o clarão que iluminou o céu do Recife, durante a noite dessa quarta-feira (15), por volta das 22h. Câmeras da Companhia de Trânsito e Transporte Urbano (CTTU) registraram o fenômeno. O corpo celeste provavelmente entrou em combustão quando entrou em contato com a pressão do ar na atmosfera e formou uma bola de fogo, denominada bólido. Segundo a Sociedade Astronômica do Recife (SAR), a explosão faz parte da "Chuva de Meteoros Orionídea", que tem início no dia 14 e termina no dia 29 deste mês.

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Brasil Meteor Reports-
English Report Translation by Google Translate-
15 / 0ct / 2014 ...... 22:21 TL .......... a large bolide as never seen before. Was in the balcony (Recife) when a light (I think it lasted about 2 or 3 sec) very bright, behind a small cloud, lit the porch like an electric arc. I did not hear thunder. Not seen the direction, but still had time to see the glow in the sky, was approximately 70 degrees north altitude (almost overhead) by the meridian. There are cameras here in the region ... - Pierson B.

Portuguese-
15/0ut/2014......22:21 TL..........um grande bólido como nunca havia visto antes. Estava na varanda (em Recife) quando uma luz (acho que durou uns 2 ou 3 seg) muito brilhante, por trás de uma pequena nuvem, iluminou a varanda como um arco voltaico. Não ouvi trovão. Não vi a direção, mas ainda deu tempo de ver o clarão no céu, foi a aproximadamente a 70 graus de altitude norte (quase zenital) pelo meridiano. Não há câmeras por aqui na região........ Pierson B.

Was sighted in João Pessoa, PB, Brazil. I just saw the blue flash, no noise.
- Luan F.


Press Reports-

Moradores do Grande Recife reportam um clarão ocorrido na noite desta quarta
Fenômeno foi visto em locais como Olinda, Parnamirim e Aldeia
Publicado em 15/10/2014, às 23h56
http://jconline.ne10.uol.com.br/canal/cidades/cienciamambiente/noticia/2014/10/15/moradores-do-grande-recife-reportam-um-clarao-ocorrido-na-noite-desta-quarta-151279.php

All meteor sighting reports can be seen here
http://thelatestworldwidemeteorreports.blogspot.com/

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Ceramic / Metal Tile "Meteorite" Falls in NJ -08OCT2014

Ceramic / Metal Tile "Meteorite" Falls in NJ -08OCT2014

Ceramic / Metal Tile
Photo Source - nbcnewyork

Man Believes Debris Fell From Sky Onto Secaucus, NJ Waste Water Treatment Plant
CBS NY October 9, 2014 4:15 PM
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/10/09/1010-wins-exclusive-man-believes-debris-fell-from-sky-onto-secaucus-waste-water-treatment-plant/

Falling Metal Object Mystifies New Jersey Plant Workers

nbc NY
http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Mystery-Metal-Object-Falls-New-Jersey-Treatment-Plant-278745461.html

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Daytime Meteor Fireball Spotted Over Arizona - Saturday 10/4/14
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Shreveport meteor
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Italy / Austria Bolide Meteor 12OCT2014

Italy / Austria Bolide Meteor 21h31m UT 12OCT2014

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Italy / Austria Bolide Meteor 21h31m UT 12OCT2014
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Italian Meteor Group

My video camera near Venice (Italy) captured the bright fireball at 21h31m UT of 2014 October 12 probably over NE Italy/Austria.
  The photo above is a composite image of the event.This bright object suffered a sequence of spectacular flares and finished with an big explosion (video magn -12). I think it was a Taurid meteor member. My image shows a part of fireball until just the exit from the FOV in the NNE direction.
Obs: Enrico STOMEO
Loc: Scorze'(VE) 45.56N 12.11E
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Italian Meteor Group - http://meteore.uai.it
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Thank you Enrico for your report! - LMH

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Shreveport, Louisiana LOUD BOOM Meteor 13OCT2014
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Florida / Georgia Early Morning Fireball Meteor 13OCT2014
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"click on image to enlarge" Florida / Georgia Early Morning Fireball Meteor Apprx. 0454 EDT 13OCT2014 v.1 c2014 LunarMeteoriteHunter / Google ...

Boa Vista, RR, Brasil Fireball Meteor 11OCT2014 w/ Video
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Shreveport, Louisiana LOUD BOOM Possible Meteor 13OCT2014

BREAKING -- Latest UPDATE-- 1235 JST  16OCT2014 LMH , Tokyo
Approximate flight path defined and deceleration location approximated.
According to meteor radar expert, Marc Fries, this was not the debris,  The so-called "debris" were on the radar in the same location 15 minutes prior to the event, according to Fries. -LMH

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Approximate Flight Path of Re-entry.

Sound barrier deceleration occurred just South of Greenwod, LA at High Altitude

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UPDATE-
DEBRIS FIELD Located! strikeout @  1235 JST  16OCT2014 LMH , Tokyo
Still mystery event! - latest information
Shreveport, Louisiana LOUD BOOM  POSSIBLE Meteor Event 1627 CDT 13OCT2014
Meteor??? Maybe? ---- 35 Miles away heard in Texas!  IF it was a large meteoroid fragmentation a LOUD BOOM would result.  IF media witness reports are correct, and IF this event was meteor related, the detonation occurred near Greenwood, LA and Waskom, LA areas at 18-25 miles above the Earth. 
  According to media reports military, refinery, and pipelines are not responsible for the Boom.
-LunarMeteoriteHunter  updated 0158 JST 15OCT2014, Tokyo, Japan

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Shreveport, Louisiana LOUD BOOM Possible Meteor 1627 CDT 13OCT2014

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Debris Field Found on Radar
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UPDATE-
Still mystery event!  I have just been informed that the Calumet report by KTBS.com was from a prior event.

UPDATE-
  "On the local 10:00 PM News, still no Official Word today on the Sonic Boom from the Sky.
  My guess, a large Meteor entering the atmosphere at a shallow angle. At the time of the Sonic Boom , about 4:30 PM, the local relative direction of the Earth was away the Sky, toward the Ground, whereas opposite motion of the Earth at 4:30 AM is somewhat from the Ground toward the Sky. When the Sun is low in the Western Sky or in the early evening, the Earth is moving away from the direction overhead, this is why many of these Sonic Boom-generating Meteors come in at a shallow angle, late in the afternoon or early evening. The Asteroid fragment last year in Russia, happened in the morning, locally the Earth was moving toward the sky amplifying the meteor’s velocity. It is just a matter if time; a large object will slam into the atmosphere over a populated area. The object over Chelyabinsk Russia, February 15, 2013, weighed over 12,000 metric tons, traveling over 40,000 mph, equaled the destructive force of 500,000 tons of TNT. Fortunately that object in Russia burst high in the Sky with a relatively shallow horizontal motion. If it had come in at a steeper angle, the shock wave would have slammed perpendicularly against the ground focusing the local energy of the shock wave, smashing entire cities, like that of the event in Russia 100 years ago.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelyabinsk_meteor#mediaviewer/File:Meteoroid_-_Meteor_(Bolide)_-_Meteorite.gif

  In a few days a Comet, the size of a mountain will fly by Mars at a relative 33 Miles per second, passing a few thousand miles from its surface. Luckily the Solar System has been swept clear of most of these large objects perhaps hundreds of millions of years ago, or else our planet would not be as friendly a place to live as it is now, however, since there are so many of us on the surface of the Earth, some are an easy target for much smaller and more numerous objects."

- Jay Salsburg, Shreveport, Louisiana

UPDATE-

 " When folks across the ArkLaTex were startled by a loud boom late Monday afternoon, most assumed it was just another clap of thunder on a rainy day. But what they heard was an explosion that rocked Shreveport’s Calumet Refinery, a blast that caused two employees to be hospitalized.
  SFD says the fire was contained to a small, gasoline making section of the refinery and that there was no threat to the surrounding area. The two injured workers were taken to a nearby hospital with injuries that were considered minor.
  The cause of the explosion will now be investigated by a team of Calumet safety specialists. The refinery is located just south of I-20 across from the state fairgrounds." 
- Jay Salsburg, Shreveport, Louisiana
I have JUST been informed that the Calumet report by KTBS.com was from a prior event.

Initial Meteor Sighting Reports-

"How did you hear about this report? I was deep asleep, but it woke me. I remember hearing a very loud pop, then a series of reverberant booms travelling across the sky. When I went to sleep, we were having thunderstorms so I just thought it was a close lightning strike, but now that there is so much mystery, I do remember it did not sound like Thunder but a sonic boom, I remember them from the 1960s. For it to have waked me from sleep it would have to have been very loud, I sleep like a rock. Unfortunately the sky was overcast. Maybe an airline pilot saw something, but you know how they are about Unidentified Flying Objects. If this was heard over such a wide area, it had to have been at high altitude."
- Jay Salsburg, Shreveport, Louisiana

13OCT2014 Stephen Foster Shreveport, LA 4:30ish pop/boom 2-3 sec until pressure waves shook windows Indoors at my home.Sound came from the backyard area and shook the back windows of the house the most. That would have put the direction west to southwest of my location. n/a n/a n/a Indoors when me and my kids heard it. Sounded similar to thunder, but was a sharper more distinct pop. Then the windows in my home rattled seconds later. My daughter asked what was that? I though initially it was thunder since we had been having storms in the area that day.

13OCT2014 Misty Roberts Shreveport, La 16:26 CDT 5 SEC above and everywhere extremely LOUD BOOM(S) no lights none seen VERY loud boom, then 2 smaller ones (like echoes maybe) that was felt AND heard. SCARY!!!!

13OCT2014 Jay Salsburg Shreveport, Louisiana, USA 16:26 CDT 15 seconds seemed that the sound was coming from the West and above extremely LOUD BOOM(S) N/A N/A Pop Sound followed by Sonic Booms
13OCT2014 Sarah Keithville ,la. 1630 PM central time 2 sec East We heard a very loud. BOOM sound and it shook my house Didn't see anything Didn't see anything This shook my home and rattled windows sounding like in my yard going off , It was so loud it made me jump out of laying down and dead sleep , run to check on my kids outside and thought it was a military detonation of some type . Sounded like a military grade BOOM of middle or cannon .

13OCT2014 Emily Sanchez Stonewall, LA 1625 central, PM It was quick, almost a minute maybe. No sight Immediate big boom, I thought a tree had fallen close by, but I did not see anything when I walked outside after it happened. N/A N/A The bad storm just passed away an ended and after is when the boom sounded, I felt vibrations, it shook my house like rattled it, every dog on our property were barking. Our outside dogs barked greatly. There were no signs of anything, no trees down, no smoke. Winds did pick up, it was very gusty and the cold front did seem to already start, it got somewhat cool.

13OCT2014 RJ Bossier city, LA 16:27:00 1 United States Boom no no no

13OCT2014 Brian WC Shreveport, LA, US 16:26 PM CDT 5 seconds unknown no LOUD BOOM unknown loud boom heard over NW Louisiana and far east Texas. It has been erroneously reported as a refinery explosion in another report. However, people have been mistakenly looking at a news story from a similar explosion two years ago. The refinery in question was not at the epicenter of the noise this time.


Media News Reports-

Debris field spotted on radar at time of boom heard around the ArkLaTex
Posted: Oct 15, 2014 3:20 AM TSTUpdated: Oct 15, 2014 9:35 AM TST
By Carolyn Roy
SHREVEPORT, LA (KSLA) -The National Weather Service in Shreveport says they picked up a debris field on radar Monday afternoon at the same time many people around the ArkLaTex reported hearing a loud boom.
Source of boom heard around ArkLaTex not identified
Posted: Oct 13, 2014 5:52 PM CDT Updated: Oct 13, 2014 6:47 PM CDT
SHREVEPORT, LA (KSLA) -
The source of a loud boom heard at points across the ArkLaTex from Marshall to Keithville to Haughton remains a mystery at this hour....

Loud Boom Rocks Shreveport - KTBS.com - Shreveport, LA ...
People in Shreveport say they heard what they believed to be a massive explosion at Calumet. It wasn't an explosion but it was very loud....  I have been informed that the Calumet report by KTBS.com was from a prior event.

Explosion Shakes Shreveport-Bossier
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6 hours ago - We're hearing about a possible explosion at Calumet Lubricants, but the ...Shreveport/Bossier News...

Two years ago!! A different BOOM in LA!
MBIQ Detects Louisiana Boom - NOT Meteor 15OCT2012 http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.com/2012/10/mbiq-detects-louisiana-meteor-15oct2012.html

MBIQ Data Set-
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