Meteorites from Slovakia Fall 28FEB2010 6APR2010

The Astronomical and Geophysical Observatory in Modra, Slovakia
:: Meteorite "Kosice" in Slovakia 28FEB2010
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Meteorite “Kosice”, the fall in Slovakia

On February 28th at 22:24:46 UT a bright bolide enlightened the night sky over the Central Europe. Despite the late hour bunch of people were watching Olympics ice hockey finals on TV and eye witnessed astonishing celestial spectacle. The glare of the bolide illuminated streets and interior of apartments, at some places in Eastern Slovakia cannon-like burst or series of low frequency blasts were heard. Due to the bad weather, cloudy skies and scatter showers the Central European Fireball Network (operated by Dr. Pavel Spurny of the Czech Academy of Sciences) did not take direct optical records of the bolide and Slovak Video Network (operated by Dr. Juraj Toth of Comenius University in Bratislava) did not operate that night so that at first moment it seemed that there are no scientific records of this event. Fortunately fast photoelectric sensors on 7 automated fireball stations in the Czech Republic (6) and Austria (1) detected the illumination of the sky caused by the bolide which enabled to determine exact time and duration of the bolide and estimate its brightness. The bolide reached the maximum brightness at least -18 magnitude in one huge flare. In the morning few photographers took a picture of a possible scatter dust trail. Later on several surveillance camera data were published showing the moment when the night became a day for a second but only two videos from Hungary (Orkeny village, Fazzi Daniella and Vass Gabor; Telki village, contact persons Szarneczky Krisztian, Kiss Laszlo) actually captured the fireball itself. Thanks to calibration of videos by several members of the Hungarian Astronomical Association (MCSE - www.mcse.hu) contributed (namely Igaz Antal) and trajectory analysis done by Dr. Jiri Borovicka of the Czech Academy of Sciences gave the hope that significant number of meteorite fragments reached the surface. He also calculated the impact area near town Kosice in Eastern Slovakia. The data from Local Seismic Network Eastern Slovakia (project led by Prof. Moczo of Comenius University) confirmed the fall location as well. The expedition consisting of scientists and graduate students of the Astronomical Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (under the leadership of Jan Svoren), Comenius University in Bratislava (under the leadership of Juraj Toth), Czech Academy of Sciences (under the leadership of Pavel Spurny) started to sweep meadows and forests at the calculated area. The first meteorite was discovered by Juraj Tóth on March 20th. Until the March 28th, 64 meteorite fragments were found. The heaviest fragment weights 2.19 kg, the smallest pieces were only about 0.5 gram. The total mass recovered is equal to 3.917kg. Preliminary analysis implies that the recovered meteorite is classified as an ordinary H5 chondrite (Dr. J. Haloda, Czech Geological Survey). The ongoing data analysis will reveal also other parameters of this bolide as the meteorite atmospheric velocity, pre-atmospheric mass and initial orbit in the Solar System. According to Slovak laws, meteorites belong to the state. Collecting meteorites is allowed only to state or academic institutions from Slovak Republic. Credit: Juraj Toth, Jan Svoren, Pavel Spurny, Jiri Borovicka, Igaz Antal and Peter Veres. youtube videos of fireball:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvJkhiUUAT8

(Orkeny village, Hungary, Fazzi Daniella and Vass Gabor)

http://hirek.csillagaszat.hu/meteoroidok,_meteorok/20100301-tuzgomb-magyarorszag-felett.html

(Dusan Vaverka, Brno city, Czech Republic)

http://www.rtlklub.hu/video/84397

(Telki village, Meszleny Tamas, Szarnecky Kristian, Kiss Laslo), caption from Hungarian RTL TV

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6HFlC0U4Lo

(surveillance camera captured flare on a parking lot in Presov town, Slovakia)

Photos of Kosice Meteorites:

Information about the Observatory:

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http://www.daa.fmph.uniba.sk/agonovinky

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Meteorite and meteoroid: New comprehensive definitions

Alan E. RUBIN ¹* and Jeffrey N. GROSSMAN ²

¹ Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095–1567, USA
² U.S. Geological Survey, 954 National Center, Reston, Virginia 20192, USA

*Corresponding author. E-mail: aerubin@ucla.edu

Copyright © 2010 The Meteoritical Society

ABSTRACT
Meteorites have traditionally been defined as solid objects that have fallen to Earth from space. This definition, however, is no longer adequate. In recent decades, man-made objects have fallen to Earth from space, meteorites have been identified on the Moon and Mars, and small interplanetary objects have impacted orbiting spacecraft. Taking these facts and other potential complications into consideration, we offer new comprehensive definitions of the terms "meteorite,""meteoroid," and their smaller counterparts:
A meteoroid is a 10-μm to 1-m-size natural solid object moving in interplanetary space. A micrometeoroid is a meteoroid 10 μm to 2 mm in size.
A meteorite is a natural, solid object larger than 10 μm in size, derived from a celestial body, that was transported by natural means from the body on which it formed to a region outside the dominant gravitational influence of that body and that later collided with a natural or artificial body larger than itself (even if it is the same body from which it was launched). Weathering and other secondary processes do not affect an object's status as a meteorite as long as something recognizable remains of its original minerals or structure. An object loses its status as a meteorite if it is incorporated into a larger rock that becomes a meteorite itself.
A micrometeorite is a meteorite between 10 μm and 2 mm in size. Meteorite–"a solid substance or body falling from the high regions of the atmosphere" (Craig 1849); "[a] mass of stone and iron that ha[s] been directly observed to have fallen down to the Earth's surface" (translated from Cohen 1894); "[a] solid bod[y] which came to the earth from space" (Farrington 1915); "A mass of solid matter, too small to be considered an asteroid; either traveling through space as an unattached unit, or having landed on the earth and still retaining its identity" (Nininger 1933); "[a meteoroid] which has reached the surface of the Earth without being vaporized" (1958 International Astronomical Union (IAU) definition, quoted by Millman 1961); "a solid body which has arrived on the Earth from outer space" (Mason 1962); "[a] solid bod[y] which reach[es] the Earth (or the Moon, Mars, etc.) from interplanetary space and [is] large enough to survive passage through the Earth's (or Mars', etc.) atmosphere" (Gomes and Keil 1980); "[a meteoroid] that survive[s] passage through the atmosphere and fall[s] to earth" (Burke 1986); "a recovered fragment of a meteoroid that has survived transit through the earth's atmosphere" (McSween 1987); "[a] solid bod[y] of extraterrestrial material that penetrate[s] the atmosphere and reach[es] the Earth's surface" (Krot et al. 2003).

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(Received 05 May 2009; revision accepted 14 September 2009)

DIGITAL OBJECT IDENTIFIER (DOI)

10.1111/j.1945-5100.2009.01009.x About DOI

http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/123304635/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0

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Translation Hungarian-English ImTranslator 3.3.3-P
"It's pretty great sensation, I think, an amateur astronomer's career occurs once these" - he said Sárneczky Krisztián.Látta a meteor, and then the hands can comprehend a piece. According to the Hungarian Krisztian Sárneczky astronomers had a huge role in that existence of a meteorite. "Only Hungary recordings made directly to the existence of any such meteorról key issue was to find these meteoritokat" - Krisztian Sárneczky said the Hungarian Astronomical Association titkára.A had seen pictures of the sites were able to determine the impact coordinates on the basis of the location of the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Kosice csillagászok.A close Felsőtőkésnél marked the landing point, a roughly 3x6 km area, is so precise that the first research on success. Csatárláncban combed through the area, five Hungarians took part. So far, 64 units were found, the smallest félgrammos the largest of more than two pounds. Astronomers must know that India can get them for exhibition and research. The world is a meteor, the thirteenth, which will be used to say it, the kind of track before being moved into the earth's atmosphere.

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Foto: TASR/Lukáš Furcoň

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Hungarian-English translation by ImTranslator 3.3.3-P
Found the Magyarország over fireball litterfall piece
Currently taking place in Bratislava on 28 February, a large vocal fireball fell to the ground to find remnants of notifying the international press conference - says the Hungarian Astronomical Association hirek.csillagaszat.hu website. A month ago, has attracted great interest in our country over the saw, causing daytime meteor brightness. The direction of this phenomenon based on reports from hangrobbanásról and even then, it became clear that the land may be worth meteoritokat in Slovakia, near Kosice somewhere should be sought.
Timar Gabor, ELTE Department of Geophysics and Space sciences leader of the [origo] has been on 3 March, said Slovak and Hungarian seismology (earthquakes detector) station data, and the Seismological Institute, the Institute for Policy briefs Sunday evening in a fireball of a piece of land you get.
The accounts of subjectivity, and a few direct observations, however, because at first sight appeared to be very difficult to determine the exact location. What we set out to find, and we have heard many conflicting accounts. The home produced and released two direct-seen shots (and Telkiből Örkényből), however, the staff of the Czech Academy of Sciences, and Pavel Jiri Borovička Spurný could be distinguished from a 3x6-km area near Kosice, where leérhettek remaining debris after the explosion.
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Slovak and Hungarian meteoritvadászok (MCSE)
Already first days Could two meteorites Also locate succession near. Impurities free clean black surfaces and localization Seeing immediately knew a searcher that meteorites found. The tiny few centimeter stones considers sat tussock top that was clear only top have been in thither, grasses below soil could not be such situation.
[Photo]
Addressed first found Meteorite an adjacent golf balls (photo: Juraj Toth)
The favorable weather over the next few days, continued the search. There was a day that is a heavenly stone in the search engines had not recruited, but two days more than 20 meteorites were found. So far 64 meteorites were found to have mass 3.9 kg, the maximum bit rate of 2.2 kg, the lowest half-gram. The Czech Geological Survey preliminary examination of the H5 type kondritokról, kőmeteoritokról say is, all of which is a half to one meter in diameter, the remains of meteors, which on February 28, entered our atmosphere, but 20-25 km high explosives, and broken pieces.

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(in headline and in part #4) A bit slow in loading due to site traffic at the moment. Has footage showing a breccia!
Thank you István for your post!

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Space Weather News for March 29, 2010
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"RADIO-ACTIVE" SUNSPOT: Over the weekend, big sunspot 1057 emitted a series of radio bursts that caused roaring sounds to issue from the loudspeakers of shortwave receivers. Visit today's edition of http://spaceweather.com

to hear a sample "roar" and to find out how you can build your own solar radio burst monitor.

FIRST FULL MOON OF NORTHERN SPRING: According to folklore, tonight's full Moon has a special name--the Worm Moon. It signals the coming of northern spring, a thawing of the soil, and the first stirrings of earthworms in long-dormant gardens. Step outside tonight and behold the wakening landscape. "Worm moonlight" is prettier than it sounds.

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Science reporter, BBC News
On Tuesday 30 March, engineers at Cern will make their first attempt to collide beams at an energy of 3.5 trillion electronvolts (TeV) per beam. ...

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The White Rabbit
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'Golden Orbit' Unlikely as Full Moon Madness Hits Gnomes in Luzern
Tokyo- MARCH 26, 2010
As CERN makes final checks before the firing of the duel beams to achieve the hoped for Big O approaches on the Full Moon of March 30, 2010, madness has already struck amongst many of the Gnomes in Luzern, Switzerland according to YouTube postings in 2009 FEB.
This has led to speculation that the Strong Interaction may not be succeed and the O from the Mini Big Bang may not be reached leaving only a golden shower, or a best, another white unicorn released.
Bad outcomes might be the recurrence of the massive GAS loss, the MESS on Isle THREE or another soft QUARK, Gluons with the UP, DOWN and Electon or THE STRANGE, CHARM, BEAUTY.
Across the Atlantic, the Gnomes in South Park, Colorado in the US also seem reluctant to let go of any gold for even a shower according to their reluctant spokesman.
Reports of Gnomes in Argentina have not yet been reported, but if prior sightings are an indication we can expect to see much activity.

... stay tuned for updates as they come in!

Philadelphia, Penn., Chickamauga, Ga. and Channel Is. Meteors 24MAR2010

Fireball Streaks Through Night Sky of Western Alabama (Video)

PhysOrg.com
Allsky meteor cameras at the Marshall Center and near Chickamauga, Ga., recorded a fireball streaking across the sky around 11:19 pm CDT. ...

Bright Fireball Caught on Camera Over Alabama

Space.com
The fireball was caused by the death plunge of a meteor about the size of a soccer ball as it burned up in Earth's atmosphere on Friday, March 19, ...

Meteor-over-Philadelphia - Video
Posted on YouTube 20MAR2010 by Haasie20
Video shot of a meteor over philadelphia while working in Chopper 10 and WCAU made a story out of it.

Fireball shoots in from outer space

Jersey Evening Post- Channel Islands
By Richard Heath CHANNEL Islanders have been left baffled after what looked like a meteor flashed across the sky on Sunday night. ...

Meteor spotted over islands

Guernsey Press and Star
(0936985) A METEOR was seen over the islands at the weekend, it emerged yesterday. Teacher Patrick Devaney spotted a fireball in the sky as he left his ...

Debris field for a broken meteor [Dot Physics]
ScienceBlogs Tue, 23 Mar 2010 16:37 PM PDT
I happened to catch two parts of two different episodes of Meteorite Men - a show about two guys that look for meteorites. In both of the snippets I saw, they were talking about a debris field for a meteor that breaks up. In these fields, the larger chunks of the meteorite are further down in the field. Why is this? Let me approach this first from a terminal velocity view. This requires a model ...

Spotlight shines on Grimsby meteorite hunt
Niagara This Week Tue, 23 Mar 2010 11:06 AM PDT
Finding meteorites is like finding a needle in a soybean field. Itâs proving difficult for researchers to turn up large pieces of space rock left over from a Sept. 25 fireball which soared through the midnight sky over Grimsby. ...

Meteorite Fall in China 20FEB2010 - Chinese Meteorite News 23MAR2010

今年一号目击陨石遭 损留遗憾

新浪网 - ‎1 時間前‎

本报讯(记者蔡文清)今天上午，刚刚从福州考察今年一号目击陨石归 来的北京天文馆专家张宝林焦急地对记者说：“陨石已有 部 分破损，将给后继的科学研究造成不可 弥补的损失 ...
Beijing Evening News- 23MAR
Dr. Zhang Baolin of the Beijing Planetarium announced yesterday to the press that on 20FEB2010, near Fuzhou City, Fujian Prov., China, a Chinese peasant witnessed a 3.2kg meteorite fall through the air and land some 55 meters away. The man after recovering from the shock of the event searched in the grass and found a hole in the earth and was able to recover the meteorite ...
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23MAR2010

Single-impact theory is set in stone

Honolulu Star-Bulletin
Ravizza's Manoa lab analyzes elements such as iridium and osmium that he said are very rare at the earth's surface but rich in most asteroids and meteorites ...

FAQT

Ongelooflijk: dit is Mars

FAQT - ‎5 分前‎

Deze krater, vermoedelijk drie kilometer diep en bijna vijf kilometer breed, is ontstaan door de inslag van een meteoriet. Die inslag heeft waarschijnlijk ...
Incredibly, this is Mars
FAQT - 5分前
This crater, probably three kilometers deep and nearly five kilometers wide, formed by the impact of a meteorite. That impact is likely ...

Not a rock or stone -- a real meteorite

Delmarva Daily Times - ‎18 分前‎

He said to me, 'Sir, this is a meteorite'." Along with the confirmation, Littleton discovered that his meteorite was made of chromium, manganese, iron ...

Upcoming ARISS ham radio contact with Japan`s Shiogama Daini Junior High School ...

Southgate Amateur Radio Club
When you watch a meteor shower in the space station, what kind of shape does the meteor shower have? 11. In space, does everyone's face swell in a circle? ...

Doch Klimastress schuld am Dino-Sterben?

scinexx | Das Wissensmagazin - ‎22 時間前‎

Diese hatte erneut die nunmehr fast 30 Jahre alte These vertreten, ein Meteoriten-Einschlag im Gebiet nahe der mexikanischen Halbinsel Yucatan sei ...

Kamienie z nieba

Polskie Radio - ‎20 時間前‎

10 lat temu w rejonie kanadyjskiej prowincji Jukon spadł na Ziemię meteoryt. Został nazwany "Tagish Lake" - wyłowiono go z jeziora Tagish. ...
Stones from heaven
Polish Radio - 20 时间 前 10 years ago in the region of the Canadian province of Yukon meteorite fell to Earth. Was named "Tagish Lake" - caught it from Tagish Lake. ...

Βρέθηκαν σωματίδια «αρχαίου» μετεωρίτη στην Ανταρκτική

iKypros - ‎2010年3月6日‎

Η ανακάλυψη μικροσκοπικών σωματιδίων μετεωρίτη και στρώματος «εξωγήινης» σκόνης που βρέθηκε στην Ανταρκτική, αποδεικνύει ότι κάποιος μετεωρίτης εξερράγη ...
Particles were found "ancient" in the Antarctic meteorite
iKypros - 2010 年 3 月 6 日
The discovery of tiny particles and meteor layer "extraterrestrial" dust found in Antarctica, show that a meteor exploded ...

TOP News.RU

Российский ученый нашел останки "инопланетян" на месте падения на Землю метеоритов

NEWSru.com - ‎21 時間前‎

Ученый российского Центра планетарной защиты НПО имени С. А. Лавочкина Евгений Дмитриев обнаружил фрагменты окаменелостей живых существ в местах падения на Землю Тунгусского и Краснотуранского метеоритов. По мнению исследователя, этот факт доказывает существование внеземной жизни. ...
The Russian scientist has found remains of "aliens" on
Place of falling to the Earth of meteorites
NEWSru.com -
Scientist of the Russian Center of planetary protection НПО of a name
S.A.Lavochkina Evgenie Dmitriev has found out fragments of fossils alive
Essences in places of falling to the Earth Tungus and Краснотуранского meteorites.
In opinion of the researcher, this fact proves existence extraterrestrial
Lives....

Есть ли жизнь на Титане

RBC Daily - ‎5 時間前‎

Тогда как на Титане молекулы «водного происхождения», характерные для метеоритов, просто не выживут. А значит, жизнь, если она есть, возникла непосредственно на спутнике. Теоретические выкладки можно будет проверить в начале следующего десятилетия. В 2015 году на луну Сатурна отправится миссия ...
Whether there is a life on Titan
RBC Daily -
Whereas on the Titan of a molecule of " a water origin », characteristic for meteorites, simply will not survive. So, the life if it is, has arisen directly on the satellite. Theoretical calculations can be checked up in the beginning of next decade. Per 2015 on the moon of Saturn mission will go...

Комсомольская правда

Земле угрожает богиня возмездия

Комсомольская правда - ‎4 時間前‎

Считается, что гравитационные поля «карлика» направляют в нашу сторону поток метеоритов, комет и астероидов. - Еще в начале 1980-х годов мы с моим коллегой Джоном Сепковски нашли странную периодичность событий глобального вымирания видов, - говорит палеонтолог из Университета Чикаго Дэвид Роп. ...
The Earth is threatened with the goddess of punishment
Комсомольская правда
It is considered, that gravitational fields of "dwarf" direct
In our party a meteor shower, comets and asteroids. - still in
The beginning of 1980th years we with my colleague John Sepkovski have found strange
Periodicity of events of global extinction of kinds, - the paleontologist speaks
From University of Chicago David Rop....

В МТИ нарисовали новую карту поверхности Венеры

Открытые системы - ‎29 分前‎

Однако снимки показали, что распределение кратеров от ударов метеоритов на Венере таково, что объяснить его можно только, если предположить, что нынешняя поверхность планеты образовалась около 500 млн лет назад, тогда как возраст самой Венеры оценивается примерно в 4,6 млрд лет. ...
IN МТИ have drawn a new card of a surface of Venus

Открытые системы - ‎29 分前‎

However have shown pictures, that distribution of craters from
Impacts of meteorites on Venus it is those what to explain it it is possible
Only, if to assume, that the present surface of a planet was formed
Nearby 500 million years ago, whereas the age of the Venus is estimated
Approximately in 4,6 billion years....

今年一号目击陨石遭 损留遗憾

新浪网 - ‎1 時間前‎

本报讯(记者蔡文清)今天上午，刚刚从福州考察今年一号目击陨石归 来的北京天文馆专家张宝林焦急地对记者说：“陨石已有部 分破损，将给后继的科学研究造成不可 弥补的损失 ...
On 20FEB2010 a Chinese peasant farmer witnessed a 3.2kg meteorite fall in Fuzhou, Fujian Prov., China. ...
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22MAR2010

EarthSky's meteor shower guide for 2010 « EarthSky The greatest number of meteors tend to fall in the dark hours before dawn. Although the Quadrantids can produce over 100 meteors per hour, the sharp peak ...

SpaceWeather.com -- News and information about meteor showers ... NORTHERN LIGHTS: Arctic sky watchers are waiting for the CME to hit. A coronal mass ejection that left the sun on March 14th should deliver a glancing blow ... Search for space rocks comes up empty Welland Tribune Her buddy, Robin, unearthed the ultimate prize last fall: A meteorite hiding in a Winona baseball diamond. Since then, the 71-year-old's been looking for ...