Meteor/Meteorite News 22OCT2010

How Comets Cause Meteor Showers
Space.com
By Joe Rao Meteors — popularly referred to as "shooting stars" — are generated when debris enters and burns up in Earth's atmosphere. ...

Orionid Meteor Shower Visible this Week
FOX 9 News
The Orionids, a "junior version" of the Persoid meteor shower, may hit its peak before sunrise on Oct. 21, according to AOL News . The meteors are nicknamed ...
 
 Orionid Meteor Shower peaks tonight: Will it be clear?

 

Examiner.com
After a days-long lead-up, tonight, October 21/22, 2010, is finally the peak of the Orionid Meteor Shower, which means that tonight, more so than any before ...

Moment CCTV captured asteroid hitting the earth   The Sun Here, in Day Two of our extracts from a new book by Sun professor Brian Cox, Wonders Of The Solar System, he describes the meteorite's spectacular final ...

Debate Over Life on Mars No Closer to Resolution

 

Softpedia
More than two decades after the discovery of the meteorite ALH84001, the oldest to have arrived to Earth from Mars, scientists have not yet come to a ...

Meteors from Halley's Comet rain down on Earth - Technology ...
 Halley's Comet won't zoom near Earth again for another 50 years, but the ice ball may still put on a show for some skywatchers this week in the form of a ...

 Orionid meteor shower from Halley's Comet has big finish Thursday ...

 

Orionid meteor shower will conclude Thursday night as the Earth finishes traversing through the debris field that follows Halley's Comet. ...


Yukon man seeks $12M for space rock damage
CBC.ca
A Yukon mining prospector claims federal geologists stole a priceless piece of meteorite he found in the 1980s that contained alien organisms, ...

Meteor Shower From Halley´s Comet Can Be Seen This Week
ShortNews.com
The meteor shower that appears in May is called Eta Aquarids, the October-shower is called Orionids, as the meteors appear to come from Orion the Hunter. ...

Astro Bob blog: Comets, ancient galaxies and the dark ages
Duluth News Tribune
I see by the International Meteor Organization's (IMO) quicklook data that Orionid meteor shower activity started picking up around 10 pm last night to 35 ...

Look Up: What's in the Sky This Week?
DCist.com
The annual Orionid meteor shower reached its peak starting last night and continues through this evening. Orionid meteors are fragments of Halley's Comet, ...
Meteorite Hunter - Ruben Garcia - Filming TV Show ...
3 min youtube.com
Here is a video - Ruben Garcia - filming a TV show about Meteorite Hunting! The video is a behind the scenes look at filming the ...

Meteor/Meteorite News 21OCT2010

Orionid Meteor Shower Visible this Week
The Orionids ajunior version of the Persoid meteor shower may hit its peak before sunrise on Oct 21 according to AOL News The meteors are nicknamed the ...

Meteorite-Based Debate Over Martian Life Is Far from Over
Space.com
By Michael Schirber The most illustrious meteorite in history continues to inspire heated debate. Does it carry microbial fossils from Mars or are its ...

The Continuing Controversy of the Mars Meteorite
Astrobiology Magazine
The most illustrious meteorite in history continues to inspire heated debate. Does it carry microbial fossils from Mars or are its strange features just the ...

Meteor shower to light up Territory skies
ABC Online
(AFP: Ethan Miller/Getty Images, file photo) Northern Territory skies will be lit up with yellow meteors over the next two mornings as the annual Orionid ...

Meteors From Halley's Comet Rain Down on Earth
Space.com
Astronomers in Canada have snapped photos of meteors that are actually bits of Halley's Comet left behind during its long, looping, 76-year trip around the ...
 No Telescope Required!! for The Orionid Meteor Shower October 20 ...
You don't need a telescope to view this heavenly meteor shower! That's the beauty of meteor showers. They appear in our night sky as shooting stars....

Skywatchers prepare for Comet Hartley, Orionid meteor showers

CLEVELAND -- Early morning autumn skies are bringing fantastic celestial displays from the heavens with this year's annual Orionid meteor showers. ...

Astro Bob blog: Halley's Comet comes back to life tonight
Duluth News Tribune
Credit: John Chumack Tomorrow morning is the peak of the annual Orionid meteor shower. It's one of two times each year our planet intersects the orbit of ...

Halley's meteors streak past
New Scientist (blog)
The meteoroids burn up quickly high in the atmosphere, creating the streaks of a meteor shower. October's meteors appear to come from the direction of the ...

Stargazers can watch Orionid meteor shower, debris from Halley's Comet
Examiner.com
The 2010 Orionid meteor shower peaks during the day of October 21, 2010. For stargazers wanting to observe Orionid meteors, the best times will me the ...

Meteor/Meteorite News 20OCT2010

Orionid Meteor Shower peaks tomorrow, get viewing tips now
Examiner.com
The peak of the Orionid Meteor Shower will be tomorrow on the night of October 21/22, 2010. However, despite the fact that peak doesn't occur until tomorrow ...

Orionids Meteor Shower This Weekend – 20 & 21 October 2010 ...
The Orionid meteor shower is due to peak this weekend, 20 & 21 October 2010. To view it properly, it is best to go out into the countryside, where the sky ...

Skywatchers prepare for Comet Hartley, Orionids meteor showers
WKYC-TV
CLEVELAND -- Early morning autumn skies are bringing fantastic celestial displays from the heavens with this year's annual Orionids meteor showers. ...

The Guardian Family Friendly Museum Award
Guardian Unlimited Tue, 19 Oct 2010 03:58 AM PDT
Nominate your favourite museum and get a free Quentin Blake poster! Perhaps it was the notice by the meteorite, saying: "This is the oldest object you will ever touch." Or your toddler being invited to roar at a ruff-collared ducal portrait in the 17th-century gallery to show an early appreciation of art. Or the quiet chat about war-time childhood between a grandparent and child over a 1940s ...  

Spacing Out
KTSM News Channel 9
"I knew it wasn't meteorites when I first saw them. And nothing suspends in air like that anyway if it was a meteorite. Meteorites always leave a ...

More from meteor witness
Bombala Times
IT has been a few weeks since we last had news of the search for the meteorite that landed in the local district in August, but the Bombala Times has now ...
 
 Meteor Shower this Week

 

allvoices
A harvest moon is scheduled for the week which impede some of the meteor spectacular. Meteor showers, called Orionids, due to the fact that they appear to ...

Grimsby meteorite update.
CKTB
Meteorites have been recovered in the Grimsby area. Phil McCausland from Western University says they came from the asteroid belt. ...

The Comet Cometh: Hartley 2 Visible in Night Sky
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Backyard stargazers with a telescope or binoculars and a clear night's sky can now inspect the comet that in a little over two weeks will become only the fifth in history to be imaged close up. Comet Hartley 2 will come within 17.7 million kilometers (11 million miles) of Earth this Wed., Oct. 20 at noon PDT (3 p.m. EDT). NASA's EPOXI mission will come within 700 kilometers (435 miles) of Hartley 2 on Nov. 4. ...





 Trojan Asteroid Found in Neptune's Trailing Gravitational Stability Zone
There are places in space where the gravitational tug between a planet and the Sun balance out, allowing other smaller bodies to remain stable. These places are called Lagrangian points.
So-called Trojan asteroids have been found in some of these stable spots near Jupiter and Neptune. Trojans share their planet's orbit and help astronomers understand how the planets formed and how the solar system evolved. Now Scott Sheppard at the Carnegie ...

Meteor/ Meteorite News 19OCT2010

The Orionid Meteor Shower is coming!

 Examiner.com  Meteors will soon start streaking through the sky thanks to the Orionid Meteor Shower. In two days, the night of October 21/22 will mark the peak of the ...

Oman is major site for meteor discovery
Emirates 24/7
Shining sand and rocks and other factors have turned Oman into a major site of meteorite discoveries, ranking second only to Antarctica in such findings ...

2011 IAA Planetary Defense Conference: From Threat to Action 
The International Academy of Astronautics will hold its second conference on protecting our planet from impacts by asteroids and comets from 9 - 12 May 2011 in Bucharest, Romania. The 1st IAA Planetary Defense Conference: Protecting Earth from Asteroids, co-sponsored by the European Space Agency and The Aerospace Corporation, is the follow-on to three previous planetary defense conferences held in 2004 in Los Angeles and 2007 in Washington, D.C., and in 2009 in Granada, Spain.  For the upcoming conference in 2011, the call for papers is now open - see the menu item on the left for further details. ...

Moonlight meteor shower spawned by Halley's Comet
msnbc.com
Even though the radiant of the shower is in Orion, meteors can appear far from the constellation. By Joe Rao A junior version of the famous Perseid meteor ...

This Week's Orionid Meteor Shower
Gant Daily
A sky map of the Orionids meteor shower. This one's from 2009 — the planets and stars listed will be different this year. Image courtesy NASA. ...

Meteor/Meteorite News 18OCT2010

Spectacular Meteor Shower Coming this Week
iSurfHopkins.com
HOPKINS COUNTY, KY—Every year in the early morning Autumn sky comes a spectacular celestial show put on by the annual Orionid meteor shower. ...

Meteor showers October 2010: Orionid, Taurid, Epsilon Geminid ...

 

October 2010 meteor showers include one major meteor shower and three minor meteor showers. The Orionid meteor shower is the major shower. The minor meteor ...
 
AccuWeather.com - Weather Video - Orionid Meteor Hunting and Comet ...

 

The Orionid Meteor Shower peaks this week, while the moon and Comet Hartley rule the sky! ...

Meteor/Meteorite News 17OCT2010

Travel in space: Viewing the galaxy from Israel
Jerusalem Post
By MIKA SCHICK An increased amount of meteoroids will create a meteor shower called Leonids, which can be seen clearly from the Negev. ...

Moonlight Meteor Shower Spawned By Halley's Comet - Yahoo! News
A junior version of the famous Perseid meteor shower thought to have originated from the remains of Halley's Comet will hit its peak over the next week, ...

Meteor/Meteorite News 16OCT2010

Moonlight Meteor Shower Spawned By Halley's Comet
Space.com
By Joe Rao A junior version of the famous Perseid meteor shower thought to have originated from the remains of Halley's Comet will hit its peak over the ...

US: Meteor Over East County Monday Night? -- Signs of the Times News
Jamul - An East County Magazine reader asks, "I want to know who else saw the blue and whitish-orange meteor I saw from my house in Deerhorn Valley in Jamul ...

Training New Explorers for the Surfaces of the Moon, Mars, and Beyond Space Ref (press release) Tomorrow, a NASA-sponsored Field Training and Research Program begins at Meteor Crater, Arizona. The field training will be led by Dr. David Kring, ...

Is Earth prepared for a close encounter?

89.3 KPCC
A meteor from the Geminids meteor shower enters the Earth's atmosphere past the stars Castor and Pollux above Southold, New York. Did you know that there is ...

Take a look at Jupiter this month
Cincinnati.com
Last year an amateur astronomer first observed a dark scar on Jupiter where a meteor exploded inside the atmosphere. This year the same man was at his ...

Meteor/Meteorite News 15OCT2010

Fireball streaks across Northern Ireland skies
BBC News
The whole event only lasted several seconds and was captured by the Armagh Observatory meteor cameras, which have been recording meteor activity on the ...

METEOR SITING CONFIRMED BY 2ND WITNESS; EXPERTS SEEKS MORE INFO TO LAUNCH ...
East County Magazine

Today, we received an e-mail from Erich Wichman, a meteorite hunter and researcher with Meteorites USA and Meteorite Hunting & Collecting Magazine. ...

Bombing Earth-bound Asteroids a Viable Option, Experts Say 

In the movies, a bomb is usually the most effective way of stopping an asteroid from wiping out life on Earth. But real scientists have had their doubts about bombing the potentially hazardous objects. ...

more asteroid news
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11534216


recent Division of Planetary Sciences meeting
 http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/10/101013-science-space-asteroids-near-earth-nuclear-bombs/
 


Is there a meteor shower tonight? October 8 2010 ? - Yahoo! Answers

google? and It hasn't been on the news.. ... http://earthsky.org/astronomy- essentials/earthskys-meteor-shower-guide This website claims there is, but others don't ...

Meteor/Meteorite News 14OCT2010

METEOR OVER EAST COUNTY MONDAY NIGHT?
East County Magazine
October 13, 2010 (Jamul) – An East County Magazine reader asks, “I want to know who else saw the blue and whitish-orange meteor I saw from my house in ...

The best meteor shower you never saw... until next year KOMO News (blog) By Scott Sistek Hey, did you see the big Draconid Meteor shower last week? No? You weren't alone. The annual meteor shower was a big dud this year as the ...

New manager at the UNH Observatory
Foster's Daily Democrat
Cohen is looking forward to observing a few different astronomical events at the end of October, including comet Hartley and the Orionid meteor shower. ...

NASA'S HUBBLE CAPTURES FIRST IMAGES OF AFTERMATH OF POSSIBLE ASTEROID COLLISION
WASHINGTON -- NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured the first
snapshots of a suspected asteroid collision. The images show a
bizarre X-shaped object at the head of a comet-like trail of
material.  ...

Asteroid collision
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/asteroid-collision-hubble-photographs-101013.html

Meteor/Meteorite News 12OCT2010

Asteroid 2010 TD54 to Pass Within Earth-Moon System on October 12
PASADENA, Calif. -- A small asteroid will fly past Earth early Tuesday within the Earth-moon system. The asteroid, 2010 TD54, will have its closest approach to Earth's surface at an altitude of about 45,000 kilometers (27,960 miles) at 6:50 EDT a.m. (3:50 a.m. PDT). At that time, the asteroid will be over southeastern Asia in the vicinity of Singapore. ...

Meteor/Meteorite News 11OCT2010

New find points toward habitable environments deep in Martian crust
Oneindia
A deposit of carbonate rocks that once existed 6 km (about 4 miles) below the surface of Mars was uplifted and exposed by an ancient meteor impact, ...

Impact begins nickel drilling program at Australian Yarrabubba project
Energy Business Review
The Yarrabubba Project covers a large (>50 km) diameter meteorite impact structure that has similar geological features to those at the large Sudbury mining ...

Space dust helps reveal origins of Milky Way
ABC Online
And this has been a debate that has been passed down through meteoritics because we see the same sort of structures in meteorites. ...

Meteor????
I am on Tobago Island, Oct. 7 2010 which is a small island off of Panama City, Panama and last night I saw a HUGE meteor with a tail and all in the North ...

Astro Bob blog: This house is full of wonder
Duluth News Tribune
They're composed of minerals like olivine (peridot) and pyroxene, which are very common in certain types of meteorites. This chondrule, measuring 5.5mm ...

Meteor/Meteorite News 10.10.10 10OCT2010

Asteroid P/2010 A2 Collision

"Astronomers report that a small asteroid located in the inner asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter took a major hit early last year. Previously rendered only in artists' conceptions, the first asteroid collision known in modern times revealed itself in a tail of debris streaming from what astronomers at first assumed was a comet. Instead of a steady stream of dust ...

Meteor/Meteorite News 9OCT2010

Meteor breaks up into three pieces
 Last night I had a spectacular meteor cross the field as it split into three parts. ...

Dawn Mission to Vesta Gets Help from Hubble Space Telescope

WASHINGTON -- NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured images of the
large asteroid Vesta that will help scientists refine plans for the
Dawn spacecraft's rendezvous with Vesta in July 2011. ...

SPACEcom Lackluster Meteor Shower Sets Stage for Big Show in 2011
Earth will pass through the comet Giacobini-Zinner remnants will result in a lackluster meteor shower on October 8th. The Draconid meteor shower event in ...

Mars Rover Gets Up-Close and Personal With Meteorite
Space.com
By SPACE.com Staff A stunning new photo yields an up-close view of a Mars meteorite discovered by NASA's Opportunity rover while exploring the Red Planet. ...

Draconid Meteor Shower October 7, 2010
NowPublic
by Jordan Yerman | October 7, 2010 at 04:00 pm The Draconid Meteor Shower should be visible in the Northern Hemisphere on October 7, 2010, local weather ...

The Draconid Meteor shower 2010 continues, 2011 could be downright dangerous
Examiner.com
Last night marked the peak of the Alpha Draconid Meteor Shower for 2010. However, being considered a minor shower, there weren't many meteors to see as the ...

Draconid Meteor Shower
Southgate Amateur Radio Club
Every year around October 8th, Earth passes through a minefield of dusty debris from Comet Giacobini-Zinner, source of the annual Draconid meteor shower. ...

Draconid meteor show Blah in 2010 big in 2011 Technology & science ...
The Earth will pass through the cast-off remnants of an ancient comet Friday (Oct. 8), but the resulting meteor shower will be lackluster at best, ...

Meteor Activity Outlook for October 9-15, 2010

by Robert Lunsford
Meteor activity in general increases in October when compared to September.
A major shower (the Orionids) is active most of the month along with several
minor showers. Both branches of the Taurids become more active as the month
progresses, providing slow, graceful meteors to the nighttime scene. The
Orionids are usually the big story of the month but this year the Orionid
peak coincides with the full moon. Orionid activity can be seen before and
after maximum when the moon is not so troublesome. Unfortunately Orionid
rates will be low, most likely less than five per hour.

During this period the moon reaches its first quarter phase on Thursday
October 14th. At this time the moon will be located ninety degrees east of
the sun and will set near 0100 local daylight time (LDT) for those living in
the mid-northern latitudes. This weekend the waxing crescent moon will set
during the early evening hours and will not interfere with meteor observing.
The estimated total hourly rates for evening observers this week is near
four
from the northern hemisphere and two for observers south of the equator. For
morning observers the estimated total hourly rates should be near twenty one
from the northern hemisphere and ten as seen from the southern hemisphere.
The actual rates will also depend on factors such as personal light and
motion perception, local weather conditions, alertness and experience in
watching meteor activity.

The radiant (the area of the sky where meteors appear to shoot from)
positions and rates listed below are exact for Saturday night/Sunday morning
October 9/10. These positions do not change greatly day to day so the listed
coordinates may be used during this entire period. Most star atlases
(available at science stores and planetariums) will provide maps with grid
lines of the celestial coordinates so that you may find out exactly where
these positions are located in the sky. A planisphere or computer
planetarium program is also useful in showing the sky at any time of night
on any date of the year. Activity from each radiant is best seen when it is
positioned highest in the sky, either due north or south along the meridian,
depending on your latitude. It must be remembered that meteor activity is
rarely seen at the radiant position. Rather they shoot outwards from the
radiant so it is best to center your field of view so that the radiant lies
at the edge and not the center. Viewing there will allow you to easily trace
the path of each meteor back to the radiant (if it is a shower member) or in
another direction if it is a sporadic. Meteor activity is not seen from
radiants that are located below the horizon. The positions below are listed
in a west to east manner in order of right ascension (celestial longitude).
The positions listed first are located further west therefore are accessible
earlier in the night while those listed further down the list rise later in
the night.

The following showers are expected to be active this week:

The Draconids (GIA) (also known as the Giacobinids) reach maximum activity
on October 8. The exact time of maximum activity can vary so observers are
encouraged to view on the evenings of October 7-9 to try and catch any of
this activity.The radiant is located at 17:28 (262) +54, which places it in
southern Draco, two degrees northwest of the third magnitude star Rastaban
(Beta Draconis). This star is one of the four that form the prominent head
of Draco, also known as the "Lozenge". Expected rates are always a guess.
The new moon will not cause any interference. The best time to view this
activity is as soon as it becomes dark during the early evening hours. Those
located in high northern latitudes can also try viewing this shower during
the morning hours. Due to the extreme northern declination, this shower is
only visible from the southern tropics northward. At 19km/sec., the average
Draconid is extremely slow.

Studies of the IMO video database by Sirko Molau and Juergen Rendtel has
revealed a radiant located in Pisces this time of year. The October Epsilon
Piscids (EPC) are active on only five nights centered on October 9. The
radiant lies at 00:05 (001) +14 which actually lies in eastern Pegasus only
two degrees southwest of the third magnitude star Algenib (Gamma Pegasi).
The radiant is best placed near midnight LDT, when the radiant lies highest
in the sky. Striking the atmosphere at 19 km/sec., the average October
Epsilon Piscid meteor travels very slowly through the skies. Even at
maximum, rates should be less than one per hour no matter your location.

The center of the large Southern Taurid (STA) radiant lies at 02:08 (032)
+09. This position lies in northeastern Cetus, close to the fourth magnitude
star Xi 1 Ceti. Since the radiant is so large, any meteor from eastern
Pisces, northern Cetus, southern Aries, or northeastern Eridanus could be a
candidate for this shower. The radiant is best placed near the meridian near
0200 LDT, but activity may be seen all night long. Although maximum activity
occurs on the 10th, this is a flat plateau-like peak so activity should be
similar all week long. Expect to see up to three Southern Taurids per hour,
no matter your location, when the radiant lies highest in the sky. Striking
the atmosphere at 29 km/sec., the average Southern Taurid meteor travels
slowly through the skies. This shower is also responsible for many of the
fireball reports seen in October.

Another shower derived from the IMO database is the the Sigma Arietids
(SSA). This shower is active from October 12-19 with a peak on the 19th. On
the 12th the radiant is located at 02:52 (043) +22. This position lies in
central Aries, roughly lying between the Pleiades cluster in Taurus and the
second magnitude star Hamal (Alpha Arietis). The radiant is best placed near
0300 LDT, when it lies highest above the horizon. Rates should less than one
per hour. With an entry velocity of 46 km/sec., most activity from this
radiant would be of medium velocity. With a low northern declination these
meteors are slightly better seen from the northern hemisphere.

Another shower derived from the IMO database is the the Zeta Taurids (ZTA).
This shower is active from October 12-17 with a peak on the 16th. On the
12th the radiant is located at 05:08 (077) +15. This position lies on the
Orion-Taurus border, approximately five degrees east of the orange first
magnitude star Aldebaran (Alpha Tauri). The radiant is best placed near 0500
LDT, when it lies highest above the horizon. Rates should less than one per
hour. With an entry velocity of 61 km/sec., most activity from this radiant
would be swift. These meteors would be seen equally well from either
hemisphere.

The Orionids (ORI) are now becoming noticeable from a radiant located at
05:48 (87) +16. This position lies in eastern Taurus, eight degrees north of
the orange first magnitude star Betelgeuse (Alpha Orionis). The radiant
rises near 300 LDT and is best placed on the meridian near 0600. With
maximum activity predicted for October 22, current rates for all locations
would be near one to two per hour as seen after midnight. At 67km/sec., the
average Orionid is swift.

Another shower derived from the IMO database is the the October Ursa
Majorids (OCU). This shower is active from October 12-19 with a peak on the
15th. On the 12th the radiant is located at 09:12 (138) +64. This position
lies in western Ursa Major between the faint stars Tau and Sigma 1 Ursae
Majoris. The radiant is best placed during the last dark hour before dawn
when it lies highest above the horizon in a dark sky. Rates should less than
one per hour. With an entry velocity of 53 km/sec., most activity from this
radiant would be medium-swift. With the high northern declination of the
radiant, these meteors are best seen from the northern hemisphere. It would
be difficult to see any of this activity from locations south of the
equator.

As seen from the mid-northern hemisphere (45N) one would expect to see
approximately fifteen sporadic meteors per hour during the last hour before
dawn as seen from rural observing sites. Evening rates would be near three
per hour. As seen from the mid-southern hemisphere (45S), morning rates
would be near four per hour as seen from rural observing sites and one per
hour during the evening hours. Locations between these two extremes would
see activity between the listed figures.

The list below presents a condensed version of the expected activity this
week. Rates and positions are exact for Saturday night/Sunday morning.

Draconids (GIA) - 17:28 (262) +54   Velocity - 19km/sec.
Northern Hemisphere - <1 per hr. Southern Hemisphere - <1 per hr.

October Epsilon Piscids (EPC) - 00:05 (001) +14   Velocity - 19km/sec.
Northern Hemisphere - <1 per hr. Southern Hemisphere - <1 per hr.

Southern Taurids (STA) - 02:08 (032) +09   Velocity - 29km/sec.
Northern Hemisphere - 3 per hr. Southern Hemisphere - 3 per hr.

Sigma Arietids (SSA) - 02:52 (043) +22   Velocity - 46km/sec.
Northern Hemisphere - <1 per hr. Southern Hemisphere - <1 per hr.

Zeta Taurids (ZTA) - 05:08 (077) +15   Velocity - 61km/sec.
Northern Hemisphere - <1 per hr. Southern Hemisphere - <1 per hr

Orionids (ORI)  - 05:48 (87) +16   Velocity - 67km/sec.
Northern Hemisphere - 2 per hr. Southern Hemisphere - 2 per hr

October Ursa Majorids (OCU)  - 09:12 (138) +64   Velocity - 53km/sec.
Northern Hemisphere - <1 per hr. Southern Hemisphere - <1 per hr

Clear Skies!
Robert Lunsford
International Meteor Organization

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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