Leonid Meteor Shower Peaks- Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 18NOV2010

SPACE.com -- Best Time to See the Leonid Meteor Shower Is Now

The Leonid meteor shower of 2010 peaking this week and the best time to spot them is now. The Leonids display of shooting stars peaks Nov. 18.

ANSMET 2010/2011

Antarctic Search for Meteorites

http://www.humanedgetech.com/expedition/ansmet1011/

November issue of Meteorite-Times is now up.
http://www.meteorite-times.com/2010/11/

Will Science Die With Bill Nye?
Gawker
Meteor shower! And fake exercise myths from fake exercise scientists! It's your Wednesday Science Watch, where we watch science—pseudoscientifically! ...

HEMET: Meteors are night's lesson
Press-Enterprise
By DIANE A. RHODES Daniel Barth is an astronomy, chemistry and physics teacher who has hosted an annual meteor event for the past 12 years that he has ...

Leonid Meteor Shower 2010: Everything You Need To Know
Huffington Post
The annual Leonid meteor shower happens tonight, November 17th through the 18th. With 15 to 20 an hour, you'll be able to see a meteor streak across the sky ...

Best Time to See the Leonid Meteor Shower Is Now Yahoo News
The Leonid meteor shower of 2010 is peaking this week and the best time to see the sky show is now.


Madison County Meteorite Expert Stars in TV Show
KFSM
Some people search for buried treasure, others dig for diamonds, but for Madison County man Steve Arnold, his white whale is meteorites. ...

Check out the Leonid meteor shower tonight USA Today If you have clear skies overhead early Thursday morning, take a step outside for a peek at the Leonid meteor shower, which should be raining as many 20 ...

LEONID METEOR SHOWER Weekly World News (satire) By Tap Vann The Leonid meteor shower of 2010 is peaking this week and the best time to see the sky show is NOW. The annual Leonids should be at their best ...

Meteor shower sightings in Chorley Chorley Citizen A Chorley man has reported seeing a 'fast-moving bright meteor' on Monday evening as sightings were reported throughout the UK. ... Catch the Leonid meteor showers early Thursday Boston Globe By Laura C. Morel, Boston.com Correspondent Shooting stars will streak the night sky on Thursday as part of the Leonid meteor shower. ... Meteors expected to light the sky above the Central Coast tonight San Luis Obispo Tribune (blog) The Leonid meteor shower is expected to peak overnight Wednesday, giving night owls and early risers a show of shooting stars. NASA estimates that about 15 ...

Meteorite Girls help discover VERY close approaching NEO, Asteroid 2010WA 16NOV2010 17NOV2010

Meteorite Girls help discover VERY close approaching NEO, Asteroid 2010WA 

closest at 10:45pm Eastern Standard Time, or 7:45pm Pacific, tonight 16NOV2010

by Richard Kowalski, Catalina Sky Survey

Last night Lisa Marie Morrison and Leigh Anne DelRay Cromwell visited the Catalina Sky Survey's 60" telescope on Mt. Lemmon. 

While they were here they got to see how we observe and survey for NEOs. I commented that while we can find NEOs at any time of the night, they tend to start showing up after midnight, so I wasn't sure if they'd get to see anything other than Main Belt Asteroids.

Within minutes of me saying that a new NEO popped up on the screen. It turns out to be a tiny rock, only about 15 feet in diameter, but it makes a special showing today.

Around 3:45 Universal (10:45pm Eastern Standard Time, or 7:45pm Pacific, tonight 16NOV2010) time this Near Earth Asteroid, 2010 WA, will make an extraordinary close approach to the Earth, passing a mere 20,000 miles above the surface. That's closer than Geosynchronous orbiting satellites!

  
You will need a large telescope to see it visually or one equipped with a CCD camera. However at closest approach it will be traveling more than one degree per minute across the sky so you'll need to be able to find it and then track it. A bit of a daunting problem, but it should be easier to spot right now as it is making its approach.

Meteor/Meteorite New 17NOV2010

Reader reports: 

Chincoteague Island, Virginia 17:00 EST 15NOV2010

Guest833 (guest):Saw green fireball above Chincoteague Island, Virginia right at sunset 17:00 EST 15NOV2010

Orange Beach,Alabama on October 8, 2010
Karen Harper: I saw a large brilliant slow moving green fireball move across the horizon in front of my car on a highway while driving from Birmingham to Orange Beach,Alabama on October 8, 2010 not long after dark. It was fantastically brilliant and unlike anything I've ever witnessed. It moved from my right to the left which would seemingly indicate it was moving from west to east. It was low on the horizon.

Baraboo, Wisconsin 6:15 a.m. November 5th, 2010

M. Bildsten writes, "I saw a Fireball on November 5th at 6:15 a.m. while walking my dog.  It was a low Fireball about 4 stories directly over my head and slow moving about 2- 3 seconds I counted while it flew over my head.  I heard it before I saw it that is what made me look up.  It sounded like a loud boomerang.  My friend across town said she saw a rainbow of colors and was much higher.  I'm not sure if she saw the Fireball or the Meteor.  We live in Baraboo, Wisconsin." (contact info)

Gettysburg, PA  a.m. No Date 14NOV2010?

My mother and I were traveling south on Route 15 near Gettysburg, PA just north or the PA MD line this morning and saw the "meteorite" that you saw.  I found your email address in a blog post that you made while I was searching for a possible news article on it. (contact info)


Meteor/Meteorite News Today:
Particles in Hayabusa space probe confirmed to come from asteroid ...

Mainichi Daily News - 14 hours ago

Furthermore, similarities to an LL chondrite meteor believed to have fallen to earth from the asteroid were also seen. These factors led officials to ...

 Particles brought back by Hayabusa identified as from Itokawa

http://www.jaxa.jp/press/2010/11/20101116_hayabusa_e.html

RIA Novosti

Japanische Forscher bestätigen außerirdische Herkunft von Material aus ...

RIA Novosti - ‎7 時間前‎

... Luft- und Weltraumagentur JAXA zu dem Schluss gelangt, dass das gesammelte Material mit dem von auf die Erde gefallenen Meteoriten identisch ist. ...

Japón asegura que las muestras que trajo la sonda 'Hayabusa' son de un asteroide

El País.com (España) - ‎9 時間前‎

... minerales comunes en este planeta, pero su proporción y composición atómica coincide con las de "algún tipo de meteorito primitivo y no corresponden con ...

Hayabusa a bien rapporté des poussières d'astéroïde

Sciences et Avenir - ‎7 時間前‎

Leur composition ne correspond pas à celle de roches terrestres mais se rapprochent de celle d'une météoriteprimitive, selon les informations de la Jaxa. ...

Life on Earth Spawned by Dead Alien Microbes?

Discovery News - ‎2010年11月15日‎

Sure, one could envisage a short hop from planet-to-planet within our own solar system -- remember the stir of Marsmeteorite ALH84001 (pictured top) -- but ...

Witnesses describe seeing a 'giant meteor' 
BBC News
The meteor is reported to have broken into a number of pieces and it left bright streaks of light in the sky at about 0540 GMT. It was spotted in Glasgow, ...

Scottish skies lit up by 'giant meteor'
Herald Scotland
A meteor was seen streaking across the sky over central and northern Scotland early yesterday. People in Glasgow, Kinross and Durness, Sutherland, ...

Early risers tracked dazzling meteor across north skies
Press and Journal
Pest controller Edward Cumming was walking his dog at North Kessock on the Black Isle around 5.45am when he saw the bright object – thought to be a meteor ...

Leonid Meteor Shower Peaks Wednesday | Wired Science | Wiredcom
Wake up early and look up tomorrow: The annual Leonid meteor shower is expected to peak in the hours just before dawn Wednesday and Thursday. The Leonids.

Leonid meteor shower to peak Thursday
Sify
New Delhi, Nov 16 (IANS) Leonid meteor shower will peak Thursday but there can be disappointment for sky gazers as the moon is expected to wash out the ...


The Leonid Meteor Shower Peaks Wednesday Tips for Skywatching ...
This is the week that the famous Leonid meteor shower will be reaching its peak, and the best viewing of these ultra-swift "shooting stars" should come ...


Locations in San Diego to Watch the 2010 Leonid Meteor Shower
Yahoo! News
The November Leonid Meteor Shower is expected to peak on November 17 and 18. Traditionally, it has produced great shows with rates in the thousands per hour ...

Leonids meteor shower 2010 blogTO (blog) The 2010 Leonid meteor shower is just around the corner. Those in Toronto hoping to catch a glimpse of shooting stars will have the best chances of doing so ... Difficult SA viewing for meteor shower News24 Cape Town - There should be some strange lights in the sky on Wednesday as the Leonid meteorshower appears, but viewing conditions won't be fantastic. ... Doha to witness celestial spectacle Gulf Times An increase in the number of meteors at a particular time of the year is called a meteor shower. Comets shed the debris that becomes most meteor showers. ... Ask Al Answers: What was the very bright ball with a tail? Nashua Telegraph Al was queried by Paul N. of Nashua on Nov 3: “Have you heard any report of a meteor in the north/northeast sky last night? I viewed it from Cushing Avenue ... The Leonid Meteor Shower Peaks Wednesday Tips for Skywatching ... This is the week that the famous Leonid meteor shower will be reaching its peak, and the best viewing of these ultra-swift "shooting stars" should come ... news.yahoo.com/.../theleonidmeteorshowerpeakswednesdaytip...

Podcast on Impacts - Geol. Soc. London

Follow the link for a podcast on Impacts. You'll also see links to other interesting meteorite-related topics.  http://www.geolsoc.org.uk/podcast9 
  When German physicist Ernst Florens Chladni published a pamphlet in 1794 arguing that meteorites had their origins in outer space, the idea was received with widespread mockery by the scientific community. Now, meteorites are recognised as an important astronomical process. But it has taken geologists a long time to acknowledge their significance to the history of the Earth - particularly as uniformitarianism overtook catastrophism as the prevailing theory of geologic change. 
  Sarah talks to the Natural History Museum's Kieren Howard about the significance of meteorites to Earth - not only their impact on Earth's surface, but the effect they have on people. And we discuss the most famous meteorite to strike Earth - the Chicxulub impact. Long held responsible for the extinction of the dinosaurs, the Chixculub impact has been the focus of debate amongst scientists almost from the moment of its discovery. Sarah talks to a group of scientists who have been involved in a project to lay the debate to rest, once and for all.