Meteor/Meteorite News 3DEC2010

Meteor report from a reader of Meteor/Meteorite News: Valdosta, Georgia (event time?) 2DEC2010  Jenny wrote:  note to Jenny: time please; Thank you Jenny! "Just saw one a little over an hour ago here in Valdosta, GA.  It was big! Looked like a big fireball! It started off light, then  got brighter, then turned a green tint, then back to an orangish  color before it faded out fast. Disappeared basically. I called  my friend who was driving a couple mins behind me to see if  he saw it and he described it as a big fireball too. I believe I  was heading south on the road I was driving on.... So, I THINK  it was moving from west to east. I know it went from my  right to left. It might have been a plane crashing, but I can't  be sure. We live next to Moody AFB. But I didn't see a smoke  trail or a big firey crash and burn and no loud bang sounds.  And no sirens or anything like that... and we live 30 seconds  away from a fire station." Evidence Of Ancient Impact Preserved In Modern Sand SpaceDaily Thu, 02 Dec 2010 15:42 PM PST by Staff Writers San Juan, Puerto Rico (SPX) Dec 03, 2010 Through NAI's  Minority Institution Research Support Program, scientists at the University  of Puerto Rico and their collaborators have identified a unique record of  an ancient meteorite impact event that is preserved in microstructures in  detrital grains of quartz, zircon, and monazite in the Vaal River, South Africa. ... Martian Meteorite Not Evidence of Extraterrestrials, Scientists Say SPACE.com Thu, 02 Dec 2010 06:41 AM PST What some argue is evidence of ancient life in a meteorite from Mars  could have a simple chemical explanation, scientists now suggest. ... Rare meteor hits local property Toowoomba Chronicle ... by people all over Queensland, and has recently concluded the fireball was a  meteor fragment accompanied by the rare phenomenon “ball lightning”. ... Great Space Balls of Fire! How to Explain Weird Sightings Over Australia? Discover Magazine (blog) Hughes believes that the strange color of the meteor shards might be due to  electrically charged oxygen molecules around the debris, similar to how ... December Starline: Mother nature offers celestial presents Mankato Free Press The year's second best meteor shower, the Geminids, peaks between late night  December 13 and the early morning hours of December 14. ...

Meteor/Meteorite News 2DEC2010

Mystery Boom Rattles Georgia 2 min - 168 views - Uploaded by NOLINKNEWS DOUGLASVILLE, Ga., Nov. 28 -- Residents of three counties in rural west Georgia heard a boom that rattled windows, but officials ... (26NOV2010 Georgia event) youtube.com  How about this theory: Villa Rica bang was a meteor? Atlanta Journal Constitution Some people have contacted the AJC saying they saw a large meteor around the same time as the noise, and others say a meteor can make a sonic boom if it ... (26NOV2010 Georgia event) Ball lightning 'may explain UFOs' BBC News "Could it be that the meteor descending through the atmosphere, having passed through the ionosphere, actually created a transient conductive connection ...

UFO sightings 'could be explained by meteors' Telegraph.co.uk UFO sightings could be explained by meteor showers and ball lightening, according to an Australian astropyhsicist. Dr Stephen Hughes has made a ... The Geminids Meteor Shower is Coming Twin County News The Geminid meteor shower is an annual meteor shower that is extremely regular in its timing and can potentially be visible for days in the December sky, ... Stargazing December 2010, Geminid meteor shower, lunar eclipse Examiner.com The December 2010 night sky will have two major highlights for stargazers: The Geminid meteorshower and a total lunar eclipse. The December Geminid meteor ... Green fireballs and ball lightning Hughes, Stephen W. (2010) Green fireballs and ball lightning. Royal Society of London. Proceedings A. Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences. (In Press) This paper presents evidence of an apparent connection between ball lightning and a green fireball. On the evening of the 16th May 2006 at least three fireballs were seen by many people in the skies of Queensland, Australia. One of the fireballs was seen passing over the Great Divide about 120 km west of Brisbane, and soon after, a luminous green ball about 30 cm in diameter was seen rolling down the slope of the Great Divide. A detailed description given by a witness indicates that the phenomenon was probably a highly luminous form of ball lightning. An hypothesis presented in this paper is that the passage of the Queensland fireball meteor created an electrically conductive path between the ionosphere and ground, providing energy for the ball lightning phenomenon. A strong similarity is noted between the Queensland fireball and the Pasamonte fireball seen in New Mexico in 1933. Both meteors exhibit a twist in the tail that could be explained by hydrodynamic forces. The possibility that multiple sightings of fireballs across South East Queensland were produced owing to fragments from comet 73P Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 is discussed. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/38939/ DOI: 10.1098/rspa2010.0409     Official URL: http://rspa.royalsocietypublishing.org/ Transport of the First Rocks of the Solar System by X-Winds by Renyu Hu "It has been suggested that chondrules and calcium-aluminum-rich inclusions (CAIs) were formed at the inner edge of the protoplanetary disk and then entrained in magnetocentrifugal X-winds".... http://iopscience.iop.org/0004-637X/725/2/1421 Supernova Confetti in Meteorites - Pre-solar grains carrying anomalous chromium-54 show evidence for formation in a supernova. http://www.psrd.hawaii.edu/Nov10/supernova-nanoparticles.html

Meteor/Meteorite News 1DEC2010

Junk science: alien creatures found in ice meteorite
Examiner.com
Duane P. Snyder is a man with a wish, to prove alien life exists, and a meteorite, which he believes may just offer that proof. ...

Researcher suggests Australians saw meteors and ball lightning in 2006 msnbc.com In fact, a commercial airline pilot who landed in New Zealand that day reported seeing ameteor breaking up into fragments, which turned green as the bits ...

Historical director plans a comeback Clackamas Review ... most prized possessions: a piece of the Willamette Meteorite, ancient petroglyphs, American Indian baskets, a fashion gallery of 19th century settlers, ... Daily TWiP - Ann Hodges becomes the first person hit by a meteorite today in 1954 The Nashua Telegraph Tue, 30 Nov 2010 10:56 AM PST Welcome to Daily TWiP, your daily dose of all the holidays and history we couldnât cram into The Week in Preview. Today (Nov. 30) in 1954, Ann Hodges lay down for a nap on her living room couch in her house in Sylacauga, Ala., little imagining that she was about to make history. She was woken suddenly by an eight and a half pound fragment of what would be dubbed the Sylacauga Aerolite smashing ... Nov. 30, 1954: Alabama Woman Hit by Meteorite WTVC Chattanooga Tue, 30 Nov 2010 09:56 AM PST The first modern instance of a meteorite striking a human being occurs at Sylacauga, Alabama, when a meteorite crashes through the roof of a house and into a living room, bounces off a radio, and strikes a woman on the hip. ... NASA mystery press conference: Did they find ET?  ScienceBlogs Tue, 30 Nov 2010 07:24 AM PST NASA has slyly, or inadvertantly, let out a handful of clues that a planned news conference will reveal details of an important new finding regarding life on other planets. There have been a number of moments in the history of astrobiology where an important find has gotten us all very excited, including the discovery of isotopic profiles on a Mars rock (a meteorite) indicating a biological ... Eclipse, meteor shower double treat for stargazers in Dec. GMANews.TV A meteor shower and a lunar eclipse will top the treats for stargazers in December, the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services ... Sky watchers to get celestial show Bundaberg NewsMail Alloway Observatory director Mac Jonsen says sky-watchers can expect a good show from the Geminids meteor shower this month. BUNDABERG residents who are ...

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 30NOV2010

Ireland Meteor News Continues TOP Interest

Knocknacarra eyewitnesses urged to help find meteorite
Galway News
Curiously, it was same time as the details of the bailout were announced and the same date in 1999 when the last meteorite definitely landed on the country. ... (Ireland meteorite 28NOV2010)

'Fireball' lights up NI sky ‎ (Ireland) BBC News - 5 hours ago ... be able to establish what the object's original orbit in the solar system might have been and whether it was part of a previously known meteor shower.

Regional round-up reports from around the country
Irish Times -
WEST: A METEORITE was sighted shooting over Galway last night as air temperatures fell to -6 degrees. The fireball was spotted by several people in the ... (Ireland meteor 28NOV2010)

Armagh Observatory
The Armagh Observatory received 26 fireball reports last night and early this morning, reporting a slow east-west moving fireball occurring around 17:45 UTC last night (Nov 28, 2010) north of the island of Ireland. ...The reports, here: http://arpc65.arm.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fireballs/browse.pl


Other News:
elp: Meteor News...Brighter than Moon...Meteor Lights Up East ...
By El Paso AllSky Camera
At 11:32 p.m. MST on Nov.28th, a very bright short duration meteor was observed traveling NE to S-SW just East of Tucson Arizona. The event lasted for 2-3 seconds during which it burned with a magnitude slightly brighter than the full ...
  
Local author explores history of the Weston meteorite
Weston Forum Sun, 28 Nov 2010 20:17 PM PST
In 1807, chemistry professor at Yale University Benjamin Silliman traveled to Weston to study what would become the first scientifically recorded meteorite landing. Two hundred years later, author Cathryn J. Prince attended a talk on the anniversary of the meteorite landing ... (Weston meteorite for sale if there is a buyer- contact LunarMeteorite*Hunter)


December brings total lunar eclipse
Baltimore Sun (blog)
The year's earliest sunset occurs on the 8 th as Sol drops below Baltimore's western horizon at 4:43 pm The annual Geminid meteor shower – one of the year's ...

Will Proof of Extraterrestrial Life Be Revealed at a Ramada Inn? AOL News 29) -- A Michigan man claiming to possess an ice meteorite rich in extraterrestrial organisms will announce in a news conference Tuesday that alien life, ... (cracked-pot meteorite science)

Georgia residents report mysterious boom
UPI.com
An amateur astronomer said a meteorite probably didn't cause the boom. "A really big meteor can make a sonic boom, but if it did it would make a big flash ...


Reader of Meteor/Meteorite News Meteor Siting:

Eyewitness to meteor on 11/14/2010 6:30 AM over Silver Spring, MD
I saw the meteor at 6:30 A.M. on 11/14. The sky was a beautiful pink color with the sun lighting up the clouds in the east from below. The sun had either just risen or was about to rise. I was walking south near 14400 Fairdale Rd, Silver Spring, Md 20905. The meteor was traveling east to west in a “smear” of 3 - 5 glowing balls at about 30 degrees above the horizon line. It was less than 10 seconds, possibly as little as 5 from the start of the event to the end. The event covered a good 30 – 40 degree swath of sky. The meteor burned out, very evenly, with a burning jet behind the main mass, until completely gone. The pink clouds and blue sky contrasted the bright green color of the meteor (it was the color of copper burning under a bunsen burner).
Brian S. (contact info)

Ireland / Canada Meteor/Meteorite News Early 30NOV2010

Regional round-up reports from around the country

Irish Times - ‎4 時間前‎
WEST: A METEORITE was sighted shooting over Galway last night as air temperatures fell to -6 degrees. The fireball was spotted by several people in the ... (Ireland meteor 28NOV2010)

Armagh Observatory
 The Armagh Observatory received 26 fireball reports last night and early this morning, reporting a slow east-west moving fireball occurring around 17:45 UTC last night (Nov 28, 2010) north of the island of Ireland. ...

The reports, here: http://arpc65.arm.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fireballs/browse.pl


Reports from Readers of Meteor/Meteorite News:

near Dublin, Ireland (53 16'37"N, 6 25'08"W) 17:45 approx. 28th Nov 2010

Guest454 (guest): 17:45 approx. 28th Nov 2010, NNE . I was standing at 53 degrees16'37"N-6degrees25'08"W looking NNE ,It was low and fast,White with white red and blue tail

Sligo, Ireland 17:45 28NOV2010

Guest805 (guest):Saw a fireball this evening very low in sky at about 1745 over Sligo in Ireland

Dublin, Ireland  17:45 28NOV2010

barrie (guest): hey guy i saw a fireball over dublin ireland this afternoon at about 17:45 our time.any idea what it was??

If you saw a meteor please fill out the official AMS report form:http://www.amsmeteors.org/fireball/report.html 

Edmonton, AB, Canada 5:42pm MST  Nov. 27
Guest654 (guest): Hi... 15 kms east of Edmonton, AB on Nov. 27 at 5:42pm MST travelling ENE to SW in the sky,brief about one second but lit up dark open field with two flareups during its trace... don`t recall the color; surprised it wasnt in the paper the next day, Was well off the horizon when facing the west, maybe 30 to 40 deg. if horizon is counted as 0 deg. ... (Thank you for the information... please file a formal report at  the AMS site: http://www.amsmeteors.org/fireball/report.html )

Meteor/Meteorite News 29NOV2010

Regional round-up reports from around the country

Irish Times - ‎4 時間前‎
WEST: A METEORITE was sighted shooting over Galway last night as air temperatures fell to -6 degrees. The fireball was spotted by several people in the ... (Ireland meteor)

Georgia residents report mysterious boom
UPI.com - 10 hours ago
An amateur astronomer said a meteorite probably didn't cause the boom. "A really big meteor can make a sonic boom, but if it did it would make a big flash ... (Georgia Boom 26NOV2010)

What's Up in December Lunar eclipse and meteor shower add thrills to chilly nights

Press Herald
 One of them, the Geminid meteor shower, happens every December, but the other one, a total lunar eclipse, will not happen again for us in this location ...

British Antarctic Expedition

by David Entwistle

There is a British expedition to the Antarctic underway. This 
wouldn't be of particular interest here, but I also read on the BBC web 
site that, "The crew has also been given specialist training to help 
them spot potential meteorite samples on the ice".
BBC report is here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11384454
The expedition web page is here:
http://www.transantarcticexpedition.com/

Reports from Readers of Meteor/Meteorite News:
Windsor, ON. Canada 11:15 pm eastern time, Nov 27,2010.
Guest140 (guest): 
A slow moving orange/yellow fireball with a smoke trail, it appeared to be free-floating in the southern skies our right to left. (west to south) It was an awesome sight!!
There has got to be someone else out there who saw the same thing!! We are from Windsor, ON. Canada and it happened here about 11:15 pm eastern time, Nov 27,2010.

Parrish, FL.United States; south of Tampa   2:10am Saturday, November,27th, 2010
SkyLvrFL (guest): I was searching to see if anyone else saw what I saw early this morning. A fireball light up the sky on Saturday, November,27th, 2010 @ 2:10am. I just happened to look up and caught something streaking across the sky. It had a long trail mostly orange(ish)and what looked like sparks and peices of fire. An object lead the way which looked twice the size of the trail in circumfrance and was very bright maybe orange/white/blueish.The thing is, it's movement was parallel to the horizon (left to right) Not from top to bottom, and did not appear to be moving much faster than a plane would be. The trail was pretty long and there was a very bright flash of blue/white then it was gone. It looked exactly like a plane exploding. It appeared to be out over the gulf of Mexico. From my location (Parrish, FL.United States; south of Tampa) it was at 215 degrees S.W.with an elevation of approximately 40 degrees. I have NEVER seen anything like it in 36 years and I watch the night sky almost every night. I have seen meteors and shooting stars. They move extremely fast.This (thing) did not. I was just hoping that somebody,somewhere, saw it too. I even called a couple local news stations to see if anyone else had reported it. Well, happy sky watching.

near Dublin, Ireland (53 16'37"N, 6 25'08"W) 17:45 approx. 28th Nov 2010
Guest454 (guest): 17:45 approx. 28th Nov 2010, NNE . I was standing at 53 degrees16'37"N-6degrees25'08"W looking NNE ,It was low and fast,White with white red and blue tail

Sligo, Ireland 17:45 28NOV2010
Guest805 (guest):Saw a fireball this evening very low in sky at about 1745 over sligo in Ireland

Dublin, Ireland  17:45 28NOV2010
barrie (guest): hey guy i saw a fireball over dublin ireland this afternoon at about 17:45 our time.any idea what it was??

If you saw a meteor please fill out the official AMS report form:http://www.amsmeteors.org/fireball/report.html