Meteor/Meteorite News 17DEC2010

Geminids meteor shower 2010 -双子座流星群- timelapse
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In the Territory, even the light showers are heavy
The Age
Stargazers know it as the annual Geminid meteor shower. "Cascading lights were going off in the outback sky in every direction, it was incredible to see," ...

Geminids Meteor Shower 2010: Best Viewing Times
Gather.com
The Geminids Meteor Shower will offer the best show in the sky this year over the next few nights. In fact, the best night for viewing the light show will ...

Pictures: Brilliant Geminid Meteors Dazzle Sky-Watchers
National Geographic
Shooting stars from the annual Geminid meteor shower zip across the night sky above the Zagros Mountains in Iran early Tuesday. The Geminids peaked earlier ...

Stargazing Live
BBC News
At around midnight the organisers will put aside the telescopes in order to observe the QuadrantidMeteor Shower. It all takes place at Newlands Corner, ...

Life's building blocks discovered on surprising meteorite Sify Scientists have identified amino acids, a fundamental building block of life, in a meteorite where none were expected. "This meteorite formed when two ...

NASA Discovers Asteroid Delivered Assortment of Meteorites PR Newswire (press release) Chemists at Stanford University found that different meteorite types share the same distinct fingerprint of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). ... Building blocks of life created in 'Impossible' place PhysOrg Thu, 16 Dec 2010 13:27 PM PST (PhysOrg.com) -- NASA-funded scientists have discovered amino acids, a fundamental building block of life, in a meteorite where none were expected. Life's building blocks discovered on surprising meteorite New Kerala Wed, 15 Dec 2010 22:53 PM PST Washington, Dec 16 : Scientists has identified amino acids, a fundamental building block of life, in a meteorite where none were expected. Meteorite Is Piece Of Unknown Celestial Body redOrbit Wed, 15 Dec 2010 22:15 PM PST Scientists from all over the world are taking a second, more expansive, look at the car-sized asteroid that exploded over Sudan's Nubian Desert in 2008. Initial research was focused on classifying the meteoritefragments that were collected two to five months after they were strewn across the desert and tracked by NASA's Near Earth Object astronomical network. Now in a series of 20 papers for a ... Meteorite just one piece of an unknown celestial body SpaceRef Wed, 15 Dec 2010 18:36 PM PST Scientists from all over the world are taking a second, more expansive, look at the car-sized asteroid that exploded over Sudan's Nubian Desert in 2008. Reports from Readers of Meteor/Meteorite News: Dec 16 2010, 2:11 AM Guest799 (guest):Last night (12/14)around 10pm, I saw what looked like a shooting star in the northern sky of Brighton, MI.However, I don't think it was a shooting star since it seemed round and also seemed to "burst"after a few seconds of falling. Dec 16 2010, 9:50 PM Dennise Becker:There is a large white ball of light in the sky right now directly above my home in Concord, California 12/15/10 4:50a Dec 16 2010, 11:40 PM  Guest811 (guest): I am in Wales, U.K.and saw a huge fireball on Sat.11th at app: 10pm-coming from east to west at a very shallow angle,yellow,bits of orange and sparks and HUGE. Before I could finish telling others in the car, it had disappeared. Not a firework, shooting star - far too big.Also VERY low in the sky...I was looking across at it from the motorway (which is on an incline). Uncanny,exciting and a bit frightening as it was so low. Jean Phillips,Bryncethin, Wales UK

Meteor/Meteorite News 16DEC2010

Geminid meteor shower gets rave reviews as best of 2010 Christian Science Monitor Skywatchers around the globe sang praises to the Geminid meteor shower, the annual mid-December rain of meteors passing through the earth's atmosphere. ... Antarctic science wrap-up: ANSMET hunting for meteorites again ExplorersWeb (By Correne Coetzer) This Antarctic season ANSMET has two field teams with separate goals hunting for meteorites; a smaller, more mobile team dedicated to ...

ANSMET: “The various possible targets of the ANSMET recon team for 2010-2011. A pre-season flight along the path shown, established the priority for visits to each ice field.”
courtesy ANSMET 2010-11 (live over Contact 5), http://www.humanedgetech.com/expedition/ansmet1011 and ExplorersWeb

elp allsky: Meteor News...Awesome Geminids Video From North Texas ...
By elp allsky
This video is compiled from individual captures during the overnight peak of the Geminid Meteor Shower Dec. 13th and 14th, 2010. The camera has an approximate field of view of 40 degrees and points North toward Oklahoma City, ...


Meteor report plus a Hubble bauble | Portal to the Universe
By Astro Bob
These were the words uttered by meteor watchers in the Duluth area last night. Despite a great forecast for Geminid watching, the sky turned mostly cloudy after 9 p.m. I was grateful for about 45 minutes of partly cloudy sky between 11 ...


Cosmic Log: It's a hot night for cool meteors
msnbc.com
A Geminid meteor streaks across the night sky, with circular star trails whirling the background, in a time-exposure photo made by astronomer Jimmy Westlake ...

Life`s buildings blocks in "impossible" place, plus a whalloping meteorite tale EarthSky Wed, 15 Dec 2010 16:10 PM PST Amino acids  critical to life, the building blocks of proteins â are present in an amazing meteorite from space that apparently suffered a violent collision with another asteroid in space, before crashing to Earth in 2008. Fragments of the meteorite  called 2008 TC3  are collectively called Almahata Sitta or Station Six after the [...] Life's Building Blocks Found on Surprising Meteorite SPACE.com via Yahoo! News Wed, 15 Dec 2010 15:15 PM PST Scientists have discovered amino acids, the building blocks of life in a meteorite where none were expected. Meteorite just one piece of an unknown celestial body Science Daily Wed, 15 Dec 2010 13:21 PM PST Scientists from all over the world are taking a second, more expansive, look at the car-sized asteroid that exploded over Sudan's Nubian Desert in 2008, with major implications for the meteorite's origin. In the first round of research, scientists examined one fragment of the asteroid and determined that it fell into a very rare category called ureilites. Now they have expanded the scope of the ... Meteorite just one piece of an unknown celestial body EurekAlert (press release) Initial research was focused on classifying the meteorite fragments that were collected two to five months after they were strewn across the desert and ... Meteorite streaks through sky in Knoxville WATE 6 Knoxville Wed, 15 Dec 2010 08:34 AM PST Thanks to a meteor cycle, Knoxville residents and even a 6 News crew saw a likely meteorite streak through the sky Wednesday morning.

Illinois, Ontario, and Arizona Meteors 14DEC2010 15DEC2010

Reports from Readers of Meteor/Meteorite News:
Wadsworth, Illinois 18:15 14DEC2010
Guest459 (guest):Stoyanoff wrote-Metorite sited over Wadsworth Illinois traveling North to South,at 30 degrees above the Western horizon at 18:15. The color was a white ball and tapering tail behind it.

Bradford, Ontario Canada 0530hrs EST 14DEC2010
Guest375 (guest): Craig wrote, 0530hrs EST Bradford, Ontario Canada
While travelling East saw abright meteorite that was visble for about 3 seconds and was coming straight down. The note here is that there was a snow storm and visibility was about 300m. I would assume that it was very large.

Western Arizona 11:40pm 14DEC2010
Guest437 (guest) wrote: I spotted 2 very bright burning objects following a north east path through the sky over Western Arizona at about 11:40pm this evening. Both objects appeared to be burning in the atmosphere and were not falling but more like entering at a very slight angle through the atmosphere and were visible for approx 2 min--very bright yellow and were changing in brightness

Meteor/Meteorite News 15DEC2010

Geminid Meteor Show  2010 Chris Peterson (c) 2010
 http://www.cloudbait.com/science/geminid2010.html

Reported by Chris Peterson- Cloudbait Observatory
The annual Geminid meteor shower occurs when debris from the asteroid 3200 Phaethon intercepts the Earth. This is an unusual type of shower in having an asteroidal, rather than cometary parent. However, evidence suggests that Phaethon is actually the rocky core of an evaporated comet. These meteors intercept the Earth at a fairly low speed of 35 km/s (79,000 mph). Because of this, Geminids tend to be slow and colorful- probably the prettiest of the major showers.

This is a composite image of 363 Geminid meteors collected between sunset on December 10 and sunrise on December 14 (19, 31, 89, and 229 meteors respectively). Since the images were collected over many hours, the radiant of the shower is not in a fixed location. Conditions this year were good, with little interference from the Moon and largely clear skies.

Long necklace-like trails on the image are the paths of stars and planets, circling the north celestial pole in the upper left.

This image contains only meteors identified as Geminids. Several other showers are currently active as well. Recorded, but not shown in the composite, are 30 Puppid-Velids, 58 Monocerotids, 7 Chi Orionids, 49 Sigma Hydrids, and 80 sporadics.  (more)  see  http://www.cloudbait.com/science/geminid2010.html


Catch a falling star and find out where it came from
Imperial College London
by Colin Smith Scientists are celebrating the discovery of a second meteorite in the Western Australian desert using 'star gazing' cameras. ...


Meteorite Men' Star Clears Up Misconceptions About Meteors
Yahoo! News
"Hollywood has done a really good job misrepresenting meteors," says Steve Arnold, one of the Science Channel's Meteorite Men. They always show meteors as ...


Geminids 2010: visual data quicklook
gem2010_rate.csv (number of meteors per interval per observer) ... Handbook for meteorobservations; Chapter 9, Analyses and Calculations. ...
www.imo.net/live/geminids2010/


elp allsky: Meteor News...Oklahoma City, Edmond, Ardmore, Enid ...
By El Paso AllSky Camera
Reports coming in to ELPALLSKY of an Oklahoma Fireball... Dec 13 2010, 6:33 PM wulfpig (guest) Reports: Traveling North on 1-35 in Edmond Oklahoma 12-13-10 just before 6:00pm central standard time and saw a meteor (?) in the northwest. ...


NASA MSFC on USTREAM: .
NASA MSFC @ USTREAM: Ready to stay up all night? On Monday, Dec. 13 from 11:00 pm to 5:00 am EST, meteor experts Bill ...


"Aurora Fireball" by Yuichi Takasaka (TWAN)
A bright meteor streaks the sky of Yellowknife in the Northwest Territories, Canada. The area is best known for viewing the northern nights. ...


SPACE.com: Image of GEM with Sentinel All Sky Camera , Hillo, Mex.
Max Peak of GEM and Images:

http://www.space.com/nightsky/geminid-meteor-shower-photos-101214.html
and image of All Sky Camera Sentinel ( Sandia National Labs) Hillo, Son,
Mexico. http://bit.ly/gARUQG

Reported by Salvador Aguirre

Skywatchers Capture Gorgeous Photos of Geminid Meteor ShowerLiveScience.com
By Clara Moskowitz, SPACE.com Senior Writer The year's best meteor shower peaked last night (Dec. 13), giving skywatchers around the world an incredible ...

Darwin vs. the Sun

Universe Today
These ranged from burning coal to a constant bombardment of comets and meteors to slow contraction. Each of these methods seemed initially plausible, ...

Geminid Meteor Shower 2010: Videos From December 13, 14
Huffington Post
As we reported yesterday, the 2010 Geminid meteor shower peaked late last night and early this morning. Fortunately, for those who missed it, ...

Texas, Montana, Canada, Oklahoma Meteors 13DEC2010 14DEC2010

Readers of Meteor/Meteorite News Report:
Jeffery H. wrote,
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. 6pm December 13, 2010. I saw a green meteor go from the south to the north lasting about 5 seconds. 



London Ontario Canada, 10:15pm 13DEC2010
Bennett (guest): I just saw a bright orange and red meteor for at least 6 seconds goin from east to west december 13 London Ontario Canada, 10:15pm it was beautiful


Guest445 (guest): We are seeing Meteorites here in ST. Marie Montana about every 50 seconds rite now.Mostly white streaks but very interesting and beautiful.


Anon. wrote:
Saw a white meteor in ST. Marie, Montana at 12:40 am Dec. 14th 2010. Lasted 7 seconds and looked like it landed very close by, with in about 20 miles. Had a very long trail of bright white smoke. Now it looks like there is smoke blowing my way. I think I am going to drive around and see if I can find it. Maybe it hit a building or something, and maybe there is a fire close by. 


Guest738 (guest): I'm in el paso texas at 12midnight I was seeing streaks of light go by 1-2 here and there for 5min I wanted to know as it gets later will I see more or less? its 1:30am right now?