Readers of Meteor/Meteorite News Summary for 2010

Readers of Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 2010 (c) ClustrMaps 2010-2011


Thank you All! Happy New Year 2011
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Statistics updated 2 Jan 2011@07:01GMT: 129,496 visits
Total since 19 Jan 2009: 183,418.

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Meteor/Meteorite News 2JAN2011

Composite of December 2010 meteors.
(Click on image to enlarge.)

elp allsky: Monthly Composite Image Of Meteors Captured By ...
By elp allsky
Below is a composite image of all meteors captured by ELPALLSKY camera for December 2010. At the end of each month I'll post a composite of captured events for that month. No digital enhancement has been done to remove the moon, ...

Slow Fireball near Corsica (Space debris?)

http://meteore.forumattivo.com/t1554-fireball-20110101_055114-ut#6646

Meteorite Hunters Undaunted by Antarctica's Challenges

SPACE.com Sat, 01 Jan 2011 07:12 AM PST
A team of rock hounds is on a chilly pursuit for meteorites in Antarctica, scouring their snowy surroundings as part of the 2010-2011 field season of the Antarctic Search for Meteorites (ANSMET) program.

2011 Major Annual Meteor Showers | American Meteor Society
The 2011 Meteor Shower List is presented in four separate parts. The showers are broken down by intensity with major, minor, variable, and weak showers ...


Quadrantid Meteor Shower - 2011 JAN 03/04 - Forums - Astronomy.com ...
The Quadrantid meteor shower is expected to peak during the night of 2011 ... In general any particular meteor shower is best seen in your area during the ...


Scientists Locate Meteor Crater in NE China
Scientists are thrilled at the first discovery in China of a meteor crater in the northeast Province of Liaoning, the Guangzhou Daily reports. ...


Stargazers get New Year invite
Huddersfield Examiner
If the sky is not clear, there will be a demonstration of the observatory and telescope facilities along with a planetarium show, meteorite samples, ...


中国首个陨石坑未认定已致各地争相开发_网易新闻中心
核心提示：近日，中科院研究员认定辽宁省鞍山岫岩陨石坑是中国首个陨坑。当地政府火速出台规划，拟将“首坑”变为地质公园。对于这个“首坑”的认定，辽宁的邻居吉林就 ...


NASA - Watch the Skies! Meteors, Eclipses, Comets and More
NASA astronomers at the Automated Lunar and Meteor Observatory located at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., observed the moon for ...


Delawareonline - Suspected meteor startles western Md. stargazers
John Wasson of the UCLA Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics says the object probably was a meteor leaving a trail of debris. ...


Reports from the readers of Meteor/Meteorite News:


Guest468 (guest): hi,at around 03:40 GMT here in Manchester UK I saw what seemed like a big fireball in the sky. It was definitely not a plane (too high up and too big), it was bright orange and travelling at a reasonable speed. I followed it for about 3 minutes then it faded into the horizon. Any ideas of what it might be? Thanks.

Reply-  A meteor would not be visible for three minutes; my guess would be the ISS or a plane.

Guest180 (guest): Hi,reporting a probable 3 asteriods form Valencia, Venezuela. Seen @12:20AM local Venezuelan time. Trying to find anyone who has seen it too.
Reply- What you may have seen are called meteors not asteroids.

Guest468 (guest): I don't know about the time frame - I'm in the UK and saw what looked like a fireball @ 3:40 GMT in Manchester, UK...maybe same thing?

Guest383 (guest): from Michigan USA seen a meteor at 12:10 am jan 1. did anyone else see it?

sligo53 (guest): did any person see bright light / fireball in sky over Sligo, Ireland @just past midnight last night

Guest921 (guest): hi,at 12.20am 1st january 2011 me,boyfriend ,moterin law saw loads over 20 bright orange things movin in the sky fast,got pictures and video on phone,we were amazed,what r they? at hastings,westfield in east sussex

Reply- No idea what you saw; perhaps lit Chinese lanterns?  Send the photos please; lunarmeteoritehunter@gmail.com

Guest466 (guest): 12/28/2010 saw an object from east to the west burning low in the sky around 6:30pm heading west on rte 111 Nashua NH Others in a different vehicle witness same event I saw it as bright white they said it had a green tint to it.

Guest725 (guest): Saw the meteor on Dec 28 from Kensington, MD.Bright fireball with a tail with sparkles of green and blue.AMAZING!!!

Guest43 (guest):Felisha Timmons, New Years Eve 2010, Grand Prairie, Tx.Saw a fireball, looked huge, traveled SE.

Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 1JAN2011

Blinded to Science
Housatonic Times
On Dec.14, 1807, a meteorite blazed across the pre-dawn sky, appearing to be two-thirds the size of the moon. It was visible to early risers as far away as Vermont ...


Meteors scream over Maryland for past two nights
TBD.com (blog)
The latest apparent meteor sighting occurred around 9:30 pm Wednesday and set Twitter alight with wondrous didja-see-thats??! "Whoa," reported Chris Noonan ...

Solar Eclipse and Meteor Shower to Launch 2011 Skywatching Season Space.com By Joe Rao The year 2011 promises to be a dazzling one for skywatchers, and it hits the ground running with a partial solar eclipse and meteor shower. ...

Meteor/Meteorite News 31DEC2010

Remembering 2010's fireballs
Baltimore Sun (blog)
On May 10, just before 5 am, a spectacular meteor startled early commuters as it crossed the sky from west to east. Many Marylanders also spotted the ...

A Commonplace Book: Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News: Meteor ...
By Will McLean
Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News: Meteor MA, MD, VA, NY, DC and PA 28DEC2010 Reports... December 28th, ca. 6.45 PM EST. Malvern PA, outside Philadelphia. A big fireball passed overhead, roughly east to west, crossing near zenith. ...

Witnesses startled by shooting star over Frederick
Frederick News Post (subscription)
If it was a meteor, it likely left a trail of debris, said expert John Wasson at the University of California at Los Angeles. ...

Suspected Meteor Startles Western Md Stargazers Baltimore Maryland ...
FREDERICK, Md. -- Some western Maryland residents said an apparent meteor put on a sky show they won't soon forget. Thursday, December 30, 2010.

Starry starry night
Odessa American
The show doesn't stop once the meteorite hits the ground. As scientists delve into compositions ofmeteorites, minerals that make up the space rocks offer a ...

Blinded to Science
Litchfield County Times
“I saw there was going to be a celebration of the bicentennial of the meteor. I am a total history buff—I have just recently earned a master's degree in ... (Weston Meteorite)

China verifies its first meteor crater in Liaoning
The location of Xiuyan meteor crater. (By Guangzhou Daily) The meteor crater at Xiuyan Man Autonomous County in Anshan City of Liaoning Province. ...

The sky in January Meteors herald dawn solar eclipse on Tuesday
Scotsman
By Alan Pickup The New Year opens in spectacular fashion with the peak of the Quadrantids meteorshower next Monday night and a partial eclipse of the Sun ...

elp allsky: Meteor News...Houston Texas Fireball DEC28, 2010...
By elp allsky
A report has come in to ELPALLSKY of a fireball over Houston Texas Dec. 28th, 2010...the same night as the Large East Coast Fireball reported on below. Am trying to get a time for this Texas event and will post info as it is acquired. ...

Big meteor seen over East Coast | Portal to the Universe
A large meteor fireball was seen along the US East Coast on Tuesday evening: ... Large US East Coast Meteor Fireball Bolide DEC28, 2010!!! - elp allsky ...

Meteor Hunter: End of Astrovid
By Meteor Hunter
As a farewell to Astrovid in 2010, here a few interesting pics of my Fireball cam in different Melbourne weather conditions. From cold rainy winter days to scorching summer days like today where the temperature is 38 degrees Celsius! ...

Stargazing Live
BBC News
People across the UK should be able to observe the alignment of Uranus and Jupiter, a partial solar eclipse and the Quadrantid meteor shower. ...

Eclipse and meteor shower to light up New Year Whitby Today First up is the Quadrantid meteor shower, one of the years more prolific, which is active between 1 and 7 January and peaks in the early morning hours of ... Jack Horkheimer's Christmas Gift San Saba News & Star 3/4 Mon. night/Tue. morning: The Quadrantid meteor shower peaks to the north with no Moon interference all night; most meteor showers are best in the ... Meteor/Meteorite News Readers write: Guest375 (guest): i saw a fireball south of yosemite park on sunday dec.26 around 4:30pm, amazing... Guest216 (guest): I live in Cambridge NY and at about 4 am saw a huge shooting star with a blue light (in the western sky i think) Guest401 (guest):december 4th i saw a nice bright meteor fall while traveling north on I91 from brattelboro vt. It was traveling almost straight down but from east to west and i believe it landed somewhere in Vermont. unfortuatley i did not take the time to look at a clock or stop to see exactly where i was on the highway but it was north of exit 3 as i headed to exit 7. It was sometime around 9:30pm I know we had just left a resturant that was closing. Guest724 (guest):Between 6pm and 7pm Dec 30 from Des Moines IA I witnessed a meteor? traveling from south to north in the eastern sky. Color was bluish green and trailed a white tail for quite a ways across the sky. Guest184 (guest): At approximately 12:30am I saw what appeared to be a shooting star fall...then burn out as it fell. I was traveling west on 202. I saw this approximately 1/2 miles after passing char restaurant, the star was seen on the right and appear to fall behind the trees. Anonymous wrote:  On Dec 30, about 6:00pm while traveling northeast out of Fulton, MO. on hwy 54. Me & my girlfriend saw 2 shooting stars. both traveling from west to east. the first lasted 1 sec as a white streak. The 2nd Sparking in and out for 3-5 seconds, bright white to faight red glow.  Guest838 (guest):Norwalk, CT Dec 28 meteor sighting approx. 6:40 PM east to west very low in sky. Guest841 (guest): Saw what appears to have been a meteor fall from sky straight down. Ended with bright flash before fizzling out. Very clear and seemed close by. Was looking north from Hanover Ma toward Boston around 7:15pm New years eve dec 31