NEOs! Asteroids Upcoming for July/ Aug 2011 update

Projected NEO debris activity associated with potential Earth meteor encounters .  I expect that we will see possible increased bolide /fireball /meteor activity from 20JULY ~ 26JUL2011 just prior to or just after closer encounters with NEOs  (2007 RQ17) and  (2007 DD).  At time of this post there will still be more NEOs discovered so updates are expected.  Cameras ready!  - LunarMeteorite*Hunter, Tokyo ;O!
For the very latest info please check: http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/ca/

UPCOMING CLOSE APPROACHES TO EARTH

1 AU = ~150 million kilometers 1 LD = Lunar Distance = ~384,000 kilometers Object Name Close Approach Date Miss Distance (AU) Miss Distance (LD) Estimated Diameter* H (mag) Relative Velocity (km/s) (2010 MJ1)  2011-Jul-08 0.1186 46.1 52 m - 120 m 23.6 9.82 (2008 VH)  2011-Jul-10 0.1658 64.5 260 m - 570 m 20.1 4.95 (2011 EZ78)  2011-Jul-10 0.0958 37.3 970 m - 2.2 km 17.2 11.54 264993 (2003 DX10)  2011-Jul-12 0.1738 67.6 240 m - 530 m 20.2 9.04 265187 (2003 YS117)  2011-Jul-14 0.1900 73.9 630 m - 1.4 km 18.1 17.75 (2008 LV16)  2011-Jul-14 0.0681 26.5 250 m - 550 m 20.2 15.47 (2010 HA)  2011-Jul-15 0.1032 40.1 42 m - 95 m 24.0 3.94 (2008 TR10)  2011-Jul-15 0.1439 56.0 220 m - 480 m 20.4 5.43 152828 (1999 VT25)  2011-Jul-17 0.1471 57.2 180 m - 400 m 20.9 19.90 (2008 OO)  2011-Jul-18 0.1822 70.9 300 m - 670 m 19.7 25.57 (2008 NP3)  2011-Jul-18 0.1128 43.9 57 m - 130 m 23.3 6.75 (2011 FS9)  2011-Jul-20 0.1447 56.3 52 m - 120 m 23.6 4.35 (2011 NY)  2011-Jul-21 0.1376 53.5 240 m - 530 m 20.2 10.38 (2007 RQ17)  2011-Jul-22 0.0340 13.2 80 m - 180 m 22.6 5.70 (2011 MW1)  2011-Jul-23 0.0672 26.2 89 m - 200 m 22.4 10.01 (2007 DD)  2011-Jul-23 0.0239 9.3 19 m - 42 m 25.8 3.54 (2009 PC)  2011-Jul-26 0.1542 60.0 61 m - 140 m 23.2 7.42 (2003 BK47)  2011-Jul-26 0.1994 77.6 660 m - 1.5 km 18.0 24.59 (2011 NZ)  2011-Jul-29 0.1889 73.5 210 m - 460 m 20.6 4.82 (2008 SO)  2011-Jul-30 0.1590 61.9 200 m - 450 m 20.6 7.16 (2011 LS17)  2011-Jul-31 0.1141 44.4 79 m - 180 m 22.6 10.89 3103 Eger  2011-Aug-04 0.1528 59.5 1.5 km 15.4 16.36 (2008 SR7)  2011-Aug-05 0.1421 55.3 280 m - 620 m 19.9 8.31 (2008 NX)  2011-Aug-07 0.1593 62.0 25 m - 57 m 25.1 7.13 (2011 GD60)  2011-Aug-11 0.1134 44.1 120 m - 270 m 21.7 5.27 (2006 SE6)  2011-Aug-14 0.1981 77.1 69 m - 150 m 22.9 14.11 45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdusakova  2011-Aug-15 0.0601 23.4 1.6 km 0.0 24.62 (1988 TA)  2011-Aug-16 0.1939 75.4 400 m 20.9 10.45 136770 (1996 PC1)  2011-Aug-17 0.1762 68.6 230 m - 510 m 20.3 17.97 (2011 BL45)  2011-Aug-19 0.0991 38.6 9.8 m - 22 m 27.2 3.87 (2008 RG1)  2011-Aug-20 0.1430 55.7 190 m - 430 m 20.7 11.44 (2009 AV)  2011-Aug-22 0.1278 49.7 670 m - 1.5 km 18.0 22.68 (2011 KP17)  2011-Aug-23 0.1250 48.6 390 m - 870 m 19.2 10.72 (2011 JP29)  2011-Aug-25 0.1850 72.0 460 m - 1.0 km 18.8 10.97 (2007 UT3)  2011-Aug-26 0.0900 35.0 19 m - 43 m 25.7 11.94 (2010 JW34)  2011-Aug-28 0.0778 30.3 6.2 m - 14 m 28.1 3.12 (2002 JR100)  2011-Aug-28 0.0509 19.8 38 m - 84 m 24.2 7.87

http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/ca/ Source: NASA/JPL/CalTech

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Bell Island, Newfoundland, Canada "Mystery" Event Entry 2APR1978 2011 Booms are Meteors?

Bell Island "Mystery" Event Entry 2APR1978

Uploaded on YouTube by theNewfieFile on 20 Jan 2009 3,700 views

Wikipedia excerpt: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Island

Other Videos:

Bell Island Boom Part 1

Was it ball lightening or a test of a top secret electromagnetic weapon? What caused the explosive phenomenon on Bell Island, Newfoundland in 1978 ...

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Bell Island Boom Part 2

Was it ball lightening or a test of a top secret electromagnetic weapon? What caused the explosive phenomenon on Bell Island, Newfoundland in 1978 ...

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Bell Island Boom Part 3

Was it ball lightening or a test of a top secret electromagnetic weapon? What caused the explosive phenomenon on Bell Island, Newfoundland in 1978 ...

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The Bell Island boom

On April 2, 1978, there was a loud explosion on Bell Island which caused damage to some houses and the electrical house wiring in the surrounding area. Two cup-shaped holes about two feet deep and three feet wide marked the major impact. A number of TV sets in Lance Cove, the surrounding community, also exploded at the time of the blast. It was initially thought to be caused by ball lightning.^[2] Meteorologists confirmed that atmospheric conditions at the time were not conducive to lightning. The boom was heard 55 kilometers away in Cape Broyle. The impact occurred in the Bickfordville area, on the southwestern side of the island. ...

The incident was investigated by John Warren and Robert Freyman from the Los Alamos National Laboratory (then called the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory) of New Mexico, United States. It has been speculated that, due to the two men's place of work, they were investigating a secret weapons test and were military attachés. However, reacting to data received from the Vela satellites, they were in fact investigating a superbolt - an unusually large bolt of lightning, lasting an unusually long time: about a thousandth of a second.^{[3]... (more)} http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Island

4 Vesta - NASA Dawn Mission Status Update 7JUL2011

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2011-206  

Dawn Team Members Check out Spacecraft
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
July 07, 2011

Dawn Mission Status Update

Mission managers for NASA's Dawn spacecraft are studying the
spacecraft's ion propulsion system after Dawn experienced a loss of
thrust on June 27. Dawn team members were able to trace the episode to
an electronic circuit in the spacecraft's digital control and interface
unit, a subsystem that houses the circuit and a computer that provides
the "brains" to Dawn's ion propulsion system. That circuit appeared to
lose an electronic signal. As a result, the valves controlling the flow
of xenon fuel did not open properly. Dawn automatically put itself into
a more basic configuration known as "safe-communications" mode, where
the spacecraft stopped some activities and turned its high-gain antenna
to Earth.

Engineers were able to return the spacecraft to a normal configuration
and restart the spacecraft's thrusting on June 30 by switching to a
second digital control and interface unit with equivalent capabilities.
One set of images for navigation purposes was not obtained on June 28
because the spacecraft was in safe-communications mode, and one other
set, on July 6, was not obtained to allow the spacecraft to spend the
time thrusting. Other sets of navigation images have been and will be
acquired as expected. The ion propulsion system is now functioning normally.

"Dawn is still on track to get into orbit around Vesta, and thanks to
the flexibility provided by our use of ion propulsion, the time of orbit
capture actually will move earlier by a little less than a day," said
Marc Rayman, Dawn's chief engineer and mission manager. "More
importantly, the rest of Dawn's schedule is unaffected, and science
collection is expected to begin as scheduled in early August."

In an unrelated event, the visible and infrared mapping spectrometer on
Dawn reset itself on June 29. At the time of the reset, the instrument
was gathering calibration data during the spacecraft's approach to the
giant asteroid Vesta. Some of its planned observations were completed
successfully before automatic sensors turned the instrument off.

On June 30, Dawn team members were able to trace the reset to an
internal error in the instrument's central processing unit, though they
don't yet know why the internal error occurred. By temporarily turning
the instrument back on, the Dawn team confirmed that the instrument is
otherwise in a normal configuration. They powered the instrument back
off, as originally planned for this time. Team members are working to
determine when they will turn it back on again.

After arriving at Vesta, Dawn will spend about one year orbiting the
asteroid, which is also known as a protoplanet because it is a large
body that almost became a planet. Data collected at Vesta will help
scientists understand the earliest chapter of our solar system's history.

The Dawn mission to Vesta and Ceres is managed by the Jet Propulsion
Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in
Pasadena, for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. Dawn is a
project of the directorate's Discovery Program, managed by NASA's
Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. The University of
California, Los Angeles, is responsible for overall Dawn mission
science. Other scientific partners include Planetary Science Institute,
Tucson, Ariz.; Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research,
Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany; DLR Institute for Planetary Research,
Berlin, Germany; Italian National Institute for Astrophysics, Rome; and
the Italian Space Agency, Rome. Orbital Sciences Corporation of Dulles,
Va., designed and built the Dawn spacecraft.

To learn more about Dawn and its mission to the asteroid belt, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/dawn and http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov .



Jia-Rui C. Cook 818-354-0850
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.

Kansas / Colorado Meteor 8JUL2011

Rose Hill, KS Meteor 3.55am CDT 8JUL2011
A couple of months ago I emailed you about a meteor I saw. I don't know how likely I am to see another one but I walked outside for a bit a little while ago and I saw another one. A yellow fireball streaking down for about 7-8 seconds until burnt up about 10 degrees above the horizon. I am located in Rose Hill, KS and I saw this in the West.
Regards,
Ruben K.

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Just Breaking News Bulletin- Santa Isabel do Rio Negro AND Tabatinga, Amazonas, Brasilia Major Bolide(s) Reported with Image 6July2011

Just Breaking Major Bolide Reported Over Tabatinga, Amazon, Brasil

Brasil Bolide(s) Report Locations 6JUL2011. Distance between two different sightings (Santa Isabel do Rio Negro and Tabatinga, Amazonas, Brasilia) and  is approximately 680kms, approximately 20 minutes apart indicating two bolide events occurred.
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Tabatinga, Amazon, Brasilia Major Bolide 6JUL2011 10:30 pm  local
(photo as of yet unconfirmed- my personal opinion is that this photo and the video MAY NOT be  of  these reports; awaiting confirmation from Brasilian authorities)

Two bolide events have been reported from Brasil, Santa Isabel do Rio Negro first and then 20 minutes later from Tabatinga, Amazon, Brasilia.  Updates will be posted as information is available.


Moradores de Tabatinga, no Amazonas, assistem a chuva de meteoros

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