Meteor/Meteorite News - Meteor Burst / Scatter Communications 15JUL11

imo-news : Message: Meteor Activity Outlook for July 9-15, 2011
in watching meteor activity. Evening rates are reduced slightly this week due to moonlight. ... thatmeteor activity is rarely seen at the radiant position. ...
tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/imo-news/message/2307


Meteor Burst / Scatter Communications :: Radio-Electronics.Com
Notes and essential detials / tutorial Meteor Burst or Meteor Scatter Communications.
www.radio-electronics.com/info/...scatter.../basics-tutorial.php


Meteor Burst / Scatter Communications :: Radio-
A meteor trail will appear at some point that enables the transmitted probe signal to be reflected back so that it is received by ...
www.radio-electronics.com/.../meteor-scatter-comms-system-0...

Meteorites - Scientific Journal

a new scientific journal: "Meteorites".  We are the first open–access journal focusing exclusively on meteoritics. Professor Przylibski from the Wroclaw University of Technology is the head editor.
This is our website :
http://www.meteorites.pwr.wroc.pl/index.html
On the web-page you will find all information about the journal, how to download articles (for free), and how to submit publications....

Last known dinosaur: Fossil find suggests meteor caused extinction Christian Science Monitor The leading culprit for the end of the Age of Dinosaurs is a catastrophic meteor strike about 65 million years ago. Although it is now widely accepted that a cosmic impact took place about then — a time known as the Cretaceous-Tertiary, or KT boundary ...

In Memoriam: Tom Gehrels, 1925-2011

http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/resources/faculty/memoriam/gehrels.php

In Memoriam: Tom Gehrels, 1925-2011

Professor Tom Gehrels joined the UA's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory
(LPL) in 1961 as an Associate Professor. He earned his B.S. in Physics
and Astronomy from Leiden (Netherlands) University in 1951, and his
Ph.D. in Astronomy and Astrophysics from the University of Chicago in 1956.

While at Chicago, he worked with Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar and Gerard
P. Kuiper (who founded LPL in 1960). Dr. Gehrels' distinguished science
career featured many highlights. During the 1950s, Professor Gehrels
pioneered the first photometric system of asteroids and discovered the
opposition effect in the brightness of asteroids. In the 1960s, he
pioneered wavelength dependence of polarization of stars and planets.
His research interests then migrated to imaging photopolarimetry of
Jupiter and Saturn, and Dr. Gehrels was named principal investigator for
the Pioneer 10 and 11 Imaging Photopolarimeters, which discovered
Saturn's F ring.

In 1980, Tom Gehrels founded the Spacewatch Project, which uses
telescopes on Kitt Peak to survey the sky for dangerous asteroids; he
led the project until 1997. Professor Gehrels also founded the well
known and well respected Space Science Series, still published by the
University of Arizona Press. He served as general editor for the first
30 volumes of the series. At its start in the 1980s, the Space Science
Series represented a new way of producing research textbooks. In 2007,
Tom Gehrels was the recipient of the Harold Masursky Award, presented by
the American Astronomical Society's Division for Planetary Sciences in
recognition of meritorious service to planetary science.

Professor Gehrels' recent research interests were in universal
evolution. Each fall, he taught an undergraduate course for non-science
majors at the University of Arizona and each spring, he presented a
brief version of that course at the Physical Research Laboratory in
Ahmedabad, India, where he was a lifetime Fellow.

More about Dr. Gehrels < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Gehrels>

Meteor/Meteorite News 13JUL2011

Triceratops Was Last Dinosaur Standing
Discovery News
The 65 million-year-old find suggests a meteor may have wiped out the dinosaurs in a sudden catastrophic event. By Jennifer Viegas The world's last known surviving non-avian dinosaur was a Triceratops from Montana's Hell Creek Formation. ...

Tough turtles survive cretaceous meteorite impact PhysOrg Tue, 12 Jul 2011 13:07 PM PDT (PhysOrg.com) -- New fossil localities from North Dakota and Montana have produced the remains of a turtle that survived the 65 million-year-oldmeteorite impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. The resulting study, published in the latest issue of the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, suggests that Boremys, a turtle that belongs to a group known as the baenids (bay-een-ids) survived the ...

February meteor outburst: new shower #427

We detected a new shower in our CAMS video data of 
February 4, caused by Earth crossing the dust trail
of a long-period comet. It was added to the IAU Working List
as shower #427, the February eta Draconids. 
According to Esko Lyytinen's calculations, the shower 
may return in 2016 or 2023. More information is posted here: 
http://cams.seti.org
-Peter Jenniskens

Cosmic Collisions: Meteorite…Extraterrestrial rocks hold valuable clues to the history of the solar system.bing.com

2011 The Year of Meteors!

Meteor/Meteorite News 12JUL2011

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Tough Turtle Survived What Dinosaurs Couldn't
Discovery News
By Jennifer Viegas A tough river turtle, Boremys, not only survived the meteorite impact that likely wiped out the dinosaurs, but it also seemed completely unfazed by the catastrophic event, according to a new Society of Vertebrate Paleontology paper. ...


How tough turtles survived a deadly meteor Technology & science ...
What does it take to survive a catastrophic meteor impact? The tough turtles of the Cretaceous know a bit about that; they seem to have survived the mass ...
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/.../technology_and_science-science/

The Greatest Mysteries of the Asteroid Belt Space.com [What's the Difference Between an Asteroid and a Comet? http://www.lifeslittlemysteries.com/asteroid-comet-or-meteor-1139/] From there, Dawn will go on to orbit the belt's biggest object, Ceres, in 2015. Ceres accounts for nearly a third of the ...

Richland Man Finds Meteorite… Richland Man Finds Meteorite-like Object In Driveway video.app.msn.com

Meteor/Meteorite News 10JUL2011

Meteorite magic in Mokoia
Taranaki Daily News
It had a tail like a meteor and gradually faded off into a long silver-like line, which remained in the sky for several minutes after the ball disappeared, and then faded away like puffs of smoke. Soon after the ball disappeared I heard an explosion ...


Meteor Activity Outlook for July 9-15, 2011 | International Meteor ...
Meteor Activity Outlook for July 9-15, 2011. During this period the moon reaches its full phase on Friday July 15th. At this time the moon will lie opposite ...
www.imo.net/node/1379

Setubal, Portugal Meteor Fireball 10JUL2011

Setubal, Portugal Meteor Fireball 10JUL2011
Assunto: 10JULY2011 Fireball, Setubal, Portugal
Hi there!
My apologies for reporting this to you so late!
Date of my sighting: 10th July 2011
Time: 22h 17m Local Time (Lisbon Time).
Place: Setubal, Portugal
Coordinates of the place where I was standing, in front of my apartment:
38º 31' 28" N; 8º 52' 02" W (Google Earth);
Elevation: 36 meters;
My initial atention was atracted by it's sudden glare:
Aprox. begin point: ~25º over the eastern horizon;
Aprox. end point: ~17º over the eastern horizon;
Visual path: ~6º long;
It moved on a vertical direction towards the eastern horizon, on an aprox. Azimuth: ~95ºE;
Visual magnitude at it's brightest, near it's end point; -5.0 mag. vis.
It moved fast, with a duration of about 2.5 to 3.0 seconds;
Visual colours seen: Head bright white with 4 sparks, green and orange-reddish trail.
No sound. -José A. Campos  Thank you José!

PS: Independent co-discoverer of comet Haneda-Campos D/1978 R1
from Durban, South Africa, on 01 September 1978.



Date and Time of event? Location name (town,city) where you were when saw the meteor? Start and Stop location in sky? Direction of movement? Duration of Event (seconds)? Brightness ( in comparison with Venus, Moon, Sun) color, sounds? Photos? Videos? please email LunarMeteoriteHunter@gmail.com Your reports make it possible for all to check what they saw as well. Thank you! 2011 Year of Meteors!

Meteor/Meteorite News 8/9JUL2011

ANGEO - Abstract - Meteor head echo polarization at 930 MHz ...
Meteor head echo polarization at 930 MHz studied with the EISCAT UHF HPLA radar ... The polarization characteristics of 930-MHz meteor head echoes have been ...
www.ann-geophys.net/29/1197/2011/


Meteor Activity Outlook for July 2-8, 2011 | American Meteor Society
Meteor season finally gets going in July for the northern hemisphere. ... local weather conditions, alertness and experience in watching meteor activity. ...
www.amsmeteors.org/.../meteor-activity-outlook-for-july-2-8-...


Loud 'boom' rattles Gainesville area
Access North Georgia
A second caller, a few minutes later, said he was sitting by his pool on Mountain View Road, which is off McEver, and saw a "streak across the sky," followed by the loud noise, leading to some speculation that it was a sonic boom caused by a meteor ...

The Encounter with 2011 MD

Kelly Beatty has an interesting article about the recent encounter with 2011 MD.
http://www.skyandtelescope.com/news/125041789.html


Astronomy: Nuclear network detects fireball : Nature : Nature ...
Astronomy: Nuclear network detects fireball. Journal name: Nature; Volume: 475,; Page: 9; Date published: (07 July 2011); DOI: doi:10.1038/475009b ...
www.nature.com/nature/journal/v475/n7354/.../475009b.html

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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2011 Year of Meteors!