Meteor/Meteorite News Kenya Meteor 18JUL2011

Meteor sighted before crashing in Kilimambogo, Kenya
Paranormal Old Pueblo
The object was a smooth black rock, which area officials believe to be a meteor from outer space. There were no reported injuries from the impact of the extraterrestrial rock. The 'Tucson Connection': Did you know that Geoffrey Notkin of the Science ...


Nevada's Great Basin a treat for stargazers because of lack of light pollution
Mirror.co.uk
The high altitude desert has no light pollution and on a moonless night you could spot five of the solar system's planets, the Milky Way and meteor showers with the Orionids expected in October. Visit during a full moon and take part in the free Full ...

Youngest Dinosaur Fossil Found in Montana: Giant Clue for Extinction Theory International Business Times The discovery of the fossil provided unprecedented support for the theory that dinosaurs were wiped out by a massive meteor or similar cosmic body that struck the earth. Subscribers to the competing theory - that dinosaurs gradually became extinct ...

Meteor causes panic in Thika village 1 min www.ntv.co.ke A major symposium for the physically challenged is expected to be organized this year. The Symposium will give ... youtube.com

Meteorite impact in Kenya? 6 min link below: hisz.rsoe.hu youtube.com

Meteor/Meteorite News - Kenya Meteor/Meteorite 17JUL2011

Meteor causes panic in Thika village
ntvkenya
http://www.ntv.co.ke A major symposium for the physically challenged is expected to be organized this year. The Symposium will give opportunity for the disabled to ask questions in regards to their rights. And in Mombasa, a computer college specially ...

Northeastern USA Fireball Sunday Morning 7/17/11

The American Meteor Society has received reports of a very bright fireball over the New York-New Jersey-Pennsylvania area. It occurred a few minutes after 4am EDT on July 17th. Of the first half dozen reports received so far, no one could agree on the color. They all agree that it was very bright, exceeding the light of the full moon.
Summaries of these reports may be seen on the AMS website at:
http://www.amsmeteors.org/fireball2/public.php?start_date=2011-01-01&end_date=2011-12-31 
Refer to event #682 for 2011. Note that this reference number could change slightly should we receive reports of events prior to this one.
Clear Skies! Robert Lunsford, American Meteor Society


elp allsky: BREAKING METEOR FIREBALL NEWS.....Large D.C., New ...
Hi, We witnessed a bright meteor/fireball on July 12, 2011 at approximately 2200 EDT. It was first noticed in the NNE sky and descended towards the Eastern ...
elpasoallsky.blogspot.com/.../large-dc-new-jersey-meteor-fireb...


Out of the past 7/17/11
Southeast Missourian
A strange meteor was observed by many Girardeans last night; flying to the east at a slow rate of speed, it exploded over the woods leading up to Cape Rock, two miles north of Cape Girardeau. Henry Brune, former owner of the property on Broadway ...


Meteors & Meteor Showers :: Radio-
Meteor scatter seasonal variations. Meteor scatter / meteor burst communications seasonal variations. These two effects have combine differently dependent ...
www.radio-electronics.com/.../meteor-scatter-seasonal-variatio..

'Meteor' crashes at KilimambogoDaily Nation “We believe it is a heavenly body, probably a piece of a meteor that may have disintegrated on entering the earth's atmosphere,” said Lt Col Vungo, who was accompanied by Thika police boss Paul Leting. Mr Vungo said reports from Ndunyu Sabuk area ...

Meteor/Meteorite News 16JUL2011

Yale scientists discover the last living dinosaur CTV.ca Yale graduate student Stephen Chester discovered the last known dinosaur before the catastrophic meteor impact 65 million years ago. A fossil discovered in Montana has given new momentum to the hypothesis that dinosaurs were thriving right up until a ...

YouTube - Meteor / Fireball Over Georgia July 4, 2011 - Red Barn ...
Georgia meteor / fireball entering the atmosphere at 12:17:45 EST (04:17:43 UTC) on July, 4 2011. Approximate magitude -6.5 to -7.5.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOv0t71aWhQ


Fireball UFO spotted over Asia
Open Minds UFO News
Earlier this month fireball UFOs were filmed in both Georgia and Mexico, now another fireball UFO video has surfaced. The video which was uploaded to YouTube shows a Russian rocket transforming during different stages of the initial launch. ...

Meteorite Times - July Issue Now Up

The July issue of Meteorite Times is now up.
Looks like everyone had a great time at Ensisheim!
The following URL gives access to the Web Browser View, Flash Magazine View, and Mobile PDF.
http://www.meteorite-times.com/monthly-issues/
Enjoy! Paul and Jim


Meteorite artist Matthew Luck Galpin brings his Anvilled Stars to the Science ...
Culture24
By Culture24 Reporter | 14 July 2011 Where most artists might see meteorites as objects to be avoided on their creative paths, Matthew Luck Galpin heats, hammers, grinds and polishes them into something altogether new. Taking shards which fell in ...


Observing the Delta Aquariid Meteor Shower in 2011 | American ...
He received a sample copy of Meteor News. He was amazed to learn there was a group actually devoted strictly to meteor observing! He joined the group also ...
www.amsmeteors.org/.../observing-the-delta-aquariid-meteor-s..


International Meteor Conference 2011 | Facebook
International Meteor Conference 2011 - International Meteor Conference 2011 - General Information: Sibiu is one of the most important cultural centers of ...
en-gb.facebook.com/imc2011sibiu

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

meteorobs : Message: (meteorobs) Meteor Activity Outlook for July ...
meteorobs: Amateur meteor astronomy. ... in watching meteor activity. Evening rates are reduced slightly this week due to moonlight. ...
tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/meteorobs/message/40077


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