Meteor/Meteorite News 9AUG2011

Perseid meteor shower: Best times to see the 'shooting stars' Christian Science Monitor Perseid meteor shower fans should go out Wednesday and Thursday am to avoid the glare from the moon. The Perseid meteor shower peak is Aug. 13. In Ano Vrontou, Greece, people look at the Perseid meteor shower, which occurs at mid-August and is caused ...

Watch the skies for aurora borealis and shooting stars
thejournal.ie
THE SKIES OVER Ireland will provide a visual feast for star-gazers in the coming days, with astronomical activity producing both aurora borealis and the year's most significant meteor showers. Increased solar activity last Friday led to aurora borealis ...

OMSI gearing up for meteor shower
Albany Democrat Herald
12: the Perseid Meteor Shower Watch. OMSI, the Rose City Astronomers, the Vancouver Sidewalk Astronomers and Oregon Parks and Recreations will have telescopes set up for the public to use. OMSI staff will present informal talks about the meteor shower, ...

The wandering mathematician and the meteor shower
Cyprus Mail

By Poly Pantelides Published on August 9, 2011 EVERY year in August, almost without exception, stargazers across the world take a moment or two to enjoy the beauty of the Perseid meteorshower. Odous village and Kyperounta community have organised ...

Expect a star shower this weekend
San Antonio Express
The Perseid meteor shower is coming to town, and it's famous for putting pizzazz in the night sky. The shower peaks Friday and Saturday, but a full moon Saturday will hamper seeing all but the brightest meteors as they streak across the night sky. ...

Perseid Meteor Shower Peak Coming Aug 13, 2011 -- Fire in the Sky ...
The Perseid meteor shower is an annual meteor shower that is extremely regular in its timing and can potentially be visible for weeks in the late summer sky ...www.sott.net/.../233062-Perseid-Meteor-Shower-Peak-Coming...

Exploding meteor wakes Pacific island nation - Yahoo! News
Read 'Exploding meteor wakes Pacific island nation' on Yahoo! News. An exploding meteor was believed to be responsible for a huge bang that reverberated ...news.yahoo.com/exploding-meteor-wakes-pacific-island-natio...

UW hosting stargazing party for Perseid meteor shower
Guelph Mercury

If it is a clear night, attendees may see the peak of the Perseid meteors, part of an annual meteorshower that is located in the Perseus constellation, said a university news release. This stargazing party will be held on the university's north campus ...

Perseid meteors nearing Earth
CBS News
(Getty Images) Every year around August 12-/13th, the Perseid meteor shower peaks. It's a fairly reliable shower that generates 60 or more meteors per hour. Unfortunately, this year the Moon is full at that time, washing out the sky and any fainter ...

Crystallizing the Lunar Magma Ocean
  -- Lab experiments help test ideas for the Moon's chemical composition and how its crust formed.
http://www.psrd.hawaii.edu/Aug11/LMO-crystallization.html

Skywatching Events for August 2011 Space.com The best meteor shower of the year will be dimmed by a bright Moon this time around, but is always worth watching. Look for early shower meteors during the week leading up to the peak. Best viewed after midnight. This sky map shows where to look to ...

Heads Up! Morning Star 12-13 LEELANAU – Meteor showers and a full moon are the “stars” of nighttime events planned around the peninsula on Aug. 13. The Perseid meteors of August are not actual falling or shooting stars but tiny bits of Comet Swift-Tuttle, according to ...

"Spectacular" Double Meteor Shower Peaks Tonight National GeographicA celestial traffic jam may be on tap tonight as two meteor showers combine forces to put on a brilliant sky show. One of the best shooting star events of the year is the annual August Perseid meteor shower. (See Perseids pictures. ...

September 2011 Geology highlights: New research posted Aug. 5 EurekAlert! Mon, 08 Aug 2011 11:04 AM PDT( Geological Society of America ) Highlights from the September issue of Geology, which is now online, include debris flow hazard assessment; dune migration in the "greatest desert on Earth": Antarctica; Luizi, the first confirmed meteorite impact structure in Central Africa; a determination of the likelihood that fungal disease had accelerated latest Permian woodland deterioration; the first ...

DNA building blocks found in meteorites
Washington PostA new analysis of a dozen meteorites found in Antarctica and elsewhere presents the strongest evidence yet that the answer is yes. Meteorites are space rocks that have fallen to the ground, and the new report bolsters the notion that heavy meteorite ...

Perseid Meteor Shower: Best Times to Spot 'Shooting Stars' This Week Space.com by Joe Rao, SPACE.com Skywatching Columnist For Northern Hemisphere observers, August is usually regarded as "meteor month" with one of the best displays of the year reaching its peak near midmonth. That display is, of course, the annual Perseid Meteor ...

Meteor Explosion Surprises Pacific Island Nation of Niue
Space.com
A meteor that exploded over the Pacific Ocean last week gave a late-night shock to the residents of the small island nation of Niue, according to press reports. Niue police officials say the exploding meteor created a huge bang over the island, ...


Meteors likely carried building blocks for DNA: study
National Post
A meteor streaks towards the horizon during the annual Persied meteor shower in Palm Beach Gardens. WASHINGTON — A new analysis of carbon meteorites suggests that they likely carried some of the building blocks needed for DNA to the Earth, according ...

Building Blocks of DNA Found in Meteorites from Space
Space.com
The components of DNA have now been confirmed to exist in extraterrestrial meteorites, researchers announced. A different team of scientists also discovered a number of molecules linked with a vital ancient biological process, adding weight to the idea ...

Fire in the sky Grand Falls-Windsor Advertiser A meteor, space junk, satellite or alien spacecraft? A number of people, including Harold Watkins, saw what appeared to be a fireball Monday night in Botwood. He said the object had been moving west and disappeared behind Bishop's Falls, and did not....

STRANGE GH: 1919 meteor strikes cause Ottawa county residents to flee homes
Grand Haven Tribune
A huge fireball, followed by a second one smaller in size, exploded upon impact with the water's surface. “I thought it to be a falling star,” Gunn said. “The entire sky was at first lighted with a brilliant bluish light. ...

Shepherds Chapel Presents METEOR CRATER ... 55 min Shepherds Chapel Presents METEOR CRATER in Arizona youtube.com

Celtic hillfort & meteorite crater: Ipf + Ries 16 min A talk and walk up and around Mount Ipf (prehistoric/Celtic mountain fortification) and the Ries Crater (Nördlinger Ries) in the ... youtube.com

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Meteor/Meteorite News 8AUG2011

Exploding meteor wakes Niue with a start
An exploding meteor was believed to be responsible for a huge bang that reverberated around the Pacific island nation of Niue last week, police said Monday.
www.physorg.com/news/2011-08-meteor-niue.html


Exploding meteor wakes Pacific Island
Straits Times
WELLINGTON (AFP) - AN EXPLODING meteor was believed to be responsible for a huge bang that reverberated around the Pacific island nation of Niue last week, police said Monday. Niue police chief Mark Chenery said the loud bang on Wednesday night woke ...

Meteor streaks across sky over Hungary Caboodle.hu A flaming meteor streaked over Hungary late Friday evening, according to eyewitness accounts on several websites. This photo of the meteor was taken by the Nagykanizsa Amateur Astronomer Association. Weather portal Idokep.hu put themeteor over Western ...

Exploding meteor wakes Niue with a startHerald Sun
AN exploding meteor is believed to be responsible for a huge bang that reverberated around the Pacific island nation of Niue last week. Niue police chief Mark Chenery said the loud bang on Wednesday night woke the island's 1200 residents and he ...

Meteor/Meteorite News 6AUG2011

Arizona at 100: Winslow and Holbrook residents in near panic over meteor
Arizona Daily Star
PRESCOTT — Winslow, Holbrook and the country adjacent for a radius of over 30 miles were thrown into a state of excitement Saturday evening last that bordered close onto a panic when a meteor passed over that country and exploded at a height estimated ...

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Large noise heard in Niue thought to be caused by a meteor
Radio New Zealand International
The Niue police chief says a large bang heard around the island late on Tuesday night sounded like thunder but may have been a meteor exploding. Mark Chenery says the island has been abuzz about the loud noise and inquiries made at Wellington's Carter ...


Europe's Plan to Move An Asteroid
Technology Review (MIT)
August 2, 2011
If we ever need to prevent an asteroid hitting Earth, we'll have to
deflect it somehow. To practice, the European Space Agency is planning a
game of asteroid billiards
If astronomers ever spot an asteroid coming our way, the world will have
to decide pretty quickly what to do.
One idea is to knock it off course. But although that sounds pretty
straightforward, it hides a multitude of challenges. The most obvious of
these is to determine how big an impact would be necessary and how this
could be delivered.
In 2002, the European Space Agency began a program called "Don Quijote"
to find out how best to perform such a deflection. ...


Meteor Activity Outlook for July 30-August 5, 2011 | American ...
This period will be the best time to view meteor activity during July and August as the Perseids will suffer from a full moon at the time of their maximum. ...
www.amsmeteors.org/.../meteor-activity-outlook-for-july-30-a...


"Spectacular" Double Meteor Shower This Week Delta Aquarid ...
One of the best shooting star events of the year is the annual August Perseid meteor shower. However this year's peak, on August 12, happens to coincide ...
www.cosmostv.org/.../spectacular-double-meteor-shower-this...


Get Your Camera Ready: Double Meteor Shower This Week! - Photoxels ...
One of the best shooting star events of the year is the annual August Perseid meteor shower and it will just start to ramp up on Friday. At the same time, ...
www.photoxels.com/get-your-camera-ready-double-meteor-sh...

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Meteor/Meteorite News 4AUG2011

Flagler, Florida Mystery Light/UFO Solved? Georgia Fireball ...
"They called me and notified they saw a large flash from the sky. About 25 people have told one of the officers," Flagler Beach Police Chief Dan Cody said. ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEzd6ejk6FA


Rare crystals found in meteorite
UPI.com
3 (UPI) -- Japanese researchers say they found opal-like crystals in a meteor that fell in Canada in 2000, the first extraterrestrial discovery of such unusual crystals. Reporting the find in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, ...

Rare crystals found in meteorite UPI Wed, 03 Aug 2011 16:57 PM PDT TOHOKU, Japan, Aug. 3 (UPI) -- Japanese researchers say they found opal-like crystals in a meteor that fell in Canada in 2000, the first extraterrestrial discovery of such unusual crystals.

First Opal-Like Crystals Discovered In Meteorite
redOrbit Wed, 03 Aug 2011 14:19 PM PDT
Scientists have found opal-like crystals in the Tagish Lake meteorite, which fell to Earth in Canada in 2000. This is the first extraterrestrial discovery of these unusual crystals, which may have formed in the primordial cloud of dust that produced the sun and planets of our solar system 4.6 billion years ago, according to a report in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. Katsuo ...

W&M Law students study "space law" The Virginia Gazette Tue, 02 Aug 2011 23:36 PM PDT WILLIAMSBURG - William & Mary Law School students Brittany Law and Lillian McManus are now experienced in âspace lawâ after a rare property case involving the Lorton Meteorite fell out of the sky and into an examining room of Doctors Marc Gallini and Frank Ciampiâs Williamsburg Square Family Practice in Jan. 2010. ...

Potential meteor menace said overstated
CBS News
A giant impact from an asteroid or comet can ruin your whole day. Or year. Or, if you're a dinosaur, your existence. So astronomers do what they can to understand this menace from space. We look for rocks on orbits that intersect ours, we think about ...


First opal-like crystals discovered in meteorite
ScienceBlog.com (blog)
Scientists have found opal-like crystals in the Tagish Lake meteorite, which fell to Earth in Canada in 2000. This is the first extraterrestrial discovery of these unusual crystals, which may have formed in the primordial cloud of dust that produced ...

2011 Year of Meteors!

Abu Dhabi Meteor 9.15pm 4AUG2011

Abu Dhabi Meteor 9.15pm 4th Aug 2011

Want to report a huge meteor ( it could only be I guess). I stay in Abu Dhabi.
At about 9.15 pm tonight , I saw a extremely fast moving object at about a 30 to 40 deg angle travelling in east to west direction. Too fast to identify exactly.
Had a long tail and seemed so close that I thought it was going to hit the ground nearby. I have seen shooting stars etc before, this was nothing even close.
Hope someone else saw this as my wife thinks I am going crazy!
Regards,
Neil S. (contact info)

Thank you Neil for your kind report!

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 The Year of Meteors!

Meteor/Meteorite News 2-3AUG2011

Asteroid Vesta surface stuns scientists CBS News Tue, 02 Aug 2011 07:02 AM PDT Images turn up giant crater formed by collision eons ago that pelted Earth with meteorite barrage ...

W&M Law students study "space law"
The Virginia Gazette Mon, 01 Aug 2011 23:43 PM PDT
WILLIAMSBURG - William & Mary Law School students Brittany Law and Lillian McManus are now experienced in âspace lawâ after a rare property case involving the Lorton Meteorite fell out of the sky and into an examining room of Doctors Marc Gallini and Frank Ciampiâs Williamsburg Square Family Practice in Jan. 2010 ...


Upper Mid-Western USA Fireball July 26, 2011 | American Meteor Society
In the AMS fireball table, refer to event #735 for 2011. Clear Skies! ... my wife and I did see twofireballs on tues. night 7/26/11 about ten min. apart. ...
www.amsmeteors.org/.../upper-mid-western-usa-fireball-july-2...

Evidence found for unseen comet that may threaten Earth msnbc.com This February Eta Draconid meteor streak was filmed by Peter Jenniskens with one of the low-light-level video cameras at the Cameras for All-sky Meteor Surveillance station in Mountain View, Calif., at 07:59:24 GMT on Feb. 4, 2011. ...

“OBSERVING METEORS” AT THE AUGUST 13TH CAAS MEETING « CAAS
By Jim
They will also present a short history of meteor observing, how to draw meteor trails, and earning the Astronomical League Meteor Award. Rocky also recently visited the Meteor Crater in Arizona and will give a report on his visit. ...
CAAS


elp allsky: BREAKING METEOR/FIREBALL NEWS...LARGE, BRIGHT Oregon ...
Obviously, we cannot respond individually to each of you who took your valuable time to send in your reports on this major meteor event, so we say to you ...
elpasoallsky.blogspot.com/.../large-oregon-meteor-fireball-rep...

New Impact Rate Count Lays Nemesis Theory to RestUniverse Today by Nancy Atkinson on August 1, 2011 Barringer Crater, also known as Meteor Crater, in Arizona. This crater was formed around 50000 years ago by the impact of a nickel-iron meteorite. Near the top of the image, the visitors center, complete with tour ...

Meteor/Meteorite News 30-31JUL2011

Shooting satellites, new and old
Discover Magazine (blog)
That's a collection of four cameras in the US southeast looking for bright meteors; the idea being that if one is caught by more than one camera the path can be calculated in three dimensions, and a location of any potential meteorite found. ...

meteorobs : Message: Re: (meteorobs) Radio Meteor listening dies ...
meteorobs: Amateur meteor astronomy. ... Of course, whether the remaining analog stations would be of any use for meteor listening is open to debate. ...
tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/meteorobs/message/40111

Northwestern USA Fireball July 25, 2011 | American Meteor Society
In the AMS fireball table, refer to event #724 for 2011. ... the east in the cascades. then i noticed a mostly blueish fireball going from the southwest to ...
www.amsmeteors.org/.../northwestern-usa-fireball-july-25-201...

W&M Law students study "space law"
The Virginia Gazette Thu, 28 Jul 2011 23:54 PM PDT
WILLIAMSBURG - William & Mary Law School students Brittany Law and Lillian McManus are now experienced in âspace lawâ after a rare property case involving the Lorton Meteorite fell out of the sky and into an examining room of Doctors Marc Gallini and Frank Ciampiâs Williamsburg Square Family Practice in Jan. 2010. ...

Trail of crumbs discovered from potentially hazardous comet
Astronomy Magazine
By SETI Institute, Mountain View, California — Published: July 29, 2011 This +2 magnitude February Eta Draconid was filmed by Peter Jenniskens with one of the low-light-level video cameras of the Cameras for Allsky Meteor Surveillance (CAMS) station ...

Delta Aquarids and Perseids meteor showers coincide this week
Examiner.com
“In the great meteor shower of August, the Perseid, I wail all day for the shooting stars I miss. They're out there showering down, committing hara-kiri in a flame of fatal attraction, and hissing perhaps at last into the ocean. ...

Texas UFO: Is it unknown flying object or just a meteor
TimesWireService
Many people wonder if Texas UFO was really an unknown flying object or just a meteor? UFO sighting in the sky of Texas has made sky enthusiasts and experts anxious. Early risers in the city were lucky to watch the reported UFO on the local breakfast TV ...

Holbrook - 99th Anniversary Meteorite Hunt 5 min A quick video I did of the 99th anniversary meteorite hunt that Ruben Garcia ( mrmeteorite.com ) organized. This video documents ... youtube.com

VIDEO:Images of a Meteorite Flying Over France 31 sec A cultural centre for the study of space located in the French city of Rennes published CCTV exclusive images of a meteorite flying ... online.wsj.com

How Astronomers May Hunt for Life on Alien Planets Charles Q. Choi, Astrobiology Magazine Contributor Any sulfurous molecules that astronomers spot on alien worlds might be a way to reveal whether or not those distant planets host life, researchers suggest.

Meteorite crashed in France (Bretagne)CCTV 11 sec A meteorite has crashed in Bretagne (France) on july 19 2011. The stone hasn't been found yet. The sound has been heard 300km ... youtube.com

1908 Mystery in Tunguska, Russia. Caretakers ... 75 min George Carey uncovers the mystery behind the massive explosion that shook Tunguska, Siberia in 1908 which has been variously ... youtube.com

Meteor/Meteorite News 29JUL2011

Meteor Activity Outlook for July 23-29, 2011 | American Meteor Society
Successful meteor watching can be accomplished by viewing in a direction that places the moon far from your field of view. The situation improves as the ...
www.amsmeteors.org/.../meteor-activity-outlook-for-july-23-2...


meteorobs : Message: (meteorobs) Radio Meteor Workshop just before ...
Dear meteor enthusiasts, No doubt you are aware that the 30th International Meteor Conference will take place in the beautiful town Sibiu, Romania, ...
tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/meteorobs/message/40107


How to photograph tonight's Delta Aquarid Meteor Shower
Examiner.com
Tonight marks the peak of the Delta Aquarid Meteor Shower, a once a year event that can produce stunning pictures. Yes, while meteor watching is a favorite past time for many, other people desire more, namely, photographing the meteors. ...


Mars Attack! UFO Appears on Live TV in Texas
IBTimes
Shocked by the live sighting, viewers speculated it could instead be a shooting star, a meteor, or even an insect reflecting light from the television tower where the camera is mounted, but a UFO, really? The public is still divided, but many viewers ...


NASA's Dawn's Spacecraft Views Dark Side of Vesta
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Dawn took this image over Vesta's northern hemisphere after the
spacecraft completed its first passage over the dark side of the giant
asteroid. It is northern hemisphere winter on Vesta now, so its north
pole is in deep shadow. ...

Unseen Comet May Threaten Earth KSEE By KSEE News Astronomers say a surprise meteor shower spotted in February was probably caused by cosmic "bread crumbs," dropped by an undiscovered comet that could potentially pose a threat to Earth. The tiny meteoroids that streaked through Earth's ...

comet's orbit indicates possible crash
San Francisco Chronicle
Sixty specialized cameras that operate at UC's Lick Observatory, the Fremont Peak Observatory and a ground-based site, formerly in Mountain View but now in Lodi under a project called Cameras for Allsky Meteor Surveillance, constantly monitor the night ...