The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 18SEP2011

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 18SEP2011


Satellite Re-entry, Hercolubus, Elenin,Draconid meteor shower, the ...
UARS Satellite Re-entry Crash to Earth and Hercolubus and Comet Elenin and 2011 Draconidmeteor shower , this video is a year old and talks about the ...
www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message1642570/pg1


Meteor Activity Outlook for September 17-23, 2011 « The Transient ...
By Carl Hergenrother
The following is a slightly edited version of Bob Lunsford's excellent weekly summary of meteoractivity. The original version can be found at the American Meteor Society's site. September offers longer nights in the northern hemisphere that ...
The Transient Sky - Comets, Asteroids...

UFO Flashes Across Western Skies Video 30 sec weekend good morning america juju chang kate snow marysol castro meteor meteor flash online news robin roberts ron claiborne ... abcnews.go.com

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 17SEP2011

Meteor Activity Outlook for September 17-23, 2011 | International ...
This weekend the waning gibbous moon will interfere with meteor observing during the morning hours. Skies will be dark during the early evening hours until ...
www.imo.net/node/1391


Bright Green Fireball Amazes Skywatchers in Southwest US ...
A bright, green-colored fireball that streaked across the night sky over the southwestern United States yesterday (Sept. 14) was most likely a meteor, according to ...
www.msnbc.msn.com/.../bright-green-fireball-amazes-skywatc...


Fireball Streaked Across Southwest United States | Video | TheBlaze ...
What was that? Michael Kahnke (@mlkahnke) wrote "It was large, slow-moving and parts were breaking off." "That" occurred last night around 7 p.m. Pacific ...
www.theblaze.com/.../what-was-the-fireball-seen-in-the-south...


Meteor Likely Cause of Southwest U.S. Light Show NASA Jet ...
A meteor is the most probable cause of a bright, colorful fireball witnessed by people in a wide swath of the southwestern United States.
www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2011-291


Bright orb of light across sky turns out to be fireball
The Desert Sun
“But it's almost certain that the object was a fireball the size of a basketball or baseball .” Believed to be an asteroid fragment that strayed into Earth's atmosphere about 7:45 pm Wednesday, it lit up not only the sky but dispatchers' switchboards ...

Unearthly sounds of Earth perplexing scientists DigitalJournal.com Another natural suggestion were meteor shower sounds captured in space. Some scientists have theorized a massive meteor caused, or partly caused, the global Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction 65.5 million years ago. Now other scientists are discovering ...

Meteor's Fireball Blazes Across Southern California Sky, Freaks People Out
LA Weekly (blog)
In other words it was a piece of meteor that broke off and burned up upon entering earth's atmosphere. Maybe. Some people freaked out and called 911. It was seen from here to Arizona about 7:30 last night. But there's nothing to worry about. ...

Mysterious Light in Southwestern Sky Probably Piece of Asteroid, Expert Says International Business Times Experts said a fireball - or very bright meteor - was likely to blame when residents from Phoenix to Las Vegas to Southern California' coastal area reported that they saw the light move quickly from west to east at around 7:45 pm PT, about 10:45 pm ET. ...

Meteorite Hunt Begins After Thousands Witness Southwestern US Fireball iWeather Online By Mark Dunphy - Fri Sep 16, 7:34 pm A meteor is the most probable cause of a bright, colourful fireball witnessed by thousands of people in a wide swath of the southwestern United States on Wednesday night, according to NASA. ...

The hunt for rocks from space BBC News They believe tiny pieces of the meteor - meteorites - could have survived the fall to Earth, and they have begun gathering data to aid the search. The fireball flew eastward over southern California, was observed in Nevada and Arizona, ...

Mysterious Southwestern Lights Spurs UFO Talk
Huffington Post
Whatever it was that streaked from west to east through the sky Wednesday night over several southwest states still has people wondering if it was a meteor, fireball, space debris or, you guessed it, a UFO. Keep in mind that UFO means Unidentified ...


Meteor Likely Cause of Southwest US Light Show
Science Daily (press release)
15, 2011) — A meteor is the most probable cause of a bright, colorful fireball witnessed by people in a wide swath of the southwestern United States, according to Don Yeomans, manager of NASA's Near-Earth Object Program Office at JPL. ...


Major Fireball Event Seen From Southern California, Arizona and ...
Here's a map of the fireball witness reports. The green lines represent where the witness first saw the fireball, the yellow line is where the fireball was last sighted ...
www.amsmeteors.org/.../major-fireball-event-seen-from-south...

Fireball seen in southwest states likely falling meteor abc7.com "Based on the reports we heard, a bright meteor was seen over much of the western, southwestern part of the country, California, maybe a little of Arizona and Nevada, maybe more," said Dr. Ed Krupp, director of Griffith Observatory. ...

Rare fireball rips through the night sky in California but dont ...
When a streak of fire blazed through the air above southern California, people could have been forgiven for thinking the Earth was under attack.
www.dailymail.co.uk/.../Rare-fireball-rips-night-sky-California...

MAY Have Been Meteor Or Piece Of Asteroid 2 min September 15, 2011 CNN MOXNews.com youtube.com

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Tiny Asteroid Created Bright Meteor, NASA Says ABC News (blog) Reports of the fireball, which reportedly traveled east across the western US, streamed in on the American Meteor Society's website Wednesday. Toni Flint, from Glendale, Ariz., wrote that it was “the most amazing and beautiful sight that I have ever ...

What was it? 'Glowing object' lights up sky over Arizona, Southwest ABC15.com (KNXV-TV) PHOENIX - Experts believe a bright 'glowing object' spotted over the Arizona sky Wednesday night was either a fireball or a bright meteor. Residents in Las Vegas and Southern California also reported seeing the light. A NASA scientist told msnbc.com ...

Fireball lights up night sky across the Southwest
News 8 KFMB
The sightings started happening around 7:45 pm and astronomers say the fast-moving, glowing object was most likely a falling meteor. Dozens of people across the Southwest, including residents in Los Angeles, Phoenix and Las Vegas, reported seeing the ...


No conspiracy here, JPL expert says of greenish meteor
Los Angeles Times
Wednesday's meteor wasn't aliens or a spacecraft burning up during reentry, says a JPL expert who runs NASA's Near Earth Object Program. It was probably a chunk of asteroid. By Andrew Blankstein, Los Angeles Times As word spread of the greenish, ...


Mysterious light was meteor, UA expert says
KVOA Tucson News
He says the meteor is "a reminder that there's a solar system out there that occasionally decides to touch the earth by throwing a rock at us or something like that." Tucsonan Michael Farmer hunts meteorites, the rocks that fall from meteors. ...

VIDEO: 'Glowing object' flies across PHX night sky ABC15.com (KNXV-TV) Kimberly Curto, a freshman at Desert Vista High School in Phoenix, posted a YouTube video showing a possible meteor that flew through the night sky during her brother's Junior Varsity football game. She sent ABC15 the video that lasts just a few ...

Mysterious light seen in southwestern sky
CNN
By Scott Thompson and Joe Sterling, CNN (CNN) -- The streak of light that blazed across southwestern US skies and stoked burning curiosity across the social media landscape was probably a tiny and bright meteor known as a fireball, a NASA spokeswoman ...


Mysterious light seen in Southwestern sky 9/14/2011
YouTube
A streak of light that some are describing as a fireball, was seen shooting across the night sky and law enforcement and media from Phoenix to Los Angeles to Las Vegas were fielding calls of the reported sighting. Lt. Justin Griffin of the Maricopa ...

Rare meteorite piece donated by US-based scientist New Kerala Thu, 15 Sep 2011 00:43 AM PDT Tiruchirapalli, Sep 15 : Dr Ramachandran Ganapathy, Scientist, Baker Fellow (retd), JT Baker Chemical Research Laboratory, Phillipsburg, US, has donated a rare and invaluable piece of meteorite weighing about 1.5 kg to the city-based Seethalakshmi Ramaswami College here.

Meteor lights up Wednesday night sky
Prescott Daily Courier
A meteor was zipping through the sky from the west and disappeared behind Granite Mountain at about 7:45 pm, perfectly framed by her 5-by-5-foot window in the Mint Creek Ranch subdivision northwest of Prescott. "I'm 55 years old and I've never seen ...


Palm Springs residents spot apparent meteor in sky
The Desert Sun
A meteor, also known as a shooting star, is a “light phenomena” that happens when a meteoroid enters the Earth's atmosphere and vaporizes. A meteoroid is a small particle from a comet or asteroid that orbits the sun. A real UFO — probably a meteor, ...


Fireball sighted in skies over southwestern US -- Fire in the Sky ...
Reports stream in from Southern California and Nevada; experts say it's a meteor People from San Diego to Los Angeles to Las Vegas reported seeing a large, ...
www.sott.net/.../234973-Fireball-sighted-in-skies-over-southw...

Bright Green Fireball Lights Up Sky Southwest US Space.com A bright, green-colored fireball that streaked across the night sky over the southwestern United States yesterday (Sept. 14) was most likely a meteor, according to NASA. Surprised residents in Phoenix, Las Vegas and parts of Southern California...

Bright Flash Lights Up Sky KYMA Meteoroligists say it was most likely a meteor. It lit up the sky in the Desert Southwest with reported sightings from Las Vega to Yuma to Southern California. It appeared around 7:45 pm People say they saw green, blue, purple and white light streaking ...

Fireball in the sky
KXO Radio
Officials are now saying the light was a Wednesday night was a very bright meteor, also known as a fireball. People from San Diego to Arizona and up to Los Angeles and Nevada reported seeing it at around 7:45 pm. It was described as changing from ...


Odd light seen over Southern Arizona
KOLD-TV
AP Entertainment News Video By Aaron Pickering - bio | email *Update* - Thursday 9-15-11 (9:20AM) - KOLD News 13 has received word from expert at Kitt Peak have said the "odd light" was almost certainly a meteor. Mike Terenzoni with the U of A said he ...


UFO was likely basketball-sized fireball
The Desert Sun
A real UFO streaked across the Coachella Valley's skies Wednesday night, but by morning NASA scientists were fairly certain they had identified the object as a fireball. “We can't say 100 percent,” said Don Yeomans, manager of NASA's Near-Earth Object ...


UFO fireball streaks across the Southwestern skies and creates a buzz (video)
Examiner.com
Wednesday night, a bright light or “fireball” streaked across the skies over the Southwestern US and the news has created an Internet buzz; leaving many to wonder if it was a UFO. Website chat rooms and Facebook lit up with chatter wondering what the ...


Meteor Activity Outlook for September 10-16, 2011 | American ...
This is the worst time to try and view meteor activity this month as the intense moonlight will obscure all but the brightest meteors. Conditions will not improve ...
www.amsmeteors.org/.../meteor-activity-outlook-for-septembe...


sky is glowing where meteor 'hit'
Meteor witness in Palm Springs, CA says the sky is glowing in the direction where the meteor may have impacted the ground.
www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message1639071/pg1


Possible meteor sightings dazzle Arizona and California - Yahoo ...
Read 'Possible meteor sightings dazzle Arizona and California' on Yahoo! News. PHOENIX (Reuters) - Dozens of people reported observing a dazzling, bright ...
news.yahoo.com/possible-meteor-sightings-dazzle-arizona-cali...


Did You See Anything in the Sky? Strange Lights Reported
Patch.com
Curt Kaplan of the National Weather Service told KCAL9 that what was seen falling from the sky was probably a meteor. The lights were also reported in Arizona and Las Vegas. -- The City News Service contributed to this report. Interested in a follow-up ...


Meteor Reported Seen over Southern California ... - myFOXla.com Home
Meteor Reported Seen over Southern California Arizona_20110914233235_JPG ... Meteor Seen over California Arizona_20110914231616_JPG. Credit abc15com ...
www.myfoxla.com/.../meteorites-reported-southern-california-...


UFO - maybe meteor or asteroid - seen flying in night sky
The Desert Sun
It was most likely a fireball — a fragment of an asteroid that entered Earth's atmosphere — a NASA scientists said late Wednesday. Experts and residents offered conflicting explanations, though, about the bright light the streaked through the ...

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MA / NY Meteor 16SEP2011

FIREBALL REPORT... Location Here:[KINGSTON MA ] Time Here:[ AROUND 2:45 AM] Date Here[9/16/11 ]
It was bright green going north to south with a long tail. It looked like it exploded but there was no sound. -Dorothy
Thank you Dorothy!


Stony Point, NY ~2:00 am

Just an FYI: I observed a white fireball or meteorite at approximately 2am this morning 9/16/2011 in Stony Point NY. I had just gotten off the Palisades Parkway at exit 15 and was heading east on Rt 106. This fireball dropped out of the sky to the NE and fell behind the trees. I can't say how far away it was. I have never seen anything like this before so I am not sure what it was but it was a fascinating sight. It was a mostly white ball with a reddish tail surrounded by a narrow aura of color. Let me know if you get any other reports.-Noreen O'Sullivan
Thank you Noreen.

We need your sighting reports; thank you!
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!