NEO Meteor Fireball Forecast- Close NEO Approach to Bring Large Green Fireballs 15OCT2011

IMPORTANT UPDATE 17OCT2011 21:00 JST, Tokyo: http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.com/2011/10/breaking-news-neo-asteroid-2011-ub-just.html


NEO Meteor Fireball Forecast - Close NEO Approach to Bring Large Green Fireballs 15OCT2011
  A close approach by NEO Asteroid 2009 TM8 and its accompanying debris will bring us some large green fireball meteors just prior to and just after the 17OCT2011 (2-3 days prior/after). There is no danger of 2009 TM8 itself striking the Earth. Have your cameras ready and get out to watch the sky.  I am also expecting that there will be more NEOs discovered to pass towards the end of the month. Check back as I will posted sightings as they are reported.
-LunarMeteorite*Hunter - Tokyo, Japan
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COMING 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) (1990 UA)  2011-Oct-15 0.0845 32.9 400 m 19.6 16.64 (2011 TA4)  2011-Oct-16 0.1345 52.3 190 m - 430 m 20.7 12.97 (2011 TX8)  2011-Oct-16 0.1868 72.7 110 m - 260 m 21.8 17.21 (2009 TM8)  2011-Oct-17 0.0023 0.9 5.1 m - 11 m 28.6 8.18 (2007 SV1)  2011-Oct-17 0.1772 68.9 31 m - 68 m 24.7 13.28 (2009 UC)  2011-Oct-18 0.0571 22.2 13 m - 29 m 26.6 12.96 (2011 SH189)  2011-Oct-18 0.1145 44.5 44 m - 97 m 23.9 3.03 297300 (1998 SC15)  2011-Oct-18 0.1215 47.3 320 m 19.2 16.79 (2011 SO32)  2011-Oct-20 0.0837 32.6 170 m - 380 m 21.0 12.96 (2011 SL189)  2011-Oct-20 0.0742 28.9 28 m - 63 m 24.9 8.40 (2001 UP)  2011-Oct-21 0.1149 44.7 20 m - 44 m 25.7 11.55 (2011 SJ16)  2011-Oct-21 0.1235 48.1 420 m - 950 m 19.0 24.96 (2011 SM68)  2011-Oct-22 0.0934 36.4 320 m - 720 m 19.6 20.46 (2011 SJ189)  2011-Oct-22 0.1731 67.4 79 m - 180 m 22.6 4.03 (2003 FH)  2011-Oct-24 0.0653 25.4 450 m - 1.0 km 18.9 22.79 (2011 SP70)  2011-Oct-24 0.1422 55.3 75 m - 170 m 22.7 12.45 (2006 SP19)  2011-Oct-26 0.0906 35.3 33 m - 74 m 24.5 10.06 (1993 VD)  2011-Oct-26 0.0902 35.1 120 m - 280 m 21.7 19.58 (2005 CJ)  2011-Oct-27 0.0818 31.9 240 m - 540 m 20.2 9.88 (2011 LC19)  2011-Oct-29 0.0580 22.6 540 m - 1.2 km 18.5 14.54 (2010 VU98)  2011-Oct-31 0.0462 18.0 30 m - 68 m 24.7 10.22

For original data and the most up-to-date information concerning NEOs:
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/ca/

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MBIQ Indicates California / Nevada / Utah Meteor 14OCT2011

MBIQ Indicates California Meteor 14OCT2011

MBIQ Data Indicating Meteor 14OCT2011
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Tracy,CA. Meteor 10:30 PM 14OCT2011

Fireball was seen heading down at a steep angle for 2 to 3 seconds. No tail was seen an color went from white to powder blue. It was the largest meteor, fireball or spacejunk I ever saw. Close to the size of a dime if held out arms length. Close to ground before disappearing. I was driving and pointed out to friend. He said he hasn't seen anything like it. The size and the change of color was pretty amazing to us. Were in our 60's and were on our way home from work. -Aaron 

Thank you Aaron!



Placerville, CA Meteor ~10:30 pm 14OCT2011
10/14/11 at approximately 10:30pm, I was travelling East on Highway 50 in Placerville, CA (Northern CA). I saw a large green fireball-type object "fall" at an angle across the sky. So amazing! It was the biggest space object I've ever seen. Just slightly smaller and less bright than the almost-full moon nearby, it was visible for about 2 seconds, then disappeared behind the line of trees. Very green in color. It looked so big! I've seen shooting stars and meteor showers. This was nothing in comparison. Just amazing. -Becky K. Thank you Becky!


Madera, CA Meteor
I was driving north on Hwy 99 on my way home from work and noticed out of the corner of my eye a bright green flash coming down at about a 45 degree angle. It split and each piece stayed in line with each other looking like there was a break in the tail. The sky was very clear and the object very bright. There didn't seem to be an impact but the point at which the object stopped burning was very low. -William D.  Thank you William!

Roseville, CA Meteor ~10:15 pm

Last night at about 10:15 pm, I saw what looked like a meteor that was shooting that then appeared to burst open or burn up. I was dirving west-bound on highway 80 leaving old Roseville. The meteor was travelling right to left at a diagonal angle for a few second, then appeared to burn up or burst open. If you have a ny further questions, please feel free to ask. Thank You,

Sherida Hendrix  Thank you Sheila!


Dayton, Nevada Meteor ~10:30 pm 14OCT2011
In Dayton Nevada around 10:30 heading north it was huge sky was slighly cloudy and it lit up the clouds in blue and green never seen anything like it before AMAZING!!!!!!! Art in Dayton  Thank you Art!


Henderson, Nevada Hugh Green Fireball 10:28 pm
I saw a huge green fireball at 10:28 heading at around 338 degrees nw from my location in Henderson NV.... At about 35 degrees off the horizon. It lasted almost 4 seconds and flashed like a strobe light behind clouds the final second. No noise... no smoke trail.... But It was HUGE!!!
30 years of stargazing and never seen anything come close to this!-Erock (B.B.)  

Thank you Erock!

Green Fireball over Sierra Mountains on Friday 14 October 2011 @ approx 10:30pm - California Hwy 14

A buddy and I were driving home to Ridgecrest, CA on Hwy 14 on 14 Oct 11 at approx. 10:30 pm when we saw a fantastic green fireball behind the clouds coming down to Earth. It was falling in a South West direction over the Sierra Nevada Mountain range near the 178W highway toward Lake Isabella. I saw a green fireball back in '04 near Bishop, CA while driving on Hwy 14 as well. I made certain that my buddy saw it too while we were driving on Friday 14 Oct 11. He confirmed that he saw it. Fantastic. The fireball was the size of a full size truck. We knew it was not a firework since it was behind the clouds.-JR  Thank you JR!

Falling fireball, highway 50 east, October 14

I didn't make a note of the exact time or location, but 10:30 sounds right for where we were. We were heading to Tahoe on Highway 50 in the Sierras. I was driving and my husband was snoozing. I saw a huge blue fireball falling from right to left and gasped loudly. My gasp caused my husband to open his eyes, and he saw it for a second or two before it disappeared close to the top of the trees. I am dying to know what it was! Now that I finally got around to googling it, I'm glad to see we didn't hallucinate it. Thanks! -Linda  Thank you Linda!

Enterprise Reservoir, Utah
Friday, October 14th at about 10:30 pm I was camping with my wife at upper Enterprise Reservoir in Utah. The sky lit up and there was a huge fireball descending at a sharp angle. It changed colors from white to a greenish-blue then exploded into at least two large chunks before i lost sight of it over the horizon. It was fantastic! -Joe Solo  Thank you  Joe!

MBIQ Query Data:

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We need your meteor sighting reports to confirm this meteor event; 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 The Year of Meteors!

Breaking News- Las Vegas, Nevada Large Green Fireball 14OCT2011

Las Vegas, Nevada Large Green Fireball 10:28 pm 14OCT2011
I just saw a monster green meteor that lasted 4 sec heading northwest.- Bonnie B.

Thank you Bonnie!

Pahrump, NV
I SAW THE SAME THING!!! I about freaked out and woke up my brother sleeping next to me. I was driving north on hwy160 from Las vegas heading to Pahrump at around 10:30 when I saw it.  It lasted about 4 or so seconds. in comparison to a shooting star the "head" was about the size if a softball, as opposed to shooting star "head" about the size of a marble, if you will (make sense?). It just fell like a meteor mostly straight up to down and fell behind the mountain or something. It was a really flourescent green fireball looking thing and its trail was like greenish trail with hints of white and blue but it was mostly green and the trail was wide like the fireball it was really neat!!
from Pahrump, NV -Dan  Thank you Dan!
We need your sighting reports; thank you:
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The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 14OCT2011

Afraid of being hit by a meteorite? You're more likely to win the lottery The Guardian (blog) Afraid of being hit by a meteorite? You're more likely to win the lottery | David Spiegelhalter This article was published on guardian.co.uk at 15.53 BST on Thursday 13 October 2011 . A crater 30 metres in diameter in the Peruvian region of Puno after...

Astrophysics, Alien Fireballs  Video 46 min Meteor Impact in Canada A 2009 fireball caught by seven cameras at the University of Western Ontario set scientists on a hunt ... youtube.com

Meteor Fireball over Where I Live (Spring 2011)  Video 10 sec A meteor fireball recorded from the local college in the spring of 2011. I personally did not see it, but I did hear it. I thought it was a ... youtube.com

Meteorite Men: Meteorite Men… Video Geoff's metal detector goes bonkers and the guys are hopeful they hit it big! video.app.msn.com

Draconid Meteor Shower Thrills Skywatchers ... Video The 2011 Draconid meteor shower wasn't visible in the US, but European skywatchers were amazed. space.com

Italy Fireball Meteor 13OCT2011

Fireball 2011.10.13_17.30.8 ± 1 U.T. from Italy

Station Name: IMTN-Ferrara1-SE-
(C) F. Zanotti 

http://meteore.forumattivo.com/t2114-fireball-20111013_17308-1-ut#8802

Ferruccio Zanotti
IMTN ( Italian Meteor and TLE Network )


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! 2011The Year of Meteors!

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 13OCT2011

(in French) Meteorite Hits a House in Paris, Last Name ... Video 2 min "It is thought the meteor struck the house a few weeks ago when the Comettes were on holiday, which explains why they did not ... youtube.com

4.5 billion year-old meteorite crashes into Paris ... Video 2 min www.telegraph.co.uk POULTER27 IN ASSOCIATION WITH www.youtube.com www.youtube.com www.youtube.com PLEASE ... youtube.com

ASU's Center for Meteorite Studies marks 50 years
Arizona State University
For 50 years the Center for Meteorite Studies at Arizona State University has served as the intellectual hub for research on meteorites and other planetary materials. It is a place where scientists can conduct critical inquiries into the origin and ...

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News Late 12OCT2011

Wet and mild: Researchers take the temperature of Mars's past PhysOrg.com The meteorite called ALH84001 is sliced to show its interior. Found in the Allan Hills ice field in Antarctica in 1984, the four-billion-year-old rock is one of the oldest in the world. The meteorite likely originated just below the surface of Mars. ...

Draconids show expected outburst | International Meteor Organization
Draconids show expected outburst. Observers across Europe and Asia report that a peak in the Draconids meteor activity occurred near 20h UT on October 8, ...

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

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 12OCT2011

Meteorite Crashed On A French Family's Roof! International Business Times AU By Karen Mae Cordon | October 12, 2011 12:52 PM EST An egg shaped 4.5 million year old meteorite crashed directly on the roof of a French Family. Coincidentally, the house is owned by the Comette family which is on a vacation when it happened. ...

Meteorite rocks house of Comette Sydney Morning Herald A meteorite billions of years old hit the Paris home - of the Comettes. Photo: Roy Fleming WHEN your name is Comette, you may get used to jokes about rockets and space and planets. But French schoolboy Hugo Comette, 11, had the last laugh when of all ...

Looking to the skies
Nanton News
The Orionids Meteor Shower will take place Oct. 21-22. This will produce about 20 falling meteors per hour, at its peak. Meteors may be seen any time from Oct. 17-25, and the best viewing will be to the east, after midnight. ...

Almahata Sitta Meteorites Could Come From Triple Asteroid Mash-Up Space Daily by Staff Writers Analysis of fragments of the Almahata Sitta meteorite, which landed in Sudan in 2008, has shown that the parent asteroid was probably formed through collisions of three different types of asteroids. The meteorites are of particular ...

Raining Meteorites May Have Led to Earth's Primordial Life LiveScience.com Although it's widely accepted that a meteor strike about 65 million years ago killed off the dinosaurs, scientists say a hail of meteorites far earlier in Earth's history may have created ideal conditions for primordial life forms. ...

French Family's Home Hit by 4.5-Billion-Year-Old Meteorite
NBC Bay Area
A French family whose tile roof started leaking discovered a 4.5-billion-year-old meteor the size of an egg had fallen all the way down from an asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter and come to rest in their attic insulation. ...

Heavens! Meteorite hits Comette family home Canada.com Tue, 11 Oct 2011 12:30 PM PDT A family returned from holiday to discover a 4.5 billion-year-old egg-sized meteorite had smashed through the roof of their house in suburban Paris.

Ancient meteorite crashes into the roof of Comette familyâs house in Paris Batangas Today Tue, 11 Oct 2011 11:30 AM PDT An ancient meteorite recently crashed into the roof of the house of French family in suburban Paris, according to various news sites on Monday, October 10, 2011. Martine Comette (left) holding the egg-sizedmeteorite Image Credit: PHOTOPQR/LE PARISIEN Coincidentally, the people living in that house in Draveil, about 12 miles south of Paris, and returned [...]

Meteorite lands on appropriate house Herald Sun Mon, 10 Oct 2011 15:54 PM PDT WHAT are the odds? A meteorite plunging to Earth landed on the roof of a Mrs Comette in the southern suburbs of Paris.

Meteorite lands on house of Mrs Comette Adelaide Now Mon, 10 Oct 2011 14:31 PM PDT WHAT are the odds? A meteorite plunging to Earth landed on the roof of a Mrs Comette in the southern suburbs of Paris.

A Meteorite Visits the Comettes Universe Today Mon, 10 Oct 2011 13:31 PM PDT When your last name is Comette, Iâm sure the occasional astronomy-themed joke is never far away. But itâs no joke that the Comette family living in Draveil, a suburb south of Paris, was paid a visit by a real extraterrestrial a couple of weeks ago â in the form of an 88-gram (3.5 oz.) meteorite [...]

4.5 billion year-old meteorite crashes into Paris family home Daily Telegraph Mon, 10 Oct 2011 10:59 AM PDT A French family returned from holiday to discover a 4.5 billion year old egg-sized meteorite had smashed its way through the roof of their house in suburban Paris.

Cambridge, Ontario, Canada Meteor 11OCT2011

Cambridge, Ontario Meteor 8:00 pm October 11, 2011
My husband and I were in a nearby park using our iphone app GoSkyWatch and all of a sudden right in front of us was a meteor fireball, it came down in the south –western sky and exploded and then trailed off. Coolest thing we’ve ever seen in the skies! -P&M Vyse  Thank you P&M!

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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!

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 11OCT2011

The Draconid meteor shower: From bust to the best
CBS News
It was a bust in the United States but the annual Draconid meteor shower offered a field day for amateur astronomers around the world to record stunning images. Earlier, there had been concerns that the bright moon would make it hard to view the ...

4.5 billion year-old meteorite crashes into Paris family home Telegraph.co.uk A French family returned from holiday to discover a 4.5 billion year old egg-sized meteorite had smashed its way through the roof of their house in suburban Paris. By Henry Samuel, Paris Scientists said it was the first such space rock ever to have ...

elp allsky: Virginia Meteor Fireball 08OCT2011
By elp allsky
Saw what appeared to be two fireballs on 10/08/2011 around 9:15 PM in Herndon, VA. The first one was red and seemed to be going straight up. The second was much larger and was going from west to east. Both lasted a few seconds. ...
elp allsky

Comette family home damaged by egg-sized meteorite The Guardian The meteorite which hit the Comette family home is thought to have come from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Photograph: Nasa/EPA When your name is Comette you may get used to jokes about rockets and space and planets. ...

Toronto, Ontario, Canada Meteor 11OCT2011

Toronto, Ontario, Canada Meteor ~1:00 am EST 11OCT2011

I just saw a bright blue/white meteor a few degrees south of west. It was about as bright as Jupiter at its maximum brightness. I viewed it for two seconds.
-Sg  Thank you Shawn!

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Darlington, PA Green Meteor 10OCT2011

Darlington, PA Meteor 8:00 pm EST 10OCT2011
I live in Darlington, PA and today on October 10, 2011 I saw a meteor while watering my horses in their field at approximately 8:00. I saw a lime green meteor with a very very long tail travel across the sky. It was a very intense lime green, I would describe it as almost neon and it was bright enough to light up the field for approximately 3 seconds and then it was gone. I would relate it to the brightness of the moon. It came from the South West and it went North East. I couldn't tell if it kept traveling or if it dissipated because I lost it in the treeline of our neighbor's field about a half of a mile away.- Chelsi C  Thank you Chelsi!


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