17 March 2014

5th Planetary Crater Consortium Meeting August 6-8, 2014

5th Planetary Crater Consortium Meeting
August 6-8, 2014
US Geological Survey, 2255 N. Gemini Drive, Flagstaff, AZ


Venue:
The 5th Planetary Crater Consortium (PCC) Meeting will be held in the Building 6 (Shoemaker Center for Astrogeology) Roddy conference room at the US Geological Survey in Flagstaff, AZ, Wednesday August 6 through Friday August 8, 2014. The meeting will include time for contributed
oral and poster presentations and sufficient time for general discussion topics. You do not have to present an oral or poster presentation in order to attend the meeting.

We strive to keep the PCC meetings informal and set aside much of the time for general discussion. Dress is casual (as it is throughout Flagstaff), so leave the neckties and nylons at home. As noted below, weather in Flagstaff in mid August is warm (but not hot like the desert) and wet, so plan accordingly.

Registration:
There is no registration fee for the PCC meeting. However, please email Nadine Barlow by July 25, 2014, to let us know if you will be attending so we can plan accordingly for refreshments, etc.

Abstracts:
All participants are strongly encouraged to submit an abstract to the meeting. ABSTRACT DEADLINE IS FRIDAY, JULY 25, 2014, 5:00 PM PDT/MST. Abstracts should be 2-page, single-spaced, LPSC style format. Please submit your abstract in PDF (preferred) or Microsoft Word format to Nadine Barlow. Please indicate whether you are requesting an oral or a poster presentation, or if the abstract is "print only". Abstracts will be posted on the PCC website by Friday, August 1, 2014.

http://www.planetarycraterconsortium.nau.edu/PCCMeeting.htm

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The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 17MAR2014

Meteor above the UK - Godlike Productions
godlikeproductions.com
At approx 09.50am today i saw a meteor it had double slipstream ...I thought it was an airplane at first because i live near Gatwick airport but it didn't ...

Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News: The Latest WorldwideMeteor/Meteorite News 16MAR2014
blogspot.com
Meteor spotted over south french territory. A meteor has been filmed over St Laurent du var (next to Canne) at 10pm. Loading the player ... Embed .

Scientists confirm discovery of meteorites in Jinju
GlobalPost
The last time a meteorite was found in South Korea was 71 years ago in 1943. The meteoriteis currently owned by Japan and is on display in the ...

Very Bright Fireball over Northwest Italy - Mar 16, 2014 |UFO Sightings Hotspot
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Very Bright Fireball over Northwest Italy - Mar 16, 2014. Many have witnessed the passage of the "super shooting star", from Genoa to Milan, Turin and ...

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16 March 2014

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 16MAR2014

LiveLeak.com - Meteor spotted over south french territory
liveleak.com
Meteor spotted over south french territory. A meteor has been filmed over St Laurent du var (next to Canne) at 10pm. Loading the player ... Embed ...

Huge Meteor Events Switzerland / Italy / France/ UK / Ireland / Scotland | Space - Before It's News
beforeitsnews.com
Huge Meteor Events Switzerland / Italy / France/ UK / Ireland / Scotland. “ow confirmed!-MBIQ Bot data indicates that this meteor event was also likely ...

Huge Meteor Events Switzerland / Italy / France/ UK / Ireland / Scotland [Video] - Disclose.tv
disclose.tv
Breaking News - Switzerland / Italy / France Meteor approx. 2200 13 MAR 2014Now confirmed!-MBIQ Bot data indicates that this meteor event was ...

Pupils reach for the moon with 4.3billion year old meteorite
Northern Echo - 16 hours
PUPILS at a Durham City school got the chance to handle moon rock and meteorites.

Analysis suggests mystery rock likely meteorite
Arirang News
"We are pretty sure that this is a meteorite. So we're going ... If it proves to be a meteorite, it would be the first to fall in Korea in 71 years. It would also ...

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15 March 2014

You Can Help Map the Moon by Counting Craters

You Can Help Map the Moon by Counting Craters

CU-Boulder-led study on lunar crater counting shows crowdsourcing effective, accurate tool.
CU Boulder, university of  Boulder, Colorado.
http://www.colorado.edu/news/releases/2014/03/13/cu-boulder-led-study-lunar-crater-counting-shows-crowdsourcing-effective

Counting Craters: YOU Can Help Map the Moon by Nicole Gugliucci, Discovery.com News,
http://news.discovery.com/space/astronomy/counting-craters-you-can-help-map-the-moon-140314.htm

CosmoQuest’s “MoonMappers” Shows Everyday People Can Map the Moon, Cosmoquest X Blog,
http://cosmoquest.org/x/press-releases/press-release-cosmoquests-moonmappers-shows-everyday-people-can-map-the-moon/

Robbins, S. J., M. R. Kirchoff, C. R. Chapman, C. I. Fassett, R. R. Herrick, K. Singer, M.
Zanetti, C. Lehan, D. Huang, P. L. Gay, 2014,  The variability of crater identification among
expert and community crater analysts. Icarus Available online 4 March 2014
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0019103514001080

Yours,
Paul H.

For ALL of the E-Pistles of Paul H-
http://theepistlesofpaul.blogspot.com/

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The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 15MAR2014

v
Huge Meteor Events Switzerland / Italy / France/ UK / Ireland / Scotland
Posted to YouTube by nemesis maturity 2,044 views

Chunk of outer space on display at Royal Sask. Museum (with video)
Regina Leader-Post - 10 hours
It might have looked and sounded like the end of the world when a fiery meteor lit up the prairie night sky in 2008. Residents in eastern ...

Famous Meteorite Exhibited at Regina Museum
French Tribune
Famous meteor that had come on Earth with much sound and lights on November 20 in the year 2008 has been kept on display at the Royal ...

Pupils reach for the moon with 4.3billion year old meteorite
The Northern Echo
PUPILS at a Durham City school got the chance to handle moon rock and meteorites. Durham High School for Girls worked with an educational pack ...

Martian Meteor Origins Explained
Guardian Liberty Voice
Stephanie Werner, a planetary scientist at the University of Oslo led the study to determine the origin of the Martian meteor. They went on to try to ...

It's not a meteor-wrong, it's a meteorite
Agri News
The Arlington II rock, as their find has been dubbed, likely is 4.6 billion years old and hailed from the mainmeteor belt on the other side of Mars. ...

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14 March 2014

Breaking News -Switzerland / Italy / France Meteor 13MAR2014 w/ videos

Breaking News - Switzerland / Italy / France Meteor approx. 2200 13MAR2014 w/ videos
Now confirmed!-MBIQ Bot data indicates that this meteor event was also likely seen from France.
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Switzerland / Italy / France Meteor approx. 2200 13MAR2014
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Video captures!

Fireball 20140313_205947 UT
Posted on YouTube by Paolo Demaria  7,006 views
Published on 14 Mar 2014
Very bright fireball on North Italy skies.
Capture by Mario Garberi, Associazione Astrofili Bisalta
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Meteor spotted over south french territory
Posted to YouTube by CarolCarol 40 views
Published on 14 Mar 2014
A meteor has been filmed over St Laurent du var (next to Canne) at 10pm.
Initial Meteor Sighting Reports-
13MAR2014 Vassyli Riehen, Switzerland 22:00:00 2 S Green, no sound Bright Moon like no -

13MAR2014 Riccardo Torino, Italy 21:55:00 3 secs E-W White/blue. Seen through a window, no particular sound same as moon no visible fragmentation very big and clear

Michele Reccanello wrote,
I saw it from Pontedera (PI) Italy 22:00 3/13/2014 NW direction a white ball with green borders.

MBIQ Data Sample-
Geneve arrived from google.ch on "Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News".
06:23:24 -- 21 minutes ago

Uetikon Am See, Zurich arrived from google.ch on "Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News: The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 13MAR2014".
06:23:11 -- 21 minutes ago

Grenoble, Rhone-Alpes arrived from lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.fr on "Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News: Meteor / Fireball Report Form".
06:20:46 -- 23 minutes ago

Bern arrived from google.ch on "Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News: The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 13MAR2014".
06:15:35 -- 28 minutes ago

Grenoble, Rhone-Alpes arrived from google.fr on "Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News".
06:14:12 -- 29 minutes ago

Switzerland arrived from google.ch on "Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News: The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 13MAR2014" by searching for meteorit.
06:14:00 -- 29 minutes ago

Riehen, Basel-Stadt arrived from google.ch on "Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News".
06:09:55 -- 33 minutes ago

Couchey, Bourgogne arrived from google.fr on "Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News: Huron, Ohio 2:01 am Brilliant Green Fireball 3MAR2011".
06:09:26 -- 33 minutes ago

Italy arrived from google.it on "Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News".
06:08:44 -- 33 minutes ago

Torino, Piemonte arrived from google.it on "Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News" by searching for meteorite.
06:08:16 -- 33 minutes ago

All 20 meteor sighting reports can be seen here
http://thelatestworldwidemeteorreports.blogspot.com/

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The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 14MAR2014

NASA Offers $35000 to Citizen Asteroid Hunters Video
Guardian Liberty Voice
In the video posted on YouTube, the agency reminds people of last year's incident in Russia, when an unforeseen meteor shower terrified the whole ...

NASA's Asteroid Grand Challenge - $35,000 USD
Posted to YouTube by NASAgovVideo 28,086 views

Pieces of '08 meteorite to be displayed at Royal Saskatchewan Museum
Globalnews.ca
Pieces of a meteor that lit up the Saskatchewan sky above Lloydminster in 2008 can now be viewed at an exhibit at the Royal Saskatchewan Museum.

Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News: Two Meteorites Recovered from Korean Fall 09MAR2014
blogspot.com
Original Post about Korean Fireball Meteor 09MAR2014- http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.jp/2014/03/korea-fireball-meteor-09mar2013.html

Massive meteor fireball lights up early morning sky above northern England and southern Scotland ...
Signs of the Times
The meteor was distinctly bright green, much brighter than any other sky object at that time. 12 March 2014 - Dave Wilson, Portpatrick, 6:15:00.

Meteor Activity Outlook for March 15-21, 2014 | American Meteor Society
amsmeteors.org
Unfortunately this is the slowest time of night to try and view meteor activity. The estimated total hourly meteor rates for evening observers this week is ...

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13 March 2014

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 13MAR2014

Mysterious rocks could be first Korean meteorites in 70 years
Interest is growing in the two mysterious black rocks found at Korean farms, with early analysis results indicating that at least one may be a meteorite.  On Wednesday, a second rock suspected of being a meteorite was found in Jinju, South Gyeongsang Province. ...

Meteorite Fever Grips South Korean Media
Wall Street Journal (blog)
South Korean media outlets are abuzz this week with the news of the discovery of a possible meteorite, likening the rock to a jackpot worth millions of ...

Meteorite-like diamond reveals that Earth's interior is all wet
Mother Nature Network
Meteorite-like diamond reveals that Earth's interior is all wet. Underneath the Earth's mantle is a large mass of water that rivals that 'sort of mass of ...

Oceans' worth of water stored deep in Earth
CBC.ca - 5 hours
A dirty, $10 diamond with a prize inside has helped reveal that there are vast quantities of water stored deep inside the Earth.

Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News: Breaking News - UK Meteor12MAR2014
blogspot.com
"click on image to enlarge" Breaking News -UK Meteor apprx. 06.10 12MAR2014 v.1 c2014 LunarMeteoriteHunter / Google Earth ...

Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News: The Latest WorldwideMeteor/Meteorite News 12MAR2014
blogspot.com
File a Meteor/Fireball Sighting Report "click here" If YOU saw a METEOR; ... Breaking News -NM AZ CO Large Fireball Meteor 00:29:19 am MST ...

Is man’s strange find a meteorite?
FOX 59 Indianapolis - 7 hours
Retired firefighter Don Meyers found a strange rock that looked like a meteorite to him. But what did he actually find? In this edition of ... ...NO!

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Two Meteorites Recovered from Korean Meteorite Fall 09MAR2014

Original Post about Korean Fireball Meteor 09MAR2014-
http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.jp/2014/03/korea-fireball-meteor-09mar2013.html

Two Meteorites Have Been Recivered from the Korean Fireball Event of 09MAR2014  There MAY be 10s to HUNDREDs yet to be found!

I managed to find some interesting news (with good pictures) in South Korean media about the meteorite found in the city of Jinju, Gyeongsang province.

At least two fragments are described, one found in a greenhouse and other in the field.
Field:
- http://news.kbs.co.kr/news/NewsView.do?SEARCH_NEWS_CODE=2825087
- http://news.kbs.co.kr/news/NewsView.do?SEARCH_NEWS_CODE=2825212

Greenhouse:
- http://news.kbs.co.kr/news/NewsView.do?SEARCH_NEWS_CODE=2825209
- http://news.kbs.co.kr/news/NewsView.do?SEARCH_NEWS_CODE=2825216

Some images of others sources are attached (the firsts one are of the greenhouse fragment, the last two are images of the field fragment)

Best Regards,
Carlos Bella...Brasil  Thank you Carlos!

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12 March 2014

Breaking News - UK / Ireland / Scotland Meteor 12MAR2014

Breaking News -UK / Ireland / Scotland Meteor apprx. 06.10 12MAR2014
40 meteor sighting reports
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Breaking News -UK / Ireland / Scotland  Meteor apprx. 06.10 12MAR2014
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Report your meteor sightings please-
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Initial Meteor Sighting Reports-
12MAR2014 Rob Davis Prestwick scotland 613 2-3 sec Facing SW, travelled down steeply from high right to middle of view. Lasted approx 2-3 seconds with a large green body and white trail. Green and white Very bright, same as a marine flare, but moving much faster. None The sky was already bright and clear, Venus clearly visible in the dawn sky. The meteor was distinctly bright green, much brighter than any other sky object at that time.

12MAR2014 Dave Wilson Portpatrick 6:15:00 1 sec e-se electric arc blue moon no none

12MAR2014 Scully wigan 6.1 3-5sec north/west Brilliant White Venus Fragmented on edges nil

12MAR2014 Gus Manchester 6:10:00 1 second Straight down in North West Direction Bright White Ball of fire As bright as the Sun slight Trail n/a

12MAR2014 EMMA HOLMES CHAPEL, CHESHIRE, UK 6.10AM APPROX 2 SECS I WAS STOOD FACING N-W AND IT WAS TRAVELLING N-W WHITE BRIGHT WHITE NO NONE

12MAR2014 Mr Geraint Williams Llandudno, Conwy, UK 06.10am UK time 5-10 seconds Straight down. Facing SW Green/white Venus No I do have a photo taken just after showing the direction and view I was looking at

All 40 meteor sighting reports can be seen here
http://thelatestworldwidemeteorreports.blogspot.com/

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The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 12MAR2014

Mojave Crater: Source of Martian Meteorites?
SkyandTelescope.com
Where did the Martian meteorites called shergottites come from? A team of European researchers believe their launch pad was a fresh-looking ...

IAU: Crowdfunded 'Name a Mars Crater' Projects Not Legit
Discovery News - 6 hours
The International Astronomical Union -- the official body that governs the naming and designations of all celestial objects -- has once again ...

Become an Asteroid Hunter: Nasa Offers $35,000 to Budding 'Citizen Scientists
'IB Times via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News - 12 hours
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€1M space rock lands in Ireland
Irish daily star - 6 hours
A SPACE rock that could be worth up to €1m crashed in Ireland over the weekend, astronomers believe. Sizzling pieces of meteorite are ...

Aurora Photographer Captures Dazzling Fireball Over Canada (Photos)
Space.com
A blindingly-bright fireball blazed across an aurora-filled sky over remote Canada's Northwest Territories in these spectacular images by ...

Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News: Breaking News - Finland Bolide 10MAR2014
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File a Meteor/Fireball Sighting Report "click here" If YOU saw a METEOR; ... Breaking News -NM AZ CO Large Fireball Meteor 00:29:19 am MST ...

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11 March 2014

Breaking News - Finland Bolide 10MAR2014

Breaking News - Finland Moon-Bright Bolide 19:44:16 10MAR2014
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Finland Bolide 10MAR2014
Copyright (c) 2014 Timo Kantola All rights reserved.
used by permission LunarMeteoriteHunter

Original Post on  with full details / use Google translate/ Taivaanvahti-
http://www.taivaanvahti.fi/observations/show/22675

Google Translate link - 
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fi&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.taivaanvahti.fi%2Fobservations%2Fshow%2F22675http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fi&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.taivaanvahti.fi%2Fobservations%2Fshow%2F22675

Esko Lyytinen writes-
We had on Monday 2014, March 10 at 17:44:16 UT a bolide that had an end
flash of the magnitude close to that of the Moon in the same PIeksämäki
image (Moon mag. -10.8 ), from a distance of 122 km. So the abs. mag of
the flash was about -11 .

This happened near the SE border of Finland.

This was captured into the fireball camera of Timo Kantola in Pieksämäki.
http://www.taivaanvahti.fi/observations/show/22675

And this was also accidentally captured into a DSLR camera by Voitto
Pitkänen at a distance of about 500 km.:
http://www.taivaanvahti.fi/observations/show/22661
We also received lot of visual reports, even though the nearby areas in
SE Finland were cloud covered.
http://www.taivaanvahti.fi/observations/browse/map/454588/observation_start_time

See also: http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.fi/
and
http://www.avaruus.fi/uutiset/tahtiharrastus-ja-taivaanilmiot/kirkas-tulipallo-hajosi-itarajan-ylla.html

These two camera observations allowed a very good multistation
trajectory and solar system orbit. The entry trajectory was derived with
the fb_entry Excel sheet program and the solar system orbit by means of
(a slightly modified) M. Langbroek Excel sheet.

It appears that this was most probably an XHE shower meteor:
http://www.ta3.sk/IAUC22DB/MDC2007/Roje/pojedynczy_obiekt.php?kodstrumienia=00346&colecimy=1&kodmin=00001&kodmax=00446&sortowanie=0

The beginning height of the luminous flight was 110 km and the flash at
65.7 km with something visible in the DSLR image down to about 62.8 km.
The entry slope was 27 degrees.
The entry velocity was derived as 35.26 km/s with an estimated
uncertainyt of +-0.1 km/s.
The velocity had decreased till the flash by only about 1 km/s ( to
about 34 km/s ).
The beginning height of the luminous flight was 110 km and the flash at
65.7 km with something visible in the DSLR image down to about 62.8 km.
The entry slope was 27 degrees.

And I give here the solar system orbital elements.
The geocentric radiant is 252.14+-0.1 , +51.74+-0.2 and Vgeo 33.37 km/s .
a=3.01 +-0.06 AU
q=0.977 AU
e=0.675
Node=349.876
Peri=196.46
i=56.16
The collision with the Earth was 12.6 days prior to the time of perihelion.

The aphelion of this orbit is at the distance of 5.03 AU from the Sun.
IF this is characteristic to this shower, then (considering also the
peri value of 196.46) the orbits pass quite close to the Jupiter orbit.
And IF there are mainly random encouters with Jupiter, then the shower
would be quite short lived. But maybe there are practically only
resonant meteors left in the shower (?) This orbit is suggestive of
either the 9/4 or 7/3 mean motion resonance with Jupiter.

We had in the cameras of Ilkka Yrjölä and myself some probable minor
activity from this radiant during a few nights around this, but no other
multistation meteors in these.

Esko

Thank you Esko!

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The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 11MAR2014

NASA Wants You to Help Fight Asteroids
The Atlantic Wire via Yahoo! News - 2 hours
NASA is calling for coders to help develop algorithms to detect, track, identify and mitigate the effects of asteroids. The administration is ...

‘Mother Earth Cooked It!’ Evolutionist Claims Space Molecules from Meteorites Led to Life on EarthChristian News Network - 12 hours
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Researchers Capture Bright Fireball over Yellowknife in Canada
French Tribune
NASA officials said that fireballs are rarely seen in the sky, but for the past many years higher number of fireballs have been reported, especially ...

Judy Russell: Clergy, science and those meteorites from the Vatican
The Oshkosh Northwestern
Did you hear the one about the Presbyterian minister who got up close and personal with a piece of a meteorite from the Vatican? It's not a joke, ...

Martian Meteor Origins Explained
Guardian Liberty Voice
Stephanie Werner, a planetary scientist at the University of Oslo led the study to determine the origin of the Martian meteor. They went on to try to ...

Researchers Capture Bright Fireball over Yellowknife in Canada
French Tribune
A bright exploding meteor of size less than a foot has been spotted over the sky in Yellowknife in Canada's Northwest Territories. Yuichi Takasaka, a ...

Emergency services called to reports of “fireball in the sky” near Thetford
Norfolk Eastern Daily Press
Emergency services have been called to the Thetford area after a member of the public reported seeing a “fireball” in the sky which then crashed to the ...

Mojave Crater provides more information on Meteorite Impact on the Red Planet
TopNews United States
The novel study throws light on the fact that meteorites on Mars originated from the cosmic impacts about five million years ago. Researchers cited that ...

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10 March 2014

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 10MAR2014

Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News: The Latest WorldwideMeteor/Meteorite News 10MAR2014
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Initial Meteor Sighting Reports- 09MAR2014 Justin Solomon Osan AB, South Korea UTC-+9:00 Soeul/2045, 8:45pm 15 seconds south-east Green  / with photo....


Carnegie Mellon's autonomous Nomad robot successfully finds meteorites in AntarcticaPITTSBURGH -- Carnegie Mellon University's Nomad robot, which conducted an autonomous search for meteorites in Antarctica from Jan. 20-30, has successfully completed its mission, examining more than 100 indigenous rocks, studying about 50 in detail and classifying seven specimens as meteorites. ...

Meteorites Bring Amino Acids to Earth
Guardian Liberty Voice
One type of meteorite is the carbonaceous chondrites (also referred to as “C chondrites”) which have a chemical composition very similar to that of the ...

Tech professor believes to have discovered origin of life
The Daily Toreador - 48 minutes
A Texas Tech professor said 65 million years ago, two giant meteorites struck the Earth, ending the reign of the dinosaurs and creating the ...

Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News: 운석 Korea Fireball Meteor 09MAR2013
blogspot.com
Initial Meteor Sighting Reports- 09MAR2014 Justin Solomon Osan AB, South Korea UTC-+9:00 Soeul/2045, 8:45pm 15 seconds south-east Green as ...

The March issue of Meteorite Times is now up.
As always we'd like to thank all the writers who make this possible! ...

Judy Russell: Clergy, science and those meteorites from the Vatican
The Oshkosh Northwestern
Brother Guy brought along a piece of the meteorite that landed with a bang in Russia last year. There are theologians who have careers in faith and in ...

Wheeling Artist Forges a Passion For Metal Work
The Intelligencer / Wheeling News-Register - 18 hours
Jeff Forster has seen the face of Jesus many times. His latest sighting was in a chunk of meteorite.

Radio Meteor Obs. Bull. February 2014
Radio Meteor  Observation Bulletin No. 247 of February 2014 (59 K) is available now as
http://www.rmob.org/rmobtext/rmob1402.txtMore information and the visual presentation of the hourly forward scatter
counts can be found at http://www.rmob.org
Chris Steyaert

Top secret lunar rocks and meteorites land in Northbury Primary School, Barking
Barking and Dagenham Post
Northbury was provided with samples of meteorite and lunar rock by the Science and Technology Facilities Council. Northbury school pupils study ...

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Breaking News- 유성 Korea Fireball Meteor 09MAR2014 with Video!

Breaking News - 유성 Korea Fireball Meteor approx 2000 Korea Local Time 09MAR2014
with Video and Photo! see below.

TWO METEORITES RECOVERED SO FAR!!! There MAY be 10s to HUNDREDs yet to be found!
See-
http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.jp/2014/03/two-meteorites-recovered-from-korean.html
"click on image to enlarge"
Korea Fireball Meteor 09MAR2014
v.1 c2014 LunarMeteoriteHunter / Google Earth


한반도 상공서 달만큼 밝은 유성 관측
Posted to YouTube by KBS News 262 views
Report your meteor sightings please-
http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.jp/2000/11/meteor-fireball-report-form.html
Please help get the word about this event so that we might recover security camera video or cell phone captures; spread the word about this website via Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Reddit, GLP, SOTT and your favorite forums; contact your local news outlets; thank you!
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Initial Meteor Sighting Reports-
09MAR2014 Justin Solomon Osan AB, South Korea UTC-+9:00 Soeul/2045, 8:45pm 15 seconds south-east Green as bright as a full moon No It looked wicked, no photo

09MAR2014 KELLEE HAYANG, GYEONGSANGBUK-DO, SOUTH KOREA 20.04 KST, GMT +9 10-15 secs NW to SE. I was facing East. WHITE fire ball with immediate orange tail which was green at the end. Upon entering Earth's atmosphere it created a brilliant light over the town, lighting up the night sky Started off tiny white light and as it closer it got bigger and brighter and was pure white light. Remained intact until it burnt out from what I could see. It appeared to gotten reasonably close to crashing to the ground. I was observing from the 3rd floor of an apartment building and had it not have burnt out, it was within a second of dropping out of view due to a 4 story apartment across the road in front of me. It was travelling extremely high speed.

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"별똥별이야 유성이야?"··수원 운석 블랙박스 포착 `화제`
WOW한국경제TV ‎- 5 hours ago
어젯밤 8시쯤 한반도 상공에서 유성, 즉 별똥별로 추정되는 밝은 물체가 떨어지는 모습이 수 초 동안 포착됐다. 이 물체는 서울과 목포, 대구 등 전국 ...
"Shooting star. meteor 's going on? "... capture the` topic `black box Suwon meteorite
Korea Economic WOW TV - 5 hours ago
At 8 o'clock last night over the peninsula meteor , or shooting star light objects falling an estimated figure was picked up for a few seconds. The object is in Seoul and Mokpo, Daegu nationwide, including ...

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09 March 2014

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 09MAR2014

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METEOR (1) Some lucky New Mexico stargazers spotted a bright fireball in the sky just after midnight on Thursday. Initial reports of the meteor sighting ...


Fireball explodes over Yellowknife, turning night sky blue
Windsor Star
On Monday morning a fireball was spotted streaking across the Calgary sky in this 2012 file photo. Afireball exploded and lit up the skies over ...

Meteorites Bring Amino Acids to Earth
Guardian Liberty Voice
Researchers from McMaster University in Canada have recently published evidence that supports the hypothesis that meteorites could have brought ...

Top secret lunar rocks and meteorites land in Northbury Primary School, Barking
Barking and Dagenham Post
Northbury was provided with samples of meteorite and lunar rock by the Science and Technology Facilities Council. Northbury school pupils study ...

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08 March 2014

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 08MAR2014

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Local man Thomas Ashcraft captured the fireball with an automated camera, and caught the sound of the strike with a forward-scatter meteor radar.


Bright meteor flies over New Mexico, Rattles Homes » - End Time Headlinesendtimeheadlines.org
METEOR (1) Some lucky New Mexico stargazers spotted a bright fireball in the sky just after midnight on Thursday. Initial reports of the meteor sighting ...

Meteor Madness - Video - National Geographic
nationalgeographic.com
As a meteor pierces through the Earth's atmosphere in Russia, people brace themselves for impact.

Japan Fireball Meteor 08MAR2014 - 2014年3月8日1時14分27秒
blogspot.com
There was a fireball meteor over the near Imabari in Shikoku, the fireball of -4.4, etc.. is thought to have been an SPO. 四国の今治市付近の上空と思わ ...


Mars meteorite could solve mysteries of Red Planet
New Kerala - 10 hours
Washington, March 7 : A piece of rock that found its way from Mars to a desert in northwest Africa may help reveal the history and evolution ...

Most Mars meteorites may be from same giant crater
New Scientist - 6 hours
Fresh evidence hints that most Martian rocks found on Earth could be from the same ancient terrain, but the claim has set off a firestorm ...

Did Dark Matter Kill the Dinosaurs
?Scientific American - 1 hour
The solar system's periodic passage through a "dark disk" on the galactic plane could trigger comet bombardments that would cause mass ...

Spring is fireball season
EarthSky
It's fireball season — a time of year when bright meteors appear in greater number ... evening fireballsseem to peak this time of year from the Northern ...

Russia meteor strike NOVA 2013 - YouTube
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HD Russia Meteor Impact 2013 Meteor Strike Fireball From Space ... Meteor Strike - Target Chelyabinsk by Pioneer Productions 1,742 views · 0:40

5 Things We Learned From NASA's Meteor Experts
ABC News
How likely is it that a meteor could wipe out the human race? Does the government have a plan to deal with this crisis? What's your favorite space ...

IMO Complete Meteor Data for 2013
The complete 2013 data set of the IMO network has been finally approved and uploaded to the homepage of the IMO network at http://www.imonet.org. Now the database comprised 1,766,885 single-station meteors, recorded in 5,008 nights and 412,604 hours of of effective observing time. Happy data mining. :)
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Japan Fireball Meteor 08MAR2014 - 2014年3月8日1時14分27秒 -4.4等の火球

Japan Fireball Meteor 0114 JST 08MAR2014 - 2014年3月8日1時14分27秒 -4.4等の火球

There was a fireball meteor over the near Imabari in Shikoku, the fireball of -4.4, etc.. is thought to have been an SPO.
四国の今治市付近の上空と思われる、-4.4等の火球がありました。
spo判定。
Photo Credit- mars
Okayama, Japan
Sonotaco Meteor Forum-video and all details-
http://sonotaco.jp/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3207&sid=d2124093434a845d2891f4e9f1096dd9

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07 March 2014

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 07MAR2014

Fireball explodes over Yellowknife, witness says it turned night sky blue
CTV News
MONTREAL -- A fireball exploded and lit up the skies over Yellowknife early Thursday morning, but was not believed to have caused any damage.

Massive Fireball Explodes Over Yellowknife (PHOTOS)
Huffington Post Canada
This is how bright fireball was by comparing with very bright hi-beam of a vehicle drove by 5 min earlier. @NASA pic.twitter.com/ZL9dYuXKLQ.

Meteor Hits New Mexico (Or At Least The Air Above It) (VIDEO)
Huffington Post UK
Local man Thomas Ashcraft captured the fireball with an automated camera, and caught the sound of the strike with a forward-scatter meteor radar.

Chelyabinsk meteor to help develop nanotechnology
The Voice of Russia
The Chelyabinsk meteor is full of mysteries. Scientists from Nizhny Novgorod have found natural magnesium-iron nanocrystals while studying the ...

Asteroid Mysteriously Breaks Up In Space As Baffled Astronomers Gape In WonderThe Huffington Post UK - 1 minute
Astronomers have watched baffled as a mysterious force breaks up an asteroid in deep space. Asteroid P/2013 R3, which is located in the Solar ...

Space-for-All at HobbySpace » Meteor watching: Bright fireball seen over New Mexico
hobbyspace.com
An entry at Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News reports on a big fireball over New Mexico. They are looking for security camera and cell phone ...

Meteorites on Earth May Be From Ancient Crater on Mars, Study Says
National Geographic
A crater on Mars appears to be the source of a type of meteorite widely found on Earth, scientists from the University of Oslo in Norway reported ...

Out-of-this-world way for pupils to finish topic
Canterbury Times
Mrs Burkitt added: "There was a lot of smiles and also a lot of mess – but it taught them the difference in size between a meteorite and an asteroid.".

Meteor Fireball lights up NM sky
KRQE
The streak across the sky has been classified as a Meteor Fireball. The classification is often determined by how bright it appears. In this case it was ...

Fireball explodes over Yellowknife, turning night sky blue
Vancouver Sun
The exploding meteor was described as being so bright that it turned the night sky blue. Peter Brown, a physics professor at Western University in ...

Meteor Fireball lights up NM sky
KRQE
ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) – There was fire in the sky last night following by a huge boom. It happened last night about 11:45 and it was captured by the ...

BRAMON - Brazilian Meteor Observation Network - Meteoro - YouTube
youtube.com ⋅ 00:25
Captura de meteoro pela estação Batatais da Rede Brasileira de Observação de Meteoros.

Small Asteroid Will Pass Earth Safely on Thursday
Jet Propulsion Laboratory -March 06, 2014
An asteroid about 25 feet (8 meters) across will safely pass Earth at
about 1:21 p.m. PST (4:21 p.m. EST) today, March 6, approaching us six
times closer than the moon. ...

Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News: Breaking Update! 06MAR2014 Very Close Shave ...
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NASA Meteor Experts Host Reddit 'Ask Me Anything' @ 2pm ET Today
Space.com
Three of NASA's top meteor and fireball experts will answer questions from the public about the science behind space rocks from the sky today in a ...

Hubble witnesses an asteroid mysteriously disintegrating
6 March 2014
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has photographed the never-before-seen
break-up of an asteroid, which has fragmented into as many as ten smaller pieces. Although fragile comet nuclei have been seen to fall apart as they approach the Sun, nothing like the breakup of this asteroid, P/2013 R3 ...

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Yellowknife, NWT, Canada Meteor 06MAR2014

Yellowknife, NWT, Canada Meteor 02:13 Local 06MAR2014

Fireball explodes over Yellowknife, witness says it turned night sky blue
The Canadian Press Published Thursday, March 6, 2014 8:17PM EST
MONTREAL -- A fireball exploded and lit up the skies over Yellowknife early Thursday morning, but was not believed to have caused any damage.
Read more: http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/fireball-explodes-over-yellowknife-witness-says-it-turned-night-sky-blue-1.1718117#ixzz2vEm6EL80

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Asteroid P/2013 R3 Mysteriously Disintegrating in Space - A Never-Before-Seen Break-Up

Asteroid P/2013 R3 Mysteriously Disintegrating in Space - A Never-Before-Seen Break-Up
Asteroid P/2013 R3 Mysteriously Disintegrating in Space - A Never-Before-Seen Break-Up
Posted on YouTube by nemesis maturity 130 views
Published on 6 Mar 2014
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has photographed the never-before-seen break-up of an asteroid, which has fragmented into as many as ten smaller pieces. Although fragile comet nuclei have been seen to fall apart as they approach the Sun, nothing like the breakup of this asteroid, P/2013 R3, has ever been observed before in the asteroid belt. ...
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06 March 2014

Breaking Update! 06MAR2014 Very Close Shave Asteroid 2014 EF Just Discovered! - No Earth Danger! 0.4LD

Breaking Update! 06MAR2014 
Second One Just Discovered!
Very Close Shave Asteroid 2014 EF Just Discovered! - No Earth Danger! 0.4LD


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Another Very Close Encounter - Asteroid 2014 EF Just Discovered! - No Earth Danger! 06MAR2014
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Two Close NEO Asteroid Calls on 06MAR2014
Breaking Update! 05MAR2014
Very Close Shave Asteroid 2014 EC Just Discovered! - No Earth Danger! 0.2LD
update 05MAR2014
(2014 EC) 2014-Mar-060.00040.26.2 m - 14 m28.215.93

(2014 EF) 2014-Mar-060.00110.44.2 m - 9.4 m29.015.08
Source- NASA/JPL - 2014 EC Page - http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2014%20EC;orb=1
NASA NEO Main Page - http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/ca/

More Details-
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