The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News

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Meteor sightings, sonic boom reported in Florida
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
JACKSONVILLE - Over 100 people reported seeing bright lights in the sky and hearing a window-rattling boom as a meteor fell over northeast Florida.

Man captures mysterious streak of light in Montana sky
WABC-TV
It was first thought to be a meteor, but reports say a worker with NASA has identified it as a piece of a Chinese satellite that launched in December.

Brilliant Fireball Wows Skywatchers, Rattles Windows In Florida
Huffington Post
... the fireball--and nearly 50 of those people reported hearing a loud "window rattling" boom after seeing it, according to the American Meteor Society.

Flash across Calgary night sky turns out to be rocket body
CTV News
"(But) it didn't appear to be falling. It just kept going across the sky. "So then I thought maybe a large meteor was breaking up, but it was just way too ...

Fireball in the sky turns out to be rocket body
MetroNews Canada
CALGARY – A Calgary photographer who captured a fireball streaking across the night sky says he thought he'd witnessed a plane crashing or a ...

Missoula Montana meteorshower feb 23/2015
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Meteor may have landed in Georgia, meteor society states
Suwannee Democrat
A fireball meteor lit up the night sky over North Florida on Saturday, Feb. 21, causing a “window rattling delayed boom,” according to the American ...

Calgary photographer captures stunning shots of fireball west of the city ... but what was it?
Calgary Sun
Neil Zeller fireball 4 One of four photos of a blazing fireball Calgary photographer Neil Zeller captured with his Canon 5D Mark III near Jumping Pound ...

Meteor may have landed in Georgia, meteor society states
Branford News
A fireball meteor lit up the night sky over North Florida on Saturday, Feb. 21, causing a “window rattling delayed boom,” according to the American ...

Video: Residents wonder what caused fireball in sky over northern Utah
fox13now.com
The Fox 13 newsroom phone lit up just before 11 p.m. Monday with reports of afireball in the sky. Patrick Wiggins, a NASA Solar System Ambassador ...

Satellite Re-entry Over Western USA
American Meteor Society
The American Meteor Society received over 145 reports from western states last night about a slow moving grouping of fireballs traveling from the ...

Fireball Sightings With Booms Heard In Florida
WRIC
The American Meteor Society received more than 160 reports of bright fireballsightings clustered around Lake City, Florida over the weekend.

Meteor streaks across sky, visible for hundreds of miles
KBOI-TV
The National Weather Service confirmed in a tweet that what people were seeing was, in fact, a meteor: "11pm: Yes, we have had confirmed reports of ...

Hundreds reported seeing Apparent Meteor Shower
NY City News
The American Meteor Society said that it has received 175 reports of the viewing from South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. On Monday, NASA ...

Security camera caught Meteor streaking across the sky above Florida
YouTube ⋅ 00:21
Security camera caught Meteor streaking across the sky above Florida. ...

Photographer captures fireball west of Calgary
CTV News
Others have posted their images of the fireball, and Zeller's photos have even made waves south of the border, going on the air in newscasts in Utah.

Utahns report fireball in sky
Salt Lake Tribune
A blaze of light was seen across Utah skies at around 10:55 Monday night, setting off a barrage of calls from around the state to police dispatch, the ...

Meteor falls over Florida, sparks over 100 calls
WKMG Orlando
SHE REWOUND THE VIDEO AND THERE IT WAS. NEWS4JAX. IT RANG OFF THE HOOK AS THEY SAY A METEOR. SADLY I DIDN'T GET TO SEE ...

Georgia News Roundup
Marietta Daily Journal
(AP) — Over 100 people reported seeing bright lights in the sky and hearing a window-rattling boom as a meteor fell over northeast Florida

Fireball & sonic boom witnessed from Florida to South Carolina
RT
Residents of the Sunshine State say they spotted a massive fireball soar through the Florida sky over the weekend, and similar reports have since ...

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Meteor caught on camera streaking across the sky above Florida
Daily Mail
Jeff Gaddie's security camera caught what appears to be a meteor streaking across the sky in St Augustine, Florida.

Possible meteor lights up Florida and Georgia skylines
USA Today
... a bright light and loud boom across the North Florida skyline all the way up to Georgia. These reports may be connected to a possible meteor sighting.

Meteor caught on camera streaking across the sky above Florida
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Meteor caught on camera streaking across the sky above Florida Meteor caught on camera streaking across the sky above Florida Meteor caught on ...

Meteor caught on camera streaking across the sky above Florida
YouTube ⋅ 00:15
Meteor caught on camera streaking across the sky above Florida Jeff Gaddie's security camera caught what appears to be a meteor streaking across ...

Fireball Sightings Reported Across Florida
Patch.com
The American Meteor Society has logged more than 170 reports about a fireballseen over Florida, Georgia and South Carolina Saturday night into ...

Meteor caught on camera streaking across the sky above Florida
Daily Mail
Meteor caught on camera streaking across the sky above Florida. Jeff Gaddie's security camera caught what appears to be a meteor streaking across ...

Over 100 report bright lights in the sky as meteor falls over northeast Florida
Tampabay.com
JACKSONVILLE — More than 100 people reported seeing bright lights in the sky and hearing a window-rattling boom Saturday night as a meteor fell ...

Reports of bright lights as meteor falls over Florida
Florida Today
The American Meteor Society says the meteor was traveling Saturday night from the southwest to the northeast before ending its flight about 30 miles ...

Possible meteor spotted in North Florida
Fox 30
Social media has been flooded with tweets of this reported meteor sighting. One person in Green Cove Springs described it as a huge boom.

Fireball sightings, booms heard in Florida
wwlp.com
JACKSONVILLE, FL (WFLA) -The American Meteor Society received more than 160 reports of bright fireball sightings clustered around Lake City, ...

Possible meteor sighting in north Florida
MyFox Washington DC
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. - New video shows a possible meteor sighting in north Florida Saturday night. The parking lot footage shows what looks like a ...

Scientist Investigate Africa's Abrupt Climate Shift from Humid to Dry
Science World Report
In order to better understand past climate shifts, the researchers analyzed core samples from Lake Bosumtwi, which was formed by a meteor and sits ...

Meteor caught on camera
News4Jax
VIDEO: A meteor falling from space was caught on a security camera last night by a home owner who heard the sonic boom but didn't see the meteor.

Fireball Meteor St Augustine Jacksonville 02-21-2015
YouTube ⋅ 00:48
Fireball Meteor St Augustine Jacksonville 02-21-2015.

Florida Fireball with Boom
American Meteor Society
The American Meteor Society received over 80 reports so far about a bright fireball event in northern Florida just east of Jacksonville. Observers from ...

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WOW Meteor Caught On Dash Cam | Tauranga New Zealand
YouTube ⋅ 00:09
Meteor Caught On Dash Cam | Tauranga New Zealand Meteor Caught On Dash Cam | Tauranga New Zealand Meteor Caught On Dash Cam ...

Thundersnow may be cause of flashes in Arctic sky
Alaska Dispatch News
“I'm sure there was all kind of wondering,” he said, adding that the weather service doesn't monitor meteor events, so he couldn't rule that out as a ...

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Woman witnesses fireball while walking dog
HLNtv.com
NASA cameras captured a giant fireball streaking across the sky this week. Geri Stone and her dog, Buster, saw it while they were out for their walk ...

NASA photographs fireball streaking across Pennsylvania skies
Space Daily
NASA cameras, along with several hundred amateur astronomers, caught a glimpse of an impressive fireball as it streaked across the Mid-Atlantic late ...

Watch: Bright Fireball Meteor Explodes Over US
National Geographic
The celestial show was caused by a 500-pound (225-kilogram) meteor ... The meteor was probably about two feet in diameter (less than one meter), ...

Unusual Comet Passes by the Sun
Space Weather News for Feb. 20, 2015
Astronomers are scratching their heads over an unusual comet that is passing by the sun. The icy visitor to the inner solar system does not belong to any known family of sun grazing comets, and it appeared to be doomed as it made its plunge toward the sun on Feb. 19th. Instead of disintegrating, however, the comet has emerged apparently intact,...

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Watch: Bright Fireball Meteor Explodes Over US
National Geographic
Such bright meteors are often called fireballs. The event was captured at about 4:50 a.m. local time on three NASA Meteor Watch cameras, including ...

NASA photographs fireball streaking across Pennsylvania skies
Big News Network.com
PITTSBURGH -- NASA cameras, along with several hundred amateur astronomers, caught a glimpse of an impressive fireball as it streaked across the ...

Meteor streaks across sky in PA
WSMV Nashville
PITTSBURGH (CNN) - NASA cameras at the Allegheny Observatory in Pennsylvania captured an image of a 45,000-mile-an-hour meteor.

NASA Meteor Watch
Facebook
Here is an animation showing the orbit of the Pennsylvania fireball and the meteor'sperspective as it approaches Earth (imagine you were sitting on ...

Fireball! Meteor going 45000 mph lights up Pennsylvania sky
Sunbury Daily Item
In this frame grab made from a video done with a dashboard camera, on a highway from Kostanai, Kazakhstan, to Chelyabinsk region, Russia, ...

NASA cameras capture meteor streaking across the sky
KTTC.com
(CNN) -- NASA cameras at the Allegheny Observatory captured an image Tuesday of a 45,000 mile an hour meteor above the Pittsburgh area.

Lucky few see fireball's brilliant show over Armstrong
Tribune-Review
The fireball was a meteor that weighed 500 pounds and measured 2 feet in diameter, according to NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office. The space ...

Fireball spotted over Pennsylvania
cnn
Video news report about Pennsylvania Fireball.

Meteor lights up sky over New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio
Delhi Daily News
The skies above New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio were recently illuminated by a 500 pound fireball meteor going 45,000 miles per hour.

Meteor Activity Outlook for February 21-27, 2015
American Meteor Society
While conditions are favorable for meteor observing during this period, hourly rates are expected to be low, especially from the northern hemisphere.

Superbright meteor zooms over the sky in a great fireball
YouTube ⋅ 00:56
Watch amazing moment meteor burns brighter than the MOON as it enters Earth's atmosphere A meteor burned brighter than the full moon as it ...

Large Fireball Lights Up Sky in New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania
Latinos Post
A 500-pound fireball lit up the skies in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York just before dawn on Tuesday, ABC News reported. The blazing streaker ...

Spectacular fireball over Pittsburgh / Juvenile moon alert
Astro Bob
A fireball meteor at least as bright as the full moon flared over the Pittsburgh region around 4:50 a.m. Eastern time Tuesday morning. The object ...

500-Pound Fireball Illuminates Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York Pre-Dawn Skies
Good Morning America - Yahoo
View the photo 500-Pound Fireball Illuminates Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York Pre-Dawn Skies on Yahoo. Find more photos in our photo galleries.

Meteor Going 45000 mph Lights Up Pennsylvania Sky
KSTP.com
The agency says the meteor likely came from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. NASA says meteorite fragments may be scattered on the ...

Fireball soars over Ohio and Pa. skies
WKBN.com
Nasa cameras at the Allegheny Observatory Captured an image of a 45-thousand-mile-an-hour meteor. The meteor created a fireball in the sky, and ...

Meteor Illuminates Sky above Pennsylvania, Ohio and New York
Maine News Online
Early Tuesday, a 500-pound fireball meteor illuminated the sky above Pennsylvania, Ohio and New York. NASA Meteor Watch cameras caught the ...

NASA Captures Massive Fireball Over Pittsburgh
MSN.com
NASA Captures Massive Fireball Over Pittsburgh. AccuWeather. Duration: 00:20 21 hrs ago. Feb 18, 2015; 7:10 AM A very bright meteor was captured ...

Meteor streaks across Pittsburgh sky going 45000 mph
KXAN.com
NASA cameras at the Allegheny Observatory captured an image of a 45,000-mphmeteor. The meteor created a fireball in the sky and startled some ...

Fireball! Meteor brighter than full moon seen over three states
San Jose Mercury News
KITTANNING, Pa. (AP) — A meteor moving at 45,000 mph lit up the sky over western Pennsylvania. NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office says the ...

'Fireball' meteor lights up Pittsburgh sky in video
KSL.com
The fireball's journey was captured by three of NASA's meteor cameras, which belong to the agency's All-sky Fireball Network. It entered Earth's ...

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Fireball! Meteor going 45000 mph lights up Pennsylvania sky
WHP-TV 21
By: The Associated Press KITTANNING, Pa. -- A meteor moving at 45000 mph lit up the sky over western.

NASA cameras capture meteor streaking across the sky
KTTC TV
(CNN) -- NASA cameras at the Allegheny Observatory captured an image Tuesday of a 45,000 mile an hour meteor above the Pittsburgh area.

Meteor streaks across Pittsburgh sky going 45000 mph
KXAN.com
NASA cameras at the Allegheny Observatory captured an image of a 45,000-mph meteor. The meteor created a fireball in the sky and startled some ...

VIDEO: Meteor tears across the sky in western Pennsylvania
6ABC.com
NASA captured video of a meteor streaking across the sky in Pennsylvania earlier this week.

Nasa films fireball meteor flying over New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio
Telegraph.co.uk
Western New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio woke up to a bright fireball streaking through the sky early on Wednesday morning. The meteor, Nasa ...

How to predict what height meteors explode at
New Scientist
Two years ago, for instance, a meteor exploded 29 kilometres over the Russian region of Chelyabinsk, outshining the sun and releasing more energy ...

Fireball! Meteor moving 45000 mph lights up western Pa. sky
abc27
NASA meteor cameras detected the rock at an altitude of 60 miles above Beaver Falls and captured it flaring brighter than a full moon as it moved to ...

Meteor streaks across sky in PA
WFXG.com
The meteor created a fireball in the sky, and startled some residents early Tuesday morning. The director of Buhl Planetarium at Carnegie Science ...

45000 mph meteor lights up western Pennsylvania skies
WPTV.com
The meteor created a fireball in the sky, and startled some residents. ... Center said the meteor weighed about 500 pounds before it disintegrated.

Giant meteor lights up sky before burning up in Earth's atmospere
abc7news.com
NASA caught the meteor on camera as it crashed into Earth's atmosphere at 45,000 miles per hour. KGO. Wednesday, February 18, 2015 12:00AM.

Watch amazing moment meteor burns brighter than the MOON as it enters Earth's atmosphere
Mirror.co.uk
This is the moment an observatory in Pittsburgh, USA, captured a meteor streaking across the night sky at 45,000mph early on Tuesday morning.

Fireball! Meteor going 45000 mph lights up Pennsylvania sky - New York News
myfoxny.com
KITTANNING, Pa. (AP) - A meteor moving at 45,000 mph lit up the sky over western Pennsylvania. NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office says the ...

Fireball! 45000 mph meteor zooms through sky over Pennsylvania with more light than full moon
Minneapolis Star Tribune
NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office says the space rock measuring two feet in diameter and weighing roughly 500 pounds entered Earth's ...

Fireball! Meteor going 45000 mph lights up Pennsylvania sky
U.S. News & World Report
KITTANNING, Pa. (AP) — A meteor moving at 45,000 mph lit up the sky over western Pennsylvania. NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office says the ...

500 lbs meteor spotted over Pennsylvania (VIDEO)
RT
In all, the AMS received nearly 100 reports from eyewitnesses who said they saw a fireball in the vicinity of southwestern Pennsylvania earlier ...

Fireball meteor brighter than the full moon spotted over US: NASA
ABC Online
A bright meteor lit up skies over the American states of New York, Ohio, and Pennsylvania this week, burning up in the atmosphere in a flare brighter ...

Fireball meteor brighter than the full moon spotted over USA: NASA
Yahoo!
A bright meteor lit up skies over the American states of New York, Ohio, and Pennsylvania this week, burning up in the atmosphere in a flare brighter ...

The 500-Pound Fireball Over Pittsburgh
The Atlantic
With a brilliant flash of light, a fireball pierced the predawn sky over Pittsburgh on Tuesday. Not one, not two, but three NASA cameras caught footage ...

Fireball! Meteor going 45000 mph lights up Pennsylvania sky
MSN.com
A meteor moving at 45000 mph lit up the sky over western Pennsylvania. NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office says the space rock measuring two ...

500-Pound Fireball Illuminates Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York Pre-Dawn Skies
Good Morning America - Yahoo
A 500-pound fireball meteor going 45,000 miles per hour caught by NASA Meteor Watch cameras, illuminated skies above Pennsylvania, Ohio and ..

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Japan Fireball Meteor 19FEB2015 - 2015年2月19日　17時56分05秒　15秒継続　-4.5等

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2015年2月19日　17時56分05秒　15秒継続　-4.5等

c2015 Shida / Sonotaco

For more information about this event see the SonotaCo Meteor Forum-

http://sonotaco.jp/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3463&sid=3e3ca094f56ac5e38112b4bf0ae76a42

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NASA video shows a fireball burning through the skies of Pennsylvania
Washington Post
Early on Tuesday morning, NASA's All-sky Fireball Network (which is a real thing that exists, for real) caught footage of a fiery space rock entering the ...

NASA Captures Massive Fireball Over Pittsburgh
MSN.com
NASA Captures Massive Fireball Over Pittsburgh. AccuWeather. Duration: 00:20 6 hrs ago. Feb 18, 2015; 7:10 AM A very bright meteor was captured ...

See the fiery meteor that blazed over Pittsburgh
CBS News
Just before 5 a.m. Tuesday morning, early risers in the Pittsburgh area were treated to a shining surprise: A fiery meteor shooting across the darkened ...

Watch a Meteor Burn Up in a Fiery Ball Over Pennsylvania
TIME
A meteor burned up in the atmosphere over the skies of Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York Tuesday morning, lighting up in a flare that was reportedly ...

Ice crystals cause 'triple sunrise' in Russian city – in pictures
The Guardian
In 2013, meteor fragments that fell from the sky caused damage all over the Chelyabinsk region, but what was behind the triple sunrise that residents ...

Fiery meteor lights up night sky at 45000 mph
Fox News
NASA confirms space rock sighting visible in three states.

NASA video shows fireball over three states
Washington Post
February 18, 2015 9:56 AM EST - NASA's Marshall Center captured video of a fireball that was seen over New York, Ohio, and Pennsylvania early ...

Video: Brilliant 'fireball' spectacularly burns up over skies of Pennsylvania
The Independent
A massive fireball was captured by several Nasa cameras as it traveled over the skies of Ohio, New York and Pennsylvania in the early hours of ...

A mysterious fireball lit up the sky Tuesday morning
WTAE Pittsburgh
A WTAE viewer witnessed the fireball which she's says lit up the entire sky while she was taking her dog outside.

Did you see it? NASA explains fire in the sky caught on camera
fox8.com
On its Facebook page, NASA Meteor Watch says the fireball was a space rock about two feet in diameter and weighing about 500 pounds. It entered ...

Fiery meteor sighting over Western New York
Signs of the Times
Currently, the American Meteor Society shows on its website dozens of self-reported logs from people who submitted reports that they saw the meteor.

Massive fireball over Pittsburgh captured on NASA cameras
WPXI Pittsburgh
“The fireball moved almost due east at a speed of 45,000 mph. It flared brighter than the Full Moon before the cameras lost track of it at altitude of 13 ...

VIDEO: NASA camera captures meteor's path in WNY
WKBW
Bill Cooke of NASA captured the meteor on camera, which was seen by people in Ohio and Pennsylvania, as well as WNY.

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NASA Confirms Early Morning 'Fireball' Over WNY
WGRZ-TV
Now, NASA's Meteoroid Environments Office confirms the fireball that many Western New Yorkers reported seeing around 4:50 a.m. Tuesday morning.

NASA confirms fiery meteor sighting over WNY
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Currently, the American Meteor Society shows on its website dozens of self-reported logs from people who submitted reports that they saw the meteor.

Three Suns in the sky: Chelyabinsk witnesses rare halo effect (PHOTOS, VIDEO)
RT
Almost exactly two years ago, on February 15, 2015 Chelyabinsk, a city of 1.1 million people, hit the headlines after a blazing meteor flashed across ...

Video from NASA of reported meteor seen in WNY
Ithaca Journal
Video from NASA of reported meteor seen in WNY.

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Russian Meteor's Origin Remains Mysterious 2 Years Later
Space.com
Originally, astronomers thought that the Chelyabinsk meteor came from a 1.24-mile-wide (2 kilometers) near-Earth asteroid called 1999 NC43.

15 February 2015 in News: The day it rained fire over Chelyabinsk
Astronomy Now Online
In just 16 seconds the meteor descended from 90 kilometres up to an altitude of around 15 kilometres. Between 32 and 47 kilometres high it began to ...

Green Meteor/UFO Perth last night, 14th Feb, 2015.
Above Top Secret
Last night I was in Northbridge, a suburb of Perth right next to the CBD walking with my brother up William St, a street going NNE. The time was about ...

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Japan Fireball Meteor 15FEB2015

2015年２月１５日１８時５４分７秒　継続時間５秒以上の長経路流星

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Japan Fireball Meteor 15FEB2015

2015年２月１５日１８時５４分７秒　継続時間５秒以上の長経路流星

c2015 Shimoda / Sonotaco

For more information about this event see the SonotaCo Meteor Forum-
http://sonotaco.jp/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3460&sid=3e3ca094f56ac5e38112b4bf0ae76a42

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Radio Meteor Detection system
Cloudy Nights
I thought I would share some details about my radio meteor detection system in case anyone is interested and also I am curious if anyone has any ...

Meteor lights up the sky in New Zealand
MSN.com
A meteor zipped through the sky over New Zealand Wednesday, turning night into day for a brief moment.The incident occurred around 10 p.m. and ...

Two years on, source of Russian Chelyabinsk meteor remains elusive
Phys.Org
Chelyabinsk fireball recorded by a dashcam from Kamensk-Uralsky north of Chelyabinsk where it was still dawn. Two years after a 20-meter rock ...

Meteor Explodes Over New Zealand
Cloudy Nights
Meteor Explodes Over New Zealand - posted in Space Rocks: Seen this on the news tonight.. http://www.nzherald....jectid=11400450.

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Space rock just a flash in Kiwi history
Otago Daily Times
He said observing a bolide -- the name given to an extremely bright meteor -- was like winning a lottery. They rocketed to Earth regularly but were ...

Meteor fireball fragments over Montech, southwestern France, 10 February 2015
Signs of the Times
Translated by SOTT.net A meteor crossed the sky over Tarn-et-Garonne on Tuesday evening. Witnesses in the area have generally been cautious ...

Low-Flying Meteor Explodes Over New Zealand, Illuminating Night Sky
Huffington Post
Local experts agree that the blinding explosion was probably a low-flying meteor, according to The New Zealand Herald. YouTube user Josh ...

Meteor spotted over New Zealand
Yahoo News Canada (blog)
Looked like a big fireball.” This morning, experts are agreeing that the bright explosion and thunderous sonic booms can be attributed to a meteor.

Exploding meteor recorded by New Zealand dash cam
UPI.com
12 (UPI) -- A New Zealand man's dashboard camera captured the moment an apparent exploding meteor lit up the night sky over the North Island.

Meteor Caught on Tape By Driver's Dash Cam
Yahoo! ⋅ 00:08
Watch the video Meteor Caught on Tape By Driver's Dash Cam on Yahoo Canada. While on his way to the gym in Tauranga, New Zealand, user ...

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Meteor lights up the sky
NEWS.com.au
“This is different, you would call this a fire ball, and when it lands on the ground it becomes a meteorite.” Mr Schiff said it was hard to determine if the ...

New Zealand meteor: Space rock just a flash in history
New Zealand Herald
He said observing a bolide - the name given to an extremely bright meteor - was like winning a lottery. They rocketed to Earth regularly but were ...

Meteor Dash Cam 11.2.2015 Tauranga, New Zealand.
YouTube ⋅ 00:09
Dash Cam footage of brilliant meteor in New Zealand!

Watch: Fireball meteor lights up the skies above New Zealand
The Independent
This is the moment a fireball meteor burned through the skies above northern New Zealand on Wednesday evening.

Meteor lights up New Zealand sky
Stuff.co.nz
Bright flashes and sonic booms in the night sky above the North Island are most likely a chunk of asteroid or a meteoroid bursting through the Earth's ...

Meteor caught over New Zealand 11.02.2015
YouTube ⋅ 00:27
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Stunning meteor sighting thrills Kiwis across the country
TVNZ
Last night's colourful sky display has had many people talking today.

'I thought it was lightning' - witnesses amazed by stunning meteor
TVNZ
They thought it was lightning, but some Bay of Plenty residents then discovered they'd seen a meteor flash across the night sky. They were among ...

North Island meteor a rare event
3 News
If you managed to catch a glimpse of last nights meteor as it flashed across the sky count yourself lucky.

Meteor explodes
The Valley's Rock Station
Nice dash cam of a meteor exploding over New Zealand..

Brilliant Fireball Shatters New Zealand Skies
Nature World News
Fire is falling from the heavens once again, this time ending in a brilliant explosion over New Zealand. A bright fireball was spotted in the great majority ...

Spectacular meteor lights up NZ sky - but where did it land?
TVNZ
Thousands of New Zealanders were witness to a spectacular sight last night when a meteor descended over the country. The fireball could be seen ...

Meteor Activity Outlook for February 14-20, 2015
American Meteor Society
This week sees the moon finally giving way to dark skies but the meteor activity will be slow despite the absence of moonlight. Most of the activity this ...

Meteor Caught on Dashcam - Auckland New Zealand
YouTube ⋅ 00:13
Footage captured of the flash caused by a suspected meteorite. Taken 9.59pm 11/02/2015 in the Auckland CBD. Audio has been removed.

Meteor over NZ 'a decent-sized rock'
Stuff.co.nz
A meteor which flashed across the skies across the North Island exploded 20 to 30 kilometres above the earth, an expert says. * Did you see it?

NZ's meteor light show: Your chances of finding space souvenir
New Zealand Herald
The chances of anyone finding the meteor that lit up New Zealand skies last night are remote. Stardome astronomer Dr Grant Christie said this ...

Public 'privileged' to view spectacular low-flying meteor
TVNZ
Public 'privileged' to view spectacular low-flying meteor. updated 08:02. Published: 6:03AM Thursday February 12, 2015 Source: ONE News.

Meteor lights up North Island skies
MSN.com
Thousands of people reported the skies being lit up by a bright light which appears to have been a meteor...

Meteor Caught On Dash Cam | Tauranga New Zealand
YouTube ⋅ 00:09
On my way to the gym when bam this comes out of no where. I actually thought it was Lightning. Pretty cool to have seen it happen little ol' New .

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Public 'privileged' to view spectacular low-flying meteor
TVNZ
Spotting the low-flying meteor which lit up the night sky in the North Island last night, causing a loud sonic boom, was a rare occurrence says an ...

Fireball, loud boom as tiny meteorite sparks huge excitement
TVNZ
A low- flying meteorite lit up the North Island sky and caused a loud sonic boom last night. The fireball could be seen from Wellington to Auckland at ...

Stunning meteor flashes across North Island's night sky
TVNZ
A Kiwi driver captures dashcam footage of a fireball streaking across the NZ night sky.

Watch: Meteor Lights Up the Sky
ZM Online
Watch: Meteor Lights Up the Sky. Our mate Josh Sherborne sent us this video he snapped on his dash cam during the bright lights and sonic booms ...

Fireball speeds across Catalan skies
The Local.es
Stargazers were amazed to see a ball of light speeding across the sky over Catalonia on Tuesday night. Christmas fireball lights up Spanish skies (29 ...

Incoming: Sonic booms heard and bright light seen across northern New Zealand skies due to ...
Signs of the Times
The flash in #Auckland tonight was definitely not lightning, most likely a #meteor #nzmeteor

Is There Such a Thing as a Random Meteor?
Sky & Telescope
Meteor showers like the Perseids get all the press. But have you ever wondered where all the random meteors come from? We explore their origins.

Meteor near miss for Hamilton friends
New Zealand Herald
Two Hamilton friends had a close encounter tonight with what is believed to have been a meteor, which lit up skies over the North Island.

Meteor reportedly flashes over Auckland
TVNZ
A large flash across the North Island has been reported where a meteor allegedly lit up the sky. Some Twitter users have described the scene as a ...

Bright light seen across northern skies
Stuff.co.nz
Bright flashes and sonic booms in the night sky above the North Island are most likely a chunk of asteroid or a meteoroid bursting through the Earth's ...

Meteor captured falling into the sea off the coast of Devon
YouTube ⋅ 00:34
Meteor captured falling into the sea off the coast of Devon Meteor captured falling into the sea off the coast of Devon Meteor captured falling into the ...

Meteor streaks across English Channel off the coast of Devon
TKG News
Dawlish Beach Webcam filmed the fireball as it broke apart in atmosphere The meteor was spotted on live footage by webcam operator Simon Dean ...

Meteor Procession Feb 9, 1913
Bluewater Astronomical Society
What happened that night is sometimes called the Great Meteor Procession of 1913, and it sparked decades of debate concerning what actually ...

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Meteor captured falling into the sea off the coast of Devon
Daily Mail
Meteor captured on CCTV falling into the sea off the coast of Dawlish Beach in Devon.

Meteor streaks across English Channel off the coast of Devon
Daily Mail
A meteor streaking though the night sky above the English Channel has been captured on camera. The fireball, which was filmed off the coast of ...

Why meteors light up the night sky
Phys.Org
Fireball: A meteor that is unusually bright, outshining almost everything in the night sky. Typically, any meteor brighter than magnitude -4 (i.e. brighter ...

This date in science: Great Meteor Procession
Portal to the Universe
During the Great Meteor Procession of February 9, 1913, bright meteors were seen to cross the sky on stately, nearly identical paths. February 9, 1913.

Giant meteor captured on the Dawlish Beach Cam
Torquay Herald Express
Shooting star, flare, meteor .... or one of the Orange Army arriving for a night shift. Those are some of the suggestions so far to explain this fantastic, ...

Video: 'Meteor' filmed above Devon on Dawlish beach cam
Exeter Express and Echo
A video from the camera focused on Dawlish beach has captured a giant glowing object 'landing' in the sea. The footage above shows a meteor flying ...

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Number of Known Accessible Near-Earth Asteroids Doubles Since 2010
NASA/JPL Near-Earth Object Program Office- February 6, 2015
NASA performed the first Near-Earth Object Human Space Flight Accessible Targets Study (NHATS) in September/October of 2010, and 666 of the known near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) were identified as meeting the NHATS criteria for mission accessibility (classifying those NEAs as "NHATS-compliant"). These are asteroids in near-Earth orbits that are more dynamically accessible (requiring less time and energy to visit)
than round-trip spacecraft missions to Mars. ...

Suspected meteor recorded by British beach webcam
UPI.com
A fixed camera at a British beach captured footage of a suspected meteorite falling out of the sky and plunging into the sea.

Watch: 'Meteor' caught on Devon beach camera
Telegraph.co.uk
Footage shows a glowing object - described as a meteor - streaking through the night sky before appearing to burn up or land in the sea in Devon.

Watch: 'Meteor' caught on Devon beach camera
The Telegraph
Watch the moment a 'meteor' is caught on a fixed camera at Dawlish Beach, Devon.

Watch: 'Meteor' caught on Devon beach camera- YouTube
YouTube ⋅ 00:24
Watch the moment a meteor is caught on a fixed camera at Dawlish Beach, Devon Watch the moment a meteor is caught on a fixed camera at Dawlish ...

Meteor over Graciosa island in Azores 2015-03, 21:20 UTC
Cloudy Nights
This is a link for a news feed with some nice pictures of a meteor that ended up exploding yesterday over the Atlantic ocean. It's in Portuguese, so you ...

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Calgary, Alberta, Canada Meteor 03FEB2015 w/ Video
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Initial Meteor Sighting Reports- 03FEB2015 Sadie BLACK DIAMOND ALBERT CANADA 1930 MT 6-10 seconds Eastern sky travelling from NE to SE ...

Brasilia, DF, Brasil Meteor 28JAN2015
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Alberta, Canada Meteor 02FEB2015
Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News
Initial Meteor Sighting Reports- 02FEB2014 Matt Chaisson Bezanson, Alberta, Canada 23:00:00 5 seconds S-N Extremely bright fireball, looked ...

Alamo Impact Crater, Nevada Recognized
Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News
Alamo Impact Crater, Nevada Recognized On Monday Febraury 2, 2015, Count Deiro wrote, "Sunday, the Las Vegas Review Journal newspaper ...

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Calgary, Alberta, Canada Meteor Apprx. 1925 MST 03FEB2015 w/ Video

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Meteor spotted in Calgary Feb 3, 2015

Posted to YouTube by Roger Keeling 7 views

Initial Meteor Sighting Reports-
03FEB2015 Sadie BLACK DIAMOND ALBERT CANADA 1930 MT 6-10 seconds Eastern sky travelling from NE to SE White and very bright, with a tinge of yellow Brighter than moon which it passed by as it fell from a higher elevation in the N and sailed in a 40° arc down to the S Some trail appeared. Large bright ball with glowing halo radiatingaround it Startlingly bright white and yellow light, fairly round with large bright burning spot in lower quadrant. Approx 1/10th the size of the bright full moon tonight

03FEB2015 Roger Keeling Calgary, AB, Canada 19:27:00 5 seconds Heading SE Bright Green Bright as the moon (green) No parts were falling off

03FEB2015 crispin pike calgary 19:22 MST 2 looking east. traveled steeply towards horizion, east to south fireball much brighter than venus. none observed very close to full moon but still bright

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Brasilia, D.F., Brasil Meteor 2343 UTC 28JAN2015

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Brasilia, D.F., Brasil Meteor 2343 UTC 28JAN2015
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Alberta, Canada Meteor Approx. 2240 02FEB2015

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Initial Meteor Sighting Reports-
02FEB2014 Matt Chaisson Bezanson, Alberta, Canada 23:00:00 5 seconds S-N Extremely bright fireball, looked yellow and red, saw with the naked eye as I was driving west on highway 43. Had a tail. similar to the moon it looked like it had a debris field behind it, it looked like it hit the atmosphere very close to my location. the sky is clear, no cloud cover. able to see constellations, -19°c, dark sky but very clear.

02FEB2014 Wendy Rurka Vermilon, Alberta, Canda 22:40:00 20 seconds Falling towards the north bright green ball of light, not sure about the sound, but a dog did bark in the neighborhood as this ball was falling Brighter then the full moon none I never seen such a huge ball of green light like this before. If I had held my pinky nail up to it, it would be about that size falling.

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NEOs Asteroids Close Approaches February 2015
Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News
Be ready for some bolide, fireball, and meteor activity! Unfortunately we will be Moonblind for ground-based detection from 01FEB2014 until about the ...

India Meteor 31JAN2015
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Initial Meteor Sighting Reports- 01FEB2015 Shivakumar Mumbai, Maharashtra, India 2000 hrs 2 secs From N-W Left to S-W - I was facing west ...

ONT QC MA NY Meteor 31JAN2015
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Emission Spectroscopy of a Rho-Geminid Meteor
usra.edu
Introduction: The poorly-known ρ-Geminid meteor shower was discovered by Southworth and Hawkins in the framework of the 1952-1954 Harvard ...

Meteor-Fireball May Have Passed Over Humboldt Before Crashing Into Sonoma County In ...
The CELESTIAL Convergence
Multiple North Coast residents from Valley Ford to Santa Rosa and Fort Bragg reported seeing what they described as a meteor streaking northwest ...

Did You See The Meteor? Brilliant Chrome, Red, Green Fireball Blazes Through Bay Area Skies ...
CBS Local
The space rock was actually the second fireball to light up Northern California skies Saturday — the first being the Delta II rocket from Vandenberg Air ...

Ancient Meteorite Dubbed 'Black Beauty' Was A Chunk Of Mars'
International Business Times
Scientists have discovered that a meteorite, which was found a few years ago in the Moroccan desert, is a 4.4 billion-year-old chunk of the Martian ...

6 Sky Events This Week: Primetime Jupiter, Asteroid Juno, and Zodiacal Light
National Geographic
Sky-watchers in the Southern Hemisphere get to watch a modestmeteor shower on Sunday, February 8. Known as the annual Alpha Centaurids, most ...

Meteor/Fireball Sightings In US / CA & CANADA, ONT / QC / MA Jan. 31, 2015
Disclose.tv
California Meteor 31JAN2015California Meteor Apprx. 13:30:00 31JAN2015 31, QC MAMeteor 31JAN2015ONT QC MA Meteor approx. 1730 EST ...

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Alamo Impact Crater, Nevada Recognized

On Monday Febraury 2, 2015, Count Deiro wrote,

"Sunday, the Las Vegas Review Journal newspaper carried
a second page headline that mentions the recent paper published
in the current issue of Geosphere, the online mag for the
Geological Society of America, arguing the legitimacy of the
382 million year old "Alamo Impact" and doubling it's
diameter to between 69 and 93 miles."

Some articles are:

Alamo impact crater: New study could double its size
Geological Society of America, January 23, 2015
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/01/150123102541.htm
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-01/gsoa-aic012215.php

New study ranks Nevada crater among world's largest
Las Vegas Review-Journal, January 31, 2015
http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/science/new-study-ranks-nevada-crater-among-world-s-largest

150 Kilometer Diameter Crater In Nevada Result Of
Bolide Impact On Ancient Seafloor, January 25, 2015 21:09
http://www.ineffableisland.com/2015/01/150-kilometer-diamerter-crater-in.html

The papers are:

Retzler, A. J., L. Tapanila, J. R. Steenberg, C. J. Johnson,
and R. A. Myers. Post-impact depositional environments
as a proxy for crater morphology, Late Devonian Alamo
impact, Nevada. Geosphere, 2015; DOI: 10.1130/GES00964.1
http://geosphere.gsapubs.org/content/early/2015/01/14/GES00964.1.abstract

Retzler, A. J., 2013, Post-impact depositional environments
as a proxy for crater morphology, Late Devonian Alamo
impact, Nevada. Uynpublished MS thesis, Department of
Geosciences, Idaho State University, Pocatello, Idaho.
http://geology.isu.edu/thesis/Retzler.Andrew.2013.pdf

Yours,

Paul H.

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India Meteor 2000 Local Time 31JAN2015

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India Meteor 2000 Local Time 31JAN2015
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Initial Meteor Sighting Reports-
01FEB2015 Gourav Swarnkar Pune, India 20:00:00 3 seconds N-SW Bright white Moon NO Bright white light for approx 3 secs and vanished

01FEB2015 Dhiraj Panvel, India 20.00 PM 10sec India Trailing Green Brighter than moon No I dont have photo but1 my dad captured just 0.5 spec clip of that Meteor in his cell. We can only see a spot in video clip.

01FEB2015 Shivakumar Mumbai, Maharashtra, India 2000 hrs 2 secs From N-W Left to S-W - I was facing west - Horizontal movement at about 50 degrees from horizon Bright White trail with reddish head - no sound heard Thick (width was broader than average shooting star) white streak - much brighter than venus Reddish Orange fragments seen falling apart from head portion towards the end of sighting This was the brightest and thickest streak of a shooting star that I have ever seen. Very bright and lengthly. I therefore Googled to find out any reporting of the same incident and landed up on this page - therefore reporting the same.

01FEB2015 Chinar Khartadkar Pune,Maharashtra,India 19hrs57mins/(UTC+05:30) 5-6 sec Start N-W,Stop S-E ,Right to Left,I was facing West Bright Yellow Same as the sun No, But i could see the core pretty clearly I have seen meteors before but only for 1-2 secs ,this one was Big,closer to the Earth and visibly slower ,with a long yellow tail .I didnt have the time to get a picture,But it was one of the most awesome sightings I have witnessed.

01FEB2015 Nilwan Bernard Nagothane, Maharashtra, India 19:55:00 20 sec North to South Orange Venus yes.small fragments falling from the tail 1st February 2015. 7:55 pm at Reliance plant nagothane near CES workshop...while walking we saw a bright orange colour round light with a long tail ( sparkling) on sky moving at a very high speed from north to south and all at a sudden it disappeared...

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California Meteor 31JAN2015
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Multiple North Coast residents from Valley Ford to Santa Rosa to Fort Bragg reported seeing what they described as a meteor streaking northwest .

Meteor passes by Jupiter - spotted from Lake District, UK
MSN.com
Meteor passes by Jupiter - spotted from Lake District, UK. Newsflare. Duration: 00:23 10 hrs ago. Meteorpasses by Jupiter - spotted from Lake District, ...

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Tokyo, Japan Fireball Meteor 0532 JST 01FEB2015
- 2015年2月1日 05:32:44 南天からの高速火球

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Tokyo, Japan Fireball Meteor 0532 JST 01FEB2015
2015年2月1日 05:32:44 南天からの高速火球
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