The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 10NOV2016

This Weird Meteorite could be our first ever from outside the Solar System
...Astronomers have found evidence that the Tagish Lake meteorite, which crash-landed in Canada back in 2000, came from the Kuiper Belt - all the way in the outskirts of the Solar System, past Neptune....

Fire in the Sky over Nova Scotia
CTV News (blog)
At first glance, I thought it might be a fireball; after all, this is the time for the annual Taurid Meteor shower; the peak occurs this Friday. And to add to the ...

Fireball spotted in the sky over Nova Scotia
Signs of the Times
At first glance, I thought it might be a fireball; after all, this is the time for the annual Taurid Meteor shower; the peak occurs this Friday. And to add to the ...

Leonids to peak next week under a bright moon
Arizona Daily Star
Unfortunately, the waning (growing smaller) gibbous moon next Wednesday, evening (Nov. 16) and the next morning will dim the Leonids meteor ...

In general, the Taurids are very bright,” explains NASA meteor expert Bill Cooke. “
Instagram
The South Taurid meteor shower has been the talk of the sky for a month now ... The November Taurid meteor showers are also known as “Halloween ...

Stars Above: Watch for supermoon Nov. 14 — brightest full moon since 1948
Montreal Gazette
But first up, get set to watch a sprinkling of shooting stars as the annual Taurid meteor shower peaks Nov. 11 and Nov. 12. The best times to see the ...

The sky above Cornwall is set for some incredible meteor showers
CornwallLive.com
The sky above Cornwall is set to put on an incredible night time show this month - giving stargazers the chance to see meteors, planets and a ...

Taurids meteor shower 2016: Everything you need to know about celestial extravaganza
Birmingham Mail
Like last month's Orionid meteor shower, you'll be able to catch the peak of the Taurid Meteor Shower on November 11. The name comes from the fact ...

See all the stars come out at Devils Tower
Rapid City Journal
Previous star parties have been timed to full moons and meteor showers, while December's parties will see Venus, Mars and Mercury (Dec. 11 at 5:3

Taurid, Leonid 2016 Meteor Shower Peaks; Supermoon Effect
Patch.com
The supermoon, which will appear bigger and brighter than any in 70 years, gives competition to Taurid and Leonid meteor showers.

(NTRS) 20110023408: Drake Antarctic Agile Meteor Radar
Internet Archive
A new-generation meteor radar was installed at the Brazilian Antarctic Comandante Ferraz Base (62.1degS) in March 2010. This paper describes the ...

FLIPPO: First female astronomer makes groundbreaking discovery
Christian County Headliner News
The second-most-famous meteor shower is visible this month. The Leonid meteor shower will peak during the morning of Nov. 17. The number of ...

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Japan Fireball Meteor 22:31 JST 01NOV2016 - 2016年11月1日22時31分47秒 散在火球

Japan Morning Fireball Meteor 05:43 JST 31OCT2016 / 2016年10月31日5時43分の酒田大火球

Bright meteor fireball observed over North Dakota and Minnesota
Signs of the Times
A map from the American Meteor Society, a place that tracks meteor sightings, shows that 67 people reported this fireball. The sightings were reported ...

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 08NOV2016
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The Taurid meteor shower 2016
Astronomy
The Taurid meteor shower 2016 is scheduled to peak this Friday and Saturday Nov. 11 and Nov. 12. Find out the best way to view this celestial event.

Super Moon, meteor shower for astronomy aficionados | Ahmedabad NYOOOZ
NYOOOZ
Summary: "But Leonid meteor shower, seems to be originating from constellation Leo when seen from the earth, is special due to its large volume and ...

Leonid Meteor Shower 2016: When, Where & How to See It
Space.com
In mid-November, spectacular "shooting stars" will streak through the night sky as the Leonid meteor shower hits Earth once again. This annual meteor ...

How common are large fireballs like the one many of you reported seeing?
Valley News Live
"Fireballs are fairly rare, they are the biggest of the meteors and so they also tend to be sporadic and not necessarily always associated with a meteor ...

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Japan Fireball Meteor 23:08 JST 07NOV2016 - 2016年１１月７日 ２３時８分１４秒に２８秒ほどの１等の長経路流星

Japan Fireball Meteor 23:08 JST 07NOV2016
2016年１１月７日 ２３時８分１４秒に２８秒ほどの１等の長経路流星

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Japan Fireball Meteor 23:08 JST 07NOV2016 
2016年１１月７日 ２３時８分１４秒に２８秒ほどの１等の長経路流星

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Japan Fireball Meteor 18:24 JST 05NOV2016 / 2016年11月5日 おうし南群の火球
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MB MN Canada /USA Fireball Meteor 06NOV2016
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Okayama, Japan Fireball Meteor 05NOV2016 / 2016年11月5日　おうし南群の火球

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Japan Fireball Meteor 03NOV2016 / 2016年11月3日23時08分42秒おうし北群の火球

If an asteroid were hurtling toward LA, what would NASA do?
Christian Science Monitor
The goal was to develop an effective contingency plan – one that minimizes loss and prevents panic – in case a meteor ever does come careening ..

What are asteroids and could a meteor strike destroy Earth?
The Sun
NASA experts have recently attended an “emergency” summit to explore the risk posed by asteroids. They've also warned it's “not a matter of if – but ...

A popular theory about the dinosaur-killing meteor has been debunked
The Verge
Insect bites on fossilized leaves have finally helped us solve a long-standing mystery around the meteor that wiped out the dinosaurs about 66 million ...

Huge Southern Taurid Fireball Over Portugal
Meteor News
An huge Southern Taurid with a magnitude estimated at -11, near full moon magnitude, entered the Iberian Peninsula atmosphere last 5 th November.

Taurids meteor shower
Cloudy Nights
Taurids meteor shower - posted in General Observing and Astronomy: aorion314 here, just read a Canadian article that says the north and south ...

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) 20110016606: MeteorShower Activity Derived from &quot
Internet Archive
We tried to analyze activities of meteor showers from accumulated data collected by public campaigns for meteor showers which were performed as ...

Bright Taurid meteor shower to light up night sky in November with fireballs
Manchester Evening News
The Taurids is an annual meteor shower associated with the comet Encke and is believed to come from the remnants of a much larger comet that ...

Event 4359-2016
American Meteor Society
AMS received 42 reports about a fireball seen over MN, Manitoba and ND on Monday, November 7th 2016 around 00:04 UT.

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Japan Fireball Meteor 17:37 JST 07NOV2016 - 20161107_173739_消滅点23.8km

Japan Fireball Meteor 17:37 JST 07NOV2016
20161107_173739_消滅点23.8km

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Japan Fireball Meteor 17:37 JST 07NOV2016
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Japan Fireball Meteor 18:24 JST 05NOV2016 / 2016年11月5日 おうし南群の火球

Japan Fireball Meteor 18:24  JST 05NOV2016
2016年11月5日　おうし南群の火球

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Niigata, Japan Fireball Meteor 18:24 JST 05NOV2016
2016年11月5日18:24:10　長経路流星
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Okayama, Japan Fireball Meteor 0218 JST 05NOV2016 / 2016年11月5日 おうし南群の火球

Okayama, Japan Fireball Meteor 02:18  JST 05NOV2016
2016年11月5日　おうし南群の火球

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Okayama, Japan Fireball Meteor 02:18  JST 05NOV2016

2016年11月5日　おうし南群の火球

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NASA, FEMA Hold Asteroid Emergency Planning Exercise What would we do if we discovered a large ...

Taurid Meteor Shower Will Create Magic In The November Sky. But Pollution May Spoil It For ...
Times of India
The Taurid meteor shower will be visible this month and it's best to catch them before full moon on November 14. This shower isn't as glorious as the ...

Higher Education Notes: UNL's Behlen Observatory offers chance to see meteor shower
Omaha World-Herald
The night will coincide with the peak of the Northern Taurids meteor shower, said Shawn Langan, instructor in physics and astronomy. If the sky is ...

Event 4319-2016
Fireball event
Report a Fireball · Events · Reports · Log In · Sign up ... AMS received 2 reports about a fireball seen over AK on Saturday, November 5th 2016 around ...

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Japan Fireball Meteor 03NOV2016 / 2016年11月3日23時08分42秒おうし北群の火球

Hamamatsu, Japan Fireball Meteor 23:08 JST 03NOV2016
2016年11月3日23時08分42秒おうし北群の火球

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Hamamatsu, Japan Fireball Meteor 23:08 JST 03NOV2016

2016年11月3日23時08分42秒おうし北群の火球

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MB MN Canada /USA Fireball Meteor 06NOV2016

MB MN Canada /USA Fireball Meteor1800 Central Time  06NOV2016

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Initial Sighting Reports-
06NOV2016 Alan Olson Clitherall, MN,USA 18:10 CT,PM 10 secs N Green Huge Fireball Same as Moon no fragmentation Brilliant

06NOV2016 Leo Jansens Birds Hill Park, MB Canada 18:01 2-3 secs Straight down, facing S green, orangy/red Bright! It went too quick to tell none

06NOV2016 Brent Guinn Lake Francis, MB, Canada 1800 2-3 secs Straight Down we were facing SW Bright yellow/white - driving could not hear brighter than the moon No the whole thing burned up and disappered We were driving S on Highway6, South of Lake Francis. Appeared to drop straight down. Gradually got larger and tear shaped and then disappeared after getting very bright.

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NASA, FEMA Hold Asteroid Emergency Planning Exercise
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NASA, FEMA Hold Asteroid Emergency Planning Exercise What would we do if we discovered a large asteroid on course to impact. Earth?...

Taurid Meteor Shower 2016 Live Stream: How To Watch Fireballs From Comet Encke
News Philippines
If the state of American politics is stressing you out, simply walk outside and look up – there might be fireballs to distract you. Source International ...

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American Meteor Society
Observer. Name, Rebecca D. Experience Level, 3/5. Remarks, Took place during the Orionids. Because I wasn't sure what I was seeing at first, I didn't ...

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NASA, FEMA Hold Asteroid Emergency Planning Exercise
NASA/JPL press release Nov. 5, 2016
"It's not a matter of if -- but when -- we will deal with such a situation," said Thomas Zurbuchen, Associate Administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. "But unlike any other time in our history, we now have the ability to respond to an impact threat through continued observations, predictions, response planning and mitigation."

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 04NOV2016
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1490慶陽 隕石事殺死10000人 / 1490 Ch'ing-Yang China Meteor Event May Have Killed 10000 ... The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News

Arizona's Jaw-Dropping Mile-Long Meteor Crater
Smithsonian Channel
In the northern Arizona desert, an imposing-looking crater shows the impact of an ancient meteor crash. Until the 1960s, it was mistakenly believed to ...

The Taurid meteor shower is about to peak - get your slow-moving fireballs here
ScienceAlert
Lets face it - not all meteor showers are born equal, and we tend to favour the ones that give us the most bang for our buck, such as the Perseid meteor ...

Taurid Meteor Shower 2016 Live Stream: How To Watch Fireballs From Comet Encke
International Business Times
If the state of American politics is stressing you out, simply walk outside and look up — there might be fireballs to distract you. The Taurid meteor ...

Explorador Curiosity descubre un inusual meteorito metálico en Marte
Itapunta.com (Comunicado de prensa) (blog)
Curiosity había descubierto otros meteoritos sobre la superficie marciana, pero este objeto tiene algunos rasgos únicos. Este jueves la Nasa confirmó ...

A guide to the spectacular events that will fill the skies this month
Daily Mail
'Meteor showers produce shooting stars, although what we're actually seeing is particles of dust and debris left by a comet burning up the Earth's ...

Smoking meteor through Pleiades
Cloudy Nights
Page 2 of 2 - Smoking meteor through Pleiades - posted in Beginning and Intermediate Imaging: Great catch Jon. I get excited when I see anything fly ...

From the biggest supermoon in living memory to an array of shooting stars: A guide to the ...
Daily Mail
The supermoon of December 14 will be remarkable for a different reason: it's going to wipe out the view of the Geminid meteor shower, Nasa said.

Supermoon: Mars should be visible next to the moon this weekend, November 5 and 6
West Briton
The Taurid meteor shower will peak in the evening and following morning. "The individual meteors appear to radiate from the shower's namesake ...

The Sky Tonight Update: Taurids Meteor Shower, Nov. 4 peak
Irene W. Pennington Planetarium - WordPress.com
The Taurids meteor shower is a long-running minor meteor shower producing only about 5-10 meteors per hour. It is unusual in that it consists of two ...

Meteor Activity Outlook for November 5-11, 2016
American Meteor Society
The estimated total hourly meteor rates for evening observers this week is near 5 as seen from mid-northern latitudes (45N) and 4 as seen from ...

Meteor Shower Calendar
International Meteor Organization
The meteor shower calendar is compiled by Alastair McBeath based on information in IMO Monograph No.2: Handbook for Visual Meteor Observers, ...

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NASA, FEMA Hold Asteroid Emergency Planning Exercise

NASA, FEMA Hold Asteroid Emergency Planning Exercise
NASA/JPL press release Nov. 5, 2016

What would we do if we discovered a large asteroid on course to impact
Earth? While highly unlikely, that was the high-consequence scenario
discussed by attendees at an Oct. 25 NASA-FEMA tabletop exercise in El
Segundo, California.

The third in a series of exercises hosted jointly by NASA and FEMA --
the Federal Emergency Management Agency -- the simulation was designed
to strengthen the collaboration between the two agencies, which have
Administration direction to lead the U.S. response. "It's not a matter
of if -- but when -- we will deal with such a situation," said Thomas
Zurbuchen, Associate Administrator for NASA's Science Mission
Directorate in Washington. "But unlike any other time in our history, we
now have the ability to respond to an impact threat through continued
observations, predictions, response planning and mitigation."

The exercise provided a forum for the planetary science community to
show how it would collect, analyze and share data about a hypothetical
asteroid predicted to impact Earth. Emergency managers discussed how
that data would be used to consider some of the unique challenges an
asteroid impact would present-for preparedness, response and public warning.

"It is critical to exercise these kinds of low-probability but
high-consequence disaster scenarios," FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate
said. "By working through our emergency response plans now, we will be
better prepared if and when we need to respond to such an event."

Exercise attendees included representatives from NASA, FEMA, NASA's Jet
Propulsion Laboratory, the Department of Energy's National Laboratories,
the U.S. Air Force, and the California Governor's Office of Emergency
Services.

The exercise simulated a possible impact four years from now -- a
fictitious asteroid imagined to have been discovered this fall with a 2
percent probability of impact with Earth on Sept. 20, 2020. The
simulated asteroid was initially estimated to be between 300 and 800
feet (100 and 250 meters) in size, with a possibility of making impact
anywhere along a long swath of Earth, including a narrow band of area
that crossed the entire United States.

In the fictitious scenario, observers continued to track the asteroid
for three months using ground-based telescope observations, and the
probability of impact climbed to 65 percent. Then the next observations
had to wait until four months later, due to the asteroid's position
relative to the sun. Once observations could resume in May of 2017, the
impact probability jumped to 100 percent. By November of 2017, it was
simulated that the predicted impact would occur somewhere in a narrow
band across Southern California or just off the coast in the Pacific Ocean.

While mounting a deflection mission to move the asteroid off its
collision course had been simulated in previous tabletop exercises, this
particular exercise was designed so that the time to impact was too
short for a deflection mission to be feasible -- to pose a great future
challenge to emergency managers faced with a mass evacuation of the
metropolitan Los Angeles area.

Scientists from JPL, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Sandia
National Laboratories, and The Aerospace Corporation presented predicted
impact footprint models, population displacement estimates, information
on infrastructure that would be affected, as well as other data that
could realistically be known at various points throughout the exercise
scenario.

"The high degree of initial uncertainty coupled with the relatively long
impact warning time made this scenario unique and especially challenging
for emergency managers," said FEMA National Response Coordination Branch
Chief Leviticus A. Lewis. "It's quite different from preparing for an
event with a much shorter timeline, such as a hurricane."

Attendees considered ways to provide accurate, timely and useful
information to the public, while also addressing how to refute rumors
and false information that could emerge in the years leading up to the
hypothetical impact.

"These exercises are invaluable for those of us in the asteroid science
community responsible for engaging with FEMA on this natural hazard,"
said NASA Planetary Defense Officer Lindley Johnson. "We receive
valuable feedback from emergency managers at these exercises about what
information is critical for their decision making, and we take that into
account when we exercise how we would provide information to FEMA about
a predicted impact."

NASA provides expert input to FEMA about the asteroid impact hazard
through the Planetary Defense Coordination Office
<https://www.nasa.gov/planetarydefense>. NASA and FEMA will continue to
conduct asteroid impact exercises and intend to expand participation in
future exercises to include additional representatives from local and
state emergency management agencies and the private sector.

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1490慶陽 隕石事殺死10000人 / 1490 Ch'ing-Yang China Meteor Event May Have Killed 10000 ...
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Perth, Western Australia Fireball Meteor 02NOV2016 w/ Fragmentation
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NASA's new asteroid alert system gives five days of warning
Phys.Org
Look at the Chelyabinsk meteor from 2013. It was a 10,000 ton meteor that exploded over the Chelyabinsk Oblast, injuring 1500 people and damaging ...CAVEAT- IF Object is DETECTED!-LMH

LOOK: Curiosity Spots Meteorite on Mars
YouTube
NASA's Mars Curiosity rover snapped images of a tiny, iron meteorite on the Red Planet on Oct. 30.

Aνακαλύφθηκε ένας περίεργος σιδερένιος μετεωρίτης στον Άρη
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Ο σκούρος γυαλιστερός σφαιρικός μικρός μετεωρίτης έχει μέγεθος όσο μισή μπάλα του γκολφ και οι επιστήμονες τον βάφτισαν «αυγό». Τέτοιου είδους ... Story about iron meteorite found on Mars in Greek.

Fireball
Spaceweather.com Realtime Image Gallery
A beautiful fireball streaked the sky tonight. Here seen streaking the sky above the Sunnmøre Alps, Ørsta, Norway. Photo details: Canon EOS 650D, ...

Smoking meteor through Pleiades
Cloudy Nights
Smoking meteor through Pleiades - posted in Beginning and Intermediate Imaging: While blinking through my 570 ten second Pleiades subs from last ...

NASA International Space Station On-Orbit Status 2 November 2016
Space Ref (press release)
Meteor Operations: CDR changed out the hard drive and diffraction grating on the Meteor camera located in the Window Observational Research ...

Ball of Fire Seen Over Perth – Reports of Explosions
So Perth (blog)
It's possible the fireball was connected to the South Taurid meteor shower, which peaks every year around late October and early November.

Meteor fireball seen over Perth, Western Australia
Signs of the Times
People across Perth have seen a huge ball of fireball over the city tonight. Some people even said they heard explosions like fireworks in the moments ...

Event 4268-2016
Fireball event
Report a Fireball · Events · Reports · Log In · Sign up ... AMS received one report about a fireball seen over Nova Gorica on Wednesday, November ...

Meteorite showers to continue over Perth after Wednesday night burst
WAtoday
When it's as bright as the full moon, that's when it's called a fireball. ... The Fireballs in the Sky research team at Curtin University has called for footage ...

Perth motorist films 'meteor' on dash-cam
The West Australian
A fiery meteor was spotted flashing across Perth skies on Wednesday night, exciting both citizen scientists and motorists who saw the burning object ... One of the poorest meteor videos I have wasted time watching!-LMH

UFO flashing green 'fireball' filmed shooting across the night sky in Japan
The Sun
A MYSTERIOUS huge green fireball is captured in this footage shooting across the night sky in Japan on Monday. The bizarre object was filmed ...NOT mysterious or a UFO;anything for a headline!

BRIGHT and blazing
The Hindu
November makes it special for all sky watchers as it brings you two meteor showers. Beginning tonight, watch out for the South Taurids. The showers ...

2 meteor showers to dazzle Cincinnati skies this month
WLWT Cincinnati
The Leonids will be most visible, and some may see a few meteors from the Taurids. The Taurids are not a prolific meteor shower, only producing ...

Guided walk under the Leonid Meteor Shower planned for Headlands
Petoskey News-Review
With the upcoming Leonid Meteor Shower the public is invited to join Headlands International Dark Sky Park staff under the dark of night for an ... NOV 18th event.

Your guide to this month's constellation and meteor show
San Diego Entertainer Magazine
Perhaps one of the more exhilarating scenes is set to occur on late Nov 11, which will mark the starting point of the North Taurid meteor shower.

Meteorite showers to continue over Perth after Wednesday night burst
Collie Mail
"A fireball, or or bolide, is the official term," Mr Woods said. "While it's still in space it's a meteoroid; when it hits the atmosphere, a meteor; if it hits the ...

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1490慶陽 隕石事件殺死10,000人 / 1490 Ch'ing-Yang China Meteor Event May Have Killed 10,000 People

The 1490 Ch'ing-Yang China Meteor Event May Have Killed 10,000 People 
1490慶陽 隕石事件殺死10,000人

English Wikipedia Entry Source Link-wikipedia.org/wiki/1490_Ch%27ing-yang_event

1490年慶陽事件 / 中文- zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/1490年慶陽事件

The Ch'ing-yang event of 1490 (also Ch'ing-yang, Chi-ing-yang or Chíing-yang meteor shower) is a presumed meteor shower or air burst in Qìngyáng (Ch'ing-Yang, simplified Chinese: 庆阳; traditional Chinese: 慶陽) in March or April 1490.[1][2] The area was in the district of Shaanxi (陕西, now part of Gansu甘肃 Province). If a meteor shower did occur, it may have been the result of the disintegration of an asteroid during an atmospheric entry air burst.

A large number of deaths were recorded in historical Chinese accounts of the meteor shower, but have not been confirmed by researchers in the modern era. In the same year, Asian astronomers coincidentally discovered comet C/1490 Y1, a possible progenitor of the Quadrantid meteor showers.

Meteor shower
At least three surviving Chinese historical records describe a shower during which "stones fell like rain", killing more than 10,000 people. At least one report of the event is found in the official History of the Ming Dynasty, and other journal records which describe the event are also generally considered reliable.[3] But the official Ming Dynasty history omits the number of casualties, which has been frequently either doubted or discounted by present-day researchers.[1][4]

Due to the paucity of detailed information and the lack of surviving meteorites or other physical evidence, researchers have also been unable to definitively state the exact nature of the dramatic event,[5] even examining the possible occurrence of severe hail.[1] However Kevin Yau et al. of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory did note several similarities of the Ch'ing-yang meteor fall to the Tunguska event, which would have destroyed a highly populous district.[1][6]

One surviving account records:[1]
"Stones fell like rain in the Ch’ing-yang district. The larger ones were 4 to 5 catties (斤, about 1.5 kg), and the smaller ones were 2 to 3 catties (about 1 kg). Numerous stones rained in Ch'ing-yang. Their sizes were all different. The larger ones were like goose's eggs and the smaller ones were like water-chestnuts. More than 10,000 people were struck dead. All of the people in the city fled to other places."

One source of Chinese astronomical information of celestial events, the Zhongguo gudai tianxiang jilu zongji (Complete collection of records of celestial phenomena in ancient China) records ten works that discuss the March–April 1490 event,[2][7] including the official History of the Ming Dynasty. Additionally there are records of it in local gazettes and histories of the region.[2] The History of Ming work (the 明史, or Míng Shǐ) states only that there was a rain of uncountable stones of various sizes. The large objects were as big "as a goose egg, and the small ones were the size of the fruit of an aquatic plant". The date given was the third lunar month of 1490, which translates as March 21 to April 19, 1490.[2]

Although the Ming Dynasty history did not record the number of deaths or injuries, other sources do. One semi-official document recorded that a provincial Shaanxi official reported there had been a rain of stones that weighed as much as 4–5jin (市斤), down to 2–3 jin (modern jins being 605 grams). The number of deaths in this account was in the several tens of thousands.[2] The semi-official report and two others date the event to the second lunar month with one source dating the event as April 4, 1490, part of the 3rd lunar month.[2]

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Asteroid's close shave ranks among Earth's biggest hits (and misses), NBCNews.com website, February 14, 2013. Retrieved March 8, 2013.

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Report your meteor sightings please-
http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.jp/2000/11/meteor-fireball-report-form.html

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If you have a video or still image please send to me @ drtanuki@gmail.com ; Thank you!

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02NOV2016 Lucas Mckay Shenton Park, Perth 19:08 pm 15 sec se;nw i was facing nw red and white Venus broke up as it flew saw it over perth from Matilda bay on the river

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02NOV2016 Margaret Warburton Melville WA Australia 7.07 (GMT +9) 13-15 sec E - W fiery-white sun broke into 4 parts as I was watching like a long tailed comet, I was at traffic lights and it was just a couple of degrees above my natural sight line. Have reported to Perth Observatory. Brightest and longest I have ever seen.

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BREAKING- Asteroid 2016 VA Passes Earth within 75,000KMs and is Captured 02NOV2016
w/ Imagery

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Near-Earth Asteroid 2016 VA 01 Nov. 2016 Image Captured by Virtual TelescopeImage Credit- G. Masi, Italy using Virtual Telescope
http://www.virtualtelescope.eu/2016/11/02/near-earth-asteroid-2016-va-very-close-encounter-eclipse-01-nov-2016/

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For More information and images-

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First NEO asteroid discovery of new period "V" (01-NOV-2016 to
15-NOV-2016) announced via Minor Planet Center:

Object ID: 2016 VA
Classification Type: Aten
(Semi-Major Axis < 1.0 AU; Aphelion > 0.983 AU).

Close-Approach Date/Time: 02/00:41Z
** Close-Approach Distance: 54,517 miles (nom.) from Earth surface **
Close-Approach Distance (Lunar Distances): 0.246
Velocity (Relative): 21.249 km/s = 47,810 mph
Estimated diameter: 11m-24m

Position @ closest-approach: RA:01 41 59.76, DEC: -28 20 20.3
Constellation: Sculptor

Orbital Elements:
2016 VA Earth MOID =
0.0000 AU
Epoch 2016 July 31.0 TT = JDT 2457600.5 MPC
M 184.95866 (2000.0) P Q
n 1.12483691 Peri. 309.40717 -0.91448499 -0.24374777
a 0.9156785 Node 219.74724 +0.25323682 -0.96731690
e 0.5283836 Incl. 30.33796 -0.31557615 -0.06989306
P 0.88 H 27.2 G 0.15 U 4

MPC entry:
http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/mpec/K16/K16V02.html

NASA/JPL SBDB entry:
http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2016%20VA;old=0;orb=0;cov=0;log=0;cad=1#cad
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2016年11月1日22時31分47秒 散在火球

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c 2016 さぎたりうす

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20161031　火球情- Video Taken from Sendai ObservatoryPosted to YouTube by sendai1300 15,669 views

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Niigata, Japan Bolide Meteor just before 05:00 JST 31OCT2016 w/Videos  / Fragmentation
Long duration of secs! With Fragmentation- shedding debris.
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Video 1
Mysterious green ‘fireball’ lights up the skies over Niigata, Japan
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Video 2
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