Large Fireball Seen in Iran- Iran Meteor/Meteorite News 22AUG2010

Piece of a comet in / luminous stone image landed in Iran Mehr News- Iran Tehran: 09:21, 05/31/1389

همزمان با اوج بارش شهابی برساوشی تکه ای از بازمانده دنباله دار سوئفت تاتل به صورت آذرگوی درخشان یا سنگ نورانی در آسمان ایران دیده شده و احتمالا در بخشهای شرقی ایران به خاک افتاده است که به باور اخترشناسان این آذرگوی تکه ای از بازمانده سوئیفت تاتل است. With the peak of Perseids surviving piece of comet Swift Zrgvy Tatl as bright or brighter the stone seen in the sky of Iran and possibly in eastern parts of the fallen, which astronomers believe that this piece of Zrgvy Tatl Swift is a survivor.

... This Zrgvy (fireball) magnitude 18 - or 20 - which cities in the sky Mrnjab, Abadeh, Zahedan, Taftan, Yazd and other cities in central Iran has been registered by the observers. این تکه از دنباله دار احتمالا در بخشهای شرقی ایران به خاک افتاده است. This piece of comet parts of eastern Iran probably has fallen. ...

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Press TV
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Santa Fe once destroyed by ancient meteorite

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Countdown to Vesta

NASA Science News- August 19, 2010
Let the countdown begin. NASA's Dawn spacecraft is less than one year
away from giant asteroid Vesta.
"There's nothing more exciting than revealing an unexplored, alien
world," says Marc Rayman, Dawn's chief engineer at the Jet Propulsion
Laboratory. "Vesta," he predicts, "is going to amaze us."
Dawn is slated to enter orbit around Vesta in late July 2011. As the
first breathtaking images are beamed back to Earth, researchers will
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http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2010/19aug_dawn2/

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Space.com: The 2010 Perseid meteor shower lived up to its promise of a meteor per minute just before dawn Friday, providing an excellent celestial spectacle ...

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`Star Gazer' host Jack Horkheimer dies
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Blue Meteor Falls in Cirebon

, (Indonesia)

Tempo Interaktif
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10-year-old [TX] boy says he discovered a meteorite

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Varre-sai Meteorite Brazil - Video Report

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Video produced by Program Domingo Espetacular - TV Record - about the Varre-sai Meteorite.
Vídeo produzido pelo Programa Domingo Espetacular da Tv Record sobre o meteorito de Varre-Sai.

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Perseid Meteor Shower: Best Time to Watch Shooting Stars is After ...

The Perseid Meteor Shower tonight will be best seen from about midnight to dawn, in places with few outside lights and clear weather.
abcnews.go.com/Technology/perseid-meteor.../story?id...

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Reuters
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Images from around the world, including the Perseid meteor shower, the Vintage ... Washington Post A meteor streaks across the starry sky over Stonehenge, in Salisbury Plain, England. The Perseid meteor shower is sparked every August when the Earth passes ...

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Meteor/Meteorite News 13AUG2010

Meteorwatch-Meteor Mayhem

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Video Compilation of Perseid Meteors recorded on the evening of the 10th/ morning of the 11th of August 2010 for Meteorwatch ...
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Quick Perseid Summary
by Bob Lunsford- posted on Meteorobs.org

Rates were unimpressive this morning (Aug 12) but bright meteors were aplenty. The best was a yellow -7 Perseid fireball that shot overhead and left a twisting train that lasted for nearly 30 seconds. Earlier, there was a -5 Perseid that shot down toward Polaris and left a 45 second train. Many others were of negative magnitudes, but not fireballs. An impressive -2 earthgrazing Eridanid was a highlight of the night. I think the highlight of the night was an intense orange, -3 Alpha Capricornid, that lasted 3 seconds and fragmented toward the end of its flight.
Data will follow....
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The Latest Information of Perseids 2010
(The International Project for Radio Meteor Observation)
====Updated: 14:00UT 12th August.
Using worldwide radio data, the latest information of Perseids 2010 is updated.
http://www.amro-net.jp/meteor-results/08_per/2010per.html

The unusual activity has not been seen yet.
If you have radio date, please send me your free format (I hope RMOB format) from 1st August.
I really appreciate world radio meteor observers !!
With best wishes,
Hiroshi Ogawa
(The Nippon Meteor Society)
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Perseid Meteor Shower Peaks Tonight

Space Weather News for August 12, 2010
http://spaceweather.com

PERSEID METEOR SHOWER: The annual Perseid meteor shower is underway. Earth is passing through a wide stream of debris from Comet Swift-Tuttle, and each time a fleck of comet dust hits Earth's atmosphere--flash!--there is a meteor. Forecasters say the shower will peak on Thursday, August 12th, and Friday, August 13th. You can see Perseids flitting across the sky at any time between about 10 pm on Thursday evening and sunrise on Friday morning. Observers who get away from city lights can expect to count dozens of meteors per hour, especially during the dark hours before dawn.

Tune into http://spaceweather.com

for full coverage of the shower, including a live meteor radar, a "fireball cam," updated meteor counts and pictures from around the world. ...
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Meteor Shower May Be Visible Thursday Night

25 sec video YouTube
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