Breaking News- Meteor/Meteorite News Internet Traffic Indicates Possible Meteors 19JAN2011 20JAN2011

Breaking News- 
Meteor/Meteorite News Internet Traffic Indicates Possible Meteors 19JAN2011
- 2 or More Large Meteors:
Georgia/South Carolina ~9:00 pm EST
Michigan/Ohio/Indiana/Illinois ~8:50 pm EST
PENN 8:15pm EST
Windsor, Ontario Jan 19. about 9:55ish

Readers: If you witness a meteor/fireball, please post here and on AMS 
http://www.amsmeteors.org/fireball2/form.html 


IF you have video, photo, cellphone capture or information of a meteor please email me at lunarmeteoritehunter@gmail.com


Meteor/Meteorite Readers Write:
(Timestamps below are given in Tokyo Local Time.)
Jan 20 2011, 3:43 PM

Ryan Lesniewicz:here are wat a few ppl are reporting I seen it on I75 southbound by Bass Pro...I thought it was a huge shooting star.. I Live in Liberty Center, and I seen it around 8:30pm,North and it did look like a falling star! It was a green light I seen. Looked like fireworks.! Ohio I am posting what others have seen i did not see it wish i could have. Yes I did. I was driving south in Waterville, and saw a big green light streaking across the sky at a downward angle. It stayed lit for what seemed like five seconds and it disappeared behind some trees. It was beautiful but kinda scary!!: l it was green it was moving east to west

Jan 20 2011, 1:15 PM

Guest286 (guest):Jan. 19, 2011 about 9:00 pm, saw a large green glowing fireball with long reddish tail.It looked so close.Was awesome!Meteorite that impacted?

Jan 20 2011, 1:17 PM

Guest286 (guest):Very similar to guest 546 this greenish fireball was seen from Six Lakes, Michigan

Jan 20 2011, 11:10 AM
Guest926 (guest): Jan 19th, 2011 approx 20:15 saw bright light in sky, meteorite-like object. S Central PA

Jan 20 2011, 11:17 AM
Guest636 (guest):Amelia Ohio about 10 miles out of Cincinnati OH at about 8:50 pm saw bright flash of white light in the direction of the city of Cincinnati - gave me and one of our dogs pause... any ideas?

Jan 20 2011, 12:18 PM
Guest546 (guest): Old Fort, NC. ~9:00 pm est January 19,2011. Saw a green ball with fiery tail cross the sky in a downward trajectory.Very large, bright green with long tail.Never seen anything like it! Very exciting!


Jan 21 2011, 1:21 AM

Guest96 (guest):Windsor Ontario Jan 19. about 9:55ish green fireball fell to earth. I saw it from Sandwich St.

Email:
At 7:55pm CST, I witnessed a giant green fireball heading south through the sky. I viewed this from Barrington, Illinois, approx 30 miles NW of Chicago. Have not seen or heard any news yet. Noticed mention of near-miss objects by NASA/JPL report on the web. Not sure if this was a meteoroid or a near-miss asteroid. Any info?
Scott Hoffman  / Cary, Illinois

bright shooting star jan 19 2011

MY WIFE & A FRIEND BEHIND HER IN A DIFFERENT CAR SAW A LARGE SHOOTING STAR OVER LAPEER MI ABOUT 9:00 PM JAN 19 2011

Bright Light

Clinton, Louisiana.  While watching television last evening there was a flash of light – short  in the northwestern sky

Ann Miller

Internet Traffic Queries:
(Timestamps below are given in Tokyo Local Time.)

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Ireland Meteor/Meteorite News - Ireland Fireball 18JAN2011 19JAN2010

Search on for 'huge' meteorite
RTE.ie
The search is on for fragments of a meteorite which blazed across Irish skies yesterday. The search is on for fragments of a meteorite which blazed across ...


Internet Traffic Suggests
Possible Meteors 19JAN2011
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Other Possible Meteors 18JAN2011
UK
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Dublin arrived from google.com on "Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News" by searching for FireBall 18th Jan 2011 Ireland.


Brierley Hill, Staffordshire arrived from google.co.uk on "elp allsky: Internet Traffic Indicating Numerous Fireballs Over US...UK... 18JAN2011..." by searching for light in sky


USA
Denton, Texas arrived from google.com on "elp allsky" by searching for green light in sky texas january 2011.
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Houston, Texas arrived from google.com on "Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News" by searching for meteorite hits missouri jan 18 11.

United States arrived from google.com on "Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News" by searching for meteorite in southern nm january 18, 2011.

Tucson, Arizona arrived from google.com on "Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News: Meteor/Meteorite News 18JAN2011" by searching for Jan 18 2011 meteor. 


United States arrived from google.com on "elp allsky" by searching for phoenix light in sky, january 18.


For More See http://elpasoallsky.blogspot.com/2011/01/internet-traffic-indicating-numerous.html

Egypt Meteor/Meteorite News - Kamil Crater Discovery: New Video 19JAN2010

Kamil Impact Crater, Egypt
(c) 2011http://www.zerzuraclub.org 

Kamil_video.avi

posted on YouTube by tartare4 | July 23, 2010  261 Views

New Video Announced Below!

Approaching the second anniversary of the Kamil Crater Discovery (19 February 
2009) I put online a new video about this important finding:
Website:
http://www.zerzuraclub.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=120:il-kamil-crater&catid=35:contenuti





The 2010 expedition is described at the Museo Nazionale dell'Antartide website.

A video clip (Quicktime, 9MB) of the expedition kindly provided by Mario di Martino.

And:

Movie Download:http://www.zerzuraclub.org/images/stories/kamilweb/kamil_find_20090219.mov

Giancarlo Negro, http://www.zerzuraclub.org 

On Connection Between Nearby NEAs and the Recent Increase in Fireballs... 19JAN2011

 On the connection between nearby NEAs and the recent increase in fireballs...

by Carl Hergenrother

Hello Everybody,
There has been some talk about the recent flurry of fireballs
being related to the apparently large number of near-Earth
asteroids (NEA) approaching Earth over the past few days. As a
NEA researcher, I'll take a quick stab at investigating whether
the connection is real.

Lets start with a look at the 5 NEAs that came within ~0.15 AU
of Earth on January 11. First off, their orbits are not similar.
Some are Apollos and some Atens with semi-major axes ranging
from 0.74 AU to 1.74 AU and inclinations ranging from 1.7 deg to
23 deg. Also, some are currently inbound towards the Sun while
others are currently outbound. There is nothing about the
orbits of these NEAs that suggest that they are related to each
other (other than that they are all part of the same NEA
population and have been spending the past couple of million
years being perturbed from the Main Belt onto planet crossing
orbits).

Having 5 known NEAs pass within 0.15 AU of Earth on the same
day is more than average, but within the expected variation.
Over the past year, 806 known NEAs passed within 0.20 AU of
Earth and 485 of those passed within 0.10 AU. That works out
to an average of 1-3 known NEAs making a close approach within
0.15 AU of Earth every day. Considering that the rate of
discovery is not constant throughout the year (few objects are
found within a week of Full Moon or during the rainy summer
months in the American Southwest), the expected daily rate is
higher for days like January 11. Over the past year there were
15 dates that saw 5 or more known NEAs make close approaches to
within 0.15 AU. So the 5 close approachers on a single day is
not that uncommon.

The date of close approach is not very important. Rather it is
the date when the Earth crosses the asteroid's orbit that tell
us when we should expect meteors from any particular object.
For the 5 known Jan 11 NEAs, the time of orbit crossing ranges
from Dec 27 to Jan 21 with none occurring on Jan 11 (though one
crossing takes place on Jan 13).

In the above paragraphs I purposely referred to the close
approach NEAs as 'known' NEAs which is an extremely important
distinction. Currently just over 7600 NEAs have been found
ranging from the 30-km Ganymed to a handful of very small 1-2
meter objects. Though we have probably found ~90% of the 1 km
and larger NEAs, our knowledge of the smaller objects is much
less complete. For example, based on our latest understanding
of the size distribution of the NEA population there should be
over 40,000 NEAs larger than 200-meters in diameter, over
200,000 that are larger than 100-meters, over 40 million with
diameters over 10-meters, and 10,000,000,000 larger than a
meter!

To further this point, 22 NEAs were observed to pass within
1 Lunar Distance (LD) of Earth in 2010. Sounds impressive until
we realize that 4-5 10-meter asteroids should pass within 1 LD
of Earth every day. If we drop down to 1-meter objects the rate
could be as high as a few thousand per day!

So it doesn't really matter if there are 1, 3, 5 or 20 known
NEAs passing within 0.15 AU of Earth on any single day because
the number of unknown objects (even within a few LD) is much
much greater.

A fireball stream may be the cause of the recent increase in
observed fireballs. Honestly, without orbit and/or radiant info
we can't be sure. But one should not use the number of known
NEAs in the vicinity of Earth as a predictor of fireball
activity because the known NEAs are just a fraction of the
total NEA population. (The caveat being unless one the
asteroids is on an actual collision course, e.g. 2008 TC3).
There are always thousands of NEAs down to a meter in size
flying by Earth every day. Most pass unseen as the current
generation of asteroid surveys are very inefficient at
detecting such faint objects.

All the orbit and close approach data is from the Minor Planet
Center and the JPL/NASA NEO Project Office. Size distribution
is from the National Research Council's "Defending Planet Earth:
Near-Earth Object Surveys and Hazard Mitigation Strategies:
Final Report".

- Carl Hergenrother

Carl Hergenrother is a professional astronomer at the University of Arizona’s Lunar and Planetary Lab, Tucson., AZ, USA.

Meteor/Meteorite News 18JAN2011

Real Fire in the Sky: Bright Meteors, Bolides, and Fireballs
Fireballs are basically unusually bright meteors. Most are visible at night while some are bright enough to be visually observed in broad daylight. ...

Lots of leading-edge research happening in region ‎ New Brunswick Business Journal - 1時間前 I was pleasantly surprised to see John Spray and his team leading the discussion on the origin of mineral deposits in Canada relating to meteor impacts. Spray is a geology professor at the University of New Brunswick and the director of ... A Professor, A President and a Meteor A meteor shower in Weston, CT helped launch American science as we know it today. 12:03am Cathryn J. Prince spoke ... Meteorite may have caused earth to move in 'big bang' Cambridge News A ground-trembling incident has left residents in a market town asking whether a meteorite had landed nearby. Hundreds of residents in Saffron Walden and ... (unlikely a meteor/ite) Readers of Meteor/Meteorite News write: New Hampshire/Maine Meteor 6:30 am 17JAN2011 Jan 18 2011, 11:05 AM Kate Waring Wescott: My husband saw a meteor this morning (Jan 17) at 6:30 am in Milford,NH. It appeared suddenly in the sky,about the size of a dime with flames trailing, then disappeared in the horizon. His first reaction was to look around to see if anyone else saw it but there were no cars in front or behind him. He tried to rationalize the sighting but determined it was too early for kids shooting off fireworks. Did anyone else see this? Yes this meteor was reported to the AMS.  It was also seen in Maine at 6:30 am. Jan 14 2011, 8:50 AM Guest730 (guest): I was looking west in Mobile and saw the meteor come down in front of me from north to south but but at a very steep angle (almost 90 degrees)about 9 pm tuesday.Wouldn't the FAA have a radar track and be able to tell where it came down?   Please fill out an official AMS report form: http://amsmeteors.org/fireball2/form.html   See AMS meteor reports for more information: http://amsmeteors.org/fireball2/public.php Site Traffic indicating possible meteor event(s): Belview, Minnesota arrived from google.com on "Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News" by searching for meteor on radar, minnesota, Jan 18,2011. Lancaster, Texas arrived from google.com on "Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News: Meteor/Meteorite News 18JAN2011" by searching for Jan 18, 2011 meteor. Oxford, Oxfordshire arrived from google.co.uk on "Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News: Meteor/Meteorite News 18JAN2011" by searching for meteor today 18 jan 2011. Darien, Illinois arrived from google.com on "Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News" by searching for light in sky january 18 2011. Houston, Texas arrived from google.com on "Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News" by searching for Bright light ESE sky January 18, 2011.   comment:  Perhaps you saw Venus? Burbank, California arrived from google.com on "Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News: 1/17/10 - 1/24/10" by searching for meteor 1-17 4 am PST Birmingham, Alabama arrived from google.com on "Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News" by searching for green fireball Alabama Jan 16, 2011. Whitehorse, Yukon Territory arrived from search.yahoo.com on "Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News: 4/4/10 - 4/11/10" by searching for METEOR OVER YUKON Fri, 14 Jan 2011 .

NEOs Close Earth Encounters 17JAN-31JAN 2011 Meteor/Meteorite News 16JAN2011

NEO 2011 AN52 close approach 17JAN2011

animation of close approach posted on YouTube by beatrix2010rj | January 16, 2011 303views

2011 AN52 Close Approach (c) NASA/ LunarMeteorite*Hunter

Expect more green meteor fireball activity through the end of JAN 2011
Just prior to, during, and just after the 17th and 28th a higher probability of green meteor fireballs is predicted by Meteor/Meteorite News.  Keep your cameras ready and get outside to watch! Help the Meteor/Meteorite News out!!!!
Please get the word out by posting a link to this post in your favorite forum, Facebook, Twitter and elsewhere.  Thank you!  
http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.com/2011/01/neos-close-earth-encounters-17jan-31jan.html

 Already in JAN 2011, more than two new NEOs have been discovered with quite close approaches. Debris accompanying 2011 AN52 and 2011 AL37 may create some meteor activity for us on Earth.  You read it here first.  Please bookmark this site so you can come back to it easily: www.lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.com
The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News - LunarMeteorite*Hunter

(2011 AN52)

2011-Jan-17

0.0021

0.8

5.0 m - 11 m

28.6

15.88

(2011 AL37)

2011-Jan-28

0.0062

2.4

40 m - 90 m

24.1

13.21

UPCOMING CLOSE APPROACHES TO EARTH
1 AU = ~150 million kilometers
1 LD = Lunar Distance = ~384,000 kilometers

Object Name	Close Approach Date	Miss Distance (AU)	Miss Distance (LD)	Estimated Diameter*	H (mag)	Relative Velocity (km/s)
(2011 AB3)	2011-Jan-17	0.0926	36.0	51 m - 110 m	23.6	5.46
(2011 AN52)	2011-Jan-17	0.0021	0.8	5.0 m - 11 m	28.6	15.88
(2001 BA16)	2011-Jan-18	0.1823	70.9	18 m - 41 m	25.8	9.97
(2011 AB37)	2011-Jan-19	0.0245	9.5	18 m - 39 m	25.9	7.30
(2007 CA27)	2011-Jan-19	0.1382	53.8	170 m - 380 m	21.0	15.79
(2010 XB24)	2011-Jan-22	0.1643	63.9	110 m - 250 m	21.9	8.58
(2002 BN)	2011-Jan-22	0.1899	73.9	220 m - 490 m	20.4	17.30
(2003 YO3)	2011-Jan-26	0.1628	63.3	490 m - 1.1 km	18.7	16.61
(2011 AL37)	2011-Jan-28	0.0062	2.4	40 m - 90 m	24.1	13.21
(2001 CQ36)	2011-Jan-31	0.1255	48.8	77 m - 170 m	22.7	8.75

Source and copyright: NASA/JPL/CalTech 2011  
For full updates and more information: http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/ca/