Surprised passengers spot UFO from moving car on busy Tokyo street [video]
Examiner.com
Several people who have seen the video have put forth the opinion that this unidentified flying object was actually nothing more than a meteor. There is reportedly at least one other video showing the object from another angle. ...


Meteorites Trigger Avalanches on Mars
Space.com
by Clara Moskowitz, SPACE.com Assistant Managing Editor As meteorites careen toward the surface of Mars, they can trigger avalanches before they even hit the ground, a new study suggests. Space rocks flying toward the Martian surface can travel at ...


Video captures falling meteor
Fort Frances Times
LONDON, Ont.—Astronomers from the University of Western Ontario have released rare video of ameteor that travelled through the evening sky east of Toronto earlier this week. Six cameras belonging to Western's Southern Ontario Meteor Network captured ...

Former resident's work may help other scientistsThief River Falls Northern Watch Soon, he will be creating computer simulations of those unique crystalline patterns that appear on most iron meteorites. Jason Hicks hopes his work will provide other scientists with a better insight into how the patterns form in nature. ...

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 16DEC2011

Ontario university astronomers capture basketball-sized meteor on video
Winnipeg Free Press
LONDON, Ont. - Astronomers from the University of Western Ontario have released rare video of ameteor that travelled through the evening sky east of Toronto earlier this week. Although the bright fireball appeared near the peak of the annual Geminid ...

Cameras capture meteor in the skies near Toronto ... Astronomers say they've caught a rare cosmic snapshot of a fiery meteorhurtling through the ... ctv.ca

Astronomers seek pieces from 'slow-moving' meteor over Ontario
Vancouver Sun
By Hilary Roberts, Postmedia News December 14, 2011 A relatively slow-moving meteor flashed across southern Ontario on Monday night and astronomers are looking for help in picking up any pieces it likely left behind. Astronomers from the University of ...

UWO cameras capture meteor's fall east of Toronto Macleans.ca By Jane Switzer | December 14th, 2011 | 4:06 pm Astronomers from the University of Western Ontario released a rare video Wednesday of a meteor falling from the sky just east of Toronto. The footage was captured just after 6 pm on Monday evening by six ... Meteor crashed near Selwyn - THE LATEST Peterborough Examiner "If anyone saw it, heard it, they can let us know so we can track it down," said Peter Brown, ameteor scientist at the London, Ont. university. Western tracked the meteorite through its network of nine cameras and audio monitors scattered throughout ... What would you do if you found a meteorite? CBC.ca (CBC) Ontario researchers are interested in speaking to anyone who saw a meteorthat fell east of Toronto Monday evening or found the fallen meteorites. Researchers at the University of Western Ontario released a video Wednesday that shows the meteor... Video: Western astronomers capture fiery footage of meteor over Ontario MetroNews Canada Astronomers from the University of Western Ontario say they have captured footage of a meteor that may have sprinkled a few small mementoes near an Ontario town. The footage, caught on Monday evening, shows a fireball that scientists say was likely no ... Orangeville camera catches meteor in sky Orangeville Banner astronomers from the University of Western Ontario (UWO) released footage of a meteortraveling through the sky early Monday evening. The bright fireball was caught by six of Western's Southern Ontario Meteor Network cameras, but the image coming ... West Ontario lit up by meteor Canada.com A slow-moving meteor flashed across southern Ontario on Monday night and astronomers are looking for help in picking up any pieces it likely left behind. Astronomers from the University of Western Ontario in London, Ont., caught the fireball from space ... Did you see this fireball over the skies east of Toronto? Some scientists ... National Post (blog) Astronomers at the University of Western Ontario and the Royal Ontario Museum are searching for witnesses after a “slow-moving” fireball apparently fell from the sky near Toronto on Monday evening. After a meteorite apparently hit earth on Monday ... Scientists on lookout for meteor fragments north of Peterborough Globe and Mail Researchers at the Royal Ontario Museum and University of Western Ontario are asking for the public's help to find fragments of meteoric fireball that were seen in the southern Ontario sky on Monday evening. The UWO astronomers say fragments of the... Visibility of Geminid meteor shower in Taiwan not promising: museum Focus Taiwan News Channel 13 (CNA) Visibility of the Geminid meteor shower is likely to be poor in Taiwan this year, as it will occur during a waxing moon and rainy weather, the Taipei Astronomical Museum said Wednesday. One of the three most prolific meteor showers of the year ...

Meteorite Shockwaves Trigger Dust Avalanches on Mars UA News (press release) (Click image to enlarge) Close-up of Martian terrain with dark streaks interpreted as avalanches blasted by shockwaves from a meteorite impact. (Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/The University of Arizona) (Click image to enlarge) HiRISE image of the study area ...

Star Gazing: Dark Sky program tonight at HeadlandsHarbor Light
16, beginning at 7 pm the program, “The Christmas Star, the Venus Transit and the Mayan Calendar,” will take place during the Geminid meteor shower that night. December is ideal for stargazing, given the cool, clear nights and the brilliant dark of the ...

Meteor shower watcher plunges off LA mountain roadSan Jose Mercury News
A man who was looking for a place to watch the Geminid meteor shower may have seen a few stars after his car plunged 100 feet down a hill in the Angeles National Forest. The California Highway Patrol says the driver was looking for a spot to watch the ...

Did you see the Geminid meteor shower?CBC.ca (Wally Pacholka/AstroPics.com/Associated Press) The Geminid meteor shower that NASA predicted would be the year's best was expected to peak on Tuesday night. Shooting stars appearing to originate from the constellation Gemini were expected to streak ... How to photograph tonight's Geminid Meteor ShowerExaminer.com Tonight marks the peak of the Geminid Meteor Shower, a once a year event that, this year, could produce 1000 meteors per hour and stunning pictures. Yes, while meteor watching is a favorite past time for many, other people desire more, namely, ... Hunting for meteorites and their clues to Earth's origins CBC.ca Earlier this week, researchers at the University of Western Ontario in London spotted ameteor streaking through the sky with the help of their Southern Ontario MeteorNetwork, a combination of cameras, radar and shock-wave-detecting microphones set up ...

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 15DEC2011

Meteorite likely landed in eastern Ontario: Researchers
London Free Press
(REUTERS FILES/Russell Cheyne) Researchers are hoping to track down a large meteorite that streaked the sky and crashed in eastern Ontario Monday night. Many Canadians were looking upward during the Geminid meteor shower when a bright fireball was ...

University of Western astronomers get rare video of meteor's fall near Toronto
Toronto Star
The bright fireball travelled through the evening sky east of Toronto on Monday and was captured by a highly advanced video surveillance system from the university. Six cameras from Western's Southern Ontario Meteor Network recorded a slow-moving ...

Researchers search for clues after meteoric fireball spotted over Ontario
Globe and Mail
Researchers at the ROM and University of Western Ontario are asking the public's help to find fragments of meteoric fireball that was seen in the southern Ontario sky Monday evening. UWO astronomers have released footage of the meteor, ...


Selwyn Fireball (Orangeville Camera)
YouTube
Astronomers from The University of Western Ontario have released footage of a meteor, which was captured by its highly advanced video surveillance system, traveling through the evening sky east of Toronto on Monday evening (December 12, ...

Meteorite Alert! Remote Cameras Capture Slow-Moving Fireball near Toronto Universe Today But in a meteorite-hunter alert, Peter Brown, the Director of Western's Centre for Planetary & Space Exploration said that data garnered from the remote cameras suggest that surviving fragments of the rock are likely, with a mass that may total as much ... Blazing meteor falls east of Toronto CBC.ca Ontario researchers want to hear from anyone who saw a basketball-sized fireball in the sky east of Toronto Monday night or has found fragments of the fallen meteorites. The meteor, described as a "slow-moving fireball, estimated to be no bigger than a ...

Cameras capture meteor on video just east of Toronto CTV.ca Astronomers say they've caught a rare cosmic snapshot of a fiery meteor hurtling through the sky just east of Toronto on Monday evening. Cameras belonging to the University of Western Ontario's meteor group first captured the fireball at 6:04 pm as it...

Meteorite likely landed in eastern Ontario: Researchers
CNews Wed, 14 Dec 2011 11:59 AM PST
Researchers are hoping to track down a large meteorite that streaked the sky and crashed in eastern Ontario Monday night

Did a meteorite fall in one Wading River resident`s backyard?
The Riverhead News-Review Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:30 PM PST
As the annual meteor shower of the Geminids peaked last night, one Wading River resident thought a giant space rock had landed in her Soundfront backyard. Doris Leech looked out her window about 7 a.m. Wednesday and saw a strange three-foot high, ten-foot wide object just east of the jetty near Wading River Creek. At [...]

Meteor crashed near Selwyn - THE LATEST
The Peterborough Examiner Wed, 14 Dec 2011 09:45 AM PST
A blazing fireball roared over Peterborough Tuesday night and crashed somewhere north of Stoney Lake. You may not have seen it â the skies were overcast â but if you did, the meteorite team at the University of Western Ontario want to hear from you.[...]

Meteorite Alert! Remote Cameras Capture Slow-Moving Fireball near Toronto
Universe Today Wed, 14 Dec 2011 08:19 AM PST
In newly released footage from the University of Western Ontario, a bright, slow-moving fireball was captured in the skies near Toronto, Canada on December 12, 2011 by remote cameras watching for meteors. Although this meteor looks huge as it burns up in Earthâs atmosphere, astronomers estimate the rock to have been no bigger than a [...]

Experiment to Reveal How Key Elements Were Forged
SpaceDaily Tue, 13 Dec 2011 16:22 PM PST
A piece of the Murchison meteorite on display at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. Ernst Zinner will be studying roughly 100 grains of supernova dust he will extract from half a kilogram of the meteorite by dissolving the rest in acids.

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 14DEC2011

The 'must see' holiday lights in Georgia tonight: the Geminids meteor showers
Examiner.com
Get Out is also reporting that choosing a safe place to view the meteor shower tonight should be your first priority, since you will not have a good view unless you go somewhere away from bright city lights...into the dark. ...

Geminid meteor shower: why spectacular light show puzzles scientists Christian Science Monitor Gemenid meteor shower watchers can't figure out where all the material in the event comes from. Asteroid 3200 Phaethon, the apparent source of the Gemenid meteorshower, doesn't seem to shed enough rock and dust to account for the shower's intensity. ... Geminid Meteor Shower: Shooting Stars Tuesday, Wednesday ABC News By NED POTTER (@NedPotterABC) A meteor from the Geminids meteor shower enters the Earth's atmosphere past the stars Castor and Pollux (two bright stars, R),above Southold, New York, Dec. 12, 2009. (Stan Honda/AFP/Getty Images) Stay up late, ... Geminid meteor shower peaks tonight, but moonlight - again - to interfere Washington Post (blog) By Jason Samenow From NASA: “This fireball, caused by a Geminid meteor, is one of the largest ever recorded.” (Wally Pacholka/AstroPics.com via NASA ) The Geminid meteor shower, one of the year's top night light shows, peaks tonight. ... Loveland weather: Clearing for meteor shower? ReporterHerald.com The annual Geminid Meteor shower will take place tonight. Hopefully skies will cooperate and allowing decent viewing conditions. Look to the eastern sky after 10 tonight through sunrise tomorrow for peak viewing. We could see up to 20 to 40 meteors per ... Meteor races across the evening sky. Examiner.com For those residing in the Victor area that happened to be outside that evening they may have seen ameteor engulfed in green glow of several feet in diameter trailed by a fiery display of white light as it made its rapid descent to the ground. ... The 2011 Geminid Meteor Shower - NASA Science The Geminid meteor shower peaks on Dec. 13th and 14th. The nearly full Moon will interfere with the display, but not obliterate it. Forecasters expect observers ... science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at.../13dec_geminids/ Arizona Geology: Meteor Crater LiDAR data available By Lee Allison A LiDAR data set for Meteor Crater, Arizona is publicly available via the OpenTopography facility at the San Diego Supercomputer Center. The data were collected in March 2010 by the National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping (NCALM) ... Arizona Geology

Experiment to Reveal How Key Elements Were Forged SpaceRef Tue, 13 Dec 2011 10:34 AM PST Ernst K. Zinner, PhD has received a three-year, $1,380,000 grant from  the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to study  presolar grains in a sample of the Murchison meteorite ... 2011 Geminid Meteor Shower Visible Thru Bright ... 9 sec Using his south sky video camera, amateur astronomer  John Chumack captured Geminids ... youtube.com