The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 18OCT2012

Meteor Lights Up the Sky Over Northern California
ABC News (blog)
A meteor lit up the skies over the Bay Area in California in what experts say is debris from Halley's Comet. Hundreds of residents from Oakland, San Francisco and Santa Cruz called ABC News station KGO-TV, reporting a loud boom, explosions and streaks...

Meteor showers put on a supernatural show this weekend
Examiner.com
California skies will be lit up with a meteor shower from the Orionid meteors this weekend. The show began this week and was seen all over the Bay Area. Some residents reported hearing a loud boom while viewing, while others thought the noise was an ...

Loud And Bright Meteor Thrills Bay Area Stargazers Wednesday Night
The San Francisco Appeal
A large meteor streaked across the night sky tonight and was seen and heard throughout the Bay Area. Sky observers took to social media to report that they had seen a bright fireball with hues of red and orange break up overhead shortly before 8 p.m., ...

5 Things To Know This Morning
ABC News
A meteor shower lit up the sky throughout California on Wednesday night and more are expected to appear frequently through Sunday, according to the National Weather Service. The reported fireballs are part of the Orionid meteor shower which will peak ...

Meteor Streaks Across Northern California Sky
ABC News
Meteor Streaks Across Northern California Sky. A bright fireball was seen across the San Francisco area with a loud boom. 10/18/2012. Share: 0 · Comment on this video. ABC News Live. Breaking news video as it happens, continuous live streaming video ...

Meteor streaks across sky over Bay Area
KGO-TV
The National Weather Service says they've received reports from Mendocino to Monterey counties and they believe it's related to the Orionid meteor shower. That celestial event is peaking this weekend. An astronomer from the Chabot Space & Science ...

Halley's Comet Brings Meteor Shower Over California Skies
ABC News
Halley's Comet Brings Meteor Shower Over California Skies. Josh Elliott reports on the light show on display for Californians. 10/18/2012. Related Links: Watch: Loud Boom Caused by Meteor? Watch: Ginger Zee: New 'GMA' Meteorologist · Watch: Meteor ...

Orionids meteor shower October 2012: watching it to be memorable
Northern Voices Online
Orionids meteor shower October 2012 will be visible in much of the USA. To be true watching it will be memorable. This weekend will be a feast for American sky watchers. The Orionid meteor shower is to take place Saturday night and Sunday morning.

Meteor Lights Up Northern California Skies
CBS Local
Some people near Executive Airport even called 911, fearing a plane may have been crashing. It's possible that the meteor is a precursor to the Orionid meteor shower scheduled to pass over the weekend. So far, no one knows if the meteorite made impact ...

Meteor watchers to get 2nd chance for spectacle
China Post
TAIPEI--Sky watchers disappointed by a lackluster Draconid meteor shower earlier this month have another chance to see a meteor spectacle as the more reliable Orionids are set to light up the night sky on Oct. 21, the Taipei Astronomical Museum said ...

Meteor Streaks Across Northern California Sky ...
A bright fireball was seen across the San Francisco area with a loud boom.
abcnews.go.com

Meteor Shower Video: Halley's Comet Brings ...
Josh Elliott reports on the light show on display for Californians.
abcnews.go.com

WATCH: Meteor Fireball Lights Up Bay Area Sky
NBC Chicago
A large fireball lit up the night sky across the San Francisco Bay Area and accompanied by a loud boom Wednesday, thrilling observers. Early bets said the 7:40 p.m. streaking spectacle was a meteor. NASA posted on a science website that this was the ...

caught meteor on my dash cam 10-17-12
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San Jose meteor 10-17-2012
YouTube
Raw footage of meteor breaking up over San Jose captured by our security camera from the Lick Observatory. (Camera is a little out of focus) Round structure to the left is the 40 inch Nickel refracting telescope dome. Lights in the background are from ...

Fireball spotted in Bay Area skies from meteor shower | wwwktvucom
A large meteor streaked across the night sky Wednesday night and was seen and heard throughout the Bay Area.
www.ktvu.com/news/news/local/fireball-sky-seen.../nSgPB/

Fireball seen in Northern California might be part of Orionid meteor shower
Sacramento Bee
Sightings of a fireball streaking through the sky have been reported this evening up and down the Central Valley and in the Bay Area. "We've had a lot of calls about people who have seen a bigfireball," said Stefanie Henry, a meteorologist with the ...

Reactions: Fireball lights up San Francisco Bay Area - San Jose ...
Bay Area skies ignited Wednesday with bright lights and a loud boom -- a spectacular show caused by the Orionid meteor shower. It caused quite a stir as ...
www.mercurynews.com/.../reactions-fireball-lights-up-san-fra...

Fireball streaks across sky over Northern California
People described hearing a loud boom and seeing a fireball streak across the sky around 7:45 p.m. Wednesday.
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Meteor showers light up Bay Area skies
San Jose Mercury News
A meteor shower lit up skies above the Bay Area and throughout California on Wednesday night, and they will appear with increasing frequency through Sunday, the National Weather Service said. Reports of bright fireballs streaking across the skies were ...

Fireball Meteor in the Sky Above Claycord
San Francisco Chronicle (blog)
We saw a very bright meteor in the western sky heading east-ish. It was brilliant and colorful, blue and white along with a long orange tail. It was heading at a relatively flat and stayed visible for almost 5 seconds. We saw it break up but it was ...

Bright Light, Loud Boom May Have Been Meteor
NBC Bay Area
This is the Orionid meteor shower which occurs when the Earth passes through the trail of dust left by Halley's Comet. advertisement. Click Here! The Bay Area was buzzing Wednesday night after a bright streak moved across the sky. It was accompanied by ...

Watch for Orionids Meteor Shower 2012 This Weekend
Patch.com
Earth was expected to pass through a stream of debris from Halley's Comet beginning Monday, which will give us the benefit of the annual Orionids meteor shower—though you probably won't see much until a bit later. According to Adler Planetarium, the ...

Bright fireball startles Northern California
U-T San Diego
The American Meteor Society (AMS) reports online that a meteor arced through the sky shortly after 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, causing surprise and awe across broad reaches of Northern California. The "fireball" was visible only briefly, but was so bright ...

Meteor Shower from Halley's Comet to Light Up the Sky this Weekend
Annenberg TV News
The Hollywood stars are about to get a whole lot brighter this upcoming weekend. The Orionidmeteor shower will sparkle the skies on Saturday and Sunday as Earth moves through the debris caused by Halley's Comet on its path around the sun. The best ...

"Fireball" Spotted in Bay Area Skies
KGO-AM
"We have have determined [the bright objects] are part of a meteor shower that began October 2." ABC7's Sandhya Patel: "Orionid meteor showers are going on now. The boom you heard could have been a fireball produced by the meteor." Jonathan, Chabot ...

Meteorite Impacts Earth in Minden, Louisiana - Media and Government Cover It Up
OpEdNews
Many scientists are quite happy to talk openly about a 'sixth extinction' being underway for the past 10,000 years or so because they blame humans for it. Blaming humans carries with it the anthropocentric implication that we are in some way immune to ...

New additional material of meteor showers during 9th - arXiv
Abstract: This article presents twelve records of meteor showers in Arabic chronicles covering period from the 9th to the 19th century. The observations were in ...
arxiv.org/abs/1210.3941

Webster S.O. confirms bunker explosion at Camp Minden - KSLA ...
Earlier in the morning, Sexton said there was a "possibility that a meteor did hit the ground" in the area, but that theory was put to rest with the confirmation of the ...
www.ksla.com/story/.../authorities-investigate-loud-boom

Possible fireball seen over Washington, DC, Maryland, and Virginia Tuesday ...
Washington Post (blog)
A fireball is a meteor (sometimes referred to as a shooting star) that is larger and brighter than normal. The American Meteor Society says they occur every day over all parts of Earth but that most people will only witness one or two in their lifetime ...

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NEO Close Approaches OCT2012

NEO Close Approaches OCT2012
October 2012 may hold some large fireball excitement for us to see.  The NEO Close Approach Table below will certainly be changed several times in the coming month.  Clear skies and awaken eyes.  Get outside and watch the night show!   Be sure to report your meteor sightings to this website; thank you!
-LunarMeteorite*Hunter, Tokyo

UPDATED 21OCT2012

(2012 US18)

2012-Oct-22

0.0042

1.6

5.0 m - 11 m

28.6

10.00

UPDATED 19OCT2012

(2012 UW9)

2012-Oct-29

0.0242

9.4

19 m - 43 m

25.7

9.85

UPDATED 18OCT2012

(2012 TP231)

2012-Oct-22

0.0149

5.8

28 m - 64 m

24.9

7.31

(2012 UE)

2012-Oct-19

0.0052

2.0

5.5 m - 12 m

28.4

13.51

UPDATED 11OCT2012

(2012 TD79)

2012-Oct-18

0.0185

7.2

34 m - 76 m

24.5

14.69

(2012 TE79)

2012-Oct-17

0.0147

5.7

12 m - 26 m

26.8

9.61

UPDATE 10OCT2012

(2012 TQ20)

2012-Oct-15

0.0278

10.8

10 m - 23 m

27.1

8.23

UPDATE 08OCT2012

(2012 TC4)

2012-Oct-12

0.0006

0.2

14 m - 30 m

26.5

7.14

UPDATE 06OCT2012:

(2012 TV)

2012-Oct-07

0.0017

0.7

25 m - 56 m

25.1

16.80

UPDATE 05OCT2012

(2012 TJ53)

2012-Oct-06

0.0079

3.1

15 m - 33 m

26.3

14.00

UPCOMING CLOSE APPROACHES TO EARTH

1 AU = ~150 million kilometers 1 LD = Lunar Distance = ~384,000 kilometers Object Name Close Approach Date CA Distance* (AU) CA Distance* (LD) Estimated Diameter** H (mag) Relative Velocity (km/s) (2012 SJ58)  2012-Oct-03 0.0152 5.9 14 m - 31 m 26.4 10.64 (2012 SG58)  2012-Oct-03 0.0317 12.3 61 m - 140 m 23.2 16.37 (2012 RH10)  2012-Oct-03 0.1260 49.0 98 m - 220 m 22.2 12.90 137032 (1998 UO1)  2012-Oct-04 0.1545 60.1 1.3 km - 2.9 km 16.6 32.90 (2012 GV11)  2012-Oct-05 0.1830 71.2 100 m - 230 m 22.1 6.96 (2009 XZ1)  2012-Oct-05 0.1382 53.8 120 m - 280 m 21.6 16.87 (2006 TD)  2012-Oct-06 0.1746 68.0 88 m - 200 m 22.4 13.03 (2009 TK)  2012-Oct-06 0.0450 17.5 100 m - 230 m 22.1 11.10 (2004 UB)  2012-Oct-08 0.1995 77.6 240 m - 530 m 20.3 14.65 (2012 QE50)  2012-Oct-09 0.0809 31.5 450 m - 1.0 km 18.9 11.46 277830 (2006 HR29)  2012-Oct-11 0.1917 74.6 190 m - 440 m 20.7 7.88 (2008 BW2)  2012-Oct-11 0.1678 65.3 3.1 m - 6.8 m 29.7 11.10 (2005 GQ21)  2012-Oct-12 0.1980 77.0 630 m - 1.4 km 18.1 23.86 (2012 GV17)  2012-Oct-12 0.1500 58.4 160 m - 370 m 21.0 16.11 256004 (2006 UP)  2012-Oct-14 0.1374 53.5 65 m - 140 m 23.1 3.06 (1994 EK)  2012-Oct-14 0.1356 52.8 230 m - 520 m 20.3 12.22 (2005 ST1)  2012-Oct-14 0.1319 51.3 240 m - 530 m 20.3 12.88 (2011 OB57)  2012-Oct-14 0.1553 60.4 17 m - 37 m 26.0 4.95 (2012 KB4)  2012-Oct-14 0.1271 49.4 22 m - 49 m 25.4 4.98 (2004 RX10)  2012-Oct-15 0.0818 31.9 150 m - 340 m 21.2 11.86 (2012 PA20)  2012-Oct-15 0.1502 58.5 100 m - 230 m 22.1 10.36 (2006 WV1)  2012-Oct-15 0.0910 35.4 17 m - 39 m 25.9 6.15 (2012 LA)  2012-Oct-16 0.0449 17.5 8.3 m - 19 m 27.5 1.86 329275 (1999 VP6)  2012-Oct-17 0.1766 68.7 300 m - 670 m 19.8 7.15 136993 (1998 ST49)  2012-Oct-18 0.0737 28.7 790 m - 1.8 km 17.6 16.63 (2012 RV16)  2012-Oct-18 0.1269 49.4 310 m - 700 m 19.6 16.13 (2002 TR190)  2012-Oct-19 0.1712 66.6 430 m - 960 m 19.0 13.58 (1998 XX2)  2012-Oct-20 0.1356 52.8 290 m - 650 m 19.8 10.62 (2003 UC5)  2012-Oct-21 0.1750 68.1 260 m - 580 m 20.1 35.80 (2008 CT1)  2012-Oct-22 0.0674 26.2 8.2 m - 18 m 27.6 15.82 (2008 GD110)  2012-Oct-23 0.1482 57.7 33 m - 75 m 24.5 5.20 (1992 JD)  2012-Oct-24 0.1946 75.7 26 m - 59 m 25.0 8.29 (2005 VK1)  2012-Oct-26 0.1461 56.9 84 m - 190 m 22.5 14.87 162004 (1991 VE)  2012-Oct-26 0.0874 34.0 660 m - 1.5 km 18.0 19.17 (2000 UR16)  2012-Oct-28 0.1661 64.7 56 m - 130 m 23.4 19.33 329338 (2001 JW2)  2012-Oct-28 0.1037 40.4 450 m - 1.0 km 18.9 13.22 (2000 EA14)  2012-Oct-29 0.0996 38.7 170 m - 380 m 21.0 4.89 68216 (2001 CV26)  2012-Oct-30 0.1746 68.0 1.5 km - 3.3 km 16.3 10.72 (2009 UQ5)  2012-Oct-30 0.1302 50.7 35 m - 78 m 24.4 5.34

Table Source NASA/JPL: http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/ca/

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The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 17OCT2012

Sacred Meteorites Under Glass: Tribes and First Nations Fight for Spiritual ...
Indian Country Today Media Network.com
In the Native community, deep-space rocks are not just astronomical curiosities; they are sacred objects. The recent sale of a piece of the Willamette Meteorite, revered by the Grand Ronde tribes of Oregon, and the Cree struggle to retrieve a 330-pound ...

Bunker explision rattles Louisiana
UPI.com
Webster Parish Sheriff Gary Sexton said the bunker blast late Monday resulted in a flood of phone calls to his office and fears that the incident was the result of a meteor hitting the ground, KSLA-TVm Shreveport, Louisiana said. The force of the ...

'Loud boom' was bunker explosion at Camp Minden
The Shreveport Times Tue, 16 Oct 2012 12:54 PM PDT
Webster sheriff's officials confirm this morning that a bunker on a secluded area of Camp Minden exploded late last night, ending speculation that it was caused by a meteorite.

Siberian meteorite fetches 12 times more than expected
Pravda Tue, 16 Oct 2012 03:25 AM PDT
An auction was held in New York to sell pieces of meteorites from the Moon and Mars. The most expensive item - a fragment of Dar al Gani 1058 meteorite - was sold for $330,000. This amount was $10,000 less than organizers of the auction expected.

Photos: Moon Rock Sells for $330,000
ABC News Tue, 16 Oct 2012 03:21 AM PDT
The fourth largest piece of the moon ever was made available to the public in an auction, Oct. 14, 2012, with a final price realized of $330,000. Heritage Auctions' Natural History Signature MeteoriteAuction brought in over $1 million for 125 select meteorites.

That was no 'meteorite' in Louisiana
Houston Chronicle
Authorities initially speculated a meteorite may have shook the ground for miles in portions of northwest Louisiana late Monday night, but the mystery blast turned out to be an explosion at an industrial site in the area. The blast occurred about 11:30 ...

Meteor shower from Halley's Comet expected this week
GlobalPost
The Orionid shower - so-called as the meteors appear to originate near the constellation Orion - happens annually and produce about 20 meteor per hour, said DiscoveryNews. Space.com said that the last five years have seen ever more impressive showers.

Mystery explosion shatters windows, lights sky in Louisiana
Fox News
The boom reportedly shook trees and citizens out of bed and shattered windows during the night as well, leading to speculation that it was the sound of impact from a meteor. This was no meteor, however. The National Weather Service branch office in ...

Orionid meteor shower to light up night Technology & science Space ...
A meteor shower spawned by history's most famous comet will peak this weekend, and the show could be dazzling for observers with clear skies, experts say.
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/.../ns/technology_and_science-space/

Meteor shower from Halley's Comet peaks this week
CBS News
The Orionid meteor shower will reach its zenith overnight from Saturday to Sunday (Oct. 20-21) as Earth plows through debris shed by Halley's Comet on its path around the sun. The most impressive display should come a few hours before dawn Sunday, ...

NASA: The Orionid Meteor Shower peaks Sunday morning, October 21
WTVR
GREENBELT, Md. (Science@NASA) – Usually, waking up before sunrise is a good way to get a head start on the day. On Oct. 21st, waking up early could stop you in your tracks. Blame Halley's Comet. Every year in mid-to-late October, Earth passes through ...

3-D Radar of Mystery Object That Hit Louisiana
AccuWeather.com (blog)
UPDATE: 10:00 AM: This article says that it was an explosion, so maybe we are seeing the smoke/debris cloud drifting (NWS says it was moving @ 10 mph which is too slow for a meteoranyway). Since I had previously blogged about a smoke trail from a ...

NOAA Radar Image Mystery Video
KTBS
The N.O.A.A. radar stationed at the Shreveport regional airport caught what appears to be the plume of debris from the Camp Minden explosion. Many area residents also report they saw a fireballracing through the night sky around 11:00 pm Monday night.

Meteor Shower Created by Halley's Comet Peaks ...
The Orionid meteor shower will peak overnight Saturday.
livescience.com

Loud Explosion - Possible Meteor Strikes Louisiana ...
4 min
Meteor or munitions? What happened in Webster Parish? According to numerous reports, a ...
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Mysterious boom in Louisiana caused by military explosion, not meteorite
New York Daily News
A bunker at a northern Louisiana military compound exploded late Monday, briefly prompting speculation that the loud boom and shaking ground had been caused bymeteorite . Webster Parish officials confirmed Tuesday that the mysterious incident was a ...

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The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 16OCT2012

Meteor Shower Created by Halley's Comet Will Peak This Week
Space.com
A meteor shower spawned by history's most famous comet will peak this weekend, and the show could be dazzling for observers with clear skies, experts say. The Orionid meteor shower will reach its zenith overnight from Saturday to Sunday (Oct. 20-21) as ...

Did a meteor hit Louisiana?
Houston Chronicle
Authorities are investigating the possibility that a meteor streaked across Texas skies and then slammed into northwest Louisiana late Monday night. A fireball was reportedly spotted in the skies near Killeen and Temple, and about 11:30 p.m. a loud, ...

Starved Rock to host free 'Star Party,' meteor shower viewing
LaSalle News Tribune
Not only is Saturday, Oct 20, National Astronomy Day, but also it happens to be the peak of the Orionid Meteor Shower. There will be free telescope viewing on Friday and Saturday nights at the Starved Rock Youth Group Campsite and free talks and solar ...

Orionids Meteor Shower Coming Soon
Patch.com
Earth will pass through a stream of debris from the comet, beginning Monday, Oct. 15, which will give us the benefit of the annual Orionids meteor shower; though you probably won't see much until a bit later. The best place to view the shower is away ...

Wake Up Lake Zurich: Orionids Meteor Shower Begins
Patch.com
The Orionids meteor shower has started and if the skies are clear, you may get a glimpse of a shooting star. The meteor shower runs from Oct. 15-29, and the peak will be perfectly scheduled for the weekend, Oct. 20-21. And here's some other information ...

Shooting Stars to Light Up the Sky
Patch.com
And though we're not expecting hundreds of thousands of meteoroids shooting through space during this shower, the upcoming week starts probably the most spectacular of meteor showers, the Orionids - the offspring of Halley's Comet. Orionid meteors are ...

Orionid meteor shower Is Radiant and easy to Locate
French Tribune
Experts were of the view that if they want to enjoy the Orionid meteor shower then they just need to lie down comfortably on a lawn chair and see towards south-east direction. Moreover, these meteors appear to be big in size, so there would be no need...

Loud Explosion in Webster Parish
KTAL
Residents in Bossier and Webster are reporting a loud explosion. Webster Parish Officials say they currently believe it was a meteor north of Minden shortly before 11:30 PM Monday. According to people near Doyline and Minden their houses shook knocking ...

Debris from celestial visitor to rain fire from the sky
Mercury-Register
Debris, left behind by arguably the most famous periodic visitor to earth, will be raining fire for the sky, peaking in the pre-dawn hours of Oct. 21. Orionid Meteor Shower is spawned by dust and debris left behind by the passage of Halley's Comet. "We ...

Orionids, planets, constellations brighten October skies
Phys.Org
Two meteors from the 2011 Orionids Meteor Shower, each meteor is a little piece of Halley's comet burning in the atmosphere. The long trace was a bright bolid. The dome of yellowish light is light pollution from the big city of Buenos Aires about 100km ...

A 700000-Year Trip From Mars to Morocco
New York Times
A meteorite that landed in the Moroccan desert last summer was ejected from the surface of Mars 700,000 years ago, a new study reports. The meteorite is composed of an abundance of black glass, with noble gases trapped inside.

Stargazing: Orionid meteor shower
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
The annual Orionid meteor shower peaks Sunday morning between midnight and dawn. Since the first quarter moon sets around midnight, moonlight won't interfere with the shower. With a clear dark sky, you might spot 15 to 20 meteors each hour before ...

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There's also something else that's special about this show: With the second-fastest entry velocity of all the annual meteor showers, meteors from the Orionids produce yellow and green colors and occasionally produce an odd fireball. To make ...
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Breaking News - MBIQ Detects Louisiana Boom - NOT Meteor 15OCT2012

IF you are looking for the 13OCT2014 LOUD BOOM this is the link-

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JUST IN! Determined to be munitions bunker explosion at Camp Minden

Webster SO confirms bunker explosion at Camp Minden
KLTV‎ - 16 minutes ago
WEBSTER PARISH, LA (KSLA) -The Webster Parish Sheriff's Office confirms an underground bunker exploded late last night at Camp Minden.

Loud boom in Webster was bunker at Camp Minden
KTBS‎ - 34 minutes ago
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Debris plume over Camp Minden as shown on NOAA radar from Shreveport, LA.
  "The Louisiana bunker explosion shows up quite well on the Shreveport
radar.
  Attached are two images -- one showing just a National Geographic topo
map of the area of the explosion, and the second showing the same map
(mostly obscured) with radar data overlaid."

  "Impressively, the plume from the explosion also shows up in a
single scan from the Lake Charles, LA, radar at a range of
145 nautical miles (almost 270 km!) "
--Dr. Rob Matson, Aerospace Engineer

*click on image to enlarge*
Debris plume from bunker explosion over Camp Minden, LA as shown on NOAA radar from Shreveport, LA.

*click on image to enlarge*
National Geographic topo map of the area of the explosion. 
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Breaking News - MBIQ Detects Louisiana Boom - NOT Meteor ~23:20 CDT 15OCT2012
Meteor Bot Internet Query (MBIQ) Bot has just detect a loud boom and what witnesses described as a meteor event seen over Webster Parish, Louisiana 15OCT2012.

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Concentration of meteor sighting queries are coming from  Shreveport and Brossier City, LA area. Sonics were heard and house shook at Princeton, LA and Shreveport, LA..
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15OCT2012 Lisa Shreveport, Louisiana, US 2330 1 sec unsure loud boom like an explosion and shaking. unsure unsure i live about 40 miles away from supposed site. woke me up with a loud boom and shaking.

15OCT2012 AMY PRINCETON, LA, USA 11:30 PM CENTRAL . . Extremely loud boom like an explosion, caused house to shake for several seconds . . Sleeping and awakened by the shaking and sound

15OCT2012 AJ Shreveport, Louisiana approx. 11:20 pm 5 to 6 seconds Traveling East white,yellow. My husband saw green. moon no low and moving at a fast pace

15OCT2012 Emily Burford Minden, Louisiana 22:00:00 10-15 sec facing north, moved left to right green and white moon no It was very low, I almost believed it was a plane

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Possible Meteor Explosion Rattles Northwest Louisiana

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WEBSTER PARISH, LA (KSLA) - Webster Parish Sheriff Gary Sexton tells us they "definitely had something happen" in Webster Parish Monday night. ...

Loud Explosion in Webster Parish
KTAL
Residents in Bossier and Webster are reporting a loud explosion. Webster Parish Officials say they currently believe it was a meteor north of Minden shortly before 11:30 PM Monday. According to people near Doyline and Minden their houses shook knocking ... (more)

Authorities investigate loud boom - WAFB 9 News Baton Rouge ...
www.wafb.com/story/19828119/authorities-investigate-loud-boom57 minutes ago – ... a loud boom that shook homes across Northwest Louisiana Monday night. ... Updated: Monday, October 15 2012 12:09 PM EDT2012-10-15 ...

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GorezillaOfficial Published on May 13, 2012 3,043 views
Doug Martin is an atomic scientist and a pilot. After he goes missing on a mission after an atomic blast, he shows back up at the base unharmed. He tells of his abduction by aliens who plan to take over earth with giant monsters and insects. As can be expected, it is an uphill battle convincing skeptics of his . ...

2012 THE Year of Meteors!

Alberta Canada Meteor 15OCT2012

Alberta Canada Meteor seen between 00:30-00:45 MDT 15OCT2012

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Alberta, Canada Meteor Sightings 15OCT2012
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Initial Reports:

15OCT2012 Liz, Jen, Brian EDMONTON NW, ALBERTA, CANADA 00:45:00  -7:00 1-3 sec NorthEast - Right to left White-blue, very bright, fast, lit up minor cloudcover, passed beyond, disspeared behind houseline high intensity, flare/spotlight No No noise, but very, very bright. Mistaken for a movie-status weapon of war by companions

15OCT2012 Helen Simchak Fort Mcmurray, Alberta, Canada 00:40 MDT 5 seconds left to right long gold tail extremely bright no sound extremely bright no noticeable fragments I've never seen anything like it!

15OCT2012 GLENN EDMONTON, ALBERTA, CANADA 00:36 MST 2 seconds S-N Right to Left facing East No sound. Gold I think. Bright... like fireworks. Yes Walked out the front door and ithappened directly in front of me... awesome timing! Police helicopter over my neighborhood probably saw it.

15OCT2012 Lauren Valley view, alberta, CA 00:30 mountain standard 2 seconds East to west Quite a large meteor, burst of green and red Moon Yes Driving at the time so no sound or photo



2012 THE Year of Meteors!

Early Arab Study of Meteor Showers - New Publication

New additional material of meteor showers during 9th -19th centuries in the Islamic history
Hassan M. Basurah
Cornell University Library
(Submitted on 15 Oct 2012)
This article presents twelve records of meteor showers in Arabic chronicles covering period from the 9th to the 19th century. The observations were in Egypt, Morocco, Syria and Yemen. These new addition historical records are considered to be important events which indicate a serious current interest in astronomy.
http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.3941

2012 THE Year of Meteors!