The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 03MAR2013

Meteor blast a wake up call on NASA funding — MSNBC
The Daily Rundown's Chuck Todd takes a “deep dive” look into the meteorthat hit Russia and why ...
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Russian meteor was a command performance from the cosmos ...
No matter how “tucked away in some forgotten corner” of the universe we are, as said the late astronomer Carl Sagan, the universe still finds us. Anyone in ...
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Russian scientists recover meteor fragments - Yahoo! News
From Yahoo! News: MOSCOW (AP) — Scientists have found more than 50 tiny fragments of ameteor that exploded over Russia's Ural Mountains, and ...
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APOD: 2013 February 23 - Chelyabinsk Meteor Flash
Astronomy Picture of the Day. Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief ...
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Scientists discover Russian meteor fragments: Report - Times Of India
MOSCOW: Scientists have discovered fragments of the meteor that spectacularly plunged over Russia's Ural Mountains creating a shockwave that injured 1200 ...
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Carthage businessman recounts seeing Chinese 'meteor'
Longview News-Journal
CARTHAGE — A Carthage businessman witnessed the re-entry of a Chinese rocket over the East Texas sky Wednesday morning when he was on his way to work. He thought it was a meteor and told everyone he saw of the amazing display. But when he ...

Letter: Meteor foretells end times?
Appeal-Democrat
A meteor explodes over Russia, injuring 1,000; the same day a larger meteor barely misses the earth. Two weeks earlier an 8.0 earthquake hits the Solomon Islands. Meanwhile, Iran and North

Queen's astronomer's meteor insight
Belfast Newsletter
Queen's astronomer's meteor insight. Published on Saturday 2 March 2013 10:45. A LEADING Queen's astronomer is appearing on the BBC's Horizon programme to explain what is known about the asteroid that hit Russia two weeks ago, injuring more than ...

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YouTube
Sign in with your YouTube Account (YouTube, Google+, Gmail, Orkut, Picasa, or Chrome) to add Святослав Крикунов's video to your playlist. Sign in. Statistics Report. Published on Feb 17, 2013.метеорит. Category. Science & Technology. License. Standard ...

Russian city pummeled by space stones wants to be 'Meteor Disneyland'
msnNOW
Recent ideas aim to capitalize on the freak incident, including (ridiculously overpriced) tours, a lake for visitors to dive into and find their own chunks of meteor (highly unlikely), a cosmic fireworks festival (how predictable) and even a "Meteor ...

Astronomers Find Origin of Russia Meteor - VIDEO
Astronomers have traced the origin of the giant meteor that struck a remote region of Russia ...
newsy.com

Russian meteor misidentified by most
UPI.com
MOSCOW, March 1 (UPI) -- Most of the inhabitants of the Russian city under an exploding meteorfailed to identify it for what it was, a poll indicated. While nearly half the residents in Chelyabinsk, hit by fragments from a falling meteorite Feb. 15 ...

Meteor insurance policy?
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Basically No One in Russia Thought That Meteor Was a Meteor
Gizmodo
Basically No One in Russia Thought That Meteor Was a Meteor Last month, a giant meteorexploded over Russia. Ground zero was the Ural city of Chelyabinsk, where 1500 people were injured and thousands of buildings were destroyed. About half the city's ...

Visit the town that survived Armageddon: Russian city hit by meteor makes a ...
The Independent
The phrase 'Meteor Disneyland' has been discussed, as have an annual music and fireworks festival, according to The Telegraph, while the city mayor Andrei Orlov has also suggested setting up a diving centre to allow tourists to search underneath an ice...

Fragmenting Fireball Over Texas and Louisiana February 27, 2013 ...
Update 2/27/13 12:56 EST – It looks like the fireball seen from Texas and Louisiana may be the re-entry of a Chinese rocket body launched in 2012.
www.amsmeteors.org/.../fragmenting-fireball-over-texas-and-l...

Russian Meteorite City Feared War, Plane Crash - Poll
Fri, 01 Mar, 2013 05:11 AM PST
Just under half of the people in the Russian city hit by fragments from a falling meteorite earlier this month saw the celestial visitor streak across the early morning sky, but only a small number correctly identified it, an opinion poll indicated on Friday.

IN PICS: 18-kg meteorite discovered in Antarctica
Fri, 01 Mar, 2013 01:48 AM PST
An international team of scientists has discovered a 18kg meteorite in Antarctica -- the largest in nearly 25 years, which may help unlock the secrets of our solar system.

Scientists Study Fragments of the Chelyabinsk Meteorite
Fri, 01 Mar, 2013 12:20 PM PST
By examining its fragments, scientists from Moscow’s Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry studied the composition and origin of the meteorite that hit the Chelyabinsk Region on the morning of February 15. They said meteorites can provide clues as to how the solar system was formed.

Meteor Hits: 20 Meteors That Have Collided With Earth
Fri, 01 Mar, 2013 10:33 AM PST
Meteors have survived their passage through the Earth’s atmosphere numerous times throughout history. The recent meteorite that blasted over the populated town of [...]

UFO, plane crash, start of war? Russians thought it all
Fri, 01 Mar, 2013 09:17 AM PST
Moscow, Mar 1 : Around half of the people in a Russian city hit by falling fragments from ameteorite saw the celestial visitor streak across the sky, but only a small number correctly identified it, an opinion poll said Friday.

Researchers find giant 18KG meteorite sticking out of the Antarctic ice
Fri, 01 Mar, 2013 08:21 AM PST
The 18kg (40-pound) meteorite in eastern Antarctica, is the largest found in the area in 25 years. The Brussels-based team described their find as 'special', and hope it could help explain how the solar system formed.

Big Meteorite Discovered in Antarctica
Fri, 01 Mar, 2013 08:15 AM PST
Meteorite hunters at the bottom of the world bagged a rare find this southern summer: a 40-pound (18 kilogram) chunk of extraterrestrial rock.

Large meteorite found in eastern Antarctica
Fri, 01 Mar, 2013 08:13 AM PST
International scientists say they've discovered an 18-kilogram meteorite in eastern Antarctica, the largest found in that area in 25 years.

US scientists seek to prevent another meteor explosion
Christian Science Monitor
The recent Russian meteor event occurred after completion of the newly signed agreement and data on the recent Chelyabinsk event had been released for scientific analysis, SPACE.com has been informed by NASA and the U.S. Air Force. As a result of that ...

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CQTV:俄学者找到单个重量超1公斤陨石碎片- YouTube
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Celestial fireball
The Hindu
Once the Russian meteor entered the atmosphere, a combination of pressure and heat caused it to break apart 19-24 kilometres above the earth producing a fireball that blazed across the sky. According to the Russian Geographic Society, the bright flare ...

Russians Hunt For Meteorite Fragments - YouTube
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Thousands of Russians are braving snow and ice to search for meteoritefragments in the ...
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Russia Meteor Renews Focus on Asteroid Threats : NPR
A week after a meteor exploded over Russia on the same day that an asteroid swung closely past Earth, experts discuss how the potential threats posed by ...
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Meteor lurked for thousands of years before blasting Russia, experts say
NBCNews.com (blog)
Now that they're worked out the orbital path of the meteor that blew up over Russia last month, scientists are saying that the asteroid behind the blast crossed Earth's orbit regularly for thousands of years. Two weeks ago, it looked as if the 1.1 ...

Scientists Have Figured Out Where That Russian Meteor Came From
TechnoBuffalo
The two scientists were even able to chart the Russian meteor's exact path using astronomy software called Naval Observatory Vector Astrometry Software (NOVAS). Overall, the city of Chelyabinsk, where the meteorite supposedly struck an icy lake ...

Scientists reconstruct Russia meteor trajectory
Christian Science Monitor
Relying on videos of the meteor from Chelyabinsk's Revolutionary Square and in the nearby city of Korkino, astronomers Jorge Zuluaga and Ignacio Ferrin at the University of Antioquia in Medellin, Colombia, triangulated the speed and position of the ...

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The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 02MAR2013

After Russian Meteor, Keeping Closer Eye on Sky
Voice of America (blog)
After Russian Meteor, Keeping Closer Eye on Sky. Posted March 1st, 2013 at 4:19 pm (UTC+0). A meteorite contrail is seen over a vilage of Bolshoe Sidelnikovo 50 km of Chelyabinsk on. A meteorite contrail is seen over a village in Russia's Chelyabinsk ...

1kg meteorite piece found in Russian Urals, biggest ...
The fallen meteorite has turned into a cash cow in the Urals.
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How we could stop a meteor hitting Earth
CNN (blog)
Fareed speaks with the Frederick P. Rose director of the Hayden Planetarium, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, about the implications of the meteor that exploded over the Ural Mountains last month. To see this or other interviews, download the show ...

Meteor Hits: 20 Meteors That Have Collided With Earth
The Epoch Times
The wall of a local zinc plant was damaged by a shockwave from a meteor in the Urals city of Chelyabinsk, on February 15, 2013. (Oleg Kargopolov/AFP/Getty Images). 5. One of the largest stony-meteorite showers happened in Jilin, China in 1976, and it ...

The East Edition: Meteor Showers in Russia Cause Extensive Damage
my.hsj.org
A worker sweeps up shattered glass from a store's broken windows in Chelyabinsk, Russia, February 15, 2013. A meteor that scientists estimate weighed 10 tons streaked at supersonic speed and exploded over Russia's Ural Mountains on Friday, setting off ...

Fireball spotted over Roanoke Thursday night
WDBJ7
WDBJ7 has gotten several reports through social media of people seeing a fireball shoot across the sky Thursday night. We have checked into the reports and found that the object, likely a meteorite, was visible from Virginia to North Carolina. Mena ...

Russians Believe Meteor Was Hand of God or Even ...
Last week's Russian meteor was largest event ever ecorded by global infrasound centres ...
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'I thought it was a nuclear bomb exploding ...
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Marat Akhmetaleyev, 31, had just set up his tripod when the space rock lit up the crisp, morning ...
dailymail.co.uk

After meteor strike, Russian experts reflect - Los Angeles Times
MOSCOW -- In the wake of what many now humorously call “the alien bombardment” of the Russian industrial Urals, divers Saturday finished their initial ...
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A meteor and asteroid: 1 in 100 million odds - CNN.com
Meg Urry says the probability that a meteor hits and an asteroid passes by Earth on the same day is about 1 in 100 million.
www.cnn.com/2013/02/16/opinion/urry-meteor-asteroid

Russia meteor exposed vulnerability - Video on NBCNews.com
Video on NBCNews.com: NASA budgeted $20 million dollars last year to look for objects that ...
www.nbcnews.com/video/nightly-news/50835138

On heels of Russia meteor explosion, San Francisco Bay area ...
SAN FRANCISCO — Hours after a meteor exploded over Russia and injured more than 1000 people and an asteroid passed relatively close to Earth, residents ...

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The odds of Friday's meteor hit and giant asteroid near-miss combo ...
Astronomical odds of Friday's double space events have left statisticians and astronomers in shock putting into perspective how little we can predict space.
www.dailymail.co.uk/.../The-odds-Fridays-meteor-hit-giant-ast...

'That's no meteor, it's an American weapon test': Russian politician's ...
Vladamir Zhirinovsky, leader of the far-right Liberal Democratic Party, is contesting reports that ameteor streaked above the Russian city of Chelyabinsk at ...
www.dailymail.co.uk/.../Thats-meteor-American-weapon-test-...

Russians clear damage, crack jokes after meteor blast - The Globe ...
Scarcity of evidence on the ground fuelled scores of conspiracy theories over what caused the fireball.
www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/.../article8772844/

The Late Show Video - Meteor Fragments ...
Dave welcomes Laura Ehrlich and her collection of Russian meteor fragments that resemble ...
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What Does the Russian Meteorite Tell Us About ...
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A meteorite crashed into earth!!!! This wasn't the first time and it won't be the last, but it is ...
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انفجار نيزك في روسيا #3 2013‎ - YouTube
انفجار نيزك في روسيا #3 2013. ... نيزك يضرب روسيا يسبب عشرات القتلى 2013 by OmoeGamesFree 1,135 views · 0:18. Watch ...
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نيزك في شبه الجزيرة العربية‎ - YouTube
نيزك في شبه الجزيرة العربية. imam mahdi·83 videos. Subscribe Subscribed ... نيزكby imam mahdi 160 views ...
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تفصيل نيزك روسيا‎ - YouTube
فيديو من قناة روسيا اليوم هاااااااااام جدآ عن نيزك روسيا. ... سقوط نيزك في روسيا تقرير مفصل بالعربيby كمبيوترات فيستا 5,381 views; 6:46. Watch ...
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نيزك روسيا 2013 AyuoB - موقع ماجد المهندس‎ - YouTube
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سقوط نيزك في روسيا 2013‎ - YouTube
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فيديو سقوط نيزك ضخم في الاورال روسيا 15-02-2013 HD‎ - YouTube
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انفجار نيزك في روسيا #3 2013‎ - YouTube
انفجار نيزك في روسيا #3 2013. ... نيزك يضرب روسيا يسبب عشرات القتلى 2013 by MultiSoAwesome 5,623 views; 3:04. Watch ...
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The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 01MAR2013

Russia meteor shower: Listen to the sound of the enormous space rock explode
Mirror.co.uk
The meteor, which exploded a few dozen miles above Earth at 03.22 GMT on February 15, created a shockwave that injured 1,200 people and damaged thousands of homes, with the debris narrowly missing a direct and devastating hit on the industrial city of ...

Meteor caught on camera
KSN-TV
After the Russian meteor exploded across the sky, it prompted scientists to better identify large meteor and asteroid threats. A team at the University of Hawaii is working on the Asteroid Terrestrial-Impact Last Alert System or ATLAS with the help of ...

Meteor that slammed into the Urals made the loudest noise ever recorded by ...
Daily Mail
Seventeen listening stations operated across the world by the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organisation (CTBTO) detected the sound wave as it traversed the planet. The furthest station to record the sub-audible sound was more than 9,000 miles...

Russian Meteor Blast 'Heard' from Antarctica to Greenland
TIME
Russia wasn't the only country rattled by the meteor that exploded over Chelyabinsk on Feb. 15. According to the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO), the blast produced the largest low-frequency sound wave ever picked up by its nuclear


Russian Meteor's Destination To Become Tourist Hot Spot?
Huffington Post
Barely two weeks have passed since a meteor crashed into western Siberia, injuring more than 1,000 people and scaring pretty much everyone everywhere. Now that the Russian town of Chelyabinsk has put out the fires and recovered from the meteor's ...

Russian meteor town in tourism bid
Aysor
Officials in the Russian city where a meteor fell last month now hope to attract tourists to the area, the Telegraph reports. The 10,000-ton meteor entered the Earth's atmosphere producing a sonic boom. It shattered into pieces between 18 and 32 miles ...

Meteor City Sheds Soviet Nuclear Specter in Tourism Push
Businessweek
The meteor explosion over this former secret Soviet nuclear hub two weeks ago was recorded by scores of dashboard cameras and viewed by millions of people, providing a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to attract international tourists and their money to ...

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Meteor City Sheds Soviet Nuclear Specter in Tourism Push
Bloomberg
The last time a disaster with global impact struck Chelyabinsk, officials covered it up for three decades. This time, they're marketing it to the world. The meteor explosion over this former secret Soviet nuclear hub two weeks ago was recorded by ...

What does a meteor sounds like?
WA today
Infrasonic waves from the meteor that broke up over Russia were the largest ever recorded by the CTBTO's International Monitoring System. 01/03/13. Scientists find large Antarctica meteorite. ...

Planetary Meteor Defense Shield Proposed
Earthweek - A Diary of the Planet
Following the destructive meteor breakup over southern Russia on February 15, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev assigned a deputy, Dmitry Rogozin, to find ways to prevent far worse disasters. Rogozin had proposed in 2011 an “international initiative” to ...

Scientists find large Antarctica meteorite 
Thu, 28 Feb, 2013 03:23 PM PST
A meteorite found in Antarctica has scientists excited.

Researchers Found A 40 Pound Meteorite In Antarctica
Thu, 28 Feb, 2013 02:52 PM PST
Meteorite hunters at the bottom of the world bagged a rare find this southern summer: a 40-pound (18 kilogram) chunk of extraterrestrial rock.

Scientists find one of Antartica's largest meteorites
Thu, 28 Feb, 2013 02:27 PM PST
March 01, 2013 6:05 AM BRUSSELS (AFP) - An international team of scientists at Belgium's Antarctica research station has found the largest meteorite in nearly 25 years, helping them to unlock the secrets of our solar system.

Big Meteorite Discovered in Antarctica
Thu, 28 Feb, 2013 02:20 PM PST
Scientists on skidoos search for space rocks.

Theory Suggests UFO Detonated Russian Meteorite
Thu, 28 Feb, 2013 02:20 PM PST
The meteorite that crashed into Russia on February 15 has sparked UFO rumors, after a few pictures were captured of an unidentified object flying next to it before it exploded. A bizarre theory has been created, which suggests the meteorite was blown up by a UFO in an attempt to protect our planet. It captured the attention of UFO enthusiasts after a tiny “object” could be seen colliding with ...

Scientists find Antarctica meteorite
Thu, 28 Feb, 2013 01:43 PM PST
Scientists at Belgium's Antarctica research station have found the largest meteorite in nearly 25 years.

Rock on! Rare 40-pound meteorite found
Thu, 28 Feb, 2013 01:42 PM PST
Meteorite hunters at the bottom of the world bagged a rare find this southern summer: a 40-pound (18 kilogram) chunk of extraterrestrial rock.

NASA on Russian Meteor: Why No One Saw It Coming
Thu, 28 Feb, 2013 12:00 PM PST
NASA says the meteor that exploded over Russia wasn’t on anyone’s radar because it came from the direction of the Sun, hiding it from view. More About: meteor , meteorite , NASA , russia , space

Big Meteorite Found in Antarctica (Photo Gallery)
Thu, 28 Feb, 2013 11:50 AM PST
SAMBA scientists working at Princess Elisabeth Antarctica discovered the largest meteorite in the region since 1988.

Antarctic scientists find 18kg meteorite
Thu, 28 Feb, 2013 11:20 AM PST
Scientists in Antarctica have discovered an 18kg meteorite embedded in the East Antarctic ice sheet, the largest found in the region since 1988.Belgian and Japanese scientists on the frozen continent for the Search for Antarctic...

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Tucson AZ Booms 27FEB2013

Tucson AZ Booms 27FEB2013 - No Meteor Sightings REPORTED!

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Mysterious loud boom heard & felt all over Tucson

http://www.tucsonnewsnow.com/story/21419976/what-was-that-shook-tucson

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NC VA SC Fireball Meteor 27FEB2013

NC VA SC Fireball Meteor ~20:15 EST 27FEB2013

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NC VA SC Fireball Meteor ~20:15 EST 27FEB2013
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Initial Meteor Sighting Reports:

27FEB2013 Lucas Wilmington nc usa 20:30:00 4- 5 sec s to north light green yellow brighter than venus no the tail was quite long

27FEB2013 Nick Charlotte nc 20:12:00 2-3 sec. Straight up to horizon. Nw to se Blue Car light No No tail, 1/4 size of moon

27FEB2013 JAYNE KNIGHT Benson, NC  USA 20:00:00 approx. 7 seconds W to E left to right i was facing north red fire ball w/reddish-orange tail very bright-like sun none-looked as though whole thing burnt out at one time do not know what it was that I saw-never have I seen anything like this before and it looked as if it was directly in front of me and not very high up at all.  please let me know from my description what it was i saw.

27FEB2013 brenda Fredericksburg VA USA 0815 appx Observed on the 30 min drive to work SE Sun was white but clouds below were brighter than the sun.  I couldn't help but thinking it peculiar. It appeared as if the sun was the moon and something hidden in the cloudiness was much brighter. na na


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Breaking News - LA MX TX Bolide Fireball Meteor 27FEB2013

LA MX TX  Bolide Fireball Meteor  27FEB2013

LA MX TX Fireball 27FEB2013
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Texas Man Captures Mysterious Light Streaking Across Sky - 2/28/13
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Comment: There is no way that he could have seen this event for 3-4 minutes!
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UPDATE:  This MAY have been the Chinese rocket body CZ-4B according to::
aerospace.org
http://www.aerospace.org/cords/reentry-predictions/upcoming-reentries/2012-021c/
CZ-4B Rocket Body
Object Description
Type: CZ-4B Rocket Body
Int’l Designation: 2012-021C
Launched: 10 MAY 2012 @ 07:06 UTC
Site: Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center
Mission: Yaogan 14 and Tiantuo 1
Reentry Prediction
Predicted Reentry Time: 27 FEB 2013 @ 10:22 UTC ± 3 hours

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Initial Fireball/Meteor Sighting Reports:


27FEB2013 D. Beebe Gulf of Mexico off Louisiana 03:05 cst 1 Minute plus S to NW facing South Orange ~ Venus Fragmented into ~15 pieces Glowed orange/white leaving a very long tail of sparks directly behind it. Broke into about 15 pieces then pieces slowly faded away.

27FEB2013 Bart 27 03,0N 092 03,2W 0330 central usa 30sec 330 meteorites yellow to amber yes nil

27FEB2013 Seadog71 Gulf of Mexico 330 20 S-N White and Orange/No Sound Venus Yes, a few large ones, many small Was heading towards LA coast. Quite large, fragmenting. Took video, a bit grainy at night.

27FEB2013 Dan Richard Lafayette,LA USA 03:10 central lasted over 20 seconds.then disappeeared behind clouds as it broke up. southeast/nwest behind clouds.se-nw white with ting of red an blue as it broke up moon yes Looked similar to shuttle columbia broke apart. Not as bright

27FEB2013 Byron Byrd North Central Gulf of Mexico 0330 CST over 30 seconds 3/4 of visible from horizon to horizon S-N Bright white with orange sparks bright star with trails 6 - 8 smaller fragments following one larger piece Very bright seemingly slow moving. No noise heard .

27FEB2013 joel ciochetto galveston texas 307am 30 south to north large ball white tail was long like sparks no smoke or noise sun yes no

27FEB2013 anthony smith houston,texas 03:15 CDT estimate 15 sec i was going south,lights in sky going west to east vanished in clouds 6-8 bright lights with tails venus look like fragmentation none

27FEB2013 Max Watts Dickinson 3:25am central standard About 1:30 from the time I noticed it United States Very Bright Red Tails Though It Was A Comet At 1st Glance Brighter than the full moon Very Very Large Piece With A Number of Fragments Was heading North East I Fully Expected To Hear Several Impacts But Heard None. My 1st thought was Russia and that now it's happening here!


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The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 28FEB2013

Where did that Russian meteor come from? Astronomers determine origins.
Christian Science Monitor
Just a week after a huge fireball streaked across the skies of the Chelyabinsk region of Russia, astronomers published a paper that reconstructs the orbit and determines the origins of the space rock that exploded about 14-20 km (8-12.5 miles) above ...

Massive Russian meteor came from asteroid belt, 'millions more' like it
The Verge
"There are millions more just like it," said William Cooke, lead scientist at NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office, in a post about the meteor's origins on NASA's Science website published Tuesday. Cooke and other NASA scientists believe the Russian ...

Geologists close to dating Hickman meteor crater
ABC Online
To the average person it might just look like rocky terrain or a big hole. But it's actually a meteorite impact crater near Newman, in WA's Hamersley Range, formed some time between 10,000 and 100,000 years ago. The exact age of the Hickman Crater is ...

Meteor blast resonated around Earth
CNN
From there, Brown said, they could calculate the size of the fireball; and using an estimate of themeteor's speed from the numerous dashboard and mobile-phone cameras that captured the scene, it was "first-year physics" to figure out the approximate ...

BBC News - Russia meteor's origin tracked down
Astronomers trace the origin of a meteor that injured about 1000 people after breaking up over ...
bbc.co.uk

Scientists reconstruct Russia meteor trajectory ...
Relying on videos of the meteor as it streaked across the sky over the Ural mountains, a pair of ...
csmonitor.com

Russian Meteor is helpful learning experience
Oklahoma Daily
On Friday, February 15th, thousands of people across Russia got a glimpse of what it might have been like near Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula millions of years ago. The benefits of this event remain to be seen, but it is exciting, nonetheless. It could ...

Russian Meteor: Scientists Discover Origin, Composition and Other Details
IBTimes.co.uk
Scientists from University of Antioquia in Medellin used trigonometry to define the height, speed, and position of the meteor as it entered earth's atmosphere. Also with the help of amateur video footage, they could plot the meteor's trajectory as it ...

Meteorite Explosion Full - Russia Chelyabinsk 2/15 ...
7 min
http://www.endandit.nl/nieuws/1502225... From RT: http://rt.com/news/russia- meteor-mete ...
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Scientists Reconstruct Meteor's Journey To Earth
Sky News
Scientists have reconstructed the orbit of the meteor that blazed across the Russian sky earlier this month. After entering the Earth's atmosphere, the meteor is thought to have travelled hundreds of miles before exploding above Chelyabinsk.

What's the difference between a comet, asteroid, meteor, meteoroid and meteorite?
io9
What's the difference between a comet, asteroid, meteor, meteoroid and meteorite? With all the recent buzz over asteroid AD14, the meteor over Chelyabinsk, the fragments of meteorite recovered in Russia's Ural mountains, and yesterday's news that the ...

Expert: Fireball over Texas likely Chinese craft
Fort Mills Times
A scientist says fireballs that streaked over the East Texas skies before dawn were likely pieces of a rocket booster that launched a Chinese satellite into orbit. Shanyn Beason of Beckville, about 25 miles southeast of Longview, told KLTV-TV of Tyler ...

Medellin scientists figure out Russian fireball trajectory [VIDEO]
Colombia Reports
Two scientists in Colombia's second city Medellin on Monday have beaten the pack to figure out the origins and the orbit of the meteor that hit Russian town Chelyabinsk in February. Using amateur YouTube videos and recordings from traffic cameras ...

Videos - Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson On ...
INSIDE EDITION's Diane McInerney spoke to astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson about the ...
insideedition.com

حادث نيزك روسيا ليس له علاقة بالكويكب القريب من الأرض‎ - YouTube
وكالة الفضاء الأوروبية: حادث نيزك روسيا ليس له علاقة بالكويكب القريب من الأرض Meteorite Hits Russia! [HD] Feb 15th 2013 قال المتحدث باسم وكالة ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIWxyx-4fmY

نيزك يضرب روسيا اليوم‎ - YouTube
جند الله..هذه هي قوة الخالق..يقولون بانها غضب الطبيعة...بل هي غضب من خلق هذه الطبيعة.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOpDX1B6Hiw

لحظة سقوط نيزك في روسيا ( سبحان الله ) 15 فبراير‎ - YouTube
لحظة سقوط نيزك في روسيا ( سبحان الله ) سقطت اليوم 15 فبراير.. نيازك وشهب عديدة على مقاطعة تشيليابينسك الروسية، ولا توجد معطيات عن سقوط ضحايا ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNHIaVpCkc0

سقوط نيزك في روسيا‎ - YouTube
شاهد سقوط نيزك في روسيا: يوم 15 فبراير 2013، على الساعة 9-25 في سفيردلوفسك http://www.footyinter.com http://www.facebook.com ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTRrDRY4CXw

1:31 سقوط نيزك في روسيا2013 2 15 - YouTube
ضرب وابل من النيازك منطقة الاورال بروسيا، مما أدى إلى وقوع العديد من الجرحى، بحسب ما اوردت وكالة انترفاكس. وقالت وزارة الطوارئ الروسية في وقت لاحق إن 400 شخص...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruGcW8oW2OA

Thousands rush to find meteorite pieces 
Wed, 27 Feb, 2013 12:08 PM PST
Thousands have rushed to the remote Ural mountains in Russia to hunt for souvenir fragments of meteor.

Meteorite craters play key role in evolution
Wed, 27 Feb, 2013 09:25 AM PST
Sydney, Feb 27 : Asteroids hitting the earth cause immense destruction, but some of them may have also played a key role in the evolution of early life, according to new research.

Divers locate meteorite impact craters on Russian lake bottom
52e52b92-fce0-11e1-bbf7-ebc7a782d70e Wed, 27 Feb, 2013 09:00 AM PST
Divers continuing the search of Lake Chebarkul have discovered several craters on the lake bottom that they believe are impact zones from the meteorite that exploded over the nearby city of Chelyabinsk on February 15th. The search for fragments in … Continue reading →

Big meteorite chunk found in Russia's Ural Mountains
Wed, 27 Feb, 2013 07:05 AM PST
Scientists and meteorites hunters have been on a quest to find bits of rock from the asteroid exploded over the city of Chelyabinsk in Russia on February 15. More than 100 fragments have been found so far that appear to be from the space rock, and now scientists from Russia's Urals Federal University have discovered the biggest chunk so far, a meteorite fragment weighing more than one kilogram ...

WATCH: It's Russian Meteorite: The Movie!
Wed, 27 Feb, 2013 06:50 AM PST
Now, we know there's nothing particularly laugh-out-loud funny about buildings being hit by ameteorite and people getting hurt as a result. BUT there's definitely...

Colombian boffins reconstruct flight path of Russian meteor
Wed, 27 Feb, 2013 06:49 AM PST
Trajectory apparently began in near-Earth asteroid group Apollo Astroboffins have figured out where the Chelaybinsk meteorite came from using the power of maths and videos shot by witnesses in Russia.…

Russian Meteor's Origin and Size Pinned Down
Space.com
A meteor that exploded over Russia earlier this month likely hit Earth after a long trip from beyond the orbit of Mars, scientists say. Astronomers and the public were caught off guard by the Russian fireball, which damaged thousands of buildings and ...

Russian Meteor Changed Views on Life in Blast City, Poll Shows
Businessweek
The meteor that exploded above Russia's Ural Mountains sent shock waves that broke thousands of windows and injured about 1,150 people in the Chelyabinsk region. The event had a bigger impact on religious people, according to Grigory Kertman, senior ...

Pioneer making fast turnaround meteor strike doc
TBI Vision
It will examine events surrounding the meteor, which landed in Russia on February 15, injuring 1,000 people. Pioneer said it has previously unseen footage and the doc will also look at what measures can be taken to protect the earth from further strikes.

Astronomers reveal origins of Russian meteor
Science Recorder
The results of the study, announced Wednesday, reveal the 45-foot-wide meteor was destined to smash into Earth. Using evidence gathered by one camera at the Revolution Square in the city of Chelyabinsk and other videos recorded by witnesses in the ...

Big meteorite chunk found in Russia's Ural Mountains
Scientists and meteorites hunters have been on a quest to find bits of rock from the asteroid ...
phys.org

After studying Russian meteor blast, experts get set ...
The meteor that blew up over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk 11 days ago has provided a new ...
cosmiclog.nbcnews.com

Russian scientists track down fragments of Urals meteor - CNN.com
Scientists find fragments of a meteor that exploded over Russia's Urals region. The small fragments suggest a rocky meteor, scientists say.
www.cnn.com/2013/02/18/world/europe/russia-meteor

Meteor Russia - Chicago Tribune
Thousands of Russian emergency workers went out on Saturday to clear up the damage from ameteor that exploded over the Ural mountains, damaging ...
articles.chicagotribune.com/.../chi-russia-meteorite-20130215_...

Meteor blast a wake up call on NASA funding
MSNBC
The sight of a fireball streaking across the Russian sky made some of the most compelling viral video we've ever seen. But it also drove home an important point: meteors slamming into Earth may be rare, but they happen. Is the U.S. prepared? Rep. Rush ...

Origin of Russian meteor tracked down
Times of India
To reconstruct the meteor's original orbit around the Sun, they used six different properties of its trajectory through Earth's atmosphere. Most of these are related to the point at which the meteorbecomes bright enough to cast a noticeable shadow in ...

Giant meteor strikes Russia
University of Virginia The Cavalier Daily
The YouTube-famous Russian dashboard camcorders have regularly recorded road rage and tanks crossing streets, but even the most hardened of drivers did not expect to see a 55-foot wide meteorburning through the sky on the morning of Feb.

Sharon Henry: Chance of meteor hit? Astronomical
OCRegister
Lucky us, on Feb. 15 we survived asteroid 2012 DA14. The 150-ton space rock missed us by a mere 17,200 miles, the closest fly-by ever recorded for such a big asteroid. It might seem as if we dodged a celestial bullet, but the chance of any impact was ...

NASA explains meteor explosions over Russia
USA TODAY
NASA explains meteor explosions over Russia. After an asteroid exploded over Russia's Ural mountains, scientists are making progress understanding the origin and make-up of the unexpected space rock. Post to Facebook. NASA explains meteor ...

Russian meteor had space collisions
UPI.com
MOSCOW, Feb. 26 (UPI) -- The powerful blast of a meteorite over a Russian city was probably caused by its previous space collisions with other celestial bodies, an expert says. Professor Erik Galimov of the Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and ...

Russia calls for united meteor defense
Space Daily
The world should unite to establish a defense system against space objects that threaten Earth, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin says. Rogozin, speaking Saturday at a ceremony marking Defender of the Fatherland Day in the Moscow suburb of ...

Origin of Russian meteor identified
UPI.com
Researchers at the Universidad de Antioquia in Colombia said videos of the meteor'sfireball path over the city of Chelyabinsk taken with camera phones, CCTV and car-dashboard cameras allowed them to compute its trajectory and from that its probable...

What exploded over Russia? Watch two videos with new answers
EarthSky (blog)
Scientists are now saying it was the most powerful meteor explosion in Earth's atmosphere since the Tunguska event in 1908. Since that day, progress has been made in understanding the origin and make-up of the February 15 meteor explosion. Two new ...

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