24 January 2015

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 24JAN2015

Minas Gerais, Brasil Meteor 0342 UTC 22JAN2015
Posted: 23 Jan 2015 06:28 PM PST
Minas Gerais, Brasil Meteor 0342 UTC 22JAN2015 Minas Gerais, Brasil Meteor 0342 UTC 22JAN2015c 2015 Joao Amancio‎ / BRAMON 2015 The SECOND Year of "CERTAIN Uncertainty" ™ / Meteors, Asteroids, Comets, and MORE!!...

NEO Asteroids Close Approach Data 2000-2014 Graphs...
blogspot.com
UK Meteor Apprx. 22.10 GMT 25MAR2014 "click on image to enlarge" UK Meteor Apprx. ... Breaking News- New Mexico Fireball Meteor 19JAN2015.

Asteroid Will Nearly Miss The Earth on Monday
Pioneer News
Watching a meteor shower is great because you know which area of the sky to watch and then over a period of time you can catch a glimpse of several ...

Search on for Space rock
Globalnews.ca
CALGARY – The search is on for the remains of a meteor photographed in the sky southeast of Banff. The picture was taken last month by amateur ...

Messages from space -- hidden magnetic messages uncovered
SpaceDaily - 10 hours
The Pallasite meteorite, studied by Harrison, contains information about the early solar system. Image courtesy Natural History Museum, ...

Mystery of East Antarctica Crater May Be Solved
NBC NEWS - 2 hours
A mysterious crater discovered in East Antarctica likely formed beneath a leaky meltwater lake, rather than because of a meteorite impact.

Pupils starstruck by lunar materials brought back to earth
Bradford Telegraph - 6 hours
PUPILS were left starstruck when a meteorite dating back to the dawn of the solar system, moon dust and even a piece of Mars arrived at their ...

Meteorites act as hard drives, show us the future of Earth’s molten dynamo
Geek.com - 10 hours
X-ray studies in meteorites have measured the death of a magnetic dynamo -- and it has implications for the much larger one at the center of ...

Scientists Shoot Down Meteorite Theory in Antarctica Crater Mystery
NBC News
A mysterious crater discovered in East Antarctica last month likely formed beneath a leaky meltwater lake, rather than because of a meteorite impact, ...

Banff Fireball Photo Has Scientists Seeking Space Rock
Huffington Post Canada
Lincoln Hanton and Alan Hildebrand of U of C's geoscience department have attempted to locate the fragments of a meteor that flew across the sky ...

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Minas Gerais, Brasil Meteor 0342 UTC 22JAN2015

Minas Gerais, Brasil Meteor 0342 UTC 22JAN2015

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Minas Gerais, Brasil Meteor 0342 UTC 22JAN2015c 2015 Joao Amancio‎ / BRAMON

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NEO Asteroids Close Approach Data 2000-2014 Graphs and Analysis < 10 LD - < 0.1 LD

NEO Asteroids Close Approach Data 2000-2014 Graphs and Analysis < 10 LD - < 0.1 LD
©2015 23.1.15- ANALYSIS by ESSICO- UK / LUNAR METEORITE HUNTER- TOKYO, JAPAN
Source Data NASA/JPL
Note-  In astronomy, a lunar distance (LD) is a measurement of the distance from the Earth to the Moon. The average distance from the center of the Earth to the center of the Moon is 384,400 km (238,900 mi).
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< 10 LD NEO ASTEROIDS 2000-2014 (IRRESPECTIVE OF "DISCOVERY DATE" )
SHOWN BY YEAR
©2015 ANALYSIS by ESSICO / LUNAR METEORITE HUNTER
Source Data NASA/JPL

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< 10 LD NEO ASTEROIDS 2000-2014 (IRRESPECTIVE OF "DISCOVERY DATE" ) LISTED BY MONTH
©2015 ANALYSIS by ESSICO / LUNAR METEORITE HUNTER
Source Data NASA/JPL
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< 5 LD NEO ASTEROIDS 2000-2014 (IRRESPECTIVE OF "DISCOVERY DATE" ) LISTED BY MONTH
©2015 ANALYSIS by ESSICO / LUNAR METEORITE HUNTER
Source Data NASA/JPL
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< 1 LD NEO ASTEROIDS 2000-2014 (IRRESPECTIVE OF "DISCOVERY DATE" ) LISTED BY MONTH
©2015 ANALYSIS by ESSICO / LUNAR METEORITE HUNTER
Source Data NASA/JPL
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< 0.1 LD NEO ASTEROIDS 2000-2014 (IRRESPECTIVE OF "DISCOVERY DATE" ) LISTED BY MONTH
 ©2015 ANALYSIS by ESSICO / LUNAR METEORITE HUNTER
Source Data NASA/JPL
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NEO CA ASTEROID ANALYSIS 2000-2014 Video by EISSCO- UK
NEO CA ASTEROID ANALYSIS: 2000-2014
Posted to YouTube by eissco 14 views
Published on Jan 23, 2015Straightforward analysis was conducted using data from NASA's NEO CA
page :http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/neo_ca

The results were quite interesting. See what you think. -EISSCO, UK - http://www.eissco.co.uk

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Bolide Events 1994-2013 
Small Asteroids that Disintegrated in Earth's Atmosphere
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Bolide Events 1994-2013
Map Data Shows Frequency of Small Asteroid Impacts
c 2014 NASA

Newly Released Map Data Shows Frequency of Small Asteroid Impacts, Provides Clues on Larger Asteroid Population
Linda Billings & NASA/JPL Near-Earth Object Program Office
November 14, 2014
  It happens all the time: small asteroids impact Earth's atmosphere
Small asteroids near Earth, with sizes of only about a meter, hit the atmosphere and disintegrate with surprising frequency - around every other week, new data show.
  Data gathered by U.S. government sensors and released to NASA for use by the science community reveal that these small impact events are frequent and random. A map of these small impact events - known as fireballs or bolides - recently released by NASA shows the frequency and approximate energy released by bolide events detected from 1994 through 2013. It dwarfs a data-base of small impacts based on infra-sound detections released last fall, but it does not contain all fireballs - objects less than a meter in size - that impacted the Earth during this period. ... more- http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news186.html

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23 January 2015

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 23JAN2015

Updated Charts for Asteroid 2004 BL86 Earth Flyby on Jan 26, 2015
Paul Chodas & Jon Giorgini- NASA/JPL Near-Earth Object Program Office January 22, 2015
This diagram shows the close passage of 2004 BL86 on January 26, 2015. The view is nearly edge-on to the Earth's orbit; the Moon's nearly circular orbit is highly foreshortened from this viewpoint. The asteroid moves from the south to the north, from below the Earth's orbit to above. The indicated times are Universal Time. Closest approach occurs at about 16:19 UTC, or about 11:19 EST. The roughly 500-meter (1500-foot) asteroid approaches to within 1.2 million kilometers (750,000 miles) of Earth, or about 3.1 times the distance of the Moon. ...

Gullies on Vesta Suggest Past Water-Mobilized Flows
Jet Propulsion Laboratory- January 21, 2015
Protoplanet Vesta, visited by NASA's Dawn spacecraft from 2011 to 2013, was once thought to be completely dry, incapable of retaining water because of the low temperatures and pressures at its surface. However, a new study shows evidence that Vesta may have had short-lived flows of water-mobilized material on its surface, based on data from Dawn. ...

Rosetta Comet 'Pouring' More Water Into Space
Jet Propulsion Laboratory- January 22, 2015
There has been a significant increase in the amount of water "pouring" out of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, the comet on which the Rosetta mission's Philae lander touched down in November 2014. ...

Hilltop Panorama Marks Mars Rover's 11th Anniversary
Jet Propulsion Laboratory- January 22, 2015
A panorama from one of the highest elevations that NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has reached in its 11 years on Mars includes the U.S. flag at the summit. ...

'Hard Drives' To Predict Earth's Future
International Business Times ⋅ 00:13
Researchers used a giant X-ray microscope called synchrotron to study meteorites, which are fragments of asteroids that struck earth over millions of ...

How a meteorite sparked a 'cosmic archaeological mission'
The Christian Science Monitor - 10 hours
By making tiny X-ray measurements of a meteorite, scientists can tell when its magnetic field died, revealing clues about the early history ...

Meteorite mineral named after beer is time capsule
New Scientist - 7 hours
The nitrogen in the breath you just took matches that in carlsbergite from a meteorite, which means it was probably formed at the same time ...

Scientists discover hidden magnetic messages in meteorites
ANI via Yahoo! India News - 14 hours
Washington, Jan 22 (ANI): Scientists have discovered hidden magnetic messages in meteorites from the early solar system in meteorites. ...

Hidden magnetic messages found in meteorites
IANS via Yahoo Maktoob News - 16 hours
London, Jan 22 (IANS) Geologists from University of Cambridge have uncovered hidden magnetic messages from the early solar system in ...

Scientists Unlock Ancient Meteorite 'Hard Drives' To Predict Earth's Future
International Business Times - 11 hours
Tiny fragments of magnetic particles trapped in the core of asteroids have provided scientists vital clues to the process of formation of our ...

Fire no factor in dinosaur demise
Yahoo News UK
Global firestorms would not have ravaged Earth after the giant meteor impact believed to have killed off the dinosaurs, new research suggests.

Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News
blogspot.com
A slow moving meteor can make one full swing around the world before crashing or disintegrating. The fireball Sterling captures is similar to the one .

Interesting fireballs in EDMOND database in 2014 – part 1
UK Meteor Observation Network
With the continued growth of meteor detection networks across Europe and increased coverage of the sky many more bright fireballs or even “bolides” ...

Out of This World: Noctilucent or Polar Mesospheric Clouds
Decoded Science
It would be logical to assume metal oxides and silicon dioxide would predominate as constituents of meteor smoke. The logical choices would be iron ...

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22 January 2015

High Number of Recently Discovered NEOs / Asteroids- 8,461 Since 01JAN2015!

High Number of Recently Discovered NEOs / Asteroids- 8,461 Since 01JAN2015!
NEOs /  Asteroids Discovered - 8,461 Since 01JAN2015
High Number of Recently Discovered NEOs / Asteroids- 8,461 Since 01JAN2015!
Posted to YouTube by eissco 11 views
Published on Jan 21, 2015
NASA's Close-Approach tables indicate a high number of recent asteroid discoveries. As such, we may be in for a busy period of meteor and/or meteorite sightings...throughout January and into February 2015. Keep your eyes to the skies (but be safe if driving, running, walking etc). Priority, obviously, to what's in front of you - rather than what's in the skies!
c2015 Text and Video EISSCO
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Asteroids / Comets: Seems Like We Are in a Very Busy Neighborhood
Posted to YouTube by nemesis maturity 1,256 views
Published on Jan 15, 2015
  NASA's Near-Earth Object Wide-field Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) spacecraft discovered and characterized 40 near-Earth objects (NEOs) in the first year after the mission was re-started in December 2013. Eight of the discoveries have been classified as potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs), based on their size and how close their orbits could come to Earth's orbit.
  The mission has further observed and characterized 245 previously known near-Earth objects.
  From December 2013 to December 2014, NEOWISE discovered three new comets and observed 32 others. One of the others has turned into the brightest comet in Earth's night sky in early 2015, comet C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy).

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NEOs Asteroids Close Approaches January 2015

NEOs Asteroids Close Approaches January 2015
ALERT- Several MORE Large Meteors PENDING!
January 2015 Meteors
c2015 Dirk Ross
  There are currently 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 known NEO Asteroids discovered that will pass within approximately 10LD or less, LD stands for "Lunar Distance", in the month of January; expect that 10 or more NEOs will be discovered before month end. Be ready for some bolide, fireball, and meteor activity!
 Unfortunately we will be Moonblind for ground-based detection from 02DEC2014 until about the 11JAN2015  and from 28JAN-12FEB2015 so I expect several asteroids that will go undetected.
 There are four small mountan-sized asteroids that will safely pass this month.
- LunarMeteoriteHunter, Tokyo

2005 YQ96,2014 YE42,2014 YP34 ,2007 EC,
357439 (2004 BL86), 2008 CQ,2015 AK1,2015 AO43,
2015 AQ432015 AH44 , 2015 BC2015 BF ,
2015 AK45 , 2015 BP ,2015 BK4 ,2015 BE92,
2015 BD511 , 

updated 29JAN2015
(2015 BD511) 2015-Jan-300.01154.511 m - 24 m26.919.23

updated 21JAN2015
(2015 BE92) 2015-Jan-290.00833.28.2 m - 18 m27.56.03

updated 19JAN2015
(2015 BK4) 2015-Jan-250.01375.327 m - 61 m24.911.10

updated 18JAN2015
(2015 BP) 2015-Jan-200.00471.86.3 m - 14 m28.112.68

updated 18JAN2015
(2015 BC) 2015-Jan-200.00421.640 m - 91 m24.119.74
(2015 BF) 2015-Jan-250.02399.312 m - 26 m26.810.96
(2015 AK45) 2015-Jan-260.01224.714 m - 31 m26.48.68

updated 17JAN2015 - NOT REPORTED UNTIL AFTER PASSED
(2015 AH44) 2015-Jan-140.02017.833 m - 75 m24.510.78

updated 16JAN2015 - NOT REPORTED UNTIL AFTER PASSED
(2015 AQ43) 2015-Jan-140.00110.45.6 m - 13 m28.412.51

updated 15JAN2015- NOT REPORTED UNTIL AFTER PASSED
(2015 AO43) 2015-Jan-130.01104.313 m - 29 m26.510.43

updated 12JAN2015
(2015 AK1) 2015-Jan-180.01435.636 m - 80 m24.412.14

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

(2014 WL6) 2015-Jan-010.148157.6260 m - 570 m20.112.58
Object
Name
Close
Approach
Date
CA
Distance*
(AU)
CA
Distance*
(LD)
Estimated
Diameter**
H
(mag)
Relative
Velocity
(km/s)
(2013 NX) 2015-Jan-020.111943.6110 m - 240 m22.05.06
(2005 YQ96) 2015-Jan-020.026510.3220 m - 490 m20.412.70
(2013 AJ11) 2015-Jan-030.112843.956 m - 120 m23.414.14
(2014 YQ34) 2015-Jan-030.079330.941 m - 92 m24.024.86
(2014 XD32) 2015-Jan-030.197076.7140 m - 310 m21.413.71
(2014 YE42) 2015-Jan-030.01104.357 m - 130 m23.313.99
(2014 YB42) 2015-Jan-040.042616.622 m - 49 m25.49.67
(2014 YP34) 2015-Jan-040.02258.817 m - 37 m26.06.88
(2014 YU41) 2015-Jan-040.101139.346 m - 100 m23.88.06
85990 (1999 JV6) 2015-Jan-050.083332.4270 m - 590 m20.07.69
(2010 RE31) 2015-Jan-080.116745.418 m - 39 m25.912.32
(2010 AN61) 2015-Jan-080.075129.211 m - 24 m27.03.88
(2013 AF53) 2015-Jan-080.118146.013 m - 30 m26.511.62
(2014 YZ8) 2015-Jan-090.076929.949 m - 110 m23.711.54
(2014 XM7) 2015-Jan-110.084933.069 m - 150 m22.910.28
(2014 YT34) 2015-Jan-120.036614.233 m - 73 m24.56.99
410088 (2007 EJ) 2015-Jan-120.177268.9670 m - 1.5 km18.015.44
(2013 TK4) 2015-Jan-130.134852.546 m - 100 m23.89.35
(2002 GP186) 2015-Jan-140.139154.1240 m - 540 m20.28.57
(2014 YR15) 2015-Jan-150.056121.8140 m - 310 m21.48.94
(2014 UF206) 2015-Jan-150.137753.6480 m - 1.1 km18.727.03
(2001 XU30) 2015-Jan-150.128550.0320 m - 710 m19.615.05
(2014 OV3) 2015-Jan-150.138754.061 m - 140 m23.24.01
(2007 EC) 2015-Jan-150.027310.697 m - 220 m22.26.59
(2007 CA27) 2015-Jan-160.154660.2150 m - 330 m21.317.05
(2014 YD) 2015-Jan-160.044217.238 m - 84 m24.23.11
162004 (1991 VE) 2015-Jan-170.104340.6610 m - 1.4 km18.221.59
(2014 YJ42) 2015-Jan-170.183371.3230 m - 510 m20.315.74
(2014 BT8) 2015-Jan-220.124248.327 m - 59 m25.06.66
(2012 VA26) 2015-Jan-220.167865.313 m - 28 m26.68.23
(2011 EU29) 2015-Jan-220.109842.7280 m - 620 m19.914.00
(2012 XL16) 2015-Jan-220.175968.521 m - 47 m25.55.18
(2014 ST143) 2015-Jan-220.136953.346 m - 100 m23.86.61
2062 Aten 2015-Jan-230.186472.61.1 km16.812.71
(2014 QJ362) 2015-Jan-240.083432.573 m - 160 m22.88.47
(2007 AG) 2015-Jan-240.167265.1240 m - 540 m20.212.34
(2013 PY38) 2015-Jan-240.130250.731 m - 68 m24.74.89
(2014 YC9) 2015-Jan-260.108742.340 m - 89 m24.15.29
357439 (2004 BL86) 2015-Jan-260.00803.1400 m - 900 m19.115.67
(2014 YS14) 2015-Jan-290.147957.6180 m - 400 m20.816.21
(2014 SQ143) 2015-Jan-290.111943.5140 m - 310 m21.49.16
(2008 CQ) 2015-Jan-310.01244.822 m - 49 m25.411.07
NASA/JPL- Original Source Table and for the latest updates- http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/ca/

updated 29JAN2015
updated 21JAN2015 reposted 22JAN2015
updated 19JAN2015
updated 18JAN2015 reposted
updated 18JAN2015 reposted
updated 17JAN2015
updated 16JAN2015 reposted
updated 15JAN2015
updated 12JAN2015
re-post 09JAN2015
original post 01JAN2015



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