Captured video of meteor last night around 12:42 am April 3,2015. Winnipeg Manitoba Canada.
by email - Larry Gundrum
03APR2015 Larry Gundrum Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada central time US/Canada 12:42 am 3 seconds South to NNE green and red i am a poor judge of brightness not noticeable video 63mb size. could you give me instructions on how to upload a large file again
Thank you Larry for submitting your report, photo and video!
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Meteor Outburst ALERT! Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News - Blogger Meteor Outburst ALERT! Bolides, Fireballs and Meteors Sudden Increase - April 2015 Videos. Meteor Outburst ALERT! Bolides, Fireballs and Meteors ...
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Meteor shower, stars to dazzle sky watchers in April GMA News Other than Saturday's lunar eclipse, a meteor shower and the stars will be among the highlights this April for Philippine sky watchers, state weather ...
Meteor Activity Outlook for April 4-10, 2015 American Meteor Society At this time the moon will be in the sky all night long and will spoil attempts to view meteoractivity. As the week progresses the moon's phase will wane ...
Lyrid meteor shower peaks on April 22, 2015 Free Star Charts The 2015 annual Lyrids meteor shower peaks on April 22nd and this year's event promises to be a good one as the four-day-old waxing crescent ...
SPACE.com via Yahoo! News - 12 hours THE WOODLANDS, Texas – Earth's moon is rife with huge lava tubes – tunnels formed from the lava flow of volcanic eruptions – and new ...
The Times of India - 23 hours The first human settlers on the moon may live inside giant lava tubes large enough to house cities, which were formed by ancient volcanic ...
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South Australia Fireball Meteor 01APR2015
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South Australia Fireball Meteor 01APR2015. Oodnadatta, South Australia Fireball Meteor 0431 Local Time 01APR2015 ...
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The most credible theory is the monks just saw a particularly spectacular meteor hit the atmosphere. From their point of view, and their point of view .
Lyrids Meteor Shower
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The annual Lyrids meteor shower is coming up later this month. The shower lasts from April 16th through April 25th, but is expected to peak the night ...
Small Near-Earth Asteroids as a Source of Meteorites
Jiří Borovička, Pavel Spurný, Peter Brown
(Submitted on 11 Feb 2015)
Small asteroids intersecting Earth's orbit can deliver extraterrestrial rocks to the Earth, called meteorites. This process is accompanied by a luminous phenomena in the atmosphere, called bolides or fireballs. Observations of bolides provide pre-atmospheric orbits of meteorites,
physical and chemical properties of small asteroids, and the flux (i.e.frequency of impacts) of bodies at the Earth in the centimeter to decameter size range. In this chapter we explain the processes occurring
during the penetration of cosmic bodies through the atmosphere and review the methods of bolide observations. We compile available data on the fireballs associated with 22 instrumentally observed meteorite falls. Among them are the heterogeneous falls Almahata Sitta (2008 TC3) and Bene\v{s}ov, which revolutionized our view on the structure and composition of small asteroids, the P\v{r}\'{\i}bram-Neuschwanstein orbital pair, carbonaceous chondrite meteorites with orbits on the asteroid-comet boundary, and the Chelyabinsk fall, which produced a damaging blast wave. While most meteoroids disrupt into fragments during atmospheric flight, the Carancas meteoroid remained nearly intact and caused a crater-forming explosion on the ground.
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/1502.03307
NASA's Curiosity Eyes Prominent Mineral Veins on Mars
Jet Propulsion Laboratory- April 1, 2015
* Exposed mineral veins at "Garden City" tell of a wet environment after
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NASA's Curiosity Eyes Prominent Mineral Veins on Mars
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has climbed uphill from an outcrop it studied for six months and found a site with two-tone mineral veins forming "ice-cream sandwich" ridges.
Curiosity Sniffs Out History of Martian Atmosphere
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NASA's Curiosity rover is using a new experiment to better understand
the history of the Martian atmosphere by analyzing xenon.
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Saw my first Green Meteor this Morning
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ESA's Planetary Defence Test Set for 2020 European Space Agency 31 March 2015 If an asteroid were spotted headed towards Earth, what could humanity do about it? ESA's latest mission is part of a larger international effort to find out. This month marked the start of preliminary design work on ESA's Asteroid Impact Mission, or AIM. Intended to demonstrate technologies for future deep-space missions, AIM will also be the Agency's very first investigation of planetary defence techniques. Launched in October 2020, AIM will travel to a binary asteroid system - the paired Didymos asteroids, which will come a comparatively close 11 million km to Earth in 2022. The 800 m-diameter main body is orbited by a 170 m moon, informally called "Didymoon". This smaller body is AIM's focus: the spacecraft will perform high-resolution visual, thermal and radar mapping of the moon to build detailed maps of its surface and interior structure. AIM will also put down a lander - ESA's first touchdown on a small body since Rosetta's Philae landed on a comet last November. Two or more CubeSats will also be dispatched from the mothership to gather other scientific data in the vicinity of the moon. AIM's findings will be returned by high-capacity laser link to ESA's Optical Ground Station on Tenerife in the Canary Islands. AIM should gather a rich scientific bounty - gaining valuable insights into the formation of our Solar System - but these activities will also set the stage for a historic event to come. For AIM is also Europe's contribution to the larger Asteroid Impact & Deflection Assessment mission: AIDA. In late 2022, the NASA-led part of AIDA will arrive: the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or DART, probe will approach the binary system - then crash straight into the asteroid moon at about 6 km/s. "AIM will be watching closely as DART hits Didymoon," explains Ian Carnelli, managing the mission for ESA. "In the aftermath, it will perform detailed before-and-after comparisons on the structure of the body itself, as well as its orbit, to characterise DART's kinetic impact and its consequences. "The results will allow laboratory impact models to be calibrated on a large-scale basis, to fully understand how an asteroid would react to this kind of energy. This will shed light on the role the ejecta plume will play - a fundamental part in the energy transfer and under scientific debate for over two decades. "In addition, DART's shifting of Didymoon's orbit will mark the first time humanity has altered the dynamics of the Solar System in a measurable way. "It will also give us a baseline for planning any future planetary defence strategies. We will gain insight into the kind of force needed to shift the orbit of any incoming asteroid, and better understand how the technique could be applied if a real threat were to occur." A similar collision was achieved back in 2005, when NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft shot a copper impactor into asteroid Tempel 1. But the Didymos moon is several tens of times smaller than Tempel 1, so much greater precision will be required to strike it - and the possibility of altering its orbit should be correspondingly higher. The Didymos moon is nearly three times larger than the body thought to have caused the 1908 Tunguska impact in Siberia, the largest impact in recorded history. An equivalent asteroid striking Earth would be well into the "city-killer" class, leaving a crater of at least 2.5 km across and causing serious regional and climate damage. The 2013 Chelyabinsk airburst, whose shockwave struck six cities across Russia, is thought to have been caused by an asteroid just 20 m in diameter.
AIM and AIDA will be discussed at this month's International Academy of Astronautics Planetary Defense Conference, hosted at ESA's ESRIN Earth observation centre in Frascati, Italy, which will be devoted to assessing the risk of impacts from asteroid and comets and envisaging possible responses. This year's event features a simulated asteroid threat exercise, to which representatives of global space agencies and disaster response organisations will coordinate their reactions.
RIP: Ingrid Van Houten-Groeneveld (1921-2015), Death Obit.
Dear all - Female German-born, Leiden astronomer, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld passed away on Monday 30 march, 93 years old. together with her husband Kees Van Houten (who died in 2002) and with Dutch/American astronomer Tom Gehrels (who died in 2011), Ingrid discovered 4605 asteroids, as part of the leiden-palomar survey. many of them have been given a 'Dutch' name (see the 'vHGG'= entries in this list of minor planets with a name that is somehow related to the Netherlands: http://www.astronieuws.nl/NL-plan.html). Asteroid 1674) Groeneveld is named in Ingrid's honour. a funeral service is planned on April 7, 2015.
--Govert Schilling
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Wednesday, 1 April 2015
Breaking News- NASA Assteroid Capture
Asteroid Redirect Mission Concepts Development
NASA RELEASE 15-050
NASA Announces Next Steps on Journey to Mars: Progress on Asteroid Initiative
NASA Wednesday announced more details in its plan for its Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM), which in the mid-2020s will test a number of new capabilities needed for future human expeditions to deep space, including to Mars. NASA also announced it has increased the detection of near-Earth asteroids by 65 percent since launching its asteroid initiative three years ago.
For ARM, a robotic spacecraft will capture a boulder from the surface of a near-Earth asteroid and move it into a stable orbit around the moon for exploration by astronauts, all in support of advancing the nation’s journey to Mars.
"The Asteroid Redirect Mission will provide an initial demonstration of several spaceflight capabilities we will need to send astronauts deeper into space, and eventually, to Mars," said NASA Associate Administrator Robert Lightfoot. "The option to retrieve a boulder from an asteroid will have a direct impact on planning for future human missions to deep space and begin a new era of spaceflight."
The agency plans to announce the specific asteroid selected for the mission no earlier than 2019, approximately a year before launching the robotic spacecraft. Before an asteroid is considered a valid candidate for the mission, scientists must first determine its characteristics, in addition to size, such as rotation, shape and precise orbit. NASA has identified three valid candidates for the mission so far: Itokawa, Bennu and 2008 EV5. The agency expects to identify one or two additional candidates each year leading up to the mission. Following its rendezvous with the target asteroid, the uncrewed ARM spacecraft will deploy robotic arms to capture a boulder from its surface. It then will begin a multi-year journey to redirect the boulder into orbit around the moon.
Throughout its mission, the ARM robotic spacecraft will test a number of capabilities needed for future human missions, including advanced Solar Electric Propulsion (SEP), a valuable capability that converts sunlight to electrical power through solar arrays and then uses the resulting power to propel charged atoms to move a spacecraft. This method of propulsion can move massive cargo very efficiently. While slower than conventional chemical rocket propulsion, SEP-powered spacecraft require significantly less propellant and fewer launches to support human exploration missions, which could reduce costs.
Future SEP-powered spacecraft could pre-position cargo or vehicles for future human missions into deep space, either awaiting crews at Mars or staged around the moon as a waypoint for expeditions to the Red Planet.
ARM's SEP-powered robotic spacecraft will test new trajectory and navigation techniques in deep space, working with the moon's gravity to place the asteroid in a stable lunar orbit called a distant retrograde orbit. This is a suitable staging point for astronauts to rendezvous with a deep space habitat that will carry them to Mars.
Before the piece of the asteroid is moved to lunar orbit, NASA will use the opportunity to test planetary defense techniques to help mitigate potential asteroid impact threats in the future. The experience and knowledge acquired through this operation will help NASA develop options to move an asteroid off an Earth-impacting course, if and when that becomes necessary.
In 2005, NASA's Deep Impact comet science mission tested technology that could assist in changing the course of a near-Earth object using a direct hit with a spacecraft. The ARM robotic spacecraft opens a new and second option for planetary defense using a technique called a gravity tractor. All mass exerts and experiences gravity and, in space, the gravitational attraction even between masses of modest size can significantly affect their motion. This means that by rendezvousing with the asteroid and holding a halo orbit in the appropriate direction, the ARM robotic spacecraft can slowly pull the asteroid without touching it. The effectiveness of this maneuver is increased, moreover, if mass is moved from the asteroid to the spacecraft by the capture of a boulder.
It will take approximately six years for the ARM robotic spacecraft to move the asteroid mass into lunar orbit. In the mid-2020s, NASA's Orion spacecraft will launch on the agency’s Space Launch System rocket, carrying astronauts on a mission to rendezvous with and explore the asteroid mass. The current concept for the crewed mission component of ARM is a two-astronaut, 24-25 day mission.
This crewed mission will further test many capabilities needed to advance human spaceflight for deep space missions to Mars and elsewhere, including new sensor technologies and a docking system that will connect Orion to the robotic spacecraft carrying the asteroid mass. Astronauts will conduct spacewalks outside Orion to study and collect samples of the asteroid boulder wearing new spacesuits designed for deep space missions.
Collecting these samples will help astronauts and mission managers determine how best to secure and safely return samples from future Mars missions. And, because asteroids are made of remnants from the formation of the solar system, the returned samples could provide valuable data for scientific research or commercial entities interested in asteroid mining as a future resources.
In 2012, the president's NASA budget included, and Congress authorized, $20.4 million for an expanded NASA Near-Earth Object (NEO) Observations Program, increasing the resources for this critical program from the $4 million per year it had received since the 1990s. The program was again expanded in fiscal year 2014, with a budget of $40.5 million. NASA is asking Congress for $50 million for this important work in the 2016 budget.
"Asteroids are a hot topic," said Jim Green, director of NASA Planetary Science. "Not just because they could pose a threat to Earth, but also for their scientific value and NASA's planned mission to one as a stepping stone to Mars."
NASA has identified more than 12,000 NEOs to date, including 96 percent of near-Earth asteroids larger than 0.6 miles (1 kilometer) in size. NASA has not detected any objects of this size that pose an impact hazard to Earth in the next 100 years. Smaller asteroids do pass near Earth, however, and some could pose an impact threat. In 2011, 893 near-Earth asteroids were found. In 2014, that number was increased to 1,472.
In addition to NASA's ongoing work detecting and cataloging asteroids, the agency has engaged the public in the hunt for these space rocks through the agency's Asteroid Grand Challenge activities, including prize competitions. During the recent South by Southwest Festival in Austin, Texas, the agency announced the release of a software application based on an algorithm created by a NASA challenge that has the potential to increase the number of new asteroid discoveries by amateur astronomers.
More information about the Asteroid Redirect Mission, visit:
/asteroidinitiative http://www.nasa.gov/press/2015/march/nasa-announces-next-steps-on-journey-to-mars-progress-on-asteroid-initiative/
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Oodnadatta, South Australia Fireball Meteor 0431 Local Time 01APR2015
Click ImageOodnadatta, South Australia Fireball Meteor 0431 01APR2015 c2015 Peter Jerie , All Rights Reserved
I see meteors quite often when looking at the night sky but have never seen one to actually land (most of them just burn mid-air) and this one was quite close as well (I think). I was at the Oodnadatta track, next to Algebuckina bridge (not far from the township of Oodnadatta), South Australia.from my location I was looking South (towards the township of William Creek) time was 1 April 2015, 4:31am in South Australia (local time) -Peter Jerie, Australia 2015 The SECOND Year of "CERTAIN Uncertainty" ™ / Meteors, Asteroids, Comets, and MORE!!
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Initial Meteor Sighting Reports- 29MAR2015 Joe Prarie, Idaho 3:35:00 10sec w to ne white/yellow venus could not tell lit up clouds and a large white .
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Lunar Eclipse On Saturday April 4, the moon will be moving into the Earth's shadow eventually turning the moon blood red. This celestial happening has been the subject of many myths around the world. Incas thought a jaguar was fighting the moon causing it to turn ruddy. To stop the jaguar, the Inca people yelled and shook spears at the moon. While the Mesopotamians believed that that seven demons were attacking the moon.
We know now that eclipses are just a result of the movement of the sun, moon and the Earth interacting in clock-work fashion. This eclipse will begin at 3:15am PDT, but the most dramatic part, where the moon begins to turn orange begins at 4:58am PDT. Totality will be seen in western North America, however, you can catch a glimpse of the partial phase of the event nearly anywhere on the continent.
However, if you don't live in North America, no worries, the Virtual Telescope Project will be holding a LIVE event online! Join in on the fun!
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The re-entry of 2015-016B / 40543 was imaged by Masayoshi Ueda, from Habikino, Osaka Prefecture, Japan, on 2015 Mar 29 near 12:49 UTC (21:49 JST). It was the second stage (model 11S510) of the Soyuz rocket that launched Soyuz-TMA 16M on 2015 Mar 27 UTC.
Judging by the reported brightness and its appearance in the video, it may have been captured in the early stages of its final descent, not long after it became self-luminous.
This re-entry is number 252 in my table of visually observed natural re-entries: http://satobs.org/reentry/Visually_Observed_Natural_Re-entries_latest_draft.pdf
It is the 200th Russian object in the table, and the 54th 11S510 stage (by far the most common type of object in the list).
This is the 7th consecutive month with at least one known sighting of a natural decay. Ted Molczan / Seesat-l
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Initial Meteor Sighting Reports- 29MAR2015 Joe Prarie, Idaho 3:35:00 10sec w to ne white/yellow venus could not tell lit up clouds and a large white ...
The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 29MAR2015 Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News - Blogger I saw a huge green meteor off to the east about 20 minutes ago. It streaked across the sky down towards the horizon and even left a trail. I hope.
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NASA NEWS- Our Solar System and the Periodic Table of Elements - Education Outreach Date: Saturday, April 11, 10 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. Target Audience: Formal and informal educators for grades 3 through 8 Location: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, von Karman Auditorium Overview: Do your students struggle with the Periodic Table of Elements? This California-standards-based workshop will help you get students engaged and excited about the Periodic Table by using planets and our solar system as a basis for understanding. Take a trip with NASA missions through the solar system, beginning at the center and reaching to the outer boundaries, and discover lessons about the elements that are relevant and fun!
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Cultural Heritage:Oman prohibits the removal of what it deems cultural heritage items, including - archaeological treasures, meteorites, rocks, and stones. Anyone suspected of engaging in such activity may be prosecuted under Omani law. U.S. citizens are strongly encouraged to check with Omani authorities before removing anything that may fall into this category.
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note- 2015 New Law to be published soon.
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Initial Meteor Sighting Reports- 29MAR2015 Joe Prarie, Idaho 3:35:00 10sec w to ne white/yellow venus could not tell lit up clouds and a large white explosion
29MAR2015 Ivsn Blimines Bigfork, MT, USA 03:42/ Mountain Time, AM 10 W-E, S First whitish yellow tail with large white head.. It changed to fatter, brighter, longer tail of red. It then flickered then steadied a little less brightly... It continued a little longer and went out. At least as bright as the moon No fragmentation observed None
KOLD News 13 Tuscon - 1 hour Meteorites hit the earth all the time, all usually small and little damage occurs. But in some cases it does not cause the crater you would ...
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Big flash of light Tuesday night was fireball The News Dave Lane, director of the observatory at St. Mary's University in Halifax, said the phenomenon was called a fireball, which is an exceptionally bright ...
A Fireball lit up the Prince Edward Island Skies Empire State Tribune David Path says the fireball was probably a meteor. “We do not know how fast it was going. We do not know what it was made of, so a lot of it is just a ...
The Enduring Myth Of Star Jelly io9 People have always written about star jelly, a gooey substance that appears after meteor showers or sightings of comets. When people are wandering ...
The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 27MAR2015 Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News - Blogger But according to astronomer David Lane, director of the observatory at Saint Mary's University in Halifax, it was likely a bright meteor called a fireball.
NASA Asteroid Hunter Spacecraft Data Available to Public Jet Propulsion Laboratory- March 26, 2015 Millions of images of celestial objects, including asteroids, observed by NASA's Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) spacecraft now are available online to the public. The data was collected following the restart of the asteroid-seeking spacecraft in December 2013 after a lengthy hibernation. ...
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MBIQ Indicates Larger Meteor Event over Europe 26/27MAR2015 No details are available yet at this time- The surge in traffic likely due to Newly discovered 2014 YB35 with a diameter of 440m-990m to pass on 27MAR2015Anyone with information as to what event triggered this event PLEASE EMAIL me- LunarMeteoriteHunter@gmail.com Check your security cameras!
On Saturday April 4, the moon will be moving into the Earth's shadow eventually turning the moon blood red. This celestial happening has been the subject of many myths around the world. Incas thought a jaguar was fighting the moon causing it to turn ruddy. To stop the jaguar, the Inca people yelled and shook spears at the moon. While the Mesopotamians believed that that seven demons were attacking the moon.
