The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News

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Preliminary reports trickling in of an Argentinian fireball, sonics and tremor, May 18th 2016 21:25 ...
The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News
Hugh Bolide Meteor was seen over Argentina with sonics and earth tremor reported on 18MAY2016....

108 meter-wide Apollo asteroid 2016 GS2 made a slow (Vr 8 Km/s)
The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News
If a meteor, with a mass of 1700971 grams and an entrance velocity of 0 m/s was to fall ... TURKEY, BolideMeteor May 6th 2016 00:22 EEST = May.

Fireball! Brilliant Meteor Streaks Over Northeastern US (Video)
Space.com
A huge fireball lit up the night sky over the northeastern United States Tuesday (May 17), wowing skywatchers who saw it. See video and images of ...

A massive fireball just shot through the sky over Portland
ScienceAlert
According to the American Meteor Society, they received nearly 700 reports about the fireball event over the northeastern US on 17 May 2016 around ...

Fireball that tore through night sky was visible from NJ
NJ.com
A huge fireball that was streaking across the night sky earlier this week had New England buzzing, after a police dashcam and other video cameras ...

An airport camera captures the moment in which a meteor enters the Earth's atmosphere and ...
Reddit
An airport camera captures the moment in which a meteor enters the Earth's atmosphere and catches on fire. | r/space at reddit.com.

People search for meteor fragments in Maine
Newsradio WOOD 1300 and 106.9 FM - iHeartRadio
From the Boston Globe...The hunt is on for meteorites from the Maine fireball - but don't get yo.

Piece Of Maine Meteor Could Be Worth Big Bucks!
92 Moose
The bright light burning up in the atmosphere is a meteor, and if it lands on the Earth, it's called a meteorite. The Maine Mineral and Gem Museum is ...

A huge fireball spotted in New England's night sky on Wednesday
NH Voice
A firework-like phenomenon was presented by a fireball that came was for almost 10 seconds in the night sky on Tuesday. The fireball was actually ...

Museum offers reward and tips to find meteorite Video
BETHEL, Maine (NEWS CENTER) -- People across the country are still talking about the fireball that lit up the sky very early Tuesday morning. Scientists say the meteor entered Earth's atmosphere over Maine, and exploded near Franklin County....

new Maine museum offers $20000 reward for piece of meteor seen over Northeast
Topix
The museum suspects the meteor entered Earth's atmosphere over Maine and its terminal explosion occurred about 30 km west of Rangeley in ...

Meteor last night in Falls Church, VA
Reddit
Meteor last night in Falls Church, VA | r/gifs at reddit.com.

Police dashcam captures suspected meteor in Maine sky
MSN.com
A police dashcam video captured what is suspected of being a meteor flashing across the sky in Portland, Maine. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).

Is there any reason to believe this was a meteor and not a rocket/satellite part falling down?
Quora
This object was likely never in Earth orbit. Satellites are moving at a speed of 7 or 8 km/s as they re-enter the atmosphere, and they don't usually burn ...

Meteor Caught On Police Camera
WJNO.com - iHeartRadio
Read about Meteor Caught On Police Camera | Brenna Rae | 1290 WJNO.

Meteor fireball explosion generates strong tremor in Pinamar, Argentina
Signs of the Times
A giant meteor explosion triggered a strong tremor after it disintegrated in the sky of Pinamar, Argentina on May 18, 2016. The loud sky event occurred ...

Jupiter Fireballs Caused by Big Impacts Hitting the Planet 6 to 7 Times a year
Nature World News
Fireballs are produced when Jupiter is hit by an asteroid or a meteor. Because of the size of the planet, it is believed that Jupiter receives the most ...

Jupiter Blasted by 6.5 Fireball Impacts per Year on Average
Space Daily
Meteors impacting Jupiter's upper atmosphere can create spectacular fireballs, such as the one observed by amateur astronomers Gerrit Kernbauer ...

Glass Beads in Australia Point to Huge Asteroid Hit
Discovery News
Photos: Russian Meteor Strike Aftermath. This makes it larger than the giant asteroid that collided with Earth some 66 million years ago and is widely ...

Mega-Tsunamis Wiped Away Shoreline of a Martian Ocean
New York Times
Dr. Rodriguez said that some 3.4 billion years ago a meteor crashed into the ocean triggering a mega-tsunami that plowed into the coast with waves ...

Huge Tsunamis Shaped Face of Mars Billions of Years Ago
Newsweek
About 3.4 billion years ago, a large meteor slammed into an ocean covering the northern lowlands of Mars, new research shows. This meteor was ...

Mega-tsunamis in Mars caused by meteor impacts, re-sculpted edges of red planet's ancient seas ...
International Business Times AU
More than three billion years ago, giant meteor impacts caused massive tsunamis in the northern planes that re-sculpted the edges of Mars' ancient ...

Mega Tsunamis Rocked Mars Oceans Billions of Years Ago
Space.com
These killer waves might have been triggered by giant meteor impacts, scientists added. Although the surface of Mars is now cold and dry, there is a ...

Ancient mega-tsunamis on Mars 'offer simple solution' to ocean hypothesis
BT.com
The giant waves, reaching as high as 120 metres (394ft), were caused by a pair of meteor impacts several million years apart, scientists believe.

New evidence suggests 400-foot tsunamis may have battered the surface of Mars
ExtremeTech
For comparison's sake, a 30km meteor impact on Earth would be a large-scale disruption, capable of creating a nuclear winter, but probably not large ...

Breakthrough Starshot started with a bang
Physics Today
Extra Dimensions: The Chelyabinsk meteor helped make the interstellar mission possible; major leaps in laser technology will be needed to make it ...

Meteor Activity Outlook for May 21-27, 2016
American Meteor Society
This is the worst time to try and view meteor activity as the glare from the moon will obscure all but the brightest meteors. Conditions improve slightly as ...

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Credit jpl nasa orbit diagrams

Discovered on the 31st of March this year, 108 metre wide Apollo asteroid 2016 GS2 made a close approach of our moon and planet.
May 18th 2016 close approach 2016GS2 108 metres at 3.4 LD , relative velocity 8 Km/s
2016-May-17 12:28 UTC Moon 0.0089 AU = 3.4 LD Vr = 8.49 Km/s
2016-May-18 02:03 UTC Earth 0.0087 AU = 3.4 LD Vr = 8.01 Km/s
semi major axis 1.335 AU
inclination 3.85 deg
http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2016GS2

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Police Dashcam Videos Show Streaking Meteor
YouTube
Subscribe for more: https://goo.gl/5clm0J ** A fiery meteor streaked across the sky early on Tuesday morning and was captured by a police dashboard ...

METEOR FIREBALL flaring over US caught on dashcams CCTV USA METEOR Spectacular giant
YouTube
METEOR FIREBALL flaring over US caught on dashcams CCTV U.S.A. METEOR Spectacular giant A meteor flashing in the night skies of the US just ...

Video: Burlington airport camera captured meteor
The Union Leader
Video cameras at Burlington International Airport in South Burlington captured three spectacular views of a meteor that lit up the night sky over New ...

Rare meteor captured by security cameras at Vermont airport
Macon.com & The Telegraph
Security cameras at Burlington International Airport captured a raremeteor streaking across the Vermont sky on Tuesday, May 17, 2016 at 12:50 a.m..

Dash cam captures meteor strike
MSN.com
This is not what a Maine police officer expected to see while looking for speeders one night.

Extended: Meteor seen in West Ottawa
CTV Ottawa News - CTV News
CTV Viewer Marilyn Hillier caught a meteor lighting up the sky early Tuesday morning from the house in West Carleton.

Fireball lights up sky over Ontario, Quebec
CBC.ca
New Photo (+ video & map) of the #Fireball caught on May 17 over Northeastern US.. https://t.co/9sl1NJ9fDD #meteorpic.twitter.com/SpJ0cSGwDx.

Meteor in New England
YouTube
A meteor lit up the night sky over New England and eastern Canada on 17 May 2016, around 12:50 am EDT (18 May 2016, around 4:50 UTC).

Fireball Over the Portland Sky This Week
94.9 WMMQ
Fireball Over the Portland Sky This Week. By Deb Hart May 19, 2016 6:47 AM. Share on Facebook ... Best of WMMQ.com. Fireball over Maine ...

Museum Offers $20000 For Meteorite Fragment From New England Fireball
Huffington Post
A fireball lit up the sky over New England on Tuesday morning, and one museum in Maine is offering $20,000 to anyone who can produce a ...

20000 Reward Offered for Chunk of Meteor
Maine Public Broadcasting
A $20,000 reward is being offered to anyone who recovers a 1 kilogram chunk of themeteor seen Tuesday. The meteor was captured on police video ...

Fireball That Passed Through Portland Night Sky Captured On Video
Tech Times
After the fireball streaked through the night sky, the American Meteor Society (AMS) said it had received 690 reports of sightings from New Jersey to ...

Meteor felt and heard in Androscoggin Valley
Berlindailysun
The fiery meteor lit up the night sky through much of northern New England. Some reports indicate the meteoroid entered Earth's atmosphere over ..

Police dashcam records meteor in sky over Portland
International Business Times, India Edition
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This apocalyptic asteroid's impact was bigger than one that killed dinosaurs
CNN
(CNN) That asteroid which took out the dinosaurs all those years ago? That was nothing. Scientists say there was a bigger hunk of rock from space ...

Big Meteor!
Pontchartrain Astronomy Society
Look at this meteor video! :woohoo: http://www.nola.com/science/index.ssf/2016/05/meteor_video_portland_maine.html#incart_... - English (en-GB)

Those looking for meteorite in Maine could see dream turn to dust
Press Herald
The American Meteor Society determined that the meteoroid seen over the ... The meteor broke up about 28 miles above the surface of Upper ...

USM Planetarium's Ed Gleason interviewed about falling meteor captured on video
USM News
During the wee hours of Tuesday morning, April 17, a Portland police officer captured the flaming orb streaking across the night sky on his dash cam.

Meteor captured on dashcam video lights up New England sky
The Providence Journal
Portland police Sgt. Tim Farris was parked in front of the Central Fire Station when his camera captured the meteor lighting up the sky. The shocked ...

Raw Meteor Lights Up New England Sky Невероятное зрелище 2016
YouTube
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Meteor Outburst Alert! Sudden Increase in Fireballs Worldwide
YouTube
Skywatch Media News-The World Wants to Know Fireball/Bolide Outburst Week of May 12, 2016 Immense Fireball and Bolide Activity Reported ...

Study: Jupiter blasted by an average of 6.5 fireballseach year
UPI.com
Since the project began three years ago, the team of amateur astronomers has also reviewed 53,000 videos without a single sign of a fireball.
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Clues to ancient giant asteroid found in Australia
www.sciencedaily.com
Scientists have found evidence of a huge asteroid that struck the Earth early in its life with an im...

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Sailors and workers load supplies for the the L/B MYRTLE Offshore Support Vessel -a scientific platform in the Gulf of Mexico

The L/B MYRTLE Offshore Support Vessel, a scientific platform in the Gulf of Mexico

For now, they know that the asteroid's impact was so powerful caused material to fly into orbit and fall back into Earth like fireballs. Later, ash covered the skies, turning the planet into a dark and cold place.

"This created a chain of extinction. Months later, the dust fell on the continents and oceans, changing the chemistry of the oceans," said expedition chief Jaime Urrutia, president of the Mexican Science Academy.

While there are still debates about whether the asteroid is solely to blame for the disappearance of dinosaurs, scientists agree that it caused great destruction and had a role in how life evolved after its crash.http://phys.org/news/2016-05-sea-scientists-drill-crater-dino.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter

All content herein credited to physics.org.

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According to witnesses a luminous object fell into the sea off Pinamar. Sightings reported from Pinamar, Villa Gesell and la Costa - Argentina.
https://www.facebook.com/cn3pinamardigital/videos/666173323530382/

21:15 ART
Meteorite falls in Pinamar
Panic: a meteorite fell in Carilo Pinamar Villa Gesell
The glowing object rushed over the sea in the area located between Villa Gesell and Cariló at 21:15. While damages were not recorded, there were moments of extreme concern after the impact, since collapsed alarm systems in various parts of the population.
Argentina
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rj2yRhw3jNw
The first pictures of the hot rod that fell in pinamar at 21:20 giving a tremor from pinamar until blue sea.
https://www.facebook.com/Pinamar24/?fref=photo

Picture used in the report below is merely representational (The Argentinian bolide of 2015). The report seems true. Alarm for a supposed meteorite that fell in Pinamar

According to witnesses a luminous object fell into the sea off Pinamar. Through social networks they identified the object as a meteorite that caused a strong earthquake. a luminous body was also sighted in the United States According to a tweet the mayor of the town, Martin Yeza, the incident occurred at 21.25 yesterday and caused fear among the people, who saw the object falling and felt the movement while numerous alarm systems were activated. According to the village head surveillance cameras will be reviewed to see if the time of the fall was recorded. According to reports of witnesses the time of the fall was seen in Cariló, Pinamar and Ostend. "He got all white and sparks from the explosion could be seen," said an officer of the police station Ostende. "He saw in half the sky, looked like a shooting star. I never saw one like it," he added. After that, the station began receiving calls from people who had heard the same explosion.

http://www.tucumanoticias.com.ar/noticia/actualidad/alarma-por-un-supuesto-meteorito-que-cayo-en-pinamar-150944.html

Awaiting further videos to compute trajectory and orbit. Stay tuned folks.

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RAW: HUGE Meteor burns through sky, captured on Police dash cam video in Portland, Maine
YouTube
Massive meteorite fireball captured on police dashcam. Burning Meteor caught on video streaking across the sky. The fiery space rock was visible ...

Giant fireball streaks across Canadian, U.S. skies
The Weather Network
Tuesday, May 17, 2016, 2:22 PM - Skies from Ontario to Quebec in Canada and Maine, New Jersey and Massachusetts in the U.S. were lit up around ...

Meteor lights up Ottawa sky, earthlings safe
Ottawa Citizen
“Tens of thousands” of people witnessed the very bright fireball, mostly in the northeastern United States and a few in Canada, said Peter Brown, ...

Massive meteor fireball filmed over Maine
Signs of the Times
A fireball that the American Meteor Society described as "huge" lit up the sky over the Northeast early Tuesday. The society said it received videos and ...

Dashcam captures stunning meteor as it lights up night sky
Washington Post
A police cruiser's dashcam captured footage of a meteor as it lit up a night sky in Portland, Maine.

Brilliant meteor caught on camera over Vermont
KOMO
KOMO 4 News · KOMO NewsRadio · Police Scanner · Refined. Brilliant meteor caught on camera over Vermont. By CNN Tuesday, May 17th 2016 ...

Video of massive meteor passing over Amesbury
The Daily News
Amesbury residents Matt and Denise Vincent caught an image of a massive meteor passing overhead last night. The video was shot from a security ...

Great Ball Of Fire Lights Up Sky Over New England
Huffington Post
A massive fireball lit up the night sky across New England, with nearly 200 sightings pouring in as far away as Pennsylvania. Breathtaking video ...

Blazing meteor creates light show across New England sky
Reuters
The Portland, Maine, police department posted a video showing the meteor as videotaped by the dashboard camera of a patrol car. One of the officers ...

Plattsburgh police camera spots falling meteor (VIDEO)
WatertownDailyTimes.com
PLATTSBURGH — Plattsburgh police officers found a startling sight as they drove the city's streets early Tuesday morning: a falling meteor.

Watch big, brilliant meteor dazzle in New England sky
Christian Science Monitor
A meteor burning up in the atmosphere was caught on a Maine police dashboard cam as an officer watched for speeding motorists.

Meteor Captured On Video Lights Up Parts Of Pennsylvania Sky
CBS Pittsburgh - CBS Local
meteor. 1. PORTLAND, Maine (AP) – A police sergeant looking for speeders captured a fireball streaking across the sky on his dashboard camera ...

Fireball captured on US traffic police officer's dashcam
BBC News
A bright fireball shot across the sky early Tuesday around 0500 GMT (0100 EDT), lighting up several north-eastern US states and parts of Canada.

Meteor streaks across sky in Northeast
The Union Leader
New England night owls got a rare look at a meteor blazing though the darkness ... According to the museum, the meteor was blazing through the sky ...

'Oh my God': Dazzling meteor captured on police dashcam in New England
Washington Post
It was a meteor. A dashboard camera captured it blazing through the night sky at around 12:50 a.m.. “Oh my God,” Officer Graham Hults said.

The best videos of the fireball seen over the Northeast
WGAL Lancaster
Check out some of the best videos of the fireball seen streaking across skies in the northeastern part of the country....

Spectacular Meteor In Northeast Caught On Camera
CBS News
Watch "Spectacular Meteor In Northeast Caught On Camera", a CBSN video on CBSNews.com. View more CBSN videos and watch CBSN, a live ...

Meteor seen throughout New England
WPTZ.com
Meteor seen throughout New England. Burlington International Airport staff, security cameras catch the action. Published 12:52 AM EDT May 18, 2016 ...

There's a $20000 reward for a piece of Tuesday morning's meteor
Boston.com
Did you see the fireball that sailed across the sky early Tuesday morning? Did you happen to catch a piece of it as it broke up in the atmosphere?

Meteor lights up sky in Maine
Bangor Daily News
Local police officers caught the incident on their dash cams, including the Portland Police Department who watched the meteor as it came down.

Massive meteor illuminates local sky
The Daily News of Newburyport
AMESBURY — Most people were probably asleep when an extremely large meteorpassed overhead early yesterday morning, but fortunately, at least ...

Videos capture spectacular streaking meteor in Northeast
Kennebec Journal & Morning Sentinel
The American Meteor Society shared the Portland video on its website, generating so much traffic it apparently caused the site to crash Tuesday ...

Meteor Streaks Across New England Sky
NBC News
A Portland, Maine police officer's dash cam captured brief glimpse of the meteor as it streaked overhead.

Police officer's dash cam captures meteor streaking across the sky
FOX 13 News
The Portland, Maine, Police Department posted an incredible video of a meteorstreaking across the night sky.

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KOBI-TV NBC5 / KOTI-TV NBC2
Portland, Maine (NBC News) — A fireball lit up the sky across New England early Tuesday morning. Police dashcam video from Portland, Maine ...

Meteor at Burlington International Airport, May 17, 2016
Burlington Free Press
Meteor caught at 12:50 a.m. Tuesday, May 17, 2016, at the Burlington International Airport in South Burlington.

Jupiter blasted by 6.5 fireball impacts per year on average
AlphaGalileo
Jupiter blasted by 6.5 fireball impacts per year on average. 18 May 2016 Europlanet Media Centre. Jupiter is hit by an average of 6.5 objects per year ...

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Huge Fireball with sonic and fragmentation reports NE US May 17th 2016 00:50 EDT (04:50 UTC) Multiple videos. $20,000 reward for a piece of the meteorite weighing at least 2.2 pounds.

MeteorRats Scramble! Rocks likely on the ground!

“I’m not going to say absolutely it didn’t produce meteorites on the ground, but I have not seen a Doppler signature that would suggest that,” Cooke said Friday night from the Marshall Space Flight Center near Huntsville, Alabama.

http://www.pressherald.com/2016/05/21/scientist-says-nasa-is-wrong-about-meteorites-reaching-maine/

UPDATE: METEOR ORBIT RECREATED BY NASA METEOR WATCH OFFICE

https://www.facebook.com/NasaMeteorWatch/videos/1101744243218134/

This animation shows the orbit of the fireball that occurred over New Hampshire/Maine around 12:50 AM EDT on May 17 (night of May 16). Once the meteoroid gets very close to Earth, the view shifts to the fireball's perspective, depicting what a camera attached to the meteor would show as it plunges towards Earth.

Credit- AMS

Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Massachusetts, New York, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Ontario (Canada) and Québec (Canada)

The Maine Mineral & Gem Museum suspects the meteor crashed into the woods of northwestern Maine, based on preliminary findings. It's offering a $20,000 reward if someone recovers a piece of the meteorite weighing at least 2.2 pounds.http://phys.org/news/2016-05-meteor-captured-dashcam-video-england.html#jCp

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1230156907018595&set=p.1230156907018595&type=3&theater

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u20ZMYsa2WQ
© Portland Maine Police Department
Burlington Airport cameras capture fireball in night sky - WPTZ NewsChannel 5

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0JfrtB9lwQ

http://www.amsmeteors.org/members/imo_view/event/2016/1750

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2016/05/17/meteor-meteorite-fireball-caught-on-police-dash-cam-video-portland/84482476/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThsJfx6iykM

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Dash cam captures fireball spotted across New England
WSOC Charlotte
The officer had been looking for speeders at an intersection in Portland, Maine when he saw the fireball around 1 a.m. Tuesday. WFXT's Shiri Spear ...

VIDEO: Fireball streaks across night sky
WKBW-TV
The American Meteor Society says the fireball was seen in the Northeastern US around 12:50am. This video is from police in Portland, Maine who ...

Fireball shoots across Maine sky
WMTW Portland
Fireball shoots across Maine sky. Published 8:01 AM EDT May 17, 2016 ... Tuesday morning. Did you see it? Check out incredible video of the fireball.

Brilliant meteor burns through sky in police dash cam video
USA TODAY
Police Sgt. Tim Farris was patrolling for speeding drivers early Tuesday when his cruiser's dash cam captured the remarkable: a bright and burning ...

Raw: Meteor Lights Up New England Sky
Virginian-Pilot
A Portland police sergeant looking for speeders captured a fireball that flashed across the sky on his dashboard camera. (May 17). Subscribe for more ...

Watch: Meteor lights up sky in Maine
KHOU.com
Watch: Meteor lights up sky in Maine. Portland PD captured this video early May 17, 2016 (via WGME/CBS). CBS / WGME , KHOU 7:01 AM. EST May ...

White flash lights up sky as meteor caught on video
WCVB.com
A police officer in Portland caught sight of a meteor early Tuesday that also caught several others by surprise.

Raw: Meteor Lights Up New England Sky
YouTube
A Portland police sergeant looking for speeders captured a fireball that flashed across the sky on his dashboard camera. (May 17) Subscribe for more ...

Portland police officer catches streaking meteor on dashcam
Fighting the Tides - Bangor Daily News
While on patrol early Tuesday morning, Portland police Sgt. Tim Farris captured a streaking meteor on his dashcam from Congress Street.

Portland, Maine Police capture spectacular meteor on dash cam
KMPH.com
... big and bright in the night sky. The fireball turned out to be the trail of a meteor burning up as it passed through the earth's atmosphere...

Meteor Blazes Across Sky Above Ontario
LiveLeak.com
The American Meteor Society said that it received more than 140 reports of a fireball seen in skies above the US northeast region on May 17.

A Giant Meteor Flew Over Montreal Last Night
MTL Blog (blog)
Well the good news is you weren't alone and we're not being attacked by aliens. This morning (May 17th) at about 12:50 am, a massive meteor flew ...

Meteor-like fireball streaks across New Hampshire sky
WMUR Manchester
Keith Jameson was driving along I-93 in Derry when the meteor-like streak soared by overhead. "I was just driving near exit four and the whole sky, ...

Huge Fireball over Northeastern US
American Meteor Society
The AMS has received over 160 reports so far about a fireball event over Northeastern US on May 17th 2016 around 1:50am EDT (4:50 UT).

F ootage captures moment meteor lights up New England sky
The Globe and Mail
A Portland police sergeant looking for speeders captured a fireball that flashed across the sky on his dashboard camera.

Meteors and Meteor Showers: The Science
Answers for all issues on the one website in 10 languages
A fireball from a Southern Delta Aquarid meteor streaks over one of the network cameras in July 2010 in this still image from a NASA video camera.

The Eta Aquariids 2016 from Ermelo, Netherlands
Meteor News
1 Introduction. Every year the first week of May is a special period for meteor observers in Belgium and the Netherlands. Early May the meteor shower ...

F ield Training and Research Program at Meteor Crater — Deadline Extended to June 13
Lunar and Planetary Institute - USRA
The Field Training and Research Program at Meteor Crater is a week-long geology field class and research project based at Barringer Meteorite ...

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If a meteor, with a mass of 1700971 grams and an entrance velocity of 0 m/s was to fall 700 km ...
Quora
[math]v_f^2=v_1^2+2*a*d[/math] Initial velocity is 0, acceleration is 9.807 m/s[math]^2[/math], and distance is 700000 meters. First we find velocity....

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 14MAY2016
The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News
The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 14MAY2016. Could ancient space dust reveal mysteries of Earth's early atmosphere? The Marshalltown...

If a meteor breaks apart in the atmosphere, how far apart could the impact craters be?
Quora
Depending on the size of the fragments and where the meteor broke apart, it could be any number of distances. That is to say, the answer to this ...

Russia Meteor Crash Sites Relative to Lake Karachay
Google
How close to the most radioactive lake in the world did the Feb. 15, 2013 meteor fall?

Giant meteor fireball '10 times brighter than the full moon' explodes with loud boom over southern ...
Signs of the Times
The disintegrating blue-green ball of fire emitted a powerful and loud boom reported all across southern Finland. The meteor flew from north to south...

View Event
American Meteor Society
Report a Fireball · Events · Reports · Log In · Sign up ... AMS received one report about afireball seen over NJ on Saturday, May 14th 2016 around ...
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Via- Jose Ildefonso
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Will Luxembourg Lead the Race for Space Mining?
www.smithsonianmag.com
The tiny nation announced its private industry partners for asteroid mining
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Via- Gabriel Gonçalves
May 15 at 3:02am
Incluída a sugestão do Marcelo: Destaque para a Scb, mas comentando da alternativa com a outra câmera.
ITENS NECESSÁRIOS PARA MONTAGEM DE UMA ESTAÇÃO DE MONITORAMENTO DE METEOROS BRAMON.pdf

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Giant meteor fireball '10 times brighter than the full moon'
Signs of the Times
A fireball 10 times brighter than the full moon exploded in the sky of Finland on May 12, 2016. The disintegrating blue-green ball of fire emitted a ...
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Via David Finlay in Australian Meteor Reports.
I just took a report of a very bright and long lasting fireball from Steve Davis in Orford, Tasmania. The event occurred this morning, 5:15am AEST 15/5/15.
Steve described the fireball as lasting at least 3 seconds, perhaps more. It came from the east, travelled almost directly overhead at a heading of 250 degrees. He did not report any sonics. The fireball continued on below the tree line.
The heading has the fireball travelling towards the northern Hobart area, around Richmond or Bridgewater.
It would be interesting to see if any sonics were reported around these areas.

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VIA- Thomas Kapitany
May 16 at 11:08pm

Geology of Libya
‫Libyan Desert Glass (LDG) زجاج الصحراء الليبية
Formed by the impact of meteor strike on the dese...

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Could ancient space dust reveal mysteries of Earth's early atmosphere?
The Marshalltown
By analyzing the chemistry of ancient micrometeorites, or microscopic flecks of meteor that are too small to burn up in the atmosphere and instead ...

Hubble Catches Views of a Jet Rotating with Comet 252P/LINEAR
News Release Number: STScI-2016-14
May 12, 2016
For thousands of years, humans have recorded sightings of mysterious comets
sweeping across the nighttime skies. These celestial wanderers, "snowballs"
of dust and ice, are swift-moving visitors from the cold depths of space.
Some of them periodically visit the inner solar system during their journeys
around the sun. ...

Meteor Activity Outlook for May 14-20, 2016
American Meteor Society
The estimated total hourly meteor rates for evening observers this week is near 2 for observers located in the northern hemisphere and 3 for observers ...

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Finland Super Bolide Meteor 12MAY2016
TAIWAN 台湾 Elementary School Asteroid Search Team Discovered 8 Potentially NEW Asteroids VIDEO!
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Fantastic India- What ancient India really discovered and invented!

Finland Superbolide Meteor 12MAY2016
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Finland Superbolide Meteor 12MAY2016. 10 times brighter than the full moon - the last night above the fireball Finland 00"05 hrs 12MAY2016

A new discovery could completely change how we understand the early formation of the Earth.
MAY 12, 2016 BY DAN TAYLOR

Ancient meteorite discovery shocks scientists
Scientists have just found the oldest meteorites ever on our planet — 2.7 billion years old, to be exact. And it’s an astonishing find that could change scientists’ understanding of the early history of our Earth’s atmosphere......

Meteorite
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Alamogordo.NM / West Texas Bolide Meteor 07MAY2016 The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News Had a pretty killer Bolide meteor Saturday .
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Via- Manoj Pai
May 12 at 11:47pm
The forum on this page is logically more interesting than the original article.

Laser-zapping scientists will save the Earth from meteorite destruction
www.theregister.co.uk
Armageddon outta here
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Via- Thomas Kapitany
May 13 at 9:38am

These Are The Oldest Meteorites Ever Discovered
www.popularmechanics.com
And they just might overturn what scientists had thought about the early Earth.
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Via- Jose Ildefonso
May 13 at 10:35am

Giant Impacts on Earth-Like Worlds
aasnova.org
A recent study examines whether our planet’s history of giant impacts is typical for Earth-like worl...
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May 13 at 6:38pm
Muy recomendable para todos los que andáis por Madrid.

Curso de Astrofotografía de cometas con cámara réflex
www.astrocity.esIko Margalef viene a Madrid para enseñarnos a fotografiar y procesar cometas. Son técnicas muy espec...

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10 times brighter than the full moon - the last night above the fireball Finland 00"05 hrs 12MAY2016
MeteorRats Prepare for Scramble! ROCKS on the ground!

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Finland Super Bolide Meteor 12MAY2016

Aki Taavitsainen saved last night a very bright fireball Mikkeli Ursa meteorikameralla.

Photo Aki Taavitsainen / Ursa Mikkeli

..."This bright likely to be seen barely once a year," says Esko Lyytinen Ursa fireball Working Group. "Track income mass in the atmosphere was estimated at 10 pounds, but the fact remained after the flight up to the surface to 150 grams in the biggest fragment and a total of up to a couple of pounds of small bits and pieces." ... MORE-

English Translation
-https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.avaruus.fi%2Fuutiset%2Ftahtiharrastus-ja-taivaanilmiot%2F10-kertaa-taysikuuta-kirkkaampi-viime-yona-tulipallo-suomen-ylla.html

Finnish Original-
https://www.avaruus.fi/uutiset/tahtiharrastus-ja-taivaanilmiot/10-kertaa-taysikuuta-kirkkaampi-viime-yona-tulipallo-suomen-ylla.html

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3D representation of spectral data with base image of actual image clip.
C2016 Thomas Dorman / Dirk Ross

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TAIWAN 台湾 Tang Lung Elementary School Asteroid Search Team Discovered 8 Potentially NEW Asteroids -VIDEO!-- I return to Taiwan tomorrow 13MAY-31MAY2016 . Here I come!
- LunarMeteoriteHunter, Tokyo

Tang Long Elementary School, PingTung, Taiwan

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從現在起，天空中有1顆小行星叫「屏東」。記者翁禎霞／攝影
Tang Lung Asteroid Search Team 3rd-5th Graders!
From now on, the sky has an asteroid named "Pingtung."
Reporter Weng Zhen Xia / Photography

TAIWAN 台湾 Tang Lung Elementary School Asteroid Search Team Discovered 8 Potentially NEW Asteroids

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Published on May 11, 2016
PingTung, Taiwan Tang Lung Elementary School Students Discovered 8 Potentially NEW Asteroids! http://tinyurl.com/jpf2bm5

Pingtung City Tang Lung Elementary School Establish Asteroid Search Team http://tinyurl.com/hvusydb
Pingtung City Tang Lung Elementary School establish asteroid search team, students can learn to set up and use a telescope and learn astronomical knowledge, in addition to the school hoping to stimulate children's curiosity for the vastness of the universe.

"Here you go! Be proud of these students! Go PingTung, Taiwan GO! PingTung Tang Lung Elementary School!" - Dirk Ross -

175583 Pingtung - Asteroid Newly Named After PingTung County Taiwan http://tinyurl.com/j7trx3e
175583 Pingtung, Pingtung asteroid the size of a rough estimate of about 3-6 km detour around the sun about 5.55 years (orbital period), about 430 million kilometers from the sun, the nearest time (perihelion), when the farthest from the sun (aphelion ) of about 510 million kilometers. October 15, 2006 was found, it was in the vicinity of the Taurus, in April 2016 in the position of Capricorn.

The ' LUNAR METEORITE HUNTER'
THE LATEST WORLDWIDE METEOR/METEORITE NEWS
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Anyone wanting to make donations of money or time please contact Mr. Dirk Ross here: @ drtanuki@gmail.com . Thank you!
任何人想要做的金錢和時間捐款請與我聯繫@ drtanuki@gmail.com。謝謝！
-Dirk Ross....Tokyo, LunarMeteoriteHunter

Thank you Brother Elias for helping also with this project and your fantastic videos!
Love, Dirk Ross....Tokyo

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19 different types of amino acids found in contaminated ÇANAKKALE L6 CHONDRITE of 1964 fall ...
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Dinosaurs Already in Decline Before Massive Meteor State of the State KS (subscription) ... TURKEY,Bolide Meteor May 6th 2016 00:22 EEST = May.

Could a Comet Wipe Out Most of Life on Earth Again?
Seeker (registration) (blog)
Can we stop it from happening again? In 2013 a meteor exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia with the force of 20 nuclear bombs. The scariest part?

Local researchers find evidence of fiery end for Sodom in Bible
The Daily Advance
The explosion over the sparsely populated area was generally thought to have been caused by a meteor strike. On further study, scientists concluded ...REALLY???
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May 12 at 3:27pm

Suevite (or suevite breccia) | ERNSTSON CLAUDIN IMPACT STRUCTURES – METEORITE CRATERS
www.impact-structures.comSuevite (or suevite breccia) “A suevite breccia is a polymictic impact breccia with clastic matrix t...

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Fantastic India- What ancient India really discovered and invented!

1. The age of the earth
In the 5th century, the ancients Indians had stated that the earth was 4.3 billion years
2. Concept of relativity...
Relativity is no new discovery, just as the concept of light years is no matter for astonishment to people used to thinking of time in millions of kalpas - A kalpa is about 4,320,000 years.”...
3. Trigonometry and optics
Varāhamihira, an astronomer, mathematician, and astrologer, of the 5th century defined the concepts of refraction and reflection. He also defined the algebraic properties of zero as well as of negative numbers....
4. Discovery of gravity
More than 5,000 year-old, Rig Veda stated through verses that the gravitational force held the universe together and the sun was at the center of the universe; thousands of years before Newton and Copernicus discovered it....
5. Pythagoras theorem
It was ancient Indian mathematician Baudhāyana who wrote about a theorem similar to the modern Pythagoras theorem in the book Baudhāyana Śulbasûtra in 800 BC. ...
6. The zero
The so called Arabic numerals and positional decimal numeral system, originated in India....
7. Cotton fabric...
8. High-quality steel
Ancient India’s expertise is metallurgy is reiterated in the form of its architecture marvels. It was said that as early as 200 BC, high quality steel was being produced in India...
9. Takshashila University
Around 800 BC, a giant University at Takshashila (often called Taxila) existed in the north-western region of India. At that time even the concept of University was unknown to the world....
10. Chess (Chaturanga)...

For the whole story-https://www.yahoo.com/style/ancient-india-really-discovered-invented-110605019.html

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Katana made from Meteorite in Tokyo Skytree
Imgur
Images of meteorite and katana uploaded by Hokhoku....

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 10MAY2016
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Alamogordo.NM / West Texas Bolide Meteor 07MAY2016 The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News Had a pretty killer Bolide meteor Saturday ...

A Meteor is Headed for Earth Soon
Before It's News
But as the meteor /burning rock approached, the sky was lit up as the meteor entered the atmosphere, everyone was terror gripped, screaming as they ... REALLY???

Eyewitnesses report 'fireball in the sky' after substation fault in St Ives
Hunts Post
There were reports of a fireball in the sky above St Ives on Sunday (May 8) following a fire at an electricity substation.... NOT a meteor!
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Via- Jose Ildefonso
May 11 at 9:57pm

Drilling Chicxulub: Journey to the Center of an Apocalypse
blogs.discovermagazine.comOn a drilling platform off Mexico’s coast, scientists are tapping into the Chicxulub crater and lear...

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19 different types of amino acids found in contaminated ÇANAKKALE L6 CHONDRITE of 1964 fall in Turkey, including five carbon amino acid isomers that are not found in either the soil or procedural blank samples.
http://www.dailysabah.com/nation/2016/05/06/signs-of-life-uncovered-inside-meteorite-found-in-western-turkey

A part of the meteorite on display at Istanbul University's Geology Museum. (AA Photo) courtesy www.dailysabah.com/

SEARCHING FOR EXTRATERRESTRIAL AMINO ACIDS IN A CONTAMINATED METEORITE: AMINO ACID ANALYSES OF THE ÇANAKKALE L6 CHONDRITE
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20160002360.pdf

Table 2. Compound specific stable isotope measurements for amino acids in the Çanakkale meteorite and soil sample. Source:http://ntrs.nasa.gov/

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