17 March 2018

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 17MAR2018

PICTURES: Remains of meteor that struck Saudi Arabia four centuries ago
Al-Arabiya
The top section of the space-matter is currently on display at the National Museum of Saudi Arabia. (Supplied). Mohammed al-Harbi, Al Arabiya.net Saturday, 17 March 2018. The National Geographic team has visited a meteorite's site, called “Wobar (Wabar),” in the Empty Quarter of the Saudi ...

Chicora Meteor
Google News

A gigantic asteroid will zoom past Earth during its closest approach towards Earth
The News Recorder
The Phaethon is believed to the source of the Geminid meteor showers that reached its peak last Thursday night. Scientists are confused whether to call the space rock an asteroid or a comet, as it looks more like an asteroid, but sometimes it displays comet-like activity. Many scientists suggested that it is ...

Super-Schmidt Meteor Camera
Royal Astronomical Society of Canada
Super-Schmidt Meteor Camera. John M. Grant and Peter Millman with a Super-Schmidt meteor camera. Super-Schmidt Camera. ArchiveTags: Peter Millman · 1950s ...

Falling meteor over Fort Worth?
Star-Telegram
Reddit user d0ubleR says that this dashcam video captured a video of a meteor falling through the sky over Fort Worth this past Tuesday. The incident occurred about 4:15 p.m. March 13. The user posted it on reddit on Wednesday, March 14. He was driving north on I-35W just south of Loop 820 in south ...

Reports Report 1029m (Event 1029-2018)
Report a Fireball
Location. Address, Baltimore, MD. Latitude, 39° 18' 5.66'' N (39.3°). Longitude, 76° 35' 27.63'' W (-76.59°). Elevation, 19.04m. Time and Duration. Local Date & Time, 2018-03-16 20:40 EDT. UT Date & Time, 2018-03-17 00:40 UT. Duration, ≈3.5s. Direction. Moving direction, From up right to down left.

Reports Report 1029o (Event 1029-2018)
Report a Fireball
Observer. Name, Darrin M. Experience Level, 2/5. Remarks, End of path was obscured by roof so I estimated ending angle. Location. Address, Geneva, NY. Latitude, 42° 46' 37.06'' N (42.78°). Longitude, 77° 0' 18.32'' W (-77.01°). Elevation, 224.28m. Time and Duration. Local Date & Time, 2018-03-16 ...

Fireball report
American Meteor Society
Name, Sarah D. Experience Level, 4/5. Remarks, This was spectacular. I have never seen anything like it in CT. Every meteor I've seen travels horizontally. It was unique, and definitely looked like something burning up in the atmosphere.

Fireball report
Report a Fireball
Observer. Name, Adam C. Experience Level, 2/5. Remarks, This seemed to be much closer than any other meteor I've witnessed in my lifetime and would like to learn more about it and others. Location. Address, Stewartstown, PA. Latitude, 39° 45' 49.42'' N (39.76°). Longitude, 76° 35' 35.17'' W (-76.59°).

Fireball report
American Meteor Society
Observer. Name, Kyle S. Experience Level, 3/5. Remarks, Just how bright the fireball was and how quickly came into view and disappeared with a smoke trail. And it was witnessed by me and my driver on a minibus as we were driving towards Driffield I saw it over the houses in Driffield. Location ...

Fireball report
Report a Fireball
Observer. Name, Bunting R. Experience Level, 2/5. Remarks, I was driving northbound on the a24 when we saw the fireball. Location. Address, , England (GB). Latitude, 50° 55' 18.55'' N (50.92°). Longitude, 0° 23' 58.8'' W (-0.4°). Elevation, 40.77m. Time and Duration. Local Date & Time, 2018-03-16 ...

Fireball report
Report a Fireball
Observer. Name, Karris R. Experience Level, 2/5. Remarks, Lasted approximately 3 seconds - I've never seen anything like it before. Location. Address, , England (GB). Latitude, 51° 31' 17.76'' N (51.52°). Longitude, 0° 25' 56.3'' W (0.43°). Elevation, 12.17m. Time and Duration. Local Date & Time ...

Fireball report
American Meteor Society
Observer. Name, Tony W. Experience Level, 3/5. Remarks, only thing i can say is it didn't seem half as fast as meteors or fireballs ive seen in the past. Location. Address, , England (GB). Latitude, 53° 22' 7.13'' N (53.368647°). Longitude, 2° 35' 16.58'' W (-2.587939°). Elevation, 24.270081m. Time and ...

Menomous Solenodon, last survivor of a branch of mammals that appeared at the time of the ...
Science Daily
... and it is the sole remaining branch of mammals that split from other insectivores at the time of the dinosaurs. The solenodon genome sequence revealed the answer to several evolutionary questions, such as whether the solenodon species indeed survived the meteor impact that killed the dinosaurs.

Police Dash cam captures meteor (Date Location Unknown)
YouTube
Police dash cam captures a meteor streaking across the sky. REF 13358 To license contact info@lpe360.com.

The March issue of Meteorite Times is now up.
https://www.meteorite-times.com/monthly-issues/


Vidarbha: The Offbeat Maharashtra
Outlook India
52,000 years ago, a meteor weighing 2 million tonnes struck our planet creating a 2 km wide hole in eastern Maharashtra. The crater gradually turned into a lake with an ecosystem around it that is so unique that scientists from all around the world have come to study it. The lush jungles that surround the ...

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16 March 2018

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 16MAR2018









Mysterious boom noise heard in metro was 'out of this world'
kfor.com
Many people said they thought they heard thunder or an earthquake, but yesterday's rumble was actually a meteor. "We were just in the front of our house and we heard a boom," said Lane Winters. Sarah Clark, a geology student, described it as "just a loud boom." It was a sound folks couldn't quite put ...

GSI finds clues to early life in Rajasthan meteorite
Times of India
After a nine-month-long search, GSI has concluded that the search for extra-terrestrial life might not be a wild goose chase after all. The composition of a meteor that fell in Rajasthan in June indicates the presence of both carbon and water, taking the life-in-space theory another notch forward. The GSI is ...

 Russian Scientists Are Testing Lasers to Blow Up Deadly Asteroids
Outer Places
Much of the research was based on the infamous Chelyabinsk asteroid, a 20-meter-wide meteor that exploded over Russia and injured over 1,000 people. The largest chunk of the meteor was recovered from Lake Chebarkul and studied to create the basis for the lab's model asteroids. It's estimated that ...

Carbonates hint at liquid water on Ceres
Chemical & Engineering News
Alternately, meteor impacts could melt frozen brine below the surface. In either case, ions in the brine could precipitate to form carbonates as the water freezes or evaporates. Carrozzo says his group cannot rule out either mechanism; it is possible both are occurring. Hydrated carbonates lose their water ...

3. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory Of NASA Has Obtai...
Chegg
Answer to 3. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA has obtained the following data regarding a meteor traveling through space: r =...

Fireball report
American Meteor Society
Observer. Name, John W. Experience Level, 3/5. Remarks, The size of this thing really spooked me, which is why I felt compelled to report it. The size was very large. It actually gave me a little shot of adrenaline. I really did think for a second I was witnessing a catastrophic event. The colors were quit vivid ...

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14 March 2018

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 14/15MAR2018

Meteor explosion off Washington coast was biggest in 25 years
MyNorthwest.com
Emergency Management in Grays Harbor County says there were at least 15 reports made to the American Meteor Society. There was no severe weather event at the time of the incident, according to the Weather Service. No reports of explosions or crashes on the ground were reported and the Federal ...

Bolide Meteor Blamed for Mystery Boom over Washington State
The Singular Fortean Society
A bolide meteor bursting in the Earth's atmosphere is being blamed for a mysterious boom and accompanying bright flash over Grays Harbor County in western Washington state last Wednesday. The disruptive aerial explosion occurred shortly after 7 p.m., and was violent enough to shake the homes of ...

KGW-TV
Facebook
The meteor explosion off Washington's coast shortly on March 7 is considered the biggest over the continental U.S. in nearly two decades, according to...

Northern Arizona astronomy: meteoroids, meteors and meteorites
Williams News
So, in summary: a rock in space is a meteoroid, one falling to Earth is a meteor and one found on Earth is a meteorite. Most meteorites are fragments of small planetesimals (meteoroids and asteroids) that were shattered by collisions early in the history of the solar system. Most of these remnants now ...

Stunning video shows Geminid meteor shower over remote Chinese mountains
NBC News
Time-lapse video displayed the full beauty of the meteor shower in northeast China's Changbai Mountains.

Russian boffins blow up teeny asteroids with tiny laser... to work out how to nuke the real thing
The Register
Russia has history when it comes to asteroids: on 15 February 2013 a meteor exploded at 97,000ft over Chelyabinsk Oblast, in the Ural Mountains region, with a force of 26 to 33 times the energy released by the Hiroshima atomic bomb. Minds have since been focused by the potential damage a much ...

Deconvoluting measurement uncertainty from the meteor speed distribution
Cosmochemistry Papers
Debiasing the velocity distribution of meteors observed by the Canadian Meteor Orbit Radar (CMOR) yields a distribution with large numbers of slow meteors. The distribution also contains significant numbers of hyperbolic meteors, in conflict with the expectation that interstellar meteors should be rare.

Dragon-like pterosaurs with the wingspan of an F-16 fighter went out with a BANG along with the ...
Daily Mail
Dragon-like flying reptiles that soared over the heads of the dinosaurs were just taking off when a giant meteor impact wiped them out, fossil discoveries suggest. Pterosaurs, better known as the iconic pterodactyl, died out along with their Earth-bound cousins around 66 million years ago. Among the ...

Fireball report
Report a Fireball
Location. Address, Grayson, GA. Latitude, 33° 53' 17.02'' N (33.89°). Longitude, 83° 56' 16.16'' W (-83.94°). Elevation, 323.6m. Time and Duration. Local Date & Time, 2018-03-13 23:22 EDT. UT Date & Time, 2018-03-14 03:22 UT. Duration, ≈1.5s. Direction. Moving direction, From down to up. Descent ...

Fireball report
Report a Fireball
Location. Address, , Mato Grosso do Sul (BR). Latitude, 20° 30' 14.18'' S (-20.5°). Longitude, 54° 36' 48.38'' W (-54.61°). Elevation, 540.95m. Time and Duration. Local Date & Time, 2018-03-13 18:40 -4 time zones. UT Date & Time, 2018-03-13 22:40 UT. Duration, ≈3.5s. Direction. Moving direction ...

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13 March 2018

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 13MAR2018

Fragmenting meteor fireball observed over Tucumán, Argentina
Sott
On 9th March 2018 at 02.30 thousands of people in Tucumán, a small province in northwest Argentina, witnessed a fragmenting meteor fireball overhead according to La Gaceta Tucumán. The phenomenon was captured on video.

Meteor explosion off WA coast considered biggest in decades
KING5.com
The meteor explosion off Washington's coast shortly after 7 p.m. on Wednesday, March 7 is considered the biggest over the continental U.S. in 25 years, according to the American Meteor Society. A Doppler radar image from Marc Fries with NASA and NOAA, shows the giant dust cloud as the bolide ...

Minivan-size meteor strikes off Washington coast (VIDEO)
KVEW
A meteor the size of a minivan crashed off the Washington coast into the ocean on Wednesday Mar. 7.

Meteor size of minivan caused booming fireball over Washington
YouTube
Meteor size of minivan caused booming fireball over Washington.

Tracking the Grays Harbor meteor with earthquake equipment
YouTube
Tracking the Grays Harbor meteor with earthquake equipment.

Hot on the trail of Antarctic meteorites
https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/article/hot-trail-antarctic-meteorites

Secrets Behind Water on the Moon Revealed in Lunar Creation Simulation
Outer Places
Scientists from the Carnegie Institute for Science and the California Institute of Technology have created a simulation that shows how the Earth might have been affected if it were hit by a large meteor while it was still forming, during a period where it was flexible enough to see matter split off and merge ...

Rare meteorite that hit Rajasthan in 2017 could shed light on origin of life
Hindustan Times A meteor shower in the night sky. The meteorite found in Rajasthan belongs to a rare and primitive group of carbonaceous chondrite meteorites, containing very primitive traces of carbon. Carbon forms the backbone of all life on earth.

Simultaneous Observation of the Forward and Backward Scattered Radio Reflections From Ionized ...
IEEE Xplore
Abstract— The authors consider a possibility of observation of meteor trails providing simultaneous scattering of a probing signal both in forward and backward directions. Such trails might present some valuable data on physics of meteor phenomena useful both for improving of theoretical models...

Terra Nova National Park becomes first Dark Sky Preserve in NL
The Pilot
“Through this designation, Parks Canada will reduce energy consumption, protect nocturnal habitats and offer new and engaging night sky programs which will provide opportunities for visitors to experience the dark sky, the milky way, meteor showers, and far away stars and planets. I encourage ...

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12 March 2018

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 12MAR2018

University of Alabama searching for family of owner of radio struck meteorite
https://www.forsythnews.com/local/university-alabama-searching-family-owner-radio-struck-meteorite/

No, Comet Tails Don't Make Meteor Showers
Forbes
Meteor showers are one of the night sky's most spectacular sights whenever and wherever they occur. Trevor Bexon / flickr. Timelapse photos, like this one of 2015's Perseid meteor shower, contain many separate images merged together. In reality, most meteors are brief, one-at-a-time blips across an ...

AMS event #960-2018
YouTube
This video has been uploaded on the American Meteor Society Website. AMS Event: 960-2018, Report 139217 (960a-2018) Credit:J. Narancio.

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11 March 2018

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 11MAR2018

Fireball off the Washington coast was likely a meteor
Centralia Chronicle
Several people on the Washington coast also reported hearing a loud boom, which would elevate the event to a category called a bolide — a rare, extremely bright fireball that creates a sonic boom as it penetrates the Earth's stratosphere and explodes. “When I started getting phone calls from the entire ...

Saving the Earth: NASA might use nukes to protect the planet from a deadly asteroid
India Today
But the real damage would come from the air burst, caused by the meteor hurtling through the atmosphere, which could collapse buildings and tear down trees up to 30 miles away. According to physicist David Dearborn, "If the asteroid is small enough, and we detect it early enough, we can do it with the ...

Just saw a meteorite flying through the night of Asuncion, Paraguay from my terrace.
Reddit
NASA gets back with the community 1-2 days later and say it was a meteorite... something that starts with a b. Blourite or something. And it was about the size of a van upon entry before it melted to the size of a brick and hit the Pacific Ocean. It basically had created an intense sonic boom which is what ...

An ancient meteor shower shown as fiery lances. Pictures
Getty Images
Engraving depicting an ancient meteor shower shown as fiery lances. Dated 16th Century.

AMS event #944-2018
Fireball event
Events in 2018 944-2018 KML. AMS received one report about a fireball seen over Occitanie on Friday, March 9th 2018 around 07:13 UT. D. Sound. n/a. C. Sound. n/a. Frag. n/a. Twitter0. 1 Report. a - Richard M. Level 4. Show Trajectory. Observers map, Heat map. Without observation directions, With ...

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10 March 2018

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 10MAR2018

Map shows trajectory of possible Pacific NW meteoroid
kgw.com
The map from the American Meteor Society shows the possible meteoroid's trajectory from east of Matlock to east of Taholah. Author: Allison Sundell. Published: 12:48 PM PST March 9, 2018. Updated: 12:48 PM PST March 9, 2018. On the KGW News app? Tap for a multimedia article. The American ...

Map shows trajectory of possible Grays Harbor County meteoroid
KING5.com
The American Meteor Society mapped the trajectory of a possible meteoroid that lit up Grays Harbor County skies and caused a loud boom Wednesday night. The society tracked the meteoroid based on 11 reports from people whose locations ranged from Vancouver Island to Portland, Oregon. The map ...

Loud boom 'SHAKES ground' after mystery light – and NO ONE can explain it
Daily Star- UK
Rare meteor display streaks the night sky. Perseid meteor shower lights up sky across Britain. 1 / 5. Holy moly... A Perseid meteor enters the skyline above Glastonbury Tor in Somerset. “Whatever it was, was a huge, huge burst of bright light,” Scott told ABC's Seattle affiliate KOMO. “It took up the entire ...

Space Rock Burns Up in Brilliant Fireball Over Washington
Space.com
The fireball and associated boom were caused by an object about the size of a minivan. It streaked over Washington and eventually fell, in smoldering bits and broken-up pieces, into the Pacific Ocean about 14 miles (22 kilometers) off the state's coast, NASA meteor expert Marc Fries told Seattle TV ...


'Fireball' That Caused Shaking Along Washington State Coast Was About the Size of a Minivan ...
KTLA
Around 7:10 p.m., Washingtonians reported a bright light in the sky, a boom and shaking. Grays Harbor Emergency Management followed the incident, but the agency was not immediately sure what it was. "The WA State Duty Officer contacted the FAA and the Western Air Defense Sector and was told ...

Meteor size of minivan caused booming fireball over Washington
Free Republic
Witnesses say the fireball was spotted as far north as the Vancouver region and as far south as Portland. According to Johnson Space Center's Dr. Marc Fries, this was one of the largest bolide meteors to make an appearance in the last two decades. The meteor is estimated to have been about the size ...

Tracking flying meteors with earthquake equipment
KING5.com
Scientists believe they tracked that meteor from Wednesday night to a point several miles off the Washington Coast town of Taholah. They think it disintegrated or exploded in the air. To do it, they relied on signals of a sonic boom or explosion picked up by 11 earthquake seismometers including ones ...

Spectacular meteor wows farmer - but he couldn't get a picture
MSN.com
Provided by MediaWorks NZ Limited. A Manawatu farmer has discovered the importance of carrying a cellphone after he saw a spectacular fiery meteor display but couldn't get a photo. Dairy farmer Brent White saw the "spectacular" meteorite fly right in front of him at around 4:30am on Saturday when ...

Meteor size of minivan caused booming fireball over Washington
SlashGear
Despite the disturbance, an investigation by local officials didn't turn up any signs of an object or vehicle having crashed into the ground. The FAA later confirmed that there hadn't been any aircraft or other known objects that may have caused the event, leading to speculation that a meteor may have ...

Meteor captures Manawatu farmer's attention in 'spectacular' light display
Newshub
A Manawatu farmer has discovered the importance of carrying a cellphone after he saw a spectacular fiery meteor display but couldn't get a photo. Dairy farmer Brent White saw the "spectacular" meteorite fly right in front of him at around 4:30am on Saturday when he was bringing cows into the dairy ...

NASA is Designing an Asteroid-Destroying Spacecraft Named 'HAMMER'
Outer Places
NASA's proposed HAMMER (Hypervelocity Asteroid Mitigation Mission for Emergency Response) would blow up oncoming asteroids, despite the fact that our planet is not actually at risk of being hit by a killer meteor for over a hundred years. pic.twitter.com/zFv6uJpoTj. — Matthew Loffhagen ...

A mastodon and a meteor older than Earth are highlights of the UW Geology Museum
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
If you want to touch a hunk of roughly 4.56-billion-year-old meteorite that predates Earth, view fossilized bones from two mastodons that wandered western Wisconsin during the Ice Age or learn more about the universe, the University of Wisconsin-Madison Geology Museum is well worth a visit.

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09 March 2018

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 09MAR2018

Fireball off the Washington coast was likely a meteor
Seattle Times
Thousands of meteors of fireball magnitude occur every day, but most are never seen because they hit during the day or over uninhabited areas, according to the American Meteor Society. One of the most spectacular fireballs in recent history was the superbolide near Chelyabinsk, Russia, on Feb.

Mysterious boom, light in Grays Harbor County could be bolide meteoroid
KING5.com
A bolide is a special type of fireball, or very bright meteor, that explodes in a bright flash at its end, according to the American Meteor Society. ... If a fireball explodes as a bolide below an altitude of 30 miles, there's a chance people on the ground could hear sonic booms, which are noises that occur when ...

NASA Identifies Mystery Noise
750 KXL
Portland, Or. – NASA says a loud boom that was heard from Portland to Seattle last night was a meteor. NASA's Karen Northon says it was first spotted 51 miles above Tacoma, Washington moving at a speed of 31,000 miles per hour. She says it then fragmented over Skykomish, Washington. She says ...

Bright flash in the sky, loud boom, ground shaking reported in Grays Harbor County
KOMO News
"It took up the entire horizon, so it wasn't like it was a fireball, although the color was similar to what you would see with something like that." Grays Harbor County Emergency Management said it has contacted the National Weather Service in Seattle about the reports. The NWS said it there were no ...

NASA says 'fireball' that shook Washington coast about the size of minivan
kfor.com
SEATTLE – The fireball hundreds of people reported over the Washington coast Wednesday night was a meteor entering our atmosphere, NASA scientists told KCPQ. Around 7:10 p.m., Washingtonians reported a bright light in the sky, a boom and shaking. Grays Harbor Emergency Management ...

Big Boom, Flash Likely Exploding Meteor, Say Oregon Scientists
Oregon Coast Beach Connection
Big Boom, Flash Likely Exploding Meteor, Say Oregon Scientists; Video - Experts are pointing to what is a bolide meteor: essentially a fireball that explodes.

MINIVAN SIZED METEOR HITS WASHINGTON
YouTube
Last night, March 8th 2018, A bolide (large meteor crash landed near Grays Harbor Washington. It created a sonic boom strong enough to shake houses and bust a...

Big boom, light in the sky was likely from a meteoroid
North Coast News
A bolide is a special type of fireball, or very bright meteor, that explodes in a bright flash at its end, according to the American Meteor Society. If a fireball explodes as a bolide below an altitude of 30 miles, there's a chance people on the ground could hear sonic booms, which are noises that occur when ...

NASA: 'Fireball' that shook Washington coast about the size of minivan
wtvr.com
SEATTLE -- The fireball hundreds of people reported over the Washington coast Wednesday night was a meteor entering our atmosphere, NASA scientists told KCPQ. Around 7:10 p.m., Washingtonians reported a bright light in the sky, a boom and shaking. Grays Harbor Emergency Management ...

What was that giant flash, boom over Wash. coast?
seattlepi.com
"If a very bright fireball...penetrates to the stratosphere, below an altitude of about 50 km (30 miles), and explodes as a bolide, there is a chance that sonic booms may be heard on the ground below. This is more likely if the bolide occurs at an altitude angle of about 45 degrees or so for the observer, and ...

Fireball the size of a minivan shakes Washington coast
fox5sandiego.com
SEATTLE – The fireball hundreds of people reported over the Washington coast Wednesday night was a meteor entering our atmosphere, NASA scientists told KCPQ. Around 7:10 p.m., Washingtonians reported a bright light in the sky, a boom and shaking. Grays Harbor Emergency Management ..

Big boom, flash likely an exploding meteor
KATU
Big boom, flash likely an exploding meteor. by KATU and KOMO Staffs. The sky lights up in Washington in this still image from video by ... A bolide is an extremely bright meteor that explodes in the atmosphere. Astronomers say it's about as bright as the full moon. Jim Todd at OMSI said it appeared the ...

NASA says 'fireball' that shook Washington coast about the size of minivan
Q13 FOX
SEATTLE -- The fireball hundreds of people reported over the Washington coast Wednesday night was a meteor entering our atmosphere, NASA scientists told Q13 News. Not just a meteor. A fireball. A big fireball. Around 8:10 p.m., Washingtonians from Aberdeen to Port Orchard reported a bright light ...
 
Mysterious boom, light in Pacific NW could be bolide meteoroid
kgw.com
A bolide is a special type of fireball, or very bright meteor, that explodes in a bright flash at its end, according to the American Meteor Society. What about that loud boom some people heard? If a fireball explodes as a bolide below an altitude of 30 miles, there's a chance people on the ground could hear ...

Asteroid the size of a skyscraper seen zipping by Earth
CNET
A sizable space rock cruised through our corner of the galaxy Wednesday without doing any harm, but it did provide a rare opportunity for even amateur astronomers to catch an asteroid fly-by. Asteroid 2017 VR12 passed by at a safe distance of about 870,000 miles (1.4 million kilometers), which is 3.76 ...

NASA warns colossal HAZARDOUS asteroid BIGGER than Eiffel Tower heading to Earth TODAY
Daily Star
The newly-discovered space rock – dubbed Asteroid 2018 CB – is expected to soon past out planet at around 5.30pm EST. It will be travelling at a speed close to five miles per second and will pass at a distance of about 39,000 miles. That's just one-fifth of the distance from Earth to the Moon and it's a ...

What is an asteroid, meteor, meteoroid, and meteorite?
YouTube
An person from NASA explains so you can keep these space rocks straight.

Delta Aquarids Meteor Shower
Night Sky Network
The Delta Aquarids is an average shower that can produce up to 20 meteors per hour at its peak. It is produced by debris left behind by comets Marsden and Kracht. The shower runs annually from July 12 to August 23. It peaks this year on the night of July 28 and morning of July 29. The nearly full moon ...

Perseid Meteor Shower Party - Event Calendar
Oregon State Parks
Description. Join us at Loeb State Park to view the annual Perseid Meteors. Park in the Loeb picnic area, take access road to gravel bar to marked event area. Bring blankets, chairs, & red flashlights. 2017-2018 Oregon State Parks Guide · Brochures and Maps | News Media | Contact.

914b
Report a Fireball Name, Pamela W. Experience Level, 2/5. Remarks, I did not see a fireball but continued with this survey to offer info I had regarding hearing and feeling the explosion. I thought it was either an earthquake or severe explosion. My neighbors had the same experience. I'm guessing on the time, not positive ..

Event 910-2018
Fireball event
Events in 2018 910-2018 KML. We received one report about a fireball seen over Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur on Wednesday, March 7th 2018 around 19:15 UT. 1 Witness Report. a - Jonathan L. Level 3. Show Trajectory. Observers map, Heat map. Without observation directions, With observation ...

907a
Report a Fireball
Name, Ron C. Experience Level, 1/5. Remarks, This was the first time I ever saw a fire ball….I have seen shooting stars before but this was totally different. Larger, closer and golden orange color and watched it break up. very cool and memorable.

Janus 2018
International Meteor Organization
Welcome to the first WGN issue of 2018! The start of a new year offers an opportunity to reflect: what did we achieve in the past year? Which opportunities are at hand and what do we want to achieve in the near future? Sanity check: what does the International Meteor Organization stand for? What are its ...

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Washington, Oregon Bolide Fireball Meteor 08MAR2018

US NW Coast -Grays Harbor, Washington Bolide Meteor 19:10 Pacific 08MAR2018
w/Sonics and Fragmentation- Meteorites Likely Produced Falling into the Pacific Ocean -- w/ Videos



Possible Meteorite Lights Up The Night Sky Over Grays Harbor
Posted on YouTube by wwwMOXNEWScom
Published on Mar 8, 2018 1,182 views
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKb_KVMz4B0

Fireball off the Washington coast was likely a meteor
Seattle Times
Thousands of meteors of fireball magnitude occur every day, but most are never seen because they hit during the day or over uninhabited areas, according to the American Meteor Society. One of the most spectacular fireballs in recent history was the superbolide near Chelyabinsk, Russia, on Feb.

Mysterious boom, light in Grays Harbor County could be bolide meteoroid
KING5.com
A bolide is a special type of fireball, or very bright meteor, that explodes in a bright flash at its end, according to the American Meteor Society. ... If a fireball explodes as a bolide below an altitude of 30 miles, there's a chance people on the ground could hear sonic booms, which are noises that occur when ...

NASA Identifies Mystery Noise
750 KXL
Portland, Or. – NASA says a loud boom that was heard from Portland to Seattle last night was a meteor. NASA's Karen Northon says it was first spotted 51 miles above Tacoma, Washington moving at a speed of 31,000 miles per hour. She says it then fragmented over Skykomish, Washington. She says ...

Bright flash in the sky, loud boom, ground shaking reported in Grays Harbor County
KOMO News
"It took up the entire horizon, so it wasn't like it was a fireball, although the color was similar to what you would see with something like that." Grays Harbor County Emergency Management said it has contacted the National Weather Service in Seattle about the reports. The NWS said it there were no ...

NASA says 'fireball' that shook Washington coast about the size of minivan
kfor.com
SEATTLE – The fireball hundreds of people reported over the Washington coast Wednesday night was a meteor entering our atmosphere, NASA scientists told KCPQ. Around 7:10 p.m., Washingtonians reported a bright light in the sky, a boom and shaking. Grays Harbor Emergency Management ...

Big Boom, Flash Likely Exploding Meteor, Say Oregon Scientists
Oregon Coast Beach Connection
Big Boom, Flash Likely Exploding Meteor, Say Oregon Scientists; Video - Experts are pointing to what is a bolide meteor: essentially a fireball that explodes.

MINIVAN SIZED METEOR HITS WASHINGTON
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Last night, March 8th 2018, A bolide (large meteor crash landed near Grays Harbor Washington. It created a sonic boom strong enough to shake houses and bust a...

Big boom, light in the sky was likely from a meteoroid
North Coast News
A bolide is a special type of fireball, or very bright meteor, that explodes in a bright flash at its end, according to the American Meteor Society. If a fireball explodes as a bolide below an altitude of 30 miles, there's a chance people on the ground could hear sonic booms, which are noises that occur when ...

NASA: 'Fireball' that shook Washington coast about the size of minivan
wtvr.com
SEATTLE -- The fireball hundreds of people reported over the Washington coast Wednesday night was a meteor entering our atmosphere, NASA scientists told KCPQ. Around 7:10 p.m., Washingtonians reported a bright light in the sky, a boom and shaking. Grays Harbor Emergency Management ...

What was that giant flash, boom over Wash. coast?
seattlepi.com
"If a very bright fireball...penetrates to the stratosphere, below an altitude of about 50 km (30 miles), and explodes as a bolide, there is a chance that sonic booms may be heard on the ground below. This is more likely if the bolide occurs at an altitude angle of about 45 degrees or so for the observer, and ...

Fireball the size of a minivan shakes Washington coast
fox5sandiego.com
SEATTLE – The fireball hundreds of people reported over the Washington coast Wednesday night was a meteor entering our atmosphere, NASA scientists told KCPQ. Around 7:10 p.m., Washingtonians reported a bright light in the sky, a boom and shaking. Grays Harbor Emergency Management ..

Big boom, flash likely an exploding meteor
KATU
Big boom, flash likely an exploding meteor. by KATU and KOMO Staffs. The sky lights up in Washington in this still image from video by ... A bolide is an extremely bright meteor that explodes in the atmosphere. Astronomers say it's about as bright as the full moon. Jim Todd at OMSI said it appeared the ...

NASA says 'fireball' that shook Washington coast about the size of minivan
Q13 FOX
SEATTLE -- The fireball hundreds of people reported over the Washington coast Wednesday night was a meteor entering our atmosphere, NASA scientists told Q13 News. Not just a meteor. A fireball. A big fireball. Around 8:10 p.m., Washingtonians from Aberdeen to Port Orchard reported a bright light ...

Mysterious boom, light in Pacific NW could be bolide meteoroid
kgw.com
A bolide is a special type of fireball, or very bright meteor, that explodes in a bright flash at its end, according to the American Meteor Society. What about that loud boom some people heard? If a fireball explodes as a bolide below an altitude of 30 miles, there's a chance people on the ground could hear ...

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08 March 2018

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Loud boom, bright flash in sky reported over Western Washington
Q13 FOX
MONTESANO, Wash. — Numerous people along the Washington coast and as far inland as Montesano on Wednesday night reported a loud boom and a flash in the sky, Grays Harbor Emergency Management said. “Some report their home shaking,” the agency said. “Grays Harbor Emergency ...

"meteor" exploded over Aberdeen, WA, and it was silent, except for the
Reddit
Hi all, I didn't know where else to write about this, but something is up. I go to Grays Harbor College, in Aberdeen. Tonight, I was walking...

This Stadium-Size Asteroid Just Zipped Safely by Earth (Video)
Space.com
An asteroid the size of a sports stadium zoomed close by Earth Wednesday (March 7) and eagle-eye stargazers captured it all on camera. The asteroid won't be back again until 2026, according to NASA.

Meteor Turned Night Into Day Over Russian Urals. March 6, 2018
YouTube
Residents of the Russian Urals have reported a colorful fireball lighting up the night sky before hearing loud booms. The meteor is said to have emitted red,...

Meteor Lights Up Night Sky With Brightly Glowing Fireball
CBS Chicago - CBS Local
A fireball lit up the night sky across the Midwest as a meteor fell to Earth. CBS 2's Susanna Song reports.

Meteor Activity Outlook for March 10-16, 2018
American Meteor Society
This weekend the nearly half illuminated moon will rise near 02:00 local standard time and will interfere with meteor viewing if it lies within your field of view. With each passing night the moon will become a bit thinner and will rise later in the morning providing the meteor observer with a better view of the ...

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07 March 2018

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Night turned into day: Dazzling 'meteor' blazes across sky in Russian Urals (VIDEOS)
RT
The people of the area are no strangers to such phenomena – this is the second spectacular meteor residents have witnessed in a week. On Saturday, a bright blue-and-white meteor traveled through the night sky of Sverdlovsk and the neighboring Chelyabinsk region. One of the witnesses described ...

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Night turned into day: Dazzling 'meteor' blazes across sky in Russian Urals
Cetusnews
Residents of the Russian Urals have reported a colorful fireball lighting up the night sky before hearing loud booms. The meteor is said to have emitted red, yellow and orange light as it was falling.

Meteor in sky over Cumbria captured on dashcam footage
Whitehaven News
A STUNNING flash of light was captured on camera as a meteor passed over Cumbria. Roads police officers from Cumbria Constabulary were driving through Flookburgh near Grange when they spotted a dazzling stream of light shooting across the night sky. The display was captured by the police ...

Event 857-2018
Fireball event
AMS received 42 reports about a fireball seen over Wisconsin, IN, Michigan, OH, MI, IL, WI, Illinois, NJ, Indiana and KY on Monday, March 5th 2018 around 09:29 UT.

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Meteor fireball flashes across the sky of Newcastle, Australia (VIDEO)
Sott
This is a rare type of meteor flashing across the sky above Newcastle. Graeme Challen's dashcam captured the moment, as he was driving east along the New England Highway towards Hexham Bridge. "It had this incredible electric blue-green colour,"...

A suspected meteor flashes across the sky of Newcastle
Newcastle Herald
A suspected meteor flashes across the sky of Newcastle ... Meteor video: The date is incorrect because it hadn't been set. When he saw the initial flash and ... The American Meteor Society says nickel appears in meteors as green, magnesium as blue-white and sodium produces a bright yellow color. (Note: Event was Mar 1, 2018)

Reports of meteor sighting across Michigan, upper Midwest
Fox17
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. – The American Meteor Society has several reports from Michigan and other spots in the Midwest of a meteor or fireball sighting early Monday morning. The reports stretch from Illinois and Wisconsin, across Michigan, to Ohio, at about 4:30 a.m. Monday. Pending reports are listed ...

Five years after Chelyabinsk meteorite the sky over Milwaukee has been lit with its minor brother
Wisconsin State Journal
The most spectacular meteor sighting in newest history has been observed five years ago. Big meteor has exploded over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk. The light from the meteor was brighter than the Sun. It has been observed over a wide area of the southern Ural region. The explosion generated a ...

Mysterious Celestial Ball of Fire Detected in Russia's Urals Skies (VIDEO)
Sputnik International
... looked like a massive falling ball of fire, local media outlets have reported. According to him, a blue flash in the footage indicates that the celestial body was flying at a high speed when a car's dashboard camera captured the moment of the alleged meteor falling from the skies in the Russian Urals city.

Calibration-free quantitative elemental analysis of meteor plasma using reference laser-induced ...
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Calibration-free quantitative elemental analysis of meteor plasma using reference laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy of meteorite samples. Martin Ferus1, Jakub Koukal2, Libor Lenža1,2, Jiří Srba2, Petr Kubelík1,3, Vojtěch Laitl1, Ekaterina M. Zanozina1,3, Pavel Váňa1, Tereza Kaiserová1, Antonín ...

Meteorite burns up in skies over Romania
YouTube
A remarkable video has emerged of a meteorite lighting up the skies over Dej, Romania on Wednesday 7th Jan. The footage, captured on CCTV, shows the meteorit...

AMS event #869-2018
Fireball event
Events in 2018 869-2018 KML. AMS received 65 reports about a fireball seen over KY, TN, AL, GA, SC, NC, MS and MO on Sunday, March 4th 2018 around 05:28 UT. D. Sound. 3 yes. 49 no. C. Sound. 52 no. Frag. 20 yes. 36 no. Twitter0. 65 Reports. a - Joel C. Level 3. aa - Tom T. Level 3. ab - Laura G.

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05 March 2018

IN WI IL MI OH NJ KY Fireball Meteor 05MAR2018 w/ Videos

IN WI IL MI OH NJ KY Fireball Meteor 04:20 CDT 05:20 EDT 05MAR2018 w/ Videos

Numerous reports of meteor over southeast Wisconsin Wednesday night
WDJT
WISCONSIN (CBS 58) -- Citizens all across southeast Wisconsin reported seeing a meteor streak across the sky Wednesday night. Viewers reported seeing a green streak across the sky moving from northeast to southwest. There were 67 reports of the fireball according to the American Meteor Society ...

Watch: Possible meteor spotted over southern Wisconsin Wednesday night
fox6now.com
MILWAUKEE -- FOX6 News received several phone calls and emails Wednesday night, Feb. 28 from viewers -- saying they saw what looked like a meteor in the sky. It was spotted around 8:45 p.m.. One viewer sent us dash cam video of the flash of light. It's very subtle -- but if you look closely you can ...

Video: Meteor caught on camera in Greenfield
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A driver in Greenfield caught dashcam video showing a meteor flash across the sky on Wednesday night. Subscribe to WISN on YouTube for more: http://bit.ly/1e...

Video: Meteor caught on camera in Greenfield
MSN.com
A driver in Greenfield caught dashcam video showing a meteor flash across the sky on Wednesday night.

Meteor over Indiana 4:20 am 3/5/18
YouTube
Large meteor coming down at 4:21am March 5th 2018 caught on my dash cam.

Event 857-2018
Fireball event
AMS received 42 reports about a fireball seen over Wisconsin, IN, Michigan, OH, MI, IL, WI, Illinois, NJ, Indiana and KY on Monday, March 5th 2018 around 09:29 UT.

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A meteor flashes across the sky of Newcastle
Newcastle Herald
Meteor video: The date is incorrect because it hadn't been set. When he saw the initial flash and fireball, he thought “oh yeah, meteor”. “It got brighter as it came in,” he said. “I've seen meteors and meteor showers in the atmosphere before. They had a big white flash and looked like sparklers going off.

Meteorite in the skies of Newcastle.
YouTube
Meteorite in Newcastle, near the Hexham Bridge. Video by Graeme Challen's dashcam.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcGhoe4ZpwY

851a
Report a Fireball
Observer. Name, Leroy S. Experience Level, 4/5. Remarks, Haven't been stargazing since December meteor shower. Saw this tonight. Awesome! Location. Address, Lenexa, KS. Latitude, 38° 57' 35.36'' N (38.96°). Longitude, 94° 44' 38.21'' W (-94.74°). Elevation, 321.89m. Time and Duration ...

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04 March 2018

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Event 851-2018
Fireball event
Events in 2018 851-2018 KML. AMS received one report about a fireball seen over KS on Saturday, March 3rd 2018 around 04:55 UT. D. Sound. 1 no. C. Sound. 1 no. Frag. 1 yes. 1 Report. a - Leroy S. Level 4. Show Trajectory. Observers map, Heat map. Without observation directions, With observation ...

Event 850-2018
Fireball event
Events in 2018 850-2018 KML. AMS received one report about a fireball seen over MI on Saturday, March 3rd 2018 around 02:45 UT. D. Sound. 1 no. C. Sound. 1 no. Frag. 1 no. 1 Report. a - Susan U. Level 3. Show Trajectory. Observers map, Heat map. Without observation directions, With observation ...

AMS event #848-2018
Fireball event
Events in 2018 848-2018 KML. AMS received 22 reports about a fireball seen over IL, KY, MO, KS, AR, IN and Illinois on Saturday, March 3rd 2018 around 00:41 UT. D. Sound. 18 no. C. Sound. 19 no. Frag. 9 yes. 10 no. Twitter0. 22 Reports. a - Roger J. Level 1. b - Kyle H. Level 2. c - tony j. Level 1.

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03 March 2018

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Hamburg, Michigan Meteorite Official
The first meteorite fall of 2018 is now official
Hamburg Michigan. I have updated the Catalog of Witnessed Falls page to reflect this new
data : http://galactic-stone.com/pages/falls

807a
Report a Fireball
Location. Address, , Pernambuco (BR). Latitude, 8° 23' 33.95'' S (-8.39°). Longitude, 34° 57' 56.82'' W (-34.97°). Elevation, 4.27m. Time and Duration. Local Date & Time, 2018-03-02 03:43 -3 time zones. UT Date & Time, 2018-03-02 06:43 UT. Duration, ≈7.5s. Direction. Moving direction, From up right ...

Event 807-2018
Fireball event
Events in 2018 807-2018 KML. AMS received one report about a fireball seen over Pernambuco on Friday, March 2nd 2018 around 06:43 UT. D. Sound. 1 no. C. Sound. 1 no. Frag. 1 no. Twitter0. 1 Report. a - Terence B. Level 2. Show Trajectory. Observers map, Heat map. Without observation directions ...

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02 March 2018

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Unconfirmed meteor seen throughout Midwest, technically qualifies as a 'fireball'
fox6now.com
Surrounded by the magazine she helps edit, Alison Klesman on Thursday tallied the number of people who reported seeing a bright meteor on Wednesday night. "Technically, a fireball is anything that is brighter than Venus -- which is about a -4 on our magnitude scale, so this would technically qualify ...

Meteor in Wisconsin
YouTube
Meteor in Wisconsin Subscribe to WISN on YouTube for more: http://bit.ly/1emE5YX Get more Milwaukee news: http://www.wisn.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1vqTRirhZc

Apparent Meteor Lights Up Skies Over Parts Of Michigan
CBS Chicago - CBS Local
CBS 2 News Digest ...

A possible meteor was spotted over... - FOX6 News Milwaukee
Facebook
A possible meteor was spotted over southern Wisconsin Wednesday night. Take a look:

FOX6 News Milwaukee
Facebook
The possible meteor -- caught on camera in Madison Wednesday night. This video is courtesy UW-Madison Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC)/...

Meteor fireball reported over Wisconsin, US
Sott
Citizens all across southeast Wisconsin reported seeing a meteor streak across the sky Wednesday night. Viewers reported seeing a green streak across the sky moving from northeast to southwest. There were 67 reports of the fireball according to...

Meteor Over Greenfield, WI
Trendolizer
Spotted a meteor over Greenfield, WI on February 28th on my dash cam. (via: trendolizer.com)

Hundreds report sighting of east coast meteor
WFSB.com
WFSB.

Bus-sized asteroid will fly between the Earth and the moon TOMORROW at 11600mph just days ...
Daily Mail
However, not all asteroids do pass safety from our planet. In February 2013 a 19-metre meter (62-feet) meteor exploded in the skies above Chelyabinsk in Russia. The meteorite broke up into multiple pieces as it entered the atmosphere, scattering space debris and creating a shock wave estimated to be ...

ANOTHER MOON FORMATION THEORY
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/moon-how-made-origin-vaporised-rock-cloud-astrophysics-science-harvard-a8233006.html?utm_source=quora

Michigan meteor
YouTube
Meteor Michigan. VIDEO HAS NOT BEEN VERIFIED- LMH

OT: What are Avangard and Sarmat? Russia's hypersonic, nuclear missiles Putin is so proud of
International Business Times, India Edition
Simply put, Avangard "heads to target like a meteorite, like a fireball," Putin said describing the weapon's unmatched capabilities during Thursday's address. Putin's "fireball" remark isn't without context. Avangard is built to withstand temperatures of up to 2,000 Celsius (3,632 Fahrenheit), which can be ...

Meteor Activity Outlook for March 3-9, 2018
American Meteor Society
As seen from the northern hemisphere, March is the slowest month for meteor activity. No major annual showers are active and only a few very weak minor showers produce activity this month. The sporadic rates are also near their annual minimum so there is not much to look forward to this month ...

Event 797-2018
American Meteor Society
Events in 2018 797-2018 KML. AMS received 68 reports about a fireball seen over WI, MN, IL and IA on Thursday, March 1st 2018 around 02:46 UT. D. Sound. 1 yes. 48 no. C. Sound. 54 no. Frag. 12 yes. 36 no. Google+0. Twitter0. Stumbleupon0. 68 Reports. a - julia l. Level 2. aa - Casper B. Level 1.

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Newcastle, Australia Fireball Meteor 01MAR2018 w/ Videos

 Newcastle, Australia Fireball Meteor 01MAR2018 w/ Videos

Meteor fireball flashes across the sky of Newcastle, Australia (VIDEO)
Sott
This is a rare type of meteor flashing across the sky above Newcastle. Graeme Challen's dashcam captured the moment, as he was driving east along the New England Highway towards Hexham Bridge. "It had this incredible electric blue-green colour,"...

A suspected meteor flashes across the sky of Newcastle
Newcastle Herald
A suspected meteor flashes across the sky of Newcastle ... Meteor video: The date is incorrect because it hadn't been set. When he saw the initial flash and ... The American Meteor Society says nickel appears in meteors as green, magnesium as blue-white and sodium produces a bright yellow color.

Meteorite in the skies of Newcastle.
YouTube
Meteorite in Newcastle, near the Hexham Bridge. Video by Graeme Challen's dashcam.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcGhoe4ZpwY

 (Note: Event was Mar 1, 2018; both news reports failed to post the date of the event, only stating that the date shown in video is incorrect because the date/time had not been set.) (There are 4 or five videos in all of this event- this is a note for anyone wishing to followup. More info on FB Page- Australian Meteor Reports)- LMH

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