30 May 2011

Greenland Meteor Seen 30MAY2011

Aasiaat, Vestgronland, Greenland Bright White Light Meteor? in Sky 30MAY2011
Aasiaat, Vestgronland arrived from google.gl on "Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News" by searching for white light in the sky today 30 05 2011.
12:45:39 -- 12 minutes ago

We need the Date and Time of these events
your Location name (town,city),
Start and Stop location in sky,
Direction of movement, 
Duration of Event,
Brightness (Venus, Moon, Sun)
color, sounds?
Photos? Videos?
LunarMeteoriteHunter@gmail.com  Thank you!

29 May 2011

MBIQ Detects Texas Meteor Fireball with Fragmentation 29MAY2011

MBIQ Detects Texas Meteor with Fragmentation 29MAY2011
29MAY2011 Texas Meteor
Red circles indicate Allsky Camera positions;
green markers = sighting locations from Witness Reports

(c) 2011 LunarMeteorite*Hunter/ Google Earth
Houston, TX huge green light ~12:02am 
zuly22: hey at 12:02am in Houston, TX,.i saw a huge green light coming from the sky??? and what does it mean "Earth will be heading into another period of green fireballs" ??

Keller, TX red meteor ~1:50 am 29MAY2011
ender818: I saw a fairly large red meteor with a long tail, glide across the sky at 1:50 am in Keller, TX. It lasted longer than any other meteor that i have seen. About ten seconds and it broke up into about 4 pieces and a larger piece kept going for a moment then it died out.
-Johnny L.

Wichita Falls, Tx Meteor ~2:00 am 29MAY2011
D26 (guest): Ryan wrote:Wichita Falls, Tx. I saw a meteor in the sky around 2:00am off to the west.

Houston, TX huge green fireball 
(guest): saw a huge green fireball glide across the sky,houston texas

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MBIQ (Meteor Bot Internet Query) Meteor Indicated Texas 29MAY2011:

Dike, Texas arrived from google.com on "Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News" by searching for fireball may 29,2011.
17:06:46 -- 26 seconds ago

Keller, Texas arrived from google.com on "Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News: Breaking News - Major TX, OK, AR, MO, KS, CO, NE, NM Green Fireball Meteor ~9:21CDT 23MAR2011" by searching for saw a big red meteor break up over north texas .
16:03:15 -- 14 minutes ago

Wichita Falls, Texas arrived from search.yahoo.com on "Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News: O! NEOs Close Approach June 2011 Green Fireballs Projected - Camera/Watchers Alert!" by searching for meteorite May 29, 2011.
16:02:44 -- 15 minutes ago

Houston, Texas arrived from google.com on "Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News" by searching for green light falling from sky may 29 2011.
15:03:24 -- 1 hour 15 mins ago


Photos? Videos?
Please help out with information. We need the Date and Time of these events, please let me know your Location (town,city), Start and Stop location in sky, Direction of movement, Brightness (venus, moon, Sun), color, sounds? Thank you!

LunarMeteoriteHunter@gmail.com

2011 Year of Green Meteors!

O! NEOs Close Approach June 2011 Green Fireballs Projected - Camera/Watchers Alert!

UPDATED!!!
N3Os (Near Earth Objects) Close Approach June 2011 Green Fireballs Projected
Cameras/Watchers Alert!
Earth will be heading into another period of green fireballs beginning
30MAY2011-17JUL2011 (main activity centered around 1JUN-6JUN and 13JUN-16JUN2011 unless more NEOs pop up) with events just prior to or just after the scheduled passings of
(2009 BD) (2011 KE15), (2011 KV15), (2011 LT17) NEW!!!) and debris associated with them or other yet undiscovered NEOs.
I expect several more NEOs to be discovered yet for July.  Get out and enjoy some night sky during this period and perhaps you may see an O!

 2011-Jun-02 
0.0023
0.9 LD
5.7 m - 13 m
28.3
1.91
 2011-Jun-03
0.0096
3.7 LD
11 m - 25 m
26.9
7.98

(2011 KV15 2011-Jun-05  0.02158.4  LD16 m - 36 m26.110.22

 2011-Jun-14
0.0277
10.8 LD
25 m - 56 m
25.1
5.16

(2011 LT17) 2011-Jun-150.01194.6 LD140 m - 310 m21.413.56

(2004 LO2) 2011-Jun-15    0.02549.9 LD30 m - 66 m24.815.29

Have your cameras ready!!! email LunarMeteoriteHunter@gmail.com
Please help get the word out to the web by posting a link to this site information on Facebook, Twitter, MySpace or your favorite forum; thank you. -LunarMeteorite*Hunter, Tokyo
http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.com/


UPCOMING CLOSE APPROACHES TO EARTH

AU = ~150 million kilometers
1 LD = Lunar Distance = ~384,000 kilometers
Object
Name
Close
Approach
Date
Miss
Distance
(AU)
Miss
Distance
(LD)
Estimated
Diameter*
H
(mag)
Relative
Velocity
(km/s)
(2009 BD) 2011-Jun-020.00230.95.7 m - 13 m28.31.91
(2010 XK) 2011-Jun-020.101639.572 m - 160 m22.814.01
(2011 KE15) 2011-Jun-030.00963.711 m - 24 m26.98.17
(2011 KV15) 2011-Jun-050.02148.315 m - 34 m26.210.21
(2010 NJ1) 2011-Jun-060.160862.6230 m - 510 m20.315.96
(2011 KJ15) 2011-Jun-090.054821.367 m - 150 m23.022.72
267494 (2002 JB9) 2011-Jun-110.183771.52.0 km - 4.4 km15.729.25
153792 (2001 VH75) 2011-Jun-120.108542.2670 m - 1.5 km18.025.48
(2009 BW2) 2011-Jun-130.114444.525 m - 56 m25.13.76
(2010 VL65) 2011-Jun-140.190274.05.5 m - 12 m28.44.07
(2011 KP16) 2011-Jun-140.027710.825 m - 56 m25.15.16
(2004 LO2) 2011-Jun-150.02549.930 m - 66 m24.815.29
(2011 DL19) 2011-Jun-160.150858.7540 m - 1.2 km18.515.89
(2008 AS28) 2011-Jun-160.133451.9320 m - 720 m19.620.26
(2004 YG1) 2011-Jun-170.135152.6140 m - 310 m21.410.94
(2011 KR12) 2011-Jun-180.123848.2140 m - 310 m21.412.06
163348 (2002 NN4) 2011-Jun-180.161963.0270 m - 600 m20.08.95
(1998 KM3) 2011-Jun-190.092736.1330 m - 750 m19.515.46
(2011 HO) 2011-Jun-210.181270.5320 m - 720 m19.69.38
(2010 XO56) 2011-Jun-220.180270.1230 m - 510 m20.319.72
65909 (1998 FH12) 2011-Jun-230.137953.7400 m - 900 m19.120.98
(2007 CS5) 2011-Jun-230.116745.433 m - 75 m24.58.48
(2009 WW104) 2011-Jun-240.039915.580 m - 180 m22.612.14
(2011 KW15) 2011-Jun-260.107842.0330 m - 740 m19.521.74
(2008 WM64) 2011-Jun-260.101539.5200 m - 440 m20.617.30
3988 (1986 LA) 2011-Jun-270.185372.1700 m18.27.93
(2008 CY21) 2011-Jun-270.150558.631 m - 68 m24.79.53
(2008 YC3) 2011-Jun-290.172167.023 m - 51 m25.48.78
(2010 NY65) 2011-Jun-300.144856.3120 m - 270 m21.716.27
Table Schedule Source: NASA/JPL http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/ca/
NOTE: Table subject to update.

Not Raining Meteorites - Photos Fall From Sky

Not Raining Meteorites - Photos Fall From Sky
by Paul V. Heinrich

Dear Friends,

After the tornadoes in Mississippi, Alabama, Missouri, Kansas,
and elsewhere, meteorites were not the only things that people
found falling from the sky. Literally, 100s of miles from where
the tornadoes devastated entire towns, people have found the
personal photographs and documents of people raining from the
sky. One person is attempting to reunite these photographs and
documents with their owners as discussed in the web pages below: 


Portraits From a Storm - with YouTube Video and Blog
http://patty-portraitsfromastorm.blogspot.com/



Mom reuniting tornado survivors with precious artifacts, WSFA 12 News
http://www.wsfa.com/Global/story.asp?S=14723637

Pictures and Documents found after the April 27, 2011 Tornadoes
Facebook, http://www.facebook.com/PicturesandDocumentsfoundafterAprilTornadoes

Patty Bullion, Catastrophic memories
La Lettre, May 28, 2011
http://www.lalettredelaphotographie.com/entries/patty-bullion-catastrophic-memories

Memories Lost to a Whirlwind Alight on Facebook to Be Claimed
New York Times, Amy Harmon, April 29, 2011
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/30/us/30reunite.html

Maybe it is not too late for meteorite hunters downwind of
the effected areas to help out in her efforts.



Letter written by Paul H., Louisiana, USA

For more E-Pistles of Paul:
http://theepistlesofpaul.blogspot.com/


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Thank you Paul for your kind and thoughtful post! 
Patty, Bless you! Portraits From a Storm
http://patty-portraitsfromastorm.blogspot.com/May God have mercy on these people and all that listen. -Tokyo, LunarMeteoriteHunter

28 May 2011

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News

Meteor shower expected this year
Hindustan Times
Come October 8 and sky gazers will be treated with the biggest meteor shower of a lifetime - the Draconid shower is expected to produce 1000 meteors per hour this year. Normally, the Draconids (so-named because its meteors appear to radiate from the ...



Man-Size Meteor From Comet Lights Up Georgia Sky
Space.com
A brilliant meteor blazed through the sky above Georgia recently, and two NASA fireball-monitoring cameras caught the dramatic display on video. The meteor was caused by a human-size chunk of an unknown comet. It was the brightest meteor yet recorded ...



Flying object spotted in Northeast El Paso were mylar balloons, officials say
El Paso Times
Then, close to 10 pm, we heard a loud sound and wondered if the object had crashed or if it was ameteor or some kind of UFO. Teresa Souza, spokeswoman for El Paso Electric Co., said the utility received several calls around 10:15 pm Tuesday about the ...



Meteor Activity Outlook for May 28-June 3, 2011 « The Transient ...
The following is a slightly edited version of Bob Lunsford's excellent weekly summary of meteoractivity. The original version can be found at the American ...
transientsky.wordpress.com/.../meteor-activity-outlook-for-ma...



YouTube Fireball Over Central Georgia2011.0521
Residents of Atlanta, Georgia, and surrounding areas were startled on Friday night, May 20th around 10:47 EDT, when an object brighter than a full Moon ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGUrik54EGA



Study looks to count meteorite craters
The Columbus Dispatch Sun, 29 May 2011 05:52 AM PDT
One of the most interesting parts of my job is identifying geological items brought in by the general public - rocks, minerals, fossils and bones.



Bright synchrotron X-rays image life's hidden building blocks
DigitalJournal.com
An international team of scientists say they may revolutionize the way scientists chemically analyze rare materials, as diverse as fossils and meteor samples, with the synchrotron X-ray technique they developed. A paper detailing their work appears in ...



Explosion and huge fire rock Hudson plant
Charlotte Observer
JEFF WILLHELM - jwillhelm@charlotteobserver.com Eyewitness Sherry Thompson made this picture at 4 pm Saturday of a fireball rising from the Chemical Coatings Co. plant in Hudson. The picture was taken from the hill behind her nearby home. ...



Huge Meteor Rockets Overhead and Hits | KREM.com Spokane
The Meteor Cam on the roof of the College of the Rockies tracked this huge fireball last Saturday at 2:17am. From 75 km high the fireball rocketed overhead ...
www.krem.com/your-news/122309944.html



Police resume probe into theft of meteorite pieces
Times of India
CHENNAI: The city police have decided to empty a century-old well behind the Chennai Museum in Egmore as part of their search for five meteorites stolen from there. Police suspect that themeteorite pieces were dumped in the well by the flustered ...



meteorobs : Message: (meteorobs) Fwd: Amateur (meteor) spectroscopy
meteorobs: Amateur meteor astronomy. ... There is very little popular literature published on meteor>>>> spectroscopy. I suggest you do a search with ...
groups.yahoo.com/group/meteorobs/message/39876



Area man finds possible meteorite
Newport Independent
McCartney Melville Taylor, a meteorite enthusiast, offered a reward of 5-thousand dollars to anyone that locates a chunk of the Newport meteorite in an article published in the Independent during November of 2009. Brand plans to contact Taylor to find ...



News in Brief: Life
Science News
By Science News Staff Tiny photosynthetic organisms may have survived decades of darkness following the meteor crash that killed the dinosaurs by resting, Dutch and Portuguese researchers report online May 17 in Nature Communications. ...



Meteorites land in science class
St. Thomas Times-Journal
By PATRICK BRENNAN TIMES-JOURNAL Would any one of us recognize a meteorite if we found it on the ground? Grade 6 science students at Mitch Hepburn Public School might have the edge in St. Thomas in that field, after taking a few lessons from the ...



Halley Comet Chunk Ignites Fireball | Space.com
A meter wide fragment of a comet that may come from a Halley Type comet – or Halley itself – slammed into Earth's atmosphere at 86000 mph, ...
www.space.com/11759-halley-comet-chunk-ignites-fireball.html



Fireball comet strikes Earth
Baltimore Sun (blog)
A NASA fireball camera in Georgia has captured a fragment of a comet as it entered Earth's atmosphere last Friday at 10:47 pm It has been identified as a member of the Halley's Comet family of objects. It was about six feet wide when it hit the ...



Montana, Washington, Idaho, Alberta, British Columbia Meteor ...
Spokane, Washington arrived from bing.com on "Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News: Australia Bright Green Fireball Meteor Event? Space Trash? ...
www.portaltotheuniverse.org/blogs/posts/view/114130/



Meteorite fell near Wynndel
Cranbrook Daily Townsman
Last weekend's meteor over Cranbrook would have fallen north of Wynndel, experts have calculated. A Finnish astronomer, Esko Lyytinen, analyzed footage from meteor cameras in Cranbrook, Saskatchewan, Penticton and Calgary to determine the possible ...



ニュース 科学&宇宙 太陽系初期の新種鉱物隕石から発見 ナショナル ...
ニュース - 科学&宇宙 - 太陽系初期の新種鉱物、隕石から発見 - ナショナルジオグラフィック 公式日本語サイト.
www.nationalgeographic.co.jp/news/news_article.php?file_id...



Touching the Cosmos
Deseret News (blog)
While many of the meteorites were not impressive looking, they were fascinating to those present at the Salt Lake Astronomical Society meeting, held May 17 in the University of Utah's Engineering/Mines Classroom Building. The pebbles from space were ...



World's oldest stone tools in our her itage
New Straits Times
After checking with a fellow professor, a meteor theory was reached. On checking the area, the theory was right. He tells us a meteor struck the area, which used to be part of Raban Lake, near Kuala Kangsar, about that time. “Lenggong Valley was all ...



Pierce Teacher Gives Students Fun Experience with Science
Patch.com
From having students design their own experiments to test meteor impact to teaching chemistry in rotating stations, Romeo consciously works to give his students an interactive experience. “He is the consummate professional and outstanding teacher,” ...



Big Virginia Boom Likely a Meteor | Meteors & Asteroids & Sonic ...
A loud sonic boom that rattled windows in Virginia Beach was most likely caused by a supersonicmeteor.
www.lifeslittlemysteries.com/virginia-beach-meteor-boom-1675/



New Jersey Mystery Crater Baffles Experts
Huffington Post
meteor? Explosives? Experts can't say. The hole is 18 inches deep and the size of a coffee table, according to Bernards Township Police Capt. Edward Byrnes. "To me it looked like something blew out of the ground because the grass was folded back, ...



Three Alabama witnesses watch fireballs at tree line level
Examiner.com
An Alabama high school student driving home from a band concert reports being "extremely terrified" after watching one dozen "silent fireballs" low flying at the tree line and one that "actually touched the ground," according to May 18, 2011, ...



Scientists: Sonic boom created from meteor in Tidewater regions of ...
On Tuesday residents in Norfolk and Suffolk, Virginia dialed 911 to report a large explosion. Thursday a NASA Scientist released a statement explaining that ...
www.examiner.com/.../sonic-boom-created-from-meteor-tide...




Meteor Photographed Over Cranbrook and Mysterious ...
2 min
Yet another "meteor" photographed by a meteorcam. This one over Cranbook in Canada. Another perfect orbital intersection ...
youtube.com