23 May 2012

Another NEO Detected to Make Close Pass May 2012

Another NEO (2012 KT12) Detected to Make Close Pass 23MAY2012

Have your allsky cameras and surveillance cameras ready.  Get out and watch as there may be some meteor, fireball activity just prior to or just after the close approach date.  If you have a meteor sighting please make a report on this site; thank you!
-LunarMeteorite*Hunter Tokyo, Japan

UPCOMING CLOSE APPROACHES TO EARTH

1 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)
(2012 JV11) 2012-May-220.01726.742 m - 93 m24.019.52
(2006 KY67) 2012-May-230.149958.368 m - 150 m23.013.88
(2012 KT12) 2012-May-230.00371.415 m - 35 m26.23.77
(2011 KG4) 2012-May-240.121647.367 m - 150 m23.011.50
(2012 HZ33) 2012-May-240.159161.9230 m - 510 m20.312.76
(2012 KK11) 2012-May-240.058822.924 m - 54 m25.25.42
(2002 KM3) 2012-May-240.184571.890 m - 200 m22.415.67
(1994 NK) 2012-May-240.118646.2270 m - 610 m19.96.87
(2012 KO11) 2012-May-250.073428.628 m - 63 m24.98.93
(2012 HL8) 2012-May-250.131651.249 m - 110 m23.76.64
(2012 KD6) 2012-May-250.033513.054 m - 120 m23.510.47
(2012 KX) 2012-May-260.056622.059 m - 130 m23.37.07
154330 (2002 VX94) 2012-May-260.186972.8670 m - 1.5 km18.013.62
(2002 AW) 2012-May-260.192474.9210 m - 460 m20.66.95
(2012 KB4) 2012-May-270.090435.222 m - 49 m25.43.44
(2001 CQ36) 2012-May-300.025810.077 m - 170 m22.75.62
(2002 OA22) 2012-May-310.119746.6360 m - 820 m19.37.01
Table Source and for the latest updates:
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/ca/

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22 May 2012

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 22MAY2012

NASA engineer speaks as moon rocks, meteor material exhibit opens
Gadsden Times
He spoke Monday at the Gadsden Public Library's opening of an exhibit of moon rocks and meteormaterial and a display on astronomy. Robinson said “good things” happen when people push the envelope, and that “educating our children and keeping smart ...

Stunning View of Lyrids and Earth at Night - YouTube
22 sec
On April 21, the 2012 Lyrid meteor shower peaked in the skies over Earth. While NASA allsky ...
youtube.com

Video: See a Lyrid meteor from space in new NASA ...
Marshall Space Flight Center scientists requested the photos from space to learn how to observe ...
blog.al.com

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21 May 2012

Japan / US Annular Solar Eclipse Completed 21MAY2012 photo / videos

Japan / US Annular Solar Eclipse Completed 21MAY2012 photo/videos


Solar Eclipse Seen from Salt Lake City, Utah
(c) 2012 Barrett Flowers
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金環日食 2012 埼玉 - From Saitama, Japan
YouTube Published on 20 May 2012 by frankssexpositions 24 views

金環日食 2012

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The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 21MAY2012

Stunning Lyrid meteor over earth at night
(Phys.org) -- On the night of April 21, the 2012 Lyrid meteor shower peaked in the skies over Earth. While NASA allsky cameras were looking up at the night ...
phys.org/news/2012-05-stunning-lyrid-meteor-earth-night.html

One way or another, someone discovered Meteor Crater
Arizona Republic
20, 2012 08:41 PM Who found Meteor Crater and when? I just came back from a day trip there and I can tell you that it cannot be seen from the ground. There is a high ridge that goes all around the crater and there is no way that it can be seen from the ...

A rare meteor appears in the north west sky
ABC Online (blog)
We've had a couple of reports of giant orange things dropping from the sky. You can check out some of the reports on our facebook page. Ralph Martin is the Acting Government Astronomer at the Perth Observatory... You can follow this conversation by ...

Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News: The Latest Worldwide ...
By Lunar Meteorite * Hunter
by Fraser Cain on May 19, 2012 Just as the Lyrid Meteor Shower was peaking on April 21, 2012, astronaut Don Pettit captured this incredible timelapse sequence from the International Space Station. Of course you can see the familiar view of ...
Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 

Fire in the sky
Tahoe Daily Tribune
By Adam Jensen Reno resident Lisa Warren took this photo of the meteor Sunday morning as she was walking her dogs. While a meteor that streaked over California and Nevada this weekend may have sounded like it landed at the South Shore, the fireball ...

Fireball spotted in Peru sky
WTVR
Arequipa, Peru–On May 17, Thursday, someone shot video of a strange object that looks like a fireball. The strange fireball was seen in the sky in Arequipa, Peru and caused great surprise for onlookers wondering what it was. Strange enough, this isn't... (appears to be a jet contrail)

It took a while to decide what how Meteor Crater came to be
AZ Central.com (blog)
Who found Meteor Crater and when? I just came back from a day trip there and I can tell you that it can not be seen from the ground. There is a high ridge that goes all around the crater and there is no way that it can be seen from the ground.

Humongous exploding fireball a meteor, say scientists
Alaska Dispatch
The fireball, which was visible in towns some 600 miles apart, was almost certainly what astronomers call a bolide, an exceptionally bright meteor. The loud crack was likely a sonic boom caused by themeteor's shockwave. SPACE.com's Denise Chow quotes ...

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20 May 2012

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 20MAY2012

Meteor Shower Timelapse Seen from the Space Station -- Fire in the ...
Just as the Lyrid Meteor Shower was peaking on April 21, 2012, astronaut Don Pettit captured this incredible timelapse sequence from the International Space ...
www.sott.net/.../245654-Meteor-Shower-Timelapse-Seen-from...

SpaceWeather.com -- News and information about meteor showers ...
X-ray Solar Flares 6-hr max: C1 1218 UT May19 24-hr: C2 0000 UT May19 explanation | more data. Updated: Today at: 1600 UT ...
spaceweather.com/

The Earth From Space: The Site of a Meteor Impact in Algeria ...
Astronauts on board the International Space Station took this picture of a crater left by a meteorstrike some 70 million years ago.
www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/.../256925/

Meteor Shower Timelapse Seen from the Space Station
Universe Today
by Fraser Cain on May 19, 2012 Just as the Lyrid Meteor Shower was peaking on April 21, 2012, astronaut Don Pettit captured this incredible timelapse sequence from the International Space Station. Of course you can see the familiar view of cities ...

Stunning View of Lyrids and Earth at Night
YouTube
On April 21, the 2012 Lyrid meteor shower peaked in the skies over Earth. While NASA allsky cameras were looking up, astronaut Don Pettit aboard the International Space Station trained his video camera on Earth below. Video footage has revealed ...

The black stone was proven to be a Meteorite sent ...
4 min
The black stone (Kaaba Stone) was proven to be a meteorite sent from space by Dr. Zaghloul Al- Naggar ...
youtube.com

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19 May 2012

1958 Last Japanese solar eclipse until 20May2012

Japan, Land of the Rising Sun, to See Annular Eclipse "Ring of Fire"!

1958 Last Japanese solar eclipse until May 2012
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Ring of Fire Solar Eclipse on May 20, 2012 - Visible in US


Published on 21 Apr 2012 by Is2012TheDate 1480 views
A "ring of fire" solar eclipse is coming to the USA this spring. It's the first annular eclipse visible from the contiguous United States in almost 18 years.
More information here:http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/OH/OH2012.html#SE2012May20A

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Solar Eclipse 2012: When And Where To See It Best

Solar Eclipse 2012: When And Where To See
It Best, Huffington Post, May 10, 2012‎
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/10/solar-eclipse-2012-when-where-time-date_n_1505683.html

Annular Solar Eclipse Track: May 20, 2012
Space.com, May 11, 2012‎
http://www.space.com/15662-annular-solar-eclipse-photo-guide-2012.html

How to Watch the Solar Eclipse From Mount Fuji’s Peak
Sonia Paul, Mashable, April 20, 2012
http://mashable.com/2012/04/20/japan-solar-eclipse/

Panasonic to Webcast Solar Eclipse From Top
of Mt. Fuji, Wall street Journal, May 9, 2012,
http://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2012/05/09/panasonic-to-webcast-solar-eclipse-from-top-of-mt-fuji/?mod=google_news_blog

Best wishes,

Paul H.






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The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 19MAY2012


NASA - Stunning View of Lyrids and Earth at Night
A Lyrid meteor over Earth at Night, seen from the International Space Station at 5 A Lyrid ...
nasa.gov

Scientists hunting for meteorites in Lotus, Calif.
KSDK
Lotus, CA (CNN) - Scientists are hunting for meteorite fragments in a horse pasture outside Lotus, California. These space rocks came from a meteorite that fell to Earth around Sutter's Mill on April 22 nd. That's the same area where the Gold Rush ...

NASA - Stunning View of Lyrids and Earth at Night
A Lyrid meteor over Earth at Night, seen from the International Space Station at 5 A Lyrid meteorstreaks over Earth on the night of April 22, 2012. (NASA/JSC/D.
www.nasa.gov/topics/solarsystem/features/.../lyrids_iss.html

Fragments of meteorite behind 1908 Tunguska catastrophe may have been found
New Kerala Fri, 18 May 2012 08:59 AM PDT
London, May 18 : At 7.17am on June 30, 1908, an explosion like a detonating hydrogen bomb had erupted in the forests of Siberia - and up till now, scientists had been unable to offer any conclusive explanation for the event.

Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News: Japan Earthquake 4.8+ ...
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Astronomical fidget ring made from a meteorite
Boing Boing
The meteorite has been etched with nitric acid to reveal the characteristic patterns, or Widmanstatten figures, of iron meteorites, and set with 9 gemstones representing the planets of our Solar System. Mercury is represented by a rust colored Sapphire ...

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Brasil Installs Latin America`s First Allsky Camera System Network

Brasil Installs Latin America`s First Allsky Camera System Network May 2012

Professor Marcelo de Oliveira Souza and students Lucas Ferreira de Araujo, Jassiel Silva, Guilherme Franco of the Federal Fluminense University (IFF-Guarus) with Allsky Camera and meteorites.
Photo Credit: http://www.odiariorj.com/sem-limites-no-ceu-de-campos/
Professor Marcelo Oliveira (a direita) e os alunos do Clube de Astronomia Luis Cruls, Lucas Ferreira, Jassiel de Araújo Silva e Guilherme Franco atuam no projeto.
Camera All Sky - IFF de Guarus ganha equipamento para monitorar o céu


YouTube Published on 17 May 2012 by UmPasseiopeloCeu 13 views
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Newspaper News Story:

No limit on Sky Field
by Priscilla Alves
Any flying object that crosses the sky field will now be properly identified. This is possible thanks to the All Sky Camera (All-Sky) Guarus installed on the campus of the Federal Fluminense (IFF-Guarus). The equipment will record possible meteors that cross the sky and will allow calculations to find the exact spot where the object falls. ...


Sem limites no céu de Campos
http://gaea-astronomia.blogspot.jp/2012/05/sem-limites-no-ceu-de-campos.html

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18 May 2012

Japan Earthquake 4.8+ Magnitude 17:20 18MAY2012

Japan Earthquake  4.8+ Magnitude 17:20 18MAY2012

No Tsunami warning issued and no damage reported.

Japanese Meteorological Agency:
http://www.jma.go.jp/en/quake/3/20120518172038453-181719.html

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The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 18MAY2012

Meteor Activity Outlook for May 12-19, 2012 | International Meteor ...
Meteor Activity Outlook for May 12-19, 2012. During this period the moon reaches its last quarter phase on Saturday the 12th. At this time the moon will be ...
www.imo.net/node/1424

Upper Mid-West Fireball May 11, 2012 | American Meteor Society
A fireball is a meteor that is larger than normal. Most meteors are only the size of tiny pebbles. A meteor the size of a softball can produce light equivalent to the ...
www.amsmeteors.org/.../upper-mid-west-fireball-may-11-201...

Is the Earth a cosmic feather-duster?
Phys.Org
The metallic vapours recondense in the atmosphere to form nanometre-sized particles known asmeteor smoke. In 2014, the team will be involved in a Norwegian rocket experiment to measuremeteor smoke in ice particles in the upper atmosphere.

T-Rex Asian Cousin Beats Facebook IPO for Some at Auction
BusinessWeek
A glossy, black rock from Mars that landed during a meteorite shower last July is expected to bring $32500 to $40000. A dazzling pallasite meteorite is estimated to sell for $8000 to $10000. “Meteorites are the most collectible items,” Herskowitz said.

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The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 18MAY2012


UC Berkeley junior hot on the trail of Sutter's Mill meteorites
UC Berkeley
By Robert Sanders, Media Relations | May 17, 2012 Jason Utas, a junior majoring in geology and psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, developed a passion for meteorites after his father gave him one at age eight. ...

Moon rocks space exhibit coming to Gadsden libraries
Gadsden Times
By Andy Powell Moon rocks, moon dust and meteor material will be on display next week at the Gadsden Public Library, as well as a touring display on astronomy. The moon material and meteormaterial will only be at the library through May 31, ...

Rumuruti's rare stones that came from heaven
Business Daily Africa
Facing Mt Kenya: A ranch near Rumuruti where the rare meteorite fell and gave the town a place in history. Photo/File By JOHN KAMAU (email the author) On January 28, 1934 at about 10.45pm, the skies over Rumuruti were showered with stones from heaven ...

Earth Gallery from the world 2nd largest meteorite ...
3 min
Earth Gallery from the world 2nd largest meteorite. Sudbury, Ontario, Canada http ://en ...
youtube.com

Have scientists finally found the meteorite which set off the 1908 Tunguska ...
Daily Mail
Now Italian scientists claim to have found chunks of a meteorite which might have caused the blast - from seismic and magnetic scans of nearby Lake Cheko. Lake Cheko, they claim is an impact crater for the blast - which devastated nearly 1000 square ...

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17 May 2012

Alert -Breaking News- Newly Detected NEO to Make Close Pass Towards Earth 17/18MAY2012

Alert -Breaking News- Newly Detected NEO to Make Close Pass Towards Earth 17/18MAY2012 and for the Remainder of May 2012


Near Earth Objects (NEOs) (2012 KA), (2012 JV11), were just detected prior to their close Earth passes. Other close approach NEOs (2012 KW). (2010 KK37), and (2001 CQ36) are also likely to stir some meteor activity. Get outside and see if you can spot some meteor, fireball or bolide activity as other debris will certainly be accompanying them. If you have a security camera or allsky camera have it on!
 If you have a sighting please make a report:
Click here to report a meteor / fireball -LunarMeteorite*Hunter, Tokyo

UPCOMING CLOSE APPROACHES TO EARTH
1 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)
(2012 KA) 2012-May-170.00150.65.1 m - 11 m28.614.50
(2012 HC20) 2012-May-180.123548.0130 m - 300 m21.516.96
(2001 BA16) 2012-May-180.115745.018 m - 41 m25.86.66
(2010 KK37) 2012-May-190.00582.319 m - 43 m25.710.94
4183 Cuno 2012-May-200.121847.43.5 km - 7.8 km14.414.40
(2012 KW) 2012-May-210.00863.413 m - 29 m26.510.14
(2012 JV11) 2012-May-220.01726.741 m - 93 m24.019.52
(2006 KY67) 2012-May-230.149958.368 m - 150 m23.013.88
(2011 KG4) 2012-May-240.121647.367 m - 150 m23.011.50
(2012 HZ33) 2012-May-240.159161.9230 m - 520 m20.312.76
(2002 KM3) 2012-May-240.184571.890 m - 200 m22.415.67
(1994 NK) 2012-May-240.118646.2270 m - 610 m19.96.87
(2012 HL8) 2012-May-250.131651.249 m - 110 m23.76.64
(2012 KX) 2012-May-260.056922.160 m - 130 m23.27.09
154330 (2002 VX94) 2012-May-260.186972.8670 m - 1.5 km18.013.62
(2002 AW) 2012-May-260.192474.9210 m - 460 m20.66.95
(2001 CQ36) 2012-May-300.025810.077 m - 170 m22.75.62
(2002 OA22) 2012-May-310.119746.6360 m - 820 m19.37.01
Table Source: http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/ca/

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The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 17MAY2012

Chicago Field Museum's New Meteorite, Sutter's Mill, California
YouTube Published on 9 May 2012 by naturalbornclimbers 21Views
Chicago Field Museum's New Meteorite, Sutter's Mill, California

Medians are cool, rewriting history & meteoritesReno Gazette Journal
While visiting daughter Sheri Millhollin, Stony joined throngs of folks searching for meteoritefragments near Coloma where California's first gold was first discovered in 1848. Son-in-law Dave, and grandson Tyus, 14, hoping to earn a few dollars, ...

Largest Meteorite Hunt in History Yields Treasure for UA
UA News (press release)
Robert Ward with the largest piece of the Sutter's Mill Meteorite recovered so far. (Photo: Patrick McArdle/UANews) Its edges rounded during its violent entry into Earth's atmosphere, this meteoritewas splattered with dirt upon impact.

Meteorite Hunters Contribute to Future UA-NASA Asteroid Study
Arizona Public Media
Three meteorite hunters are donating fragments from a meteorite that hit the Earth in late April to the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory. The donation will help local scientists prepare for a joint NASA mission to study an ...

METEOR CRATER HOSTS UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA GRADUATE STUDENTS FOR ANNULAR SOLAR ...
Tucson Citizen
Flagstaff, AZ May 14, 2012 – Meteor Crater, the meteorite impact site located 35 miles east of Flagstaff and 20 miles west of Winslow on I-40 will be hosting an outreach program this weekend in conjunction with a group of Astronomy students from the ...

Trapped in the Past, Scientists Must Race to Save Earth
PR Web (press release)
In GV Chillingsworth's thrilling new science fiction novel “Moonshaker” (published by Trafford Publishing), scientists must rush to save the Earth when the moon is shoved out of its orbit by a meteor strike. Dr. Raul Western creates a satellite – the ...

Meteorite discovery spurs hunt for more pieces
(Phys.org) -- Meteorite fragments were recently scattered around Sutter's Mill in California ...
phys.org

Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News: The Latest Worlwide ...
By Lunar Meteorite * Hunter
Flagstaff, AZ May 14, 2012 – Meteor Crater, the meteorite impact site located 35 miles east of Flagstaff and 20 miles west of Winslow on I-40 will be hosting an outreach program this weekend in conjunction with a group of Astronomy students ...
Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News

默奇森陨石| Asian Scientist Magazine | Science, Technology and ...
陨石内提炼出地外氨基酸，能使老鼠癫痫症痉挛发作率减半. 奥尔巴尼医学中心的 科学家们发现，从默奇森陨石中提取的一种地外氨基酸可能完全预防或降低癫痫症 ...
www.asianscientist.com/tag/默奇森陨石/

Ancestral tree's branches proliferate
OneNewsNow
On April 22, sonic booms announced the arrival of a minivan-sized meteorite into earth's atmosphere practically in the SETI backyard, breaking up with high heat and dropping its remains over the Sierra Nevada mountains near Sacramento, California.

A remote control mining Inside the world 2nd largest ...
2 min
A remote control mining Inside the world 2nd largest meteorite. The Big Nickle Mine at Sudbury ...
youtube.com

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16 May 2012

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 16MAY2012

Cosmic forensics: signs of a Tunguska meteorite?
Ars Technica
Others have also found meteorite-like microparticles in the remains of trees there. Still, there's no smoking gun. This week in the journal Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems (or G 3 ), a team of Italian researchers reports that they've found ...

Meteor samples donated to UA lab
Arizona Daily Star
The researchers used an aerial search hoping to locate sites where large fragments landed after ameteor exploded in the atmosphere over the Sierra Nevada in late April. A trio of rock hunters have donated two fingernail-sized samples of the meteor ...

Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News: Breaking News- Meteor ...
By Lunar Meteorite * Hunter
Breaking News- Long Duration with Fragmentation Meteor Fireball SC TN ~01:15 EDT 15MAY2012 We need your sighting reports; please submit one! Thank you! Dirk Ross...Tokyo (click here to report a meteor / fireball) Initial Sighting Reports ...
Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News

Russia to resume hypersonic missile activities
Flightglobal
Raduga and NPO Mashinostroeniye respectively carried out research work into the GELA andMeteorit hypersonic weapons during the Soviet era, but did not go ...

Southwest Research Institute
The Cutting Edge
Although Vesta and its family are located between Mars and Jupiter, smaller pieces of these asteroids can be found in meteorite collections on Earth, including most eucrite, howardite and diogenite meteorites. Several large craters on Vesta were first ...

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15 May 2012

Breaking News- Meteor Fireball SC TN 15MAY2012

Breaking News- Long Duration  with Fragmentation Meteor Fireball SC TN ~01:15 EDT 15MAY2012

We need your sighting reports;  please submit one!  Thank you!  Dirk Ross...Tokyo
(click here to report a meteor / fireball)

Initial Sighting Reports:
15MAY2012 Clay Aiken, SC, USA 1:20 Eastern Time 8-10 sec Start in Western horizon and tracked E White with trailing orange/white streak Venus bright. There was 1 main piece and about 3 smaller ones. I have never seen anything like this.  I have seen meteors that break up and appear to fall to earth but this stayed on a constant track all the way across the sky.  There were several pieces that maintain the same distance from each other through out the complete sighting.

15MAY2012 Chris Woods Dayton TN 1:15:00 15 seconds NW to SE Fast moving fireball with chunks coming off Like a bright star yes Biggest and closest one I've ever seen

15MAY2012 Michele E. Tennessee 1:00:00 10 sec came from the N traveling S White/yellow/No sound/Traveled very fast - there were two of them - both had long tails/One was bigger than the other/the smaller one disapeared from my sight behind trees, the larger one continued out of my sight into trees in the horizon to the S. Brighter than the moon No falling parts I've never seen anything like this before, and I am not any sort of expert, or even amature of these sorts of things.  The brightness and fast movement caught the corner of my eye, as I focused on them I tried to imagine what they could be (a plane?) it wasn't until they were gone that I thought of a comet/meteor.  I only got online to look and see if any other reports had been made to figure out what it was that I saw.

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The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 15MAY2012

US horse pasture ground zero for exciting scientific find
Horsetalk
Scientists say it is a rare type of meteor and they have few samples of this kind of material. Meteorites are interesting to scientists from an astrobiology perspective, as they contain molecules related to how the building blocks for life on Earth may ...

Supermoon, planets & meteor showers | kgw.com Portland
Featured Videos · Supermoon, planets & meteor showersadd to reading list. Become a 'citizen scientist'. Featured Videos · Become a 'citizen scientist'add to ...
www.kgw.com/.../Supermoon-planets--meteor-showers-15024...

NASA, SETI investigators look for Sierra meteorite ...
3 min
NASA and SETI investigators in a Zeppelin airship flew over the Sierra foothills Thursday looking ...
tennessean.com

Meteorite Fragments Searched For In Sierra Nevada ...
2 min
NASA Ames, the SETI institute and other organizations are combing the mountainous region for ...
youtube.com

Extraterrestrials: Did an alien life form emerge from a Meteor?
Canadian National Newspaper
I wonder what will be found in the remains of the Meteor that crashed recently in America? The search is on for the fragments from the outer space visitor. When I was a young girl, I used to live at the English beauty spot Cuckmere Haven in Sussex.

Streaking fireball witnessed by area residents
DL-Online
In fact, the website lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.com, which collects reports of meteor sightings, had over 65 eyewitness accounts ranging from Wisconsin to Manitoba, Canada, during the same time span Friday in which people saw the fireball in the ...

Fireball Streaks Low and Slow Over Fargo, Seen From Several ...
Valley sky watchers and anyone who happened to be outside at about 10 o'clock Friday night were treated to a special sight. This is what viewers have reported ...
www.sott.net/.../245409-Fireball-Streaks-Low-and-Slow-Over-...


The evolution of near Earth objects risk perception
The Space Review
The risk that a comet or meteor poses not only depends on adequate studies, but it implies that culture and technology evolve as well. NEOs have been understood differently throughout history. Every time we've observed a NEO, a different risk was posed ...

Astrophoto: Meteor Fireball Passing through the Milky Way
Universe Today
This beautiful astrophoto combines both — and more — as photographer Luke Arens captured a big meteor fireball reflecting off a northern Minnesota lake just as the Milky Way core rose above the scene. Luke took this image over the weekend as part of ...

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14 May 2012

5th International Meeting of Astronomy and Astronautics Brasil 2012

5th International Meeting of Astronomy and Astronautics Brasil April 19-21, 2012 - TV Video Reports

Posted on YouTube UmPasseiopeloCeu  2012/04/22 22views
Report about the 5th International Meeting of Astronomy and Astronautics produced by InterTV - Reportagem da InterTv sobre o 5o Encontro Internacional de Astronomia e Astronáutica

Especialistas divergem sobre objeto visto em céu do ES

Posted on YouTube UmPasseiopeloCeu 2012/04/22 52 views
Report produced by TV Gazeta. Reportagem produzida pela TV Gazeta.

Flagrante: Pedaço de nave espacial lançada há 27 anos cruza céu de Campos (RJ)

Posted on YouTube on 23 Apr 2012 by CAMFWAYNE5 112 views
Um cinegrafista amador registrou o momento em que uma bola de fogo atravessou o céu de Campos, no norte do Estado. Trata-se de lixo espacial. O fenômeno é raro e fascinou as testemunhas. O objeto caiu no oceano entre a América do Sul e a África e fazia parte de uma nave americana lançada ao espaço há 27 anos.


More videos of the conference to be posted as they are made available.
-LunarMeteorite*Hunter, Tokyo

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GAM 2012 - again meeting an NC from another country, and much more ..........

Posted by: Joh.Stuebler in AWB Blog on Apr 24, 2012

http://www.astronomerswithoutborders.org/community/member-blogs/gam-2012-again-meeting-an-nc-from-another-country-and-much-more-.html


2012 THE Year of Meteors!
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13 May 2012

Breaking News Alert- NEOs Close Approach May 2012

NEO (2012 JU) to Make Close Approach to Earth 13MAY2012 be Ready for Some Increased Meteor Activity!
  May 13 asteroid NEO 2012 JU will pass at approximately one-half Lunar Distance (LD) to Earth and other detected NEOs (Near Earth Objects) 2010 KK37 on 19MAY2012 and 2001 CQ36 on 30MAY2012 will safely pass Earth this month; all known NEOs remaining for May 2012 are shown below in the NASA table (with links to their orbits, etc)..  Be ready to view the night sky with eyes and cameras to witness the other debris that may be accompanying.  If you have a meteor/fireball/bolide sighting report please let us know by filing a sighting report:
http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.jp/2000/11/meteor-fireball-report-form.html

Keep looking skyward!  -LunarMeteorite*Hunter, Dirk Ross...Tokyo
UPCOMING CLOSE APPROACHES TO EARTH
1 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)
141432 (2002 CQ11) 2012-May-120.102239.8280 m - 630 m19.916.26
(2008 CB6) 2012-May-130.110342.910 m - 23 m27.110.85
(2012 JU) 2012-May-130.00140.57.7 m - 17 m27.713.39
(2010 SO16) 2012-May-130.142355.4200 m - 460 m20.69.53
(2001 QN142) 2012-May-150.191574.5140 m - 310 m21.413.43
(2012 GK) 2012-May-150.056422.089 m - 200 m22.48.28
(2011 KY15) 2012-May-150.158661.741 m - 93 m24.017.61
(2012 HN13) 2012-May-150.082332.073 m - 160 m22.88.02
(2012 HC20) 2012-May-180.123548.0130 m - 300 m21.516.96
(2001 BA16) 2012-May-180.115745.018 m - 41 m25.86.66
(2010 KK37) 2012-May-190.00582.319 m - 43 m25.710.94
4183 Cuno 2012-May-200.121847.43.5 km - 7.8 km14.414.40
(2006 KY67) 2012-May-230.149958.368 m - 150 m23.013.88
(2011 KG4) 2012-May-240.121647.367 m - 150 m23.011.50
(2012 HZ33) 2012-May-240.159061.9240 m - 530 m20.312.75
(2002 KM3) 2012-May-240.184571.890 m - 200 m22.415.67
(1994 NK) 2012-May-240.118646.2270 m - 610 m19.96.87
(2012 HL8) 2012-May-250.131651.249 m - 110 m23.76.64
154330 (2002 VX94) 2012-May-260.186972.8670 m - 1.5 km18.013.62
(2002 AW) 2012-May-260.192474.9210 m - 460 m20.66.95
(2001 CQ36) 2012-May-300.025810.077 m - 170 m22.75.62
(2002 OA22) 2012-May-310.119746.6360 m - 820 m19.37.01
Source NASA/JPL/CalTech: http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/ca/

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