30 November 2010

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 30NOV2010


Ireland Meteor News Continues TOP Interest
Knocknacarra eyewitnesses urged to help find meteorite
Galway News
Curiously, it was same time as the details of the bailout were announced and the same date in 1999 when the last meteorite definitely landed on the country. 
... (Ireland meteorite 28NOV2010)

'Fireball' lights up NI sky

‎ (Ireland)
BBC News - 5 hours ago
... be able to establish what the object's original orbit in the solar system might have been and whether it was part of a previously known meteor shower.

Regional round-up reports from around the country
Irish Times -
WEST: A METEORITE was sighted shooting over Galway last night as air temperatures fell to -6 degrees. The fireball was spotted by several people in the ... (Ireland meteor 28NOV2010)

Armagh Observatory
The Armagh Observatory received 26 fireball reports last night and early this morning, reporting a slow east-west moving fireball occurring around 17:45 UTC last night (Nov 28, 2010) north of the island of Ireland. ...The reports, here: http://arpc65.arm.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fireballs/browse.pl


Other News:
elp: Meteor News...Brighter than Moon...Meteor Lights Up East ...
By El Paso AllSky Camera
At 11:32 p.m. MST on Nov.28th, a very bright short duration meteor was observed traveling NE to S-SW just East of Tucson Arizona. The event lasted for 2-3 seconds during which it burned with a magnitude slightly brighter than the full ...

  
Local author explores history of the Weston meteorite
Weston Forum Sun, 28 Nov 2010 20:17 PM PST
In 1807, chemistry professor at Yale University Benjamin Silliman traveled to Weston to study what would become the first scientifically recorded meteorite landing. Two hundred years later, author Cathryn J. Prince attended a talk on the anniversary of the meteorite landing ... (Weston meteorite for sale if there is a buyer- contact LunarMeteorite*Hunter)



December brings total lunar eclipse
Baltimore Sun (blog)
The year's earliest sunset occurs on the 8 th as Sol drops below Baltimore's western horizon at 4:43 pm The annual Geminid meteor shower – one of the year's ...




AOL News
29) -- A Michigan man claiming to possess an ice meteorite rich in extraterrestrial organisms will announce in a news conference Tuesday that alien life, ... (cracked-pot meteorite science)

Georgia residents report mysterious boom
UPI.com
An amateur astronomer said a meteorite probably didn't cause the boom. "A really big meteor can make a sonic boom, but if it did it would make a big flash ...



Reader of Meteor/Meteorite News Meteor Siting:

Eyewitness to meteor on 11/14/2010 6:30 AM over Silver Spring, MD
I saw the meteor at 6:30 A.M. on 11/14. The sky was a beautiful pink color with the sun lighting up the clouds in the east from below. The sun had either just risen or was about to rise. I was walking south near 14400 Fairdale Rd, Silver Spring, Md 20905. The meteor was traveling east to west in a “smear” of 3 - 5 glowing balls at about 30 degrees above the horizon line. It was less than 10 seconds, possibly as little as 5 from the start of the event to the end. The event covered a good 30 – 40 degree swath of sky. The meteor burned out, very evenly, with a burning jet behind the main mass, until completely gone. The pink clouds and blue sky contrasted the bright green color of the meteor (it was the color of copper burning under a bunsen burner).
Brian S. (contact info)

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