25 March 2013

The Latest Worldwide meteor/Meteorite News 25MAR2013

Volleyball-sized fireball streaks across East Coast sky (+video ...
NASA confirms that a fireball, as bright as a full moon, was seen from Florida to New England. The Friday night meteor was probably a small "boulder" that ...
www.csmonitor.com/.../Volleyball-sized-fireball-streaks-across...

Sonic Boom May Be A Fireball | WCJB TV-20
BRONSON - Numerous calls were made to the sheriffs office of various counties in the North Central Florida complaining about one thing last night. A sonic ...
www.wcjb.com/local-news/2013/.../sonic-boom-may-be-fireba...

Fireball just a meteor - NASA
3News NZ
He said it "looks to be a fireball that moved roughly toward the southeast, going on visual reports." "Judging from the brightness, we're dealing with something as bright as the full moon," Cooke said. "The thing is probably a yard across. We basically ...
Boston Globe
Following the meteor that burned across Russia's sky a little over a month ago, damaging buildings and injuring more than 1,000 people, Friday night's meteor provided a brief, glowing spectacle that lit up parts of New England at around 8 p.m ...

Migrating planets caused meteor storm
ABC Science Online
Meteor storm Migration of giant gas planets such as Jupiter created the biggestmeteor storm in our solar system's history, according to a new study. The research in the journal Nature Geoscience paints the clearest picture yet of the causes of the ...

UT professor obtains samples of Russianmeteorite
Sun, 24 Mar, 2013 12:20 PM PDT
A University of Tennessee professor has obtained pieces of the meteor that exploded spectacularly over Russia in February.Continue reading

Large meteorite awes residents in Connecticut
Sat, 23 Mar, 2013 11:31 PM PDT
NEW YORK — East Coast residents were buzzing on social media sites and elsewhere Friday night after a brief but bright flash of light streaked across the early-evening sky —in what experts say was almost certainly a meteor coming down.Continue reading

Hundreds see possible meteor fly by earth
ABC30.com
A security camera above a car yard in Delaware captured video of what appeared to be a meteor. Hundreds of people took to Facebook and Twitter to report the blue-green light. NASA says the sightings appear to be a "single meteor event." This one just ...

Fireball lights up East Coast, spares Russia any further terror
msnNOW
A meteor lit up the East Coast last night, and camera footage of the fly-by is starting to twinkle across the web. Experts at the American Meteor Society (a real thing) are calling this a fireball, rather than a regular old meteor, because it burned so ...

That big fireball Friday was only visible from part of Vermont
vt.Buzz (blog)
I also don't think the fireball got too bright until it had gone by Vermont, so we wouldn't have necessarily seen it in all its glory. I put out a plea via the Burlington Free Press Facebook page for reports last evening but only got one confirmation ...

Reported meteor lights up East Coast -- and social media - CNN.com
Authorities got reports Friday night from Virginia to Maine of meteor sightings, which lit up not only the night sky but social media as well.
www.cnn.com/2013/03/23/.../index.html?...

Meteor briefly lights up East Coast sky - The Boston Globe
A meteor that looked like an immense ball of fire streaked across the sky up and down the East Coast Friday night, astounding viewers throughout ...
www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/03/.../story.html

Small Asteroid Behind East Coast Meteor Friday : Discovery News
A 3-foot boulder was big enough to light up the skies over the East Coast, experts say.
news.discovery.com/.../east-coast-meteor-asteroid-130324.htm

NASA: Flash In East Coast Sky Likely A Meteor
CBS Local
A surveillance camera at a car dealership in Delaware also captured the meteor, flying across the horizon. “It moved very slowly across the sky, which might suggest that it was a good size, bright enough for us to see, and perhaps high up in the ...

Meteor Lights Up Night Sky Over US Eastern Coast
Indiatimes.com
"The thing is probably a yard across. We basically had a boulder enter the atmosphere over the northeast." He noted that the meteor was widely seen, with more than 350 reports on the website of the American Meteor Society alone. "If you have something...

Typical Russian Style Reaction To Giant Meteorite ...
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Typical Russian Style Reaction To Giant Meteorite Coming In 2013. nwosatire· 107 videos ...
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