27 February 2018

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 27FEB2018



Fireball streaks across night sky of Chile
MSN.com
A meteor was seeing flying across the night sky in Antofagasta, Chile on February 25.

Event #2018-754
Fireball event
AMS received 13 reports about a fireball seen over Región de Antofagasta, Arica e Parinacota and Antofagasta on Sunday, February 25th 2018 around 23:49 UT.

Events in 2018 756-2018 KML
Fireball event
Events in 2018 756-2018 KML. AMS received one report about a fireball seen over Región de Arica y Parinacota on Monday, February 26th 2018 around 00:30 UT. D. Sound. 1 no. C. Sound. n/a. Frag. 1 no. Twitter0. 1 Report. a - Nielsen saindt A. Level 1. Show Trajectory. Observers map, Heat map.

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Yoshihide Kozai, Astromoner (1928 – 2018) R.I.P.

Yoshihide Kozai, Astromoner (1928 – 2018) R.I.P.
Yoshihide Kozai died this month, his celestial mechanics research when applied to earth-orbiting objects is embedded in the early work on the SGP algorithms used by all of us to predict satellite positions. Applied in increasingly larger contexts, his theory contributes to stellar system orbital dynamics and the merging of black holes.

Review: http://www.planetary.org/blogs/guest-blogs/2018/0227-yoshihide-kozai-1928-2018.html

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26 February 2018

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 26FEB2018

Events in 2018 752-2018 KML
Fireball event
Events in 2018 752-2018 KML. AMS received one report about a fireball seen over Minas Gerais on Sunday, February 25th 2018 around 04:05 UT. D. Sound. 1 no. C. Sound. 1 no. Frag. 1 no. Twitter0. 1 Report. a - EDUARDO A. Level 5. Show Trajectory. Observers map, Heat map. Without observation ...

Event 751-2018
Fireball event
AMS received 9 reports about a fireball seen over Overijssel, Île-de-France, England, Bretagne, Zuid-Holland, Pays de la Loire, Brandenburg and Friesland on Saturday, February 24th 2018 around 19:44 UT.

Event #2018-586
Fireball event
AMS received 10 reports about a fireball seen over England, Grand Est, Vlaanderen, Île-de-France, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and Hauts-de-France on Tuesday, February 13th 2018 around 05:01 UT.

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25 February 2018

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 25FEB2018

Fireball February 24, 0h11m over Belgium
Meteor News
The messages started to appear in the meteor news groups as well as on Facebook. Below we give an overview of the first images we collected for this fireball from CAMS and from the EN All-sky cameras. Both Koen Miskotte at Ermelo (Figure 6) and Klaas Jobse at Oostkapelle (Figure 7) registered this ...

Mining for asteroids will be the next gold rush
New York Post
(Asteroids usually remain in stable orbit in the asteroid belt, but when one breaks off into space and hits the Earth's atmosphere, it burns up as a meteor — and often we can see them in the night sky as shooting stars.) C-type asteroids — the most common type, making up 75 percent of asteroids ...

Scientists examine potential meteorites at ASU Open House event
ABC15 Arizona
TEMPE, AZ - Is that weird rock you found a meteorite from outer space or just a regular rock found on Earth? People traveled to Arizona State University's Tempe campus Saturday afternoon for the ASU Open House to have their discoveries analyzed by scientists from the Center for Meteorite Studies.

Scientists test for meteorites at ASU
YouTube
Scientists tested people's mysterious rocks they've found at ASU's Tempe campus to see if they might be meteorites from outer space.

NASA historian Erik Conway to speak on missions to Mars
Islands' Sounder
Planetary scientists have sought to collect and examine rock samples from Mars since the beginning of the space age over 50 years ago. They did so even before that using rocks blasted off the red planet by meteor impacts. But these ancient artifacts, usually collected in Antarctica, are insufficient.

Kids dig Rock-n-Fossil Day at USU geology department
The Herald Journal
Families were invited to browse dozens of samples, from regular exhibits at USU's Geology Museum such as dinosaur fossils and a meteor fragment, to a collection of impressive geodes, trilobites and more brought by world-renowned collector Val Gunther. Gunther's father and now his sons are ...

HUGE METEOR? Check it
YouTube
To clarify the first clip was taken tonight the second was taken febuary 9th. Credit Goes to Jasmin Original video and channel https://youtu.be/A0bJQlTH2x0 N...

March looming as a weak month for meteor showers
New Jersey Herald
March is a poor month for meteor showers. We have 10 of them, all weak. Remember, the days listed are peak time, and they have a few days before and after these times that they may also have some stragglers. The Rho Leonids peak March 1-4. Pi Virginids pea March 3-9 at two to five per hour.

Local TV News Station Captures What Appears to Be a Meteor Flying Over Trinidad In Broad Daylight
Lost Coast Outpost
North Coast News reports that their videographer Halcyon Simmons recorded the above video while filming a weather shot. But it wasn't until viewers started calling in after the station's evening broadcast that they realized what Simmons captured. “WATCH: What appears to be a meteor swept through ...

Events in 2018 690-2018 KML
Fireball event
Events in 2018 690-2018 KML. We received 35 reports about a fireball seen over Bahia, State of Bahia, Sergipe and Alagoas on Wednesday, February 21st 2018 around 01:30 UT. For this event, we received 8 videos. The trajectory displayed on the map and the KML file has been automatically ...

Photos
American Meteor Society
Fireball recorded on my All Sky Camera. Motion detection software timed the event at 11:08:46 PM local time. I have a 5-minute stacked image of the fireball that I'm including with this report. Uploaded by. Baalke Ron © Ron Baalke. Uploaded by ...

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Antofagasta, Chile Fireball Meteor 25FEB2018

Antofagasta, Chile Fireball Meteor ~23:49 UT 25FEB2018

Fireball streaks across night sky of Chile
MSN.com
A meteor was seeing flying across the night sky in Antofagasta, Chile on February 25.

Event #2018-754
Fireball event
AMS received 13 reports about a fireball seen over Región de Antofagasta, Arica e Parinacota and Antofagasta on Sunday, February 25th 2018 around 23:49 UT.

Events in 2018 756-2018 KML
Fireball event
Events in 2018 756-2018 KML. AMS received one report about a fireball seen over Región de Arica y Parinacota on Monday, February 26th 2018 around 00:30 UT. D. Sound. 1 no. C. Sound. n/a. Frag. 1 no. Twitter0. 1 Report. a - Nielsen saindt A. Level 1. Show Trajectory. Observers map, Heat map.

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24 February 2018

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 24FEB2018

Meteor crossing sky in Bahia, Brazil - 02-22-2018
Steemit
A fireball seen in the sky in several cities of Bahia intrigued residents on Tuesday night (20/2). A glare in the sky… by e-101.

METEOR Hound
Nugget Shooter Forums
Micro Meteorite. METEOR Hound posted a topic in METEORITE HUNTING and COLLECTING. Hey I have a large collection of these space rocks I really like them and will start photographing them. I am going to sell necklaces with micro meteorites in little jars. I hope you guys have some ideas for me.

The Chelyabinsk Meteor Was A Superbolide
MGTOW.com
According to NASA, the Siberian meteor exploded with the power of 30 Hiroshima bombs and was the largest object to burst in the atmosphere since the Tunguska event of 1908, which was also in Siberia and left few eyewitnesses or clues. This time, the event was captured by digital dashboard ...

Fireball report
American Meteor Society
Observer. Name, Will B. Experience Level, 1/5. Remarks, The fireball looked at first like a firework - indeed I waited for it to explode before it flew completely overhead. There were actually two fireballs right next to each other. Was it a satellite exploding? Or two comets traveling together? It was amazing.

Meteor flashes - AMS event #168-2018
YouTube
Surveillance video facing south from my brother's house on Cass Lake. It shows two bright flashes as the meteor explodes. . Credit:Eric N.

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23 February 2018

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 23FEB2018

Winslow meteorite sells for record price at auction
White Mountain Independent
Many people may not know that a meteorite from the meteor that created the famous Meteor Crater natural historic landmark site just west of Winslow was recovered and weighs 70 pounds. The artistic-looking meteor just sold at auction for a whopping $237,500 according to Space.com contributor, ...

Fireball report
American Meteor Society
Location. Address, , Bahia (BR). Latitude, 12° 36' 19.03'' S (-12.605287°). Longitude, 38° 57' 47.21'' W (-38.963115°). Elevation, 8.148337m. Time and Duration. Local Date & Time, 2018-02-20 22:30 -3 time zones. UT Date & Time, 2018-02-21 01:30 UT. Duration, ≈3.5s. Direction. Moving direction ...

Bob Trembley, Vatican Observatory blogger joins the crew
Astronomy.FM
Duck! Incoming meteors! Tonight we interview Bob Trembley, Vatican Observatory blogger, meteorite collector, NASA Solar System Ambassador and all around nice guy. Here are the links from tonight's program: Meteor Terminology – American Meteor Society:.

Is an Urban Legend About Meteors Causing People to Kill Themselves In Indonesia?
VICE
It's unknown if Aan saw the meteor streak across the sky himself, but plenty of others in his rural coastal district of Gunung Kidul had. And they all knew what it meant—someone was about to die. The next day Aan, 18, was pale and listless. He walked into the kitchen, took a short knife his grandmother ...

NASA's Mars Opportunity Rover Exceeds All Expectations: Reaches 5000 Sols
Science Trends
Spirit also landed in a crater caused by a meteor named Columbia Memorial Station, named after the astronauts who died when the shuttle Columbia blew up. Colombia Memorial Station was possibly a lake bed at some point, so it was of great interest to NASA. Both Spirit and Opportunity's mission was ...

The Hubble Space Telescope: 28 Years of Scientific Contributions
WUWM
A meteor shower is always a good excuse to get outside and look into the night sky. But it's not the only time when you can see a streak of light overhead. Astronomy contributor and Manfred Olson Planetarium director Jean Creighton says that while people generally know shooting stars have something ...

In One Ear: Did you see it?
Daily Astorian
Did you see what looked like a fireball streak across the clear night sky around 9:20 p.m. on Valentine's Day? Oregon Museum of Science and Industry astronomer Jim Todd “checked reports from various sources” according to BeachConnection.net (tinyurl.com/ORfireball), and it was seen from Oregon ...

Photos
American Meteor Society
Valentine's Day Meteor. Image from McCarthy Observatory All-Sky Camera. Uploaded by. Robson Monty © McCarthy Observatory Marc Polansky. Uploaded by ...

Meteor Activity Outlook for February 24 -March 2, 2018
American Meteor Society
This weekend the waxing gibbous moon will set shortly after midnight allowing the meteor observer to view under dark conditions the remainder of the night. This window of opportunity will shorten by about an hour with each passing night until the moon lies above the horizon all night long later in the ...

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22 February 2018

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 22FEB2018

Meteor lights up the sky over Georgia and Alabama
NBC News
A baseball-sized meteor lights up the sky. NBC's Brian Williams reports.

Meteor confirmed
St. Paul Journal (press release) (blog)
Furthermore, some eyewitness reports indicate that the meteor did fragment on its flight through the atmosphere, indicating that pieces of it may be found ... Shortly after the meteor was noted, Tarah Feland decided to look through some of the footage on the security camera she has installed at the ...

Meteor fireball seen over South Carolina (VIDEO)
Sott
'Last night at 9:57 PM Eastern Standard Time (8:57 PM Central), eyewitnesses in the southeastern United States reported seeing a bright meteor, which was also observed by 4 NASA all sky meteor cameras in the region. The video data enable us to establish that the fireball was first spotted 55 miles ...

Meteorite in Brazil Sky 2018 It's happening worldwide
YouTube
At approximately 10:45 pm in the vicinity of the city of Savior a flash could be seen in the sky. Many people saw the night turn day by seconds. I saw it, bu... (video may be from 20FEB2018)

fireball shocks
Vox Charta
We have empirically estimated how often fireball shocks produce overpressure at the ground sufficient to damage windows. Our study used a numerical entry model to estimate the energy deposition and shock production for a suite of 23 energetic fireballs reported by US Government sensors over the ...

Meteor Art
Amanda Riffo
ink chromatography on plaster, 2015 Meteor. Congratulations Amanda!-LMH, Tokyo

Event 692-2018
Fireball event
ID, UT Date & Time, Local Date & Time, City, State, Dur. Magn. D. Sound, C. Sound, Frag. Observer, Exp. a, 2018-02-21 05:40 UT, 2018-02-20 21:40 PST, La Mesa, CA, ≈3.5s, -7, -, -, -, Laura M, 3. b, 2018-02-21 04:50 UT, 2018-02-20 20:50 PST, Lakewood, CA, ≈3.5s, -7, -, - ? Jerome S, 1.

Event 690-2018
Fireball event
Events in 2018 690-2018 KML. AMS received 15 reports about a fireball seen over Bahia and State of Bahia on Wednesday, February 21st 2018 around 01:31 UT. D. Sound. 1 yes. 14 no. C. Sound. 15 no. Frag. 13 no. 15 Reports. a - Victor O. Level 1. b - CAMILA ...

Event 677-2018
Fireball event
Events in 2018 677-2018 KML. AMS received 32 reports about a fireball seen over TN, AL, NC, KY, GA and SC on Tuesday, February 20th 2018 around 03:00 UT. D. Sound. 27 no. C. Sound. 2 yes. 26 no. Frag. 2 yes. 23 no. 32 Reports. a - Megan M. Level 1.

Videos : American Meteor Society
Videos : American Meteor Society
This video has been uploaded on the American Meteor Society Website. AMS Event: 168-2018, Report (168apj-2018). Uploaded by. © E. Noffz. Credit E. Noffz. Date 2018-01-16 20:10:00 EST ...

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21 February 2018

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 21FEB2017

Take a look inside Arizona State University's meteorite vault
ABC15 Arizona
TEMPE, AZ - They light up the night sky. Filling those who witness them with jubilation and can fill the pockets of those who find them. It turns out there's no better place to learn about what makes meteorites so special than this highly secured vault at Arizona State University. "This is the largest ...

Take a look inside ASU's meteorite vault
YouTube
It turns out there's no better place to learn about what makes meteorites so special than the highly secured vault as Arizona State University.

Bright meteor fireball reported over Bahia, Brazil (VIDEOS)
Sott
Residents of Salvador, the capital of Brazil's northeastern state of Bahia, reported a bright meteor fireball streaking through the night sky around 10:30 p.m. on Tuesday 20th February according to A Tarde On Line. Sightings of the event were...

Taylor Observatory hosts Feb. 24 'Window to the Universe'
Lake County News
The mission of ATLAS is to protect or at least warn earthlings of potentially damaging impacts such as the Chelyabinsk meteor impact in Russia in 2013, which injured 1,500 residents. Had ATLAS been operational, even this relatively small 20-meter diameter asteroid could have been detected a day in ...

Fireball report
American Meteor Society
We don't exactely know the trajectory of the object and we are not sure about It's nature but we suspect it was a meteor. We heard a sound around 8min after the explosion. We don't know if it was related to the explosion. However if it is the case, the meteor should have crashed around150km ...

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07 February 2018

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 07FEB2018

Rapid detection and recovery—the science of hunting meteorites
Phys.Org
Upper-atmosphere winds make extrapolation challenging, Reddy said. For a meteor to survive the trip through the atmosphere and fall onto the ground as a meteorite, it has to slow from its cosmic velocity. The friction from the atmosphere makes the meteor glow visibly between 30 and 65 miles above ...

Asteroid to pass between Earth and Moon on Friday
Astronomy Magazine
Though it didn't reach the ground, the shockwave from the Chelyabinsk meteor caused damage to over 7,200 building and injured nearly 1,500 people (primarily from shattered glass). //istdochmiregal via GIPHY For more information and news related to comets and asteroids, follow AsteroidWatch on ...

Asteroid 2018CB to pass Earth just at just one fifth the distance of the Moon
NEWS.com.au
The Chelyabinsk event was the explosion of a 17m large meteor over the southern Ural region in Russia. While it detonated in the atmosphere, the shockwave it produced damaged some 7200 buildings, with flying debris — mainly broken glass — injuring more than 1500 people. Saturday's fly-by will be ..

Did you see it? Fireball reported over western skies
St George News
An observer in Emeryville, California, sent his description of the sighting to the American Meteor Society website. “It was a bit frightening to see something this large and bright in the sky, Total observation time was about 5 minutes as a small fuzzy dot became large and bright.” Some observers reported ...

'Meteorite ball of fire' spotted in night skies
West Sussex County Times
Maggie Dellard went out into the garden of her home in Pines Ridge to look at the moon after seeing reports of the phenomenon on television - and was shocked to discover another startling spectacle. “I looked up and there was this big meteoriteflying over Tanbridge School,” she said. “It was a big ball ...

Science is a family affair
Kiowa County Signal
In a future activity, Simmons will team with presenter Stan Bryant, a pastor at Rozel, who takes people on archaeological and paleontology trips in the Utica area. The pair will present the process of catastrophes caused by earthquakes, volcanos, meteor impacts on land and water, tsunamis and more.

Did you know fact for the day; The world's largest visible crateris in South Africa
Cape Business News
Around 2,030 million years ago a meteor the size of a mountain (about 10km across) fell to earth in South Africa's Free State making a crater 300km across; it is the oldest crater made by either a comet or meteorite and reportedly the site of the largest energy release in history. In 2015, scientists claimed ...

Volcanoes, Then an Asteroid, Wiped Out the Dinosaurs
National Geographic
The volcanism provided the first strike, weakening the climate so much that a meteor—the more deafening blow—was able to spell disaster for Tyrannosaurs rex and its late Cretaceous kin. Dinosaurs 101 They ruled the Earth for more than 160 million years, but much about how dinosaurs lived and died ...

Seafloor data point to global volcanism after Chicxulub meteor strike
Phys.Org
It suggests that other volcanic activity around the world was triggered by the meteor. Seismic waves moving through the Earth, he said, may have accelerated volcanism already occurring along mid-ocean ridges. "Our work suggests a connection between these exceedingly rare and catastrophic events, ...

REVEALED: Mystery behind huge steel fireballs that rained down from sky
Daily Star
REVEALED: Mystery behind huge steel fireballs that rained down from sky. BOFFINS have shattered the mystery of enormous steel balls of fire .... Shocking footage from the incident appeared to show a fireball hurtling through the sky. The Peruvian Air Force earlier claimed the incident may have been ...

HEIGHT DEPENDENCE OF THE EFFECT OF THE GEOMAGNETIC FIELD ON METEOR TRAINS ...
OSTI.GOV
The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Scientific and Technical Information.

DIY Meteor Camera System
Cloudy Nights
DIY Meteor Camera System - posted in Solar System Imaging & Processing: Hi all, we are two PhD students from the University of Western Ontario and we are doing our research in the field of meteor physics. Mike is interested in very small meteors which we cant usually observe with conventional ...

Fireball report
American Meteor Society
Observer. Name, Marc L. Experience Level, 4/5. Remarks, I have posted the video on the Meteor Marc youtube channel at https://youtu.be/vKxsv0ebPeo and have linked it to the AMS site as its pretty decent. Enjoy your Fireball ! Again nice reporting by AMS users that allowed this catch. Video. Location ...

Fireball report
American Meteor Society
Location. Address, San Francisco, CA. Latitude, 37° 47' 11.04'' N (37.7864°). Longitude, 122° 23' 31.38'' W (-122.39205°). Elevation, 22.218m. Time and Duration. Local Date & Time, 2018-02-05 20:43 PST. UT Date & Time, 2018-02-06 04:43 UT. Duration, ≈3.5s. Direction. Moving direction, From up ...

Event #2018-480
Fireball event
ID, UT Date & Time, Local Date & Time, City, State, Dur. Magn. D. Sound, C. Sound, Frag. Observer, Exp. a, 2018-02-05 12:31 UT, 2018-02-05 06:31 CST, Cedar Hill, TX, ≈3.5s, -28 ? Steven B, 1. aa, 2018-02-05 13:00 UT, 2018-02-05 07:00 CST, South Coffeyville, OK ? -24, -, -, -, Anita H, 1.

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06 February 2018

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 06FEB2018

Rapid Detection and Recovery: The Science of Hunting Meteorites
UANews (press release)
16, hundreds of people in Michigan reported the bright glow of a meteor streaking through the sky, rattling windows as it broke the sound barrier. The meteor then broke apart in the Earth's atmosphere, and its pieces rained quietly to the ground. Using predictions by the Rapid Detection and Recovery of ...

Field Museum Scientists Studying Meteorite Found After January Fireball
CBS Chicago
Field Museum Scientists Studying Meteorite Found After January Fireball. Scientists at the Field Museum have begun studying one of the meteorites that recently showered a 2-mile swath of Michigan outside Detroit. CBS 2's Vince Gerasole reports. Program: CBS 2 News Mid-day. Categories: WBBMTV ...

Mystery of Peruvian fireballs finally explained (VIDEO)
RT
Peruvian scientists have finally unravelled the mystery behind the fireballs that lit up the night sky as they fell to Earth last month. On January 27, locals in southern Peru altered the Peruvian Air Force (FAP) to pieces of burning debris falling through the sky, and reported seeing strong rays of light and ...

Scientists Uncover Mystery of Peruvian Fireballs (VIDEO)
Sputnik International
In an interview from his headquarters in Lima, the Director of Astrophysics at the National Commission of Aerospace Research and Development (CONIDA) Walter Guevara revealed that the fireballs which lit up the night sky in southern Peru on January 27 were in fact parts of a satellite that had broken ...

Did surface life evolve on Mars? Newly published research casts increased doubt
Science Daily
Diverse mineralogy exhumed from the Martian subsurface: A false color image from the HiRISE instrument aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows amazing diversity of rocks exhumed from the Martian subsurface a meteor impact in the Nili Fossae area. The image is 1 km across. This site ...

Meteor shower, partial solar eclipse and other astronomical events to see in February
Cambridge News
The annual Alpha Centaurids meteor shower will be visible to people in the Southern Hemisphere on February 8. The shower gets its name from the Centaurus constellation, from where the meteors appear to radiate from. While the shower is expected to be fairly modest, those with a sharp eye should ...

Events in 2018 480-2018 KML
Fireball event
Events in 2018 480-2018 KML. We received 89 reports about a fireball seen over KS, OK, TX and AR on Monday, February 5th 2018 around 12:52 UT. For this event, we received 2 videos. The trajectory displayed on the map and the KML file has been automatically computed based on all the witness ...

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05 February 2018

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 05FEB2018

VIDEO: Meteor streaking through Oklahoma City sky caught on dash cam
KOCO.com
KOCO 5 viewer Jared Catalano shared this dashcam video showing a meteorstreaking through the Oklahoma City sky early Monday. Catalano said he was on his way to...

WATCH: OKC Resident Captures 'Falling Star' On Dashcam
news9.com KWTV
OKLAHOMA CITY -. An Oklahoma City resident captured video of a meteor streaking across the sky, early Monday morning. Jared Catalano sent in the video he recorded on his dashboard camera to News 9. Catalano said he was traveling south on N. Portland Avenue, near NW 150th Street, when the ...

Fireball Over Michigan
College of Literature, Science, and the Arts - University of Michigan
This fireball happened when a space rock crashed into our atmosphere, was heated and then exploded about 15-20 miles up. Tons of space debris collide with the Earth every day, but most are tiny– a grain of sand, and they come from cometary material or rocks. This one was different in that it was six ...

Arizona meteorite hunter finds success in Michigan
San Antonio Express-News
Neatly displayed in well-lit glass cases at his Prescott home are the meteorites that he has found, bartered for or purchased throughout the world. Ward made the most recent additions to his collection this month, when a meteorite was widely witnessed as it fell from the sky in Michigan, The Daily Courier ...

Events in 2018 383-2018 KML
Fireball event
Events in 2018 383-2018 KML. We received 6 reports about a fireball seen over Acre, Ucayali, Puno and Junín on Saturday, January 27th 2018 around 23:31 UT. For this event, we received one video and 2 photos. The trajectory displayed on the map and the KML file has been automatically computed ...

Events in 2018 229-2018 KML
Fireball event
Events in 2018 229-2018 KML. We received 56 reports about a fireball seen over IL, IN, KY, OH, MO, MS, AR, TN, NC, IA, WI, KS and MI on Friday, January 19th 2018 around 01:12 UT. For this event, we received one video. The trajectory displayed on the map and the KML file has been automatically ...

Events in 2018 179-2018 KML
Fireball event
We received 10 reports about a fireball seen over IL, OH, MI and IN on Tuesday, January 16th 2018 around 13:08 UT. The trajectory displayed on the map and the KML file has been automatically computed based on all the witness reports and may not be the most optimized.

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04 February 2018

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 04FEB2018

Huge Meteor over Puerto Rico
YouTube
This meteor was captured by my Watec 902H camera on Feb 3, 2018 at 8:55pm (00:55:20 UTC on Feb 4th). The camera was facing west from my location in Cabo Rojo...

Arizona meteorite hunter finds success in Michigan
Albany Times Union
Using seismic data, witness reports, and imaging from the Doppler Weather Radar, Ward and other meteorite hunters were able to pinpoint where some of those meteor fragments had landed: a frozen lake bed near Detroit. Within 15 minutes of reaching the lake, Ward found the first of the three ...

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03 February 2018

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 03FEB2018

PBS NOVA S36E14 Last Extinction
www.youtube.com
PBS NOVA S36E14 Last Extinction

Increasing Geminid meteor shower activity
SAO/NASA ADS
Title: Increasing Geminid meteor shower activity. Authors: Ryabova, G. O.; Rendtel, J. Affiliation: AA(Research Institute of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics of Tomsk State University, Lenin pr. 36, 634050 Tomsk, Russian Federation 0000-0002-1242-1457 ), AB(Leibniz-Institut fur Astrophysik Potsdam ...

3 Mysterious Giant Metal Balls Fall from the Sky in Peru
Netralnews
PUNO, NNC - The Peruvians were frightened after the villagers discovered three mysterious objects falling from the sky and engulfed in flames. Residents in the Andean region of Puno, Peru, feared a meteor impact after the giant balls fell to the ground on January 27, 2018. But the Peruvian Air Force ...

Giant balls of metal fall from the sky in towns across the globe leaving locals baffled… so what on ...
The Scottish Sun
He added, the fireball may have been the re-entry of the SL-23 rocket and the three metal spheres were fuel tanks belonging to a satellite. And Meteorologist Alejandro Fonesca, from the Federal University of Acre in Brazil, said that no meteorites had been predicted to fall in the area. He suggested the ...

Ambipolar diffusion of a meteor trail and its relation with height
ScienceDirect.com
Investigation of the relation between the ambipolar diffusion coefficient, D, of a meteor trail and height shows that considerable random fluctuations occur. It is however possible to obtain a statistical relation between these parameters. Regression lines have been derived for the relation between log D ...

Younger Dryas impact model confuses comet facts, defies airburst physics
www.pnas.org
In PNAS, Wittke et al. (1) present evidence that they indicate supports major airbursts and/or impacts at the beginning of the Younger Dryas, as proposed by Firestone et al. (2). One of the major criticisms of the hypothesis has been the lack of any physics-based model for the hypothesized event (3). ...

Widespread booms perplex Fox Valley residents
Appleton Post Crescent
Others attributed the noises to sonic booms from jets, a meteor shower, ice cracking on Lake Winnebago or thunder. Nothing was showing on radar, however. RELATED: Sonic boom mistaken for frostquake. WATCHDOG Q&A: Duke Behnke answers your questions. Menasha Police Chief Tim Styka said ...

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02 February 2018

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 02FEB2018

Finding Michigan's 5-mile crater, other meteor targets
WZZM
That meteor lit up metro Detroit like the early-morning sun, frightening thousands. Alleged meteorite finds included a rock on a farm near Sweester, Ind., and other fragments near Huntsville, Ontario, about 100 miles north of Toronto. Air traffic officials reported the meteor was seen from Bradford, Pa., ...

Cazador de meteoritos dona una muestra a museo de Chicago para su estudio
Univision
“Al estudiar los meteoritos, especialmente un espécimen prístino como este de Michigan, los científicos pueden echar un vistazo a los primeros días de nuestro sistema solar y aprender más sobre cómo era la temperatura, la presión y los minerales de hace 4,600 millones de años”, agregó el museo en ...

Mystery of huge fireballs seen plummeting to Earth from space in Peru solved
Mirror.co.uk
The mystery of the huge fireballs which were seen shooting across the sky has now been solved. The bright objects were seen plummeting ... The Peruvian Air Force has confirmed the fireball was actually a Russian space rocket re-entering Earth's atmosphere. And it added that the metal spheres which ...

OUT OF THIS WORLD Giant balls of metal fall from the sky across world leave locals
The Sun
The fireball pictured whizzing over Russia turned the night sky, blue, for a brief. 6. The fireball pictured whizzing over Russia turned the night sky, blue, for a brief moment. Confirming their suspicions, the UK Meteor Network said the International MeteorOrganization received more than 700 reports of a ...

Giant balls of metal are falling from sky in towns across globe, locals baffled
Deccan Chronicle
But the Peruvian Air Force confirmed the fireball was actually a Russian space rocket re-entering Earth's atmosphere. He added, the fireball may have been the re-entry of the SL-23 rocket and the three metal spheres were fuel tanks belonging to a satellite. Meteorologist Alejandro Fonesca, from the ...

Photos : American Meteor Society
Photos : American Meteor Society
Lightning Up The Sky. While I was shooting the Aurora Borealis, I captured a green Meteor. Shot with a Nikon D600, Sigma 24-70mm Lens, 20" exposure, f3.5, ISO1250, 1:04am MT time. Uploaded by. Powell Jullie © Jullie Powell Photography. Uploaded by ...

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Discovering Michigan's 5-mile crater, different meteor targets
Kaplan Herald
Matt Licke, planetarium manager at the Natural History Museum at the University of Michigan, explains the importance of discovering a meteor and what it tells us about the solar system. Wochit. Screen grab of YouTube video courtesy of Mike Austin shows suspected meteor.(Photo: Mike Austin).

How Rock Produced by Meteor Impact or Nuclear Explosion Is Formed
Science and Technology Research News
The presence of this rock at a site indicates either that material has pushed up through Earth's crust from the mantle (a silicate rocky shell between the crust and the core with depths ranging from 30 km to almost 3,000 km below the crust) or that a celestial body (a comet, meteor or meteorite) fell there.

Video: Massive meteor explosion seen in seven states - KMOV.com
KMOV.com
(AP) – Scientists at Chicago's Field Museum are now studying a piece of the meteor that broke apart earlier this month over Michigan. The peach-pit sized meteorite arrived Wednesday and scientists with the museum have started studying it. NASA scientists say the originally 6-foot-wide meteor broke ...

'Special' Meteor Piece Being Studied At Field Museum in Chicago
103.3 WKFR
Remember the meteor that exploded over Michigan in January. One very special piece of it is being studied deep in the bowels of Chicago's Field Museum.

Michigan Meteor finds a home - and gets re-named
100.7 WITL
WHAT?! Who let the Michigan Meteor out of the state? And how did we lose the naming rights? Meteorhunter Robert Ward (the guy with the cowboy hat) swooped in, grabbed fragments of the meteor that exploded over Michigan, took some selfies with the meteor and sent it off to Chicago. Via FedEx.

Scientists Studying Hamburg Meteorite
WHMI
NASA scientists say the 6-foot-wide meteor broke apart about 20 miles over Earth on January 16th, creating a bright light and what sounded like thunder in the sky. Meteorite hunter Robert Ward found the meteorite on a snow-covered lake in Hamburg Township and donated it to the Field Museum.

Field Museum scientists in Chicago studying Michigan meteor
ABC News
Scientists at Chicago's Field Museum are studying a piece of the meteor that broke apart earlier this month over Michigan. The meteorite, the size of a peach pit, arrived Wednesday. NASA scientists say the 6-foot-wide meteor broke apart about 20 miles over Earth on Jan. 16. It created a bright light and ...

Michigan meteorite 'lands' in Chicago museum
WNDU 16
CHICAGO, Ill. (WNDU) - A meteorite the size of a peach pit arrived at Chicago's Field Museum on Wednesday for the museum's scientists to study. NASA scientists say the 6-foot-wide meteor broke apart about 20 miles over earth on Jan. 16. It created a bright light and what sounded like thunder in the ...

Michigan meteorite studied in Chicago
WNEM Saginaw
Scientists at Chicago's Field Museum are studying a piece of a meteor that broke apart earlier this month over Michigan. "This is a map of the magnesium concentration and a slice of the meteorite. So, there is a hole in that meteorite,” said Jennika Greer, a University of Chicago graduate student.

WATCH: Meteor spotted in Ohio, Michigan, Canada
WPXI Pittsburgh
The dashboard cam video was shared by Mike Austin as he was driving north on I-75 near Bloomfield Hills, north of Detroit, Michigan. >> On WHIO.com: 2017 fireball caught on WHIO-TV weather camera. The fireball also was seen from northwest Ohio and southwest Ontario, Canada. >> Read more ...

Scientists Investigate Meteor Seen in 7 States
MSN.com
Scientists at Chicago's Field Museum are studying a piece of the meteor that broke apart earlier this month over Michigan. The 6-foot-wide meteor crumbled about 20 miles over Earth on January 16th, creating a bright light and a thunderous sound. (Jan. 31) Video provided by AP.

What can a meteor tell us about space?
Detroit Free Press
Matt Licke, planetarium manager at the Natural History Museum at the University of Michigan, explains the importance of discovering a meteor and what it tells us about the solar system.

Mystery as three giant metal spheres fall from the sky over Peru after massivefireball was spotted ...
Daily Mail
Peruvians were left terrified after villagers found three mysterious objects that fell from the sky engulfed in flames. Residents in the Larancahuani community, in the Andean region of Puno, Peru, feared a meteorite impact after the spheres crashed to the ground on January 27. Earlier in the day, social ...

Mysterious fireballs fall from South American skies leaving authorities baffled
International Business Times UK
Pictures from the scene show how impact from the objects, which appear to be man-made, caused small craters to form in the neigbouring countryside. Earlier, images posted to social media showed a massive fireball as it flashed in front of thousands of stunned onlookers across the Andes region, from ...

Giant balls of metal fall from the sky in towns across the globe leaving locals baffled… so what on ...
The Sun
GIANT balls of metal spotted falling from the sky in different parts of the world have left dozens trying to establish what they are completely baffled. Brits, Russians and now Peruvians have spotted fireballs plummeting into their local towns within weeks of each other - so where did they come from?

Satellite Parts Blazed in a Fireball Across the Peruvian Sky
Livinginperu.com
On January 27 a huge fireball was see blazing across the sky in South America before crashing in southeastern Peru.

Tracing Michigan's Meteoric Past
WDET
Allen found out about a giant crater in southwest Michigan that was formed after a prehistoric meteor struck Michigan 450 millions years ago. “If it hit today it would actually kill millions of people,” says Allen. Allen also found out that former Michigan Governor George Romney saw a meteor about the ...

Finding Michigan's 5-mile crater, other meteor targets
Detroit Free Press
Hidden far below corn fields, a scattering of homes and an RV campground, there's a 5-mile-wide meteor crater in rural, southwest Michigan. A space rock longer than three football fields smashed into what today is Calvin Township (pop. 2,037), about 30 miles northeast of South Bend, Ind. It hit about ...

Meteor Activity Outlook for February 3-9, 2018
American Meteor Society
February offers the meteor observer in the northern hemisphere a couple of weak showers plus falling sporadic rates. This may not seem too exiting but you never know when surprises are in store. An errant earthgrazer from the Centaurid complex may shoot northward. Better yet, a bright fireball may ...

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