10 October 2011

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 10OCT2011


REPORTER'S NOTEBOOK: UFO was bolide, not flying saucer
Sandusky Register
A bolide is a "very bright meteor (or fireball) that often explodes," according to thefreedictionary.com. Schulden said he'd seen one a couple years back outside Bellevue. He was driving down the road when it hissed over top. "It lit up the whole truck...


Blue-green object seen in sky may be part of meteor shower
Did you see something in blue-green in the sky Thursday night? You weren't alone!
www.cfnews13.com/.../Bluegreen-object-seen-in-sky-may-be-...



Sky shorts: See a fireball ... or better yet, find a fragment?
Canton Repository
8 at about 1:30 am Eastern Daylight Time, cameras at the Southern Ontario Meteor Network captured images of a fireball, or bolide, entering the atmosphere 54 miles above Lake Erie. I was fortunate enough to have seen the fireball that night, ...



Meteorite lands on home of Mrs Comette
The Local
meteorite chose the roof of a house belonging to a Mrs Comette in the southern suburbs of Paris to make its acquaintance with the planet Earth. The astral surprise hit the roof of the home in Draveil while the Comettes themselves were on holiday. ...



Meteor Activity Outlook for October 8-14, 2011 « The Transient Sky ...
By Carl Hergenrother
The radiant (the area of the sky where meteors appear to shoot from) positions and rates listed below are exact for Saturday night/Sunday morning October 8/9. These positions do not change greatly day to day so the listed coordinates may be ...
The Transient Sky - Comets, Asteroids...



Large Meteor Breakup (2011.09.30) Video
29 sec
A wide field meteor camera at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center recorded this spectacular meteor breaking up in Earth's ...
youtube.com




Almahata Sitta meteorites could come from triple asteroid mash-up
PhysOrg.com
The black fragment of Almahata Sitta meteorite number 15 shows up black against the lighter coloured rocks of the Nubian desert in Northern Sudan. Credit: Peter Jenniskens (SETI Institute/NASA Ames) (PhysOrg.com) -- Analysis of fragments of the...


Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News: MBIQ Indicates Meteor ...
MBIQ Indicates Meteor Outbreak in Florida, Texas, Arkansas, Missouri, ... MBIQ ( Meteor Bot Internet Query) Indicates Green Meteor Outbreak in Florida, Missouri, ...
lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.com/.../green-meteor-outbreak...



Meteor Activity Outlook for October 8-14, 2011 | American Meteor ...
This weekend the waxing gibbous moon will set during the early morning hours and will allow a couple of hours of meteor observing in dark skies before ...
www.amsmeteors.org/.../meteor-activity-outlook-for-october-...



Draconid meteor shower: Wow! Sorry you missed it
Los Angeles Times
The Draconid meteor shower came Saturday as predicted, lasting for several hours and streaking the darkening sky with trails of light. NASA had predicted a display that would be, at times, dazzling. Global observers were reporting that the show was ...



A Mad Dash for the Draconids
Sky & Telescope
That's how long I've known that the little-known Draconid meteor shower is predicted to put on an over-the-top performance. The Draconid meteor storm of October 9, 1933, was witnessed all across Europe. Formerly called the Giacobinids, ...