15 October 2011

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 15OCT2011


Halley's Comet meteor show due next week
msnbc.com
A 2010 Orionid meteor, seen over Western Ontario, Canada. A waxing gibbous moon shines brightly at the left side of the image. By Joe Rao If you step outside before dawn during the next week or so, you might try to catch a view of some "cosmic litter" ...



Was the “First Photographed UFO” a Comet?
Universe Today
One oddity is that one would likely expect such a close breakup to result in a meteorstorm. The timing of these events is just before the annual Perseid meteor shower, but reports for that year, such as this one, do not depict it as being exceptional, ...