03 December 2011

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 3DEC2011

Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News: North Carolina, South ...
By LunarMeteorite*Hunter
Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News. Fireballs, Meteors, Bolides, Meteorites, Comets, Asteroid Impact,Meteorite Quest, Recent Meteorite Falls & Related News. Make a meteor report. ...
Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News


Space Pictures This Week: Cosmic Pinwheel, Mountain Meteor
National Geographic
A comet-like body gets torn apart by a neutron star in an illustration of what might have caused an unusual gamma-ray burst spotted by NASA's Swift satellite last December 25. It's thought so-called long gamma-ray bursts happen when massive stars 
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Super fireball lights up evening sky in N China
China Daily
Astronomers said it was a super fireball that is rarely seen. Ma Qiang is an amateur astronomer living in Tianjin who witnessed the flying fireball. He said the fireballglittered and flew from northwest to the west around 5:25 pm and disappeared after ...

Bright meteor Friday night…
Fayetteville Observer (blog)
Tonight while on assignment near Linden I and several folks around me witnessed a bright meteor in the southwestern sky. The object, which was I watched for 2-3 seconds, appeared to traveling from east to west. Greenish is color, I could see smaller 
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Viewing the Geminid Meteor Shower in 2011 | American Meteor ...
The Geminid meteor shower normally provides the strongest display of meteor activity each year. Unfortunately, this year, like many of the other major annual ...
www.amsmeteors.org/.../viewing-the-geminid-meteor-shower-...

Visitor from outer space.. | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
By nobody@flickr.com (etgeek (Eric))
I did not notice this until I view the photos on a larger screen, but during this time exposure shot, I captured a meteor !! (meteor tagged in photo) This photo was shot in near total darkness. Some distant streetlights and a moon in the western sky ...