30 June 2017

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Asteroid impact effects and their hazards for human populations
http://theepistlesofpaul.blogspot.com/
Rumpf, C.M., Lewis, H.G. and Atkinson, P.M., 2017. Asteroid impact effects and their immediate hazards for human populations.

Asteroid Day: Watch NASA Live Broadcast on How it is Defending Earth From a Space Collision
Newsweek
The object was technically a meteor—the name given to small rocks, or meteoroids, when they enter Earth's atmosphere and burn up—and caused ...

The terrifying simulation that reveals what happens when an asteroid hits Earth's atmosphere at ...
Daily Mail
While the chance of a devastating event like the 2013 Chelyabinsk meteor blast may be rare, millions of objects are known to be floating through ...

The World is More Worried About Death by Asteroid Than Ever
Inverse
The Chelyabinsk meteor event, in which a 20-meter asteroid hit Russia on February 15, 2013, was a major wake=up call for much of the world.

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Asteroids Are Coming: Do You Know Where Your Children Are? Forbes Most recently, on February 15, 2013, a 59-foot, 10,000-ton meteor moving at ...

4.5 billion-year-old meteorite found in back garden
YouTube
Researchers at the Leiden's Naturalis Biodiversity Center announced on June 26th the discovery of a 500 gram (1 pound)meteorite that could help ...

4.5 billion-year-old meteorite found in back garden
AOL
A meteor that exploded over Russia's Ural mountains and sent fireballs blazing to earth has set off a rush to find fragments of the space rock which ...

Astronomical Research in Southern England'
AboutMyArea
... and the Universities Portsmouth, Southampton and Sussex will talk about topics such as Black Holes, Higgs Boson, meteor science, and more.

UW Planetarium Offers Plenty of Shows and Related Activities During July
University of Wyoming News
From constellations to meteor showers to visible planets, this program acts as a guide to these remarkable events and where to find them. -- “Gaia ...

Northern Michigan offers ample stargazing opportunities
Traverse City Record Eagle
This summer's docket features the Bootid, Delta Aquarid and Perseid meteor showers alongside various moon phases — including the Thunder Moon.

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29 June 2017

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Asteroids Are Coming: Do You Know Where Your Children Are?
Forbes
Most recently, on February 15, 2013, a 59-foot, 10,000-ton meteor moving at about 40,000 miles an hour burst in a blinding flash 14 1/2 miles over ...

Asteroids are humanity's greatest challenge and we are NOT ready to defend against the 'very high ...
Daily Mail
A meteor that blazed across southern Urals in February was the largest recorded ... Much of the meteor landed in a local lake called Chebarkul.

Experts Say Collision of Asteroids With Earth Will Be Unavoidable
Edition Time
Czech and other scientists had counseled about the 144 fireballs given out by a meteorshower. Another meteor the Taurid showed an improved ...

On Asteroid Day, check out a 65-million-year-old meteorite in Mumbai
Mid-Day
It will showcase three rare meteor samples. "They will be on display from 11.30 am to 5 pm," said Arvind Paranjpye, planetarium director. We have a ...

What was with the funky 'line' cloud over Puget Sound Tuesday?
KOMO News (blog)
According to NASA, the cloud's ice crystals form from meteor dust. "At these altitudes, water vapor can freeze into clouds of ice crystals," said Sarah ...

Seeing Stars
AUGUSTMAN
Or just put on Archive's 'Nothing Else' and start planning your trip in time for the Star Party on 16 July or to go see the Perseid Meteor Shower on 13 .

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Dutch scientists fete rare meteorite find 2017

Dutch scientists fete rare meteorite find 2017

Some more details on this one: the meteorite in question is an Ordinary Chondrite, an L6, which is provisionally named Broek in Waterland (this name still has to be approved, so is not official yet). The classification was done by Leo Kriegsman and me at Naturalis (the Dutch National Museum of Natural History) in Leiden.

It is a witnessed fall that happened in the very early local evening of January 11th, 16:09 UT (17:09 local time, sun only 3 degrees below the horizon - too early for our all-sky network unfortunately). There are many visual reports but only one video so far, from a car dashcam from Belgium some 165 km distant from the fall site, which shows the fireball going down almost vertically. The azimuth of the fireball on that video matches the find locality well. Weather radar and military flight radar have been checked, but nothing registered.

The stone weighs 530 grams and is fully fusion crust covered. It impacted on the roof of a garden shed near the village of Broek in Waterland, which is in a rural area just north of Amsterdam. The owners of the shed discovered it the next day when they saw roofing tile sherds lying around, then discovered the hole in the roof and the stone lodged in it. It took some 3 weeks before the news of this reached us, through Niek de Kort of the Royal Dutch Astronomy Association who was contacted by the finders. Leo and me then visited the fall locality on February 3 and identified it as a meteorite.

There is only one stone: we have meticulously searched a large area around the impact location with a team of volunteers in the weeks afterwards, but found nothing. Part of the area is a peat swamp and there is a lot of open water there ("Waterland" in Dutch translates the same in English, and there is a reason the village is named thus...).

It is only the 6th preserved meteorite of our small country in 177 years time.
Some more pictures of the new meteorite are here:
https://langbrom.home.xs4all.nl/broek.html


Dr. Marco Langbroek
web: http://meteorieten.langbroek.org

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28 June 2017

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In the Netherlands, a meteorite struck the roof of the shed
www.MICEtimes.asia (press release)
В Голландии метеорит пробил крышу сарая The Dutchman from a private home found an unusual stone, which previously struck the roof of his barn ...

Netherlands meteorite sheds light on origin of the solar system
YouTube
A meteorite, which landed in Holland could help scientists understand the origin of the solar system.

Meteor fireball seen across Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana skies
Sott
If you saw a bright flash of light moving through the Monday morning sky, you're not alone! On Monday morning, the American Meteor Society received ...

cctv capture meteor.
YouTube
Antihelion fireball meteor capture with cctv over southern hemisphere night sky date:27.06.2017 at 02.24 am local time Singapore..approx peak date ...

NASA Celebrates International Asteroid Day with Special Broadcast
NASA will mark the worldwide observance of International Asteroid Day at 9 a.m. PDT (noon EDT) Friday, June 30, with a special television program featuring the agency's Planetary Defense Coordination Office and other projects working to find and study near-Earth objects (NEOs). The program will air on NASA Television and the agency's website.

Nuclear Bomb Sized Meteor Explosion in Siberia June 1908
YouTube
The Tunguska event was a large explosion that occurred near the Stony Tunguska River, in Russia, on the morning of 30 June 1908. The explosion ...

Meteor Alert!!!!
YouTube
ALERT, ALERT, NEW Meteor Event Seen Over Ontario, New York, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Ohio - Duration: 1:48. NEWS CHANNEL 428 9,418 ...

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27 June 2017

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Dutch scientists fete rare meteorite find
https://phys.org/news/2017-06-dutch-scientists-fete-rare-meteorite.html

Meteor in the Netherlands, was the same age as the Solar system
www.MICEtimes.asia (press release)
Polukilogrammovy fragment struck the roof of the shed in the village of Brooke (province of North Holland) on January 11. The owners of buildings ..

Dutch scientists celebrated discovery of the sixth meteorite found in recent history.
YouTube
Dutch scientists celebrated discovery of the sixth meteorite found in recent history. Dutch scientists celebrated on Monday the discovery of only the ...

Meteor sighted in the sky over the Hunter Region
Newcastle Herald
There were reports overnight of a meteor spotted in the skies over the Hunter Valley about 9pm. Geoscience Australia also received reports of tremors ...

Hunter Valley Meteor - Reports of Giant Fireball in Sky in the Region
Trendolizer
Hunter Valley Meteor - Giant Fireball, Tremors reported in Hunter Valley and Central Coast of NSW June 26 2017, reports Geoscience Australia.

Fireball Reports In KY, Other States - LEX18.com | Continuous News and StormTracker Weather
LEX18 Lexington KY News
According to the American Meteor Society, there were 31 reports of a fireball meteor in Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and West Virginia.

Fireball spotted across Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana skies
WLWT Cincinnati
On Monday morning, the American Meteor Society received dozens of reports of a fireball meteor sighted across Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana skies.

Space discovered under Ames 26 years ago was new frontier for OK geography
Enid News & Eagle
Astrobleme comes from Greek and means “star wound,” according to britannica.com - and the term is appropriately applied when talking about meteor ...

Scientists Finally Solve Mystery Of Bright Nights
Science World Report
First Posted: Jun 26, 2017 05:01 AM EDT. Spectacular Perseid Meteor Shower Can Be Seen Across the Night Skies. A Perseid Meteor flashes across ...

Russia Bolide Meteor Event 21JUN2017
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Update- Russia Bolide Meteor Event 21JUN2017. Moskovsky Komsomolets Rusya Gazetesi – Rusça Gazete – Gazete Oku "It looks like an ordinary ...

'Spectacular' fireball seen in Whanganui sky 'probably piece of space junk'
New Zealand Herald
The fireball came over Durie Hill and was heading west. It seemed so close that she expected to hear pieces hit the water. "It was awesome. It was just ...

Meteorite As Old As Earth Can Tell Us How Solar System Formed
International Business Times
As such a rock burns up in Earth's atmosphere, it is called a meteor or a shooting star. It's only the rock that is left over from the fiery entry and lands on ...

Night Sky for July by Royal Observatory Greenwich astronomer
London News Online (blog)
There are also two meteor showers that reach their maxima this month. They're caused by comets which leave trains of gas and dust behind them as ...

Events in 2017 2081-2017 KML
Fireball event
IMO received 31 reports about a fireball seen over WV, KY, TN, OH, IN and IL on Monday, June 26th 2017 around 04:56 UT.

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26 June 2017

Update- Russia Bolide Meteor Event 21JUN2017

Moskovsky Komsomolets Rusya Gazetesi – Rusça Gazete – Gazete Oku
"It looks like an ordinary car": was there an explosion in the suburbs by a meteorite
Barybinsky meteorite is very similar to Borodino

On June 23, 2017 at 17:55, views: 7295
GAZETEOKU.ORG--  Google translation from Russian-
In the Moscow region on the night of June 22 an event of a planetary scale occurred. Residents of Chelyabinsk survived it quite recently, in 2013, but in the Moscow region this has not happened since 1812. During the Patriotic War, a fairly large meteorite fell on the 4th redoubt of Russian troops fighting near Borodino.June 21, 2017 - a new guest from the sky. Then, 205 years ago, no one was injured from the heavenly wanderer, but now the victim has fallen from a meteorite that fell near the village of Barybino of the Domodedovo district. 28-year-old local resident Vasily Zheleznov got a slight concussion from a strong UFO explosion in the forest.

Photo: Vasily Zheleznov.

In addition to Zheleznov about the fall and explosion of the car in the Emergency Situations Ministry, two more reported - a Muscovite who was in Barybino in the country, and a member of the transport company in the capital, who was resting with colleagues opposite the fishing base between the towns of Barybino and Rastunovo.Yesterday we already talked about this incident. On Friday, another two witnesses called and reported that they also saw and heard the fall and the explosion over Barybino and also called the rescuers. One of the neighbors Vasily Zheleznova told us the following: "I smoked on the balcony and saw something fell and caught fire. I thought at first that the plane had fallen. Just in case, he called the Ministry for Emergency Situations, but he did not run there himself. Late it was already, and it is not enough that there ... "
And here is what Valery Sukhoi, an employee of a transport company from Moscow, told us. Which on that night was resting with colleagues on the backwaters, opposite the fishing base between Barybino and Rastunovo: "We were sitting with friends, frying shish kebabs, when suddenly something flew over us, we all grabbed the phones to photograph, but managed to shoot only the train . The object flew from the side of Akulinino. " According to Sukhoi, they, after some time, also called the Emergency Ministry, where they were told that they had already received similar calls from other residents.

As the head of the Laboratory of Cosmochemistry and Meteorology of the GEOKHI RAS Dmitry Budyukov told us, according to eyewitness accounts, the UFO is very similar to an ordinary car - a large fragment of an asteroid or comet flying to the ground. "In principle, this is a common phenomenon, but not for the Moscow region - there are no evidence of a meteorite fall since 1812 (Borodino meteorite is stored in our museum). And as far as the victims are concerned, the inhabitant of the village Barybino, if he does not write, is the first in the history of our region. He really could be shocked by a loud crash from the explosion - it can be compared to a strong cotton from the fighter. If a person was in 3-4 minutes walk from the place of the fall, then the state described by him is quite understandable. "

A group of enthusiastic scientists plans to visit the site of the fall of a UFO near Domodedovo on Sunday, they expect to find traces of a meteorite there. "MK" will monitor the progress of the investigation of this mysterious case. By the way, the Ministry of Emergency Measures officially dropped the meteorite."
by Natalya Vedeneeva


Thank you Ravi Jagtiani, India, for your help with researching this case.

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The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 26JUN2017

Scientists collect fresh meteorites fallen in Sudan's White Nile State
Sudan Tribune
... of Mineral, Osman Abu Aqla, said the team collected some fragments of the meteor in Alabbasiya area of Kosti locality in the State of the White Nile.

وزارة المعادن بالسودان تتحصل على شظايا نيزك سقط جنوبي البلاد
Africa News
الخرطوم 25 يونيو 2017 قالت وزارة المعادن بالسودان، الأحد، إنها تمكنت من الحصول على شظايا نيزك سقط هذا الأسبوع بمنطقة نائية بولاية النيل الأبيض جنوبي ...

Meteor Streaks Over South Florida Night Sky
CBS Miami - CBS Local
Meteor Streaks Over South Florida Night Sky.

Experts Warn Dangers Of Earth Getting Struck By Asteroids Ahead Of Asteroid Day On June 30
Science Times
The researchers mentioned that an undiscovered branch of the Taurid meteor shower could produce hundreds of asteroids which are dozens of ...

meteor shower surveys
Vox Charta
Recent works have shown the importance of choosing a low similarity threshold value of meteoroid orbits, some pointing out that the recent meteor ...

meteor networks
avfms.com
meteor networks. ASGARD Web Log - NASAs All Sky Fireball Network Warped meteor showers hit Earth at all angles March 8, 2017

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25 June 2017

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Small Asteroid Enters Over Russia Likely Meteorites w
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В Домодедово упал метеорит Сергей Барыбино 3,393 views According to the video information provided by the viewer to the

Meteor shower from Moon's "debris"
Astronomy Stack Exchange
Did we ever witness a "meteor shower" which was actually dust or debris of some kind from our own Moon? the-moon meteor meteorite ...

A look at five biggest meteor crashes of all time
Economic Times
On September 28, 1969, a meteor exploded over the town of Murchison in Australia. The explosion left smoke rings in the air and left 700 kg of ...

Laser-targeting A.I. Yields More Mars Science
Artificial intelligence is changing how we study Mars.
A.I. software on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has helped it zap dozens of laser targets on the Red Planet this past year, becoming a frequent science tool when the ground team was out of contact with the spacecraft. This same software has proven useful enough that it's already scheduled for NASA's upcoming mission, Mars 2020....

Fail of the Week: Tracking Meteors with Weather Radio
Hackaday
The fact that meteor trails reflect radio signals is well-known; hams use “meteor bounce” to make long-distance contacts all the time. And using ...

Asteroid strike could destroy our cities , astrophysicist warns
The Nation
The meteor exploded above the Earth, leveling 80 million trees across an area of 800 square miles. China to send people to live on asteroids.

What IS this mystery object in the sky? Stargazers left baffled after 'red fireball' lights up the night ...
Daily Mail
A 'red fireball' that lit up Australian skies has left locals baffled and debating the mystery object. Several Perth residents reported the sighting on ...

Five Disturbing Scientific Developments
The Navhind Times
The third disturbing development is alert raised by astronomers who are studying meteor showers. They believe that not every meteorite which could ...

Perseid Meteor Shower
University of Waterloo
According to NASA meteor expert Bill Cooke, the Perseids are perhaps the most popular meteor shower of the year. Typical rates are about 80 ...

What's Up in July: Saturn, Jupiter and Venus among the highlights
Press Herald
The Southern Delta Aquarid Meteor Shower will peak during the morning of Sunday, July 30. The moon will be first quarter, which means that it will set ...

Perseid Meteor Shower Stargazing Evenings
QueensEvents.ca
The Lennox & Addington Dark Sky Viewing Area proudly presents 'The Perseid Meteo rShower' Stargazing Evenings with Joe Gilker on August 11th ...

Events in 2017 2055-2017 KML
Fireball event
AMS received 3 reports about a fireball seen over São Paulo on Friday, June 23rd 2017 around 23:50 UT. D. Sound. 3 no. C. Sound. 3 no. Frag. 1 no.

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24 June 2017

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 24JUN2017

Is an asteroid about to hit Earth? Making sense of life in a hostile universe
Fox News
This Saturday at roughly 2:38 AM Eastern Time an asteroid bigger than a football stadium will whiz past Earth at 28,000 miles per hour and almost certainly not hit us. But that won’t be the end of it. The 755-foot-diameter projectile is set to return every

Surprise asteroid strike could destroy our cities, astrophysicist warns
The Independent
... an event similar to the 1908 meteoroid explosion over the Tunguska region of Russia could happen again. The meteor exploded above the Earth, ...

The statistical likelihood that asteroids will destroy us all in 10 million years
Quartz
Only a few, like the famous “Meteor crater” in Arizona, are visible to the untrained eye, but scientists have learned to recognize impact craters even if ...

Meteor shower from Moon's "debris"
Space Exploration Stack Exchange
Did we ever witness a "meteor shower" which was actually dust or debris of some kind from our own Moon? the-moon meteorites meteoroid meteors ...

Interview with visual comet discoverer Shigeki Murakami
- Shigeki Murakami. He believes that visual comet hunters could survive and his advice to others is: "See stars by heart". ...

Perth skywatchers stunned by fireball streaking across the sky
The West Australian
A meteor is one possible explanation but an aircraft contrail has been offered up as another possible explanation and then there is the chance it's a ...

Meteor last night
Reddit
Last night (June 22nd) I was walking around with some friends around 11 and we saw a large blue/purple streak of light coming from outer space....

Small Asteroid Enters Over Russia Likely Meteorites w/ Video
LMH
Posted: 22 Jun 2017 07:11 PM PDT
Small Asteroid Enters Over Russia Likely Meteorites w/ Video 21JUN2017 According to the video information provided by the viewer to the television channel Dozhd, the meteor flew over the Domodedovo region of the Moscow region and burned in the upper atmosphere at an altitude of 80-90 km above the Earth. ...

Mars Rover Opportunity on Walkabout Near Rim
NASA's senior Mars rover, Opportunity, is examining rocks at the edge of Endeavour Crater for signs that they may have been either transported by a flood or eroded in place by wind....

Meteor Jam 7
YouTube
Meteor echoes from livemeteors.com, with accompaniment. This graphic represents a meteor coming into the atmosphere. This was a very ...

Meteor Echoes Live Stream: livemeteors.com
YouTube
Meteor Echoes Live Stream: livemeteors.com Live Meteors No views · • NASA Live - Earth From Space Live Feed : ISS live Nasa stream video of Earth ...

Can magnetic space tugs clean up space junk?
New Atlas
Because they travel at tens of thousands of miles per hour, even the smallest object can strike with the force of a meteor, and if a large one should hit a ...

Galaxy Glow in the Dark Stars Celebrates National Meteor Day!
MENAFN.COM
June 30th is National Meteor Day or also know as Meteor Watch Day. It is observed annually on this day. If the weather is permitting thousands of ...

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23 June 2017

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 23JUN2017

Small Asteroid Enters Over Russia Likely Meteorites w/video
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В Домодедово упал метеорит Сергей Барыбино 3,393 views According to the video information provided by the viewer to the television channel ...

Asteroid will DEFINITELY hit Earth and could wipe out London, expert warns
Express.co.uk
The Tunguska meteor was so big it would wipe out London completely. Prof Fitzsimmons added that experts have detected roughly 90 per cent of ...

Could asteroids bombard the Earth to cause a mass extinction in 10 million years?
Phys.Org
Only a few, like the famous "Meteor crater" in Arizona, are visible to the untrained eye, but scientists have learned to recognise impact craters even if ...

Murders on Canadian island triggered by meteor shower
The Boston Globe
A meteor shower in 1941 signaled a sign to one of the Inuit people that he was Jesus; another man declared he was God. People who didn't buy it?

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Meteor Activity Outlook for June 24 – 30, 2017
International Meteor Organization
Later in this period the waxing crescent moon will enter the evening sky but will not interfere with meteor observing, especially during the more active ...

Russian man claims he was hit in the head by a meteorite --HOAX!
http://www.9news.com.au/world/2017/06/23/11/53/russian-man-claims-he-was-hit-in-the-head-by-a-meteorite

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Small Asteroid Enters Over Russia Likely Meteorites w/ Video

Small Asteroid Enters Over Russia Likely Meteorites w/ Video 21JUN2017
edited with additional information  and analysis of  video 2019hrs JST 24OCT2016 - LMH, Tokyo
NOTE- The VALIDITY of this video has been call into question by AMS due to lack of corroborating reports and only ONE SINGLE Video (labeled fake by AMS-Mike Hankey and others; they obviously were wrong).
edited  2400hrs JST 24OCT2016 - LMH, Tokyo

UPDATE! 26JUN2016 More witnesses and additional visual evidence supporting Bolide Meteor Event- Russia 21JUN2017!

Moskovsky Komsomolets Rusya Gazetesi – Rusça Gazete – Gazete Oku Google Translate it!
"It looks like an ordinary car": was there an explosion in the suburbs by a meteorite
Barybinsky meteorite is very similar to Borodino

On June 23, 2017 at 17:55, views: 7298-----
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Major Super bolide meteor event over Domodedovo region of the Moscow region in Russia 
There is disagreement as to whether this is a real event, re-used video OR a Faked CGI video.  Time will tell... I am standing by that the video is authentic. (I cannot determine if is is a re-used video of another event.) LMH, Tokyo

В Домодедово упал метеорит Сергей Барыбино 3,393 viewsAccording to the video information provided by the viewer to the television channel Dozhd, the meteor flew over the Domodedovo region of the Moscow region and burned in the upper atmosphere at an altitude of 80-90 km above the Earth. Judging by the video from the autoregistrator Sergei, published by the TV channel and the eyewitness himself, the shooting site was made near the village of Barybino, in the Domodedovo district of the Moscow region. The date of uploading the video is June 21, 2017, so the meteor fell not later than this date (at night, early morning or late evening).
Published on Jun 22, 2017
An unknown object fell in Domodedovo. Judging by the video from the auto-registrator, it is very similar to a falling star. Video of the event "Rain" was sent by our viewer Sergey. Vladimir Surdin, associate professor of the Physics Department of the Moscow State University, told what exactly could fall from the sky.

.В Домодедово упал неизвестный объект. Судя по видео с авторегистратора, он очень похож на падающую звезду. Видео произошедшего «Дождю» прислал наш зритель Сергей. О том, что именно могло упасть с неба, рассказал доцент физического факультета МГУ Владимир Сурдин.

Analysis of video- comments and replies used by permission of Thomas Dorman.
1.I was asked to look at the video by Dirk Ross in Japan who runs Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News because it does look somewhat odd. It goes through a lot of flash around thirteen and visually the event look strange on the video. We zoomed in on the event and have looked closely and from what we see it looks real. The event bounce along as the vehicle goes down the road and the bounce is in motion with the clouds in the video. Also if you watch the video closely the cloud trail left behind by the event does expands on the minor axis of the event which is what you would expect.Believe part of the problem with the way the video looks is it was shot with a cheap CMOS dashboard video camera in addition we are getting a crappy video compression from YouTube.. Interesting to note that something continues on after the ablation event ends leaving a faint trail on the video which shows up clearly in a a zoomed in inverted video we did of the event. The angle of decent looks to be around thirteen degrees or so, at least as seen on this video but this should not be taken as fact since it is only the perspective of one view of the event. The observer looks to be behind and to one side of the event and since it seems not to be extremely high above the observer's horizon which would indicate the observer was some distance from the event. Can't say this isn't a earth grazing bolide meteor event but if it isn't looks like there is a very good chance this event dropped rocks. The Russian are calling this a small asteroid event. Our guess from the peanut gallery is we are probably looking at something the size of a small refrigerator.
Regards,
Thomas Dorman

2.
Mike Hankey , AMS, claims this was faked/ hoax we have asked Mike to support his claim. Just for the record I did break the video down into individual frames and look closely at it and all I see is a event recorded on crappy video camera with crappy video compression with a vehicle bouncing down a highway..
Regards,
Thomas Dorman

3.
Mike (Hankey, AMS)  the argument the IMO and AMS did not receive reports of this event is not surprising since if you look at that AMS and IMO Report sites, which are mirrors of each other, there has only been a total of 5 reports in 2017 from Russia and those were in the first 3 months of 2017 nothing from Russia after March that I see.
This event was not even close to been comparable to Chelyabinsk Super bolide event . The Chelyabinsk meteor was believe to be in the 20 meter range in size this one we are looking at right now was ,our guesstimation was around the size of a small or what is sometimes called a mini refrigerator. Not even close to a Chelyabinsk type event.
Observed a super Bolide last May with three members of the Sun City Extreme astronomers. This event was 13th or 14th magnitude. This event cast shadows on the ground and had an acoustic event. We were the only ones who saw it. There was the big Texas Star party maybe 30 miles North of the event and no one saw or heard it. With in about 80 mile of the event was El Paso, Texas and Juarez Mexico with more than 2 million people no a single report, Nothing on the IMO or AMS. We found two video from the North American Fire ball network in New Mexico nearly 150 miles away or more away. If we had not reported the event no one would have seen it or really known it had happened or there was even a videos of the event.
As for DOD/JPL do not report all such events we know this as fact.
Mike Kentrianakis yep there is a trail before you see the fireball our guess is it wasn't bright enough for the camera at that point but take note of the brightness of the car lights of cars coming right at camera in the video. These light are head on into the camera and they are rather dim.
In closing arguments nope cannot prove the even isn't a fake for sure with out having a copy of the original video but we see nothing on the video,that this time, that would suggest to us it was faked. If this is a fake then some of the dash cam videos of Chelyabinsk based on just video aspects could be called in to question. Just an opinion from the peanut gallery and opinions are like behinds ever body has one! ;O)
Regards,
Thomas Dorman

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22 June 2017

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 22JUN2017

Asteroid Collision With Earth Inevitable: 'Matter Of When Not If,' Experts Warn
Science World Report
The meteor shower in question was the Taurid meteor shower that helped the scientists from the Czech Academy of Sciences know about the ...

Catch a falling star this summer
WiscNews
The Delta Aquarid meteor shower peaks on July 28-29 with about 20 meteors per hour. Comet Machholz left behind a trail of dust as it passed through ...\

Researchers Warn Of Possible Asteroid Impact That Could Devastate The Planet
Tech Times
In May, researchers discovered that the Taurid meteor stream could send a thousand foot asteroid crashing into the Earth. That isn't as large as the ...

'Matter of when not if' Experts warn of DEVASTATING asteroid strike
Express.co.uk
ASTEROID WARNING: Huge fragments 'hidden in Taurids meteor shower' ... In 2013, a 20 metre meteor exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia, which ...

What if an asteroid strikes near you? Here's what happens... - Catholic Online


Asteroid Collision – Is Earth heading towards destruction? - The Asian Herald

Asteroids Are One Way to Mess With Texas
Houston Press
Scientists say that Texas has been nailed with three asteroid events over its history – Odessa Meteor Crater, Marquez Crater, and the Sierra Madera ...

Irish astrophysicist: Asteroid strike a question of when not if
Irish Examiner
The Earth is at serious risk of an asteroid strike, according to a leading Irish astrophysicist. A one-mile-wide meteor crater in Arizona. Picture: A ...

11th Annual Perseid Meteor Stargaze, Indiana Dunes State Park
IN.gov
Join us for our annual shooting star event! Up to 50-100 shooting stars an hour can be seen. Well have special constellation talks and deep sky ...

2018 Meteor Shower Calendar
International Meteor Organization
The 28 International Meteor Organization Meteor Shower Calendar is ... The heart of the Calendar is the IMO Working List of Visual Meteor Showers ...

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21 June 2017

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Are NEOs Coming to Earth?
Space Daily
The last recorded hit of a noticeable meteor was in February 2013. ... The impact of a 1000-foot meteor would be so great that it would be impossible to ...

Asteroid Collision With Earth Inevitable, Say Experts - NDTV

POTENTIAL NEW METEOR SHOWER FROM COMET C/2015 D4 (BORISOV)
SETI Institute
Peter Jenniskens and Esko Lyytinen report that the dust trail of 700-year comet Borisov, who just passed perihelion in 2014, will be in the Earth's path ...

Shock metamorphism of clay minerals on Mars by meteor impact
Wiley Online Library
materials exhumed from the subsurface by meteor impact, begging the ... Understanding the mineralogy of clay minerals exhumed by meteor impact ...

Using National Weather Service Stations for Forward Scatter Meteor Detection
By RTL-SDR.com
Over on his blog Dave Venne has been documenting his attempts at using National Weather Service (NWS) broadcasts for forward scatter meteor .

Meteor Shower Adorns Southern Lights Over Tasmania
Yahoo News UK
The only thing that could beat a beautiful vista of aurora australis is a bright meteor shower making a sudden appearance. Photographer Daniel Lam ...

Meteor Shower Adorns Southern Lights Over Tasmania
MSN.com
Photographer Daniel Lam captured this stunning time lapse footage of a meteor shower streaking across the skies of Nile, Tasmania, on June 16 as ...

David Levys Guide to Observing Meteor Showers Download Book PDF | AUDIO id:mpgy8z3
Kumon
Sign in; Search settings; Web History Download David Levy's Guide to Observing Meteor Showers read online Citizenship Reform Act of 1997; and ...

Huge explosion at chemical plant sends giant fireball shooting into the sky
Mirror.co.uk
The clip was taken after a fire broke out at the firm's Seal Sands plant at 3am on May 14 2014. It shows part of the plant exploding, sending a fireball ... NOT METEOR RELATED!

Fireball report
American Meteor Society
Remarks, This was a great fireball. Sitting on porch talking with girlfriend and I happened to be facing the right direction to see it, tried to get her to turn ...

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20 June 2017

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Asteroid buzzes Earth ahead of Asteroid Day
ScienceCNET
This year started out with a lot of anxiety-inducing close passes by near-Earth asteroids. After a lull for few months, two...

Broadneck residents: You might want to check for meteorites
CapitalGazette.com
Operations Manager with the American Meteor Society, believes a meteor may have landed in the Broadneck peninsula, near his ...

Which state would be best to view the August 11-13 meteor shower?
WGN-TV
I would love for my wife and I to take a trip to Colorado, Washington or Oregon to view a meteor shower there Aug. 11-13. It's impossible to make a ...

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19 June 2017

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meteor shower; june 2017
International Meteor Organization
meteor shower; june 2017. Meteor Activity Outlook for June 17 – 23, 2017. June 18, 2017 by Robert Lunsford -. Latest Major Fireball Events. Everyday ...

Meteors and Meteor Showers
CalSky
The on-line software CalSky calculates the dates and times of visibility of the yearly returning meteor showers. You also learn which showers are ...

Ask Tom: Where should I view a meteor shower in August in the Pacific Northwest?
Chicago Tribune
I would love for my wife and me to take a trip to Colorado, Washington or Oregon to view a meteor shower there Aug. 11-13. It's impossible to make a ...

Polar mesospheric horizontal divergence and relative vorticity measurements using multiple ...
Wiley Online Library
Polar mesospheric horizontal divergence and relative vorticity measurements using multiple specular meteor radars. Jorge L. Chau. 1. , Gunter Stober.

Fireball report
American Meteor Society
Terminal flash. Observation, Yes. Remarks, The sparking light green fireball was very bright and appeared to go out just above the southern horizon.

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18 June 2017

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 18JUN2017

Mars: Evidence of Current and Past Life; Viking LR, Meteor ALH8401, Stromatolites, Methane ...
Cosmology.com
Mars: Evidence of Current and Past Life; Viking LR, Meteor ALH8401, ... For example, as based on (1) a detailed analyses of Martian meteor ALH8401 ...

Closer to the cosmic fireball
The Hindu
Closer to the cosmic fireball. Megha Aggarwal. June 17, 2017 12:20 IST

Fireball report
American Meteor Society
Remarks, I am a former member of the Amarillo Astronomy Club. This was the largest, brightest fireball I have ever seen. I am grateful for your offer to ...

Ancient Echoes Events "Meteor Shower in The Ravine"
West Central Online
There is no better place to view the Perseid meteor than from deep within the Coalmine Ravine. The darkness and the mystery of the landscape are ...

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17 June 2017

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Meteor. Planet. Sci. -Vesta Asteroid
Elsevier
The Dawn mission was designed to test our hypothesis about the origin and evolution of the early solar system by visiting the largest differentiated basaltic asteroid, 4 Vesta, believed to be a survivor from the earliest times of rocky body formation. ...

Shooting star lands on farm
News24
The above excerpt was taken from an article on space.com headlined “Meteor Showers and Shooting Stars: Formation, Facts and Discovery”.

Meteor over west Texas
YouTube
Long fireball north north west of Hawley, TX 2-26-17 8:55 pm - Duration: 0:08. AMS American Meteor Society 46,773 views · 0:08. Language: English

Meteor Activity Outlook for June 17-23, 2017
American Meteor Society
A Perseid meteor flashes below the International Space Station on August 13, 2011. The green arc is the nighttime glow of Earth's upper atmosphere.

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16 June 2017

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Meteor spotted in Roodepoort South Africa
Roodepoort Record
Resident Matthew Hope recorded the incident while he was driving on Constantia Drive in Constantia Kloof. Matthew said it was the biggest meteorite ...

Krugersdorpers spot meteorite slicing through the sky - Krugersdorp News

Meteor spotted by West Rand residents
Citizen
Meteor spotted by West Rand residents. Sonwabile Antonie. Meteor spotted in Roodepoort. Photo for illustrative purposes.

Meteor seen in Roodepoort, South Africa
Sott
It then becomes a meteor and forms a fireball, also known as a shooting or falling star. Look closely to the right hand side of this video to see the ...

Meteor "Shook Earth" | Space Rock puts on BIG show in S Africa
YouTube
June 15, 2017: Eyewitnesses in South Africa the morning of June 15 just before sunrise saw a huge meteor that according to some accounts may have ...

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15 June 2017

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METEOR Crater, AZ
YouTube
vue magnifique sur l'impact d'une meteorite dans l'arizona
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Impact_crater.jpg.

NOVA Meteor Strike
PBS Hawaii
On the morning of February 15, 2013, a 7,000-ton asteroid crashed into the Earth's atmosphere, exploded and fell to earth across a wide swath near ...

Are asteroids hiding among the Taurids?
EarthSky
A team of European astronomers has identified a new swarm of meteoroids – icy debris in space, left behind by a comet – related to the Taurid meteor ...

Perseid Meteor Shower Viewing
Manchester Vermont
Bring a blanket and prepare to be awed by the immensity of the skies over the Merck-y mountains. Weather-dependent. ...

Where to watch the Perseid Meteor Shower August 12 in Kauai?
TripAdvisor
Hi All, So we will be in Kapa'a at that time. I know Waimea Canyon is an obvious choice for clear skies and there is even an observation group that ...

Go Catch a Falling Star: Perseid Meteor Shower
NYS Parks
The Perseid Meteor Showers are known for producing bright streaking meteors that often leave trains! Bring a blanket or lawn chair to catch all the ...

Summer vacations near and far
Coast News
Summer brings greatly reduced room rates at the resort, and a star-gazing party is scheduled during the annual meteor shower Aug. 11 and 12.

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The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 14JUN2017

Did a meteor strike Ontario?
CTV News
Official have not confirmed it, but several people in Ontario have reported seeing something resembling a meteor trail fall from the sky.

Russian meteorite on display at Field Museum
Chicago Tribune
Officials at the Field Museum unveil a group of meteorites which fell to the earth in Russia in February. The meteorites will be on display at the Field ...

Remember last week's fireball? A meteorite may have landed in someone's backyard.
Washington Post
Last Tuesday night, a bright meteor lit up the sky over the D.C.-Baltimore region. It was seen over the eastern sky from the District and to the south of ...

On the moon there are meteor showers
Earth Chronicles
On the moon there are meteor showers. by space · June 13, 2017. Scientists of the European space agency in the course of observations of asteroids, ...

Huge meteor over Florida, USA 10 June 2017
YouTube
Fireball seen from FIT-Bar J Observatory, FL on 03:30 UTC.

Northern Arizona astronomy: meteor and comet impacts on Earth
Williams News
Most of this is in the form of dust or tiny sand-grain sized pieces that appear in the night sky as the shooting stars we often see during meteor showers.

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13 June 2017

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NASA Discovers 10 'Potentially Hazardous' Asteroids
Juliana Rose Pignataro, International Business Times
NASA scientists discovered more than 100 new space rocks over the past year — 10 of which were potentially hazardous. The space agency’s asteroid unit, also known as the Near Earth Object Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer, or NEOWISE, said in a press released that appears on their website it also saw an unexplained increase in comet activity....

Will Earth be hit by an asteroid?
International Business Times UK
The group announced earlier in June that there are asteroid fragments capable of destroying entire countries inside the Taurid meteor shower.

NASA: 10 Potentially Hazardous Rocks Discovered
TRUNEWS
According to the group of researchers, one of the fragments could hit Earth in 2022, 2025, 2032 or 2039 during the annual meteor shower. The work ...

Mining this asteroid between Mars and Jupiter would net $10 quintillion
MarketWatch Mon, Jun 12
That’s $10 with 18 zeroes after it. Scientists are interested in the metallic composition of the 16 Psyche asteroid. ...

Bright meteor fireball explodes over Espírito Santo, Brazil
Sott
According to globo.com a meteor fireball exploded in the sky above Vitória, Espírito Santo, Brazil on Sunday 11th June. It is estimated that the fireball ...

Rare Arizona meteorite receives Apache name
Cronkite News
Witnesses saw and heard the June 2, 2016, meteor fall, Garvie said. Sonic booms that reverberated as it shattered the sound barrier registered on ...

1. A Meteor With A Mass Of 1 Kg Moving At 20 Kg/s
Chegg
Answer to 1. A meteor with a mass of 1 kg moving at 20 kg/s collides with Jupiter's atmosphere. The meteor penetrates 100 km into ...

Slow meteor with frag
YouTube
Slow moving meteor with small frag. Credit: Dolan Dave Las Vegas Allsky Cam.

Event 1923-2017
Fireball event
Events in 2017 1923-2017 KML. AMS received one report about a fireball seen over TX on Monday, June 12th 2017 around 03:31 UT. D. Sound. 1 no ...

Event 1918-2017
Fireball event
AMS received 29 reports about a fireball seen over NJ, PA, NC, DE, MD and VA on Sunday, June 11th 2017 around 23:32 UT.2017 

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12 June 2017

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Meteor fireball streaks over Florida
Sott
This is in reference to event 1891-2017 meteor seen in Florida on 6/09/2017 at 11:30 pm local time I checked my skycam video And have video of the ...

Why are there a large number of meteor sightings this year than ever before?
Quora
I'd like to see some statistics on this. But if true, it is most likely due to proliferation of cell phones and especially dash cams (they record continuously).

1000-Foot Wide Asteroid Possibly Slamming Earth Discovered By Astronomers, Aftermath Scenario
Science Times
The frequency of meteor showers is prevalent during the months of October and November when the planet passes the Taurid stream of asteroids.

BREAKING: 'Biggest meteor in years' crashes near Gladstone
Radio 4CC Gladstone
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Pentagon INVENTS REVOLUTIONARY “Weaponized Meteor Strike!”
Science Vibe
In the 1950s, Jerry Pournelle imagined what the equivalent of the extinction of dinosaurs for the military would be. Pournelle, a US Army veteran, was ...

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11 June 2017

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 11JUN2017

Radio Echo Survey of Sporadic Meteor Radiants
DOIs
Summary. Radio echoes have been observed in two narrow-beam aerials over the period October 1949 to September 1951. An analysis of the hourly ...

Event 1894-2017
Fireball event
AMS received one report about a fireball seen over Mtwara Region on Saturday, June 10th 2017 around 18:40 UT.

30 Reports
Fireball event
ID, UT Date & Time, Local Date & Time, City, State, Dur. Magn. D. Sound, C. Sound, Frag. Observer, Exp. a, 2017-06-10 03:31 UT, 2017-06-09 23:31 ...

18 Reports
Fireball event
AMS received 18 reports about a fireball seen over FL and GA on Saturday, June 10th 2017 around 03:19 UT. D. Sound. 3 yes. 12 no. C. Sound.

Videos
American Meteor Society
This video has been uploaded on the American Meteor Society Website. AMS Event: 1891-2017, Report (1891x-2017). Uploaded by. © A. Howell.

Big! over night Meteor readings! June 10th 2017
YouTube
Morning update! June 10, 2017 We got some very long and some very BIG Meteor readings.

Fireball report
American Meteor Society
The sky was relatively clear where the fireball appeared, but light cloud cover towards the north in the direction the fireball was traveling. It was a very ...

Fireball report
American Meteor Society
Persistent train. Observation, Yes. Duration, 1s. Length, -. Remarks, Fireball formed just below the moon if the moon was the center of a clock the ...

Making Meteorite Rings With A 60002 PSI Waterjet
YouTube
Patrick Adair Designs: ...

Everyone knows about the Perseid meteor shower, but the parent comet Swift Tuttle last passed by ...
Reddit
How can we collide with the perseid meteor shower year after year if comet swift tuttle's tail only comes through every 133 years? If I...

Newly Discovered Branch of Space Rocks May Threaten Earth, Scientists Warn
Wall Street Pit
Scientists have recently found out that the Taurid meteoroid stream might be bringing with it more than just awesome-to-watch meteor showers.

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10 June 2017

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 10JUN2017

Fireballs over Western Europe on May 30 and June 1
International Meteor Organization
On May 30th (21h 09min UT) and June 1st (22h 38min UT), two bright fireballs crossed the Europeans skies. Both events have been caught on videos.

Russian meteor stream study of 1966
NewsLocker
154 minor meteor streams were detected in the Solar System, their basic orbital and other data are given.Firstly some remarkable shower and stream ...

Leonid meteor storms of 1833 and 1966
DOIs
Abstract. The greatest Leonid meteor storms since the late eighteenth century are generally regarded as being those of 1833 and 1966. They were ...

Determining the initial radius of meteor trains: fragmentation
DOIs
Abstract. The initial radius of meteor ionization has significant effects on measured height distributions, velocity distributions and flux measurements of ...

What if the meteor that killed off the dinosaurs had not struck the earth?
Quora
Dinosaurs were a tenacious clade of animals, and they still are. All birds are members of the dinosaurian clade and there are more than twice the number ...

Pentagon's Newest Weapon Project Is Basically A Weaponized Meteor Strike
Grassyknoll
Pentagon's Newest Weapon Project Is Basically A Weaponized Meteor ... of the Pentagon is more along the lines of a weaponized meteor strike …

Massive asteroids in popular meteor shower pose major threat
CNET
Every few years, the Taurid meteor shower puts on a particularly good show. New research shows there could be a reason for that, and it's not good ...

"Scientists have discovered a new branch of the Taurids meteor stream that could pose a major risk ...
Reddit
View Full Calendar All times are shown in UTC. ...

Meteor Showers and Shooting Stars: Formation, Facts and Discovery
Space.com
This image was taken during the 1999 Leonid meteor storm as part of NASA's Leonid Multi-Instrument Aircraft Campaign (Leonid MAC). The image ...

Pioggia di meteoriti, Foto e Scienza
Pinterest
Photos of the Perseid meteor shower from Wales, Northern Ireland, England and Ireland...

Perseid Meteor Shower
Catalina Sky Survey - University of Arizona
Repeats every year on the 12 of August 12 times. Saturday, August 12, 2017. Sunday, August 12, 2018. Monday, August 12, 2019. Wednesday ...

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