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Dramatic meteor streak over Maryland

Danna Walker
Catonsville Patch
Tue, 15 Oct 2013 14:24 UTC
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© Corbis
A rash of reports came in about 8 p.m. Monday of a giant meteor shooting through the sky over Maryland, according to The Washington Post.

Witnesses said on social media that the meteor was in the northeast sky traveling eastward.

The American Meteor Society (AMS) reported:
Over 63 (so far) witnesses reporteda large fireball over Lancaster County last night (10/14) around 8:25 PM local EDT (0:25 on 10/15 UT.) The fireball was seen from primarily Maryland, New Jersey and Virginia but witnesses from Washington DC, Connecticut, New York and Pennsylvania also reported seeing the fireball.
We are currently investigating more reports about this event.
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Fireball meteor lights up aurora display over Scotland


BBC News
Tue, 15 Oct 2013 14:20 UTC
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© Byron GriffithsByron Griffiths captured this shot from the eastern side of the Isle of Lewis.
A display of the Northern Lights over the Highlands and Islands of Scotland has been lit up by a fireball meteor.

Images of the aurora borealis were captured in clear skies on Monday night, including along the west coast and in the Western Isles.

The Northern Lights are generated when particle streams from the sun collide with atoms high up in the atmosphere.

Byron Griffiths, who lives on the Isle of Lewis, took one shot of the fireball as it fell through the sky.
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Meteor Alert - Several larger meteor events expected! NEO Asteroids close approaches October 2013


LunarMeteoriteHunters.blogspot.com
Tue, 15 Oct 2013 10:05 UTC
Meteor Alert: Several larger meteor events and increased meteor activity expected! - Through the end of OCT2013! Get out and watch and HAVE your security/allsky cameras ON!

BUT WAIT and see what will happen in November 2013!!!
- LunarMeteoriteHunter...Tokyo

NEO Asteroids Close Approaches October 2013

8 known NEOs with an LD of 10 or less. Several more are expected to be discovered this month!
2013 SU24, 2013 SC21, 2013 TQ4, 2013 TO4 2013 TR12, 2013 TX68, 2013 TT5, 2013 TM127
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Brilliant fireball seen over most of Western Australia 14 October 2013


Geraldton Newspapers
Tue, 15 Oct 2013 09:50 UTC
A brilliant meteor seen over most of Western Australia about 7pm yesterday was unusual, but not unexpected, according to Guardian astronomy expert Dave Reneke. Mr Reneke said to expect an intense period of meteor activity over the next week or so, with the 'Orionids' meteor shower.


Comment: The Orionids are certainly on their way, though this 'meteor' was seen over most of Western Australia, which doesn't sound like just a part of the Orionids' meteor activity.


"The Orionids are one of the better showers of the year and are well known to produce 'fireballs,' slow-moving meteors that are actually on fire, producing a variety of colours and long, extended tails," he said. "It was more than likely the cause of the one spotted early last night.

"Once seen, these objects are seldom forgotten!" Mr Reneke said a meteor shower occurred when the Earth passed through the tail of a comet that came by years before. "When the Earth intercepts a debris stream, individual particles travel through the earth's atmosphere and start to burn up," he said.

"This time we are passing through the tail of Halley's Comet that came by in 1986.
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Spectacular Meteor 12 October 2013 Saitama, Japan


LumarMeteoriteHunters.blogspot.com
Tue, 15 Oct 2013 09:57 UTC
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© Saitama Allsky Video Capture / Credit- ts007
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Fireball sightings reported over DC area Monday night


WTOP
Mon, 14 Oct 2013 20:44 UTC
Washington - Did you see a flash in the sky tonight?

Multiple reports came into the WTOP newsroom Monday night about a fireball in the area. One listener traveling eastbound on Interstate 66 toward the Route 7 exit said they saw one headed northbound.

Fox 5's Greg Redfern and WTOP's space expert said he and another person saw a bright fireball to the northeast around 8:25 p.m. Redfern says the fireball appeared white to him while another said it was red.

It was moving downward and was "bright as tonight's moon" said Redfern. While he says his view was partially blocked by trees, he says it was a good one.

So far there have been more than 30 reports of fireball sightings to the American Meteor Society, seen as far north as New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania and other northeastern areas.
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Flashback British astronomer predicts increase in fireball meteors as Earth enters debris field

Paul Suart
Birmingham Mail
Sat, 16 Feb 2013 16:45 UTC
Midland scientist predicts increase in objects falling from the sky as Earth nears debris field in space
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We hope you enjoyed the Chelyabinsk event, says a UK scientist, cause there's more coming!
A leading Birmingham astronomer has predicted Midland sky watchers will see an increase in spectacular meteors like the one which hurtled into Russia at 17,000mph.

More than 500 people were reportedly injured when the basketball-sized fragment smashed into the Ural mountains, close to the border with Kazakhstan, at about 5.20am yesterday.

The meteor was so bright, as it pierced the skies over Russia, that would have outshone the sun, Great Barr scientist Andrew Lound said.

Its impact created a crater six metres wide, but it was the shockwaves which caused the most devastation, blowing out windows and destroying buildings in cities thousands of kilometres away.

Comment: Forget about funding for advanced warning systems - NASA et al are broke. Look to the past for what is to come!

Celestial Intentions: Comets and the Horns of Moses

The above article was written in the aftermath of the Chelyabinsk event in February, so it's unclear if the British astronomer was referring to a debris field Earth was passing through at the time, or if he meant a larger quantity of debris in general. If the latter, then he has apparently called it correctly because meteor fireball sightings continue to increase month after month!

Yet another fireball lights up early-morning sky in U.S. Midwest, American Meteor Society says September 2013 most active month since it began tracking in 2005

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Huge daytime fireball frightens people in Venezuela and Colombia, 5 October 2013


strangesounds.org
Sun, 13 Oct 2013 12:58 UTC
On Saturday, October 5, 2013, at around 6:30 PM, a huge firewall struck over Venezuela and Colombia scaring inhabitants from San Cristobal, Tachira and Cucuta in Colombia.
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Draconids Meteor over Colombia and Venezuela – October 2013
It was probably a draconid meteor or fireball. The yellow incandescent material had a long white tail during its fall.
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Fireball Over Colombia and Venezuela october 2013
Here some pictures of the sightings collected from the web
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Meteor explosion colombia and venezuela 2013
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Photos and video of meteorite fall in Brazil, 23 September 2013


lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.co.uk
Fri, 11 Oct 2013 13:54 UTC
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© http://bomjardimnoticia.com.br/2013/09/27/asteroide-cai-em-borracha-municipio-de-vicencia-pe/
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© http://bomjardimnoticia.com.br/2013/09/27/asteroide-cai-em-borracha-municipio-de-vicencia-pe/
Meteorite crashed in a small village in Brazil:

A suspected meteorite crashed in town Rubber, Vicenza district, North Forest in Pernambuco, and is worrying farmers in the region. The object had fallen from the sky on the evening of last Monday (23).Although seem unlikely, since Wednesday (25), and until the 25th of November, happens a meteor shower, known as Oriônidas in space. The phenomenon occurs when the Earth crosses the orbit of Halley's Comet, taken as the origin of rock fragment. Rain records a typical rate 20-25 meteors per hour - which can be seen on a dark night and clear skies. Inside, the resident who found the material not resist and kept the "burnt stone" of 1.2 pound home. The information was confirmed late on Thursday (26) by the Mayor of Vicenza, Paulo Tadeu. ...more
http://www.diariodepernambuco.com.br/app/noticia/vida-urbana/2013/09/26/interna_vidaurbana,464618/suposto-meteorito-cai-em-povoado-de-vicencia.shtml

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Extremely bright meteor explodes over Central Bosnia


klix.ba
Thu, 10 Oct 2013 13:53 UTC
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Translated by SOTT.net reader

This morning at 05:51 hours an extremely brilliant meteor exploded over central Bosnia, authorities announced from the Astronomical Society Orion from Sarajevo. Despite partly cloudy weather this phenomenon has been registered in the Federal Hydrometeorological Institute in Sarajevo and the meteorological station Gradačac, where recently a meteor camera is set.

A joint project of the Federal Hydrometeorological Institute and Astronomical Society Orion from Sarajevo in Bosnia and Herzegovina on establishing a meteor network gives new results. From recordings from two stations is the trajectory of the body determined. A piece of cosmic material 'turned' on at an altitude of about 120 kilometers. After 36 km of flight, with an explosion the meteor shuts down at an altitude of 95 kilometers. At the moment of greatest shine the meteor had a magnitude of -4.5", cited from Orion.
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