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US: Meteor Over East County Monday Night?

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Jamul - An East County Magazine reader asks, "I want to know who else saw the blue and whitish-orange meteor I saw from my house in Deerhorn Valley in Jamul at approximately 8:50 pm on Monday evening, October 11."

The reader, who asked that her name not be published, added, "I saw it when it was rather low--it had a head on it and had a pretty thick tail.. .thicker than the meteors you usually see in a meteor shower. A moment later the surrounding horizon on both sides lit up...From my vantage point it looked like it was southeast, maybe in the area of Otay Lakes or Dulzura."

Dennis Mammana, who pens the "Stargazer" syndicated column, told East County Magazine that the description does sound like a meteor and indicated that such sightings are more common than most people realize.

If you spotted the meteor or have a photograph, please contact editor@eastcountymagazine.org.

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US: Reddish Orange Fireball Over Yorkvile, Illinois

October 9, 2010 at 10:05 p.m. Two other friends and myself were sitting outside when all 3 of us spotted a reddish-orange fireball travel across the sky. It travelled a southwest to northeast direction. At first we thought it was a meteor, but it never disappeared like meteors do. There was no sound and there was only one. It looked like what a plane might look like if it were on fire.

It appeared through the trees and went right over the top of us. We watched it until we couldn't see it anymore, probably about 30 seconds. It was very bright but it didn't blink. We have planes fly over all the time heading to O-Hare to land. There were not blinking lights and we can always hear the planes. This was probably about the same elevation as the planes coming in for a landing but it wasn't anything any of us have ever seen.

Shortly afterwards a plane did appear and we could hear it and see the blinking lights. This was round in shape. I would love to know what we saw.

If you have seen anything like this in the same area please be kind enough to contact Brian Vike at: sighting@telus.net with the details of your sighting. All personal information is kept confidential.

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Overhead Meterorite Explosion? San Diego Residents Report Hearing Loud 'Boom'

Sound Reportedly Shook Homes In San Diego

10News has received a lot of phone calls and e-mails from residents reporting hearing the sound of a large "boom," or explosion around 1:45 p.m. Wednesday.

While most of the people who have contacted the station have been located in the center of San Diego, calls have come from residents in Del Mar, North Park, Allied Gardens and Cardiff.


James Moriset and his wife and children were inside their North Park home when the loud, explosion-like sound rocked their world.

"It was really quick, like a vehicle had crashed into the house or something... just a real quick boom," said Moriset.

Some of the callers reported that their homes shook as a result of the "boom," and some of them said they heard the sound twice.

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US: County Residents Report Hearing Loud 'Boom'

San Diego -- 10News has received a lot of phone calls from residents reporting hearing the sound of a large "boom," or explosion around 1:45 p.m. Wednesday.

While most of the people who have contacted the station have been located in the center of San Diego, calls have come from residents in Del Mar, North Park, Allied Gardens, and Cardiff.

Some of the callers reported that their homes shook as a result of the "boom," and some of them said they heard the sound twice.

Calls to the San Diego County Sheriff's Department, San Diego Fire-Rescue, and Miramar all turned up nothing. A Camp Pendleton staffer told 10News that normal training is being conducted but nothing out of the ordinary has been reported.

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Indonesia: Meteorite Believed to Have Blasted Home in Central Java

The government is sending a team of scientists to investigate a suspected meteorite that struck a home in Karanganyar, Central Java, early on Monday.

The blast was reported to have damaged the roof, kitchen and dining room in the home of Suryono in Ngringo village, but no injuries were reported.

State news agency Antara reported that the impact produced a loud bang and shattered several windows in the house.

The heat generated from the blast reportedly melted several plastic objects in the kitchen and left the metal tableware hot.

An egg-sized rock retrieved from the roof is believed to be a remnant of a meteorite.

On Tuesday, the National Aeronautics and Space Agency (Lapan) said it would send a team to the site today to investigate.

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Bright September Meteor

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Marshall Space Flight Center PAO Steve Roy was out jogging early Friday morning with his dogs, Lilly and Scout, when he couldn't help but notice this bright meteor low in the eastern sky.

Also seen by NASA's all sky meteor cameras at MSFC and in Chickamauga, GA, the meteor was located above the Atlanta area, some 180 miles away from where he was running.

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BOOM! What Happened In Chandler Arizona Sunday?

What Happened In Chandler?

CBS 5 News has crews working to find out what caused the loud booms reported by dozens of Chandler residents Sunday night.

On this Google map, 40 entries have been made pinpointing locations and times of the loud booms.

From the entries, it appears the booms happened Sunday around 6:30 p.m., 9:00 p.m. and midnight in the area of Dobson and Frye.

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Asteroid Debris Strikes Earth in New Mexico?

Recent multiple fireballs reports streaming in from North and South America may be linked with the near Earth passing asteroids of Sep 8-9. The most recent multiple events occurred last night (Sep 21, 2010) over Texas, New Mexico, and Colorado. The first two of the multiple events were nearly simultanenous over central New Mexico. They were followed by Event 3, a 23 second major bolide event over northern New Mexico at 9:03pm MDT (03:03UTC) (see LunarMeteorite Hunters).

Event 4 occurred some one-and-a-half hours later at 10:36pm MDT (04:36UTC), and was also observed from El Paso, Texas. It was of short duration, approximately 1.5 seconds, with a visual magnitude of -6. It followed the identical trajectory of Events 1,2,3 but occurred farther south, probably over south central New Mexico.


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New Mexico Fireball 21st September 2010

Last night (Sept. 21st) around 09:01 pm MDT, a dazzling fireball glided across the skies of New Mexico and west Texas. "We've been getting a lot of calls in the newsroom about an object - maybe a meteorite - falling from the sky," says Peter St. Cyr of KOAT TV in Albuquerque. An all-sky camera outside Santa Fe caught the object in flight.

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© Space.comNote: In the still from the movie above, the stationary light is the full Moon, the moving light is the fireball.
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Clear Skies and a Large Meteor Sighting Over the Southland Dazzles Commuters


The U.S. Coast Guard reports that the crew of the USS Sterett saw a fireball streak across the sky at around 5 a.m. Friday morning. Ironically this sighting happened during a time where the marine layer was not present.

Residents from Mexico to Los Angeles reported the sighting. There are no photos of the event at the current time, however there are probably thousands of eyewitnesses.

Early morning rush hour traffic traveling across the area would likely have seen the event. Since it was viewed from Mexico, San Diego, Orange County, and Los Angeles.