Astronomers at the University of Western Ontario are asking residents near the Central Ontario town of Parry Sound to help find meteorites that may have recently fallen in the area.
The astronomers have captured rare video of a meteor streaking through the Earth's atmosphere.
They are hoping people in the area can help recover one or more possible meteorites that may have hit the ground.
A small meteorite that recently landed in a village in Muğla's Fethiye district will be analyzed by the Mining Exploration Institute (MTA), stated an official from the region.
Fethiye Deputy District Governor Halil İbrahim Çomaktekin reported that the meteorite fell in the Türbe neighborhood of Yaka Village after a making a thunderous noise. "The muhtar [head] of the village called and informed us, saying that the meteorite was black. He is going to bring it to the city center for analysis. We'll have it analyzed by the MTA," Çomaktekin added.
What glows orange, scours the skyline and leaves a black plume of smoke?
Annette Van Zetten is not exactly sure what she saw shooting across the Tweed skyline on Wednesday evening, but it certainly grabbed her attention as well as the police and rescue authorities.
The Kingscliff woman was home entertaining friends about 5.30pm when she saw a bright orange object, seemingly not far from her Pacific Street home.
Fearing a plane was in trouble, Mrs Van Zetten's friend, Greg Swaney, called police, who immediately began searching the area with the aid of a crew from the RACQ CareFlight helicopter.
Mrs Van Zetten said she was sitting on her back deck when she spotted the unidentified flying object.
After a massive fireball smashed into southeastern Peru last fall, scientists dismissed a shot-down spy satellite as the cause. But many questions remain about the unusual crater it left behind. Andrew Westoll reports
When the Pentagon announced last Monday that it had successfully shot down a wayward U.S. spy satellite, political-conspiracy theorists went wild. Officials called the cosmic potshot a matter of international security - the bus-sized satellite, too big to burn up on re-entry, was carrying more than 500 kilograms of toxic hydrazine gas - but America-watchers worldwide wondered aloud whether the satellite story was a pretext for the U.S. military to flex its space-racing muscles.
For me, though, the event reminded me not of the Star Wars debate, but instead whisked me back to a tiny farming village in southeastern Peru I had visited last November.
Murray Balsom was trying to launch a weather balloon when a huge fireball burst across the sky over his small Arctic village of Resolute. "This was humungous," he said of the gaseous light show he witnessed 10 days ago.
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TEACHERS and pupils at a Birmingham school will this week be analysing fragments of "meteor" ice which crashed into a playing field, narrowly missing stunned pupils.
It ploughed into the field at Yardleys Secondary School, in Tyseley, yesterday.
The ice is believed to be a megacryo-meteor - the name given to abnormally large chunks of ice which fall from a clear sky.
Pieces of the ice have now been stored in a freezer at the specialist science college in Reddings Lane for possible further analysis.
Bright flash spotted at about 5:30 a.m. as far west as Tillamook, as far east as Idaho
People across Oregon and southwest Washington spotted a fireball in the sky Tuesday morning.
Most reports of the fireball sighting came just after 5:30 a.m. A man who called 911 said "it lit up the whole sky" in the Milwaukie area.
FOX 12 meteorologist Drew Jackson said
the object was likely the size of a basketball. He said that the object probably broke apart before hitting land.
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Video (courtesy CNN)
Comment: Amazing the flash created by a "basketball" sized meteor. Imagine the blast made by something larger. Imagine the impact of several larger meteors arriving in close succession.....
Mark Thorsell
KPAXTue, 19 Feb 2008 12:01 UTC
The Associated Press is reporting that the meteor that streaked across Montana early Tuesday morning landed in eastern Washington.
A Federal Aviation Administration spokesman in Seattle says a Horizon Airlines pilot say the meteorite hit at around 6:45 a.m. near State Route 26 and Lind-Hatton Road in the southeast corner of Adams County. (click here for map)
There have been no reports of damage and sheriff's dispatchers say they aren't aware of any meteorite landing in the area.
Comment: Amazing the flash created by a "basketball" sized meteor. Imagine the blast made by something larger. Imagine the impact of several larger meteors arriving in close succession.....