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Rip-roaring fireball - Nov 2, 2010 - New Mexico

I did not see any "Hartley-ids" in my all-sky fireball captures this morning. At least no fireball-sized ones.

But I did capture a rip-roaring sporadic fireball. I made a movie of the meteor with its strong dopplering head echo in stereo at 61.250 MHz and 83.250 MHz. The full radio reflection reflection lasted about a minute. This movie is only 8 seconds or so, head echo only 1 MB.

Watch Video Here.

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Fireball Over Santa Fe New Mexico

iReport - This is video Captured with a low light "MeteorCam" of a fireball...


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Meteorite over Victoriaville Quebec, Canada 23-Oct-2010

Victoriaville, QC, Canada on Sunday, 23-Oct-2010 at 3:40 pm. Unknown big bright light / object which is obviously moving slowly to the left.

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Italian Fireball

Fireball North Taurids 2010.10.27_04.04.46 ± 1 U.T. from Italy
Fireball North Taurids mag. -10 ± 0.60 from Ferrara ( Italy )
Video station: *IMTN-Ferrara1-SE- ( C ) F. Zanotti*
Observer: Ferruccio Zanotti
Location: Ferrara 44.8181 N; 11.6167 E; alt. 9 m s.l.m.
Direction: az: 139 ° ev:47°
Camera: Mintron MTV-12V6H-EX integration 2x ( 1/25s ) Computer Lens
2.6mm F/1.0 FOV: 122.8° * 97.1° ( diagonal: 148° )

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UFO Meteorite Over Moscow,Russia,10-18-20

Down below is really a bizarre UFO sighting, which was videotaped over Moscow, Russia on October 18, 2010.


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Best of the Web: A Crater a Day: Field Investigators at Heart are Encouraged to Go Meteorite Hunting

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© Peter L. Kresan
When I first started with all this, my intention was to see if I could figure out a better way to scope out new, undocumented craters, or likely places to go meteorite hunting. I didn't do so well at first. But ironically, when I quit looking for new craters, and started focusing on identifying formations of airburst melt, I began to find too many new craters to count...

Literally too many to count. And a little bit of everything in between. Even if I had the funding, I could never visit them all. I need help. So over the next few weeks, I am going to post a few new craters a day, in the hope that someone might live close enough, or have interest enough, to go get a closer look. Each place will be presented as is. And with little, or no comments. I may not be able to go there, and do field work. But I can still point, and grunt. You be the judge.

Don't surprised if you find others nearby any given crater. Few of them fell alone.

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New Hampshire fireball?

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Was in my home and saw out my window two flashes in the sky. Beautiful bright orange in color and over the lake. May have been asteroids...you tell me. Saw two in the western sky over Lake Opechee in Laconia, New Hampshire at exactly 5:00 PM EST. By the time I got my SLR 6 megapixel camera one had vanished. Took twelve successive shots from my porch through an open window till the second one vanished. I was very excited to have seen two and photographed one.


For a better view of the object see here.

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Fireball or contrail at sunset? Flaming object caught on camera in Canada


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Alburquerque scientist warns of small asteroids

His research indicates asteroids are like bombs

For years, astronomers have been on the lookout for large asteroids on a collision course with Earth. Now, a scientist at Sandia National Labs is warning about the danger of smaller asteroids that could burst in the atmosphere with the power of a nuclear explosion.


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Fireball streaks across Northern Ireland skies

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© NASAComet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner is thought to be the source of the fireball.

Anyone making their way home from traditional Saturday night entertainments at the weekend may have thought the bright fireball streaking through the skies above them was a sign of having too much of a good thing.

The cause was actually a meteoroid, an orange-sized piece of a comet or asteroid, burning up over Northern Ireland early last Sunday.

The ball entered the atmosphere above the north west at an estimated speed of 20 to 30 km per second at about 0232 BST.

Armagh Observatory received many telephone and internet reports from members of the public reporting sightings of the meteoroid.

Scientists at the observatory said that, due to the object's speed, friction with the Earth's atmosphere caused its surface layers to burn off, producing a bright light in the sky.