05 October 2013

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 05OCT2013

Giant fireball hits waters off Zamboanga, Philippines
By Roel Pareño (philstar.com) | Updated October 3, 2013 - 1:43pm ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines - For two days now, villagers and authorities in the west coast of Zamboanga remain baffled after a big ball of fire streaked from the southern skies at 5 a.m. on Wednesday, hitting the coastal water before exploding and illuminating nearby villages....

UFO or meteor? - Daily Zamboanga Times
Residents of Talisayan and La Paz in the west coast were puzzled by what they witnessed around 5 a.m. Wednesday: A big ball of fire that flashed the skies and ...
Space.com
A dazzling meteor blazes across the night sky over the Baltic Sea in this spectacular view by a veteran photographer. Astrophotographer P-M Heden of the ...

On space kindness and the Chelyabinsk meteor
The Planetary Society (blog)
While NASA is in a coma, it's a good time to talk about how some Russian space kindness won a small victory over the Russian space indifference. I hope that ...

Mars orbiter granted reprieve from government closure
BY STEPHEN CLARK -SPACEFLIGHT NOW -October 3, 2013
Engineers returned to work on NASA's next Mars mission at the Kennedy
Space Center on Thursday after receiving an emergency exception under
federal law to continue launch preparations for a $671 million orbiter
to probe the red planet's atmosphere....
Patch.com
2013 Meteor Showers: Here comes the Draconids, followed by the Orionids. (Photo courtesty of NASA.) 2013 Meteor Showers: Here comes the Draconids, ...

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 04OCT2013
Headlines & Global News Those who were up during the wee hours of Oct. 2 had the chance to get a glimpse of brilliant lights dancing in the sky, the Huffington ...
lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.com/.../the-latest-worldwide-m...

Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News: Yamaguchi-Ken, Japan ...
Yamaguchi-Ken, Japan Fireball Meteor 22'0101 JST 03OCT2013 - 2013年10月3日 22時1分1秒 山口県周南方面に-6.6等の火球 SonotaCo Forum with photos ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteorite
A meteorite originates in outer space as a solid piece of debris from such sources as asteroids or comets that survives its impact with the ...

NASA AsteroidWatch suspended while Earth faces unprecedented ...
www.examiner.com/article/nasa-asteroidwatch-suspended...
Last month saw an alarming increase in meteor fireball reports and asteroid near ... They discovered evidence that a huge comet broke apart ...

2013 THE Year of Meteors, Asteroids, Comets, and MORE!!

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