29 November 2010

Meteor/Meteorite News 29NOV2010

Regional round-up reports from around the country
Irish Times - ‎4 時間前‎
WEST: A METEORITE was sighted shooting over Galway last night as air temperatures fell to -6 degrees. The fireball was spotted by several people in the ... (Ireland meteor)


Georgia residents report mysterious boom
UPI.com - 10 hours ago
An amateur astronomer said a meteorite probably didn't cause the boom. "A really big meteor can make a sonic boom, but if it did it would make a big flash ... (Georgia Boom 26NOV2010)

Press Herald
 One of them, the Geminid meteor shower, happens every December, but the other one, a total lunar eclipse, will not happen again for us in this location ...

British Antarctic Expedition
by David Entwistle
There is a British expedition to the Antarctic underway. This 
wouldn't be of particular interest here, but I also read on the BBC web 
site that, "The crew has also been given specialist training to help 
them spot potential meteorite samples on the ice".
BBC report is here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11384454
The expedition web page is here:
http://www.transantarcticexpedition.com/

Reports from Readers of Meteor/Meteorite News:
Windsor, ON. Canada 11:15 pm eastern time, Nov 27,2010.
Guest140 (guest)
A slow moving orange/yellow fireball with a smoke trail, it appeared to be free-floating in the southern skies our right to left. (west to south) It was an awesome sight!!
There has got to be someone else out there who saw the same thing!! We are from Windsor, ON. Canada and it happened here about 11:15 pm eastern time, Nov 27,2010.

Parrish, FL.United States; south of Tampa   2:10am Saturday, November,27th, 2010
SkyLvrFL (guest): I was searching to see if anyone else saw what I saw early this morning. A fireball light up the sky on Saturday, November,27th, 2010 @ 2:10am. I just happened to look up and caught something streaking across the sky. It had a long trail mostly orange(ish)and what looked like sparks and peices of fire. An object lead the way which looked twice the size of the trail in circumfrance and was very bright maybe orange/white/blueish.The thing is, it's movement was parallel to the horizon (left to right) Not from top to bottom, and did not appear to be moving much faster than a plane would be. The trail was pretty long and there was a very bright flash of blue/white then it was gone. It looked exactly like a plane exploding. It appeared to be out over the gulf of Mexico. From my location (Parrish, FL.United States; south of Tampa) it was at 215 degrees S.W.with an elevation of approximately 40 degrees. I have NEVER seen anything like it in 36 years and I watch the night sky almost every night. I have seen meteors and shooting stars. They move extremely fast.This (thing) did not. I was just hoping that somebody,somewhere, saw it too. I even called a couple local news stations to see if anyone else had reported it. Well, happy sky watching.

near Dublin, Ireland (53 16'37"N, 6 25'08"W) 17:45 approx. 28th Nov 2010
Guest454 (guest): 17:45 approx. 28th Nov 2010, NNE . I was standing at 53 degrees16'37"N-6degrees25'08"W looking NNE ,It was low and fast,White with white red and blue tail

Sligo, Ireland 17:45 28NOV2010
Guest805 (guest):Saw a fireball this evening very low in sky at about 1745 over sligo in Ireland

Dublin, Ireland  17:45 28NOV2010
barrie (guest): hey guy i saw a fireball over dublin ireland this afternoon at about 17:45 our time.any idea what it was??


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