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Ernesto Guido

Sunday Night's Virginia Fireball: a Meteor, Not a Rocket Re-entry - 0 views

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    The confusion over whether the great Virginia fireball Sunday night was a meteor or a Russian rocket re-entry seems to be resolved - in favor of a meteor
Ernesto Guido

Arxiv - The Taurid complex meteor showers and asteroids - 0 views

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    The structure of the Taurid meteor complex based on photographic orbits available in the IAU Meteor database is studied.
Ernesto Guido

GEMINIDS 2009 - 0 views

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    This weekend, Earth passed through a stream of debris from 3200 Phaethon. In 1983 Whipple identified Phaethon like the parent of Geminid meteor stream. But it has never displayed unambiguous cometary activity. The Geminids provide the most impressive meteor display of any of the annual showers.
Ernesto Guido

Sky-event preview: The 2009 Lyrid meteor shower - 0 views

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    The Lyrid meteor shower peaks April 22, and conditions favor a great display.
Ernesto Guido

Leonids 2009 - 0 views

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    According to preliminary counts from the International Meteor Organization (IMO) the Leonids meteors reached a ZHR(max) ~ 120/130 around 22UT of Nov. 17, as predicted by forecasters.
Ernesto Guido

Perseids 2010 - 1 views

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    The Perseid 2010 peak was expected on the night of August 12-13 between 18h and 07h UT with a ZHR (Zenithal Hourly Rate) of ~100 meteors per hour.
Ernesto Guido

South African Fireball - November 21 - 0 views

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    After the Utah Fireball on Nov. 18, another bright fireball has been seen over South Africa aroud 11pm local time of Nov. 21, 2009. The meteor was spotted by dozens people as it passed over Johannesburg and Pretoria in Kauteng province on Saturday.
Ernesto Guido

Fireball event of September 25, 2009 - 0 views

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    At 9:03 pm on Friday night September 25, 2009 (01:03 UT Sept 26) seven all-sky cameras of Western's Southern Ontario Meteor Network (SOMN) recorded a brilliant fireball in the evening sky over the west end of Lake Ontario.
Ernesto Guido

Virginia fireball was not Russian booster rocket - 0 views

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    There has been plenty of debate today about the nature of the fireball spotted around 9:40 p.m. Sunday in the southern sky (as seen from Maryland). But I'm now convinced that it was a natural meteor, and not space debris.
Ernesto Guido

Arxiv - Orbital Elements of Comet C/1490 Y1 and the Quadrantid shower - 0 views

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    The Quadrantid shower, one of the most intense showers, has been observed at the beginning of January each year. However, the origin of the meteors is still unknown. It was Hasegawa (1979) who first suggested comet C/1490 Y1 to be the likely origin of the shower based on the historical records of East Asia.
Ernesto Guido

Astronomers lose access to military data - 0 views

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    Satellite information on incoming meteors is blocked.
Ernesto Guido

Asteroid Impactor Reported over Indonesia - 1 views

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    On October 8, 2009 about 03:00 Greenwich time, an atmospheric fireball blast was observed and recorded over an island region of Indonesia. The blast is thought to be due to the atmospheric entry of a small asteroid about 10 meters in diameter that, due to atmospheric pressure, detonated in the atmosphere with an energy of about 50 kilotons (the equivalent of 100,000 pounds of TNT explosives).
Ernesto Guido

Cosmic Blast Rattles Indonesia - 1 views

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    Back on October 8th, something big lit up the late-morning sky (at about 3:00 Universal Time) over the island nation of Indonesia.
Ernesto Guido

Comets and asteroids news - 0 views

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    Latest news and information about comets and asteroids
Ernesto Guido

Fireball over Wisconsin - Missouri , April 14 - 2 views

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    A bright fireball has been seen over Wisconsin aroud 10:00 p.m. local time of April 14, 2010. The fireball has been seen from Wisconsin to Missouri. National Weather Service offices in La Crosse, Wisconsin, Davenport and Des Moines, Iowa, and St. Louis and Kansas City in Missouri all received numerous reports.
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