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University of Western Ontario cameras capture 'fireball'
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 24, 2008 |
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For the second time this year, The University of Western Ontario Meteor Group has captured incredibly rare video footage of a meteor falling to Earth. The team of astronomers suspects the fireball dropped meteorites in a ...
Astronomers capture spectacular meteor footage and images (w/ Video)
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Oct 07, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers from The University of Western Ontario in London, Canada have released footage of a meteor that was approximately 100 times brighter than a full moon. The meteor lit up the skies ...
Using fireballs to uncover the mysteries of ball lightning
Feb 18, 2008 |
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“People have been pondering ball lightning for a couple of centuries,” says James Brian Mitchell, a scientist the University of Rennes in France. Mitchell says that different theories of how it forms, and why it burns in ...
It came from outer space -- and likely disintegrated over northeastern Oregon
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 21, 2008 |
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People in at least four states and a Canadian province saw a bright fireball streaking across the Pacific Northwest sky in the early hours Tuesday but, contrary to some reports, there was no collision with the ground, University ...
Meteorite search update: 10-ton rock responsible for fireball in Western Canada last week
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 25, 2008 |
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Investigation of the fireball that lit up the skies of Alberta and Saskatchewan on November 20 has determined that an asteroid fragment weighing approximately 10 tonnes entered the Earth's atmosphere over ...
Boulder-sized Asteroid Will Burn Up in Earth's Atmosphere Tonight
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 07, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A tiny asteroid discovered just hours ago at an Arizona observatory will enter Earth's atmosphere harmlessly at approximately 10:46 p.m. Eastern time tonight (2:46 a.m. Greenwich Mean Time). ...
How a cometary boulder lit up the Spanish sky
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Last July, people in Spain, Portugal and France watched the brilliant fireball produced by a boulder crashing down through the Earth’s atmosphere. In a paper to be published in the journal ...
Unusual meteorite found by time-lapse camera observatory
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 05, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- An unusual meteorite with an interesting orbit has been tracked to the ground using a photographic observatory that records time-lapse images of fireballs traveling across the sky.
Scientist answers how Peruvian meteorite made it to Earth
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 11, 2008 |
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It made news around the world: On Sept. 15, 2007, an object hurtled through the sky and crashed into the Peruvian countryside. Scientists dispatched to the site near the village of Carancas found a gaping ...
Fireball Sightings
Nov 04, 2005 |
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Earth is orbiting through a swarm of space debris that may be producing an unusual number of nighttime fireballs. "I thought some wise guy was shining a spotlight at me," says Josh Bowers of New Germany, P ...
Supercomputers offer new explanation of Tunguska disaster
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 18, 2007 |
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The stunning amount of forest devastation at Tunguska, a century ago in Siberia, may have been caused by an asteroid only a fraction as large as previously published estimates, Sandia supercomputer simulations ...
Team Finds Riches in Meteorite Treasure Hunt
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 31, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Just before dawn on Oct. 7, 2008, an SUV-sized asteroid entered Earth's atmosphere and exploded harmlessly over the Nubian Desert of northern Sudan. Scientists expected the asteroid, called ...
Canadian astronomers on hunt for meteor
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Mar 07, 2008 |
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Astronomers from The University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, have captured rare video of a meteor falling to Earth.
Meteorite plummets through Norwegian roof
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 09, 2006 |
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For the first time since 1969 a meteorite has reportedly struck a European roof.
The Perseids are Coming
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 31, 2009 |
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Earth is entering a stream of dusty debris from Comet Swift-Tuttle, the source of the annual Perseid meteor shower. Although the shower won't peak until August 11th and 12th, the show is already getting underway. ...
