24 February 2012

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 24FEB2012

Possible meteor seen in Saskatchewan, Alberta skies
Canada.com
By Postmedia News, Postmedia News February 22, 2012 Social media was buzzing Wednesday with reports of a meteor streaking across the sky in Saskatchewan and Alberta. Residents from Saskatoon to Calgary and Edmonton - and several more points in between ...

Never imagined a meteor
Calgary Herald
We thought it was firworks gone wrong, when we saw a large ball of fire in the sky over Tusslewood to the east of us. Never considered that it was a 'space rock' plummeting to earth. © Copyright (c) The Calgary Herald.

Sask. meteor 'biggest and brightest' in five years
CTV Saskatoon
It's believed that 10-tonne meteor scattered more than 10000 rock pieces, most of them in farm fields around Buzzard Coulee near Lloydminster. A meteor that lit up the night sky in Saskatchewan on Tuesday night is seen in....

Video: Fireball seen over Calgary skies
MetroNews Canada
This screen capture of a video taken by Don Hladiuk shows a fireball streaking above South Calgary in the top right corner of the camera view. Dozens of reports have been filed from the Calgary area reporting a fireball streaking through the sky ...

Meteor lights up Prairie skies
Canada.com
Social media was buzzing Wednesday with reports of a meteor streaking across the sky in Saskatchewan and Alberta. Residents from Saskatoon to Calgary and Edmonton - and several more points in between - reported seeing the skies light up.

Strange Fireballs Light Up February Skies
Space.com
"These fireballs are particularly slow and penetrating," meteor expert Peter Brown, a physics professor at the University of Western Ontario, said in a statement. "They hit the top of the atmosphere moving slower than 15 kilometers per second [33500 ...

First video of large fireball spotted over Saskatchewan, Calgary (etc.) Canada ...
YouTube
http://sheilaaliens.net/?p=250 And see all the reported sightings at http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.com Video thanks to http://www.youtube.com/user/astrogeol original video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DH5YsS2h_4 Caption: "A bright fireball ...

VIDEO: Apparent meteor lights up the sky
News Talk 980 CJME
Back in 2008, she saw a meteor after picking up her son from the airport. Alan Hildebrand with the University of Calgary and the Candian Fireball Reporting Centre said the meteor probably landed near Rockhaven Saskatchewan but no one has narrowed down ...

Apple files patent for 'polished meteorite' keyboard
Register
And, yes, you did read that correctly: polished meteorite. As the filing notes, slices of other planets have found their way onto watch dials, so why not have wee chunks of Mars on your laptop? The core design element described in the filing is ...