The Huffington Post - 9/05/13

A luminous fireball that blazed across the southeastern sky on Aug. 28 is being called one of the brightest meteors observed in the past five years.

In footage of the spectacular early morning sight, released by NASA's Marshall TV this week, the fireball outshines the moon as it enters the Earth's atmosphere near the Georgia-Tennessee border, streaking across a range of southern states.

TheExtinctionProtocol-Sept 5,2013

September 5, 2013 – Indonesia - A new eruption could be underway at the volcano. VSI raised the alert to 3 (Siaga, alert) on a scale of 1-4, following the observation of incandescent lava at the summit and glowing rockfalls on the eastern side into the Batuawang ravine. Strong degassing generates a plume rising up to 500 m. Satellite images show a hotspot at the summit as well. These observations suggest that new magma has been arriving at the summit where mild strombolian activity is taking place. If this activity increases, the occurrence of dangerous pyroclastic flows is a likely scenario, similar to what happened at Fuego volcano in Guatemala a few days ago.

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TheExtinctionProtocol-Sept 4,2013

Nasa,gov - 9/3/13

A monster storm that erupted on Saturn in late 2010 - as large as any storm ever observed on the ringed planet -- has already impressed researchers with its intensity and long-lived turbulence. A new paper in the journal Icarus reveals another facet of the storm's explosive power: its ability to churn up water ice from great depths. This finding, derived from near-infrared measurements by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, is the first detection at Saturn of water ice. The water originates from deep in Saturn's atmosphere.

"The new finding from Cassini shows that Saturn can dredge up material from more than 100 miles [160 kilometers]," said Kevin Baines, a co-author of the paper who works at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. "It demonstrates in a very real sense that typically demure-looking Saturn can be just as explosive or even more so than typically stormy Jupiter." Water ice, which originates from deep in the atmosphere of gas giants, doesn't appear to be lofted as high at Jupiter.

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Volcanoes Today- Sept 3 2013

Kizimen (Kamchatka): No significant changes have occurred. The lava dome at the summit continues to grow and produce occasional small to moderate glowing avalanches. KVERT reports moderate seismic activity.

Shiveluch (Kamchatka): Activity has calmed down, but the lava dome remains active and continues to produce occasional small ash emissions such as this morning:

Batu Tara (Sunda Islands, Indonesia): Strombolian to vulcanian-type explosions continue. An ash plume was spotted on satellite data this morning reaching 7,000 ft (2.1 km) altitude.

Dukono (Halmahera): A relatively strong explosion occurred this morning, producing an ash plume that rose to 10,000 ft (3 km) altitude, VAAC Darwin reported.

Veniaminof (Alaska Peninsula, USA): Eruptive activity remains elevated. Strong continuous tremor suggests ongoing lava fountaining associated with lava flows and ash emissions. A plume of ash was reported to drift eastward at an altitude of 15,000 ft (4.5 km).