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Asteroid QE2 an 'Entirely New Beast': The Cosmos is Changing

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Space.com - 6/15/13, Mike Wall

A big asteroid that flew past Earth last month belongs to a new category of space rock, scientists say.

Asteroid 1998 QE2 and its moon sailed within 3.6 million miles (5.8 million kilometers) of Earth on May 31, making their closest approach to our planet for at least the next two centuries. New radar images captured by the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico are revealing just how unique this binary asteroid is, researchers say.

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Life-Producing Phosphorus Carried to Earth by Meteorites

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Indiatimes.com- 6/5/13

Life-Producing Phosphorus Carried to Earth by Meteorites

 

 

 

Washington: A team of scientists has finally solved a 3.5 billion-year-old mystery showing that phosphorus - key element that produced life on Earth- was carried to Earth on meteorites.

 

The scientists led by a University of South Florida astrobiologist found that during the Hadean and Archean eons - the first of the four principal eons of the Earth`s earliest history - the heavy bombardment of meteorites provided reactive phosphorus that when released in water could be incorporated into prebiotic molecules.

 

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Fireballs Seen Over Regions Of Canada; Fireballs Seen Over Arkansas; Fireball Lights Up Eastern Seaboard; Comet Fragments Wows Stargazers

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Beforeitsnews.com - 5/29/13

 

Journal of sightings.

 

18 May 2013 – Michael Schoelzel, Mascoutah, IL, 22:40 cst 

I saw the last 2 seconds. It started east and traveled west. I was looking south. Super brilliant white & green. Super bright! Fragmentation, looked like it disintegrated with green fragments as it was breaking apart. Probably second most amazing thing I’ve seen, right after last week’s observation, interestingly in the same area of the sky from my point of view.Simply breathtaking! Something is really not right here, I’ve been fascinated with the sky all my life, but only in recent years, or better yet months, have I ever witnessed such wild activity, thank you for the interest, I feel better now having reported it!

18 May 2013 – Gerard Randolph Lewisburg, TN USA 10:30-40 Central Time 

27 May 2013 Memorial Day Fireballs

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Amsmeteors.org- 5/29/13, Mike Hankey

 

Party goers on the East Coast were graced with two brilliant fireballs last night. The first bolide (event #1143) entered the atmosphere over north central PA around 9:05 PM Eastern time and was traveling from the east-south-east to the west-north-west.

 

Memorial Day Fireball – May 26th, 2013 9:05 PM Eastern Time

 

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Four Fireballs at Four in Last 24 Hours

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amsmeteors.org- 5/19/13, Mike Hankey

 

GFP Note: This story is two days old, but does show some interesting trends.

 

In the last 24 hours the AMS has received confirmed reports about 4 unique fireball events all occurring near 4:00 AM UTC time. The most recent event occurred in Arkansas and Missouri on May 19th near 3:37 UTC. At the same time 3:37 UTC 4 witnesses reported a fireball in Arizona. The distance between these two locations would inhibit witnesses from observing the same fireball from both locations. On May 18th two large fireball meteors were also spotted within an hour of each other, one over the central east coast and another in Colorado. Below is a table of the events in question.

Large Meteorite Spotted in Eastern U.S.

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Accuweather.com-3/22/13, Vickie Frantz

 

 

 

Several reports were made, to the American Meteor Society, of a large meteor above the eastern coastal states of the U.S. at about 7:55 p.m. EDT Friday.

 

The reports described a large fireball that appeared white or green in color and moving from left to right.

 

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Spectacular signals recorded from Chelyabinsk meteor blast waves

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The Watchers-3/5/13, Adonai

 

February 15, 2013 - Russia - Meteorite's final path

 

The Chelyabinsk meteor exploded in the atmosphere over Russia at approximately 9:20 am local time on February 15, 2013. The meteor flew out of the blue, literally from the direction of the Sun where no telescope could see it, and took everyone by surprise. The blast caused significant damage in the city, breaking thousands of windows and injuring more than 1,000 people.

But, from scientific side, a spectacular signals from the blast waves were recorded by a network of seismographic stations, used to study earthquakes and Earth’s deep interior. While thousands of earthquakes around the globe are recorded by seismometers, signals from large meteor impacts are far less common.

 

 

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